HULL
HULL
column led by Wayne at the capture of Stony-
Point, N.Y., and for his conduct was made
lieutenant-colonel. He was deputy inspector of
Howe's division under Baron Steuben during the
campaign of 1780, and was invited to enter the
military family of Washington as an aide, which
honor he declined by advice of Baron Steuben,
and lie suggested his friend Colonel Humphreys
for the position, which appointment was made.
He made a successful attack with 600 men
against Colonel de Lancey at Morrisania, Jan. 23,
ITfO, capturing 52 prisoners, GO horses and a
number of cattle, which he successfully guarded
in a retreat to the borders of Connecticut, pur-
sued by a large British reinfoi'cenient from forts
Wasliingtouand Independence. For his conduct
in this engagement he received the thanks of
General Washington in general orders, and also
the thanks of congress. He was granted leave
of absence after six years' service and passed the
remainder of the winter of 1781 in Boston, where
he was married to a daughter of the Hon.
FORT /v\A<K»/MAW.
Abraham Fuller, of Newton, Mass. In July, 17S1, he was ordered by Washington to Bedford, N.Y., where he arranged with Count de Rocham- beau an attack on the British in New York. This action, in which lie was an aide to the Duke de Lauzun, re-;ulted in the transferof the seat of war from New York harbor to the Chesapeake; and when Washington led the army south, Colonel Hull was made adjutant and inspector general of the army in the Higlilands, serving until the evacuation of New York by the British, Nov. 2."5, 1783. He then took possession of the forts about New York and commanded the corps of liglit infantry which escorted General Washington into the city uf)on his return from Virginia. He became second in command of the only regiment not disbanded at the close of the war, Novem- ber, 17a3, General Heath being made its colonel. In 1784 he was ordered to make a formal demand on Governor-General Haldimand at Quel>ec for the surrr-nder of the frontier posts of Niagara. Detroit. Mackinac and others, still held
by the British in violation of the treat}' of
Paris. This, Governor-General Haldimand , in the
absence of instructions, declined to do, and it was
not till after the Jay Treaty of 1794 that the forts
were surrendered. Colonel Hull's regiment was
disbanded in 17S6, and he practised law in New-
ton, Mass., where he erected a large brick resi-
dence and where one son and seven daughters
grew up. In Shays's rebellion he commanded
the left wing of General Lincoln's army, and by
a forced march surprised and dispensed the
insurgents in their camps at Pelham. In Januarj-,
1793, he went to Quebec as a commissioner to
arrange a treaty with the Northwestern Indians,
but the British policy prevented its consumma-
tion. In 1798 he visited Europe and in 1799 he
was appointed judge of the court of common
pleas for I\Iiddlesex county. He served in both
branches of the Jlassachusetts legislature and as
a member of the council. He was a founder and
charter member of the Society of the Cincin-
nati, commander of the Ancient and Honorable
artillery companj- of Boston, and in 1798 was
elected major-general of the 3d division, state
militia, which position he resigned in 1805,
when he accepted the governorship of Michigan
Territory from President Jefferson, and he re-
moved his family to Detroit and built a brick
house in that village in 1806. He was reap-
pointed at the end of his first term by President
Jefferson, serving 1805-13, and in February, 1812,
he went to Washington to urge upon the
government the necessity of additional troops
to defend Detroit against the Indians. President
Madison called for 1200 militia from the gover-
nor of Ohio for that service and Governor Hull
was requested to lead them to Detroit, which he
declined to do, not desiring to assume a military
command. When Colonel Kingsbury, who was
appointed, fell sick. Governor Hull, in order to
lose no time, assumed command and was given
the rank of brigadier-general. He marched the
three undisciplined and poorly-armed regiments
to Urbana, Ohio, where 300 regulars, under
Colonel Miller, joined him, and thej' cut a mili-
tary road 200 miles through the wilderness,
built bridges, causeways and block-liouses, and
on reaching the site of Toledo, June 30. 1812,
unaware that war had been declared, June 18, he
transferred the invalids, stores and important
papers to a schooner for Detroit. Wiien General
Hull with the remainder of his army reached
Del^'oit, July 5, he learned of the declaration
of war and that the schooner had been captured
at Maiden by the British commanding the place.
On July 12, in obedience to instructions from
the war department, he crossed the river into
Canada with 1000 effective men, all that could
be spared from garrison duty, and established a
