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Mary Frances Carey Certified Genealogist #237 Foreword
Tracing my husband's mother's Tull line has been done primarily for our children and grandchildren, in memory of their grandmother and great-grandmother, Myrtle
Tull Carey. It includes more personal information than is usual for a genealogical study. Our children have inherited several pieces of furniture that belonged to the Tulls and will likely inherit the Tull Farm at Miona, which has been in the family since 1857.
The Tull name is an English one of uncertain origin, possibly of an unrecorded survival of the Old English name of Tula (Dictionary of Surnames). There seems to be no connection with the surname Tully, a name that appears in early Somerset
County, Maryland, records. The Eastern Shore families of Tulls go back to two brothers, Thomas Tull and Richard Tull, who originally settled in Northampton
County, Virginia. The Thomas Tull line has been traced.
One of Thomas Tull's descendants was a George Tull, who married Polly Merrill in 1799. They had a son, George Tull, who married Esther Sparrow in Accomack County in 1834, and became the father of Frank George Tull (1851-1926), who married Mary
Godwin in 1873. One of their daughters, Lena Augusta Tull, married into the Richard
Tull line. Another of Thomas Tull's descendents was Solomon Tull, Jun', who served in the Revolutionary War. His descendants have been found in the eastern part of
Worcester County, in Newark, Maryland, and Stockton, Maryland. A grandson, also named Solomon, settled in the Greenbackville, Virginia, area. Most of Thomas Tull's descendants have lived in Somerset County, Maryland, however. A later descendant was Elisha James Tull (1850-1924). He and two sons, Edward Nelson Tull and James
Underwood Tull, were shipbuilders of Pocomoke. Elisha Tull, born in Revell's Neck, was a son of John Custis Tull (1812-1867). He was twice married and had fourteen children.
In order to complete this Richard Tull line, Somerset County records have been searched at Princess Aline, Maryland, Worcester County records at Snow Hill, Maryland,
Accomack County records at Accomac, Virginia, and Northampton County records at
Eastville, Virginia. Since many early Maryland records have been sent to the Hall of Records at Annapolis and are not available locally, a number of secondary sources have been used. In addition, Er. Leslie P. Dryden of Hyattsville, Maryland, a re- nowned Somerset County and Worcester County genealogist, has supplied data from his files and from the records at Annapolis. Willis C. Tull, Jr., of Cockeysville, Mary- land, who has been collecting information on Tulls for some thirty years, and who,.in the 1970's, published a newsletter called Tull Tracing, has been quoted. His printings have been particularly helpful in locating the Tulls who left the Eastern
Shore for points west. He is a descendent of Levi C. Tull of Wagram.
One other document has been invaluable in separating the children of James Tull and placing tnem locally. It is a letter written to Mrs. Sally Brittingham by
Carrie Cropper (Massey) Corbin, dated 15 September 1954 in Richmond, Virginia. Carrie
Corbin was a granddaughter of James Tull's oldest son, William Massey Tull, and recalled visiting family members and recollected relationships told to her by her grandmother, the widow of William Massey Tull. Her letter has been referred to in the following write-up as "Cousin Carrie's letter". She was also the source of the
Whitney Bible records and Massey Bible records.
While it is usual for family Bible sources to be documented with the name and location of the printer, the date of printing, and the present owner, these have been omitted. Cousin Carrie did not give this information on the Whitney Bible or
the Massey Bible in her letter. The Outten Tull family Bible is in the possession of Er. C. James Tull, Jr., of Newport News, Virginia. Copies of family information from the Covington Bible were found among genealogical records of Martha Morris after
her death. Mrs. Ruth Brittingham of New Church owns the Brittingham family Bible.
The dates of births, deaths, and marriages of the children of Charles U. Tull have been taken from a 31b1e that belonged to Myrtle Tull Carey. The first few pages, giving its documentation are missing.
All the descendants of James Tull and his wife Sally Massey Tull are eligible to join the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Sons of the American Revolution, or the Children of the American Revolution, through her father, William Massey.
As so often happens in tracing Eastern Shore lines, descendants of Richard Tull in upper Accomack County, Virginia, today live within approximately twenty miles of the land he purchased in 1671, on the Annamessex aver in Maryland.
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Virginia's Eastern Shore Contents
Page Richard Tull 1
George Tull 7
James Tull 12
John Tull, Shipwright 14
Map of Worcester County, Maryland, Newtown District No. 1 22
James Tull 23
William Massey Tull, Son of James Tull 27
Samuel Issac Tull, Son of James Tull 33
John W. Tull, Son of James Tull 35
Elizabeth Tull, Daughter of James Tull 40
James Outten Tull, Son of James Tull 42
Frederick A. Tull, Son of James Tull 46
Picture of Frederick A. Tull and wife 51
Charles Ulysses Tull 52
Pictures of Charles U. Tull and family 56
Map of Lower Somerset County, Maryland 61
Map of Upper Accomack County, Virginia 62
Charts 63
References 67 Richard Tull
Richard Tull first appears in Eastern Shore of Virginia records on 12 June
1664, when his name was given as a headright by Col. William Waters (Nugent I, p.
517). Col. Waters was granted 700 acres of land on "Gintotage Creek" for paying transportation costs of fourteen persons from England. He had patented 700 acres in Northampton County in 1653 (Whitelaw, p. 129) and 1200 acres on the north side of Onancock Creek in 1662 (Whitelaw, p. 947). On 5 September 1662, William Waters had been granted 1280 acres of land, called Waters River, on the north side of
Annemessex River in Somerset County, Maryland (Som. Land Records, p. 409). The land he patented on Chincoteague Creek, Col. Waters assigned to John Wallop in
1667, and it became known as Wallops Neck (Whitelaw, p. 1333).
The foregoing shows that Col.William Waters, who lived in Northampton County,
Virginia, and died testate there in 1689 (Whitelaw, p. 146), was acquiring land throughout the Eastern Shore. Since headrights could be saved for future use and since there was a time lapse between applying for a patent and the granting thereof, it seems likely Richard Tull was living in Northampton County before 1664. Indeed, it appears he and his brother were immigrants before 3 November 1660, when John
Ellsey gave the name of Thomas Tull as one of twenty-four headrights, when he was
granted 1200 acres of land in Northampton County (Nugent I, p. 275).
A patentee was eligible to 50 acres of land for each of his headrights, and it was usual for the headright to bind himself to work for the man who had transported him to repay such charges. No record has been found that either Richard Tull or
Thomas Tull did this. It appears likely they could have paid their own transporta
tion costs and sold their rights to 50 acres to John Ellsey and William Waters.
Between May 1662 and August 1666, a number of Northampton'County men moved to
the Manokin-Annemessex area of Somerset County, Maryland (Old Somerset,. p. 279).
Among these men were John Elzey/Ellsey, Thomas Tull and Richard Tull. "While John
1 River Elzey settled on the north side of Manokinby 1662, the records suggest that the
Tull brothers first settled on Col. William Waters' Waters Rivers when his patent was issued in 1663. However, a Northampton County record of 28 November 1666, in which Richard Tull was instrumental in returning a Negro servant to Left Coll:
William Waters, could indicate he was still in Northampton County by this date
(North. X, p. 31). It is equally possible that the Negro, who had run away with
John Allworth, "servant to Mr. John Michaell", was found in Somerset County. Rich- ard Tull was paid 320 pounds of tobacco for helping return the slave.
Richard Tull registered his cattle mark in Somerset County on 24 April 1667
(Som. Deeds 1, p. 11, rear). On 17 February 1671, Richard Tull and Thomas Tull bought 230 acres of land called Salisbury from John Rhodes and his wife Elizabeth, for 6000 pounds of tobacco (Som. Deeds SC9, p. 71). The deed states the land was on the north side of Annemessex Creek, on the east side of Swancey Creek, and
joined Major Waters' land on the northeast. In time, Swancey Creek became known as
Tull's Creek and today is called Holland Creek. This locates both Waters Rivers
and Salisbury between present-day Upper Fairmount and the road from Westover to
Kingston. Holland Creek runs between the two tracts.
Richard Tull married (1) Martha Rhodes, the daughter of John and Elizabeth
Rhodes, by a licence of 9 January 1671, just over a month before he and his brother
bought Salisbury from her parents- (Som. Judicials 1671-1675, p. 43). Martha Rhodes
was born in Hampshire, Southampton County, England, on 6 March 1654 (Old Somerset,
p. 457). Thomas Tull, born circa 1640, had ma rried Mary Minshell in October 1666
(Som. IKL, p. 2%).
Richard Tull's name appears among the Grand Jury of Somerset County on 12 March
1671, when the jury decided that regular Church of England services would be held in
four locations in the county (Old Somerset, p. 118) In June 1672, Richard Tull was
constable of Annemessex Hundred (Som. Jud. 1671-1675, pp. 139, 191).
A deed of 5 March 1679, from William Waters "me therein movinge" to Thomas
2 Tull, shows where the Tull brothers were located at that time (Som. MA #1, p. 480).
Thomas was deeded "part of my divident of land on the north side of Annamefsex River
- said Thomas now being seated on same land - do give him 150 acres on the branch which parts my divident and land whereon Richard Tull now dwelleth4. On 1 March
1685/6, Richard Tull bought his brother Thomas Tull's share of Salisbury for 6000 pounds of tobacco (Som. Deeds MA, p. 797). He and his wife Martha sold the entire tract to Mary Custis, widow, on 10 September 1695, for 24,000 pounds of tobacco (Som.
Deeds L, p. 305). By this date Richard Tull had become established in the south- eastern section of Somerset County. 20 OnASeptember 1687, Richard Tull bought 200 acres called Providence from John
Ronsell for 5000 pounds of tobacco (Som. Deeds MA, p. 885). Providence was located a short distance northwest of the point at which Dividing Creek enters Pocomoke River
(Som. Land Records, map 13). On the south, it joined a tract called Little Derry that the Justices of Somerset County bought from Edward Stockwell on 18 June 1694, for a new courthouse (Old Somerset, p. 410). Little Derry is located today just north of the intersection of Court House Road and Dividing Creek Road.
On 25 January 1666, 500 acres of land in Dublin District, Somerset County, called Coleman's Adventure, had been surveyed by one John Coleman (Som. Deeds L p. 590). Richard Tull was issued a patent for this land on 17 October 1688 (same deed). This tract was located north of Providence, also on the western side of
Dividing Creek (1 1/4 miles above Pocomoke River, according to Som. Deeds JP, p. 264).
Present-day maps would place it extending southwest from Cokesbury, Maryland, at least as far as Bowland Road. Bowlands owned part of Coleman's Adventure in the
1800's (Som. Land Records, p. 87). There were two tracts of land between Providence
and Coleman's Adventure, Hap At A Venture and Suffolk.
Richard Tull was called "Planter" in 1695, when he sold Salisbury, but on 28 1698, Febru.aryA wnen he bought 100 acres of Heckles from Edward Harper, for 3000 pounds
of tobacco, he was called "Innholder" (Som. Deeds L #2, p. 468). He was again
3 called "Innholder" on 10 January 1700, when he transferred to George Tull, his
"oldest son"', 200 acres of Coleman's Adventure (Som. Deeds L #2, p. 590). It
appears likely that after the Somerset County court was moved to Court House Hill,
circa 1695, Richard Tull saw the need for an inn to supply food and lodging for
those attending court and established one on his adjoining land. In September 1698,
Richard Tull's petition to renew his licence to keep an ordinary was granted (Som.
Jud. 1698-1701, pp. 42, Si). On 9 July 1708, when Francis Jenkins wrote his will,
he left "Providence near the Court House" to his wife Mary (Baldwin, Vol. III, p.
172). No record has been found of Richard Tull selling this tract to Francis Jenkins
or of the latter buying it.
By the time Richard Tull wrote his will, on 6 October 1710, his wife Martha
(Rhodes) Tull had died and he had remarried (Som. Wills, EB 9, p. 42). He married
(2) Margaret (Polk?) Pollitt, the widow of Thomas Pollitt. This is shown by
Margaret Tull, "relict of Richard Tull, Senr and administrator of Thomas Pollitt,
deceased", posting an account of Thomas Pollitt's estate on 2 May 1711 (NE. Inv.
Accts! 32 B, p. 356). Thomas Pollitt had died testate by 20 September 1708, when
his widow Margaret was named executrix of his estate (Som. Wills EB 9, p. 236).
Richard Tull's will was recorded on 5 June 1711. He named his wife Margaret executrix and left personal property to sons George Tull, Benjamin Tull and John
Tull, also to daughters Rachel Powell, Elizabeth Latcham, Mary Clark and Sarah Tull.
He left his "dwelling plantation, 300 acres on Dividing Creek" and the remainder of
his personal property to his son Richard Tull. Witnesses were Thomas Tull, William
Tull, Mary Boyer, and John Benson. Margaret (Pollitt) Tull had married Charles
Williams by 15 March 1717, when they, as executors of Richard Tull, deceased, filed
an account of his estate (Md. Accts. 1, p. 435).
Richard Tull's age can be estimated as circa 23 when he registered his cattle
mark in 1667. He would have been born circa 1644 and have beencirca 16 years when
he emir,mteri from England. he would have married (1) when he was 27 years of age
4 and have been 67 when he died.
The births of the children of Richard Tull and his wife Martha (Rhodes) Tull
were recorded in Somerset County records (IKL, pp. 255-261). They were:
1. Rachel Tull, born 25 August 1672, m. Powell.
2. Richard Tull, born 12 March 1675, died young.
3. George Tull, born 7 May 1677. See next section.
L. John Tull, born 1 April 1681, died testate in Worcester County, Maryland,
between 12 June 1751, when he wrote his will, and 27 June 1751, when it was recorded.
(Wor. Wills Xol #2, p. 86). He named his wife Ann Tull and son William Tull as
executors. He had one other son, John Tull, and four daughters: Mary Tull, Ann Tull,
Elizabeth Peterkin, and Sarah Nutter. John Tull had purchased land in the upper
part of Worcester County, near St. Martin's Creek, in 1711 and left descendants in
that area. He was called John Tull (seaside) in the records to distinguish him from
John Tull (Annamessex).
5. William Tull, born 15 July 1684, died in Sussex Countyl Delaware, in 1749.
William Tull married Magdalen Price, who was his executrix. They had three sons,
John Tull, William Tull, and Thomas Tull. A daughter Elizabeth heired a house and
lot at Warwick on the Indian River.
6. Benjamin Tull, born 14 November 1686, died testate in Worcester County,
Maryland, before 13 August 1773, when his will was probated (Wor. Wills JW #4, p.212).
His will, written on 26 December 1768, left to wife Hannah Tull and her four child-
ren: Sarah Tull, Benjamin Tull, Hannah Tull, and John Tull. He also named daughter
Rachel Davis and called himself "aged". Benjamin Tull married three times, (1) circa
1709, Elizabeth (Davis?), by whom he had three children: Rachel Tull, born 8 November
1710; Davis Tull, born 11 January 1712; and Benjamin Tull, born 27 July 1715 (Som.
Parish Records). It appears that both of these sons died in childhood. Benjamin
Tull married (2) circa 1725, Mary Ennis, the widow of Charles Ennis (Md. Inv. 11,
p. 127), by whanhe apparently had no children. He married (3) circa 1760, Hannah
5 Alien, daughter of John Allen of Worcester County (Md. Accts 58, p. 6)1). Early land records and tax lists show Benjamin Tull in the St. Martin's River area, near his brother John Tull. Sometime after 1740 he moved to Mattapony Hundred, in lower
Worcester County, where he patented 50 acres, called Tull's Lot on 19 January 1755
(dor. Land Records, p. 650). This land he left to his youngest son, Benjamin Tull, after his wife's death. Benjamin Tull's descendants lived near the Md.-Va. line, a number of them dying in Accomack County, Virginia. The name of Benjamin Tull was passed down for four more generations, the last being the grandfather of Mr. Reuben
Tull. This Benjamin Tull lived on land that his mother, Charlotte (Merrill) Tull, had inherited. The farm, where Mr. Reuben Tull also lived, is on the south side of
Colonna Road, which runs from Wagram to Cedar Hall. The part of the farm on which the homes and graveyard stand extends into Virginia and borders on Pitts Creek. For other descendants see Chart IV.
7. Llizabeth Tull, born 14 May 1688, married Latcham.
8. Mary Tull, born 31 July 1590, married Clark.
9. Sarah Tull, born 29 December 1691, unmarried in 1710.
10. Richard Tull, born 4 January 1596, died testate in Worcester County by 7
August 1755 (Wor. Wills JW #2, p. 153). Richard Tull, Junr married Naomi Blake, the daughter of Joseph Blake, who died testate in Accomack County, Virginia, in 1703, naming a daughter as Naomy (Acco. Wills & c 1692-1715, p. 310). Her mother died testate in 1724 as Ann Morris, naming sons as Dennis Blake and Josep4 Blake and a daughter Naomie Tull (Acco. Wills, Deeds & c 1715-1729, pt. 1, p. 553). Richard
Tull and wife Naomi deeded the 300 acres on Dividing Creek he had inherited from his father in 1711, to his brother George Tull on 1 May 1724, for 39 Pounds (Som.
Deeds GH, p. 150). In his will, Richard Tull named a son Richard Tull; three daughters,Elizabeth Tull, Esther Tull, and Naomy Townsend; and a granddaughter
Agnes Tull.
6 George Tull
George Tull, son of Richard Tull and his wife Martha (Rhodes) Tull, was born on
7 'lay 1677 (Som. IL, p. 257). From the date of his birth, it is obvious he was
born on the land called Salisbury, near Tull's Creek, land which his father and
uncle had bought from his grandfather, John Rhodes, in 1672. He was likely in his
mid-teens when the family moved to the Dividing Creek area.
George Tull married (1) circa 1700, Elizabeth (?) Noble, the daughter of William
Noble and his wife Eliza. William Noble died testate in 1709, naming his wife and a
son Jonathan, among others (Baldwin, Vol. III, p. 149). Jonathan Noble died testate
in 1721. He called George Tull his brother-in-law and made him one of the executors
of his estate (Baldwin, Vol. V, p. 51).
Richard Tull, Innholder, deeded 200 acres Colemans Adventure to George Tull,
"oldest son of said Richard, planter", on 10 January 1700, "for good cause and con-
sideration" (Som. Deeds L #2, p. 150). Edward Harper "of Dorsett County, Maryland,"
and wife Sarah sold George Tull 200 acres called Beckles on 6 August 1712 (Som. Deeds,
CD, p. 819). Evidently his father did not have a clear title to the 100 acres of
Beckles he had bought in 1698. George Tull was granted a patent to 50 acres called
Chance in 1722 (Som. Deeds LR, p. 75). Chance was southwest of Colemans Adventure,
and Beckles joined them both on the north. On 1 May 1724, George Tull bought the
other 300 acres of Colemans Adventure from his brother, Richard Tull, for 30 pounds
(Som. Deeds GH, p. 819). He then owned 750 acres of land on the west side of
Dividing Creek, in the Coston-Cokesbury area.
On 18 April 1732, George Tull gave to his son Noble Tull 137 acres, part of
tracts Beckles and Colemans Adventure, with certain restrictions. Noble was to
preserve the buildings in good repair, to care for the livestock and work diligently
for their increase, to take care of "the hands", and to act in every way as a duti-
ful son. Also, if his father were to remarry and die leaving a widow, "said Noble
7 shall peacefully give to my wife the privilege of one third part duAng her widow- hood" (Som. Deeds AZ, p. 24). On 18 November 1736, George Tull gave to son Jonathan
50 acres of Chance and other land "near Joe's Old Field", provided Jonathan act as a dutiful son and not marry without his father's consent (Som. Deeds EI, p. 115).
The deed states that this land was where son William Tull formerly lived and where son Noble Tull "now lives", fit the same time, George Tull gave slaves and house- hold furniture to daughters Sarah Tull, Mary Cropper, and Rachel Tull.
George Tull's first wife was deceased by 18 April 1732 as evidenced by the deed of that date to son Noble. It was likely later in the same year that he married (2)
Elizabeth Dorman, born circa 1710, daughter of Samuel Dorman and wife Catherine
(Stevens)Dorman (Dorman records and Som. Jud. 1806-1807, p. 199), and started a new family.
George Tull's undated will was probated on 14 April 1747 ( Som. Wills EB 9, p.
273). He left his youngest son George Tull, three tracts of land, 750 acres, and personal property. He stated he had already given sons Noble Tull and Jonathan Tull part of this land, but they had not met the requirements set forth in their deeds, so he was now making the deeds void. He provided that son George have two years schooling and named daughters Hannah, Leah, and Mary. They were also to be schooled.
He made his wife Elizabeth the executrix of his estate. Witnesses were William Mills,
Matthias Coston and Jonathan Mills.
George Tull and his first wife, Elizabeth (?) (Noble) Tull, had nine children.
There were five children by his second marriage to Elizabeth (Dorman) Tull. He gave his name to a son of each marriage. His children were:
1. William Tull, born circa 1702, married Elizabeth Fontain. He moved to
Philadelphia and was lost at sea in 1740. Some of his descendants moved to North
Carolina.
2. Noble Tull, born circa 1704, died intestate in Somerset County ante 1765
(Som. Deeds, p. 22), married circa 1735, Catherine • Noble Tull had at
8 least two sons, William Tull, born circa 1737 (Som. Deeds D, p. 22) and Francis
Tull, born 17 December 1746 (Coventry Parish Records). Daughters were: Sarah Tull, born 21 December 1743; Betty Tull, born 21 December 1749; and Leah Tull, born 10
December 1754 (Coventry Parish Records).
3. George Tull, Jun', born circa 1708, died circa 1765, married circa 1729,
Sarah (Chambers) Coston, widow of Matthias Coston and daughter of Richard Chambers.
This family moved to Dorchester County, Maryland, near the Delaware line. There were three sons, Richard Tull, Joshua Tull and Jesse Tull. George Tull and Sarah, his wife, filed an account of the estate of Mattias Coston, deceased, on 13 January
1729 (Md. Accts. 9, p. 282). On 16 April 1768, Richard Tull, son and heir-at-law of George Tull,and Sarah his wife, of Dorchester County, deeded 75 acres of James
Choice, in Worcester County, to John Brawn, land that had been granted to Richard
Chambers Odor. Deeds G, p. 443). Richard Chambers had left James Choice to his daughter Sarah in 1728 (Som. Wills 19, p. 548). One of George and Sarah's three sons was apparently the ancestor of Samuel Tull, born circa 1785, died 30 July 1846, and his wife, Keziah (Calloway) Tull. They had a son, Robert A. Tull, born 25 Sept- ember 1818, died 25 May 1892, who married Rebecca Ann Allen (1835-1925). Among their children was Luther Benjamin Tull, born August 1865, who married another Rebecca A.
(born October 1873), and who was the father of Robert C. Tull, born March 1899
(1900 census). Robert C. Tull was the father of Cecil Benjamin Tull of Seaford,
Delaware.
L. Sarah Tull, born circa 1711, married Dowlett?
5. Mary Tull, born circa 1713, m. Nathaniel Cropper.
6. Jonathan Tull, born circa 1715, died testate Somerset County, 1787 (Som.
Wills 1777-1788, p. 258), married (1) 1746, Mary Fontain, (2) circa 1757, Jane
In his will Jonathan Tull named wife Jane, sons James Tull and Jonathan Tull, and daughters Nelly Bevins and Mary Tull. Son James Tull lived in the Newtown (Poco- moke City) area. His male descendants moved to Ohio circa 1815.
9 7. Rachel Tull, born circa 1716, unmarried in 1736, probably married Joseph
Stevenson.
8. James Tull, born circa 1722. See next section.
9. Levin Tull, born circa 1729. In household of brother James Tull in tax lists of 1745-1748. No other record, except that in 1792 his half brother, George
Tull, gave a deposition in which he told of a boundry line he had heard his brother
Levin Tull speak of "about forty years ago" (Som. Jud. 1791-1794, p. 93).
10. Hannah Tull, born circa 1735, married 1754, John Goslee.
ll. Leah Tull, born circa 17380 married 1758, Samuel Wilkins.
12. George Tull, born circa 1742/3, died intestate by 1808, when his lands were sold (Som. Deeds 39, p. 348), married circa 1766, Esther Rounds, daughter of Thomas
Rounds. Esther Tull heired land from her father in 1777, called Good Luck and
Venture (Som. Wills 38, p. 328). The 1783 tax list shows George Tull in Rewastico
Hundred, Somerset County, taxed for 130 acres of Good Luck and 73 acres of Venture.
George Tull had sold the land his father left him, to John Pollitt, in 1764 and
1765 (Som. Deeds C, p.2201 p. 224), the second deed excepting the lands his father had given his half-brothers Noble Tull and Jonathan Tull. In the division of the
proceeds of the real estate of Sally Curran, niece of Esther (Rounds) Tull, in 1814,
one fifth part went to Esther Tull's children, named as Samuel Tull and Thomas Tull
(Som. Jud. 1814-1815, p. 3). On 18 June 1808, Thomas R. Tull had conveyed to John
Byrd, all his rights to Good Luck and Venture (Som. Orders 39, p. 348).
13. Mary Tull., born circa 1744, married circa 1762, Adam Christopher.
14. Jacob Tull, born circa 1747, died intestate Somerset County 1797 (Som. Adm.
Accts. EB 24, p. 96), married circa 1770, Sarah Brown. In the distribution of his estate on 4 November 1800, Sarah Tull, administratrix, divided it among eight of
their children: Samuel Tull, Elizabeth Tull (m. Job Wilson), Levin Tull, Leah Mills
(m. Jonathan Mills), Sarah Tull (m. Tubman Mitchell), James Tull, Mary Ann Tull
(m. John Hayman?), and Thomas Tull. A note was made that the last two children
10 were deceased since the death of their father (p. 121). While Jacob Tull was not named as a son by his father in either a deed or his will, his children were named as heirs of John Dorman, brother to Jacob Tull's mother, Elizabeth (Dorman) Tull
(Som. Jud. 1806-1807, p. 199). Jacob Tull was likely born after his father's death.
11 James Tull
No one record has been found that proves James Tull, born circa 1722, was the son of George Tull and his first wife, who was a Noble. George Tull did not name him in his will, nor give him land or other property. However, James Tull was listed in the Pocomoke Hundred household of George Tull by the 1744 tax list. His name first appeared in Somerset County records when he was listed in Pocomoke
Hundred by the tax lists of 1738-1740, in the household of McKinney Porter. Since there was no other James Tull of this period in Somerset County, and no other Tull in Pocomoke Hundred who could have had a son of this age, it appears certain James
Tull was a son of George Tull. He would have been underage when George Tull gave property to his older children in 1736. George Tull's second family would have all been underage when he wrote his will in 170, while James Tull was then grown and on his own. James Tull was listed, unmarried, as head of a household in Pocomoke
Hundred by tax lists of 1745 to 1748. Levin Tull, a known son of George Tull, was living with him.
James Tull married Rachel White on 24 December 1750 (Coventry Parish Records).
Rachel, born circa 1729, was the daughter of John White, who wrote his will on 10
April 1749, which was probated on 27 May of the same year (Som. Wills EB 14, p. 23).
John White left real estate to his daughter Rachel that included 40 acres called
Poor Swamp. She,with her second husband and her son John Tull, "son of James Tull", sold Poor Swamp to Benjamin Conner on 11 January 1790 (Som. Deeds I, p. 51). Poor
Swamp, and other land that John White owned, was located in the eastern part of
Lawsons District (Som. Land Records, map 18), on the western side of Planners Creek, near present-day Tulls Corner. This Somerset County Tulls Corner was between
Rehobeth, Naryland,and Crisfield, Maryland. It was named for descendants of Thomas
Tull, who also settled there circa 1745.
James Tull was granted a patent for 37 acres called Accident in 1752 (Som. Land
12 Records, p. 1). Accident was located a short distance north of Poor Swamp and was included in the tracts sold Benjamin Conner by John Tull of James and his mother in
1790.
James Tull was deceased by 2 May 1762, when his widow, Rachel Tull, married
Elijah Coulbourn as her second husband (Coventry Parish Records). He left no will.
Rachel and Elijah Coulbourne had several daughters.
The known children of James Tull and his wife, Rachel (White) Tull, were:
1. John Tull, born 12 December 1752 (Coventry Parish Records). See next section.
2. James Tull, born 22 September 1757 (Coventry Parish Records). No other record.
3. Sarah Tull, born 15 February 1758 (Coventry Parish Records).
13 John Tull, Shipwright
John Tull, son of James Tull and his wife, Rachel (White) Tull, was born on 12
December 1752 (Coventry Parish Records), and died in late 1819 or early 1820. He was born in Somerset County, Maryland, likely on land his grandfather , John White, had awned near Tull's Corner. His father had died before he was 10 years of age.
He apparently was raised in the household of Elijah Coulbourn, who married his mother in 1762.
The records indicate John Tull married Martha Woods, daughter of William and
Ann (Adams) Woods, born 3 February 1757 (Coventry Parish Records), in late 1772, or soon thereafter. This is based on Martha Woods being named as a daughter by William
Woods in his will, written on 26 October 1760 and probated on 25 July 1761 (Som.
Wills EB 4, p. 79), on John Tull naming his wife as Martha in a deed of 18041 and on
John Tull having a known granddaughter named Martha Woods Tull.
On the 1783 tax list, John Tull was shown in Pocomoke Hundred, Somerset County, owning seven slaves, one horse, and five black cattle, but no land. His family included three males and two females. As has been stated, he joined his mother and her second husband in selling the land that had belonged to his father, James
Tull, to Benjamin Conner in 1790. This transaction was likely a family arrangement whereby John Tull got his share of his father's estate, for on the same day, Benja- min Conner deeded the land back to Elijah Coulbourne (Som. Deeds I, p. 52). Benja- min Conner had married John Tull's half-sister, Betty Coulbourne (Boston Family of
Md., p. 421). Another half-sister, Esther Coulbourne, married Joseph Schoolfield as her second husband (same page) and his second wife.
It appears that John Tull had moved his family into Worcester County, Maryland, by the time of the 1790 census. A John Tull, with five males in his household, two females, and six slaves, is shown. On 19 November 1796, John Tull, shipwright, of
Worcester County, purchased from John Slocomb and Mary his wife (daughter and
14 heir of Alexander McCready), for 200 pounds, 100 acres of land, parts of Schoolfields
Pleasure, Pittsburgh, Timber Tract, and Slim Chance (dor. Deeds A, p. 396). School- fields Pleasure (385 acres) was located on both sides of present-day Hillman Road, which connects New Bridge Road with Cedar Hall Road in the lower western section of
Worcester County. Joseph Schoolfield, husband of John Tull's half sister, gave part
of Schoolfields Pleasure to sons Joseph and William in 1791 (dor. Deeds O. pp. 146,
150), and willed the balance to his youngest son, Elijah Schoolfield in 1834 (dor.
Wills 1834-1851, p. 13). Pittsburgh, at least part of it, was on the "west side of county road from Stevens Ferry to the Beaver Dams and Virginia" (dor. Deeds AE, p.
488). This would be present-day Dun Swamp Road, connecting Pocomoke City and Beaver
Dam. The 100 acres of land John Tull bought in 1796 would then have been between
Dun Swamp Road and Hillman Road. John Tull's cousin, James Tull, son of Jonathan,
awned land in the area, land his heirs sold in 1815 (same deed) before they moved
to Ohio.
John Tull, shipwright, sold his 100 acres to his oldest son, James Tull, on 7
January 1804, for 300 pounds, making the provision that he and his wife Martha would
be allowed to live out their lives on the land (dor. Deeds W, p. 134). As will be
shown in later sections, James Tull left the land to his youngest son, Frederic Tull,
in 1837 and Frederick Tull gave a final deed for the same land to Elijah C. School-
field in 1849. Elijah C. Schoolfield gave "the Tull farm" to his daughter Olevia,
by his will, written 19 February 1872 and probated on 24 April 1877 (Wor. Wills GTB
#3, p. 70). Olevia Schoolfield, 24, married William J. Bishop, 25, widower, on 30
September 1874 Odor. Rec of Mar., 1866-1886). On 17 July 1948, four of Olevia E.
(Schoolfield) Bishop's sons sold the "Tull Farm that Frederick Tull sold Elijah C.
Schoolfield on 3 April 18b9", to Young & Son, Inc. for $100 "and other valuable
consideration" (dor. Deeds JEB #18, p. 328). The land is now owned by the Chesa-
peake Corporation and the cleared land is rented by Everett D. Holland, a descendant
of John Tull, shipwright, throught his grandson, Levi C. Tull. It can be located
15 on the east side of Hillman Road, east of the graveyard in which Elijah C. School-
field and his wife Irene are buried. This graveyard is back in the field, on the
land that Elijah C. Schoolfield's father left him.
The foregoing deeds give John Tull's occupation as "shipwright". Though he
lived some distance away, it is assumed he practiced his trade at Newtown (Poco-
moke City).
The children of John Tull and his wife, Martha (Woods) Tull, were:
1. Susan Tull, born circa 1774, unmarried. Susan Tull apparently lived on her
father's land, where she died between 1850 and 1860. It appears certain she raised her brother John Tull's children, Levi C. Tull and his sister, there. Susan Tull was
listed as head of a household by the 1820 census, in the First Election District of
Worcester County. There was a male aged 10 to 16 years and a female under 10 years
in her household. Her name appears again in the 1830 census, aged 50 to 60 ypars,
with two others in her household, a male aged 20 to 30, and a female aged 15 to 20.
In 1840, Levi Tull was head of the household. He had married by this date and in
addition to his family, there was a female aged 70 to 80 years living with him
(Susan Tull would have been circa 66 years old). Susan Tull, aged 76, was in the
household of Levi Tull in 1850. This household, #1693, was next door to that of
Elijah C. Schoolfield, #1694. Elijah C. Schoolfield, obviously named for his grand-
father, Elijah Coulbourn, was half first cousin to Susan Tull and the other child-
ren of John Tull, shipwright. Being a family member, he would have allowed her to
live out her life in her family home.
2. James Tull, born circa 1780. See next section.
3. Isaac Tull, born circa 1786. In the April Court of 1803, Isaac Tull, son
of John Tull, with the consent of his father, was apprenticed to Samuel M. Duer of
Somerset County to learn the blacksmith's trade (Wor. Orphans Ct. Proc. 1802-1804,
p. 111). After this entry, this Isaac Tull's name has not been found in Somerset
County, Worcester County, or Accomack County records.
16 L. John Tull, born circa 1788 and was deceased by 1820. John Tull was indent-
ured by his father John Tull to James Tilghman of Newtown to learn cordwaining
(shoemaking) on 16 February 1805 (Wor. Orphans Ct. Proc. 1804-1805, P. 159). John
Tull married 9 March 1808, Sarah Ostren, in Baltimore (Willis C. Tull files). The death certificate of Levi C. Tull gives John and Sarah as his parents (Acco. Reg. of
Deaths 1853-1896). As has been stated, John Tull had two children, Levi C. Tull and a younger daughter, who were raised by their aunt Susan Tull. Nothing more has been found on the daughter. She, born circa 1813, could have been the Sarah Tull who married Ebe Bishop by licence of 16 September 1839 (dor. Mar. Rec 1795-1865, p. 138).
Levi C. Tull married Mary Joynes by licence of 22 May 1833 (p. 118). The 1860 census for Worcester County shows him, 2 farmer with his family, in Costons District, next door to his son William Tull, who was a merchant. The 1870 census for Accomack
County, Virginia, shows Levi Tull, aged 62 years, a retired merchant, born in Mary- land, living at Wagram. No deed has been found in Worcester County or Accomack
County, of Levi C. Tull buying or selling land. His eldest son, William T. Tull
(1834-1900), bought "Dennis property called Wagram Mill Property" from Samuel A.
Graham, Trustee, on 26 April 1876 (dor. Deeds ITM #4, p. 448 and Acco. Deeds 62, p.
192). This property, located in Maryland on Pitts Creek, at the Virginia line,
contained a general store, a sawmill and a grist mill. William T. Tull sold half
his "mill lot" to five of the children of his brother, Levi Z. Tull, on 3 December
1877 (dor. Deeds ITM #5, p. 515), and the other half "called Wagram Mills also
Dennis Mills" to his brother John W. Tull, on 11 July 1882 (dor. Deeds ITM #9, p.
250). William T. Tull bought 214 acres near Wagram, for $1500, from Sally E.
Slocomb, Special Commissioner, on 30 November 1871 (Acco. Deeds 1871-1872, p. 345).
This land, on the Virginia side of Wagram millpond, can be located east of the
intersection of route 705 and route 707 and adjoined lands of John Brittingham on
the northeast.
William T. Tull built a large home on this land, which burned several years
17 ago. The farm is now owned by Herbert Paradee. The family graveyard stands a short distance north of where the house stood. The tombstone of Levi C. Tull gives his death on 21 November 1872, at 62 years 9 months and 20 days. His wife, Mary A. Tull, was born on 22 February 1816 and died on 27 May 1894.
Levi C. Tull's son, John H. Tull (1848-1916) bought the "Boston Farm" on 9
November 1891 (ilor. Deeds FHP #2, p. 193). Descendants tell of him running the grist mill at Wagram and also having a general store on his home property at Beaver Dam,
Maryland. This location, at the intersection of New Bridge Road and Dun Swamp Road, became known as Tull's Corner (the Worcester County one).
See chart IIIfor descendants of Levi C. Tull.
5. Samuel Tull, born 1791, died intestate in Accomack County by 26 January
1846, when John W. Tull was named administrator of his estate (Acco. Orders 1845-
1848, p. 86). In the Worcester County April Court of 1808, Samuel Tull apprenticed himself to James Tull (of James), house carpenter, for three years and six months, when he would become twenty-one. The indenture was signed by John Tull and James
Tull (War. Orphans Ct. Proc. 1806-1807, p. 485). The sale of Samuel Tuli's personal property on 20 March 1847, shows he owned only several notes, a silver watch, a trunk with clothing, a tool chest and carperter's tools (Acco. Inv. 1850-1853, p. 201).
Of the three notes, one, bearing the date of 17 August 1843, was from Henrietta
Brittingham. L. Floyd Nock III, architect and great-grandson of Henrietta Britting- ham, tells of examining the old Brittingham home, that stood just below the Mary- land line, a few years before it was burned. He estimates that Henrietta Britting- ham had the roof raised on a section of the house circa 1840, after her husband's death. It appears that Samuel Tull, carpenter, could have done this. Another note, of 16 July 1845, for $100, was against John W. Tull, indicating Samuel Tull could have built the old house that stood beside the present home of H. Robert Tull, east of New Church. The third note, dated 6 March 1843, and for $4.50, was signed by
Issac Tull, another nephew. There is no record of Samuel Tull marrying or having
18 children. It appears that when he had a carpentry job, he packed his trunk with his clothes, took his tool chest, and moved in with the family until the job was finished.
6. Levi Tull, born 10 September 1795, died 4 December 1846 in Indianna. In
June Court of 1800, Levi Tull, son of John Tull of Worcester County, with the consent of his father, indentured himself to Major Tull to be taught the trade of a shoe- maker (dor. Orphans Ct. Proc. 1799-1800, p. 319). According to an article in Willis
C. Tull's Tull Tracing (p. 214), Levi Tull married Catherine Pagett, in Maryland in
February 1816 (no local record of this) and went to Peiking, Ohio. In 1838, the family moved to Tippecanoe County, Indianna. Levi Tull's children were: Newton Tull, born 1816; Ardley Tull; William Tull, born circa 1829; Sarah Tull; Isaac Tull, born circa 1825; Alfred Tull, born circa 1827; James Tull, died in infancy; James Tull, born 1835, died 1920; and Margaret Tull, born circa 1838.
7. Sarah Tull, born 1795 (twin to Levi Tull?), died 1865. While there is no record proving that John and Martha Tull had a daughter Sarah Tull, other facts strongly indicate this. Sarah Tull married (1) by licence of 23 December 1817,
Robert Lambden (Wor. Mar. Rec. 1795-1865, p. 66), (2) by licence of 19 July 1830,
Samuel Richardson (p. 108). By the first marriage, there were twin daughters, Mary
Lambden, who married William Henry Bunting, and Caroline Lambden. Mary (Lambden) great- Bunting became Ruth (Manning) Brittingham's grandmother. When Ruth married John A Brittingham in 1938, her aunt told her she and John were distantly related but she did not know the direct connection. John Brittingham's mother was Sally E. Tull, the daughter of J.W.J.A. Tull, granddaughter of William Massey Tull, and great- granddaughter of James Tull, son of John Tull, shipwright. Sarah (Tull) Lambden, as the daughter of John Tull, shipwright, and sister to James Tull, would have been
John DirittinghAm's great-great- great aunt, making John and Ruth Brittingham fourth cousins.
8. Joseph Tull, born 19 January 1798, died 17 August 1862 in Indianna, married
19 (1) by licence of 5 June 1819, Margaret P. Burnett (Nor. Mar. Rec. 1795-1865, P. 71),
(2) by licence of 4 February 1823, Hester Pilchard (p. 83). Joseph Tull had two daughters by his first wife: Margaret Porter Tull, born circa 1820; and Martha Woods
Tull, born 31 March 1822. These daughters were left behind with their mother's people when Joseph Tull, his second wife and children, went west by covered wagon in
1830. Joseph Tull had ten children by his second marriage. His older daughters lived in Crisfield, Maryland. See Boston Family of Maryland, (p. )422), for more details on this family. Some of the Joseph Tull information has been taken from this source.
Joseph Tull bought three slaves from his father, John Tull, on 6 September 1819 for $10; Hetty, 3 and 20 years old, Micah, a 4 year old girl, and Henry, 1 year old
(Nor. Deeds AK, p. 56). This deed shows that John Tull was living in late 1819, but his name does not appear on the 1820 census.
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James Tull was born in Somerset County, Maryland, circa 1780, the eldest son of John Tull and his wife Martha (Woods) Tull, and named for his grandfather, James
Tull. On 7 January 1804, John Tull, of Worcester County, deeded to James Tall of the same place, for 300 pounds, 100 acres called Schoolfields Pleasure, Timber Tract,
Pittsburg and Slim Chance (Wor. Deeds W, p. 134). The deed states the land was to go to James Tull after John Tull's death and the death of his wife Martha and, if
James Tull were to die without heirs, it was to go to his next oldest brother. James
Tull of John bought 13 acres of Pittsburg, near his father's land, from Littleton
Dennis, Junr (son of Henry), for $104 on 13 June 1807 ( ,Tor. Deeds Z, p. 236).
James Tull had married, by licence of 19 January 1807, Sally Massey (Wor. Mar.
Rec. 1795-1865, p. 31). It seems likely they lived for some years on his purchased land in Worcester County. Sally Massey was the daughter of William Hassey and his wife Elizabeth of Accomack County, Virginia. William Massey died testate in Acco- County mackAby'27 January 1800, when his will was probated (Wills 1800-1804, p. 232). He named his wife as Betty, left his land to son John Massey, and three daughters, Sally,
Henny, and Betty, were to divide the remainder of his estate after his wife's death.
On 31 August 1831, the Accomack County Court certified that the only heirs of William
Ma ssey were; Sally Tull, the wife of James Tull; Henrietta Brittingham, the widow of
James Brittingham; John Massey, and Elizabeth Massey (Orders 1829-1832, p. 366).
William Massey had been a Fife Major in the Revolutionary War and on 24 July 1832,
400 acres of the western territory was granted to his heirs (Va.Soldiers of 1776,
P. 150).
James Tull and his family first appear in Accomack County records in the 1820
Federal Census, when his age was given as 26 to 45 Years. He then had five sons,
four under 10 years and one aged 10 to 16 years. His wife was also aged 26 to 45 and there were three daughters under 10 and two aged 10 to 16 years. In the 1830
census for Accomack County, James Tull was 50 to 60 years of age. His household 23 included his wife, four sons (the eldest son, born 1807, was grown by this time) and
three daughters.
When James Tull moved his family to Accomack County, sometime between 1810 and
1820, his descendants relate hearing that they lived on what is locally known as
Herbert Paradee's Selby Farm. This land was part of a 1700 acre patent called Oak
Hail granted to Henry Smith in 1666 (Whitelaw, p. 1319) and repa tented in 1671 by
Colonel William Kendall. Col. Kendall left the northern portion of Oak Hall to his
daughter Mary, the wife of Hancock Lee, in 1686. The Lees, of Northumberland County,
sold 850 acres to Sebastian Delastatius in 1731. In 1778, Ezekiel Delastatius sold
450 acres, called Lee's Neck, to Samuel Henderson. Samuel Henderson left the home
half of his land to his son Samuel in 1798. On 3 October 1833, the latter sold 300
acres of Lee's Neck to John Savage (of Griffin) (Deeds 1834-1834, p. 50). The land
was bordered on the northwest by "euwamufses branch" (a branch of Bullbegger Creek)
and on the west by a fork of the same branch. John Savage (of Griffin) lived in the
area of Hog Neck, north of Modest Town (see An Accomack County Savage Line) and most
certainly rented land in Lee's Neck. On 5 November 1853, James W. Custis, Commis-
sioner, as a result of a suit against Savage's administrators, deeded the 300 acres
to George W. Tull, heir-at-law of John W. Tull (Deeds 1853-1855, p. 113). The deed
explains that John W. Tull (son of James Tull) had bought the land before his death
in 1851, but had not received a deed for it. On 18 September 1879, George W. Tull
sold "the Henderson land" to John Brittingham (Deeds 52, p. 692). John Brittingham
was joined by his wife, and George W. Tull and his wife, in selling the 300 acres to
John O. Selby by a deed of 8 April 1886 (Deeds 58, p. 248). John O. Selby left
"Tull Land" to daughter Onie F. Selby in his will of 1889 (Wills 1882-1901, p. 152).
Herbert Paradee bought 200 acres of the "Tull Farm" from John O. Selby's heirs on 6
January 1948 (Deeds 191, p. 291).
While none of this proves James Tull and his family lived on this land, it does show the land has had absentee landlords from 1833, at least, to the present. John
W. Tull would likely have been buying the land on which he was raised. The present
Selby Farm is located on route 705, northwest from Oak Hall, on the road to Miona.
It is on the south side of the road, just before it crosses the bridge of what is now known as Hancock Branch and the intersection of this road with route 704 on the other side of the bridge. It is known that the farm contained two family burial plots at one time but there is no record of the graves having stones.
James Tull's name is recorded only one time in Accomack County deeds. an 1
January 1822, he bought from John Knox the services of a negro woman named Leah for a period of 12 years 5 months, for $120 (Deeds 1821-1822, p. 476).
James Tull wrote his will on 7 November 1834 and it was recorded on 27 February
1837 (Acco, Wills 1828-1846, p. 228). He gave his land in Worcester County to his son FredericTull. He left the use of this land to his wife until said son should reach twenty-one years of age. He gave his wife a mare and gig, one yoke of oxen, her choice of a plow and harrow, a wayne, and a bed with its furnishings. He gave son Outten Tull a colt. He left beds and their furnishings to daughters Sarah Tull,
Elinor Tull and Elizabeth Tull. He directed the balance of his property be sold and the proceeds be divided between the five children named in his will. When the will was probated, since there was no executor named and the widow relinquished her right to act, John Massey qualified as executor by "taking Oath and giving bond according to law in the penalty of 43,000. On 9 December 1837, Sally Tull, widow of James Tull, renounced all the legacies left her by her husband in his will, and chose to take
"my thirds of my said husband's Estate" (Deeds 1837-1839, p. 235). This was likely done on the advice of her brother, John Massey, the court appointed executor.
Sally (Massey) Tull wrote her will on 25 February 1845 and it was probated on
31 March of the same year (Acco. Wills 1826-1846, P. 546). She named only one dau- ghter, Elizabeth Tull, to whom she left a slave named Milly and a bed (daughters
Sally and Eleanor were deceased by this time). She gave Issac Tull her desk. She
25 gave Outten Tull a bed. She left a slave named Hannah to Frederick Tull. The balance of her estate was to be divided between daughter Elizabeth Tull, Outten Tull and Frederick Tull. She named son John W. Tull her executor.
The known children of James Tull and his wife Sally (Mhssey) Tull, were:
1. William Massey Tull, born 1807, died 1845. See section on William Massey
2. Samuel Issac Tull, born circa 1811, died 1847. See section on Samuel Issac
3. Eleanor Tull, born circa 1813, died intestate by 26 October 1840, when the (Orders 1840-1842 estate of Miss Eleanor Tull was administered to John Massey. The inventoPy- ana settlement of her estate show that her coffin cost 45.00 and a "Shroud and lining for Coffin" cost 44.00 (Inventories 1841-1842, p. 85). Dr. John A. E. Horsey was paid $4.00. 41.00 was paid for digging her grave. She owned the bed her father had left her and her part of the rest of her father's estate was worth $131.64. After paying expences, a total of 4122.14 remained, which went to brothers and sisters who were living at the time of her death and to her mother.
L. John W. Tull, born 1814, died 1851. See section on John W. Tull.
5. Elizabeth Tull, born circa 1816, died 1852. See section on Elizabeth Tull.
6. James Outten Tull, born 1819, died 1854. See section on James Outten Tull.
7. Sarah Ann Tull, born circa 1820, died intestate by 26 October 1840. Sarah
Ann Tull's estate was settled by John Massey at the same time as her sister's (Inv.
1841-1842, p. 83). Evidently she had out-lived her sister Eleanor, as part of the latter's estate was paid into Sarah Ann Tull's estate.
8. Frederick A. Tull, born 1828, died 1880. See section on Frederick A. Tull.
9. Isabella T. Tull, born 30 January 1833, died 5 June 1833. (This name and dates appeared in Tull Tracing, p.9. Sources were given as Mrs. Sally Brittingham and Mrs. Myrtle Carey. No local record has been found as proof.)
There were likely several other children who died young. 26 William Massey Tull Son of James Tull
William Massey Tull, the oldest child of James Tull and his wife, Sally (Massey)
Tull, was born on 22 November 1807 and died on 1 March 1845 (Whitney Bible). He was named for his grandfather, William Massey. He was born in Worcester County, Mary- land, on or near land his other grandfather, John Tull, had deeded his father in 1804, land located east of Hillman's Road. His father moved the family to Accomack County,
Virginia, by 1820.
On 10 July 1833, William Massey Tull married Elizabeth Susan Whitney (Som. Mar.
Rec. 1796-1871, p. 147). She was the daughter and only child of Daniel Whitney (1777-
1827) and his wife, Sally Harrison, who were married on 14 January 1811 (p. 161).
Elizabeth Susan (Whitney) Tull was born on 12 March 1812 in Somerset County, Maryland, and died in Accomack County, Virginial on 19 October 1895 Whitney Bible). The family has stated that she was born near Princess Anne, in the Mount Vernon area, and attended Princess Anne Academy (Cousin Carrie's letter), that her mother died when she was four years old and she was raised by aunts. The aunts would have been her father's three maiden sisters, Elizabeth Whitney, Rebecca Whitney, and Henrietta/
Hannah Whitney. Rebecca Whitney died testate in Somerset County in 1838 (Som. Wills
1837-1859, p. 35), naming Rebecca Tull and Sally Tull as great-neices, the daughters
"of William and my neice Susan Tull". She left her neice Susan Tull her land for her lifetime and then it was to go to Susan's daughter, Rebecca Tull. Daniel Whitney's mother, Sarah (Harris) Whitney, second wife of Thomas Whitney, had died testate in
1835 and left personal property to her daughters, henny, Elizabeth and Rebecca (Som.
Wills 1820-1837, p. 241).
The conclusion can be reached that William Massey Tull lived on his wife's family's land in Somerset County, from the time of his marriage in 1833 until his
death in 1845. Census records show that all his children were born in Maryland.
The 1840 census for Somerset County (Middle District) indicates that William M. Tull
27 was a farmer. He was listed as head of a household, with 14 slaves and 4 members of
the household were engaged in agricultiure. The family consisted of; one male aged
30 to 40 (himself), one male aged 15 to 20 (his wife's cousin Wm. W. Whitney?), one
male under 5 (son Daniel Jams), a female aged 70 to 80 (his wife's aunt Elizabeth
Whitney was born in 1766 and died in 1842), a female aged 20 to 30 (his wife) a female aged 5 to 10 (daughter Rebecca W.) and two females under 5 years (daughters
Sarah E.E. and Maria L.V.).
William Massey Tull's brother, Samuel Issac Tull, died testate in Accomack
County by 31 May 1847 (Wills 1846-1882, p. 18). He directed that after his debts
were paid that the remainder of his estate go equally to Nariah Louisa Tull, John
W.J.A. Tull, and Martha W. Tull, who were William Massey Tull's three youngest
children. Isaac Tull had owned land in the Bullbegger/Jollys Neck area, and the
1850 Federal Census for Accomack County shows William Massey Tull's family living on
this land, in household 835. Elizabeth S. Tull, born in Maryland, at 37 years of
age was head of the household. Three daughters and two sons were in the household
(daughter Martha W. had died in 1548), as was William W. Whitney, a 27-year-old farmer. He would have been William Wicks Whitney, son of Issnc Whitney, and first
cousin to Elizabeth S. Tull. He was also named in his grandmother's will.
On 28 March 1851, Elizabeth S. Tull gave a deed of trust to John D. Field,
trustee for Frederick A. Tull (Acco. Deeds 1849-1851, p. 643). She owed F.A. Tull,
her brother-in-law, money she had borrowed in 1848, 1849,1850, and on 1 March 1851, a total of 41740. To secure the four notes she mortgaged personal propery consisting of: her interest in her deceased daughter's estate, two horses, one yoke oxen, four cows, eleven yearlings, eleven sheep, thirty-two hogs, seventeen geese, five turkeys,
twenty-six dunghill fowl, one Buggy Waggon or carriage, one ox cart, one horse cart and harness, four plows, two harrows, four hoes, one pitchfork, a shovel, other
utensils, two hundred bushels corn, one hundred bushels oats, two stacks fodder, two
beds and furnishings, one secretary, a walnut table, a pine table, one candlestand, 26 fourteen Windsor chairs, six flag chairs, five trunks, three chests, two spinning wheels, one loom, other household articles, seven hundred pounds bacon and pork, one
keg lard, thirty pounds soap,"together with the present years crop growing and to
grow on the land whereon said Elizabeth S. Tull resides".
By 1860, Elizabeth S. Tullis daughters had married, and the census of that year
shows ohe, et age 48, was living with her youngest daughter and her husband, John
Massey, in Accomack County household #4. In 1870, Susan Tull, aged 58, was in house-
hold 332, that of her second daughter, Sarah E.E. Davis and her family. In 1880, at
67, she was again living with her youngest daughter, who was then the widow of John
Massey. When she died in 1895, Elizabeth Susan (Whitney) Tull had been a widow for
fifty years. Of her six children, she had lost two daughters and a son. A tomb-
stone for her has not been found.
The children of William Massey Tull and his wife, Elizabeth Susan (Whitney)
Tull, were:
1. Rebecca Whitney Tull, born 9 May 1834 (Coventry Parish Records), married
by Worcester County licence of 27 June 1853, William D. Cropper (Wor. Mar. Rec. 1795-
1865, p. 185). In 1860, William D. Cropper was head of Accomack County household
991/989. He was 29 years of age, his wife Rebecca was 26, and they had a five-year-
old daughter, Alice B. Cropper. Rebecca's widowed sister, Sally Holland, aged 25
years, was living with the family, as was her daughter, Clara W. Holland, aged 5
years. In 1880, William Cropper, a 46-year-old grocer at Horntown, was head of
household 430. He and wife Rebecca still had only one daughter, Alice, aged 25, who
had married William S. Holland on 25 November 1874 (Acco. Mar. Reg. #3, p. 41), by
whom she had two children: Sally Warfield, born 1876, and Kensey, a daughter born in
1879. The Holland family was living with her parents in 1880, and Clara Holland,
aged 17, was a boarder in the household. William S. Holland and his wife, Alice B.
(Cropper) Holland were Mr. Foster Fletcher's grandparents.
2. Sarah Elizabeth Ellen Tull, born 29 December 1835, died 12 February 1895 29 (tombstone at Downings Methodist Church Cemetery, Oak Hall, Virginia), married (1)
by Worcester County licence of 14 July 1853, William J. Holland (Igor. Mar. Rec. 1795-
1865, p. 185), (2) 13 March 1867, John Skinner Davis (Acco. Mar. Reg. #3, p. 20).
Sarah E.E. Tull had a daughter by her first marriage, Clara E.W. Holland (1855-1933),
who married 22 December 1875, John L. Anderton (p. 45). There were four children by
the second marriage: John W. Davis (1870-1890), Beulah Davis (born and died 1871),
Hugh Cropper Davis (187)4-1958), and Edgar Douglas Davis (1877-1959).
Sarah E.E. (Tull) (Holland) Davis and her second husband (1828-191)4) were
originally buried at Wattsville with their eldest son. In recent years, all three
tombstones have been moved to Downings. Her stone spells her first name as "Saroughn.
3. Daniel James Tull, born 14 November 1837 (Parish of Somerset Records, P. 18),
died intestate by 29 September 1856, when Frederick A. Tull was appointed his admin-
istrator (Acco. Orders 1854-1857, p. 50)4).
4. Maria Louisa Villars Tull, born 12 December 1839, baptized on 17 July 1841
(Parish of Somerset Records, p.20), died 2 May 1924 (Massey Bible), married on 22
September 1857, John Massey (1835-1867), son of John Massey and his wife, Martha
(Waters) Massey (Acco. Mar. Reg. #3, p. 6). She and her husband are buried in the
Brittingham Cemetery at the Md./Va. line. The Massey family Bible shows five child-
ren of this marriage: Leolen Waters Massey, born 5 December 1858; Martha Linda Walton
Massey, born 17 September 1860; John William Massey, born 20 September 1862; James
Massey, born 2 March 1865; and Carrie Cropper Massey, born 10 November 1867. Son
James Massey lived only a few hours and son John Walliam Massey died on 20 September
1868. Leolen W. Massey, the one-time owner of the Massey Bible, is buried in Nelsons
Cemetery at the Md./Va. line. He died in 1955 at 96 years of age (Obituary in Feb.
10, 1955 issue Peninsula Enterprise). He lived at Newport News and was survived by
a wife, a daughter, and a son, Charles Massey. Martha L.W. Massey, 18, married
Edward H. Shivers, at Horntown on 11 December 1878 (Acco. Mar. Reg. #3, p. 56). The
Massey Bible states Linda Walton Massey Shivers died on 30 July 1941, aged 80 years. 30 Carrie Cropper Massey (Cousin Carrie) married 21 October 1891, Littleton James Corbin
(1851-1900). He and wife, Carrie Hassey Corbin, are buried in the Brittingham Ceme- tery. She died in 1958. Buried with them is a son, John L. Corbin, born 6 November
1895, died 13 Septamber 1905. Myrtle B. (Tull) Carey remembered that he drowned in
Pitts Creek while visiting her parents at the Tull Farm. She was 15 years old at the time.
5. John William Julius Augustus Tull, born 10 March 1842, in Somerset County,
Maryland, the youngest living child of William Hassey Tull and his wife, Elizabeth
Susan (Whitney) Tull. He was only three years old when his father died in 1845. He grew up near Bulibegger on Accomack County land he and his two next older sisters inherited from their uncle Samuel Issac Tull in 1847. His uncle, John W. Tull, was appointed his guardian on 25 Yovember 1850 (Acco. Orders 1848-1851, p. 421). After the death of John W. Tull in 1851, another uncle, Frederick A. Tull, became guardian.
The 1850 census shows him, a lad in his mother's Accomack County household.
John W.J.1. Tull, 24, married Elizabeth W. Gillette, 22, on 16 January 1867 (Igor.
Rec. of Mar. #1, 1866-1886). By 1880, John Tull, a 38-year-old farmer, and wife
Elizabeth, had five sons in their household, aged six months to thirteen, and a seven year old daughter. From the names of his neighbors, it is apparent he was farming in the Horntown area. The 1900 census shows John W. Tull as 57 years of age, a farmer, with wife Elizabeth, aged 55. This census reports she had had eight children, six of whom were living. Only daughter Sallie, 24, and son Stanley, aged 11, were still in the household.
On 5 September 1912, John W.J.A. Tull bought a home in New Church from Edward
W. and Jennie W. Hutchinson, for $2300 (Deeds 100, p. 82). He and his wife Lizzie lived here in retirement until her death on 4 November 1918. Her tombstone in
Nelsons Cemetery gives her birth as 28 March 1844. Her husband died on 26 December
1933, aged 91 years, and was placed beside his wife.
The known children of John William Julius Augustus Tull and wife Elizabeth W.
33. (Gillette) Tull were: John Clarence Tull (1867-1938), who lived in Baltimore, Nary- land; James Ernest Tull (1869-1961) of Los Angeles, California; Sarah Elizabeth Tull
(1872-1874); Sarah Elizabeth Tull (1874-1975), who married Lloyd Brittingham of New
Church, as his third wife in 1905, and became the mother of Claude Brittingham (1906-
1981), John Brittingham (1912-1985), and Sarah Brittingham (1917- ); Claude
Augustus Tu1l(1876-1947), of Washington, D.C. and New Church; Milton Gillette Tull
(1882- ), of Greenville, Texas; and Marion Stanley Tull (1888-1957) of Los Angeles.
6. Martha Washington Tull, born 28 November 1844, died 28 August 1848 (Whitney
Bible).
32 Samuel Isaac Tull Son of James Tull
Samuel Isaac Tull, born circa 1811, was the second son of James Tull and his wife, Sally (Massey) Tull. He was born in Worcester County, Maryland, and moved with his parents to Accomack County, Virginia, circa 1820. His name appears in
Accomack County records as both Samuel I. Tull and as Isaac Tull. He was likely called Isaac to distinguish him from an uncle Samuel Tull. As Samuel I. Tull, he signed a receipt to Captain John Massey on 5 March 1841 for his share of his father's and his sister Eleanor Tull's estates (Acco. Deeds 1844-1846, pp. 623, 625).
Isaac Tull bought 168 acres in Accomack County on 25 September 1841, from John
Sturgis and wife Charlot, for $200 (Acco. Deeds 1841-1842, p. 449). The deed states the land was formerly owned by Caleb Duncan and was bordered on the west by Dr.
Fletcher's heirs. Ralph T. Whitlaw, in Virginia's Eastern Shore (p. 1293), locates this land near Bullbegger. On 15 December 1845, Isaac Tull bought an additional 10 acres, for 480, from William S. Byrd, trustee for Noah and Abigail Smith (Acco. Deeds
18)4-1846, p. 566). A survey of 1824 places this purchase between Bullbegger and
Jollys Neck (Acco. Sur. Rec. #5, p.151).
Isaac Tull married, on 3 August 1843, Mrs. Sally Marshall, widow of William
Marshall (Acco. Mar. Reg. #1„ p. 69). He inherited a desk from his mother in 1845.
On 22 June 1846, he was one of Frederick A. Tull's brothers, who signed the deed, when the latter sold their father's land in Worcester County, to Elijah C. School- field (dor. Deeds GM #9, p. 167).
Isaac Tull wrote his will on 30 April 1847 and it was probated a month later, on 31 May 1847 (Acco. Wills 1846-1882, p. 18). It appears certain that his wife had died and that he had no children, for he directed that after his debts were paid the entire balance of his estate be equally divided between Mariah Louisa Tull, John W.
J.A. Tull and Martha W. Tull. These were neices and a nephew, the three youngest children of his deceased brother, William Massey Tull.
33 The sale of Isaac Tull's personal property on 7 December 18).47 indicates he was a farmer (Acco. Inv. 18)49-185l, p. 120). Among the purchasers were brothers, John mil, Outten Tull and Frederic Tull. On 1)4 December 1850, a balance of $68)4.142 was in the estate after debts had been paid. James Fletcher, "one of the executors of
Isaac Tull, deceased", gave this amount to John W. Tull, guardian of Louisa V.
Tull and of John W.J.A. Tull and administrator of Martha W. Tull, deceased (Acco.
Deeds 18)49-1850., p. 510).
A deed for the sale of Isaac Tull's land to Joseph M. Fedderman, by special commissioners Frederick A. Tull, William D. Cropper, and William S. Byrd, was dated 1 December 1867 (Acco. Deeds 1867-1869, p. 262). The deed explains that the land had been sold on 2)4 October 1859, to Thorogood Dix for $2720, but he had died before the title was passed, that it was then bought by John W. Pitts, who had sold to Fedderman. The three children's mother, Elizabeth S. Tull had sold her rights in the land, that came to her through the death of her daughter, Martha W. Tull, to her son-in-law, William D. Cropper, on 5 May 1857, for $300 (Acco. Deeds 1858-1860, p. 437).
3)4 John W. Tull Son of James Tull
John W. Tull was born on 8 August 1814 (tombstone in Brittinghams Cemetery), the third son of James Tull and Sally (Nbssey) Tull. He, too, was likely born in
Worcester County, Maryland, before the family moved to Accomak County by 1820, even though the 1850 census shows he was born in Virginia. He was not named in his father's will of 1837, but his mother made him the executor of her estate, in her will written 25 February 1845.
On 28 June 1843, John W. Tull bought 300 acres, called Antrim, from Francis D.
Miller and James W. Custis, trustees, for $2600 (Acco, Deeds 33, p. 236). The deed states the land was "where Oliver Logan resided" (see Whitelaw, p. 1350 for location).
This is the present home farms of H. Robert Tull and William C. Carey, Jr., east of
New Church on the Horntown road, which together became known as the Logan Farm. On
18 September 1847, John W. Tull sold to Solomon Marshall, 300 acres known as Antrim for 43100, "where John W. Tull resides" (Acco. Deeds 35, p. 563). Solomon Marshall left this 300 acres to his daughter, Sally E. Slocomb (Acco. Wills 18)46-1882, p. 639).
Her son, Samuel B. Slocomb,and his wife Mary A., sold "about" 98 acres of the Logan
Farm, the part on the north side of route 709, to John W. Kelley on 7 April 1899 for
950 (Acco. Deeds 7)4, p. 241). John W. Kelley left the Logan Farm, minus 18 acres
(actually 33 acres by survey), to his son, John C. Kelley in 1907 (Acco. Wills 190)4-
1920, p. 124). William C. Carey, Sr., and Myrtle B. Carey bought 133 acres, on 29
January 1938, from James E. Johnson, trustee for Mabel P. Kelley and John C. Kelley, her husband (Acco. Deeds 153, p. 519). The land was at the time still called the
Logan Farm, as was Robert Tull's farm across the road. Cousin Carrie's letter states that John W. Tull and his sister, Elizabeth Tull, lived in a large house
"opposite" that of Howard Tull (Robert's father). This would have been before either of them married, he in 1848, and Eli%abeth circa 1846. Their mother could have been
35 living here with them when she died in 1845. It is likely the deed to Solomon
Marshall in 1847 was a mortgage, which was never paid, and John W. Tull continued to live here until his death in 1851.
It is wondered if the large house "opposite" Howard Tull's house was the old house that Robert Tull tore down several years ago. However, when John W. Kelley left the land on the other side of the road to his son in 1907, he spoke of John C.
Kelley living there (he resided in the present farm house, which could not have been built before 1899, when Kelley bought the land) and of there being two tenant houses. The present owner only remembers one tenant house, a small one near the woodsand road on the western side of the farm. It burned circa 1950. The other tenant house could have been where Oliver Logan lived before 1843. Oyster shells and pieces of brick, on a rise in the ground back in the field„, behind the tenant house that burned, could indicate a house stood there at one time.
Wherever John W. Tull's home stood on the Logan Farm, it could have been built circa 1844 by his uncle, Samuel Tull, a carpenter. John W. Tull owed Samuel Tull
4100 on a note dated 16 July 1845 (Acco. Inv. 1850-1853, p. 202).
John W. Tull married, by bond of 31 January 1848, Hester (Esther) A. Marshall
(ELB 1747-1850, p. 15). The marriage bond states she was the daughter of Solomon
Marshall, but this is incorrect. Solomon Marshall was appointed her guardian on 28
October 1839, after the death of her father (Acco. Orders 1836-1840, p. 607). Her father was Solomon's brother, William S. Marshall, who had married Margaret Knox by bond of 26 August 1822 (MLB 1806-1832, P. 92). William S. Marshall, had died intes- take by 30 October 1837, when Solomon Marshall was appointed his administrator (Acco.
Orders 1836-1840, p. 244). His widow, Margaret Marshall, died intestate before 31
March 1840, when Solomon Marshall was again named to settle the estate (Acco. Orders
1840-1842, p. 7).
Cousin Carrie's letter relates that Esther A. Marshall was raised by her uncle
Solomon Marshall on his farm that joined the Logan Farm on the east. She, born 23
36 April 1831 (tombstone reading), would have been six years old when her father died and only nine when she lost her mother. She was three months under seventeen when she married John W. Tull, who was then thirty-three.
The 1850 Federal Census for Accomack County shows John W. Tull, a 35-year-old farmer, head of household 3?8. His wife, Esther A. Tull, was 19 and they had a one year old son, George W. Tull. His wife's cousin, Elisa (Johnson) Matthews, a widow, and her son, Samuel Matthews, were also in the household.
John W. Tull died intestate on 20 February 1851 (tombstone). On 31 March 1851,
Solomom Marshall qualified to administer his estate (Acco. Orders 1848-1851, p. 466).
On 28 July 1851, John Brittingham was appointed guardian to George W. Tull and John
W. Tull, orphans of John W. Tull (Orders 1851-1854, p. 58). On 5 June 1852, John
Brittingham was issued a marriage bond to marry Esther Tull, widow of John W. Tull
(MLB 1850-1854, p. 2).
John Brittingham had married (1) by bond of 18 August 1848, Mary S. Marshall, daughter of Solomon Marshall (MLB 1847-1850, p. 2). Her tombstone (Brittingham
Cemetery) records her birth on 28 October 1830 and death on 7 July 1849. She and
John Brittingham had a daughter, Mary Joannh Brittingham, born 17 June 1849, died
7 August 1849 (Brittingham Bible). Easter A. (Marshall) (Tull) Brittingham died on 11 September 1915 and was buried beside her first husband, both graves being at the foot of John Brittingham (1823-1898), who was placed between his mother and his first wife.
John Brittingham and John W. Tull were first cousins. The former's mother was
Henrietta (Massey) Brittingham, sister to Sally (Massey) Tull, both daughters of
William Massey. They had a brother, John Massey, who married Patty (Martha) Waters, by bond of 29 January 1833 (MLB 1832-1841, p. 21), and another sister, Elizabeth
Massey, who married Jesse Wilkerson (Brittingham Bible). For an article on John
Brittingham and his picture, see The Eastern Shore News, January 28 1989 issue, by
Kirk Mariner. John Brittingham had a sister Elizabeth, who married Samuel C. Jones 37 in 1848 (MLB 1847-1850, p. 1). Their daughter, Kitty Jones married Will Covington, who was 4rtle B. (Tull) Carey's uncle. Her walnut kitchen table had belonged to
Elizabeth (Brittingham) Jones, who was her grandfather's first cousin.
The children of John W. Tull and wife, Esther A. (Marshall) Tull were:
1. George W. Tull, born 1849, died 28 August 1931, at 82 years of age (obit- uary in September 5, 1931 issue of Peninsula Enterprise). The 1860 census shows
George W. Tull, a twelve-year-old, in the household of John Brittingham. He had half-brothers, Lloyd Brittingham, aged 6 years, and Hiram Brittingham, aged 4 years.
A half-sister, Henrietta Brittingham, was born 12 January 1862 and died 17 October
1863 (Brittingham Bible). Another half-sister, Ellen James Brittingham, was born on
28 November 1868 (Graven Stones, p. 187). She married L. Floyd Nock, an Accomgck
County attorney, on 11 January 1888 (Mar. Reg. #3, p. 95). As has been stated, Geo- rge W. Tull was deeded, on 5 November 1853, the 300 acres his father had bought before his death in 1851, the land that he sold his step-father in 1879, and that became the present-day Selby Farm which Herbert Paradee owns.
His obituary states that George W. Tull was born near New Church and as a young man clerked in -a store at Jenkins Bridge, before going to Philadelphia to engage in the commission business. He moved to New York, in the same business, and from there to Hudson, Massachusetts, where he retired about five years before he died. He was buried in Pocomoke City, beside his first wife in the Bethany M.P. Church Cemetery.
He was survived by his second wife, Lucy M. Tull and five children: Mrs. Ralph Field- send, Charles Tull, Lloyd Tull, Harold Tull, and John Edwin Tull.
George W. Tull had married (1) 16 September 1871, Sally E. Hall (Som. Mar. Rec.
1796-1871, p. 146). She was born 29 December 1852 and died 1 April 1898 (tombstone readings). Sons Charles S. Tull (1875-1938) and John Edwin Tull (1877-1954) are
buried with their parents.
2. John W. Tull, Jr., born 1850, was deceased by 27 December 1852, when John
Brittingham was named to administer his estate (Acco. Orders 1851-1854, p.331). John
38 Brittingham turned in the inventory of John W. Tull, Jr., on 29 January 1853 (Inv.
1850-1853, p. 613). It included $17.85 from his father's estate and one third of nine slaves.
39 Elizabeth Tull Daughter of James Tull
Solomon Marshall is buried on the farm south-east of our home farm. His tomb- stone states he was born 15 November 1794 and died 11 January 1881 (86 years). Two wives are buried there with him and their stones say: Sallie, first consort of
Solomon Marshall, died 9 August 1845, at 53 years 9 months; Elizabeth, second con- sort of Solomon Marshall, died 3 May 1852, about 36 years.
Solomon Marshall married (1) Sally Gladding, daughter of John Cladding, by bond of 27 December 1821 (MLB 1806-1832, p. 91). A second marriage for Solomon
Marshall has not been found in the official marriage records of Accomack County,
Worcester County, or Somerset County. Since Accomack County marriage bonds of
1841 to 1847 are missing, it is likely the last name of Solomon Marshall 's second consort, whom he married circa 1846, will never be found among the records. Cousin
Carrie said he married (2) Elizabeth Tull, daughter of James and Sally (Massey) Tull and sister to Frederick A. Tull, John W. Tull, and others. Carrie Massey Corbin was a descendent of William Massey Tull, brother of Elizabeth Tull. She was 87 years of age in 1954, when she wrote the letter making this statement and it seems very likely her information is correct. Another reason to consider it accurate is that Myrtle B.
(Tull) Carey said she and her brothers and sisters always called Emma Selby "Cousin
EH'. On being asked why, she did not know. However, if Solomon Marshall's second wife was Elizabeth Tull, sister to Frederick A. Tull, then Mrs. Carey's father would have been first cousin to Emma Selby and Ocie Watson, two daughters Solomon Marshall named in his will (Acco. Wills 1846-1882, p. 639). Myrtle Carey also always called
"Miss Lu" Hurley (daughter of Ocie Marshall Watson) "Cousin Lull.
Elizabeth Tull was in her mother's household in the 1840 census, aged 20 to 30 years. Solomon Marshall, in household 308, was a 55-year-old farmer in 1850. His wife Elizabeth was 33.
Emma Marshall and Ocie Marshall, daughters of Solomon Marshall by his second
hp marriage to Elizabeth Tull, were twins, both born on 20 June 1851, according to
their tombstones. Emma F. Marshall, 19, married John O. Selby on 22 March 1871
(Acco. Mar. Reg. #3, p. 31), and moved with him to Oak Hall into what became the W.
Ira Hancock home. John O. Selby built and operated the store on the corner near his home, the building our father (Samuel L. Trader) bought from his widow in 1919 (Acco.
Deeds 116, p. 123). Neither of these buildings in Oak Hall are now standing.
John O. Selby died testate in 1889 (Acco. Wills 1882-1901, p. 152). He was a large land owner. His wife had inherited the Solomon Marshall farm. Selby left this to his daughter Ina E. Selby (married John S. Parsons). He left daughter Onie
Frances Selby (1875-1926, unmarried) the "Tull Land purchased of John Brittinghamn and other property. He also left real estate to daughters Lela E. Selby (married
J. P. Widgeon) and Emma Mabel Selby (married John D. Grant, Jr.).
Ocie F. Marshall, 17, married Joseph H. Watson, 25, tailor, on 31 March 1869
(dor. Rec. of Mar. 1866-1886). They had a daughter, Lula M. Watson, who, at 21
years of age, married William A. Hurley, 26, son of Charles A. Hurley and Harriet
(Cropper)Hurley (she was sister to William D. Cropper, who married Rebecca Whitney
Tull, daughter of William Massey Tull). Their son, Joseph A. Hurley, married Beulah
Tull, one of Frederick A. Tull's grandchildren and sister to Myrtle B. (Tull) Carey.
Solomon Marshall, widower, married for the third time, on 16 June 1856, Ann
Marshall, widow of Thomas Marshall (MLB 1853-1858, p. 4). She was apparently buried with her first husband and family, on the Vernon Justice farm at Horntown. A stone
there reads: Margaret Ann Marshall (1819-1858). Another states: Mary Ann
Marshall, daughter of Thomas and Ann Marshall, born 1843, died 1844.
141 James Outten Tull Son of James Tull
James Outten Tull, the fourth son of James Tull and his wife, Sally (Massey)
Tull, was born on 14 September 1819 (tombstone at Brittinghams Cemetery). The 1850 census shows he was born in Virginia, after his family moved to Accomack County from Worcester County, Maryland.
Outten Tull married, in Virginia, on 22 December 1842, Miss Harriet Cladding
(Mar. Reg. #1, p. 66)), by a Worcester County licence issued on 20 December 1842
(Wor. Mar. Rec. 1795-1865, p. 150). John Cladding had married Sally Brittingham by
P Maryland licence of 29 March 1819 (Wor. Mar. Rec. 1795-1865, p. 71). Harriet
Cladding was their daughter. This is shown by an Accomack County deed of 25 Sept- ember 1844, in which Mrs. Sally Cladding, administrator of John Cladding, gave
$155.88 to Outten Tull, "the payment in full of his wife Harriet James Cladding's share of her father's estate", plus $38.28, "her share of her brother John B.
Gladding'S part of snid estate" (Deeds 1844-1846, p. 308).
On 28 June 1843, Outten Tull and wife Harriet James Tull each purchased, from
Oliver Logan's trustees, a half part of 250 acres of land, which included a water grist mill, for $1113 (Deeds 1843-1844, p. 285). The land was bound on the north by James M. Melvin land and the Md.-Va. line, south by Thomas Fletcher, Senr and
Thomas Waters, west by Thomas Waters and others, and on the east by James W. Melvin.
This farm was located across the road and directly in front of the present William
A. Davis, Jr., home farm at the Maryland line. An old house with brick ends stood in the middle of the field until some years ago (See Whitelaw, pp. 1398, 1309).
The 1850 census for Accomack County shows Outten Tull, a 30-year-old farmer, as head of household 333. He and his wife had a son, Littleton J. Tull, of six years, and a second son, Henry C. Tull, aged 3 years. Sally Cladding, aged 56, was living with the family.
Outten Tull died6testate on 14 December 1854 (tombstone reading). On 25 Decem- 42 ber 1854, his administrators, John Brittingham and brother Frederick A. Tuilf were named (Acco. Orders 1854-1857, p. 155). The appraisal of his personal estate was made on 3 January 1855 and the item were sold the next day (Inv. 1853-1856, p.
The list covers most of six pages and included farm equipment, household furnishings, livestock and food supplies. his widow bought many of the items. Frederick A. Tull bought a "Lot of Books" for 20O and several other articles. Outten Tull's assets included "$300 in the house at time of death", a number of notes, and two slaves,
William and Parker, valued at $700 each.
Harriet J. Tull was appointed guardian to Littleton J. Tull, Henry Clay Tull,
Dewit Clinton Tull, and John O. Tull, "orphans of Outten Tull, deceased" on 31 March
1856 (Orders 1854-1857, P. 374). She continued to farm the land and raise her four sons, all of whom were under eleven years of age when their father died. The 1860 census shows Harriet Tull as head of household 7/8, aged 33 years, engaged in farming. Her four sons, the eldest sixteen, were living with her, as was Mary E.
Wilkerson, aged 13.
Harriet J. Tull, born 16 May 1826, died on 28 February 1879 ( tombstone reading).
She wrote her will on 21 February 1879 and it was probated on the 31st of March of the same year (Acco. Wills 1846-1882, p. 607). By this time, she had lost her two younger sons. Her second son, Henry Clay Tull, had married and fathered children, while the eldest son, Littleton J. Tull, was still unmarried. She left her half of the home farm "with mill attached" to Littleton J. Tull for his lifetime and to his heirs if he should have children, it not, it was to go to son Henry C. Tull. She left granddaughter Edith B. Tull her sewing machine and "onechoice,Bed quilt and one counter pane". Grandson Harry C. Tull inherited "my silver spoons and one choice Bed quilt and one counter pane". The balance of her estate was to be divided between her two sons after paying burial expences and debts.
The children of James Outten Tull and his wife, Harriet James (Gladding) Tull
were:
43 1. Littleton James Tull, born 15 December 1843, died 6 April 1909 (tombstone
Brittingham Cemetery), married 23 January 1884, Amantha E. Hall (Outten Tull Bible).
She was the daughter of Thomas Hall and his wife, Sallie E. Hall (Deeds 1890-1891, p. )452). Littleton J. Tull had bought 116 acres of land that adjoined his mother's from Marandy W. Taylor, of Philadelphia, on 7 July 1877, for $200 (Deeds 51, p. 166).
On 26 February 1896, he paid his brother, Henry C. Tull, of Somerset County, Mary- land, $700 for his one fourth interest in the entire 250 acres their parents had owned (Deeds 69, p. )408). On 19 September 1904, brother, Henry C. Tull, joined by his wife and their two children, with spouses, all of Somerset County, gave Little-
ton Tull a quitclaim for the same land (Deeds 82, p. 3)40).
The 1900 census shows Littleton Tull, a 56-year-old farmer, in household 258/
366. His wife, Mantha, aged 49, was the mother of only one child, Clinton J. Tull, who was 15 years of age.
On 1 January 1907, Amantha Tull, wife of Littleton Tull, bought two adjoining lots in New Church, near the railroad track, from L. Floyd Nock and wife and Esther
A. Brittingham (Deeds 87, p. 303). She paid $2500 for the lots, one of which was wood land, and the other had a hotel on it. The obituary of Littleton J. Tull
(Peninsula Enterprise, Ipril 10, 1909 issue) states he was a worthy and highly re- spected citizen of New Church and the proprietor of Hotel Tull. Mantha Tull, wife of Littleton J. Tull, born on 20 October 1851, died 18 November 1925, at 74 years and 28 days (Outten Tull Bible). She had sold her hotel to Lula M. Hurley for
$2500 on 23 September 1914 (Deeds 105, p. 37).
Clinton James Tull, the only child of Littleton J. Tull and his wife, Amantha
E. (Hall) Tull, was born on 26 February 1885 (family Bible). He married (1) 16 Aug-
ust 1918, Caroline V. White, sister to Harry E. White, merchant, of Makemie Park, and
they were divorced the following year (family Bible). Local folk relate that there
was a daughter of this marriage, Ann Tull, who married Rev. Wilmer's son. Clinton
J. Tull married (2), Lida E. Taylor, on 7 October 1920 (1,Tor. Mar. Rec #5, p. 318).
44 She was the daughter of Thorogood N. Taylor and his wife, Sally M. (Acco. Mar. Reg.
#3, giving parents names when a brother married). Clinton J. Tull was a bookkeeper for Archie S. Burton for many years. He lost his wife on 15 February 1966 and he died on 10 September 1970. They are buried in Grotons Cemetery, near Hallwood,
Virginia. They had one son, Clinton James Tull, Jr., born 5 February 1923, who lives in Newport News, Virginia.
2. Henry Clay Tull, born 2 May 1847 (family Bible), died in 1932 (tombstone at
Brittinghams Cemetery), married 6 December 1871, Margaret E. Ross (1853-1940). The marriage licence gives his occupation as a merchant (Som. Mar. Aec. 1866-1886, p.
207). On 29 May 1871, Henry C. Tull, merchant at New Church, was granted a licence to sell ardent spirits (Acco. Orders 1870-1873, p. 180). Henry Clay Tull apparently moved his family to Somerset County, Maryland circa 1875, for they are not shown in the 1880 census of Accomack County, or later. It is also apparent, from the sign- atures on the quitclaim he gave his brother in 1904, that he had only the two child- ren his mother named in her will. Son Harry C. Tull's wife was W. Hermaine Tull and daughter Edith B. Tull had married Robert L. Parks by 1904.
3. De Witt Clinton Tull was born 3 July 1851 and died 1 August 1872, unmarried
(family Bible). His tombstone stands in the Brittingham Cemetery.
4. John Outten Tull was born 20 August 1854 and died 22 October 1874, unmarried
(family Bible). His tombstone is also in the Brittingham Cemetery.
45 Frederick A. Tull Son of James Tull
Frederick A. Tull was born on 19 February 1828, according to his tombstone in
Brittinghams Cemetery at the Maryland line. He was the youngest son of James Tull and his wife, Sally (Massey) Tull. The 1850 census shows he was born in Virginia, after the family moved to Accomack County circa 1820, and he was likely born on what is known today as Herbert Paradee's Selby Farm.
Frederick Tull was left land in Worcester County, Maryland, by his father, when he died testate in 1837 (Acco. Wills 1828-1846, p. 228). His mother left him a slave named Hannah, in her will of 1845 (Pm:). Wills 1828-18)6, p. 546). He was only nine years of age when his father died and seventeen when he lost his mother.
His uncle, John Massey, was appointed his guardian on 26 October 1840 (Acco. Orders
1840-1842, p. 136). His brother, John W. Tull, replaced John Massey as guardian on
27 January 1845 (Acco. Orders 1842-1845, p. 560).
On 22 June 1846, Frederic Tull, "not yet of age (18)", sold to Elijah C. School- field of Worcester County, for $2000, 113 acres of land there, part of tracts called
Schoolfields Pleasure, Timber Tract, Slim Chance and Pittsburg Corrected, that "had been bought by John full, shipwright, who deeded to James Tull of John". Since
Frederic Tull was underage "and cannot convey land", his brothers and sister who were still living at the time, John W. Tull, Isaac Tull, Outten Tull, and Elizabeth
Tull, all of Accomack County, Virginia, bound themselves that "Frederic Tull will convey the land to Schoolfield when he reaches legal age9 (dor. Deeds GMH #9, p. 167).
On 3 April 1849, Frederick Tull, of Somerset County, Maryland, deeded to Elijah C.
Schoolfield, for $7001 the same land (dor. Deeds END, #2, p. 547). He was then 21 years of age.
Frederick A. Tull married Isabella F. King by Somerset County marriage licence of 26 February 1850 (Som. Mar. Rec. 1796-1871, p. 144). He would have been about a
week over 22 years of age and his bride just over 17 years old. Isabella F. King, 46 born 30 January 1833, died 5 June 1883 (tombstone dates), was the daughter of Planner
King (Acco. Reg. of Deaths, 1853-1896, year 1883, line 169). Planner King was born on 4 June 1796, the son of Levin King and wife Peggy (Parish of Somerset Records, p.
9), and married (1) by licence of 13 March 1832, Sally Ann Fontaine, (2) by licence of 16 May 1837, Catherine Dix (Som. Mar. Rec. 1796-1871, P. 83 for both). Planner
H. King died testate by 24 January 1843 (Som. Wills 1837-1859, p. 79), leaving his wife Catherine her thirds, naming a son William Wellington King (underage) and "all my children".
The 1850 Federal Census for Somerset County, Maryland, shows Frederick A. Tull,
22, born in Virginia, a merchant, as head of Brinkley District household #1. His wife, Isabella F. Tull, was 17 and William T. Massey, aged 15 and born in Virginia, was living with them. The latter would have been a cousin, the son of John Massey, brother to Frederick A. Tull's mother. John Massey had died testate in Accomack
County by 1847 (Acco. Wills 1846-1882, p. 15). The Frederick A. Tull family was apparently living on King land in 1850, located in the Fairmount area of Somerset
County, not far from Tulls Creek (Holland Creek), for on 18 September 1860, Frederick
A. Tull and wife Isabella joined William W. King in selling an 125-acre tract called
Exchange, that had belonged to Planner King, to George W. Tull and Elijah F. Tull for 31800 (Som. Deeds LW #6, p. 631).
It is not known exactly when Frederick A. Tull moved back into Accomack County, but the records indicate it was by January 1853. The 1870 census shows his oldest daughter was born in Maryland in 1852 and a second daughter born in Virginia in 1854, while the account of the sales of the personal property of Levin H. Hargis, a tanner_ of Accomack County, on 13 January 1853, shows Frederick A Tull bought "one side of
unbleached leather" for 85O (Acco. Inv. 1850-1853, p. 613). It is believed he lived on the Selby Farm, which was then owned by his nephew.
Records of Downings Methodist Episcopal Church at Oak Hall, Virginia, dated
1857 to 1899, show that Frederick A. and Isabella F. Tull had a son baptized there
47 in August of 1857. They were members of Frederic Conner's Sunday School class that
met at noon on Sundays.
On 24 August 1857, Frederick A. Tull, of Accomack County, purchased from Col-
more G. Taylor and wife Elizabeth, for $2500, the farm that has become known as the
Tull Farm at Niona, Virginia (Acco. Deeds 1855-1858, p. 525). The deed gives the
acreage as containing by estimation 175 acres (marsh land was not included in deeds
of this period). The land was bound on the north by a creek called Bayne's Creek
(Pitts Creek) and the lands of James P. Miles, on the east by Alfred Gladding, Thomas
W. Hargis and others, and on the south and west by the lands of Thomas W. Hargis.
Possession of the land was to begin on 1 January 1858. This date is confirmed by
the family remembering that Charles U. Tull, son of Frederick A. and born in 1856,
said he moved there when he was two years of age (see Whitelaw, p. 1297, for location).
The Tull Farm was originally part of a 3000-acre patent of land in Pitts Neck
by Robert Pitt II on 2 October 1663 (Nugent, Vol. I, p. 456). Three generations
later, orip May 1791, this part of the grant had become owned by Anne (Pitt) Foreman
(Acco. Deeds 7, p. 481). When Frederick A. Tull bought it in 1857, the deed stated
that all appurtenances were included in the selling price, so there must have been
buildings on the land. Possibly, some of the buildings dated back to the time of the
Anne (Pitt) Foreman ownership. Her tombstone, with that of her husband, Robert
Foreman (17L10-1790), stand in a burial plot near the front yard. She died in 1801.
Frederick A. Tull would have made improvements in any old buildings and likely
built the front part of the present house after moving his family there. The present
owner, William C. Carey, Jr., while burning the dilapidated remains of a back section
of the house, that had been moved off when the present back section was built in 1897,
found a brick inscribed: F.A. Tull, 1860.
The 1860 census shows Frederick A. Tull engaged in farming. Other records show
he was active in Accomack County affairs. A record of 26 May 1856 states he had been
elected by the voters of the 6th District as Overseer of the Poor, his term ending
48 on 1 July 1860 (Orders 1854-1857, p. 421). On 7 April 1857, he was paid $2.50 for serving as a juror (p. 588). On 10 September 1857, it was authorized that he be paid $42.00 for repairing Parkers Bridge (Orders 1857-1860, p. 68). A record of 27
August 1866 shows he had been elected Constable for the 6th District for a two-year tern (Orders 1866-1867, p. 264). While on 30 April 1867, Spencer D. Fletcher,
"Sheriff of this County" appointed him his Deputy, and "the county being of the opin- ion that Frederick A. Tull is a man of honesty, probity and good demeanor" confirmed
the appointment (p. 531).
On 23 August 1865, Frederick A. Tull freed a slave named Harrison Tull, explain- ing that Harrison had enlisted in the service of the United States by joining the
9th Regiment of Colored Troops (Deeds 44, p. 111). Harrison Tull, aged 30 and black, is shown by the 1870 census as living, with his family, only five households from
Frederick A. Tull.
Frederick A. Tull died intestate on 17 September 1880 of consumption (Reg. of
Deaths 1853-1896). John Brittingham, his administrator, presented to the Accomack
County Court a record of the estate in November of 1880 (Accounts of Fiduciaries
1880-1883, p. 293). The coffin had cost $25.00. An auctioneer was paid $2.00 for selling personal property on 11 November 1880. The inventory of the personal pro- perty was made on the 10th November (Inventories 1879-1882, p. 290), and at the sale the next day, the widow bought a number of items, including a bureau, a looking glass, a silver watch, two tin safes, an old carpet, and a table cover. Son Charles
U. Tull bought a wood saw, "one Market wagon", a wash stand, a table, and a bed quilt.
Daughter Annie Tull bought a table. Total sales brought $89.70.
Isabella F. Tull, widow of Frederick A. Tull, lived almost three yesrs after her husband's death, dying on 5 June 1883, also of consumption. She was placed beside her husband in Brittinghams Cemetery.
The children of Frederick A. Tull and his wife, Isabella F. (King) Tull, were:
1. Annie O. Tull, born in 1852 in Maryland, aged 29, in her parents household
49 in 1880, in Accomack County, married circa 1882, Muscoe R. Corneal of Baltimore, Mary- land. On 14 June 1889, Annie O. Corneal and her husband, for $950, signed over to
Charles U. Tull, "the other child and heir of Frederick A. Tull, deceased", her claim to the estate of their father (Deeds 61, p. 311). According to the family,
Annie O. (Tull) Corneal had no children.
2. Frederick G. Tull, born 14 February 1854, died 20 June 1859 (tombstone in
Brittinghams Cemetery).
3. Ellen Tull, born 1854 in Accomck County (twin to Frederick G. Tull?), 16 years of age, in her parents household in the 1870 census and deceased by 1880.
4. Charles U. Tull, born 1856 in Accomack County. See next section.
50 Frederick A. Tull and wife, Isabella F. King Tull (1828-1880) (1833-1883)
Photograph taken 29 November 1990 by Duane O. Williams, Jr., of a framed, 18 inch by 24 inch picture, owned by Mrs. Myrtle Louise Tull Outten.
51 Charles Ulysses Tull
Charles U. Tull was born on 15 March 1856, the youngest child of Frederick A.
Tull and his wife, Isabella F. (King Tull. He was baptised in August of 1857 at
Downings Methodist Church, indicating the family was living near Oak Hall, Virginia.
He was apparently born on the Selby Farm, at that time owned by his cousin, George
W. Tull. He was two years of age when his parents moved to the Tull Farm at Miona,
where he grew up.
Mr. Charles U. Tull, 25, married MaDrVirginia Covington, 23, on 19 January 1882, at New Church, Virginia (Acco. Mar. Reg. #3, p. 70). The record states he was born in Accomack County and his bride in Wicomico County, Maryland. Mary Virginia Cov- ington, called Jennie, and born on 28 January 1858 (Covington Bible), was the dau-
ghter of Royston Covington and his first wife. Royston Covington, son of James and
Mary Covington, was born on 28 September 1816. He married (1) Nancy Wilson, on 15
December 1840, and (2) on 5 June 1860, Martha J. Hargis, daughter of Jacob and
Comfort Hargis. His first wife, a daughter of William and Nancy Wilson, was born on 17 March 1815 and died 3 September 1858. It is not known where she is buried, but it is thought to be near Hebron, Maryland, where the family was living at the
time. Royston Covington and his family is shown by the 1860 Federal Census to be living in Quantico District of Somerset County, Maryland, a part of Somerset County
that became Wicomico County in 1867. He had moved the family to Accomack County,
Virginia, by 1870, where the census of that year shows him a farmer. Royston Cov- ington died on 11 June 1880 and was buried in the Brittingham Cemetery.
Charles U. Tull took his wife to his home.farm on Pitts Creek, where they raised nine children. Over the years, their children have told of their life on the farm as they were growing up, a time when local farms were largely self-sufficient.
Farm animals and manuel labor supplied the energy for farming. Not having chemical fertilizers, a rotation system was used to conserve the land. Only
52 one third the cleared land was farmed in any one year. The remainder was allowed tllie out and replenish itself. The hardest farm labor was required in readying for cultivation the portion that had been unused for two years.
Most of the crops were raised either for food or to feed the farm animals.
Local mills ground corn into flour and meal. Other crops included potatoes, beans, anions, cucumbers, canalopes, tomatoes, cabbage, and turnip greens. Cows were an important source of both meat and milk. Hogs, sheep, chickens, geese, and turkeys also supplied the family with meat as did fish and muskrat from the creek. The only store-bought household supplies were sugar, molasses, salt, and kerosene for the lamps. These items were purchased from ASP Taylor's store at Bullbegger. The clothes the family wore were largely home made. Shoes and "Sunday best" necessitated a trip to Pocomoke or Baltimore.
Although the railroad was co4eted down the Eastern Shore in 1885, local creeks were still an important means of transportation. Steamboats from Baltimore made regular runs to Pitts Wharf until around 1928 and the creek itself was navigable to
Wagram. Excess farm crops and livestock were shipped by boat to Baltimore to com- mission merchants. Family members took the same steamers for an overnight ride to
Baltimore, to visit relatives and for shopping. When Charles U. Tull needed a new barn, trees were cut on the farm, formed into a raft in the creek, then floated down the creek to Pocomoke River, and up the river to Pocomoke. There they were cut into boards, which were returned by the same route.
As the family grew, additional house room was needed. In 1897, Charles U. Tull removed the small one-story back section of the home to an adjacent field and added a new back section, consisting of two bedrooms upstairs, with a new kitchen, pantry, dining room, and porches on the ground floor.
The children attended a one-room school at Miona during the winter months.
Jennie (Covongton)Tull died on 18 January 1917 and was buried in the Britting- ham Cemetery. When son Fred R. Tull returned from World War I and married in 1920,
53 Charles U. Tull turned his home and farm over to him and spent his later years in the homes of his children. He died intestate on 5 February 1941, at 85 years of age, in the home of daughter Myrtle B. (Tull) Carey and her husband, and was placed beside his wife in Brittingham Cemetery. In the settlement of his estate, the Tull
Farm was sold at public auction on 10 October 1942 (Deeds 167, p. 261). It was bought by daughter Myrtle B. Carey for 34,675.00. On 25 January 1943, half of the farm was deeded to her brother, Howard J. Tull (p. 263). William C. Carey, Jr., bought his uncle Howard's part in 1946 (Deeds 185, p. 181). He presently owns the entire farm, which his great-grandfather bought in 1857.
The children of Charles U. Tull and his wife, Mary Virginia (Covington) Tull, were:
1. Howard Judson Tull, born 30 October 1882, died 5 June 1955, married 28
December 1909, Roberta Davie Taylor (1876-1967). They lived near New Church and are buried in the Downings Methodist Church Cemetery at Oak Hall. They had one son,
Howard Robert Tull.
2. John King Tull, born 8 September 1884, died 22 September 1884.
3. Helen Frances Tull, born 23 July 1885, died 22 January 1983, married (1) 15
October 1916, Howard King, (2) 20 December 1959, Carey Jewell. She lived at Grason- ville, Maryland, and had two daughters, Virginia King and Beulah King.
L. Frederick Royston Tull, born 27 January 1887, died 20 October 1972, married
15 December 1920, Lillie Hall (1889-1984). They lived on the Tull Farm at Miona and are buried at Downings. They raised two children, Edward MCFord and daughter Myrtle
Louise Tull.
5. Josephine Elizabeth Tull, born 12 August 1888, died 17 December 1989, married
9 March 1921, Lawrence Brooks of Grey Court, South Carolina. They had no children.
Josie Brooks celebrated her100th birthday at the Hartley Hall Nursing Home in Poco-
moke, where she died the following year. She was buried at Downings.
6. Myrtle Belle Tull, born 8 February 1890, died 28 May 1988, married 8 Decem-
54 ber 1914, William C. Carey (1893-19)49). They lived near New Church and are buried at Downings. They had one son, William C. Carey, Jr.
7. Algie Covington Tull, born 3 November 1892, died 30 July 1987, married 22
January 1916, Lena A. Tull (1891-1972). They lived at New Church and are buried at
Downings. They had two children, Charles Tull and Jeannette Tull.
8. Lottie Washington Tull, born 6 October 1893, died 13 April 1950, married
19 January 1915, W. Burleigh Martin (189)4-1938). They are buried at Downings. They had five children: William T. Martin, Margaret Martin, Virginia Martin, Alvin Martin, and Jean Martin.
9. Beulah Burns Tull, born 6 July 1895, died 15 December 1972, married 26 February
1923, Joseph A. Hurley (1893-1958). They lived at New Church and Pocomoke. They are buried in the Nelson Cemetery. They had one daughter, Josephine Hurley.
10. Walter J. Tull born 30 March 1900, died 1 June 1938. He was unmarried and is buried in the Brittingham Cemetery with his parents.
55 The family of Charles U. Tull taken in 1896 at Pitts Wharf. Top row- left to right: Howard J. Tull, Helen Tull King Jewell, Fred A. Tull. Second row: wife, Virginia Covington Tull, baby in arms, Beulah Tull Hurley, Charles U. Tull. Third row: Josie Tull Brooks, Myrtle Tull Carey, Lottie Tull Martin, and Algie C. Tull. 56 One-room school at Miona, Virginia, in 1897, Miss Flora K. Taylor, teacher. Howard J. Tull is in back row, next to teacher (he married Flora K. Taylor's sister). Fred R. Tull is on the right, in front of Howard J. Tull. Helen Tull King Jewell is in middle of same row, in dark dress, holding sister Lottie Tull Martin. Myrtle Tull Carey is on knees in second row, fourth from right, in front of sister Josie Tull Brooks. 57 I.iyrtle Tull Carey holding son, William C. Carey, Jr., who was torn in the Tull home at Hiona.
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4th generation 5th generation 1st generation 2nd generation 3rd generation William b.c. 1702, d. 1740 James of Pocomoke Rachel Powell m. Eliz. Fontain b.c. 1748 d.t. 1795 Richard Noble m.c. 1770, Eliz. Porter b. 1675, d. young b.c. 1704, d. int. 1765 m.c. 1735, Catherine Nelly Georg b.c. 1751 Susan b. 1.77, d.t. 17 7 George m. John Bevins b.c. 1774 m. (1) c. 1700,Eliz.? b.c. 1708, d.c. 1765 unmarried Noble m. Sarah Chambers Coston Jonathan (2) c. 1732, Eliz. b.c. 1755 James Dorman Sarah b.c. 1780, d.t. 1837 Mary m. 1807, Sally Massey John Mary Cropper (see chart II) b. 1681, d.t. 1751 Richard w. Ann Jonathan Isaac b.c. 1644 b.c. 1715, d.t. 1787 b.c. 1786 d.t. 1711 William m. (1) 1746, Mary Fontain John,shipwri h b. b. 1752 m. (1) 1671, Martha 1684, d. 1749 (2) c. 1757, Jane John (see chart III) Rhodes d. 1819/20 b. c. 1788, d.c.1820 m.c. 1772, Martha Woods (2) c. 1708, Benjamin (see chart IV) Rachel (Stevenson?) m. 1808, Sarah Ostren Margaret b. 1686, d.t. 1773 (Polk') m. (1) c. 1709, Eliz. James James Samuel b. Pollitt, (Davis?) b.c. 1722, d.c. 1760 1757 b. 1791, d.int. 1846 widow (2) c. 1725, Mary m. 1750, Rachel White unmarried Ennis Sarah (3) c. 1760, Hannah Levin b. 1758 Levi Allen b.c. 1729 b. 1795, d. 1846 m. 1816, Catht Pagett Elizabeth Latcham Hannah Goslee Sarah Mary Clark Leah Wilkins b. 1795, d. 1865 Sarah m. (1) 1817, Robt. Lamden George (2) 1830, S. Richardsc Richard b.c. 1742/3, d. int. 1808 b. 1696, d.t. 1755 m.c. 1766, Esther Rounds Joseph m.c. 1717, Naomi b. 1798, d. 1862 Blake Mary Christopher m. (1) 1819, M.P. Burnett (2) 1823, H. Pilchard Jacob 63 b.c. 1747, d. int. 1797 m.c. 1770, Sarah Brown TULL CHART II
generation 7th generation 8th generation 4th generation 5th generation 6th William Masse Rebecca b. 1807, d, 1( Sarah E.E. John C. m. 1633, Eliz. Suznn Daniel James J. Ernest lihitney Maria Louisa Sarah E. Brittingham John W.J.A. Claude A. Samuel ISSPC Martha W. Milton b. 1811, d.t. 1847 M. Stanley m. 1843, Mrs. Sally Marshall no issue
Eleanor b.c. 1813, d. 1840 unmarried
John, shipwright James John W. George W. John W., Jr. b. 1752 b.c. 1780 b. 1814, d.int. 1851 d. 1819/20 d.t. 1837 m. 1848, Esther A. m.c. 1772, Martha in. 1807, Sally Marshall, who Woods Massey m. (2) John Brittinotham 7 others Elizabeth Emma Marshall b.c. 1816, d. 18)2 Ocie Marshall m.c. 18146, Solomon Marshall Littleton J. Clinton J. Henry Clay James Outten DeWitt C. b. 1819, d.int. 1854 John 3. in. 1842, Harriet Gladding Howard J. John K. Sarah Ann Helen F. b.c. 1820, d. 1840 Annie O. Frederick R. unmarried Frederick G. Josephine E. Ellen Myrtle B. Frederick A. Charles U. Algie C. b. 1828, d.int. 1880 b. 1856, d.int. 19 1 Lottie W. m. 1850, Isabella King m. 1882, Mary Va. Beulah B. Covington Walter J. 614 Isabella T. b. and d. 1833 TULL CHART III 5th generation 6th generation 7th generation 8th generation 9th generation Ellen, b. 1859 Mary H. Indiana (1860-1863) Whitney W. Leona A. (1862-1894) Norwood Elihu Y. (1862- ) Dorothy in. 1884, Nannie Topping Granville Mary A. (1865-1886) Willia T Ida C. (1867-1897 b. 183 d. 19 in. 1889, Wm. H. Hickman Margaret in. 1858, Catherine William Henry (1870-1939) in. Marion Holland Savage, dau. m.c. 1895, Minnie Davis Harry Walker Griffin V Carrie Frances (1872-1940) in. Maude Estelle in. 1899, Harry N. Collins aedden Mary Oeta (1874-1946) b.c. 1839 m.c. 1895, Wm. H. Hope Ruth Hope 20 in 1860, unmarried illefter Levi (1876-1960) in. Woodrow Wilkerson m. 1907, Viola Blades Levi C. John Eli (1878-1955) John m. (1) 1903, Goldie Outten Catherine Chapman of John, b. 110, d. 1 son (2) 1906, Mamie Pusey WM. S. Chapman Shipwright In. 1833, Mary A. Nettie 188 -1 0 Naomi Chapman ante 1820 Joynes b.c. 1788, d. m. Wm. J. Chapman in. Edward Tarr in. 1808, Sarah Ostren George C. (1868-1947) Willis C., Sr. Daughter m. 1894, Mary E. Moore Levi J Granville H. b. 1843, d. 190 Lucy A. m. 1866, Mary E. :fi11iam1 D., d. young Hickman Lily M. John C. Margaret b.c. 1845 Lena (1875-1968) d. ante 1860? in. 1903, Ernest Sturgis Calvin B. (1878-1970) Calvin S. (1911-1965) John Henr m. 1904, Landonia Sturgis b. 18 d. 191. Grover C. (1883-1964) m.c. 1873, Bettie A. in. 1910, Hettie E. Colonna White Thomas White (1887-1965) in. 1917, Eva P. Stevenson 65 George Vera Bettie (1890-1919) b.c. 1853, d. ante 1870 unmarried
Caroline b.c. 1855, d. ante 1870 TULL CHART IV, showing descendants of Benjamin Tull 6th generation 7th generation 3rd generation 4th generation 5th generation George (called Eugene) b.c. 1855 George U. (Eugene) John, b. 1860 b.c. 1817 Edward, b.c. 1863 in. 1855, Mary E. Floyd Franklin, b.c. 1864 Moses, b.c. 1867 b. 1710 Benjamin James, b.c. 1822 Rachel, Winfred S. m. Davis b.c. 1790, d.18L9 unmarried in 1850 in. 1815, Betty Floyd Benjamin b.c. 18 0 Edward H., b.c. 1 7 Lawrence Davis, b. 1712 Benjamin F. in. 1877, Eliz. Joines d.s.p. b.c. 1825 Peter in. 1847, Charlotte Eugene M. (1873-1949) m. 1894, Minnie J. Benjamin, b.c. 1715 in. 1821, Peggy Redden Merrill Miles (1840-1921) Collins d.s.p. m. 1861, Ann Hudson parents of: Reuben W.(1905-1988 Edward, b.c. 1818 Elizabeth M., b.c. 1841 in. Annie, in. Dewey E. Mary in. 1838, Sarah A. Jones 1861, Pyram E. Jones George W. (18)44-1984) Blades in. 1873, Sarah A. Dix and 3 others
Mary J., b.c. 1849 Benjamin Henry I. b.c. 1812 Henry J., b.c. 1850 b. after 1760 m. 1847, Harriet ra er Rosa, b.c. 1855 det: 1797 Hester, m. 1840, to luls Leah Selby, Levin, b.c. 178 lif w. Madeline A. (1807-1967) dau. Micajih m. 1810, Susan hay Lizzie, N. (1) 1843, John Reed Harriet Helen E. (1899-1961) m, 1873, Kendall Hudson John Wm. Selby William (1817-1882) Levin Esther Gorman F. (1904-1945) d.t. 1802 in. 1845, Nancy Hancock Levin, b.c. 1820 in. 1882, Wm. P. Sharpley Samuel Francis 1860-1919 Hannah m.c. 1841, Margaret Brittingham in. 1 Florence Tull, dau. Miles Tull Sarah (Leah?) Solomon, b.c. 1830 Edward Thomas Mary A., b. 1870 in. 1851, Sally Johnson Charles P. in. 1901, Herbert A. John Sharpley William, b.c. 171 Mary A. b.c. 1834 John William m. 1829, Eleanor Oielly in. 1853, James Ward Isaac Henry (1848-1930) Henry Leslie (1888- Beachboard Hester, b.c. 1836 in. 1877, Sally McCready 1889) d. int. 1853, Acco. Co. in. 1858, Litt. T.C. Davis -Wm. H., b. 1842 d. Bertha, b. 1877 Zipporiah, b.c. 1840 t] m. 1869, Eliz. C. Melvin1878in m. Edw. Sharpley 66 James T., in (1) 1864 M.E. Emma 4.7 b. 18/4 Elizabeth, b.c. 1844 diggen m. lt90, J. H. Young Charlotte, b.c. 1851 in. 1870, John D. Stevens References
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