Eric Pålsson Mullica
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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 present day Frankford, Philadelphia and moved to the area of Little Egg Harbor. 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.
