Blanche MNU

Abt 1625 - Abt 1678  (~ 53 years)

• Name	Blanche MNU
  Born	Abt 1625	Devonshire, England
  Gender	Female
  Married Name	HEDGE
  Died	Abt 1678	Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I47515	Main
  Last Modified	9 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family	Capt Tristram HULL,   b. 1624, Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England ,   d. 22 Feb 1667, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts  (Age 43 years)
  Children	1. Capt John HULL,   b. 4 Mar 1654, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts ,   d. 30 Mar 1733, Conanicut Island, Newport, Rhode Island  (Age 79 years)
  Last Modified	9 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F14923	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Abt 1625 - Devonshire, England Died - Abt 1678 - Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  m1 Tristram HULL children: 1 Mary Hull (b 1645) 2 Sarah Hull (1647—1647) 3 Sarah Hull (b 1650) 4 Joseph Hull (b 1652), m Experience Harper, lived Kingston, Rhode Island 5 John Hull (1654—1733), Sea captain, m Alice Teddeman 1684 6 Hannah Hull (1656—1732), m Joseph Bliss 1674 m2 William HEDGE —— Blanche was still alive when Hedge died between June 30 1670 (date of will) and July 5, 1670 (ordered by court to bring will and inventory.) The following was recorded in his will, "...whereas Blanch, my wife, hath dealt falsely with me in the covenant of marriage in departing from me, therefore I do in this my last will ... give her 12d. and also what I have received of hers my will is shall be returned to her again." —— The law put the onus on a woman to cry out for help if she was being propositioned against her will. In March 1656 John Gorum was fined forty shillings "for unseemly carriage toward Blanche Hull at an unseasonable time, being in the night." Blanche was fined fifty shillings "for not crying out when she was assaulted by John Gorum in unseemly carriage towards her." Both Gorum and Blanche were married at this time, Gorum to Desire Howland, eldest daughter of John Howland and his wife, Elizabeth Tilley Howland, and Blanche to Tristram Hull. The court evidently considered Blanche to have been a willing participant rather than a victim.