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90th Bull Picnic MIDDLETOWN DAILY TIMES Herald, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 1937Entry/Object ID
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Bull PicnicScope and Content
THE 90th GATHERING of the Bull Family was favored by the weather last Saturday with about 350 persons in attendance, some of them having come from a great distance. Registration was the first task of the picnickers, upper left, as the sun shown full on the historic stone house built by William Bull and his wife, Sarah Wells, in Hamptonburgh Town in 1722, center photo. To picnic takes food and the offering last Saturday, the first weekend date set for the picnic in many years, found a sumptuous display of edibles, photo upper right. From Anchorage, Alaska, came Mr. and Mrs. Harry D. Roberts, formerly of Los Angeles, but now on an eastern trip which included a first time at the Old Stone House. Mrs. Roberts, photo lower left, is descended from Ann Bull and William Eager Jr. It’s the Roberts again in the center photo, observing Amy Bull Crist preparing to serve food. Mrs. Vertrees Ackerly is in the background. The straw-hatted milk drinker was not identified.
standing in the left of the photo, lower right, and her cousin
restored Bullswamp, Scotland, as her home, although she is now
living in Edinburgh. Her companion is Mrs. Edward Shavelier of
Goshen. The pair spent a week in London from Scotland before
their home bound flight. Each visited Bull family sources. They and
other cousins, attending the Bull Family Picnic for the first time,
were honored at the presentation of the roses.
Oldest person present was Mrs. Emma Bullivant Dunster, of
Middletown, who will be 95 on November 12. Reverend Raymond
drove Bull Wells of Newburgh opened with and initiated the
metric scoring, discussed funding for research that is aimed at Bull, it
was finally agreed that Miss Rosemary van Fleteren of the family
became the first winner, since she scored a10 marks.
A grandson of Charles Johnson of Chester was the youngest
person present, born in May 1977.
Among those attending for the first time were the groups of
Cousins. Their signatures numbered among the visitors. Mrs.
Woodhouse, R. M. Robert, to movement down from Cook, George Bull,
accompanied by George Jr. Of the honors that came to the Bull
family, Mrs. Marguerite Allen and Mrs. Madeline Hatfield of Middle-
town. Mrs. Mead Clark and Mrs. Robert Smith from Middletown. They
were accompanied by Mrs. Hatfield's daughter, Roberta of New
York City and a cousin, Mrs. Jean Adams of Edinburgh, Ill.
Representing the St. John, N. B. branch were two cousins, from
the family of the late John Webb of Philadelphia, D. E. They are
shareholders in the London National Hall, managed out of the
family's founders, William and Sarah, and his mother, William Bull.
To find mutual interest and pleasure, the St. John group was
representation and delay in Massachusetts and New York.
Another first-timer visitor was Frances Baird of NY, years of
pleasant association to her husband, John, who had deceased.
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10-MIDDLETOWN DAILY TIMES Herald, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 1937