being dissatisfied with work he ran away and was secrety shipped on board a vessel bound on a forein voyageHe continued sailing until he was ether 28 or 30, all that is really known from this time is that he was a privateer in the French war and became a prizmaster and brought in a valuable prize taken from the Fench. he later settled in Newport where he worked as a craver a suport his parents who had become very stressed in curcumestane there ofre needing to live with him. He married Ruth Cornell, daughter of George Cornell a reputable farmer of Middletown they were wed August 18th 1769. They had four children the last of wich was Henry Bull the 4th. Johns father died on December 24th 1774 but before he passed on he was convinsed by his daughter Phoebe to change the will making her the executor. Jonh constiered himself griefisly insulted by this, thus causing a rift between him and his sister that was never resolved. One of the main pionts of the wiil being the Phoebe gained control of there fathers estate. He was a Whig During the revolution, for wich he was imprisoned with many others on board the Lord Sandwich prison ship for about six weeks. this was due to his out spoken patriotism in favor of Britian One instance of this is when he helped the armorer of the king to hide the kings tools in his possesion in a hole dug in bulls fathers basement, the day befor the armoer defected to the American army. A british general seached for the tools in most of the houses in Newport but luckly they were not found. After the evacuation of the town by the british army the tolls were returned to armoer and used for the american cause. when the town was occupied by the British army the Bull estate was used to quarter soilders forcing bulls sister out. But when sprting came the soilders moved to camp and Bull moved in. Given that he was in posesion of the land and the only way to remove him was a judgement of the court. With the town...
