Conrad Mull

Notes:

 

His will was not probated until 1761, probably because his wife whom

he named Mollieanna in the will, could not file it until it was safe

to return to North Carolina following the Indian raid in which he was

killed. Besides her, only his brother John was mentioned.

I found this in on-line postings from The Pennsylvania Gazette:

Item #23376, June 28, 1759, filed from Charles Town in South Carolina,

May 12.

"According to Letters received yesterday from Gentlemen of Repute in

Rowan County, in North Carolina, upon the North Borders of this

Province, dated the 28th of April, and 1st, 3d, and 5th Insant, many

horrid Murders have lately been committed by Indians, on the Yadkin

and Catawba Rivers. The Number of People killed, in some Letters, are

said to be 13 or 14, in others 17 or 18; and the Murderers are

supposed to be Cherokees, tho they may as well be Shawanese, or of

those Indians who were prevailed on to quit the Ohio with the French

Garrison of Fort Duquesne. Among the Killed are named John SNAP,

Thomas ELLIS, Thomas ADAMS, Daniel HOLSEY, and Joseph RENTFORD, in the

upper Branch of the Yadkin; John HANNAH, and his Family (supposed to

be 7 in Number) near Fort Dobbs, and Conrad MULL, on the Catawba

River. The Catawba Nation was greatly exasperated on this Occasion,

as soon as they heard of the Murders, sent out 30 of their best

Warriors, under Capt. Matthew Tool, in Pursuit of the Enemy. In the

mean time all the Frontier Inhabitants are very much alarmed, many of

them have desisted Planting, and

others are fortifying themselves..........By some Accounts received

since our last, there is hardly any Room to doubt, that they were

Lower Cherokees who committed the late horrid Murders in Rowan County,

North Carolina........May 30. We hear proper Measures have been taken

by the Administration here, for obtaining effectual Satisfaction for

the outrageous Breach of Treaty, and impudent and barbarous Insult

committed by those Cherokees, in murdering and scalping the Rowan

Settlers."

While contemporaneous to the events, the information published in

the Gazette was still coming third hand. The account of the Indian

attack, scalped children, settlers alarmed, fits in with the Weidner

story of the attack which led to their retreat to South Carolina. The

Weidner tale of Abram Mull being killed, young widow Mary warning

them, is certainly given substance by this account. Conrad is a

proven member of the Mull family, living adjacent to the Weidners,

Abram is otherwise unknown. Nevertheless, the homestead attacked

probably is Conrad's, whether it was he or a possible brother killed

is still unsure

Conrad married Molana Relick. Molana (daughter of Heinrich Bissing) was born Abt 1722, Lincoln County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

1. Hannah Sigmon was born Jul 1768, Of Bucks Co., Pennsylvania; died 22 Mar 1834, Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States; was buried 1831, Old St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Newton, North Carolina, United States.
2. Mary Pofh Mull was born 1744, Newton, Catawba County, North Carolina, United States; died 7 Jun 1816, Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States; was buried Jan 1816, Old St Paul's Lutheran Church Cem., Newton, Catawba Co., NC, USA.