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Giles Hall. V 4, Anne Prentiss. V 5, Richard Law (1733-1806), member of the Continental 

 Congress. V 7, Lucy, Ann Mary, and Sarah Hall. V 8, Brenton and Jonathan Hall, were 

 farmers. V 9, Samuel and Elisha Hall, were graduated from college. V 10 (F M), Abigail 

 Hall (1748-1788). V 11 (F F), John Foote (born 1742), became pastor of the Congregational 

 Church in Cheshire, Connecticut. V 12 (M F), Andrew Hull (born 1758), a brigadier general 

 of the militia. V 13 (M M), Elizabeth Atwater. V 14, William Hull (1753-1800), served with 

 distinction through the Revolution and was appointed lieutenant colonel in 1783. In the War 

 of 1812 as brigadier general he surrendered to the English at Detroit. V 15, Joseph Hull, a 

 lieutenant of artillery in the Revolutionary war; in early life was in the West India trade. 



VI 1, John Law (born 1761), a lawyer. VI 2, Richard Law (born 1763), was captain of 

 one of the first steam packets running between New York and New Haven; became a mid- 

 shipman on the Trumbull and commandant and collector of the port of New London. VI 3, 

 Jonathan (born 1765) and Christopher Law. VI 4, Benjamin Law (1767-1812), was in the 

 United States navy. VI 5, Anne (1768-1849) and Mary (born 1775) Law. VI 6, Lyman Law 

 (born 1770), a lawyer and member of Congress. Fraternity of F: VI 8, Mary Ann Foote (born 

 1770). VI 10, William Lambert Foote. VI 11, Lucinda Foote (born 1772), was qualified at the 

 age of 12 years to enter Yale College. VI 12 (F), Samuel Augustus Foote (1780-1846), occa- 

 sionally made voyages to the West Indies, having given up the study of law on account of his 

 health. He was elected to both houses of Congress and in 1834 was chosen governor of Con- 

 necticut. VI 13 (M), Eudocia Hull, a "true executrix of the household." Fraternity of M: VI 15, 

 MarabHull. VI 16, Henry Whittlesley. VI 17, Elizabeth Hull. VI 18, Rev. Dr. A. Todd. VI 19, 

 Sarah and Elizabeth Hull. V 20, Mary Hull. VI 21, William Hitchcock. VI 22, Isaac Hull 

 (1773-1843), showed such skill in the West India trade that he was commissioned 4th lieutenant 

 upon the organization of the United States navy in 1798. He distinguished himself in the War 

 of 1812 as commander of the Constitution in the action with the Guerriere. A nephew of Isaac 

 Hull, Joseph Bartine Hull (1832-1890), from 1862 to 1864 superintended the building of gunboats 

 at St. Louis and commanded at the Philadelphia navy yard in 1866. 



Fraternity of Propositus: VII 1, John Alfred Foote (1803-1891), member of Congress. 



VII 3, Augustus Edwin Foote. VII 4 (consort), Caroline Flagg. VII 5 (Propositus) ANDREW 

 HULL FOOTE. VII 6 (consort), Caroline Street. 



Children of Propositus: VIII 2, Josephine Foote (born 1837). VII 3, Augustus Foote 

 (born 1847), in government employ at Washington, D.C. VIII 4, William Foote (1848-1862). 



VIII 6, John Foote (born 1859). 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



DAVIS, C. 1870. History of Wallingford, Connecticut. Meriden: The Author, pp. 806-821. 



FOOTE, A. 1907. Foote Family. Rutland: Marble City Press. 5-607 pp. 



HALL, S., and N. 1886. Genealogical Notes ... of Hon. Lyman Hall of Georgia. Albany: 



J. Munsell's Sons, viii, 9-191 pp. 



HOPPIN, J. 1874. Life of Andrew Hull Foote. New York: Harper & Bros, x, 14-411 pp. 

 MASON, P. 1894. A record of the Descendants of Richard Hull. Milwaukee: 3-78 pp. 



22. EBENEZER Fox. 



EBENEZER Fox was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, January 30, 1763. 

 He was the son of a tailor and belonged to a poor and large family. He was 

 placed with a farmer at the age of 7 years. At 12 years of age, at a time when 

 rebellion was in the air, he and another boy walked to Providence to go to sea; 

 the love of freedom, the spirit of adventure, were with them. Fox shipped to the 

 island of Santo Domingo and returned to near Providence, when two British war 

 vessels intercepted them, their vessel was run aground, and Fox swam to shore. 

 He entered the naval service, was captured, and kept on the prison-ship Jersey, 

 but later he was sent to Jamaica, from which island he escaped and returned to 

 America after the surrender of Cornwallis. In his autobiography he repeatedly 

 admits a wanderlust. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Fox, E. 1847. The Adventures of Ebenezer Fox in the Revolutionary War. Boston: Fox. 

 240 pp. 



