Richard Mullis

Notes:

12 Feb 1732/33 Sold Lancaster County land to Dale Carter

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth. Elizabeth and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Mullis was born about 1720 in Essex, VA; died about 1785 in Anson County, North Carolina.
2. George Mullis was born in 1725 in North Carolina; and died.
3. Willoughby Mullis
4. Richard Mullis

Notes:

John Mullis was an Indentured Servant in Virginia from 1658, lived and farmed in Lancaster County on Corotoman and the Rappahannoch Rivers from 1675 through 1717, in Christ Church Parish. He and his wife, Elizabeth Edwards, owned 650 acres of land received through her father, John Edwards.
6 Jul 1685 Sold land Deed book 6, pg73 Lancaster Co 1 Sep 1701 Gave 65 acres each to granchildren Carotman River, Lancaster County Va. First Mullis immigrant to USA according to Mabel Matthews Mullis. Most present day Mullis have common ancestors in John and Richard Mullis. Tradition holds that John came from Ireland or Scotland to escape political oppression, and he in truth arrived in Virginia Plantation during the tyranny of Cromwell's fanatical Puritan Commonwealth,1649-1660. John was the only Mullis recorded coming to the New World prior to the 1820s. ?b?John Mullis?/b? lived in Lancaster County, Virginia, and migrated to AnsonCounty, North Carolina.

John married Elizabeth Edwards. Elizabeth (daughter of John Edwards) was born about 1655; died about 1720. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]