Dashiell family papers

The Dashiell family lived in Queen Anne’s and Talbot counties in Maryland, where Erastus Franklin Dashiell acted as a minister for several Protestant Episcopalian churches in the area. Dashiell married Elizabeth Hull, the daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Hull, on June 2, 1852/3. They had at least four children, three of which lived to adulthood: Elizabeth, May, and Caroline. Their first child, Franklin Denwood, died at one year old in 1856/7 and was buried at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Centreville, Maryland, where Dashiell preached.

Dashiell, son of James W. and Mary Milcah Jones Dashiell, was born on May 22, 1821 in Somerset County, Maryland. He attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and received seminary training at the General Theological Seminary in New York, New York. He was ordained in 1849 as a deacon at Saint Andrew’s Church in Baltimore, Maryland by Reverend William Rollinson Whittingham, Bishop of Maryland. He attended Christ Church in Calvert County from 1849 to 1856, St. Paul’s Parish in Centreville from 1856 to 1860, Wye Parish from 1859-1867, and St. Michael’s Parish and other Talbot County churches from 1867 until 1880. Dashiell died on March 30, 1886 and was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery in Easton. For more information on his service at St. Paul’s Church, see the Harrison Collection, 1790-1890, MS 432 (Box 3, Volume 6, pages 123-125).

The Hull family lived in Belvidere, New Jersey, where Daniel Hull worked as a merchant. Caroline Elizabeth Hull was born on September 8, 1827 and died on July 27, 1867 and was also buried in Spring Hill Cemetery.