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Robert (presumed) TULLIS
(Abt 1680-Bef 1726)
Jan VAN DYKE
(1709-1778)
Margareth BARCOLO
(-1749)
Moses TULLIS
(Abt 1720-1777)
Mary Elizabeth VAN DYKE
(Abt 1733-)
Michael Ezra TULLIS
(1756-1832)

 

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Mary HUMPHRIES

Michael Ezra TULLIS

  • Born: Feb 1756, NJ
  • Marriage: Mary HUMPHRIES in 1778 in Bath County, VA
  • Died: 2 Mar 1832, Franklin County, IN at age 76

   Another name for Michael was Michael TULLIS.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Biography. MICHAEL TULLIS was allowed pension on his application executed Sept.19, 1827, at which time he was a resident of Franklin Co., IN, where he had lived seven years. In 1830, he moved to the state of Ohio. Sometime during the next year or so, he moved back to IN. He died March 2, 1832, in Franklin Co., IN.

He married in 1791, in Bath Co., VA (later W.VA), Elizabeth Jones. The marriage bond was dated in Bath Co., VA as of June 24, 1791. The date and place of birth of Elizabeth and the names of her parents are not stated.

MICHAEL was the father of eighteen children according to a statement made by him on Sept. 9, 1827 at the Circuit Court in Franklin IN.

• Military Service, 1775, Berkeley County, VA. MICHAEL TULLIS enlisted in Berkeley Co., VA (later W.VA), in June,1775, shortly after the battle of BunkerHill, in Capt. Hugh Stephensons Virginia Rifle Company, marched from Shepherdstown, VA (later W.VA), to Boston, and served one year: He re-enlisted in 1776, for three more years and served in Capt. Daniel Culp's "Company "8" Virginia Regiment, and in Col. William Darke's Virginia Regiment: During the last year of his service, he was a member of Capt. Livingston's famed LIFE GUARDS, assigned to protect GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON. He served in the battles of Staten Island, Brandywine, and Germantown. During this service, he broke his arm, but no details nor the date of this incident have been found.

• Tax List, 1810, Warren County, OH.
Surname Given Name Township Year
TULLIS Amos Harlan 1810
TULLIS David Turtlecreek 1810
TULLIS Jonathan Turtlecreek 1810
TULLIS Michael Deerfield 1810

• Note: middle name. Although he is commonly identified as Michael Ezra Tullis in many secondary sources, Tom Tullis has not been able to find a primary source that shows a middle name for him. And middle names were not particularly common in his time.

• See also. http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tomtullis&id=I0402


Michael married Mary HUMPHRIES in 1778 in Bath County, VA. (Mary HUMPHRIES was born about 1756.)



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