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William Bull (1683 – March 21, 1755) was a colonial American landowner and politician in the Province of South Carolina. He was a captain in the Tuscarora War and then a colonel in the Yamasee War before he became the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1721. [1]
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Planter, lieutenant governor. Bull was born in April 1683 in St. Andrew’s Parish, the son of Stephen Bull, one of the original English settlers of South Carolina. His father was a successful planter and Indian trader, and William Bull added to his father’s patrimony.
May 17, 2016 · Bull opposed William Henry Lyttelton’s Cherokee War policies, and when Lyttelton left the province in 1760, Bull started negotiations to end the war. Bull’s second term as acting governor (1764–1766) coincided with the Stamp Act crisis in the American colonies.
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Upon the death of Acting Governor Thomas Broughton on November 22, 1737, the Executive Council elected William Bull as the President of the Executive Council and he became Acting Governor of South Carolina until a new governor would be appointed by the Crown.
William Bull was a colonial American landowner and politician in the Province of South Carolina.
Lieutenant Governor William Bull, Jr. empathized with the petitioners, noting that those whites who lived by “the wandering indolence of hunting” could “endanger the public peace of our Frontier Settlements” by destabilising Indian-white relations.
Acting royal governor of South Carolina and son of South Carolina's lieutenant governor, William Bull (1683–1755). William Bull II was born on 24 September 1710 on the family plantation outside of Charleston.
