BIOGRAPHY: Martin M. Bull; New York co., NY surname: Bull submitted by Elizabeth Burns (burns at asu.edu) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm Submitted Date: June 3,2005 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb ************************************************ Author: Walter Barrett Martin W. Bull Page 109 Old Merchants, Walter Barrett, Thomas R. Knox, 1885 Martin W. Bull was a clerk with Peter A. Schneck and Company in 1804 and is an old family here. One of them, Frances, was a translator of languages in the commencement of this century, and the first that I know of having existed here. I have one of his 1806 cards: "Francis Bull, No. 24 William St., Thankful to his friends and the public for past favors, informs them that he continues translating the following languages: German, Dutch, Irish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, English and Italian. He settles accounts, ever so intricate, for masters of vessels and others--all on the most moderate terms." He did that business only a few years, and I think he died about 1810. There was an old house as early as 1795 "Michael and Thomas Bull" that did a very heavy business in this city for many years. They went out of business about 1800. Soon after, William G. Bull used to sell teas annually in this city. At that time he went out as supercargo to China every year, and was more or less interested in the venture. He was in this city as a merchant many years, in fact, he was regarded as the best judge of teas in the United States, until he died a few months ago. Another branch of that family were engaged in the saddler business as early as 1806 and they have continued it ever since.