Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
Notes for John BULL
[descendants of edward bull.FTW]
John Bull was born in 1815 in Bloomfield, Prince Edward Co., Ontario,Canada, the son of John Bull and Mary Palen, and grandson of Josiah BullJr., and Mehitable Thomas. His sister Sarah and brother Cory were alsoborn in Bloomfield.
John went to school in a schoolhouse where reading, writing andarithmetic were the only subjects taught, although he could not attendmuch in the Summer.
"Our farm was a big one. I ploughed when I was eight years old,barefoot over thistles and stones. I cried myself to sleep many times,and my brother Cory cried too. When we were little chaps we got ourground ready to sow. I was scarce twelve years old. Cory was sick. Itook the bag of wheat to the field on the stone-boat. I sowed the wheatand went back to bed. Cory was full of pity for me. He said, 'Are youtired?' He knew I was. Next day I sowed several bushels of wheat. " Onetime, when John was a boy, after his father built the new house, the oldlog house being used for storing grain and feed, the "little pigs gotinto it one day and I rushed in and scared them. They were so frightenedthey ran up the stairs. I followed, and they all jumped out the windowand went off limping. Father threatened to punish me at night. Heforgot to, and I went early to bed that night."
In 1834 he helped to build the first grist mill in Bloomfield. His"stint", then age 19, was "to pack fifteen or twenty barrles of flour ina night and keep the mill-stones going with wheat beneath."
John married Pamela J. Davis in 1843. She wore a gown of "factorymaterial and long scarf of silk gauze, a shawl and hood of black silkbound with pink." They were married at Demorestville by the Rev. RobertRogers, a Presbyterian Minister, and for their wedding trip went toBelleville. "The apple cuts brought us together." The "apple cuts" werea part of the social times with a variety of amusements for the youngpeople. Peeling the apples, stringing them when cored, singing, squaredancing. Then came supper with "the usual round of sweet cider, applesouce, preserves, pound cake, fried cake, honey and cheese, and we hadthe best kind of home-made bread." After supper, they played a gamecalled "Prinktom", where a young lady would stand in the middle of thefloor with the others sitting in a circle around. The play was to selectpartners. Then all would march around the room singing 'Come philanders,let's be a marching. Everyone for his true love searching. Choose us noother! Fol de rol de ra do!!'
John and his wife Pamela had two children: Herbert Stanton and IdaAugusta. Herbert S. married Anna Burlingham, his first wife, daughter ofDavid Burlingham, and they had a daughter Norma, who died shortly afterher marriage to John Rowe. Herbert later married his second wife JaneCraft. Johns daughter Ida married Thomas Henry Noxon, who built "TeWhare." Eventually they moved to California. They had a son, Herbert(Bert).
John "once took a paper printed in Albany, N.Y, an OddFellows' paper. Itwas a long story about Wilford Montressor, or 'The Secret Order of theSeven.' After a time this paper was not permitted in Canada." John wasinitiated with his good friend Thomas Yarwood into number 153. John"went as far as I could go but somehow missed the Noble Grand's chair."
John, his wife Pamela and their son Herbert S. are buried in the Familyplot, Glenwood, Picton.
John Bull was born in 1815 in Bloomfield, Prince Edward Co., Ontario,Canada, the son of John Bull and Mary Palen, and grandson of Josiah BullJr., and Mehitable Thomas. His sister Sarah and brother Cory were alsoborn in Bloomfield.
John went to school in a schoolhouse where reading, writing andarithmetic were the only subjects taught, although he could not attendmuch in the Summer.
"Our farm was a big one. I ploughed when I was eight years old,barefoot over thistles and stones. I cried myself to sleep many times,and my brother Cory cried too. When we were little chaps we got ourground ready to sow. I was scarce twelve years old. Cory was sick. Itook the bag of wheat to the field on the stone-boat. I sowed the wheatand went back to bed. Cory was full of pity for me. He said, 'Are youtired?' He knew I was. Next day I sowed several bushels of wheat. " Onetime, when John was a boy, after his father built the new house, the oldlog house being used for storing grain and feed, the "little pigs gotinto it one day and I rushed in and scared them. They were so frightenedthey ran up the stairs. I followed, and they all jumped out the windowand went off limping. Father threatened to punish me at night. Heforgot to, and I went early to bed that night."
In 1834 he helped to build the first grist mill in Bloomfield. His"stint", then age 19, was "to pack fifteen or twenty barrles of flour ina night and keep the mill-stones going with wheat beneath."
John married Pamela J. Davis in 1843. She wore a gown of "factorymaterial and long scarf of silk gauze, a shawl and hood of black silkbound with pink." They were married at Demorestville by the Rev. RobertRogers, a Presbyterian Minister, and for their wedding trip went toBelleville. "The apple cuts brought us together." The "apple cuts" werea part of the social times with a variety of amusements for the youngpeople. Peeling the apples, stringing them when cored, singing, squaredancing. Then came supper with "the usual round of sweet cider, applesouce, preserves, pound cake, fried cake, honey and cheese, and we hadthe best kind of home-made bread." After supper, they played a gamecalled "Prinktom", where a young lady would stand in the middle of thefloor with the others sitting in a circle around. The play was to selectpartners. Then all would march around the room singing 'Come philanders,let's be a marching. Everyone for his true love searching. Choose us noother! Fol de rol de ra do!!'
John and his wife Pamela had two children: Herbert Stanton and IdaAugusta. Herbert S. married Anna Burlingham, his first wife, daughter ofDavid Burlingham, and they had a daughter Norma, who died shortly afterher marriage to John Rowe. Herbert later married his second wife JaneCraft. Johns daughter Ida married Thomas Henry Noxon, who built "TeWhare." Eventually they moved to California. They had a son, Herbert(Bert).
John "once took a paper printed in Albany, N.Y, an OddFellows' paper. Itwas a long story about Wilford Montressor, or 'The Secret Order of theSeven.' After a time this paper was not permitted in Canada." John wasinitiated with his good friend Thomas Yarwood into number 153. John"went as far as I could go but somehow missed the Noble Grand's chair."
John, his wife Pamela and their son Herbert S. are buried in the Familyplot, Glenwood, Picton.