Marshall was a nickname and he is found in records as simply James Mullis. In the 1800 Anson Co. census James was age sixteen to twenty-five, which corresponds perfectly to the male sixteen and under enumerated in the household of his mother Margaret in the 1790 Anson census. A birth in c. 1775 would explain why there were only two children, under ten years, in his household in the 1800 census. At the time of his birth his father, John Mullis, was recorded in Chatham Co. N. C. Thus, MULLIS MELANGE was mistaken in giving his birth year as c. 1760; the author believed that Jacob and Sarah Mullis Means were his children and they were born in the early 1780s, so she calculated their father's birth as c. 1760. The author was mistaken: Jacob and Sarah Mullis Means were born into the Wilkes Co. branch of the Mullis family, headed by George and Sarah Mullis.
Had James Marshall been their father, he was under ten years old when they were born. The author of MULLIS MelANGE thought James Marshall was from Wake Co. simply because that was the origin of his wife, Mary Blackstone, who, incidentally, was age sixteen to twenty-five in the 1800 census. In 1799 and 1803, James Marshall purchased 550 acres of land in Anson Co. In short, James Marshall was not born in Wake Co., did not reside or die there, and there are no Mullis records, period, in Wake Co. N. C.
