Nancy Ann Allen Mullican is first found in records in the will of Robert Allen as one of his three daughters. Robert appears to have been a long time resident of Southside Virginia as he is first found in Brunswick County, then in Lunenburg County when it was formed from Brunswick, and then in Bedford County after it was formed from Lunenburg. She seems to have preferred the name Anny as the only time she is listed as Nancy was when her fathers land was sold. In that deed her sister was listed as Elizabeth, and not by the nickname Betsey.