Middletown Times Herald Bull Picnic

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"Middletown Times Herald" Bull Picnic

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MIDDLETOWN TIMES HERALD, MIDDLETU Younger Descendants of Bull Family Enjoy Stories Too young to be troubled about family affairs, the younger descendants of William Bull and Sarah Wells, listened to Miss Mildred Hagan tell stories on the lawn of the Old Stone House at Hamptonburgh Wednesday. Miss Hagan, recreation consultant, New York, also supervised games and dancing for the older children.— Photo by Rosa. ________________________________________ Stone House Scene Annual Bull Picnic (Continued from page one) Oxford Depot, in a document signed by the first William Bull. It was a bond executed by William Bull and his eldest son, John, to Cadwallader Colden in the year 1753. It is understood that the bond was given to accompany a purchase money mortgage on land which Bull had bought of Colden and when the debt was paid the bond came back to the bondsmen. Until last year it was not generally known that any signature of William Bull was in existence except one on the contract to erect the building now known as Gen. Knox’s Headquarters. That contract is preserved in the headquarters. K. D. Bull prized the document but felt that the association should have it. He was not able to be present at the picnic, but made the presentation through Mrs. Clarence S. Knight, of Monroe. The document was too frail to be safely exhibited at the picnic. It is intended, however, to have it mounted by a specialist and framed so that it may be seen by all interested. The three managers whose terms of office expired were reelected viz: Mrs. Clarence S. Knight, Hamlet S. Roe, of Chester, and Harry C. Bull, of New York city. The officers were also reelected as follows: President, Charles M. Bull, of Poughkeepsie. Vice-president, Mrs. Knight. Treasurer, Ernest M. Bull, of Blooming Grove. Secretary, Robert McLeod Jackson, Hamptonburgh. The other members of the Board of Managers are Harry Bull, of Hamptonburgh; Lillian Bull, of Chester and Middletown, and Charles W. Slaughter, of Babylon, L. I. The picnic committee of last year consisting of Bartow W. Bull, chairman; John C. Thew, Henry Bull, William Bull, VII, Charles Johnson, Russell Hallock, William Roe Conklin, Jr., Mark Roe and Miss Dolly Watkins Booth, was reelected with Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ackerly, of Crystal Run. A telegram of greeting was received from Florence Bull Perkins and Josephine Bull Shaw, of Woodstock. Mrs. Perkins is a grand-daughter of George Bull, son of Thomas Bull, builder of the Stone house, now the home of Mrs. Margaret Crawford Jackson, on the Montgomery-Goshen state road, who went to Canada at the time of the Revolution and remained a good “United Empire Loyalist” as the Canadians proudly call those staunch adherents of the Crown who left home and possessions in these colonies for the wilds of Canada rather than change their allegiance. A letter from W. Sheldon Bull, of Buffalo, was also read, in which Mr. Bull stated that he had a copy of Eager’s History of Orange County, which had belonged to his great-grandfather, Daniel Bull, of Bullville, and which bears on the fly-leaf in Daniel Bull’s hand: “Daniel Bull, Senior, Book bought by subscription. Price $2.” This book Mr. Bull stated he had expressed a wish to have given to the association after his death. Daniel Bull was a notable man in his generation and many of his descendants were present at the gathering and much interest was felt in this reminder of their ancestor and odd enough this same Daniel was brother to the George who went to Canada. In late years much has quietly been done to draw the Canadian and Orange county branches of the family together. Greetings and regrets at inability to be present were also received from Charles W. Millis, of San Francisco; Miss Rachel Ward Farrington, of Lakewood, N. J.; Prof. J. Leverett Moore, of Poughkeepsie; Louis Thomp son Brush, of Brooklyn; Henry Bull, of Woodstock, N. B.; William Edgar Bull, of Charleston, S. C.; John B. Dolson, of Palestine, Texas; Mrs. M. W. Jeffries, of Roanoke, Va.; Willard Coleman of Santa Ana, Calif.; Abner G. Smith, of Odessa, and Mrs. Harvey S. Kinard, of El Paso, Texas. Mrs. Henrietta Boerniger Coleman, of Hamptonburgh, was unanimously elected an honorary member of the association. Photographs of the gathering were taken and copies 8x10 inches, properly mounted, may be secured at 80 cents each postage prepaid, on application to the photographer, Albert Mounter, 5 West 125th street, New York city.

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