Posted by Sue Harris (byrumha@ibm.net) on February 16, 1998 at www.genforum.com on the Pullen page: "Charles Pullen d testate 1797 Loudoun Co., VA. Children: William, Robert, Asher, Eliz. Bodine, Mary Swart, Rhody Schlacht (Slack?), Catherine Ritaker, Margaret m Isaac Skinner; Zilpah m Wm McMakin. Who were Charles Pullen's wife & parents? Margaret my line. Need help with others."
Sue also said (in an email), "I was told by another Pullen researcher that there is a 1799 Chancery Court lawsuit in Loudon County concerning Charles Pullen's estate. At that time, Robert Pullen was living in Greene County, Georgia and William Pullen in Columbia County, Georgia. I don't know if all the children were named, but this lawsuit could contain some valuable information. I was told that Rhody Pullen and her husband Slack also went to Georgia in the 1790's. I know nothing about the others."
The Bodines, Pullens, McMakins, and Skinners, as well as the Van Deventers were families who had ties with each other in the New Jersey, Delaware area, as well as in Loudoun County, Virginia. As will be seen by the will of Charles Pullen, marriages in Virginia made these associations quite definite. To a great degree, these ties continued in Kentucky.
A number of Charles Pullen's descendants came to Kentucky. Margaret (Peggy) was the wife of Isaac Skinner, who had descendants in the Kentucky counties of Nelson (including many Fosters) and Bullitt. As will be seen above, Zilpah married William McMakin, who came to Nelson County, and Elizabeth married Isaac A. Bodine and came with him to Nelson County. Their brother Asher is also in the Nelson records and left descendants there. He may have married Elizabeth Bodine, a daughter of Jacob Bodine. Members of his family were named as "connections" by Catherine Bodine, sister of John, in her Nelson County will. His daughter Elizabeth Pullen (who received all of Catherine Bodine's personal possessions and shared equally in the remainder of her estate) married Richard Johns(t)on in Nelson County, Kentucky, and they had, among others, a son Richard Bodine Johnston. See under Bodine for possible descendants of Asher Pullen.