1st wife of Joseph Hull

Joseph Hull and his first wife had 7 children that we know of:

1. Joanna, born winter 1619/20, probably in Colyton or Silferton, Devon. Joanna married twice, first Captain John Burstley - 28 Nov 1639, Sandwich, Barnstable, MA - and second Dolor Davis, ~1671.  She died sometime after 1693.
2. Joseph, jr, born ~1622, probably at Northleigh (his father became rector there in 1621)
3. Captain Tristram, our next ancestor, born ~1624, probably at Northleigh.
4. Temperance, baptized 20 March 1625/6 at Northleigh.  She married John Bickford ~1649.
5. Elizabeth, born ~1628, probably at Northleigh.  She married John Heard (who was NOT the son of Luke Heard and Sarah Wyatt) in ~1643, probably at York, Maine.  She died 30 Nov 1706.
6. Grissell/Griselda, born ~1630. (She did NOT marry James Warren)
7. Dorothy, born ~1632. She married twice, first Oliver Kent; second Captain Benjamin Mathews.

Origins

Rev. Joseph Hull was not married to Joanna Coffin! The name comes from some inventive and quite persuasive speculation by an eary Hull researcher, Orra Eugene Monnette. He based his speculation on the usual genealogical suspects: names of children, locations of possible relatives, etc. However, Phyllis Hughes found that the Joanna Coffin under consideration - daughter of Peter and Joanna (Thember) Coffin - was only ~3 years old when she supposedly married, so that's that. You still see the name in various published genealogies, because other researchers copied Monnette, and still others copied them - but it is quite wrong. (See Phyllis's article in the Hull Family Association Journal, v. 12, #1, Spring 2001, pp 23-4) link “ HFAm #1, Rev. Joseph Hull did not marry Joanna Coffin, as his first wife. There is also no proven evidence that Rev. Joseph even married a Joanna. It is well documented that the given name of his second wife was Agnes, but her surname is unknown; there is absolutely no evidence that she was Agnes Coffin.”

GEDCOM Note

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Coffin-1380 March 2019

Research Notes

There is NO evidence that Joanne Coffin married Joseph Hull. Please do not attach her to him. See here for information: “Common Errors on the Internet, in The Hull Family in America (pub. 1913), and in Other Published Records” By Phyllis J. Hughes, HFA Genealogist. https://www.hullfamilyassociation.org/genealogist_errors_joseph.shtml

References

• http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/hull.html#G1