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Town History

 * Hull, Massachusetts Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia

Hull was a settlement in 1622 before it became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony. The town was placed in Suffolk County when counties were formed in 1643. For a brief time, the town was part of the Dominion of New England from 1686 to 1689. When the new Norfolk County was formed in 1793, Hingham and Hull were cherry-picked to stay in Suffolk County while [Norfolk County, Massachusetts Genealogy|Norfolk County]] bordered it on the west and east. Hull was annexed to Plymouth County on 18 June 1803, still leaving its west and east borders with Norfolk County. Hull remains in Plymouth County.

Town Clerk
Address: Hull Town Hall 253 Atlantic Ave Hull, MA 02045 Phone: 781-925-2262 Email: [mailto:townclerk@town.hull.ma.us townclerk@town.hull.ma.us] Web Site: Town of Hull, Massachusetts Town Clerk $
 * The town clerk is responsible for Vital records, and so most originals can be found at the town clerk's office
 * Records can be obtained in person during regular office hours (Monday and Wednesday and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Tuesday 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.). Town Hall is closed on Friday. Certified copies have a fee $
 * Requests may also be done via mail, check should be made payable to the Town of Hull. Include a note with the information requested and a self addressed stamped envelope and mail to above address

Births, Marriages, and Deaths

 * 1626-2001 Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001(*) at FamilySearch Catalog — index and images
 * 1657-1841 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — index and images
 * To-1850 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1841-1910 Search for Citations to Vital Record at Massachusetts State Archives — index
 * 1843-1905 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Births

 * To-1850 Vital Records of Hull, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 at Ancestry index $
 * To-1850 Vital Records of Hull, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Hull Births at Ancestry.com images Only $
 * 1841-1915 (Hull, Plymouth) Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915 (*) at FamilySearch Records Collection — index and images

Marriages

 * To-1850 Vital Records of Hull, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 at Ancestry index $
 * To-1850 Vital Records of Hull, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Hull Marriages at Ancestry.com images Only $
 * 1841-1915 (Hull, Plymouth) Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915 (*) at FamilySearch Records Collection — index and images

Deaths

 * To-1850 Vital Records of Hull, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 at Ancestry index $
 * To-1850 Vital Records of Hull, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Hull Deaths at Ancestry.com images Only $
 * 1841-1915 (Hull, Plymouth) Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915 (*) at FamilySearch Records Collection — index and images

Historical Books
Works written on the town include:


 * [James Lloyd Homer], Notes on the Seashore; or, Random Sketches, in relation to the Ancient Town of Hill ... (Boston, 1848), vii, 54 pp. Digital version at Google Books.
 * Albert Matthews, "The Naming of Hull, Massachusetts" in the New England Historic Genealogical Register, 59 [1905]: 177-186. Digital versions at Internet Archive (rep. ed.), Google Books, kobo books, and neotake. WorldCat (Other Libraries) - 1905 rep. ed.
 * William M. Bergan, Old Nantasket (North Quincy, Mass., rev. ed., 1969), 154 pp. WorldCat (Other Libraries).
 * Ethel Farrington Smith, Early Families of Hull, Massachusetts (Boston, 2007), xii, 254 pp. ;.


 * This book includes sketches on Baker, Bartlett, Benson, Bibble, Binney, Bosworth, Bunn, Camball, Chaffey, Chamberlain, Cheevers, Cole, Collier, Coomes, Goold, Green, Hanchet, Hett, Jones, Lincoln, Lobdell, Loring, Lovrell, Melby, Milton, Nightingale, Nile, Phippen, Prince, Shore, Simons, Snow, Soper, Squire, Steel, Stone, Stubbs, Torrey, Vickery, Ward, Wheaton, and Whitman.

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Historical Data
The basic data is from the "Historical Data" publication series with additions from various sources. Associated names Hull once was called Nantascot.

Village or section names include Allerton, Atlantic Hill, Bayside, Bumkin Island, Calf Island, Centre Hill, Great Allerton, Great Brewster Island, Green Hill, Green Island, Gun Rock, Hampton Hill Hull Beach, Hull Village, Jerry's Island, Kenberma, Little Brewster Island, Little Calf Island, Middle Brewster Island, Natasket, Nantasket Beach, Narrows Light, Outer Brewster Island, Park Island, Peddock's Island, Pemberton, Rockland Hill, Sagamore Hill, Shag Rocks Island, Spinnaker Island, Stoney Beach, Strawberry Hill, Sunset Point, Surfside, The Graves, Waveland, Whitehead, Willow Ledge, and Windemere. Border changes

Cemeteries
The following is a list of cemeteries in present-day Hull. For the location of the cemetery, see PlymouthColony website. For more details regarding these cemeteries, see the state guide under cemeteries for books on the subject.


 * Hull Cemetery, 1710. (A, B)

Abstracts of the cemeteries above are marked and keyed to: (A). Vital Records of Hull, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, 1911) [see links above under Vital Records]. (B). W. S. Barton, "Inscriptions from the Burying-Ground in Hull, Mass." in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 12 [1858]: 207-214, from the journal, transcribed online and abstracted online; also on findagrave. Top of Page

Churches
The following is a list of churches established in town in order of organization date (if known) and condition of records in the 1889 survey if listed.


 * Congregational Church, 1726-1789, records to 1767, (earlier records destroyed by fire before 1847).
 * Methodist Episcopal, 1816, records imperfect before 1860. [perhaps the church listed next]
 * St. Nicholas United Methodist Church, n.d.
 * St. Mary of the Assumption Parish at St. Ann's Church, 1870 (as a mission of Hingham, 1938).
 * St. Nicholas by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 1984.
 * Temple Beth Shalom, n.d.
 * Tri-Town Baptist church, n.d.

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City Directories
Hull was published in 1880-1881, 1894, 1917.

The Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) has one of the largest collections of city directories in the country. They are likely to own most of the years listed above. Their collection is in microfiche, microfilm, and books, but there is no online inventory of their holdings except for microfilm. See their guide online.

Other holdings:

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 * Ancestry ($) has none.
 * Boston Public Library has none.
 * Family History Library (Salt Lake City) has 1894 (with Hingham), 1917 on.
 * fold3 ($) has none.
 * Massachusetts State Library has 1880-1881, 1894.
 * New England Historic Genealogical Society (Boston) ($) has 1894, 1917.

Newspapers

 * Hull Beacon, 1897-1920.
 * Hull News (title varies), 1955-1974, 1986-1988.
 * South Shore Chronicle, 1975-1987.
 * Hull Times (title varies), 1979-present.

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Libraries and Historical Societies
Address: Hull Public Library 9 Main Street Hull MA 02045 Phone: 781-925-2295 Email: [mailto:hucirc@ocln.org hucirc@ocln.org] Website: Hull Public Library