Bull was appointed lieutenant colonel in 1776[1] and later commissioned as a colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.[3][2] He was taken prisoner and imprisoned in New Jersey and Long Island.[1] After returning from the war, he continued to work as a manager at the Warwick Furnace.[1] He held an interest in Joanna Furnace in Robeson Township, Berks County until about 1831.[1]
Bull was a delegate to the convention which framed the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 or 1790, sources differ.[1][3] He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing Chester County from 1793 to 1801.[3][4] Around 1810 or 1812, he was associated with the construction of a road from Lancaster Turnpike to Welsh Mountain.[1]
Bull helped build St. Mary's Church in East Nantmeal (later Warwick Township).[1]
Personal life
Bull married Ann Hunter, daughter of John Hunter, of Whiteland on February 28, 1771. She died in 1817. He married Lydia Crowell, a widow, of Cape May, New Jersey, in 1819.[1] He had eight children, Elizabeth (born 1771), Mary (1774–1798), Ann (1776–1850), Martha (1779–1850), Sarah (1779–1817), Levi (1780–1859), James Hunter (1782–1797) and Margaret (1787–c. 1819).[1] His son Levi was an Episcopal clergyman and lawyer. His grandson Thomas K. Bull was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.[3] He lived near Warwick Furnace[2] and purchased some land from the Warwick Company near the south branch of French Creek.[1] He was a vestryman of St. Peter's Episcopal Church.[1]
Bull died on July 13, 1837.[1] A few years prior to his death, an act of Congress paid Bull an annual pension of US$575 for his service in the Revolutionary War.[1]
