Name/Title
William Bull and Sarah Wells (copied by Anna H Bull Feb. 15, 1903Entry/Object ID
001970Tags
William Bull, Sarah BullScope and Content
Top Left Section
William Bull was born Feb 1689
Departed this life Feb 1755
Sarah Wells his wife born April 1694
Departed this life April 21, 1796
Aged 102 years & fifteen days
N. B. She was the first white woman that came to the Town of Goshen in the first settling thereof and the first couple that was married in said Township.
Central List (Children and Descendants)
Children Born Grand Children Great Grand Children Great Great Grand Children
John Bull May 3d 1721 12 61 4
William Bull March 13th 1723 6 15 0
Sarah Booth Sept 1st 1725 8 23 3
Thomas Bull Dec 27th 1727 12 22 0
Isaac Bull Nov 17th 1729 6 21 0
Esther Bull May 29th 1731 8 18 6
Mary Booth Feb 3d 1733 10 17 0
Margaret Horton May 1st 1736 7 7 0
Catherine Faulkner May 26th 1738 7 2 0
Ann Eager Nov 4th 1740 10 17 0
Richard Bull May 29th 1743 5 2 0
Eleanor Weller March 4th 1745 7 7 0
Total
98 212 13
Total 323
Middle Right Text
The above Catalogue is a transcript statement of the family, taken by the subscribers, on the day of the funeral of our Grandmother (the above aged woman) and it is further contemplated by the subscribers to furnish a copy of the above to each of the twelve Brothers of the family, and wish them to report to us or either of us the number of their respective Branches this present year, and every fifth succeeding year and we will keep a Register of the same. — It may not be amiss to state the number of the Living and the Dead. —
"For the Dying and the Dead"
Feb 21st 1810
Taken by Peter Bull and Jesse Booth Her Grandsons
The original is in the possn [possession] of Jesse Booth of Campbell Hall.
Bottom Section Notes
William Bull did the mason work of the old stone house near Chester called Gray-court — for Mr. St John it is to be the first job he did in Highlands, there is a date on the house of 1716 probably the year it was finished.
Sarah Wells came into the town of Goshen when she was fifteen years old.
(Mathematical scribbles at bottom follow, calculating age and years in Goshen):
1820 - 1694 = 126 years / 1716 - 1689 = 27 Years at that time / 1755 - 1689 = 66 when he died.
Transcription of Image 2 (1970a.jpg)
Nancy Eager's Grandchildren this 26th of Feb 1810
Elsa Blake has had — 11
William Eager has had — 10
Thomas Eager has had — 9
Sally McBride Do [Ditto] — 3
Nancy McMann Do — 9
Polly Bodine Do — 7
Total 49
Sarah Wells was 50 years 10 months and 20 days old when her youngest child was born.
Copied by Anna H. Bull
February the 15th 1903
Note: This second document is a 1903 copy of older family records, likely written to supplement the 1810 "Catalogue" seen in the first image.
