Dan- I strongly suggest you go to go to the Hull Family Association website. http://www.hullfamilyassociation.org. I was the individual who wrote to Nedra privately. I belong to the HFA and there has been extensive research done with this line which is mine. Sheryl Tuck > ______________________________ > From: Dan Hamrick <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [WVPENDLE] Peter Hull and Susan Dieffenbach > > There has appeared on this list conflicting information about Peter Thomas > Hull and his wife. > The latest message (from [email protected]) has Susan Dieffenbach as his > wife. What is the consensus? And is there any documentation superior to > this? > I greatly appreciate its posting but the wife, Susan Dieffenbach, whom I > also had as the wife, is not consistent with other postings. > > -- > [email protected] > Dan Hamrick > 402 23rd Street NW > Canton OH 44709-3818 > Telephone: 330-454-2376 > > > > This was sent to me by a former Regent of the DAR, she was most helpful to > me in my Perkins of Greenbrier County research. > Betty Jane Perkins > > One of the most colorful couples to decorate the landscape of early > Greenbrier county was George and Hannah (Keister) Hull. George and > Hannah were among the first non-native Americans born west of the > Shenandoah Mountains. = George Hull was born October 15, 1757 in August= > a > County, Virginia and Hannah Keister was born in what is now Pendleton > County, West Virginia the same year. > > George's father, Peter Thomas (a widower) had immigrated from Germany in > 1742 with two sons. He married Susannah Dieffenbach in Pennsylvania a= > and > moved into the Valley of Virginia. George's half-brother, Peter, was > prominent in the political and military life of early Western Virginia. > It was he who anglicized the family name from Hohl (with an umlaut over > the o) to Hull. George Hull's native language was German, but he > learned English and also spoke a little of the Shawnee Indian dialect. > > Hannah Keister, on the other hand, was the daughter of Friedrich Keister > - who served in the American Revolution as a lieutenant. Hannah's > maternal grandfather was Roger Dyer. = Roger was murdered by Shawnee > Chief Killibuck at the infamous Fort Seybert Massacre on April 28, > 1758. Family tradition states that Hannah's mother (Hannah Dyer > Keister) hid with her behind large rocks and overheard the pitiful cries > of friends and relatives being tomahawked to death. > > George Hull, Sr. served four tours of duty in The American Revolution as > an Indian spy and scout. He was sent back to guard the home front after= > r > some Indians murdered women working in a hemp field. He was in the > Battle of Jamestown and on the Yorktown Peninsula before the close of > the Revolution. George Hull married Hannah Keister in about 1781, > probably at the Old Props Lutheran Church in Pendleton County. = They > had all their nine children before moving into Greenbrier County about > 1812. > > Their children were: 1. Elizabeth (b. 1782) m. David Bird. Geor= > ge > Washington (b. Feb. 14, 1787) m. Polly Ann Smith. Rachel (b. 17= > 93) > m. Joseph Smith (bro. to Polly Ann). 4. Mary (b. 1795 ) - never > married. William (b. 1797) m. Nancy Watts 6. Peter (b. = > June 4, > 1800) m. Elizabeth Oldham = 7. Hannah Dyer Hull (b. 1801) m. Charle= > s > Perkins ( my ggg grandfather) = 8 Jesse (b. 1802) m. Elizabeth Ann = > Cleek > James Keister > (b. 1806) - never married. > some of their children moved to Greenbrier with them. > > George Hull was a major in the 79th Regiment of the Greenbrier Militia. > The militia protected the homes and families of old Greenbrier County. > In March, 1818 George was on jury duty at the courthouse. The case > involved a charge brought against a lady whose servant had "used > insolent language and threatened the life of said plaintiff". The jur > y > found the sassy soul guilty as charged and the jailor inflicted 39 > lashes on his bare back. Lashes - well laid on- were a standard > punishment for less serious crimes in early Greenbrier. > > We find old George Hull again in the Greenbrier courthouse in September > 1832. Then he came to apply for his Revolutionary War Pension as an o= > ld > man. "I am frail in both body and mind and therefore I cannot recolle= > ct > the minutia of my services." he deposed. Nonetheless George Hull live= > d > until September, 1849 and drew his $32.00 monthly pension until he > died. > > Hannah preceded George in death by several years. The two of them are > buried in unmarked graves on what was once part of the family > plantation, but is now a part of the Monongahela National Forest. > George and Hannah Hull were large land holders in the Anthony's Creek > District. > > There is also a biography of George Hull, Jr. and Polly Ann Smith, > submitted by Graydon Smales Love (SAR Number 142549) **This is the brothe= > r of Hannah who married Charles T Perkins. > > George and Hannah named their first son after both his father and The > Guardian of the Western Frontier; George Washington Hull, Jr.. > Washington's work to secure the Virgina Frontier from Indian attack had > made him a hero to Greenbrier County long before The Revolution. > > George, Jr. married Polly Ann Smith (daughter of William Smith and Mary > Ann Wright) on August 9, 1812. = They moved from Anthony's Creek into t= > he > part of Greenbrier county that later became Fayette County, West > Virginia.. George, Jr. died on June 3, 1870 and Polly Ann died seven > years later. = Their children were prominent participants in the early > life of Fayette County. = They were: = 1. James Hull (m. Eliza Jane > Kincaid). = 2. = Elizabeth Hull (m. John Williams). = 3. = Joseph= > Hull (m. > Rebecca Koontz). = 4. James Wright Hull ( m. Jane E. Whitman) = 7. == > Rachel > Hull married William Hunter Cavendish in Fayette Co. on August 13, > 1840. = She died in 1900 > > "Virginia Militia In The Revolutionary War" by J.T. McAllister > > p. 229 > > Rockingham Co., Va. > > Keister, Frederick, Lt. = S. Sept. 28, 1778 > > "Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data From Revolutionary War Pension > and Bounty Land Warrant Records" = Vol. 2 - Dabbs through Hyslop > compiled by Patrick G. Wardell. > > P. 350 Hull, George, born fall 1757 Rockingham Co., Va., entered service > 1777 Augusta Co., Va., resident of Crab Bottom Settlement (area later > Pendleton Co.); resided after Rev. War in Bath Co., Va. for 10 years, > thence Greenbrier Co., Va. where pensioned 1832 at about age 74. = Lett= > er > states soldier's brother Peter also was a Rev. War soldier. = Film - S > 13317 = Reel 1363 > (at Nat. Archives and branches) > > DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition (3 vols) = Part II = 1990 > > Hull, George = b 10-15-1757 = VA = d pre 9-4-1849 = VA m Hannah K= > eister > Private and Spy in VA and pensioner. > > Hull, Peter, Jr. = b = b 1733 = Europe = d 1 --1818 VA = m. Bar= > bara Ann > Keith = Capt. VA > > Hull, Peter Thomas, Sr. = b ca. 1713 = Germany = d a 3-19-1776 VA == > m. 1 > (unknown) = Susanna Margaretha Diffenbach = Personal service, = > VA****** > Father of George Hull > > (Personal service was usually material , animals , food or shelter given > to Rev. War soldiers by those too old to be active in Rev. War > service...such as giving a horse, food, clothing, shelter, etc.) > > p. 1673 > > Keister, Frederick = b. 1730 Germany = d 1815 = VA = m. Hannah Dy= > er = Lt. >