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Robert Mullan, son of Peggy (of Red Hot Beef Steak fame), was the official proprietor of Tun Tavern and was dubbed "Chief Marine Recruiter." Nicholas and Mullan recruited skilled marksmen to become the first Marines from a Conestoga wagon outside of the tavern.
The tavern’s manager, Robert Mullan, was the "chief Marine Recruiter". Though legend places its first recruiting post at Tun Tavern, the historian Edwin Simmons surmises that it was more likely the Conestoga Waggon [ sic ], a tavern owned by the Nicholas family.
Tavern proprietor, Robert Mullan was a Freemason as was Samuel Nichols, the man charged by the Second Continental Congress with raising “two battalions of marines”, and together these two friends accomplished this at Mullan’s tavern (The Tun), likely because of its proximity to the Delaware River where the new ships of the Continental ...
Nov 11, 2014 · It was there in Tun Taveren on November 10, 1775, that Robert Mullan the proprietor of the Tavern was commissioned by an act of Congress to raise the first two battalions of United States Marines, under the leadership of Samuel Nicholas, the first appointed Commandant of the Continental Marines.
Nov 9, 2021 · Robert Mullan, son of Peggy (of Red Hot Beef Steak fame), was the official proprietor of Tun Tavern and was dubbed "Chief Marine Recruiter." Nicholas and Mullan recruited skilled marksmen to...
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He appointed Robert Mullan, then the proprietor of the tavern, to the job of chief Marine Recruiter -- serving, of course, from his place of business at Tun Tavern. Prospective recruits flocked to the tavern, lured by (1) cold beer and (2) the opportunity to serve in the new Corps of Marines.
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Apr 22, 2021 · The Tun Tavern was co-owned by Robert Mullan when the Continental Congress called for the formation of “two Battalions of marines” in November 1775. Mullan, an acquittance of Captain Samuel Nicholas, was commissioned as a first lieutenant of the new force.
