Arthur Mullies wrote me a few years ago that he thought that our Frances was a daughter or granddaughter of John Mullis.
DNA matches are showing the descendants of Frances Mullis to be matching several of the descendants of John "Jackson" Mullis.
John Jackson Mullis was born in 1720 in Virginia and he died in 1785 in Anson, NC. Both a John Mullis and a Jacob Pyburn were members of the Chatham Militia in 1772. Genealogies online list two wives, Susan Dancer and Rebecca Cheney, but Arthur has his wife as Margaret Brumbelow. He lists only three children, Frances Mullis Pyburn, Solomon Mullis and Mary Elizabeth Mullis Griffin. They just happen to be the names on the matches.
Now I know, ancestry matches are not valid, we aren't triangulating them, but we do have about 15 matches to these lines, so odds are, at least a few are valid. I haven't tried to contact them yet.
So for my Pyburn family members.
Jacob Pyburn m. Frances Mullis, daughter of John Jackson Mullis and Margaret Brumbelow. She was born about 1758-1760. Frances died sometime after 1810, likely 1810-1813 in Tensaw Settlement, now Baldwin County, Alabama.
John Jackson Mullis was born 1720 and died about 1785. His wife Margaret was born about 1740.
John's parents were Richard and Elizabeth Mullis. Richard was born about 1690 and was a son of John Mullis and Elizabeth Edwards.
John Mullis of Orange Co. N. C. resided there from before 1755 until he crossed into adjoining Anson Co. From mid 1750s his neighbors included Brumbelows and after his death in Anson Co. c. 1784 his widow Margaret was on the county census, near sons named John and Solomon. Another son, deduced from records, was James (Marshall) Mullis. Daughters were Elizabeth who married Thos. Griffin, Francis, who married Jacob Pyburn, and a third daughter name unrecorded married William Stewart. John did not marry Susana Dancer, she married another John Mullis four thousand miles distant in Middlesex Co., England. Nor did he marry Rebecca Cheney in Massachusetts: she married John MILLIS. Proof: in 1772 the estate of decedent "Rebecca Bryant alias Millis alias Cheney" was probated in Craven Co. S. C., her marital history a part of her legal name in a probate proceeding.
ReplyDeleteI am at a dead end on my Mullis line. I end at Rebecca Mullis (b, 11825? VA) who was the mother of Moses B (1844), Langford and Jefferson Joseph. Supposedly she first married Nathaniel Gatliff but by 1850 was married to James Harris they lived in Whitley Co KY. Would like to hear from you. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteSorry, I have spent hardly any time on the Mullis line, and most of my information comes from Arthur Mullis. If you haven't reached out to him I would.
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