Elizabeth (Edwards) Mullis (abt. 1665 - bef. 1722)

Descendants

Died before 1722 before about age 57 in Christ Church Parish, Lancaster County, Virginia Colony

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Biography

Elizabeth (Edwards) Mullis was born in about 1665, location unknown. She died in 1745 in Christ Church Parish, Lancaster County, Virginia Colony.^[1]

Per partition of land settlement of 1685, Elizabeth was daughter of John Edwards and wife of John Mullis. The lands of her father were divided between her (with husband, John) and Thomas Brewer in Lancaster County, Colonial Virginia, 450 acres to each heir.^[2]

In 1685 Elizabeth Mullis inherited 450 acres of land, her share of her deceased father's land. Her father was John Edwards, a cooper and land owner. One of her siblings (Thomas Brewer, supposedly the husband of a sister) came into an equal share. At that time, she was wife of John Mullis. Their domicile was in Christ Church Parish, Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, where John Edwards' lands were located.^[3]

In a Gift Deed in 1702, the children of John and Elizabeth Mullis were as follows:^[4]

1. Stephen Mullis
2. John Mullis (d. before 1710)
3. George Mullis (d. before 1710),
4. Richard Mullis
5. Abigail (Mullis) Rhodes, married John Rhodes
6. Elizabeth (Mullis) Curtis, married Richard Curtis (b. about 1682, d. after 1710)
7. Mary Mullis

The children would have been born between about 1682 and 1702.

A 1710 Amended Gift Deed reflected deaths of John and George, and lands gifted rearranged to accommodate deaths, and by which time daughters Abigail and Elizabeth had married to a Mr. Curtis and Rhodes, respectively. Mary disappears from subsequent records (reason unknown).^[5]

By 1722 John and Elizabeth's designated heirs had taken possession of lands bequeathed them in 1710.^[6]

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Sources

1. ↑ Birth date is an estimate based on having been married in 1785. Death date is an estimate based on Land Transfer records in which her children were occupying the lands given to them.
2. ↑ #Landtransfer1685
3. ↑ #LandTransfer1685
4. ↑ #Deed1702
5. ↑ #DeedAmmeendment1710
6. ↑ Possibly land or tax records

• Book by William Arthur Mullies, Mullis Family History
• John and Elizabeth (Edwards) Mullis along with Thomas Brewer, inherited her father's land in 1685 in Lancaster County, Virginia Colony
• John and Elizabeth Mullis issued Land Gift Deed in 1702 Lancaster naming Richard Mullis and other children.
• Amended Gift Deed, Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, accommodates deaths of John and George Mullis, lists Abigail Curtis, Elizabeth Rhodes, Richard Mullis, ….
• As son of Richard Mullis when he signed apprenticeship with John Curlot in 1731 Lancaster County, Colonial Virginia, where he was born.
• Elizabeth without maiden name, given as wife of Richard Mullis on land transfer document in 1733 Lancaster County, Colonial Virginia, by which Richard sold land gift-deeded him by parents John and Elizabeth Mullis in 1702.
• Lancaster County, Colonial Virginia, 1734 Land transfer document states Elizabeth was Richard's wife.
• John was given as Richard and Elizabeth Mullis' eldest son when they sold their land in Lancaster Co, Virgina. to Dale Carter in 1774.