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State of Service: MD
Qualifying Service: Soldier
Birth: 1763 Death: 1818
Qualifying Service Description:
He served in the Maryland Troops before migrating to the Salisbury District, North Carolina, and then to Wilkes County, Georgia. He was a Methodist preacher
Additional References:
Rev War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993
SAR Rev War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998
See: (1) Marriages and Deaths: 1763 to 1820, pg 54
(2) Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, pg 197
(3) Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, v. 3, pg 267
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 1, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr, and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke
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"His body must have been moved to Oconee Hill Cemetery because it didn't open until 1856 but I can't find any documentation of it."
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Author: Jonathan Robert De Mallie
Three of [Hopewell Hull's sons,] Hope, Thomas and John, were soldiers in the Revolution and received land grants from the state of Virginia in recognition of their services. Of the other sons nothing is known. Hope Hull enlisted as a soldier in the Continental Army at seventeen years of age, serving as a private until the close of the war. Hull then entered the ministry of the Methodist Church and travelled from Connecticut to Georgia as an itinerant preacher. Much of the time he was the companion of Bishop Asbury. He was a self-educated man, but a preacher of great power. Dr. Lovick Pierce has le this description of him: "His head was rather above the medium size, his hair black and curling, just sprinkled with gray and each lock looking as if under a self-willed government. His face was an exceedingly fine one--a well developed forehead, a keen blue eye, with a heavy brow, indicative of intense thought. His shoulders were unusually broad and square, his chest wide, aording ample room for his lungs; his body was long and large in proportion to his lower limbs, his voice full, flexible and capable of every variety of intonation from the soest sounds of sympathy and persuasion to the thunder tones of wrath. He was one of nature's orators. In many of his masterly eorts his words rushed upon his audience like an avalanche and multitudes seemed to be carried before him like the yielding captives of a stormed castle." Hope Hull was sent to Washington, Georgia in 1788 and was the founder of Methodism in Georgia. While back in Virginia he married Ann Wingfield on March 13, 1796, and returned to Georgia locating in Washington. There he organized the Washington Academy and taught until 1803, when he removed to Athens. There he was prominent in building up the University, being made a trustee and for awhile the acting president. He built "Hull's Meeting House" and preached until his death in 1818. He died October 4, 1818, saying, "God has laid me under marching orders. I am ready to obey."
- Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Historian
Author: Kenneth Scott Collins
Reverend Hope Hull b. 3/13/1763 d. 10/4/1818 CLARKE COUNTY, GEORGIA
He served in the Maryland Troops before migrating to the Salisbury District, North Carolina, and then to Wilkes County, Georgia. He was a Methodist preacher.
See: (1) Marriages and Deaths: 1763 to 1820, p. 54.
(2) Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, p. 197.
(3) Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, v. 3, p. 267.
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 1, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke.
A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.
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