Hope Hull (March 13, 1763 – October 4, 1818) was an American minister. He was considered the founder of the Methodist Church in the U.S. state of Georgia.[1]
He was born in Worcester County, Maryland, in 1763.[1] Before being ordained a minister, he was a private in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War[2] and a house carpenter of Baltimore.[1] He organized Reheboth Academy in Wilkes County around the turn of the century.[1] The school was "torn down not long after 1823" but in its day was "a large, nice, well built house" set by a grove of "fine trees" with no approaching avenue.[3] Hope Hull settled in Athens, Georgia, around 1802 and was the Methodist minister there.[4] The first Methodist church building in Athens, Georgia, was "a crude log cabin about 22 x 24 feet in size, presenting externally the appearance of a negro cabin without a chimney. This little place of worship was superseded in 1810 by a somewhat more commodious building in another location and known as 'Hull's Meeting House.'"[4] He served as a trustee of the University of Georgia.[2]
His sons were Asbury Hull, a lawyer and statesman in Georgia, and Henry Hull, a university professor.[1]
