Joseph Hull
Rev. Joseph Hull (1596-1665) led a congregation of 104 from England to Massachusetts in 1635. He founded the Cape Cod town of Barnstable in 1639 and served as one of Maine’s earliest ministers. Hull's willingness to preach without approval from church officials and his efforts to chart a middle course between Anglicans and Puritans resulted in repeated conflicts with religious and colonial authorities.   England: 1596-1635 Baptized on 25 April 1596, Joseph Hull was the youngest son of yeoman Thomas Hull and Joane Peson of Crewkerne, Somerset. He began his studies at St Mary's College, Oxford, St. Mary’s College, Oxford, on 22 May 1612 and earned a bachelor’s degree on 14 November 1614. He was ordained as a deacon by Bishop William Cotton of Exeter on 23 May 1619 in thParish Church of St. Mary the Virgin Silverton, Devon, and was appointed rector of St Mary's Church, North Leigh, St. Mary's Church, North Leigh, Devon, on 28 March 1622. He would serve the parish 11 years. Hu ...
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Crewkerne
Crewkerne ( ) is a town and electoral ward in Somerset, England, southwest of Yeovil and east of Chard all in the South Somerset district. The civil parish of West Crewkerne includes the hamlets of Coombe, Woolminstone and Henley – and borders the county of Dorset to the south. The town is on the main headwater of the River Parrett, A30 road and West of England Main Line railway, in modern times the slower route between the capital and the southwest peninsula, having been eclipsed by the Taunton route. The earliest written record of Crewkerne is in the 899 will of Alfred the Great who left it to his youngest son Æthelweard. After the Norman conquest it was held by William the Conqueror and in the Domesday Survey of 1086 was described as a royal manor. Crewkerne Castle was possibly a Norman motte castle. The town grew up in the late mediaeval period around the textile industry, its wealth demonstrated in the fifteenth century Church of St Bartholomew. During the 18t ...
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