TULL FAMILY

By Edward Rountree Tull, Jr.

EDWARD ROUNTREE TULL, JR.

1903-1958

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TULL FAMILY

by Edw. R. Tull

1956

PREFACE

When the suggestion was made that some record of my family should be made for my children, separated as they are from their paternal kin, it seemed so simple at first, but it soon became evident that I knew very little about my own people.

Thus began the request for actual data from one generation back to the next. True, it has required much persistent effort, and at times has met little sympathy. On the other hand there have been those that very graciously contributed their time in assembling information on particular families. Their efforts are sincerely appreciated. Without their assistance this compilation would not have been as complete as it is.

The task has been complicated by the lack of records due to the destruction on nearly all the Dobbs County records when the Lenoir County Court House burned on October 21, 1873. Many of the papers of the private collection of the late Mr. Lovit Hines, now in the North Carolina State Department of Archives, were legal instruments of various members of the early Tull family in North Carolina, and have been of invaluable assistance.

The aim has been to record the facts as they are to be found in family Bibles, Wills, Court and Colonial Records and records furnished by members of the family, without resort to assumption, as a factual history of a family for the members of the family. When possible, an effort has been made to include a brief historical sketch for further identification and interest. The information received from a mass of correspondence over a period of several years has been carefully checked for accuracy. Yet errors will undoubtedly be found, for the data of the death of my Grandmother is not the same on the tombstone as is written in the family Bible, and even the spelling differs!

It is hoped that this information may be of interest and value, and that some one more capable and diligent may be able to complete those portions where data was unavailable at this time.

Edw. R. Tull

September 23, 1956

Rockingham, N.C.

INTRODUCTION

About 1664 Thomas and Richard Tull came from England and settled in Virginia and a short time later moved to Maryland. As this is written, two hundred and ninety one years later, the name is a familiar one along the Eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia. Branches of this family extended to other parts of the country when the early pioneers ventured into the new territories.

The Eastern North Carolina branch of the family was established when Isaac Tull moved his family from Baltimore, Maryland, to Dobbs County, North Carolina in 1755. (This family is not to be confused with the name sometimes encountered in the Western part of the State. The 1790 Federal Census listed Nicholas, William and Frederick Tull with families in Stokes County, North Carolina. However, they were from a different family, although perhaps distantly related.)

Isaac Tull prospered in Dobbs County. Surviving records indicate that many acres of land were acquired before he died in 1784. Although Isaac’s descendants are scattered throughout the country now, as is to be expected, Lenoir County, formed from Dobbs in 1791, is the seat of the North Carolina branch of the Tull family, and many of his descendants are to be found there today.

In this account of the North Carolina branch of the Tull family, no effort has been made to trace the Tull ancestry beyond the first settler to this country. The following data compiled by Frances Houston Irwin, Genealogist, is from "John Porter Tull and His Descendants 1796-1942" by James Porter Tull, printed by Morton B. Hadlock, Hartford, Conn.;

"The name of Tull was evolved from that of Maoltuile, the second son of Maolfeach, Prince of Ulster, Ireland, who flourished during the seventh century.

"Maoltuile was the first to Anglicize the name to Multully - Tully - meaning flood - Ulster. This spelling continued through the generations to Kyras Tully, who died in County Galway, Ireland, in 1637 ….. Kyras Tully married (1) Sheela, daughter of Thomas O’Kelly, their sons being MATHEW, Mark, Luke, John, Conner.

"A thorough research through the archives of Ireland reveals no further record of Matthew Tully until he appears as Mathew Tull on the list of commissioned officers from Ireland in the army of Charles I, King of England. In September 1649, during the Cromwellian Protectorate, there was there was a general massacre of the officers of the forty-four Companies of Charles I in Ireland, and as the only record made afterward of Matthew Tully-Tull was that his confiscated estates were sold at Chichester House in Dublin, circa 1650-1651, he was evidently among the officers slain.

THOMAS TULL and his brother Richard came to Virginia from England about 1664. According to the Virginia records Thomas Tull, son of Thomas Tull, Senior of Berkshire, England, patented land on June 10, 1664 in what later became Northampton County, Virginia. Two days later Richard Tull patented land there on June 12, 1664. This was just fifty seven years after the establishment of the first permanent English Colony at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. (Cavaliers and Pioneers of VA.)

They did not remain in Virginia long for the Maryland records state that they "were in Annemessex Section in 1666", and are listed in Somerset County, Maryland as first settlers in 1661-1666. On November 28, 1689 they signed the address of Inhabitants of Somerset County, pledging loyalty to William and Mary and the Protestant religion.

Richard Tull married Martha Rhodes in 1671 and their children were; Rachel 1672, Richard 1675, George 1677, John 1681, William 1684, Benjamin 1686, Elizabeth 1688, Mary 1690, Sarah 1694, and Richard 1695. John Rhodes sold land to Richard and Thomas Tull in 1671. Land was called "Salisbury" and was in Maryland.

Thomas Tull married Mary Minshall. "The first Banns of Matrimony were published for Thomas Tull of Annamessicke and Mary Minshall of Morunsco" on September 4, 1666 when the first court sat for Somerset County, and they were married on October 1666. They had four children. Thomas died after March 8, 1697 as he served on the Grand Jury for Somerset County on that date. (Old Somerset on E.S. of MD.) Their children:

1i Thomas Tull born 1668 married Sarah

ii Richard Tull born 1670

iii John Tull born 1674 married Esther Benton. This family has been recorded in "John Porter Tull and His Descendants 1796-1942" by James Porter Tull, printed by Morton B. Hadlock, Hartford, Conn.

iv Mary Tull born 1677.

1. Thomas Tull, first son of Thomas and Mary (Minshall) Tull, was born in 1668 in Somerset County, Maryland. Apparently, on becoming of age, young Thomas Tull decided to try out the Carolina Territory, and leaving his family in Somerset County, Maryland, he moved into Albemarle County, North Carolina. At the General Court of Albemarle County, N.C., on September 28, 1694, "Thomas Tull shewing that in ye year 1689 he the said Thomas Tull obtained a nonsuite against Jno Gibbs esq for which noe satisfaction hath hitherto been made for his costs and charges therein….etc" (Colonial Records of North Carolina) There is a Tull’s Creek and a Tull’s Swamp in Currituck County which was formed from Albemarle County. However, he did not remain in North Carolina but moved back to Maryland where he died. His will, dated November 26, 1727 and probated January 4, 1728 (Abstracts of Wills of Somerset County, Maryland) mentioned; Sarah Tull, widow. Son, Thomas, is to care for William and Isaac Tull, and his two youngest sisters, Esther and Grace until they are of age. Land of John Tull is to be given to Samuel Tull. Sons, William, Isaac and Samuel (William and Isaac not yet 18) Daughters, Sarah, Rachel, Esther, Grace and Mary.

"In England, the records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury give the wills in 1656 of John Tull, Sen. and Thomas Tull, Sen., both of Berkshire, There is no further record of Thomas Tull, Senior of Thomas Tull, Jun., but the highest Irish authorities states, 'The ancient Irish Proprietors and their children who survived the Cromwellian devastation were scattered from one end of the World to the other, in England, Scotland and the great Western Republic’-

 "In America, the Virginia archives state that Thomas and Richard Tull patented land in 1664".

Note: As to the way some of the old dates were written:

The first calendar was the Jewish calendar, which being, a lunar calendar had thirteen months. This was followed by the Julian calendar of twelve months or 365 ¼ days, by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. It was changed in A.D. 1582 to the present Gregorian Calendar by Pope Gregory XIII, but was not adopted by the English speaking countries until 1752. When finally adopted the New Year was changed from Enunciation Day - March 25 - to January 1, 1752, but the dates were then in error by eleven days.

Therefore, George Washington’s birthday recorded in the family Bible as February 11 when corrected became February 22. Dates between January 1 and March 25 on some old records may be found as - February 24, 1743/4, that is 1744 by our present Gregorian calendar.

Children of Thomas and Sarah Tull were:

i Thomas Tull

ii Samuel Tull

iii Sarah Tull

iv Rachel Tull

v Mary Tull

vi William Tull

2 vii Isaac Tull born December 16, 1718 married Winifred Caldwell.

viii Esther Tull

ix Grace Tull

2 Isaac Tull, son of Thomas Tull (#1) and his wife, Sarah, was born December 16, 1718 and died in 1784 in Dobbs County, North Carolina. He was just nine years old when his father died and under the charge of his older brother, Thomas, was soon apprenticed with his brother William, as was then customary. In the Will of Godfrey Spragle, dated December 14, 1737 (Wills of Somerset County, Maryland, page 228) "William and Isaac Tull, apprentices of said Spragle, are given their freedom". Six years later at the age of twenty five, he married on February 24, 1743/4 (see note on dates) Winifred Caldwell was born October 25, 1720 at Baltimore, Maryland and died May 18, 1806 in Lenoir County, North Carolina. They moved from Baltimore to North Carolina in 1755 and settled between Nuce River and Briary Branch" near what is now Kinston, North Carolina. Space does not permit copies of some of the interesting deeds written in their colorful legal terms of the period when North Carolina was being settled by these venturesome pioneers.

The 1790 Federal Census lists only 915 families in Dobbs County which was formed from Johnston County by an Act of the General Assembly in 1758, and until 1779 included the territory now embraced by Wayne, Greene and Lenoir. Wayne was created from Dobbs in 1779, and the remainder divided into Lenoir and Glasgow in 1791. Glasgow became Greene in 1799.

Isaac Tull was sixty six years old when he died in 1784 and was buried on his plantation in Dobbs County, North Carolina, in the vicinity of the present Caswell Training School. Winifred, his wife lived to be eighty six when she died on May 19, 1806. Her own list of her children is among the papers of the Lovit Hines Lenoir County papers, page 307, dated January 24 Day 1762, in the North Carolina State Department of Archives, Raleigh, N.C. The children of Isaac and Winifred (Caldwell) Tull were:

3 I John Tull born October ye 15 Day 1744

ii Charles Tull was born October 19, 1746 and Died ye 18^th of June 1750.

iii Elizabeth Tull was born Febr ye 6, 1748/9. (She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to North Carolina with her family when she was seven years old. It is believed that Elizabeth married either Hugh Ward, James Hutchins or Edward Hutchins, and that her sisters, Ann and Sarah, were wives of the other two.

This opinion is based on the following contract dated February 20, 1784 (Lovit -Hines papers, p 140 N.C. Department of Archives); "Know all men by these presents we Charles Tull, William Tull and Hugh Ward, James Hutchins and Edward Hutchins all of County and State of North Carolina are held and firmly bound unto John Tull, Executor of Isaac Tull in the sum of two hundred pounds lawful money of this State…etc".

iv Ann Tull was born May 23, 1751. (See note under iii above)

4 v Charles Tull was born December 2, 1753. He married Sarah Hardy.

5 vi William Tull was born April 12, 1756

vii Isaac Tull was born November 18, 1758. No further reference has been found. It is believed he died young.

viii Sarah Tull was born December 6, 1761 in Dobbs Co., N.C. (See note under iii above)

3 John Tull, son of Isaac Tull (#2) and his wife, Winifred Caldwell, was born October 15, 1744 in Baltimore, Maryland, and died on September 20, 1820 in Lenoir County, North Carolina. (Account in RALEIGH REGISTER October 27, 1820. He married on September 12, 1779 Elizabeth Cannon who died on December 30, 1820. He was listed among those drafted in Capt. Kennedy’s Company of Militia of Dobbs County, July 26, 1777. (Roster of Soldiers from N.C. in American Revolution. N.C. Dept. of Archives.) He expanded the holdings inherited from his father and became one of the largest property owners of the state. His will follows:

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA MARCH 9, 1820

In the name of God Amen, I, John Tull, of the County of Lenoir and State aforesaid, knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following:

Item 1^st, I lend to my well beloved wife, Elizabeth Tull, four Negroes to Wit: Tomy, Leah, James and Phillis and one Feather Bed and furniture during her natural life and my will and desire is that my wife live with either of my three children whichever she prefers living with and the above named Negroes along with her in order to work for the support and maintenance of her as long as she lives free of any charge. After her decease I give the above named Negroes, bed and furniture to my three children, Elizabeth Graham, Isaac and Henry Tull, to be equally divided amongst them to each of them their heirs and assigns forever.

Item 2^nd , I give, bequeath and devise to my well beloved daughter Elizabeth Graham, wife of Chauncey Graham, my plantation lying on the suth side of the Yadkin river which land I purchased of William Croom and in her possession and following Negroes to wit, Moll, Simon, Esther, Ben, Frank, Gabe, Judah, Rachel, Sam, Lewis, Dennis, Tomy and Lige and their Increase to her, her heirs and assigns forever.

Item 3^rd, I give, bequeath and devise to my well beloved son Isaac Tull the following Negroes to Wit, Sam, Bob, Daniel, George, Phebe, Rose, Tommy, Bill, Silas, Amy and their Increase to him his heirs and assigns forever.

Item 4^th, I lend to my beloved daughter-in-law Mary Tull, my Dwelling House and other out houses together with as much of my adjoining plantation as my Executors may deem sufficient for her farm, also the following Negroes to wit, Ephriam, Juno, and Raif during her Natural life or widowhood, after her decease or marriage the above house lands and Negroes Ephraim, Juno and Raif and their Increase I give to her Daughter Sally Eliza Tull, I give and bequeath to Mary Tull Two Feather Beds and Furniture, one horse called Snap, two Mules, three Cows, three Sows and pigs, fifteen dry hogs, one bee hive, one years provision, half a dozen Chairs, one table, one pair of and Irons, two plows, two pair of trams, two axles, two weeding hoes, two Iron Pots, one Grubbin hoe and one pair of Iron wedges, one Case of Knives and forks to her, her heirs and assigns forever.

Item 5, I give bequeath and devise to my well beloved Grand Daughter Sally Eliza Tull the plantation I now live on, containing about one thousand acres also the following Negroes to wit, London, Doll, little Elleck, Kitty, Margaret, Needham, Richard, Susan and John, they and their Increase and Six Hundred dollars to be put on interest and to be educated out of the Income of her property and the lands and Negroes to be rented and hired out until she marries or arrives of legal age.

Item 6^th, I give and bequeath John and Probert Collier, my Grand sons, twenty-five dollars each.

Item 7^th, I give and bequeath to my three children Elizabeth Graham, Isaac and Henry Tull, the whole of my property not herein before given away or intended to be given to be equally divided amongst them their heirs and assigns forever.

Item 8^th, I will that if she the said Sally Eliza Tull died before she marries or has a lawful begotten heir the whole of the property given to her to be equally divided amongst my three children, Elizabeth Graham, Isaac and Henry Tull, to them, their heirs and assigns forever.

Lastly I nominate, constitute and appoint my sons Isaac and Henry Tull Executors to this my Last Will and Testament,

Hereby revoking all former wills by me made, In Witness I hereunto set my Name and Seal this Ninth of March, one thousand eight Hundred and Twenty.

Signed, Sealed and published

by the Testator to be and contain his last Will and

Testament, in presence of:

Thos. Campbell

Geo. G. Lovick

Lewis G. Desmond (Signed) John Tull

State of N.C.

Lenoir County, October Court 1820

Then was the foregoing last will and testament of John Tull, Sen’r, exhibited into Court and proved by the oath of Lewis C. Desmond of the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. At the same time Isaac and Henry Tull, the executors, therein named, appeared and qualified. Therefore letters testamentary issue accordingly.

C. Westbrook, Clerk

I do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the last will and testament of John Tull, deceased, given under my hand at Kinston, the 16^th October, 1820

C. Westbrook, Clerk

(Lenoir County Papers, Lovit Hines Collection, Vol. 3, page 6 N.C. State Department of Archives and History)

There were seven children born to John and Elizabeth (Cannon) Tull, three of whom married children of Dr. Chauncey and Sarah (Merwin) Graham. They are listed in an old Prayer Book belonging to Mrs. George W. Tull.

Children of John and Elizabeth (Cannon) Tull:

i Caty Tull born November 17, 1780 and died young

ii Winifred Tull died young -born about 1781,

6 iii Elizabeth Tull born October 6, 1782 married Dr. Chauncey Graham III

iv Sarah Tull born August 23, 1783 and died before 1820 married Thomas Collier who died before 1820 Two sons were mentioned in John Tulls will:

1. John Collier

2. Probert Collier

"Received 18^th October 1822 of Isaac and Henry Tull Executors of John Tull dec’d Twenty five dollars it being in full of a legacy bequeathed to Probert Collier by the said dec’d.

Witness: Craven Metts (Signed) Probert Collier".

"Received 18^th October 1822 of Isaac and Henry Tull Executors of John Tull dec’d Twenty five dollars it being in full legacy bequeathed to John Collier, son of Thomas Collier, by the said dec’d.

Witness: Craven Metts (Signed) John Collier By Probert Collier.

(Lovit Hines Papers page 400, N.C. Dept. of Archives) There were several families in the area named Thomas, John and Probert Collier, but nothing definite has been learned of this particular family.

7v Isaac Tull born September 28, 1785 married Eliza Graham

8 vi Henry Tull born October 12, 1787 married Susan Hill

vii John Tull, Jr. Born March 3, 1790 died before 1820 married on November 28, 1815 (RALEIGH REGISTER of Dec. 22, 1815) Mary B. Graham born April 7, 1789 died between 1820 and 1831, daughter of Dr. Chauncey and Sarah (Merwin) Graham, Jr. They had one child:

1. Sarah Elizabeth Tull born about 1816 and died before 1831. "August 2, 1831. Indenture between Henry Tull and Henry Chamberlain and Sarah Catherine Chamberlain his wife of Pitt County and Eliza Argent Graham, Julia Graham and Martha Jane Graham of Lenoir County lands on North side of Nuse and S side of Briary Branch, devise of John Tull dec’d to Sally Eliza Tull and in case of her death without issue to be divided between the said John’s sons Isaac and Henry and daughter Elizabeth Graham." (Lovit Hines Papers - N.C. Dept. Archives)

4 Charles Tull, son of Isaac Tull (#1) and his wife, Winifred Caldwell, was born December 1, 1753 in Baltimore, Maryland, and died October 8, 1836 in Lenoir County, North Carolina. In January 1779 he married Sarah Hardy, born October 24, 1763 in Bertie County, died February 12, 1843 in Lenoir County, daughter of Lemuel and Mary (Sutton) Hardy. Lemuel Hardy, son of John Hardy, was born May 20, 1730 married in 1752 Mary Sutton born October 6, 1746, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Chauncey) Sutton. Charles Tull served in the Revolutionary War with a North Carolina Company. (Col. Records of N.C. Vol. 22, p 88 and Pension Record Number S7759) A copy of the Pension Record follows. They lived in the Contentnea Creek Section near Rountree Church which he helped organize and in which he took an active part. (See Rountree Church minutes August 1828) Descendants are living today in the same section. The Will of Charles Tull from colonial Records, page 57, Lenoir County, N.C. Court House, is as follows:

In the name of God amen, I Charles Tull of the State of North Carolina and County of Lenoir being of sound and disposing mind and memory do this 28th day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty five make and ordain this to be my last will and testament in manner and form following, viz;

1^st. I give and beqyeath to my wife Sally Tull fifty dollars in cash, one bed and, furnityre and bed stead, one walnut chest that she now keeps her clothes in.

2^nd. I give and beqyeath unto my son Arthur Tull one negro man named Lewis which is now in his possession.

3^rd. I give and bequeath unto my son Lewis Tull all my wearing apparel.

4^th. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Susana Moore three negro servants, Comfort, Hollan and Barbary and all Barbary's children to her, her heirs and assigns forever.

5^th. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Winifred Mullen one negro man named Reddick in addition to those I have already given her, her heirs and assigns forever.

6^th. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Sally Barwick the following Negroes (viz) Joe and Enock and Esther and all Ester’s children to her, her heirs and assigns forever

7^th. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Edith Tucker one Negro boy named Frank in addition to those already given her, to her, her heirs and assigns forever.

8^th. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Catherine Vause, the following Negroes, Israel, John Cornesius, and Jinny and all her children to her, her heirs and assigns forever.

9^th. I lend to my daughter Laney Jones the following Negroes, Luke and Mila for her own separate use, not however to be subject to the control of her husband and during her natural life. After the death of said Laney it is my will that they the children which said Laney may have which said Negroes I give to them, their heirs and assigns forever.

10^th. I give and bequeath to my two Grandchildren Isaac Tull and Jesse Tull two Negroes George and Dick to be equally divided between them. Should either of them die leaving no issue it is my will that the survivor should both the Negroes to them, their heirs and assigns forever.

11^th. I give and bequeath unto my grand son Henry Barwick one Negro girl named Mary also one sorrel mare called Fancy, one feather bedstead and furniture marked H.B. and my chest that I now keep my papers in and one saddle and bridle.

12^th. It is my will and desire that all my land be sold in one lot to itself and half of the money arising from the sale of said land to be paid at the expiration of twelve months, the other half at the expiration of two years, all my personal estate not disposed of by my will be sold, the money arising from the aforesaid sales to be equally divided among all my children that is living and those that are dead their children have their part except Lewis and Sally their children to have their of said sales ----Sally’s children as their arrive to lawful age to receive their proportionable part of her part of her part of said sales.

I hereby nominate constitute and appoint Isaac Barwick Executor of this my last will and testament, revoking and making void all other former will by me made ratifying this to be and contain my last will and testament. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal the day and year herein written.

Signed, sealed, published

and declared in presence of

J.S. Scott

Thomas Harvey (Signed) Charles Tull

 State of North Carolina Lenoir County Court of Pleas and Quarter session January Term 1837 then was the foregoing last will and testament of Charles Tull dec’d, exhibited in open court and the execution thereof duly proved by Thomas Harvey one of the subscribing witnesses thereto at the same time Isaac Barwick the executor therein appeared and qualified ordered that letter testamentary issue and that the said will be recorded.

Attest Lewis C. Desmond Cl

Enrolled in the Clerks Office of Lenoir County May 11 1837

Lewis C. Desmond Clk

I certify the foregoing to be a true cony of the original last and testament of Charles Tull dec’d as appears of record.

Lewis C. Desmond Clk.

N.C. Pension Record of Charles Tull S-7759

#12316 N.C. - Charles Tull of Lenoir County, N.C. private in a regiment commanded by Col. Caswell in the N.C. Line for 6 mos. Inscribes on the roll of N.C. @ $20.00 per annum to commence 3-4-1831. Certificate of pension issued 4-20-1833. Arrears to 3-4-1833- Act of 6-7-1832.

Lenoir County - Court of Please and Quarter Session April Term 1833. On 2nd April 1833, before us, J. Rouse, C. Metts and P. Hardee, Justices of the Court, personally appeared Charles Tull 80 yrs old on Dec. 2, next and makes claim for benefits under the Act of 6-7-1832.

He states he volunteered in Dobbs County in 1775 in a company by Capt. Jesse Cobb in a regiment, under Col. Richard Caswell, Lt. Col. Wm Bryan and Major Gorham. They marched from Kinston, N.C. when the company was organized and went to New Bern where they drilled 14 days and returned to Lenoir where they remained until 1776, when they were dispatched to South River, N.C, to stop the Tories. The Tories escaped from South River and were overtaken at Moores Creek, New Hanover County, N.C. 16 or 18 miles above Wilmington, where, they were engaged in a battle under Col. Richard Caswell and the Tories were led by Gen. McDaniel and Capt. McLoud, who was killed in the battle. The Tories lost 14 men killed and we lost one, man and his loss was thought to be an accident. The second day after the battle we marched back to Kinston where we stayed until called to Wilmington where we were engaged in building entrenchments against the British who were reported to be at Brunswick. They did not attack and we returned to Kinston and were discharged after 6 months of duty.

He further states that he is unable to prove his service by any person. /s/ Charles Tull

Lewis C. Desmond CC

Certificate of John Cox and James Tull of Lenoir County who have known Charles Tull for year sand believe him to be 80 years old.

/s/ John Cox

/s/ James Tull

He certified that he was born in Maryland in 1753 and came to N.C. at the age of 2. That he lived in Dobbs County, N.C. when he enlisted. He knew Co. Rich’d Caswell, John Williams, Wm. Lovick, John Gatlen, Dallam Caswell, Blount Coleman and N.G. Blount and refers to them for character and reputation.

/s/ J. Rouse

/s/ C. Metts

/s/ P. Hardee

Justices of the Court.

The children of Charles and Sarah (Hardy) Tull were:

9 i Susanna Tull born December 19, 1779 married Richard Moore.

ii Lewis Tull born before, 1790 was living in 1835. No further record: (Jones Co Georgia in 1827; Houston Co.,

Ga. in 1835 census – handwritten note)

iii Arthur Tull born before 1790 died after 1835 married Nancy Tucker (See Rountree Church minutes - 1829).

The 1830 Census lists two boys and three girls. Children mention in the will of Charles Tull were:

1. Isaac Tull

2. Jesse Tull

10 iv Sarah Tull born May 18, 1793 married Isaac Barwick.

11 v Edith Tull born January 20, 1798 married Arden Tucker.

vi Winifred Tull married Mr. Mullen. No further record.

12 vii Catherine Tull born July 10, 1800 married Jesse Vause.

13 viii Laney Tull born August 6, 1802 married Green Jones.

5 William Tull, Senior, son of Isaac Tull (#2) and his wife Winifred Caldwell, was born April 12, 1756 in Johnston County, N.C., from which Dobbs County was formed two years later. He died about 1820. His wife was Susannah, but her last name is not known. One of the existing deeds is as follows: "This indenture made this ninth day of October in the year of our Lord, one Thousand eight hundred and twenty one between Susannah Tull of the State of North Carolina and County of Lenoir on the one part, and William Tull her son of the State and county aforesaid….etc" The 1790 Census lists four daughters and from deeds it is found that they had three sons:

i Daughter Tull

ii Daughter Tull

iii Daughter Tull

iv Daughter Tull

v Lemuel Tull born about 1794 (1830 Census) and married about 1820. A deed dated January 24, 1839 from John C Washington to Henry Tull: "the same being the tract of land which Lemuel Tull derived from his father, William Tull". Four sons - no daughters. No further reference.

vi James Tull born about 1793. "This indenture made this twenty fourth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen between William Tull, Senior and James Tull of the State and County aforesaid on the other part. Witnesseth that the said William Tull for and in consideration of the natural love and affection which I have toward my son James Tull and … etc" Witnessed Charles Tull pension application in 1833, was described as from Lenoir County. No further reference.

14 v William Tull born about 1796 married Sarah.

Much of the information on this family has been derived from Census records and a few deeds in the Lovit Hines Collection in the N. C. State Dept. of Archives. The only descendants known to the present generation were those of William Tull, Jr. and the last of those died in 1926. Undoubtedly, some Tulls found listed in Lenoir County Census and other records were members of this family, but their connections are uncertain and it is not known what became of them.

6 Elizabeth Tull, daughter of John Tull (#3) and his wife Elizabeth Cannon, was born October 6,, 1782 and died about 1824. She married about 1806 Dr. Chauncey Graham III of Kinston born July 26, 1783 died March 1853. He was born at Durham, Conn. and both were buried in the family plot on their plantation near Kinston. He was a physician and was active in

local affairs and politics. He was a son of Chauncey and Sarah (Merwin) Graham, Jr. who moved from Durham, Conn. to Murfreesboro, N. C. He was a son of Rev. Dr. Chauncey Graham of Stillwater, Conn. whose father was Dr. John Graham, D.D. graduate of the University of Glascow and received his orders at Edinburgh. In 1718 he immigrated to Boston and married Abigail, daughter of the celebrated Doctor Chauncey who was Minister at Exeter, New Hampshire and at Stafford, Conn. and the first minister in Southbury society, Woodbury, Conn. (See "The Rev. John Graham of Woodbury, Connecticut and His Descendants" by Helen Graham Carpenter. The Monastery Hill Press, Chicago; 1942).

They had five children:

i Sarah Catherine Graham born about 1807 at Kinston died about 1848, married about 1828 Henry Chamberlain of Greenville, N.C. They moved to Tarboro, N.C. They had one child, a daughter who died young. (1830 Census)

ii Elizabeth Argent Graham born about 1809 died before 1850 unmarried, buried in the family plot.

iii Chauncey Graham IV born about 1811 died about 1830 unmarried.

15 iv Julia Ann Graham born January 5, 1815 married Stephen White.

16 v Martha Jane Graham born July 30, 1816 married Thomas Sims Burt.

7 Isaac Tull, son of John Tull (#3) and his wife Elizabeth Cannon, was born September 28, 1783 and died September 12., 1823 at Kinston (account in RALEIGH REGISTER Oct 24, 1823) Married on February 1, 1814 (RAL.REG. Feb. 11 1814) Eliza Graham born September 1, 1794 at Murfreesboro and died July 12, 1875 at Rahway, N.J. and buried in the Cedar Grove Cemetery in New Bern, N. C., daughter of Chauncey and Sarah (Merwin) Graham, Jr. (See #6) Sarah was a staunch Baptist, converted by a vision. According to Wheelers History, Isaac was in the N.C. State House of Representatives for

Lenoir County in 1821.

He was buried in the family graveyard at the plantation "Hammerby" at the present Caswell Training School near Kinston. The graves were later moved to New Bern by Mrs. Matilda (Metts) Lewis, Sarah’s great-grand-daughter.

They had five children:

17 i Dr. John Graham Tull born November 20, 1816 married Julia West Hollister

18 ii Mary Ann Tull born November 20, 1816 married James Ingram Metts

iii Stephen H Tull born February 1, 1819 died Nov. 1820

iv Eliza Maria Tull born April 1821 died April 1822 Kinston.

19 v Harriet Elizabeth Tull born April 30, 1823 married Edward Powell Stanly.

Eliza (Graham) Tull, widow of Isaac Tull (#7), next married on March 27, 1827 Craven Metts, born May 5, 1804 died October 28, 1838, son of Frederick and Polly (Bruton) Metts of Kinston. He was buried in the family plot at Kinston. They had five children:

vi Julia Eliza Metts born December 22, 1827 died March 27 1866, married on June 3. 1853 James Machette Herring. Both were buried at the family plot at Falling Creek in Lenoir County, now owned by the Baptist Orphanage. They had one child:

1. Eliza James Metts Herring born June 25, 1854 married on April 8, 1880 in New Bern, T. L. H. Missilier.

vii Frederick Chauncey Metts born November 1, 1829 died on January 6, 1855 and was buried in New Bern.

viii James Craven Metts born January 11, 1832 died December 17, 1848 and was buried near Kinston.

20 ix Sarah Eleanor Metts born September 2. 1834 married Thomas Jenkins Mitchell

21 x William Penn Metts born January 27, 1838 married Sarah Elizabeth Clark

8 Henry Tull, son of John Tull (#3) and his wife Elizabeth Cannon was born October l2, 1887 in Dobbs County and died November 18, 1856 near Kinston and was buried in the family burial plot just North of Kinston. He died of a heart attack while sitting on the front porch at the plantation home called "The White House". He married Susan Hill, daughter of Richard and Mary Hill of Dobbs County. She was born in 1790 and after her husband’s death lived with her son John and his first wife. She and her son had typhoid fever at the same time and she had been buried in 1861 beside her husband before her son knew she had died. He inherited much of his father’s property and purchased more to become one of the largest planters of Eastern Carolina.

The home place North of Kinston known as "The White House" is owned (in 1955) by Mr. Payton Hooker and is well preserved although much altered. Not far from this, and once a part of the same plantation is the overseer’s house now owned by Mr. R. Burwell Holland, a grandson of the overseer during the War Between the States. Mr. Holland came by this through his parents, J. B. and Emily (Hill) Holland who bought it January 1, 1907 from Wm. H. Worth who had bought it December 31, 1861 with 2,058 acres from John and Winnie R. Tull. Mr. Holland recalls his mother’s description of Small Pox among the slaves during the war. Meals were prepared at the "Big House" and placed in front of the slave quarters that arranged on a street adjacent to the big house. She said that many were buried during the epidemic in a spot now know as the slave grave yard just to the rear of the overseer’s house. The Tull family grave yard is also on this plantation and when visited in 1952 contained only three markers. One being inscribed as follows: "Sacred to the Memory of Henry Tull, born October 12, 1787 Died Nov 18, 1856 ag’d 69 yrs 1 mo 6 D’s". No marker to his wife, Susan. They had only one child, thereby making it easier for this compiler.

22 i. John Tull born September 19, 1832 married (1) Cynthia Ann Dunn. (2) Winifred Rountree Jackson

9 Susanna Tull, daughter of Charles Tull (#4) and his wife Sarah Hardy, was born December 19, 1779 and died March 20, 1845. She married in 1804/5 Richard Moore of Lenoir County and they had six children:

i Edith Moore married John Aldridge. They lived between Institute and LaGrange in Lenoir County and had

several children. Descendants are living in the section, but information on this family has not been obtained.

23 ii Winifred Moore married Gersham Wiggins

24 iii Sarah Moore born September 13, 1809 married William Cox Loftin

25 iv Jesse J Moore married Deborah Mewborn

26 v Alfred Moore married Miss Aldridge

27 vi Needham Moore born October 29, 1806 married Elizabeth Jackson

10 Sarah Tull, daughter of Charles Tull (#4) and his wife Sarah Hardy was born May 18, 1793 and married Isaac Barwick who was born about 1792. The 1830 Census lists six children:

i Four daughters - no further record.

ii Henry Barwick was a teacher and had all his investments in slaves which was lost after the War Between the States. He then lived at the home of his brother until his death. He never married.

28 iii Craven Tull Barwick born July 7, 1833 married three times. (3) Nancy Ann Brooks

11 Edith Tull, daughter of Charles Tull (#4) and his wife Sarah Hardy was born January 20, 1798 and died July 16, 1869.

She married on December 10, 1818 Arden Tucker born December 31, 1789 died July 16, 1834, son of Keeley and Susan (Brown) Tucker, They had eight children:

i Henry Tucker born October 22, 1819 and died about 1884 in Texas. He married Sarah Raven of Pitt County.

There was a daughter and it is thought he married twice after the death of his first wife.

ii Allen C. Tucker born August 5, 1821 died February 28, 1891 married Elizabeth Walker of Mecklenburg

County. Both are buried in the family cemetery on the Tucker place in Pitt County about two miles from Winterville. Of six children only one lived to maturity:

1. John W Tucker.

Allen C. Tucker married second Rosa Taylor. No child.

29 iii Warren Kossuth Tucker born July 24, 1822 married (1) Abline James. Married (2) Susan E Tucker

30 iv Sarah C. Tucker born July 17, 1825 married James Sutton

31 v Elizabeth Ann Tucker born August 26, 1827 married Samuel A. Kittrell.

32 vi William H. Tucker born September 26, 1829 married Amanda Catherine Hardee.

vii Gray Tucker born January 27, 1832 died young

31 viii Arden C. Tucker born June 20, 1834 married Mary Jane Kittrell (1) Married (2) Nancy Elizabeth Williams.

12 Catherine Tull, daughter of Charles Tull (#4) and his wife Sarah Hardy, was born July 10, 1800 died January 8, 1845 married Jesse Vause born December 3, 1799 died June 29, 1854. Their plantation was near the present Taylors Crossroads in Lenoir County, and the house still standing has been moved to the highway. They are buried there and the family plot has markers to both Jesse and Catherine. Visited in 1954 is owned by Lee Heath. They had two sons:

34 i Jesse Vause born about 1828 married Harriet L Kennedy

35 ii Robert Bond Vause born about 1830 married Susan A. Jackson.

13 Laney Tull, daughter of Charles Tull (#4) and his wife Sarah Hardy, was born August 6, 1802 and died in the winter of She was buried in Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Wake County. She married on March 3, 1822 Green Jones born July 15, 1801 died January 15, 1848, son of Phillip and Sarah Jones, buried, in Lenoir County. They lived a short time in South Carolina, went on to Georgia, and returning to North Carolina settled near Kinston where she had been raised, and many of her family still lived, She was a charter member of the Gordan Street Christian Church of Kinston. (DAR #248317) They had nine children:

i William Charles Jones born December 26, 1823 died April 20, 1833

ii Francis (Frank) Green Jones born February 17, 1825 married Mary, and moved to Florida where he died. They had two children:

1. Albert Jones

2. Fannie Jones

36 iii Sarah Emiline Jones born July 30, 1827 married Jonathan Poole

iv James Mason Jones born April 23, 1829 died March 27, 1833.

37 v Elizabeth "Betty" Margaret Jones born October 13, 1831 married Calvin Poole

vi George Washington Jones born April 1, 1835 died in 1881 buried in Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Wake County. two

Children:

1. Jennie Jones dead

2. Eula Jones dead

38 vii Asa Warren Jones born December 1, 1837 married Martha Ann Creef

39 viii Martha Rebecca Jones born December 18, 1839 married David W. Hood

ix Mary Ann Eta Eliza Jones born October 14, 1845 died April 13, 1849.

14 William Tull, Junior, son of William Tull, Senior (#5) and his wife Susannah was born about 1796 and his wife, Sarah was born in 1795 (1860 Census) This family moved over into Onslow County and were farmers there in 1860. A deed from his father dated Nov. 24, 1818: "Know all men by these presents that I, William Tull, Senior, of the State of North Carolina and County of Lenoir for and in consideration of the natural love and affection that I have for my son William Tull, Junior.......etc" (Lovit Hines Papers, page 367, State Dept. Archives). There was also an indenture as late as December 16, 1848 from William Tull to Henry Tull (L.H. Papers page 471, State Dept. Archives). They had six children:

40 i Lemuel H. Tull born 1822 married Perlina Haddock

ii A daughter born about 1823 died before ten years old.

iii A daughter born about 1826 died before ten years old.

iv William Tull III born in 1828. He and wife, Nancy, were living in Onslow County in 1860. No children.

v Nancy Tull born in 1830 was living with her mother in Onslow County in 1860. She did not marry.

41 vi Winifred Frances Tull born May 21, 1836 married Arlington N. Daniels.

15 Julia Ann Graham, daughter of Elizabeth Tull (#6) and her husband Dr. Chauncey Graham III, was born January 5, 1815 on her father's plantation near Kinston and died September 5, 1848. She married in 1837 in Kinston, Stephen White, son of William White, born in 1809. Both were buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Kinston. He was a merchant and they lived on East King Street. Had five children:

42 i William White born about 1839 married Sarah Elizabeth Green

ii Chauncey White born November 15, 1841 and died at Kinston November 19, 1843

iii Henry Tull White born August 22, 1843 and died January 1, 1844

iv Sarah Elizabeth White born February 1, 1846 died July 22, 1847

v Julia White born about 1848 died young.