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1912 Bull Picnic Pageant PlannedEntry/Object ID
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Bull Pageant, Bull PicnicScope and Content
BULL FAMILY PAGEANT
List of Those Whose Contributions Helped to Make It a Success.
The committee who had charge of the Bull family pageant held a business meeting at the home of Harry Bull, at Stony Ford, last Monday evening. All the chairmen gave reports, which proved the pageant was a wonderous success.
Soon it has been impossible for the committee to thank each individual friend and relative who aided in making this a success it was decided to send this notice to the local newspapers.
The committees of the pageant, who have not been mentioned in the press are in no way by their labor, their time, their money, or the use of their heirloom, aided in the work of preparing for, and giving, the pageant which commemorated the coming of Sarah Wells to Orange County.
Its following is a list of those who contributed or will offerings to the Bull, Anna Craft, Harry A. Bayard, W. B. Teed, B. C. Bull, Rev. William M. Satterlee, Mrs. W. V. Seaman, Mrs. William L. Bull, Mrs. H. R. Horton, Mrs. Clark S. W. Bull, Mrs. B. M. Satterlee, Mrs. E. J. M. Eager, Mrs. Nate White, Miss Alice Horton, Mrs. George Weller, William A. Wells, Peter Bull, Mrs. Charles V. Wheeler, Mrs. Albert Bull, Miss Sarah B. Warner, Mrs. H. B. Blake, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. W. Wells, John N. Roy, Edwin Daryea, Sarah Bull Houston, John V. Bull, N. W. Yeangs, Theodore Bull, J. T. Bull, B. C. Wells, M. D., Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Eager, Herbert Bull, Bertha D. Bull, B. Hanthenbeth, Benjamin Corts, Frank Crist, W. R. Presler, Harry Gould, Austin S. Bull, Ben F. Haines, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bull, P. H. Bull, M. M. Bull, Mrs. Huldah Bull, Miss Elizabeth Minnell, Prior Bull, Jane Dutcher, Grace Eoron, Jose F. Zelehicle, Corella F. Bull, A. N. Craft.
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WOMAN PIONEER HONORED
Bull Family Has Pageant of Sarah Wells's Life.
(Goshen, N. Y., Aug 28—Nearly eight hundred descendants of Sarah Wells witnessed the pageant on Hamptonburgh, the ancestral home, which marked the return of Orange County two hundred years ago. The wife played a part in the history of the county. It was held on the grounds which the family has possessed for two hundred years. The simple, old-time house and the memories of the guests, and it with fresh blood. The latter, carrying the branches of the messages away, while the branches of the family tree remain.
The pageant was arranged by land-owners, who were of the adventurous sort who traveled from the Hudson River to this vicinity, where they had been told by the Indians they were [illegible]. A band of the descendants, through the pageant, retraced the romantic steps of their ancestress. The ceremony was simple, but filled with the hearts of the people of this earth.
Sarah Wells, born, [illegible], near March 1712. Miss Sarah Wells and John Wells, [illegible] of descendants back today.
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To Have Marriage Ceremony.
The next part of the Bull family pageant William Bull believe this area more than 200 years ago. It will assume the ceremony by which Sarah Wells became the wife of the founder of the Bull family in Orange county.
All the members of the Bull family chosen to attend the event, and will gather at the Bullville place where it will be held the basket picnic and "Tail reunion," which for more than a century has taken place annually at the village the last Wednesday in August. It is expected more than five hundred of the family will take part in the pageant.
At last Friday’s meeting the regular officers of the Reunion Association chosen were: Harry Bull, president; Frank Presler, and W. H. Bull of Washingtonville, secretary. The following were the list of members of the pageant included Harry Bull, Mrs. Elizabeth [illegible]. Mrs. Elizabeth Bull [illegible]. Story Pres: Mrs. Sarah Pierce, Howard Campbell Bull and Miss Margaret Decker, Prior Bull, and Miss Harriet Wells. Others of the "100 Year" members was added as an honorary member.
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A PAGEANT IS PLANNED
To Honor Mrs. Sarah Bull, First Woman Settler in Orange County—Five Hundred of Her Descendants to Attend Reunion.
Members of the Bull family, better known as the Orange County Bulls, of which William Bull, clerk of the firm of C. M. [illegible] Sons, of this village, is a descendant, gathered at Hamptonburgh, N. Y., to plan and arrange a local historical pageant, to be held in honor of the Bicentennial of the arrival in Orange county of Sarah Wells Bull, the first white woman to set foot in Orange county.
All the past year’s [illegible] greetings of all the participating Bull family [illegible] and grandchildren, half from Orange county.
Sarah Wells at fourteen was an orphan and was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Christopher [illegible] of New York, [illegible]. She was then [illegible] and was settled a band of [illegible] land from the crown in Orange county. He went on an exploring trip and he decided to settle the country that he [illegible] to settle there. He [illegible] to Long Island with a boat to find [illegible] of land [illegible] for the settling. There to set foot into the wilderness. Mrs. Denn’s illness prevented the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] time so Sarah Wells, then hot [illegible] that year, [illegible] conquered the [illegible].
Landed near the Newburgh.
The landing was at the Hudson River. Her landing near what is now Newburgh, and then she proceeded over to what is now Hamptonburgh. The [illegible] followed upon. As she, Sarah Wells, had [illegible] [illegible] built a large wood house. They [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] 16 [illegible]. Sarah Wells had [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible].
The “Old Stone House” still stands at Hamptonburgh. It has never left the possession of the Bull family and is now occupied by Ebenezer Bull. The sons and daughters of Sarah Wells and William Bull moved further afield. The Orange county staff then [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] that the family founded the [illegible] village of Bullville. Sarah Wells Bull is said to have [illegible] to the age of one hundred and two years.
The pageant to arranged last Friday will be staged about the “Old Stone House” of Hamptonburgh and is to be held on Wednesday, August 28, 1912. A young woman, garbed as Sarah Wells, will come through the forest with an escort of Indians. A camp will be made on the lawn and a shelter of poles and boughs will be built. The characters of the story will be the [illegible] of Mr. and Mrs. Denn.Relationships
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