Commodore Issac Hull (Captain Issac Hull) USS Constitution, War of 1812

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Commodore Issac Hull (Captain Issac Hull) USS Constitution, War of 1812

Thomas H. Esperson

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07/31/2024

Commodore Issac Hull (Captain Issac Hull) USS Constitution, War of 1812

Issac Hull was of the Connecticut branch of the Thomas Hull the Younger family. Hull served as the Captain of the USS Constitution during the War of 1812. After a twelve-hour chase that extended from Massachusetts Bay to Maine, Hull's canons immobilized British vessel HMS Guerriere, Captained by the nephew King George III.

This was an embarrassment to the Crown and the first decisive sea battle of the war. President John Adams was close to Hull, as was his son President John Quincy Adams, who named his son Issac Hull Adams. The Hull - Adams family relationship lasted for generations.

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Thomas H. Esperson

Tom Hull Esperson was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts on April 12, 1960. He is the son of Harold Eliot Esperson Jr (1927 -) formerly of Hamilton MA, and the late June Hull Esperson (1929 - 2005) of Ipswich MA. He is the youngest Grandson of Stanley Adams Hull and Ann Buffett Hull, late of Ipswich. Protestant, Anglican Episcopalian. Married Karen A. Russell in 1997; divorced 2012. Esperson graduated from Bentley College in 1983 and joined Texas Instruments Corporation. He subsequently matriculated to Harvard Business School from which he graduated in 1998. By 2000, Esperson was Vice President of Fairchild Semiconductor. By 2006, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of UST Global. By 2019, Esperson was Director of PCI Compliance and Advisor to the President of the Diamond Trust, Seattle. Esperson's ancestral home of Ipswich, MA was founded by 10 men of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1632 including John Winthrop Jr and Thomas Hardy, Esperson's maternal Grandfather to the 12th power.

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