John wa in Virginia sometime prior to June 8, 1658 when he was first recorded as one of ten persons transported to Virginia in a Headright land Grant. Not recorded again until he appeared on the Tax List of 1676 Lancaster Co. and periodically appearing on that county's tax lists through 1720. He married Elizabeth Edwards and they had several children: John, Stephen, George, Richard, Elizabeth, Abigail, and Mary, who were named in a gift deed of 1703. The gift deed was updated in 1710 to reflect the deaths of John and George, their portions of the land gift to go the the male heirs of Elizabeth and Abigail. John last appeared on the 1720 Lancaster Co. Tax List; in 1723 his grandson, John Curtis, was in possession of land according to the `7`0 update, John Curtis being the son of Elizabeth Mullis Curtis. That means that John Mullis died between 1720 and 1723.
John was literate, in 1677 signing Instructions to Our Burgesses, and of notable interest, in 1708 he and John Jr. were tried in Lancaster court for not attending Anglican Church services as required by law, John and John Jr. appealed to the Act Concerning Dissenters (aka The Toleration Act of Parliament of 1679), the court accepted their plea and the case against them was dismissed. John inherited 4050 acres of land through his wife, Elizabeth Edwards, when her gather died in 1685, her share of his estate. This land was divided among John and Elizabeth's four sons in a gift deed of `703: John, George, Stephen, and Richard. Stephen left one heir, Stephen, who died in 1761 without heir, and that left Richard as the son to carry on the surname and he had two sons, John and George, who settled in Anson and Wilkes counties, North Carolina respectively in the 1770s.
John was literate, in 1677 signing Instructions to Our Burgesses, and of notable interest, in 1708 he and John Jr. were tried in Lancaster court for not attending Anglican Church services as required by law, John and John Jr. appealed to the Act Concerning Dissenters (aka The Toleration Act of Parliament of 1679), the court accepted their plea and the case against them was dismissed. John inherited 4050 acres of land through his wife, Elizabeth Edwards, when her gather died in 1685, her share of his estate. This land was divided among John and Elizabeth's four sons in a gift deed of `703: John, George, Stephen, and Richard. Stephen left one heir, Stephen, who died in 1761 without heir, and that left Richard as the son to carry on the surname and he had two sons, John and George, who settled in Anson and Wilkes counties, North Carolina respectively in the 1770s.
