| Cemetery Number | SK104 |
| Town | SOUTH KINGSTOWN |
| Cemetery Name | BULL BLOCK HOUSE LOT |
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| Graves List | Display Graves List |
| Location | MIDDLEBRIDGE ROAD |
| State | RI |
| Direction | W |
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| Distance | 1175 |
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| Size in Feet | 30 |
| Size in Feet | 30 |
| Burials | 7 |
| Inscriptions | 0 |
| Fieldstones | 7 |
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| Exist? | YES |
| Last seen date? | 2003 |
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| Vandalism | N |
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| Pole | N |
| Comment | This cemetery is located 1175 west of Middlebridge Road just west of the bridge. Enter the driveway to house #164 Middlebridge Road and proceed west to the house of Anthony Colletta. The Jireh Bull site abuts Colletta’s land. The site was heavily excavated in 1917. In 2003 it was boggy and heavily overgrown with thick brush, briars, and vines. The seven fieldstone-marked graves are located northeast of the site of the Bull Block House on a knoll. The cemetery is thirty feet square, on a slight knoll, in good condition, with no enclosure and no historical cemetery sign. This property, the site of an archaeological dig in 1917, is now the property of the Rhode Island Historical Society.
In 1663 Jireh Bull purchased a twenty-acre house lot stretching up the hill from the Pettaquamscutt River which formed the eastern boundary. In 1668 he purchased five hundred acres from the Pettaquamscutt purchasers. Captain Waite Winthrop writing to his father, Governor John Winthrop of Connecticut, on July 9, 1675 describes the property as “… larg stone house with a good ston wall yard before it which is a kind of small fortyfycation to it.” During King Phillip’s War (1675-1676) the Indians attacked and burned the house and killed fifteen of the seventeen inhabitants. Jireh Bull was not killed in the massacre but came back to live on the property after the war. It is not clear whether the cemetery contains the remains of these fifteen people or is simply the family burial ground for the Bull family.
Found, registered, and recorded by John Sterling & James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries. |
| Condition | good |
| Enclosure | no enclosure |
| Gate | no gate |
| Growth | overgrown-briars |
| Terrain | hilly moderate |
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