~1710 - 17xx
Rhode Island - Massachusetts - Rhode Island
Sources: (1) a family group sheet, provided by Phyllis Hughes, official Hull Family Genealogist, and (2)The Hull Family in America (compiled by Col. Weygant, published by the Hull Family Association) (3) The Slocum Book (it has an exceptionally daunting title, so that is what I call it) by Charles Elihu Slocum (published by the author, Syracuse, NY: 1882)
Bathsheba was born in about 1710, in Rhode Island, the daughter of Tristram and Elizabeth Dyer Hull. There are not many facts about her in any of the sources. Her mother was the granddaughter of the Quaker martyr, Mary Dyer (hanged on Boston Common 1 June 1660), and Tristram's family had been Quakers for two generations (although the original Hull in America was a Church of England preacher, who had some run-ins with Quakers).
She married Ebenezer Slocum at the Friends Meeting House in Newport, RI on 4 Feb 1728, when she was about 18. Many of the Slocums were Quakers, and Rhode Island was a safe haven for them. But several Slocums, including Ebenezer's father Eliezer, moved to Dartmouth.
"It is believed that the early settlers of Dartmouth either thought they were settling within the bounds of Rhode Island, - the land of liberty, - or thought that region isolated from the settled parts of New Plymouth, for the peaceable enjoyment of their religious convictions. . . . Notwithstanding their superior numbers the persecutions of these sects [Quaker and Baptist], for refusing to support the Colonial Church, were continued with vigor in Dartmouth and Tiverton - the only townships in New Plymouth continuing inflexible in their resistance of the tax levied for that church while they faithfully paid all other rates. One indictment followed another for many years. In 1724 Dartmouth voted not to raise the imposed tax of £100 to sustain the Colonial Church, but to raise £700 to sustain the Selectmen in not making the rate - they to be allowed a certain sum for each day passed in prison on account of their non-compliance with the Court Order." [The Slocum Book, pp. 28-9] Eventually the act under which they were imprisoned was annulled by the King of England - it would have been one of the early Georges.
For several years after their marriage, Ebenezer and Bathsheba lived in Dartmouth. I am not certain if all their children were born there - only Ebenezer (1), born in 1732, was given a birthplace in The Slocum book - and he was born in Dartmouth.
I don't know enough New England history to make a narrative of their life together. Here is a chronology:
1729 Feb 19 - son Charles born
1730 June 29 - son Abraham born (our next ancestor)
1732 May 9 - son Ebenezer born, Dartmouth - died young
1734 Feb 23 - daughter Desire born
1736 Nov 4 - son Samuel born
1738 Oct 1 - daughter Mary born
1740 Sept 23 - son David born
1742 May 7 - son Eliezer born
1744 June 23 - son Elijah born
1746 June 24 - son Stephen born
1748 - son Edward born
1750 May 26 - son Ebenezer (2) born
sometime before 1756 - moved to RI - Tiverton Twp, Newport, RI
1774 lived in Tiverton - 21 people in household
That's all I've got for now.
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