This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VgB.2ACE/670.1 Message Board Post: James Mullins born 1797 Mecklenburg Co., VA. son of Vallentine Patrick Mullins born ca. 1770-1775 and Martha Patsey Griggs. According to family tradition, Vallentine Mullins came across the mountains into Tennessee from the State of Virginia. I have traced Vallentine Mullins back to his father Richard Mullins of Lunenburg and Mecklenburg Counties in Virginia. Richard's father is Valentine Mullins and Mary Ann Wilkins of Dinwiddie County and Lunenburg County, VA. Valentine's father is Patrick and Mary Mullins who came from Ireland in Sept. 28, 1727 and had a land grant of 350 acres in Goochland County, VA. and Patrick Mullins of Henrico County, VA.