Eric Pålsson Mullica (or Mullikka, 1636/37 – before 1704) was an early Finnish settler to New Sweden. He and his family were the source of the name of several geographic features and places in New Jersey.
Eric (or "Erkki", original Finnish name) Mullica was born in April 1636 in Mora, Delsbo parish, Hälsingland, Sweden. His father was Pål Jönsson Mullica, who arrived in New Sweden with his wife and children on the vessel Örnen (Eagle), which sailed in 1654 from Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden. The father of Pål (Paavo) was Juho Mulikka, who had earlier moved to Sweden from Finland. Juho's father was Antti Mulikka, who lived in central Finland in an area which is still called Mulikka or Pääjärvi. "Mullica" is a variation of the Finnish term mullikka, which means 'young bull'.
Mullica first married Ingrid, the daughter of Olof Philipsson, a Finn who arrived with his family on the Mercurius in 1656. All of Mullica's eight children were by his first wife. After Ingrid's death, Mullica married Ingeborg Helm, daughter of Capt. Israel Helm. Mullica died before 1704.[5]
In 1704, three of Eric and Ingrid's children, Eric Jr., William and John, purchased 400 acres (1.6 km2) of land and built farmhouses. Eric Jr. and William built their houses that dates to 1704 and are now located on North Main Street in Mullica Hill near each other. In 1996 the Eric's house was purchased by a local merchant. William's house is also owned by a local merchant.[6]
Legacyedit
Township of Mullica - Township in Atlantic County on Mullica River.
Mullica Hill - Populated place in Gloucester County, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Glassboro[3]
Mullica Hill Pond - Reservoir in Gloucester County, on the southeastern border of Mullica Hill.
Mullica Landing Point - Airport in Atlantic County, 2 miles (3.2 km) NW of Egg Harbor City.
Mullica River - River in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden and Ocean Counties.
Referencesedit
^Dunlap, A. R. & Moyne, E. J. (1952). The Finnish Language on the Delaware, American Speech, 27(2), 81-90. doi:10.2307/454337 (subscription required)
^Beck, Henry Charlton (1945). Jersey Genesis: The story of the Mullica River. Rutgers University Press. p. 59. ISBN0-8135-1015-5. For it was Eric Mullica, settling in what is now Lower Bank about fifteen miles from the bay in 1645, who gave clearer identity to the stream that still carries his name [i.e. the Mullica River] ...
^ abLevine, Steve (March 1, 2004). "Mullica Hill Celebrates 300 Years". Courier-Post. Camden, NJ. pp. 3B, 5B. Retrieved November 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
^Craig, Peter Stebbins. (1993). The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware: Family Histories of the Swedish Lutheran Church Members Residing in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West New Jersey and Cecil County, Md., 1638-1693 (Winter Park, FL: SAG Publications)
^Werner, Charles J. (1930). Eric Mullica and his descendants: A Swedish pioneer in New Jersey together with a description of the Mullica River region in Burlington and Atlantic counties, N.J., and an account of the early generations of the family in the vicinity of Mullica Hill and Swedesboro, Gloucester County, N.J. (New Gretna, NJ: The Author)
Benson, Adolph B. and Naboth Hedin, eds. Swedes in America, 1638-1938 (The Swedish American Tercentenary Association. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1938) ISBN978-0-8383-0326-9
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