[Publications] . the General Court of Massachu-setts. From these sturdy sons of John Hull of London are descended all, or nearly all, of the name now living in thiscountry. One of these brothers was captain of an artillerycompany; another was, as early as 1634, Representative to theGeneral Court; from a third the town of Hull received its name;while the son of another, who, when Massachusetts Bay assumedthe prerogative of coining money, was her treasurer and masterof the mint, amassing, for that primitive period, a large fortunein the office before Charles II. put a stop to that infringementof
[Publications] . the General Court of Massachu-setts. From these sturdy sons of John Hull of London are descended all, or nearly all, of the name now living in thiscountry. One of these brothers was captain of an artillerycompany; another was, as early as 1634, Representative to theGeneral Court; from a third the town of Hull received its name;while the son of another, who, when Massachusetts Bay assumedthe prerogative of coining money, was her treasurer and masterof the mint, amassing, for that primitive period, a large fortunein the office before Charles II. put a stop to that infringementof his royalties, married Judith Ouincy, daughter of EdmundOuincy, the first of the honored name to appear in the NewWorld. There is an association with the name of this fair lady,which I fear may not commend itself to the blessings of someof this audience who are accustomed to pass between Bostonand New York by way of Long Island Sound; for John Hullowned real estate in the Narragansett country, and in conferring. - wi ></££ Reproduced by courtesy of D. Appleton & Company Christian names to those savage places, he gave that of his wifeto a promontory of ill-repute, which to this day is known asPoint Judith—a terror to travellers who, like the classic SirJoseph Porter, K. C. B.— When the breezes blow—generally go below. The daughter of John and Judith Hull was, in the year 1676,married to Samuel Sewall, afterwards Chief Justice, whosequaint and curious diary has been published, and is almost asinteresting as that of another Samuel, who vy;as his contemporary 8 —the immortal Pepys, prince of diarists. The mint-master gavehis daughter, as dowry, her weight in silver. The tradition isthat he seated the fair Hannah on a scale, and, in the presenceof the wedding guests, honestly and fairly balanced her withfreshly coined pine-tree shillings. From this marriage hassprung the eminent family of Sewall, which has given one chief I justice to Canada, and three to Massachuse
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