Eric Pålsson Mullica

Eric Pålsson Mullica was an early Finnish settler born in April 1636 in Mora, Delsbo parish, Hälsingland, Sweden. He lived for several years at Tacony, adjoining the present-day Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and moved to the area of Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey. He is the source of the name of several geographic features and places in New Jersey.

Mullica's father was Pål Jönsson Mullica who arrived with wife and children on the vessel Örnen in 1654, probably from Mora in Hälsingland, Sweden. The family Mullica had earlier immigrated to Sweden from Finland.

Mullica built a homestead near Little Egg Harbor. The area in which he resided near the Harbor was named Mullica Township in Atlantic County, New Jersey in his honor. What had been known as the "Little Egg Harbor River" is now called the Mullica River. Mullica moved further north to an area now known as Mullica Hill, a census-designated place located within Harrison Township, in Gloucester County, New Jersey.

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 Inge-borg Helm, daughter of Israel Helm.

Mullica died before 1704.

External links

* [http://www.genealogia.fi/place/placenje.htm Finnish Place Names in New Jersey]
* [http://www.colonialswedes.org/images/Publications/SCNewsFall2004.pdf Swedish Colonial News Fall 2004] .pdf format
* [http://www.colonialswedes.org/Forefathers/Mullica.html Information on Eric's father and family]