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An American Family History

 

Tullis Family

 
 

The Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia borders Maryland and Virginia. The first European settlers started arriving about 1730.

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Frederick County, Virginia was formed in 1743 from Orange County. Old Frederick County included all or part of four counties in present-day Virginia: Shenandoah, Clarke, Warren, and Frederick, as well as five in present-day West Virginia: Hardy, Hampshire, Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan.

Moses Tullis was born about 1725 in New Jersey.

Catherine Tullis (1747, married Peter Peckinpaugh)
Sarah Tullis (1748, married Timothy Sewell)
Moses Tullis, Jr. (1750, married Letitia Newell)
Mary Tullis (1752-1838)
Aaron Tullis (1753-1840)
Jonathan Tullis (1755-1825)
Michael Tullis (1756-1832, married Mary Humphreys and Elizabeth Jones),
Thomas Tullis (1757-1775)
David Tullis (1761)
John Tullis (1762-1833)
Mariam Tullis (1766-1806)
Samuel Tullis (1767-1833)
Joel Tullis (1769-1824)
Amos Tullis (1772-1861)
William Tullis (1772-1846)
Isaac Tullis (1775-1845).

The Tullises were early settlers in, what is now, the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.

In 1762 Moses bought land in Frederick County, Virginia, from Lawrence Harrison.

In 1764 Moses appeared on rent roll for Frederick County, Virginia.

In 1770, Moses Tullis was named in a deed as one of three trustees, along with John Wright and Peter Burr, for the Elk Branch Presbyterian Church.

He was on the roll in Berkeley County, Virginia, in 1772, 1776, and 1777.

In 1775, Moses Tullis signed the "Petition of Freeholders of Berkeley County to the Convention."
 
Moses wrote his will in 1777.

Berkeley County was created from the northern third of Frederick County, Virginia in 1772. Jefferson County was formed from the county's eastern section. In 1863 Berkeley County became part of the new state of West Virginia.
     
 

 

 
 

 

 
     
 

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