Appendix A 



late whole plantations was most happily averted and at the 

 same time the signal hand of heaven gave defeat unto the 

 purposes of the French Squadron at sea, so that they had 

 something else to do than to visit the coast of New England. 



Rev. JOSEPH HULL, Oxonian, associate and friend of 

 Dimmock, who from "religious scruples" had resigned a 

 living at Northleigh in Devon, was also a founder of 

 Barnstable, though once dismissed from his local church 

 because of "unexcused absence from communion," he 

 having, in fact, gone to preach at Yarmouth, five miles 

 away! He was soon reinstated, however; but a large 

 influx of people arriving from Devon (1639) with their 

 own pastor, "Mr. Lothrop," a popular and tolerant man, 

 the majority preferred the latter, "with whom they had 

 suffered persecution in England." Up to that time, Hull 

 had been "the leading man in the town, general manager 

 of its affairs, deputy to the Colony Court, and pastor to 

 the church and congregation," 



The founder of a civil community, and however small or 

 weak it may have been, and though no Homer or Virgil has 

 sung his praises, yet he may honestly and truly have said: 

 "I was the instrument in the hands of God to build up this 

 little community and to convert the savage Indians from enmity 

 to friendship." 



But because of the church quarrel, "within one short 

 year he fell from his high position, he was excluded from 

 office," lost his influence, and many of his early friends. 

 Chagrined at "the ungenerous treatment he thought he 

 had received," he removed to Yarmouth, where he or- 

 ganized an "irregular" church composed of his Barn- 

 stable friends and of critics of "the settled minister," 

 Marmaduke Matthews, "witty and learned, but not dis- 

 tinguished for depth of thought or sound judgment." 



Among Hull's stanch supporters was one Dr. Thomas 

 Starr, not however an ancestor of the apostle of religious 

 freedom, Thomas Starr King. All these men were now 



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