Hull Family Association

Wedding portrait of Cyrus Hull and Katherine Kitty McNamara Hull (both left), with Emma Loretta Hull Logan and Clinton Perry Logan
20 March 1889

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The Hull Family Association (HFA) is a non-profit association, organized in October 1985 by a small group of Hull* descendants from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and Colorado to develop, preserve, and exchange information on Hull history and genealogy in the United States.

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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.

Submissions Policy

All submissions to the HFA of any kind
become the joint property of the submitter
and the HFA, with the understanding that the
HFA may, using its own discretion, share this
information with others unless otherwise
requested in writing by the submitter.
The submitter’s expenses cannot
be reimbursed by the HFA.
Questions? E-mail us.

We are grateful to the generosity of our Patron Members whose contributions help offset the cost of placing our publications in one of approximately 30 libraries, and support special projects. See the list of Patron Members here, updated 24 Jun 2010, as of 23 May 2010.

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

02 Sep 2010 | 2010 HFA Reunion Attendee List Updated: From COL Bob and Frankie Hull, 2010 reunion hosts – The attendee list for this year’s reunion has been updated. We have 48 members and fellow travelers signed up.

26 Jul 2010 | 2010 HFA Reunion Agenda and Reservation Deadline: From COL Bob and Frankie Hull, 2010 reunion hosts – The deadline for the reduced rates for accommodations and meeting registration is August 1.

The agenda for the reunion is available here.

14 Jun 2010 | Two Hundredth Query Posted: The two hundredth query has been submitted to the HFA, by Connie Johnson Fleming (HFA Member #1663).

Since the HFA began posting queries here four years ago, we have received an average of exactly one query a week.

19 May 2010 | Updated Book on The Descendants of Richard Hull Immigrant of the New Haven Colony (now in Connecticut): From Robert E. Hull (“Saratoga Bob,” HFA Member #0000) – I am planning to issue a CD electronic book which will be an update of the “The Descendants of Richard Hull” of the New Haven Colony. This line was originally published in 1913 by the previous Hull Family Association, and was entitled The Hull Family in America, by Col. Charles H. Weygant.

I have been collecting information which has become available through:

the present Hull Family Association and their publications,
Families of Ancient New Haven, by Donald Lines Jacobus,
HFA member lineages, and
numerous other miscellaneous sources.

These data are all stored in my Extended Hull Family Database (EHFD) which has reached 125,711 in number of individuals.

I am calling for people who descend from the said immigrant, Richard Hull, to send in any updates, changes, or additions to their own family data, plus family photographs up to circa World War I—and tombstone photographs. The book will not cover current living generations. Please send in your material as soon as possible, as I will publish by Christmas time if practical. I can be contacted here:

06 May 2010 | 2010 HFA Reunion Dates and Registration Form: From COL Bob and Frankie Hull, 2010 reunion hosts – The registration form is now available for our 2010 HFA Reunion—our 25th!—to be held Thursday, 09 September through Saturday, 11 September 2010 in Arlington, Virginia. The registration form includes lodging details and more.

Attendees will have access to several prominent U.S. institutions, including The National Archives, DAR Library, and Library of Congress. We look forward to seeing you as we celebrate our first 25 years!

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29 Apr 2010 | Spring 2010 HFA Journal Table of Contents: The latest issue of the HFA Journal will be mailed shortly. We’ve posted its Table of Contents.

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.

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.

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.”

See also the 2006–2009 HFA News Archive

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HFA members—and non-members who wish to offer Hull-related material—can submit queries, listed below, using this online form. To protect privacy, we do not post e-mail addresses; we will notify you when we receive a reply. Space permitting we also will publish queries in an upcoming issue of the HFA Newsletter.

Notice to Non-Members: Query answers that contain not-commonly-available genealogical information are accessible to our members only. Non-members can feel free to submit a query, but when we notify you that we’ve received a reply to your query, you will be asked to join the HFA in order to view the reply (via our “members only” website).

Below are the most recent queries we’ve received (in descending order). See also:

Previous queries
Replies to queries listed on What’s New

Query #213 – Marie Margaret Hull, b. 1901, Madison Co., AL; m. Richard Alexander Pitts, 1917, Lincoln Co., ID: Desire to find family of Marie Margaret Hull born Huntsville, Madison Co., AL, 28 Feb 1901. She married Richard Alexander Pitts, 21 Dec 1917, Shoshone, Lincoln Co., ID, performed by Judge Nall, and claimed her mother was Mary Rhodas; she didn’t list her father. Richard Alexander Pitts was son of James William Pitts and Cora May (Dyar) Pitts. She claimed to have been orphaned and raised by relatives (maiden aunt[s]). She claimed to have been last child in mother’s final marriage. Siblings from her mother or father’s previous marriages existed, by her claim. Richard and Marie (Hull) Pitts had 13 children and she died in Vancouver, Washington in Feb 1959. Do not find anyone fitting her description in Idaho census when adding years to her age. Who was she? She was related to me through their oldest child, Genevieve Margaret Pitts/Lowery Washburn; their oldest child Luella M. Washburn who m. William M. Wethered are my parents.

Reply to this query

— Submitted 11 Aug 2010
by P. Gene Wethered-McClung, non-member

11 Aug 2010 Reply from the HFA Genealogist: If you search the Pitts GenForum queries you will see another query asking for information on Alexander Pitts and Marie M. Hull. Good luck to you.

Query #212 – Query #212: Gideon H. Hull m. Currency Osborn, Hartford Co., CT; also Hampshire Co., MA & Edgefield Co., SC: Seeking information and evidence of the parentage of my 4th gt grandfather, Gideon H. Hull, b. ca. 1788, Hampshire Co., MA (possibly Granville); m. 04 May 1809, West Hartland, Hartford Co., CT, #1 Currency Osborn. Left his family in CT in 1820, and relocated ca. 1821 to Hamburg, SC, via Baltimore, MD and Charleston, SC; d. 11 Nov 1840, Hamburg, Edgefield Co., SC.

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— Submitted 06 Aug 2010
by Charles Livermore Wells, HFA Member #1672

06 Aug 2010 Reply from the HFA Genealogist: I am pleased to tell you that we do have info on your Hull line. We can complete your line back to the immigrant and beyond. We will fill out your lineage chart and give you the missing generations. The parents of your Gideon Hull were… [answer to this query is available only to HFA members; become a member here].

Query #211 – Hollis Hull & Emiline [_?_], Titusville, Crawford Co., PA: Trying to find my 4th gt. grandparent, Hollis Hull’s, parents and grandparents. He m. Emiline [_?_]. Was Hollis Hull’s father George Hull? They lived in Titusville, Crawford Co., PA.

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— Submitted 06 Aug 2010 by Pamela Pinney Vincent, non-member

Query #210 –William Hull (1786-1841) m. Sabra Abby Olmstead (1792-1841): Seeking info on William Hull, who was from Fairfield, CT and moved to Roxbury, NY. Seeking his parents’ names. Have info relating daughter, Lucy Caroline, to her uncle, Commodore Isaac Hull, and wonder if true.

William Hull was b. 20 May 1786 Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT; d. 07 Jun 1841 Roxbury, Delaware Co., NY.

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— Submitted 03 Aug 2010 by Barbara McGillivary, non-member

03 Aug 2010 Reply from the HFA Genealogist: First, the daughter, Lucy Caroline Hull, is unrelated to Commodore Isaac Hull. DNA analysis and the proper genealogical research proves that. We have info on this William Hull and can extend this line back to the immigrant and two generations beyond. The parents of William Hull were… [answer to this query is available only to HFA members; become a member here].

Query #209 – Elizabeth Hull (1625–1680) m. to Samuel Gaylord (1619–1690): These Hulls came from England to Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. Seeking Elizabeth’s parents name and when they came to America.

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— Submitted 03 Aug 2010 by Barbara McGillivary, non-member

03 Aug 2010 Reply from the HFA Genealogist: We can extend this line back three more generations. The parents of Elizabeth Hull are… [answer to this query is available only to HFA members; become a member here].

See older queries here

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*Hull Surname. The Hull Family Association gladly welcomes all descendants who share the various surname variations of Hull, Hohl, and Holl. Our bylaws specify that membership in our association requires that a person bear the name Hull (or one of the variations), be descended from or related to a person of that name, or have an interest in the Hull name. Use of Hull on this website therefore presumes a reference to all of the surname variations. [return to text above]

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