Conrad Mull

Abt 1718 -

• Name	Conrad Mull
  Born	Abt 1718	Lincoln County, North Carolina
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I2938	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2019

  
  

  Family	Molana Relick,   b. Abt 1722, Lincoln County, North Carolina
  Children	1. Hannah Sigmon,   b. Jul 1768, Of Bucks Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 22 Mar 1834, Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States  (Age 65 years)  [natural]   2. Mary Pofh Mull,   b. 1744, Newton, Catawba County, North Carolina, United States ,   d. 7 Jun 1816, Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States  (Age 72 years)
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2019
  Family ID	F1016	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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