Person:Robert Tullis (23)

In 1704 Robert Tullis was listed in Burlington Co, NJ, as a Friend unwilling to bear arms and kill.

In 1714 Robert Tullie was one of the signers of a paper refusing to pay the Royal Governor's taxes. In June 1715, all of the signers were indicted, and the statement was made that they are all of Cohansey (the Cohansey River area). A copy of the indictment was forwarded to London along with the statement that "They are all from New England that have signed it." (History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland, NJ, by Thos. Cushing and Charles Sheppard, 1883, pp. 519-520.) This has led to speculation that Robert Tullis was from New England, perhaps Connecticut.

In 1715 his name appeared on the list of Colonial Militia from the north side of the Cohansey River.

Robert Tullis had died some time before March 8, 1725/26 when Henry Joyce, of Greenwich (then Salem Co, now Cumberland Co), willed 5 shillings to the widow of Robert Tullis, in addition to cancelling all debts owed to him by Robert Tullis. He also mentioned "all my stones that Robert Tulles digged in the Woods".

Church records of the Pittsgrove (NJ) Presbyterian Church and the Deerfield (NJ) Presbyterian Church make it reasonably clear that Robert was the father of Robert Jr, Francis, William, and Priscilla. That is because they all stayed in that part of New Jersey. However, we know that Moses moved to Virginia. Consequently, no record of him is found in any of these early New Jersey church records. Therefore, the evidence that Robert was the father of Moses is circumstantial-- based on the fact that Moses was from Cumberland Co, NJ, and of about the right age to have been a son of Robert, and this was the only Tullis family in the area at that time. Note that William (another son of Robert) named one of his sons Moses, which could be viewed as evidence that William and Moses were brothers; however, the father of William's wife was also named Moses.