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Oct 16 1958 Newspaper article about Bartow Bull & wife Mary ManningEntry/Object ID
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Bartow W Bull, Mary ManningScope and Content
The Independent Republican, Goshen, New York Thursday, October 16, 1958
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G L E A N E R MANNING BULL PIONEERED IN WASHINGTON COUNTY --By MILDRED PARKER SEESE
This will be news for (as well as about) Bartow Wright and Mary (Manning) Bull out Stony Ford way, whose four daughters, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren helped celebrate their 55th wedding anniversary September 30 in the brick house built in 1788 by the third generation William Bull, great, great, great grandfather of Bartow.
That grandson of the renowned William and Sarah had been promoted to a captaincy in the Continental Army during the Winter encampment at Valley Forge, early in the Revolution, and so he was generally thereafter referred to as Captain Bull. Service in the Patriot cause was, in itself, a distinction for a man of the Bull family, since many of them were loyal to the British home government.
But the news for the Stony Ford Bulls of the present is that they apparently do not represent the first Bull-Manning relationship in overall Bull annals. The term "overall" is used because the other alliance of those names presumably has no connection with Bulls or Mannings of Orange County though, on the other hand, it might.
That is, it might very well be that there is an Orange County Manning connection with that other Manning family.
This possibility actually relates to much untold but basic Orange and Washington County history since there are a few known and a vast number of forgotten or unrecognized family relationships between this early and that somewhat later settlement a relationship that began with the immigration plans and disappointments of Captain Lachlan Campbell of Campbell Hall.
The apparent Bull-Manning family alliance of earlier years lies in a name I came across sometime ago. In the course of the rapid settlement of Washington County after the Revolution one Manning Bull settled in the Town of Hartford, which was so named because many of its people came directly or by descent from the Hartford area of Connecticut. I do' not know that there is anything in Orange County Manning records to connect the family here with that Manning Bull of Washington County, but there is a possibility; and a query in this column some months ago related to a Manning inquiry in progress here.
Manning Bull had a brother Nathaniel, who is called a prominent citizen of his day and who is generally designated Lieutenant in recognition of Revolutionary service. Nathaniel is believed to have inherited the patent claims of one Joseph Bull, who probably was one of the earliest settlers or landowners of his neighborhood along with another of familiar name in the Middletown (Orange County) area, Jonathan Ogden. Clough (Clow or Cloughs) Paine, Utter, Walling, Whitford and other names familiar here also enter into the record of that neighborhood. And the Clintons of Little Britain were large land owners in the area.
The Washington County Bulls, however, undoubtedly were of New England background, and the names at hand do not have an Orange County ring, aside from William. Two sons of Nathaniel were Guerdon and William.
But the Bull-Manning connection of the present is thoroughly Orange County, though their descendants are well scattered through the Eastern United States. Best known among their daughters is Amy, wife of Clarence Crist of Montgomery, district school superintendent for about 15 years and also a trustee of Orange County Community College; Helen, wife of John Vandervort of Ithaca, N. Y.; Molly, wife of James Bazemore of Augusta, Ga.; and Corinna, wife of Louis E. Brown. The latter couple and their family occupy the ancestral stone house in Hamptonburgh, which is owned by the Bull Family Association and open to the public as a place of historic interest. It was built by the first William and Sarah Wells Bull between 1722 and 1727.