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Guide to Hull, Plymouth County, Massachusetts ancestry, genealogy and family history, town histories, vital records, city directories, cemetery records and cemeteries, churches, town records, newspapers, maps, and libraries.

Town Information

Description

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.

Parent Towns

Populated Places

Includes Neighborhoods, Villages, Unincorporated Communities,
Districts, and Census-Designated Places:

Boundary Changes

Adjacent Towns

Plymouth Co.: Hingham Norfolk Co.: Cohasset | Quincy | Weymouth | Suffolk Co.: Boston | Dorchester (Boston) | Winthrop

Town Records

In New England most original vital records of birth, marriage, and death can be found at the town clerk's office

Hull Town Clerk

253 Atlantic Ave
Hull, MA 02045
Phone: 781-925-2262 x 3803
Fax: 781-925-0224
Email: jbennett@town.hull.ma.us
Website

Vital Records

Published records
This includes, in part, the church records (C.R.) and the cemetery (G.R.1).
Online records
  • Hull vital records, 1657-1841, are browsable (i.e. not indexed as of Nov. 2012) on FamilySearch.

Births

Marriages

Deaths

Divorce

Town Reports

Resources

For more County and State resources see:

Biographies

Cemeteries

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

  1. 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 Find a Grave.

Census

Church Records

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.

  1. Congregational Church, 1726-1789, records to 1767, FS Library film 423528 (earlier records destroyed by fire before 1847).
  2. Methodist Episcopal, 1816, records imperfect before 1860. [perhaps the church listed next]
  3. St. Nicholas United Methodist Church, n.d.
  4. St. Mary of the Assumption Parish at St. Ann's Church, 1870 (as a mission of Hingham, 1938).
  5. St. Nicholas by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 1984.
  6. Temple Beth Shalom, n.d.
  7. Tri-Town Baptist church, n.d.

City Directories


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:

Compiled Genealogies

Court Records

Immigration

Land Records

Local Histories

The basic data is from the "Historical Data" publication series[1] 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
Dates Events
29 May 1644 Nantascot changed its name to Hull. [Mass. Bay Rec., 2: 74]
7 May 1662 Brewster Islands determined by court to belong to Hull. [Mass. Bay Rec., 4: 2: 56]

Works written on the town include:

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.

Maps

This selection incudes town, county, state, and historical maps

Migration

Military

Some Records are Searchable by Town

Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

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Civil War, 1861-1865

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World War I, 1917-1918

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World War II, 1941-1945

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Newspapers

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

Obituaries

Other Town Records

Probate Records

School Records

Tax Records

Websites

Research Facilities

Archives

Libraries

Hull Public Library
9 Main Street
Hull MA 02045
Phone 781-925-2295
Email hucirc@ocln.org

Museums

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Local Centers and Affiliate Libraries

Societies

Hull Historical Society
PO Box 225
127 Spring Street
Hull MA 02045
Email hullhistoric@gmail.com

References

  1. ↑ William Francis Galvin, Historical Data Relating to Counties, Cities and Towns in Massachusetts (Boston, new ed., 1997), 61-62. WorldCat (Other Libraries); FS Catalog book 974.4 H2h 1997
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