Descendants of Daniel Closson 1. DANIEL CLOSSON was born Abt. 1625, and died July 02, 1702 in Little Compton, RI. He married ELIZABETH Abt. 1654.
Child of DANIEL CLOSSON and ELIZABETH is:
2. i. JOSIAH CLOSSON, b. 1655, Tiverton, Little Compton, RI; d. January 13, 1698/99, Little
Compton, RI.
2. JOSIAH CLOSSON (DANIEL) was born 1655 in Tiverton, Little Compton, RI, and died January 13, 1698/99 in Little Compton, RI. He married MARY WILLIAMSON March 09, 1678/79 in Little Compton, RI, daughter of TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON and MARY HOWLAND.
Notes for JOSIAH CLOSSON:
Was a Soldier in King Philip's War, credited to the town of Woburn, MA on 24 June 1676 under
Captain Joseph Syll. He was also a garrison of Chelmsford. He was given an assignment of
wages on 24 August 1676 to Woburn Town. He return to Woburn and was a taxpayer there after
the War.
After the war he moved to Marshfield, MA where he married Mary and where two of his eight children were born. Benjamin Church, the leader of the Colony Forces in the King Philip's War founded Little Compton, RI; then an outpost of Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. Josiah followed his leader there about 1681-2 where many of the family lived till after the Revolution.
Josiah Closson died interstate in 1698/9. The probate of Bristol County appointed his widow, Mary, administratrix.
SOURCE: "Little Compton Families" by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour; published by Little Compton Historical Society, Little Compton, RI 1967.
More About JOSIAH CLOSSON:
Fact 1: November 23, 1694, Bought land in Little Compton
Fact 2: December 23, 1694, Bought land in Little Compton
Fact 3: December 21, 1698, Bought land in Little Compton
Fact 4: 1685, Constable of Little Compton
Children of JOSIAH CLOSSON and MARY WILLIAMSON are:
i. MARTHA CLOSSON, b. December 01, 1679.
ii. TIMOTHY CLOSSON, b. January 05, 1680/81.
iii. NEHEMIAH CLOSSON, b. February 01, 1682/83.
Notes for NEHEMIAH CLOSSON:
Nathan migrated to Dutchess County, NY.
3. iv. MARY CLOSSON, b. January 05, 1686/87, Little Compton, RI.
4. v. CALEB CLOSSON, b. April 16, 1688.
vi. HANNAH CLOSSON, b. February 03, 1693/94.
5. vii. NATHAN CLOSSON, b. February 03, 1693/94, Little Compton, RI.
viii. JOSIAH CLOSSON, b. January 16, 1696/97.
3. MARY CLOSSON (JOSIAH, DANIEL) was born January 05, 1686/87 in Little Compton, RI. She married JOHN BULL 1707 in Rhode Island, NY, son of ISAAC BULL and SARAH PARKER.
Notes for JOHN BULL:
John, was called a miller in North Kingston, RI.
Six of their sons, (all excepting John) moved into New York Colony about the same time, some settling in Dutchess County. Their Uncle Natham Closson, had migrated to Dutchess County so this may have influenced the six young Bull brothers to "go west" and eventually settle there. They had large families which later helped to colonize the wilderness of other parts of New York in the north and west. Some went to Vermont, the southern part of which was New York at the time. During and following the Revolutionary War, some of their descendants went up into Quebec and some eventually migrated westerly across Canada.
The dates of death for John and his wife have not been located.
All the Bull families who descended from Isaac Bull were Quakers, at least for one or two more generations. Some had descendants who are Quakers still. They were hardy pioneers and could have taken few things with them on their trek from Rhode Island through a sparsely settled country, and communications with relatives and friends left in Rhode Island must have been difficult and infrequent. As they lost touch with the old family, history changed to legend or was lost altogether. Mostly vital (public) records were left to tell the tale - such records as land records, births, deaths and marriages which the different colonies kept.
Legend says that three Bull brothers went to New York City, bought property in Manhattan where the Astor Hotel was afterwards built. Being new to the country and there being difficulty about the title, they hired Aaron Burr to clean it up. The story says that Burr sold out to the other party and they lost their property. Much money was spent trying to prove rightful ownership, but to no avail. [This legend persists in several of the Bull families.]
All of this info is from Mary Youngs book.
R. L. Coto Note:
I received some of this info from: Nancy Marrone
I received some of this info from: Steven
Children of MARY CLOSSON and JOHN BULL are:
i. ISAAC BULL, b. July 02, 1708, Jamestown, RI; d. Abt. 1777, Kent, Ct; m. REBECCA
BROWING.
ii. JOHN BULL, b. June 08, 1710, S. Kingston, RI; m. LYDIA CLOSSON.
iii. HANNAH BULL, b. 1712; m. EBEN HARRINGTON.
6. iv. JOSIAH BULL, b. 1714, Kingston, RI; d. Dutchess County, NY.
7. v. NATHAN BULL, b. 1715, S. Kingston, RI; d. 1791, Rutland, VT.
vi. RUTH BULL, b. 1717, S. Kingston, RI.
vii. TIMOTHY BULL, b. 1720, S. Kingston, RI; m. PATIENCE PAGE.
viii. JEREMIAH BULL, b. 1722, S. Kingston, RI; m. (1) ABIGAIL MANN; m. (2) RUTH
CLOSSON.
ix. JACOB BULL, b. 1725, S. Kingston, RI; m. REBRCCA GAMAGE.
x. ABIGAIL BULL, b. 1727; m. ABRAHAM PALMER.
4. CALEB CLOSSON (JOSIAH, DANIEL) was born April 16, 1688 in Little Compton, RI.
Notes for CALEB CLOSSON:
In 1721 Caleb was living in Rochester, Plymouth Co., Mass. as shown by the following deed where he deeds his interest in his father's Estate after the decease of his mother.
1721, Aug. 19. I, Caleb Closson of Rochester, in the County of Plymouth in the province of Massachusetts Bay...... for 16 pounds, 14 shillings Lawful money to me in hand paid by John Peirce of Tiverton in the County of Bristol in the Province aforead........sell all my whole right and Title in said Little Cropton of which I am the sole and lawfull owner and lawfully seized and possessed of the same.....as a good estate in fee ..... and have in my self own proper right.... to grant, sell sd premises and that the sd John Peirce shall after the decease of my mother shall possess and enjoy said premises......
In witness where of I have set my hand and seal this 19th day of August anno Dom 1721.
In presence of
Jonahan Delano
Jabez Delano
August 19th 1721..The above named Caleb Closson Personally appeared before me and acknowledged the above written Instrument to be his act & Deed.
Entered August ye 23rd 1721 & Recorded by Samuel Howland Registr,....Book 13,.....Page 513
No further record of Caleb Closson has come to light. He seems to have been the first of the Closson Family to have left Little Compton. The other brothers moved to Dartmouth then back to Tiverton. Nathan moved to Westerly and Nehemiah to Lebanon, Conn. Mary married John Bull about 1726 and moved to North Kingston, RI. Hannah married John Prttice 1710 of Little Compton. It is believed from records of other families that Caleb wandered as far as Boston, returning to Washington Co., RI and perhaps buying the farm where Ichabod Closson, his son, lived and died.
There is no exact record of his children, but the following seem to have been his children.
Children of CALEB CLOSSON are:
i. ZILPHA CLOSSON, b. Abt. 1710; m. MICHAEL SPENCER, Abt. 1731.
8. ii. ICHABOD CLOSSON, d. June 06, 1791, Charlestown, RI.
iii. BATHSHEBA CLOSSON, b. Abt. 1713; m. EDWARD PEIRCE, December 03, 1731, Westerly, RI.
iv. CHARITY CLOSSON, b. Abt. 1715; m. SAMUEL BAILEY, February 12, 1732/33, Westerly, RI.
v. ABIGAIL CLOSSON, b. Abt. 1718; m. MICHAEL SPENCER, Abt. 1738.
Marriage Notes for ABIGAIL CLOSSON and MICHAEL SPENCER:
Married after the death of her sister Zilpha.
vi. THIMOTHY CLOSSON, b. Abt. 1722.
5. NATHAN CLOSSON (JOSIAH, DANIEL) was born February 03, 1693/94 in Little Compton, RI. He married ALICE HART March 16, 1714/15 in Little Compton, RI, daughter of RICHARD HART and HANNAH WILLIAM.
Child of NATHAN CLOSSON and ALICE HART is:
9. i. TIMOTHY CLOSSON, b. January 21, 1728/29, Little Compton, RI; d. August 09, 1807,
Rockingham , VT.
6. JOSIAH BULL (MARY CLOSSON, JOSIAH, DANIEL) was born 1714 in Kingston, RI, and died in Dutchess County, NY. He married RUTH TRIPP 1737 in S. Kingston, RI.
Notes for JOSIAH BULL:
Josiah Bull Sr. was one of the first settlers in Beekman Precinct, and his children's births were
recorded in Oblong Meeting Records. He settled near Pleasant Valley, Dutchess County, where
he spent the remainder of his life, and died at an "advanced age". He was a member of the
Society of Friends; by trade, a millwright. He and Ruth were the parents of nine children, eight of
whom grew to manhood, or womanhood, married and reared families.
Two of their sons, Robert and Henry were taken prisoners by the British early in the Revolutionary War, and as rebels, were confined on one of the British prison ships in New York Harbor, where one died from violence and privation. The other was rescued by relatives but died soon after.
Children of JOSIAH BULL and RUTH TRIPP are:
i. MARY BULL, b. March 11, 1739/40.
ii. JOSEPH BULL BULL, b. 1741.
10. iii. JOSIAH BULL, b. November 28, 1741, Dutchess County, NY; d. 1831, Dutchess County,
NY.
iv. SARAH BULL, b. October 25, 1745.
v. BENJAMIN BULL, b. April 17, 1746.
vi. ROBERT BULL, b. May 28, 1748.
vii. GEORGE BULL, b. November 13, 1751; m. ELIZABETH POWELL.
viii. HENRY BULL, b. October 05, 1752.
ix. RUTH BULL, b. September 09, 1754.
7. NATHAN BULL (MARY CLOSSON, JOSIAH, DANIEL) was born 1715 in S. Kingston, RI, and died 1791 in Rutland, VT. He married (2) ABIGAIL INMAN January 27, 1939 in South Kingston, Washington, RI, daughter of FRANCIS INMAN and ROSE BULL.
Notes for NATHAN BULL:
Dear Laura,
I received your letter. I am as well as usual, not able to do much but am thankful to be up and out of bed. Well, now I will write some History. I believe I wrote this History for you once before. I can`t trace the Bulls any further back than New York City. That is where great-great-grandfather lived when great- grandfather was a little boy and I am 81 so that has been a long time. He went with his father to the seashore after there had been a shipwrecked merchant ship. It had been wrecked and only a few things saved.
He told the people that all he had was in that ship, now all was gone, only the few things that lay on the shore, so the people began to give him money and when they had given him a good sum of money he told the people as he could do nothing with the little bunch of goods, h e would just give the goods to those who gave him money so he began to pick up the things and give to the people that had given him money and he picked up a little glass tumbler with pictures on it and said "I will give this to your little boy" and gave it to him in his own hands and John Anderson has the glass now. The next I heard of great-grandfather Bull he was a young man still living in New York City and a couple of men came over from England to New York City on buisness and brought their young sister (Katie Stevens) with them to see the sights. Their mother was dead and while they were there the sister (Katie Stevens) and great-grandfather (Isaiah Bull) made up a match and got married. The brothers went back to England without her. The next I know about great-grandfather Bull (Isaiah) he was living on a farm near New York City. That is where he was living when grandfather Griffin (Solomon) married his daughter Mary Bull. They had only two children, Mary and Isaiah. The mother died when uncle Isaiah was a baby. Uncle Isaiah never married. He went to the War of 1812 and never returned. Great-grandfather Bull (Isaiah) moved from New York to Virginia and married a second wife, Miss E. Esther McFall. Great-grandmother Bull`s maiden name was Katie Stevens.(note: his first wife.) Then he moved to Kentucky. He first settled in Rockcastle County, then to Pulaski. That family of McFalls came from Virginia to Pulaski and settled near Union Church and when Grandma Esther Bull died she was buried in the neighborhood of Union at what is calle d the McFall graveyard. Grandfather Griffin (Solomon) took great-grandfather Bull (Isaiah) back to Rockcastle County where he died. Grandfather Griffin (Solomon) was born in Vermont and when he was 13 year s old Great-grandfather Griffin moved to New York City and Grandfather Griffin (Solomon) learned the carpenter`s trade and worked at it for many years. He helped to build lots of houses in New York City and lots of ships. He built the first jailhouse in Mount Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky. He was a fine cabinet workman too. I have seen some of his fine work.
Well, now I will give you a History of the Quintons. Your great-grand-father and grandmother Quinton came from Ireland in their young days. I don't think they were. I believe they were all born in America. Their names were William and Jane. You have grannie Jane's picture. She was nearly a hundred years old when that picture was made. They said she was a hundred and one years old when she died. Besides your grandfather there was one son and four daughters: Richard , Betsy, Peggie, Polly (grandma), Julia. Your grandmother Quinton was a Blackston. She had a sister named Nancy who married John Jolly. They died and left one child named Sallie. I don't know who raised her. She died an old maid. I have seen Sallie Jolly. Your grandma Quinton had two brothers: Kinnard and Jimmy. Kinnard Blackston lived to be and old man. He lived in Lincoln County. Riley Tubbs knew him. He said Kinnard (or Kennard) Blackston was a very respectable old gentleman. Jimmy Blackston died young. I heard your grandmother say their parents died when they were small children, and their grandfather Goode took them to his house and kept them. That Jimmie Goode that lived at Eubank so long was her cousin, he just died this winter. He left a large fortune. He had one sister that took care of him in his last days. He made a will, the most of his fortune going to churches and schools. Well, I happen to have a tortoise shell which I found on the Lanney Spring branch when I was hunting papas years ago and Ed has got some sweet gum burs and Jimpson burs. I have not seen any beaucathers for a long time but I remembered seeing the picture in a catalog so I went upstairts and brought down a bunch of catalogs and the second one I started through I found it. I will send it to you. The catalog dates back ten years. I sold my Indian flints to George Sipple for five cents apiece. I think it was a dollar and five cents I got for them.
Copied February 21, 1955 from a copy
Recopied March 24, 1965
Nancy Paris Howser
Recopied June 5, 1971 (Irene Minor)
This was a letter written to (Mary) Laura Tubbs, daughter of Nancy Anderson Quinton, daughter of Poncy Anderson & Thamar Griffin, daughter of Solomon Griffin & Mary Bull.
More About NATHAN BULL:
Fact 1: May 04, 1989, Stephen
More About ABIGAIL INMAN:
Fact 1: May 04, 1998, Stephen
Child of NATHAN BULL is:
11. i. ISAIAH BULL, b. Abt. 1756, Dutchess County, NY; d. 1838, Rockcastle Co, KY.
Children of NATHAN BULL and ABIGAIL INMAN are:
ii. JOHN5 BULL, b. Abt. 1745.
More About JOHN BULL:
Fact 1: May 04, 1998, Stephen
12. iii. AARON BULL, b. August 27, 1746, South Kingston, Washington, RI; d. Sorel, Quebec,
Canada.
iv. RUTH BULL, b. Abt. 1748, Dutchess County, NY.
v. JEREMIAH BULL, b. Abt. 1752, Dutchess County, NY.
8. ICHABOD CLOSSON (CALEB, JOSIAH, DANIEL) died June 06, 1791 in Charlestown, RI. He married ELIZABETH.
Notes for ICHABOD CLOSSON:
Died between March 22 - June 6, 1791 at Charlestown, RI (From Will)
May 1, 1744 Ichabod was admitted, Freeman of Charlestown, RI.
1762 - Ichabod served in the Campaign of 1762, French & Indian War. (Soldiers & Sailors of RI in Old French & Indian Wars.
1755-1762 by Howard M. Chapin)
1774 - RI Census - Town of Charlestown, Washington Co., RI.
Ichabod Closson - 2 M-16; 3 M-16; 4 F-16; 2 F-16; T 11
1790 - U.S. Census RI - Town of Charlestown, Washington Co., RI.
Ichabod Closson - 1 M-16; 2 M-16; 6 F; Total 9
(note - The above probaly includes the family of his son John, who lived on the farm after Ichabod died in 1791.)
Ichabod was a farmer residing at Charlestown, RI where he died after March 22, 1791 when he made his Will, and before Jun 6, 1791 when his Will was probated. He describes his farm and mentions his four daughters, Elizabeth Kenyon, Mary Saunders, Lydia Closson and Lucy Closson. Also his wife Elizabeth. He gives to the heirs of his son Caleb, five sliver dollars, if they come for it within one year after his Decease. His son John was sole Executor and had the Estate after debts and bequests to daughters and widow were made.
The Town Clerk of Charlestown, RI advised me that Ichabod's Homestead was still known as the Closson Farm in 1916. He also advised that after the debts were paid and terms of the Will executed that the farm was sold on March 30, 1793.
John and his family appears in Washington Co., in the Town of Greenwich, NY in the U.S. Census for 1810 and his widow Marcy and family in the U.S. Census of 1830 of same place.
Children of ICHABOD CLOSSON and ELIZABETH are:
13. i. CALEB CLOSSON, b. Charlestown, Washington Co., RI; d. Bef. 1775, Kingsbury, Charlotte Co., now Washington Co., NY.
ii. ELIZABETH CLOSSON, m. ALEXANDER KENYON.
iii. MARY CLOSSON, b. July 30, 1754, Charlestown, RI; m. JOHN SAUNDERS, December 25, 1775.
iv. JOHN CLOSSON, m. MARCY KENYON, March 11, 1784.
Notes for JOHN CLOSSON:
John and his family appears in Washington Co., in the Town of Greenwich, NY in the U.S. Census for 1810 and his widow Marcy and family in the U.S. Census of 1830 of same place.
v. LYDIA CLOSSON, b. June 03, 1759, Charlestown, RI; d. July 14, 1845, S. Sodus, Wayne Co., NY.
Notes for LYDIA CLOSSON:
Lydia and Lucy were not married in 1791 (Will)
vi. LUCY CLOSSON.
Notes for LUCY CLOSSON:
Lydia and Lucy were not married in 1791 (Will)
9. TIMOTHY CLOSSON (NATHAN, JOSIAH, DANIEL) was born January 21, 1728/29 in Little Compton, RI, and died August 09, 1807 in Rockingham , VT. He married EUNICE POPPLETON Abt. 1753, daughter of SAMUEL POPPLETON and ROSANNA WHALEY.
Notes for TIMOTHY CLOSSON:
He was an early emigrant to Jamestown, VA and later in Dutchess County, NY. Later moved to
Rockingham, VT. He was a soldier of the Revolutionary War. He served in New York and
Vermont Regiments during the Revolution.
More About TIMOTHY CLOSSON:
Fact 1: August 09, 1807, Intered Parker Hill Cemetery, Springfield, VT
Children of TIMOTHY CLOSSON and EUNICE POPPLETON are:
14. i. WILBUR CLOSSON, b. 1754, Jamestown, VA; d. May 18, 1830, Rockingham , VT.
ii. ABIGAIL CLOSSON, b. Abt. 1760.
iii. HANNAH CLOSSON, b. Abt. 1762.
iv. ICHABOD CLOSSON, b. Abt. 1764; d. May 09, 1807.
v. ROSWELL CLOSSON, b. Abt. 1766.
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