First found in Roxburghshire, where they held a family seat as a Clan and conjecturally descended from Eustace the Sheriff of Huntingdon who held his lands of Molesworth in Huntingdon from Countess Judith a relative of Duke William of Normandy at the taking of the Domesday Book survey in 1086 A.D. A branch of this distinguished family moved north in 1124 in the train of King David of Scotland (Earl David of Huntingdon) and were granted lands in the upper half of Morebattle in Roxburghshire.

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Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Adam Moll who settled in New England in 1638; Bartol, Charles Elizabeth, Frederick, George, Gerard, Jacob, John, Joseph, Katrine, Martin, Michael, Peter, and Thomas Moll, all settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between 1731 and 1850.

Motto Translated: An interest after death.

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