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1683 - 1755 (71 years)| Name | William BULL [2, 3, 4, 5, 6] | |
| Prefix | Honorable | |
| Birth | Apr 1683 | Ashley Hall Plantation, St. Andrews Parish, South Carolina  |
| Gender | Male | |
| HIST | He left his ancestral home, Kingsknight Hall, in Warurskshire, Enlgand in 1669 to come to Carolina as a deputy of the Lord’s Proprietors. He settled Ashley Hall Plantation in 1671, which remained in the family for over 200 years. William Bull Pioneers Charleston County, South Carolina Genealogy Trails The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Society South Carolina Historical Society Volume 1. 1900. Mary Bull, who married Nathaniel Barnwell, esquire, (born 1772; died 1800) had: Issue: I. Stephen Barnwell, died a minor. II. Eliza Natalie Barnwell, married Thomas Hayward Cuthbert by whom she had one daughter, Eliza Natalie Cuthbert, who married William Henry Trescot, and had issue, now the representatives of the oldest branches of both the Bull and Barnwell families. Sarah Bull, married John Gibbes Barnwell, (b. February 10, 1778; d. March 28, 1828.) Only surviving son of General John Barnwell of the Revolutionary war. Issue: I. John Gibbes Barnwell, born 1816. II. Eliza Barnwell, married Robert W. Barnwell. III. Charlotte Barnwell, married Bishop Stephen Elliott. IV. Mary Barnwell, married Middleton Stewart. V. Sarah Barnwell, died unmarried. VI. Anne Barnwell, married Rev. Edward T. Walker. VII. Emily Barnwell, died and married 1894. Charleston Co., SC: William Bull, of Ashley Hall, esquire, (son of Stephen Bull, esquire and Judith Mayrant) was born about 1749. He was Justice of the Peace and member of the Commons, 1774, and was appointed to H.M. Council, June 30, 1774; but was elected to the Provincial Congress, 1774-76, and acted with the Revolutionary party. He received Ashley Hall from his Uncle Governor William Bull. He married August 26, 1779, (Saint Bartholomew's) Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. James Reid. (She was born September 28, 1762.) He died in 1805 and was buried at Ashley Hall. Issue: I. William Stephen Bull. William Stephen Bull, of Ashley Hall, esquire, was born May 2, 1784. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives for several years; married Rosetta Margaret, daughter of Ralph Izard, esq. He died March 2, 1818. Issue: I. William Izard Bull. II. Elizabeth Bull, died unmarried, aged about 12 years. III. Mary Bull, died an infant. IV. - - -died an infant. Col. William Izard Bull, of Ashley Hall, was born October 18, 1813; was sometime colonel of the militia, and a member of the South Carolina Legislator from 1835 to 1865, 14 years in the House and 16 in the Senate. Besides his Carolina estates he possessed large plantations in Mississippi. He married in 1833, Garcia Caroline Turnbull, who died in 1840, and he next married, in 1842, Mary Davie de Saussure (died 1858). He died October 21, 1894, and was buried at Ashley Hall. Issue: I. Claudia Butler Bull, born 1834; died 1836. II. William Izard Bull, born 1836; died March 22, 1837. III. William Izard Bull, born January 19, 1838. IV. - - - Died an infant. Second wife. V. Rosetta Izard Bull, born January 11, 1843; died December 18, 1872; married W.B. Guerard. (Issue two children, died infants.) VI. John Julius Pringle Bull, born 1844; died 1846. VII. Sally Davie Bull, born September, 1847; died September, 8 feet four, and married. VIII. DeSaussure Bull. IX. Henry Bolivar Bull, born February 24, 1851. X. Joel Poinsett Bull, born 1853; ground, 1857. XI. Rebecca Theodosia Bull, born 1856; died July 5, 1875. William Izard Bull, of Charleston, MD, born January 19, 1838, married December 18, 1872, Mary Catherine Mazyck. Issue: I. Gracia, born August 10, 1874. II. Emma Anna, born June 18, 1876. III. William Izard Bull, born March 16, 1878. IV. Alexander Mazyck Bull, born December 1, 1882. V. Mary Catherine, born February 15, 1885. De Saussure Bull, of Sumter County, South Carolina, planter, (second son of Colonel William Izard Bull) born June 28, 1849; married January, 1885, Caroline Kinloch Rees. Issue: I. Henry de Saussure Bull, born November - -, 1885. II. Francis Caroline Bull, born 1887; died 1889. III. James Holmes Bull, born June 12, 1890 Honorable William Bull, of Ashley Hall, esquire, (Second Son Of Governor William Bull) was born at Ashley hall September 24, 1710. He was the first American to graduate and medicine (Leyden 1734). On returning to Carolina he was commissioned of Justice of the Peace, and elected to the Commons for Berkeley County 1736-1749. He served as captain in the Saint Augustine expedition and on his return was appointed assistant Judge and chosen Speaker of the Commons, 1740-1749. In 1745 he was Commissioner under the Church Act; was captain and then colonel of the Regiment of Horse, 1740-1757, and brigadier of the Provincial forces, 1751-1759. December 15, 1749, he was appointed a member of H.M. Council for South Carolina, and May 20, 1751, Commissioner to treat with the Six Nations. He had great experience of Indian affairs and strongly advised Governor Lyttleton against war with the Cherokees, but accompanied him on expedition. Colonel Bull was appointed Lieutenant Governor in 1759, and on governor Lyttleton's departures assumed the government of the Province, April 16, 1760; organized forces, checked incursions of the Cherokees and forced their submission. He administered the government until December 22nd 1761, and again 1764-66, 1768, 1769 – 71, and 1773-75; and 1770 he urged improvement of the public schools and founding a college for South Carolina. Governor Bull was devoted to Carolina, had been five times governor of the Province and the most popular governor it ever had. He "had princely fortune at stake in this revolution, but did not waver in his consciousness duty to his King" "It was supposed by some writers that if William Bull had been made dictator in this crisis of American affairs, there may have been no revolution." Governor Bull married, August 17, 1746 Hannah, daughter of Honorable Othneal Beale, member of the Council, but had no issue. He left Province in 1782 with the British troops, died in London, July 4, 1791, and is buried at Saint Andrew's, Holborn. At Ashley Hall stands a marble shaft bearing his coat of arms and an inscription to his memory. transcribed by Carla Mascara [4, 6] | |
| Occupation | Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina [3] | |
| _UID | 03E3A6EC984D47B49BDF57B01D187A40C871 | |
| Death | 4/21 Mar 1755 | Ashley Hall Plantation, St. Andrews Parish, South Carolina [4, 5, 7] |
| Person ID | I80819 | Singleton and Related Families |
| Last Modified | 10 Jan 2018 | |
| Father | Stephen BULL, b. 1635 d. 1706? | |
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| _UID | 8C5110FAF3A9430BBABF31CC1E73E6B87639 | |
| Family ID | F49088 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family | Mary QUINTYNE | |||||||||||
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| Family ID | F56177 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||||||||||
| Last Modified | 23 Mar 2026 | |||||||||||
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