Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex . d of Richmond was once on the eveof being permanently as he was temporarily superseded. Thevictor of Nashville and the present general of the armies of theUnited States were near meeting this destiny which others oflesser note are even now fulfilling. After General Hulls return to Newton at the close of theRevolutionary War, he resided first at Angiers Corner in awooden house still standing on the west side of the road fromWatertown. Here he lived ten or twelve years, until, after hisreturn from Europe in 1799, he built the large brick house onthe op
Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex . d of Richmond was once on the eveof being permanently as he was temporarily superseded. Thevictor of Nashville and the present general of the armies of theUnited States were near meeting this destiny which others oflesser note are even now fulfilling. After General Hulls return to Newton at the close of theRevolutionary War, he resided first at Angiers Corner in awooden house still standing on the west side of the road fromWatertown. Here he lived ten or twelve years, until, after hisreturn from Europe in 1799, he built the large brick house onthe opposite side of the street, in which he resided until hewent, in 1805, to Detroit, when he sold it to John is the house, subsequently enlarged into a hotel, andknown as the Nonantum House. At the peace, in 1783, General Hull had embarked in largoland speculations, being one of the owners of the ConnecticutReserve, on which the city of Cleveland now stands, besideshaving interests in Georgia and elsewhere of a similar charac-. MOUNT AUBURN TO NONANTUM BRIDGE. 351 ter. But his public life had always interfered with these spec-ulations. When he went to Detroit as governor, he investedmost of his funds in real estate in the then frontier village, andwas obliged to build a house for a residence. After he leftDetroit all his property there was sacrificed. He had advancedlarge sums for the defence of the Territory, which, together withhis salary as governor, mostly remained unpaid until his death,and were only obtained by his family after repeated petitions toCongress for relief. The farm in Newton of nearly three hundred acres, ownedand occupied by General Hull up to the time of his death, wasfirst occupied by Joseph Fuller, born in 1652. He was theson of John Fuller, who came over in 1635 with John Win-throp, Jr., and settled in Cambridge Village (New Town) in1644. In 1658 he bought a tract of one thousand acres in thenorthwest part of the town, long known as the Full
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