Reverend Joseph Hull, Anglican COE, 1595 - 1665: Founder of Barnstable MA (Barnstable Village, Hyannisport, Hyannis, Osterville, Barnstable in 1639)

My Grandfather give or take 400 years. The Reverend was of the Church of England's famous "middle way" that was remarkably unpopular at the time of the English Civil War. Joseph and a ship of followers landed in Weymouth, MA around 1630 and formed Hull's Colony, now Hull, Massachusetts.

Joseph was initially on excellent terms with Puritan Governor (Massachusetts Bay Colony) John Winthrop until his "broad church" leanings suggested that men should indeed enjoy a drink on the sabbath and not spend the day in church. After all, men worked six days a week and were entitled, Joseph argued, to a day of respite and presumably fun - a term unfamiliar to Puritan Boston, Salem, Cambridge and so on.

Joseph was ultimately forbidden to preach in Mass Bay Colony so he settled Barnstable County (Barnstable Village, Osterville, Hyannis) on Cape Cod, before removing to Maine where he preached to seafaring families from York and the Isles of Shoals. Reverend Hull died at the Isles of Shoals at age 65.

He was too puritanical for the Church of England in the early 1600's, and far too liberal for Puritan Boston. Oxford educated and absolutely disruptive, Hull is cited as the primary reason Governor Winthrop refused to provide Maine with protection from Maine's murderous Indian population. Despite Winthrop's worst intentions, Hull died of natural causes on the magnificent coat of Maine.