The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-23

OF their house, mounted their horses, and
started across country. through the high
lands of New Jersey. past the pictur-
esquc Ramapo Falls. until they reached
| thcr new home, Just about the time il
was finished, and the reunited family
| spent their first night in the log house
by Otterkill. in later days TO be known as
| "the land o. Goshen" Other families coon
| followed, and In few years Mr.. Denn
lhd disposed OF enough land TO make him
Independent in fortune and still left him
large landed proprietor.
Proved His Worth
Among these settlers was Daniel Crom-
line who very soon determined to build
tavern on the new high road. which
was being opened between the Hudson
and Delaware rivers. Stone was cheaper
and more plentiful than other building
material. He went TO New York to find
Bull, young Englishmap, lust landed
and in sore straits. He had held a con-
tract to build bridge near Dublin. but
failed 10 complete 1t within the stIpu-
lated time. Unable TO meet his oblga-
tions he escaped imprisonment for debt
by sailing for America. When he ar
rived the captain insisted that his pas
sage money was insufficient and that ho
, must be sold into bondage TO make UP
the, deficit. Cromine advanced the money,
iin9ing that Bull was 4 stone mason
and took him back to his camp.
1t was but natural that in time the
young man should seek the nearest set
tlement, the home OF Sarah Wells. and il
was Just as natural that the young peo-
pie should become sweethearts II was
also, perhaps, just as natural that Mr..
and Mrs DEM should look askance at
the young and penniess stranger until he
proved his worth. He proved IL. Set
tiers were coming fast into ''the land
OF Goshen" and the services OF William
Bull were in demand. He grew prosper
land alongside the 100 given Sarah Wells
by her foster father and on March %,
1IlS. they were married by Justice John
Merritt. the second magistrate appointed
by queen Anne for the province.
Aided by Magistrate.
This magistrate. who seems to have
oeen man OF resources. smootlIed out
what had appeared to be a great diff
Guilty. William Bull was communicant
oil the Church OF England. thc canons of
rlage banns upon three successive occa
sions TO make valid the contract. Bull
was a strict churchnaD. and not given
10 change from established custom The
magistrate could not make the long jour-
ney from Albany TO New York To pro-
-nounce the banns. How he helped them
out OF their perplexty is best told by
Mistress Bull 10 her granddaughter many
years afterward:
After some 'delibcration, Justice Mer-
ritt concluded that three proclaInaIIons
made the Same day. would be safe and
valid under the circumstances. So the
magistrate took his prayer book in hand
and went 10 the door in the front part
OF the house and there proclaimed the
DannS 10 the birds and the trees, Then
he walked 10 the back door looking out
on the barnyard. and made his second
proclamation 10 the cows and sheep
Then. again, he went to the front door
where he pronounced the banns ones more
10 the fields and Wilderness at large
thcn. as the cattle and trees tho birds
aud ho~ers seemed 10 give their consent,
We were married"
Built Stone Houses.
-Four years later William Bull built tho
stone house. The young wife helped him
so much In the building that he always
insisted that they bulls il together. The
structure was forty feet square. with
walls three feet thick on every side
There WAS collar under the whole
houac. that II is practically three
stories and half In height. Many Years
later. behind a blind wall in this same
cellar, several highly cherished colts were
hidden 10 save them from British and
Tory rlaraudcrs though the house itself
was never seriously moIestcd during
revolutionary times: William Bull died
in 1755 al tho age of 81. His widow sur
vived him until 1895, when she died al
the age OF l02. She sleeps by the side
OF her husband in the old buryins ground
overlooking the old stone house where
she lived 10 sec 33J living children.
grandchildren and great grandchildren.
rbc old stone louHe is now the home OF
In direct descent from the builders of the
house and Tie founders OF the family
William Bull aud Sarah Wells. II Is
In an almost perfect state of preservation |
and the interior is vcritablc museum |
whore may bo seen the old hall clock. |
Imported by William Bull from England.
tho spinning wheels and loom used by
Sarah Wells Bull and her daughters, old
time cootting utensils and dishes. aud
many other rarely interesting relics of |
the early days, and including - photo
graph of the wedding dress worn by |
Sarah Wells. aud In which "A number |
OF tho daughters OF ive generations |
have been married. The dress itself is |
In possession OF another branch OF the |
family In New Jersey. and is ono OF their |
most cherished belongings
The Bull stone house stands on the old |
road between NcwburelI and the county |
seat mt Goshen. from which IT is dis |
lant about five miles Goshen itself was
built on the old Waywayanda patent. II |
~ cSiiInated that there are more than
$4,000 living descendants OF Sarah Wells
Bull and her husband. and their annual
reunion AZ Campbell Hall and the old
homestead Is one of the most interesting.
yearly events in Grange county.