Robert Mulliken1 was a Scotchman, and tradition makes him come from Glasgow. He probably sailed from that port, but from the spelling of his surname, it would seem that he was a native of some one of the northern counties. His name appears on the Brattle Street Church records of Boston in connection with others of the family as early as 1686. He settled in Rowley, now Bradford, Mass., his homestead being in a pleasant spot on the bank of the Merrimac River. He united with the West Parish Church of Bradford, Mass., June 26, 1720, and the following exclamation was written after the entry of his name in the records: "To God shall be all the glory." Following the name of his wife, who united with the church the first of May that year, are the Latin words: Trinni Deo Glorica. Some of his children were born and christened in Boston, as the Brattle Street Church records show. He made his will Jan. 9, 1740, and died June 11,1741, leaving a widow and five children, to whom he made bequests. He was 76 years of age. The old gravestones that mark the last earthly resting-place of the ancestors and early members of this family, may be seen in the old West Bradford cemetery, on the River Road, about one mile below the bridge which connects Haverhill with Bradford, and in the East Parish (now Groveland) burying ground, near "Balch's Grove."
