tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178371563193714863.post6619098540953731562..comments2024-01-15T01:08:52.949-06:00Comments on The Doolittle Gambit: Birthday GirlsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178371563193714863.post-74423315659474642402012-05-06T18:31:48.200-05:002012-05-06T18:31:48.200-05:00To clear up any confusion caused by the previous p...To clear up any confusion caused by the previous poster, the Hulls' earliest Virginia ancestors include the first Sheriff of Blue Grass, VA and a Captain in the Revolutionary War (hardly cave men hunting with bow and arrow). The "particularly rebellious generation" referred to joined the Confederate army shortly after their "civilized" neighbors from north of the river burned down the family homestead. Their sojourn in "civilized" Maryland was a great trial with suffering only eased by the friendship of the Pull family.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178371563193714863.post-65697394560770177812012-05-06T10:10:22.326-05:002012-05-06T10:10:22.326-05:00Just to be clear, then, the Hulls are natives, fro...Just to be clear, then, the Hulls are natives, from a clan whose roots in the hills of Virginia stretch back to the days of hunting deer with bow and arrow. Some time after a particularly rebellious generation of the clan suffered defeat in the Civil War, they moved north to a civilized portion of Maryland. Nevertheless, these native Americans did not forget their roots and recently relocated back south to their ancestral countryside.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178371563193714863.post-64884534914484308312012-05-05T15:57:13.895-05:002012-05-05T15:57:13.895-05:00The Hulls are not recent "emigrants" to ...The Hulls are not recent "emigrants" to Virginia. They are natives (9th generation to be exact) of Virginia and finally returned to their homeland from the "other" side of the river.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com