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A Place Where It’s Always 1700
By Albina S. Orlowski
HAMPTONBURGH — Why look back?
Perhaps most of us have found ourselves looking back at times and dwelling on things past. It isn't always a profitable experience.
Not with the members of the Bull Family Association. ... for looking back is conducive to their well-being, especially when they meet once a year in The Bull Stone House 1722 in Hamptonburgh. They’ll meet this Saturday for their 111th annual Bull picnic.
They have a nostalgic longing for the stories and joys and sorrows of days gone by ... ever since the Bull Family Stone House was built in 1722 by William Bull, an Irishman, owned by William Bull and Sarah Wells Family Association. It doesn't interfere with their awareness of the blessings that are right at hand.
In the history and genealogy of the Bull Family in Orange County, there are many short sketches of members of the family, according to Attorney Henry P. Bull, treasurer of the association, and first cousin to Amy Bull Crist, Brick Castle, Stony Ford, Town of Wallkill.
“These are interesting stories and may bring to mind happenings we learn about in our American history classes during our school years,” said Attorney Bull of Middletown.
On page 152 of The Genealogy and History of the William Bull and Sarah Wells Family of Orange County New York, there is a story of William Bull, the third, who was born and lived at the Brick Castle.
"He served in the American Revolution with Colonel Spencer’s Continental Regiment. He received a Brevet Commission from Lord Stirling in the Battle of Monmouth in 1778,” noted Attorney Bull.
Reading this, Attorney Bull wondered who Lord Stirling was and how "an English Lord could be a General with the American (Revolutionary) Forces. With the help of Mrs. Helen Bull Vandervort of Ithaca, N.Y. Attorney Bull was able to do some research and found that Alan Valentine wrote a biography entitled, Lord Stirling. A copy of the review of this book appears in this year’s brochure of the 111th Annual Bull Picnic that was distributed to the many members of the association.
It was also discovered that one of the prominent lawyers of New York State was John Duer who had his office in Goshen in Orange County in this State. He was the son of Catherine Alexander, who was a daughter of Lord Stirling and who married William Duer, an Army officer. John Duer “read law” in the office of Alexander Hamilton and opened his own office in Goshen in 1800.
One of the Commissions of William Bull is in the home of Mrs. Philip Noble at Liverpool, N.Y. Some copies are being made to hang in Brick Castle and the Stone House here.
Association members will elect three managers to serve for the term of three years to succeed Michael K. Brown, Bull Stone House in Campbell Hall, vice president; Alfred Booth of Middletown and Stephen Hunter, Chester, whose terms of office expire, according to Dr. Frederick N. Bement, Pine Bush, president of the association, who will conduct the meeting beginning at 1:30 p.m. The basket lunch will start at noon.
Time Marches On
TOWN OF WALLKILL — Time is marching on with the hanging Riley-Whiting Clock of 1807 (rear wall) that graces the parlor at the home of Amy Bull Crist (right), Bull road, as well as for the upcoming 111th annual Bull Picnic set for Saturday at the Bull Stone House 1722 at Hamptonburgh. Finalizing some of the plans for the Sit 'n Bull event are Louis E. Brown and Mrs. Corinne Bull Brown. This trio collects . . . not stamps . . . not coins, but ancestors. Ancestor tracing is now in vogue, but the Bull People have been with it for 111 years.Relationships
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