Henry Bull.

About Henry Bull

Henry Bull (1610–1694) was a governor of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, serving for two separate terms, one before and one after the three year period when the English colonies in the region were merged into an administrative union named Dominion of New England. Sailing from England as a young man, Bull first settled in Roxbury in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but soon became a follower of the dissident ministers John Wheelwright and Anne Hutchinson, and was excommunicated from the Roxbury church. With many other followers of Hutchinson, he helped found the settlement of Portsmouth, on Aquidneck Island in the Narragansett Bay. Within a year of arriving there, he and others followed William Coddington to the south end of the island where they established the settlement of Newport.