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90th Bull Picnic Aug 29, 1957 from "Independent Republican"Entry/Object ID
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THE 90th GATHERING of the Bull Family was favored by the weather last Saturday with about 350 present; such a large attendance came from a great distance. Registration was the first task of the picnic, 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 left. From Anchorage, Alaska came Mr. and Mrs. Harry D. Roberts, formally 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 Robert's 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. Another distance mark was set by Mrs. George Roger McNeal, standing at the left in the photo, lower right, who has recently claimed Edinburgh, Scotland as her home, although she is how living in Hartsdale. Her companion is Mrs. Edward Boerstler of Boston. The two women were originally from South Dakota where they were acquainted. Each claims Bull Family descent. They and their spouses attending the Bull Family picnic for the first time, were loud in their praise of the event.
The oldest person present was Mrs. Jennie Duryea Cranston of Middleton, who was 91 on November 12. However, 92 year-old Sarah Bull Wells of Newburgh arrived later and although the two ladies amiably discussed dividing the symbolic blue ribbon in half, it was finally agreed that Mrs. Cranston was deserving of the honor because she was present when the award was made. The grandson Charles Johnson of Chester was the youngest person, born May 1957.
Among those attending for the first time were two groups of Canadians, their ancestors numbered among the Loyalists. The Woodstock, N.B. branch is descended from Capt. George Bull, commissioned by George III. Of his branch four came to the 90th picnic.
Mrs. Margaret Miles and Mrs. Madeleine Holland of Montreal, Mrs. Maud Chase and Miss Gladys Smith from Woodstock; they were accompanied by Mrs. Holland’s daughter, Frances of New York City and a cousin, Mrs. Inez Adams of Ellsworth, Me.
Representatives of St. John, N.B. branch were six persons from the family of the late Kary Beyer of Nauwigewauk, N.B. They are descendants of the Loyalist Richard Bull, youngest son of the family's founders, William and Sarah, and his nephew, William Bull. To their mutual surprise and pleasure, the St. John group met near cousins now living in Massachusetts and New York.
Another first-time visitor was Frances Watt of TV’s “Voice of Firestone,” accompanied by her husband, John, and four-year-old son.
— Independent Republican, August 29, 1957Relationships
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