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Note: This website contains no publicly available information. All genealogical data is maintained off-line, and is provided to HFA members only. We regret that, due to constraints of time and effort, we cannot respond to non-member requests for genealogical information. A list of genealogical benefits for members is available here. Non-members are welcome to submit queries using this query form.

Our nationwide membership continues to grow steadily, and we currently have almost 500 active members. An HFA website was originally constructed by David L. Hull (HFA Member #0738) in late 1998. The present website was created by Douglas C. Hull (HFA Member #1153) in late 2001, and given its current layout in mid-2006 by David Hughes (HFA Member #1444). The HFA logo was designed by John Ware Hull (HFA Member #0337).

Who Are the Hulls?

Many are descendants of Hulls who came to America from England in the 1630s. However, many other origins are also represented, including other English, Scottish, Irish, Canadian, and German/Dutch/Swiss people named Hull.

HFA Provides Unique Genealogical Opportunities

Many of the association’s members have been able to learn more about their own Hull history through contact with other HFA members. Our HFA Genealogist has compiled a list of more than 20 early (prior to the mid-1800s) immigrants as well as more than 425 other immigrants, and their descendants, who share our surname. Historical and genealogical issues are regularly covered in the HFA Journal (a membership benefit).

Meet Other Hulls

The HFA sponsors an annual meeting, reunion, and picnic—the perfect opportunity to meet Hull relatives and other Hulls. This and other events and activities are announced in the triannual HFA Newsletter (another membership benefit). Members also receive access to a “members only” website that includes member contact information, a calendar, and Hull genealogical resource information.

More Information

Many benefits are offered to members. Additional association details are available from our membership secretary:

Hull Family Association Attn: Robert L. Rees Membership Secretary/Treasurer 393002 Gap Road Bartlesville, OK 74003

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E-mail the Membership Secretary:

What’s New

View the latest updates to the website.

See also What’s New for updates to the website not posted under Breaking News.

   16 Feb 2010 | Hull/Holl/Hohl DNA Project – Lineage Posting: From the HFA DNA Project Committee – Following the untimely 2009 death of James Reynolds Hull, who initiated the Hull/Hohl/Hohl DNA Project in 2002, the Hull Family Association (HFA) has agreed to carry on the project under the direction of its 5-member DNA Project Committee.

Y Chromosome DNA analysis results are still available, including several new updates and corrections (see this chart). In order to better identify the various groups that have been tested, the HFA is obtaining permission to post the lineages of donors, while omitting data on living people. We have begun this posting with Lineage 3.

We invite both HFA members and non-members to participate in the DNA Project and/or lineage posting. Please contact the HFA Genealogist (genealogist [at] hullfamilyassociation.org) if you (1) have questions or feedback, (2) if you wish to contact donors whose lineages have been posted, or (3) if you, as a DNA donor, will allow us to post your own Hull lineage.

Access the Donor Lineage Posting here. It will be updated as we receive permission to publish new lineages.

   23 Jan 2010 | Notice to the German Peter Thomas/Tomas Hohl/Hull Descendants: From Phyllis Hughes, HFA Genealogist – If you are carrying Francis Hull, Henry Hull, William Hull, Robert Hull, David Hull, and John Hull, as sons of the German Peter Thomas Hohl/Hull, your information is incorrect. Please do not be misled by multiple sites on the Internet, which state that these men are the sons of Peter Thomas Hohl/Hull.

Both our research and the DNA analysis have shown that Peter Thomas Hohl/Hull had only these four sons:

• Peter Hull
• Adam Hull
• George Hull
• Jacob Hull

This is confirmed, not only by DNA analysis, but also by the original land records, probate records, tax records, and a wide study and analysis of the children in this family, conducted for over twenty-five years. Various published genealogies such as:

Cleek, George W. “Early Western Augusta [County, Virginia] Pioneers….” Staunton, VA: manuscript, 1957, pp. 369–373. [Has significant errors]

Moody Hull, “Hull Family,” typescript manuscript, 1942. [Has errors copied from Early Western Augusta Pioneers, by Geo. W. Cleek, 1957]

Prince, I. C., Genealogy of the Hull, Scott, and Prince Families, 1931. Privately published

Cook, Roy Bird, Hull manuscript, “Peter Thomas Hull-Dyer-Keister-John Bird-Cook-Joseph Conrad Families,” from the Roy Bird Hull Collection, Box 20, Vol. 67, West Virginia University Library

have published the incorrect information, along with these county histories:

Morton, Oren F. A History of Monroe County, West Virginia. Staunton, VA: The McClure Co., Inc., 1916. [Has significant errors]

Morton, Oren F., B. Lit. A Centennial History of Alleghany County, Virginia. Dayton, VA: J. K. Ruebush Co., 1923. Repr. 1970. [Has significant errors]

Morton, Oren F., B.L. A History of Highland County, Virginia. Monterey, VA: by the author, 1911, Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co., Repr., 1969. [Has significant errors]

Morton, Oren F., B.Lit. A History of Rockbridge County, Virginia. Staunton, VA: The McClure Co., Inc., 1920. [Has significant errors]

Please pass this information on to any correspondent who is listing the above incorrectly named sons.

For more information on this issue, please see these articles from the Hull Family Association Journal, as they clarify and explain who the documented sons of Peter Thomas Hohl/Hull were:

• Vol. 9, #2, Summer 1998: “A New Analysis of the Sons of the German Peter Thomas Hohl/Holl/Hull and Susanna Margaretha Dieffenbach of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Augusta County, Virginia (now Rockingham County), and Pendleton County, West Virginia (now Highland County, Virginia),” Part I. (See: Updates and Corrections: Vol. 9, #3; Vol. 11, #3; Vol. 12, #1).
• Vol. 9, #3, Autumn 1998: “A New Analysis of the Sons of the German Peter Thomas Hohl/Holl/Hull and Susanna Margaretha Dieffenbach, Part II: Francis Hull of Augusta County, Virginia.” (See: Corrections: Vol. 11, #2, #3; Vol. 12, #1).
• Vol. 10, #1, Spring 1999: “A New Analysis of the Sons of the German Peter Thomas Hohl/Holl/Hull and Susanna Margaretha Dieffenbach, Part III: Philip Hull and Elizabeth Barbara Lingenfelter; Family of John Hull and Ann Mary Lingenfelter” (See: Update: Vol. 10, #2).
• Vol. 13, #3, Autumn 2002: “Update: Elizabeth Hull Summers: Was She the Daughter of Peter Thomas Hull/Holl/l/Hohl?; Chronology for Elizabeth Hull and Johan Paul Summers.”

   04 Jan 2010 | New E-Book Published: Robert E. Hull (“Saratoga Bob”, HFA Member #0000) has published The Descendants of Mr. George Hull and Thamzen Michel, Revision I, copyright 2009. It is a revision to and an update of the book by a similar name published in 1994. It is now being offered for sale by the Hull Family Association, as the author has kindly given the HFA the rights to sell the book. See additional information here.

   04 Dec 2009 | FTDNA Announces Holiday Season DNA Testing Promotion: From Dan Hull, Administrator, Hull Genetic Genealogy Project – Family Tree DNA is offering special pricing for the holiday season:

• Y-DNA37 – promotional price $119 (reg. price $149)
• Y-DNA67 – promotional price $199 (reg. price $238)
• mtDNAPlus – promotional price $119 (reg. price $149)

These are the best prices, marker for marker, of any company in the market. You may order the special Holiday promotion here. The prices for each has been discounted.

Since this promotion will run through the end of December, I encourage you to spread the word starting now, as the natural tendency is for people to order at the last minute, and FTDNA will not extend it beyond that month.

Thank you for your continued support. I and the DNA Project Committee look forward to the sustained growth of Hulls in the Hull DNA Project and in the Family Tree DNA matching database.

   23 Nov 2009 | Hull, Holl, & Hohl Federal Land Patents and Homestead Land – Post 1800 – Rectangular Survey Land: From Phyllis Hughes, HFA Genealogist – I am currently inputting into the HFA database the Hulls, Holls, and Hohls who acquired Federal land patents and homestead land in states where the rectangular survey real estate was granted. The General Land Office issued more than 2 million patents that passed evidence of title to individual parcels of public land. Some patentees bought their land for cash, others homesteaded a claim, and still others came into ownership via one of the many donation acts that Congress passed to transfer public lands to private ownership. The grants include the first land-owners in these particular states:

AL, AR, CO, FL, IA, ID, IL, IN, LA, MI, MN, MO, MS, NE, NM, OH, OK, SD, TX, UT, WA, and WI

Thus far I have input Hull/Holl/Hohl land in approximately 130 counties, but this project is not yet completed. I am willing to send out by e-mail to our HFA members my family group sheets, one at a time, showing these land grants and the date of the grant(s), if you request a specific name, which cites specific information, e.g., John Hull, b. ca. 1840, m. Mary Smith; land in Peoria Co., IL.

I am finding that some of these Hulls filed for patents and homesteads in counties other than where they appear in census records. In some cases, two generations of a specific family have been issued these land patents. This compilation also includes names of women who patented land. Contact me at:

 Query #186 – John Hull, Washington Co., PA; VA; son Henry Hull: I am looking for leads for John Hull’s birth in ca. 1743 and death in 1809. Would like to trace the family back to Europe. John Hull could have been in Athens Co., OH, or Washington Co., Pa. Also VA. His son was Henry Hull, Washington Co., PA.

• 03 Mar 2010 Reply from the HFA Genealogist: This is a man that I have a full file drawer on. We’ve also published several articles on this man in our HFA Journals. Many, many people have worked on the line of this man and no one really knows where he was prior to PA and WV. He was never in Athens Co., OH, however.
     If you are interested in learning much more about this man, we’d encourage you to join the Hull Family Association and obtain our Journals with the articles on this man.
     We are a non-profit organization and this is our 25th year of existence, with a membership of over 450 Hull descendants. We'd enjoy helping you to learn more about this man and his descendants.

 Query #185 – Mary Whitaker/Whittaker of Cecil Co., MD; m. Mr. Hull ca. 1785; resided Smith Twp., Washington Co., PA, ca. 1785: My name is Jarrard Whittacre. I am compiling the Descendants of Thomas Whitaker. Thomas was born 29 May 1731 in St. Mary Ann Parrish, Cecil Co., MD. He married Elizabeth Rogers, b. ca. 1740 in Cecil, Maryland.

One of their 11 children was Mary Whitaker (Whittaker). Mary married a Hull abt 1785. At that time they were living in Smith Twp, Washington, PA. I know that they later moved to Ohio in abt 1805. There isn’t any record that I can find of his Mr. Hull given name, or his and Mary Whitaker’s children, or where they lived after 1805.

The 1800 census has 3 possibilities (1) The best is Gresham Hull living in Smith Twp., Washington Co., PA with wife and children; (2) George Hull; and (3) Henry Hull both living in Fallowfield Twp., Washington Co., PA with wife and children. Would you have any information on Mr. Hull and Mary Whitaker? Thanks.

• 02 Mar 2010 Reply from the HFA Genealogist: We have one possible candidate for the husband of your Mary Whitaker/Whittaker who lived in Washington Co., PA. We believe that this same man also moved to OH. I’ve done a two-page Chronology for this man. His name is… [answer to this query is available only to HFA members; become a member here].
• 03 Mar 2010 Reply from Jarrard Whittacre: It could be George Hull, but Mary was living in Burgettstown, Smith Twp, Washington Co., PA; that is my reasoning that it was Gresham Hull. He was also living in Smith Twp, Washington Co., PA in the 1800 census. In the year of 1802 James Holmes and Nancy Anne Whitaker, Eli Whitaker and Mary Cherry, William Murray and Esther Whitaker, Solomon Perrin and Rachel Whitaker Freegrift Chamberlain and Elizabeth Whitaker, and Mr Hull and Mary Whitaker moved from Smith Twp, Washington Co., PA to or near Millersport, Ohio. Later Mr. Hull and Mary Whitaker, Freegrift Chamberlain and Elizabeth Whitaker, and Solomon Perrin and Rachel Whitaker moved further west, place not known. All of the Whitakers were children of Thomas Whitaker and Elizabeth Rogers. Several of Elizabeth Rogers relatives moved to Licking Co. OH. Some family members have Mary (Whitaker) Hull remarried to a Mr. Chamberlan. With this additional information, what do you think?
• 03 Mar 2010 Reply from the HFA Genealogist: I have several Gersham/Gershom Hulls in Washington Co., PA, but none of them married a Mary. My own Hulls lived in Licking Co., OH and I have volumes on them. Please give counties whenever possible. All of my records are arranged by counties. I have Millersport in Fairfield Co., OH. Is that correct?
     I have several Hull families in Fairfield Co., OH. Some of them are related to the Licking Co., OH Hulls. I will continue to study what you have written. Thank you.

 Query #184 – Mary Hull, b. 1814; d. 1893; m. Jonathan Abraham Sewell; TN: I have a question about a Hull who is believed to be one of my ancestors (my gt gt gt grandmother). She was a Mary Hull, b. 21 Jan 1814; and d. 05 Feb 1893. She is believed to be the wife of a Jonathan Abraham Sewell, b. 08 May 1804, Carter County, TN; d. 06 Oct 1879. Jonathan Sewell is buried in Byrdstown, Pickett Co., TN. Are you aware of this Mary Hull, and was she related to Cordell Hull? Thank you for any information you can give.

• 02 Mar 2010 Reply from the HFA Genealogist: The Hull Family Register [HFR], issued by HFA member #0312 Dave Boatman, includes the family of Mary Hull’s parents. They are… [answer to this query is available only to HFA members; become a member here]. HFR does give considerable info on this family, which can be sent to you if you decide to become a HFA member.

 Query #183 – Matilda Hull m. Nathan Harrison; d/o Martin Hull & Anna Morgan; Benjamin Hull–Jemima (?King) line; Hampshire Co., WV: I am interested in finding information on Matilda Hull, who was born around Hampshire Co., VA, (now WV). She married Nathan Harrison. Matilda Hull was the daughter of Martin Hull and Anna Morgan. Martin Hull was the son of Benjamin Hull and Jemima (?King) Hull. Thanking you in advance.

 Query #182 – Mary Jane Hull; Alexander Scott: I have a bible engraved with gold letters on the front hard cover “Mary Jane Hull.” On the first page it is signed Alexander Scott, June 7th 1845. This bible was given to my father by his uncle years ago. This is all the information I have. Thank you.

• 02 Mar 2010 Reply from Margaret Windham (HFA Member #1603): There is a Mary Ann Hull in my family. Born abt. 1855 in Missouri. Her father was Benjamin Franklin Hull.
• 02 Mar 2010 Reply from the HFA Genealogist: These might be two different Mary Ann Hulls. Mr. Lewis, can you provide locations for these people? That will help us verify.
• 04 Mar 2010 Reply from non-member Linda Lewis Brauer (g-g-granddaughter of Mary Jane Hull Brown): When my brother sent this information he was not aware of all the info we actually do have from the Bible and how much searching I did in the late 80s. I am trying to join the HFA and get involved again as it is very important to our father, Wm. Dell Lewis (age 84), to know what Hull line his great grandmother, Mary Jane Hull Brown, came from.
     He was always told that Capt. Isaac Hull (Old Ironsides) was his g-g-grandfather, which we know can’t be so. Mary Jane (not Ann) Hull m. William or David Brown ca. late 1840s. (First child born 1849.) Seemed to live in New York City. Six children born between 1849–1860; only 2 lived. These were: George Henry Brown, b. 16 Feb 1860, in NY, NY (my father’s grandfather) and his sister Marietta Justina Brown, b. 31 Jan 1851, NY, NY.
     In 1868 when Marietta Justina Brown married Frederic Egner, Geo. H. Brown was 8 yrs. old and Mary Jane Hull Brown was widowed. They both then lived with the Egners. Address in 1868 and before possibly “48th Street, NY City.” After Nov. 1868 perhaps “College Point, Long Island” with Frederic and Marietta Egner.
     Mary Jane Hull Brown died of T.B in possibly NY, mid to late 1870s, or perhaps in Norfolk, Virginia if late 1870s to earlier 80s. All we know about Mary Jane Hull’s father (the one we’re searching for) is “He was a master ship-builder in the Brooklyn navy yard for 30 years.”
     George Henry Brown moved to Tacoma, Washington so all the Hull relatives from Mary Jane Hull Brown started from Washington State as there were no children from Marietta J. Brown Egner, and Geo. Henry had 4 boys and 1 girl (my grandmother). Only 1 biological child came from the 4 boys. There are no surname Browns alive.
     Do you see why I’m having difficulty filling out the forms to become a member? I have some info that actually says two different things so I’m not sure of some things. Please help me to help you to help me!!! Thanks a lot.
• 04 Mar 2010 Reply from the HFA Genealogist: I have in my database a Mary Jane Hull who closely resembles your Mary Jane Hull. I do know that she married a Brown and that they lived in New York City. If we can determine that this woman is identical to your Mary Jane Hull Brown, then I have this line back seven generations. We do hope that you will join the Hull Family Association, so that we can share this info with you. In filling out the forms, just begin with yourself and list each generation that you have back to and including the Hulls.