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Bull Family

Descendants of Thomas Bull
Generation 1
1.

Thomas Bull-1 was born in 1746[1].

Sarah Gronow was born about 1751[2, 3]. She was buried in 1827 in St Peter's Church graveyard. She died on Mar 27, 1827[2].

Thomas Bull and Sarah Gronow married. They had the following children:

i.

Mary Bull was born on Feb 26, 1774[1]. She married Richard Robinson on Mar 29, 1794 in Philadelphia[1]. She died on Sep 01, 1857 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA[1]. She was buried in Sep 1857 in Trinity Episcopal Church Churchyard, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.

2. ii.

Isabella Bull was born on Jun 09, 1776[4]. She married Cromwell Peirce on Apr 23, 1801[5]. She died on Mar 30, 1807[4].

3. iii.

John Gronow Bull. He died about 1846[6].

Generation 2
2.

Isabella Bull-2 (Thomas-1) was born on Jun 09, 1776[4]. She was buried in 1776 in St Peter's Church graveyard. She died on Mar 30, 1807[4].

Cromwell Peirce son of Cromwell Peirce and Margaret Boggs was born on Aug 12, 1772[4]. He was employed as a in 1804 in Inn Keeper[7]. He was employed as a between 1817-1819 in Sheriff, Chester County[4, 7]. He was buried in Apr 1852 in St. Peter's. He died on Apr 02, 1852 in East Whiteland, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA[4]. He was employed as a Colonel USA[8].

Notes for Cromwell Peirce:

Death Notes:

April 6, 1852

VILLAGE RECORD

Death Notice In East Whiteland, on the 2d inst., Col. CROMWELL

PEARCE, in his 80th year. His death occurred very suddenly,

having been in the act of walking from the barn to the house,

when he was suddenly cut down by the Destroyer death.

 

Cromwell Peirce and Isabella Bull were married on Apr 23, 1801[5]. They had the following children:

i.

Lewis Gronow Peirce was born in 1801[5].

3.

John Gronow Bull-2 (Thomas-1). He died about 1846[6].

Sarah Young[9].

John Gronow Bull and Sarah Young married. They had the following children:

i.

Lewis Bull.

ii.

John Bull.

Sources
1

Family History - Record of the Descendants of John and Elizabeth Bull, Early Settlers in Pennsylvania, Bull, Commodore James H Bull, (Shannon-Conmy Co., San Francisco Ca, Jan 1919).

2

St Peter's Church gravestone.

3
4

St Peter's Church gravestone.

5

Futhey & Cope, History of Chester County, 1881.

6

Probate, 1846.

7

Deeds - various.

8

Baptist Church Records.

9

Patricia Henry.

Report created on August 27, 2012