Mulier (des Mulier, Mullier)Mulier (des Mulier, Mullier), a French-speaking Mennonite family, to which belonged Jan de Mulier, who in 1614 was a preacher of the Walloon (French-speaking) Waterlander congregation at Leiden, Holland. Bartholomeus Mulier, from Waarschoot, East Flanders, Belgium, settled as a farmer about 1626 at De Biezen near Aardenburg, Dutch Zeeland Flanders. Pierson des Muliers was probably also a member of this family. In 1547 is found an Anna Muliers in Amsterdam, who was imprisoned because of sympathy with the Anabaptists, but escaped from prison. BibliographyDoopsgezinde Bijdragen (1876): 107; (1889): 95. Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam. 2 v. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: I, Nos. 341 f. Le Poole. Leiden, 61, 53, 83.
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