Note from David Scholey
(UK) Dave ScholeyThis is a slightly
edited version of A Pioneer Story, I have taken nothing from the original, simply
paragraphed much of it to make it more readable and added a little additional
information
INITIAL NOTES
SCHOLEY, (Cadwell, Beds). Confirmed 6th June, 1582. AZ. on a bend
ar. three gurts. Description of a coat of
arms issued to Richard Scholey in 1580
SCHOLEY, (Gober(Gawber) Hall, Yorks) the same.
The British Herald(book 2) or Cabinet or Ar-morial bearings, by Thomas Robson,
Pub. 1830.
If this is to be accepted as
an accurate record then the words “the same” in the second entry appear to
refer to the description of the coat of arms, all awards are different so the
implication is that Richard while living at Cadwell, Bedfordshire had his roots
at Gawber Hall (Gorber) near Barnsley Yorkshire. This explains reference to kin
in Yorkshire and moves us a step closer
to connecting the American Schooleys with the Yorkshire Scholeys (D Scholey note)
SCHOLEY, a dexter hand brandishing a sword.
Royal Book of Crests of Great Britain and Ire-land, page 159, crest 7.
"GRANTEE OF
ARMS" SCHOLEY, RICHARD, of Cadwell; Bedford, confirmed 6th June, 1582. By Flower, MS. Ashm.
834. Fo. 54b. Copy of Grant, Bodleian Lib. Guild, 360. Publications of Harleian
Society, Vol. LXVI, p. 224
"Visitations" by
officers of Arms, acting under a Royal Commission, took place about 1580, 1620,
and 1666, who investigated all ARMS and Confirmed or Denied them, and destroyed
all vehicles, plate &c which bore assumed inscriptions. The Right to Bear
Arms, p. 230.
"A simple Coat of Arms,
such as ‘Azure, a bend’ (r), or ‘Gules, a lion rampant argent,’it is now
impossible to obtain from the College of Armor Heralds; and it is because they
have been appropriated for so long that a simple Coat of Arms has become what
it is, a sign of an ancient House; simple Coats are urgently desired by all who
make pretentions to the rights to armorial bearings." "A Coat of Arms
did not belong with a family name, but only to the particular family bearing
the name to whose progenitor it had been granted or confirmed."
THE BEND is a bearing of
high honor and probably represents either the scarf, or the shield suspender of
a Knight or Military Commander.
THE HURT is called a plate,
and denotes generosity. The old heralds have at-tached batious names and
significations to these round figures.
MOTTO-Under heraldic law,
any user of any Arms may adopt and use any motto desired. In the case of older
Arms, none is recorded, but rarely.
Richard Scholey of Co.
Yorks, registered at Oxford University. 1379 - P. T. Yorks, Johannes de Scoley.
1379 - Robertus and Ricardus de Scoley. English and Welsh Surnames, by
Bardsley. "Scholey-Richard de Scoleio, Normandy, 1198. (MRS.) Schooley,
for Scholey." Manuscripts year 1198. The Norman People, King, London,
1874.
CONTENTS Armoreal iii-iv Preface vii I. THE
SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY LINEAGE
1 In England
2 In America
4 II. JOHN
SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY, SR. and JR.. . . . . .
9 John Scholey-Schooley,
Sr.
9 John Scholey-Schooley,
Jr.
10 III. THOMASSCHOLEY. . .
. . . .
13 Thomas Scholey and Sarah
Parker 13 Thomas Scholey’s Sons and Daughters
15 IV. SAMUELSCHOLEY
18 Samuel Scholey and Avis
Holloway
18 Samuel Scholey’s Sons 24
V. CAPTAINSAMUELSCHOOLEY,JR.
27 Military Record of
Captain Schooley
29 The Willson Family 33
The Valley of the Ohio (Map)
34 VI. CAPTAIN SCHOOLEY’S
SONS AND DAUGHTERS John and Leah Schooley Pike Colonel Samuel Pike, Editor
Jonathan and Margaret Schooley Harrold James and Susannah Betts Schooley John
and Susannah Johnson Schooley
In Ohio and Indiana Samuel
and Rachel Johnson Schooley Benjamin and Rebecca Johnson Schooley Nathan and
Sarah Stanbraugh Schooley Elizabeth Schooley Henson Family of Thomas and Ann
Johnson . 35 35 35 36 37 37 38 40 40 41 42 42 VII.
ISAAC SCHOOLEY 43 Sons and
Daughters of Isaac and Selah Schooley 44 VIII. LEANDER SCHOOLEY 46 Leander and
Anna Dannefer Schooley 46 The Hans Oleson Dannefer Family 47 Walter M. and May
S. Ivey 48 John Harris and Dessa Schooley Johnson 48 Dane 0. and Carrie Wilson
Schooley 50 Walter J. and Inez Schooley Turnbull 50 Victor S. and Goldie I.
Schooley 51 IX.
MENDENHALLLINEAGE. . 53 The
Thomas Family 53 Thomas Family, Wayne County, Indiana 54 The Thomas Family,
Notes 55 Finis 56 Appendix I. Schooley’s Mountain 57 II. Hotel Dorincourt 58
Map of Grayson and Carrol Counties, Virginia 59 Map of England 60
CHAPTER ONE
THE SCHOLEY - SCHOOLEY
LINEAGE IN ENGLAND AND IN AMERICA
THE SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY
LINEAGE
RICHARD SCHOLEY I., b.
Cadwell, Bedfordshire, Eng.; died 1590; mar-ried Amy ------ , Cadwell,
Bedfordshire, Eng. Children, Richard.
RICHARD SCHOLEY II., b.
Easton-on-the-Hill, Stamford Baron, Eng.; mar-ried --------- ----------; died
1638. Children, Richard, John (of Aughton) Anthony.
JOHN SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY, b.
1609, Northhampshire, Eng.; died 1696, in America at Chesterfield, near Burlington,
West Jersey. Married first Elizabeth Fletcher, Rotherham, Eng., 1633. Children,
Richard, Ellen, William, Mary, Robert and Thomas. Married second, Isabelle
Hancock in 1660, Sheffield, Eng. Children, John.
THOMAS SCHOOLEY, b. 1650,
Yorkshire, Eng.; died 1724 at Onychickon, Burlington Co., West Jersey,
America.Married Sarah Parker at Bur-lington, in 1686. Children, Thomas Jr.,
William, Sarah, Elizabeth, Samuel, Joseph and John.
SAMUEL SCHOOLEY I., b.
1698, Chesterfield Twp., Burlington Co., New Jersey. Died Old Hardwick, N. J.,
176 1. Married Alvis Holloway, 1725. Children, Asenath, Ann, Joseph, James,
Benjamin, Rachel, Je-hoaden and Samuel.
SAMUEL SCHOOLEY II., b.
1743, Quakertown, Hunterdon Co., New Jer-sey. Died 1832 in Grayson Co.
(Carroll), Va. Married first, Margaret Brown
Gibbons in ---------,Bucks Co., Pa. Children, William, Mar-ried second,
Elizabeth Willson of Warren Co., N. J., 1770. Children, Leah, Margaret, James,
John, Samuel, Gabriel, Benjamin, Nathaniel and Elizabeth.
JOHN SCHOOLEY, b. 1782,
Newton, Sussex Co., N. J. Died 18-- in In-diana. Married Susanna Johnson of
Grayson Co., Va., 1805. Chil-dren, Asenath, Isaac, Elizabeth, Rachel and Sarah.
ISAAC SCHOOLEY, b. 1808,
Grayson Co,, Va. Died 1883, Grandview, Texas. Married Selah Thomas at New
Garden, Ind., 1827. Children, Anna, Nancy, Hannah, Edith, John M., Stephen,
Susannah, Emily, Leander, Camm and Constantine.
LEANDER SCHOOLEY, b. 1844, Marion, Ind. Died
Chattanooga, Tenn., 1916. Married Anna Dannefer, 1873, at Belleville, Kans. Children,
Selah May, Lola Gay, Bernal Conner, Lena O’Dessa, Dane Olen, Ella Inez and
Victor Stanley.
THE NAME OF
SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY IN ENGLAND
Numerous instances have
been found in authentic records, such as parish church registers and military
rolls and court decrees and sen-tences relating to estates which establish the
great antiquity of the name of Scholey-Schooley in England. More frequent
mention of the name may be found in the various records or documents pertaining
to religious or commercial life in Yorkshire, though the name often appears in
other counties of England in ancient, as well as in modern times.
The one personality with
which most of the Schooleys in America are interested was the immigrant from
England, John Scholey, Senior, the father of Robert, Thomas and John Junior,
who with their descendants made the bulk of the history of this booklet. John
Scholey was born, or baptised, in the year 1609 in Northhamp-shire in England.
His father was Richard Scholey, whose residence was at Easton-on-the-Hill, in
the Barony of Stamford, near the city of
Stamford.
This Richard had three
sons-Richard, John and Anthony. Richard was the eldest and Anthony the
youngest. Richard and John, while quite young men at home with their father’s
family, had received the usuary from leases and tenements owned by their father
at Colleweston and Stewkeley.
About the year 1631 these
two brothers went northward into Yorkshire, and apparently among relatives.
Both remained for many years, it appears, and had their homes at times in the
parish of Aston cum Aughton, in the Wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, in
the West Ridings of Yorkshire, about six miles east from Sheffield and about
four miles south from Rotherham.
John Scholey, Sr., was
married with Elizabeth Fletcher, daughter of Richard and Alice (Ellice)
Fletcher. All were then of the parish of Rotherham. They were married on the
23rd of April, in the year of 1633. (Rotherham Marriage Registers). To John and
Elizabeth were born Richard in 1636, who in 1667 married Elizabeth Greene of
the par-ish of Rotherham. (Rotherham Registers). He died in 1686 and was buried
at All Saints of Aston Parish. (Parish burial register). Ellen, who died in
1654, was of Rotherham and in that year married Henrye Barton of Par-Aughton.
William was born in 1640
and died in 17 14. His residence was at Aughton, and he was a member of the
Friends Meetings of Balby. (English Friends Records). Robert was born in the
year 1648 in Hemsworth West Yorkshire and married Sarah Bingham. He died in
America in the year 1689. Thomas was born in 1650, married in 1686 in America
to Sarah Parker, and died in 1724 in America. (Note-Robert and Thomas each had
a daughter named Elizabeth, and each had a son named William, born in America).
John Scholey’s (Scoley),
Sr., second marriage was in 1660 with Isa-belle Hancock, daughter of Robert and
-Hancock, of the parish of Sheffield. (Sheffield Marriage Registers). To this
mating was born "John
sonne of John’ Scholey, Oct. 15, 1676." (Registers of All
Saints of Aston Parish). He become known in America as John Scholey, Junior.
(Note--John, Jr., had a daughter named Isabel).
The principal home of this
branch of the Schooleys in England was
about one-half mile west of the ancient village of Aughton, and was known as
Scholey’sCopse or as Smallage Farm. These properties were known as the Scho-ley
homes for scores of years. This farm, of about eighty acres, lies on an
elevation and has a good view of Aughton and Aston, and also west-ward over the
Valley of the Rother to Woodhouse and Handsworth, about one and a half, and two
miles away.
Near Smallage House are the
ages-old woodlands, Falconer Wood, Treeton Wood and Hail Mary Wood. The
principal roadway westward from Aughton was Smallage Lane, which leads past Smallage
House and down the hill to Woodhouse Hill station of the Great Central Railway
and the North Midland Line which roads traverse the Rother Valley.
The River Rother meanders
through the meadows of the valley on its way northeasterly, and joins the River
Don at Bow Bridge in Rotherham. The ancient rural beauty of this sec-tion of
country is now marred by unsightly colleries. The parish church of the parish
of Aston is All Saints at Aston, a half-mile southeast from Aughton. The church
overlooks large Aston Park. The antiquity of this church is proven by an
unbroken register of Rectors from the year 1259, avers the Rotherham Daily
Advertiser.
The registers of members’
baptisms, marriages and burials reach back hundreds of years. They have names
of many Scholeys, spelled in several variations Nicholas Scholey was one of the
Wardens of this church in 1669. In the old and now closed burial ground of All
Saints are the burial vaults of Scholeys in the years 1500 to 1600.
Inscriptions on the vaults bear the names of Scholeys of Smallage House.
RICHARD SCHOLEY, of
Stamford Baron, father of John of Aughton, died in the year 1638. His will bore
the date of September 3rd of that year and was probated 23rd of October, 1638.
The son, ANTHONY, was then "under age 21," but in the following month
he was allowed to act as executor of his father’s will. This wili provided that
the testator be buried in the church yard of the Parish Church of St. Martins,
in Stamford, Baron. Bequests were made therein "to the poore of
Easton-on-the-Hill,""to my son, Anthonie, the house in St. Martins,
also the house in Easton wherein I now live."
(Records of Prerogative
Court).
Richard Scholey, of
Stamford Baron, was the son of Richard Schoo-ley and Amy --------, his wife, of
Cadwell, in Bedfordshire. Cadwell was located about one mile west from the town
of Bedford on the River Ouse, which was the location of the Priory of the Order
of the Holy Cross, es-tablished in the reign of King John. Richard of Bedford
died in the year 1590 and left an estate. The Prerogative Court, at Michaelmas
term 23d of October, 1591, denied the allegations of Richard as not proven.
"Allegations of the defendant, Amy, at Second of All Souls, 4th of Nov. in
said year (1591) has been proved." "Now we pronounce that said Amy is
relict of s’d Dec’d and is entitled to administer his goods." "Ad’m
thefore to said Amy S., dated Tuesday, 13th June, 1592." -(
Adm. Act. Book, 1592).
Note from David Scholey The above paragraph indicates that
there had been a dispute between the widow and the son which the son lost,
although I have no evidence I suspect that Amy was a second wife and resented
by the son. Whatever the reason he is sent packing with a flea in his ear and
later his sons travelled from his home to Yorkshire where they had kin and
later began the massive immigration to the new colonies (at the time) of
America. It is interesting that Robert was born in Hemsworth which still had
Scholeys in modern days and can be tracked back to 1440 so increasing the likelihood
that American Schooleys and UK Scholeys are quite directly related, if we could
find the nature of the “kin in Yorkshire” then we would be much closer to
proving the link and to establishing Richards earlier background . He was of
course awarded his coat of arms on a visitation by the Norray King of Arms ,
this character would not have had responsibility for Bedford where Richard
lived but would have been responsible for Yorkshire
THE NAME OF
SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY IN AMERICA
THOMAS SCHOLEY This ancient
Norman-Anglo family name was first introduced into America by Thomas Scholey,
who came from near Sheffield in the West Ridings of Yorkshire, in England, in
the year 1677. Records of very early land titles in New Jersey disclose the
fact that previous to his emigration to America he had his home at, or near,
Woodhouse, a village in the parish of Handsworth, located about four to five
miles easterly from Sheffield. His destination in America was the colony of the
Society of Friends, about to be established along the Dela-ware river in West
Jersey. His brother Robert came over in the next year to the same place. About
two or three years later their father and mother and younger brother John came
also and settled in the same vi-cinity.
A history of "Nova Caesarea,"or
New Jersey, was published at Bur-lington, New Jersey, in the year of 1765 by
Samuel Smith, who had served for several years as a member of the Provincial
Assembly and as Treasurer of the Province. He married a daughter of Joseph
Kirk-bride and were members of the Friends Religious Society.
This author informs his
readers that extensive and careful prepara-tions had been made in England by
the members of the colony of the Society of Friends, with whom Thomas Scholey
had affiliated before they left their old homes in England, to engage in
pioneering activities in the New World. Thomas Scholey was among the one
hundred and fifty-one men who signed a petition to the English King, Charles
II., for "Concessions" of lands in West Jersey. Among the petitioners
were: E. Byllinge, William Penn, Mahlon Stacy, Thomas Budd, Gawen Lawrie,
Samuel Lovett, Thomas Scholey, John Newbold, Thomas Revel, William Emley,
Samuel Jennings, Thomas French, Godfrey Hancock, John Wood, John Pancoast,
Thomas Lambert, Thomas Watson, George Hutchinson, Thomas Gardner.
Many of these petitioners
were of the same, or near communities in England as the Scholeys. In this
history, on page 92, Smith says, "Among other purchasers of West Jersey
lands, were two companies, one made up of some Friends in Yorkshire, and the
other of some Friends in London. In the year 1677 Commissioners were sent by
the Proprietors with power to buy the lands of the natives; and to order the
lands laid out and in general to administer the government, purusuant to the
Con-cessions."
The Yorkshire
Commissioners, Joseph Helmsley, William Emley and Robert Stacy, on behalf of
the first purchasers, chose from the Falls of the Delaware, down, which was
hence called the First Tenth. The London Commissioners and those of Yorkshire
agreed to join in settling the first town; the Londoners taking along the river
to the main street of the town, and the Yorkshire Commissioners to the east of
the main street. This town was first called New Beverly, then Bridling-ton, but
soon changed to Burlington. Laws for the government of this projected West
Jersey settlement were agreed upon and adopted and signed on the third day of
March, 1677. Thomas Scholey affixed his signature thereto with Thomas French,
George Hutchinson, Thomas Gardner, William Black, John
Pancoast, Thomas Wright, Godfrey Han-cock, John Newbold, John Wood,
Thomas Lambert, Thomas Hooten, Henry Stacy, Thomas Revell, et al.
Among the few early boats
to arrive at Burlington was the Flie Boat Martha, of Burlington, Yorkshire,
England, which arrived late in the summer of 1677, sailed from Hull (a port on
the River Humber) with 114 passengers designed to settle the Yorkshire (First)
Tenth. Some masters of families in this ship were Thomas Wright, William
Goforth, John Lyman, Edward Season, William Black, Richard Long-worth, George
Miles, William Wood, Thomas Schooley, Richard Harri-son, Thomas Hooton, Samuel
Taylor, Marmaduke Horsman, William Oakley, William Ley and Nathaniel Luke.
The families of Robert
Stacy and Samuel Odas. Nearly all of these men were from towns and parishes in
southeast-ern Yorkshire and in adjacent Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, near
the old English homes of the Schooleys. Thomas was then unmarried.
ROBERT SCHOLEY. Smith’s
History also furnishes us with the in-formation that the next year, 1678, the
ship, THE SHIELD, after sixteen weeks’ voyage, in the 10th MO. (December) old time, arrived at the Falls of the Delaware,
a few miles north of Burlington. Robert Schooley, with his wife and children,
came on the Shield this trip with many old friends and neighbors.
He was the second Scholey in America. Robert had lived a little
while at Warsup, in Nottinghamshire, Eng., after his marriage with Sarah
Bingham, a daughter of Richard and Fran-ces, in the year 1675, at John Hooton’s
home at Skegby in Notts. Robert ond Sarah were then members of the Friends
Society there, as they were in later years in America.
Smith’s History mentions
the names of the following friends and neighbors of the Scholeys in England who
came over on this trip of THE SHIELD from the neighboring localities within
twenty miles southeasterly from Sheffield. Among them were: William Emley, wife
and two children, and two men and two women servants. ‘This was Emley’s second
trip. Mahlon Stacy, wife and chil-dren and servants; John Wood, wife and
children; Thomas Lambert, wife, children and servants; Thomas Potts, wife and
children; John Lambert and servant; Thomas Revell, wife and servants; Thomas
Wood, wife and children; Robert Murfin, wife and two children; James Pharo,
wife and children; Susannah Farnsworth, children and two servants; Richard
Tat-tersall, wife and children; Godfrey Newbold, Richard Greene, Peter
Frett-well, John Frettwell, John Newbold, Francis Barwick, George Parks, George
Hill, John Ayers.
This information is
supported by the details of this particular journey of the Shield and
accessible on the internet
A memorandum in the records of the Chesterfield (Burlington Co., N.
J.) of Friends Meeting (vol. 1, page 7) gives the names of Robert Scholey’s
children, and asserts they were all born in America. A daughter, Alice, was
born 2d mo. April 16, 1676, at Mansfield Wood-house in Derbyshire, according to
English Friends records. The dates of the births of his other children are as
follows: William, born 8-2-1679; Mary, born 11-6-1681; Sarah, born at
Notting-ham Woodhouse in West Jersey, 1-26-1684; Elizabeth, born in 1686, died
after three days; Robert, born 11-10-1687.
It is probable that
Nottingham Woodhouse, in West Jersey, was in Nottingham township, which was
near the Falls (Trenton). Probably all
of his children were
born there, as Robert had his home in that town-ship, and he and Sarah were buried near the Falls.
Robert, the father, died
soon after the birth of his last child. His life in the New World was of but
little more than ten years’ duration, All of his children were very young at
the time of his death. Robert was probably under forty-one years of age at the date
of his death, and his widow but little over thirty. Robert dated his will
"ye 19 day of ye 1st mo. 1688." To Sarah, his wife, he bequeathed
"Ye Plantations in Nottingham township and ye house and lotts in ye town
of Burlington." As Executrix of his will, he appointed Sarah, and to
assist her he said, "I do nominate and empower my trusty and beloved
friends, Mahlon Stacy of Ballyfield, and Thomas Lambert of Nottingham, both of
the province of West Jersey."
He men-tions "my
youngest son, Robert, to have five pounds more than the rest." In the next
year after Robert’s death, or in 1690, Sarah, by authority of his will, sold to
young John Lambert, son of above Thomas Lambert, a "plantation of 200
acres, and the mansion house." (Vol. B, p. 473, Dept. of State of New
Jersey). Seven years after the death of Robert, as evidenced by the Book of
Marriages of the Chesterfield Friends Meetings, Sarah was united in marriage
with Caleb Wheatley, on the 10th of the 10th month, 1696, be-fore the
Chesterfield Friends.
The recorded witnesses to
this marriage included Sarah’s children, William, Robert, Mary, and Sarah
Scholey, Frances Davenport, Mathew Watson, John Bunting, Thomas Folkes, John
Murfin, Joseph Smith, et al. The Friends Meeting appointed a committee "to
see that the rights of Sarah’s children were well safeguarded."
Robert Scholey
was"buried at ye Falls, the 25th day of ye 1st month, year 1689." The
Chesterfield Friends records has, "Sarah Wheatley, widow of Robert
Scholey, and late wife of Caleb Wheatley, died l-14-1 714, and was buryed at ye
Falls." Robert Scholey’s daughter, Mary, who was born in 1681, was
mar-ried to Joseph Wright in 1710. Of Robert, "the youngest
son,"there is but little data from Friends records. He was just over a year
old at the date of his father’s death. In his early manhood he evidently was
indifferent about conforming with the requirements of the kindly Quaker
meetings. A minute in the Chesterfield-records (Vol. A, p. 96) is,"Robert
Scholey attended a mar-riage performed by a priest, and has been spoken
with," 9 mo. 7-1706. He was then about aged 18. Appare n t l y he married
"out of Friends Meetings" as they have no record ofhis marriage. He
married Cath-erine -and they had their home in 1732, aged about 45 years. near
the Falls (Trenton).
He died He left no will. No
record has been found of any children of Robert and Catherine Scholey. William
Scholey, eldest son of Robert, Sr., and Sarah, is mentioned in Chesterfield
minutes during his youthful years only. An entry in those records avers that
Elders of the meeting were appointed "to talk with William, son of
Robert" about "some of his habits." These records have no
reference to William as a mature man. The will of Andrew Smith of Hopewell
Twp., near the Falls, bearing the date of 1702-3, bequeaths to "daughter
Mary, wife of William Schoo-ley. II
.William at this time was about 23 or
24 years old. The Smith fam-ily became members of the Episcopal Church of
Burlington, and into this church William’ Scholey was baptised. (See Hills’s
St. Mary’s, 1702). In the year 1702 this church became known as St. Annes, and
its Regis-ters contain names of sons and daughters of Andrew Smith, also
Wil-liam Schololey, son of Robert Scholholey. All became members in the same
day.
The Schooley families of
southern Warren County may be descendants of this William. The following items
concern all of the first families of Scholey-Schooleys in America. In the
Pennsylvania Magazine of History, Vol. 35, we find that Thomas Scholey was an
officer of his town or township in 1705. "The inhabitants and freeholders
of Chesterfield did persuent to a warrent the 21st day of the 7th mo. of 1706
for to Sess and Colect a tax for Repair-ing the Cort Hous and prison according
to the directions of the said War-ent, did couse our Sessers and Colectors to
Sess and Colect the said tax, who are as followeth: Samuel Bunting, John
Bunting, Thomas Scholey, Samuel Taylor, Sessers. County, N. J. Town Docket of
Chesterfield Twp., Burlington
Thomas Scholey chosen
Overseer of the Poor, 10th mo. 1700. In the year 1682 on the tenth of Dec.,
Thomas Scholey received con-veyance of title from Robert Scholey of Nottingham
Woodhouse, in ye Province of West Jersey, to one-sixty-fourth of a property for
"fifty shill-ings current money of England," lots in ye town of
Burlington"were excepted. Both Thomas and Robert are described as
"Clothmakers." (Vol. B of Deeds, Dept. of State of N. J.). The
American Historical Society, N. J., Vol. 1, states that "Quakers from Yorkshire
and London who came to Salem and Burlington in 1677, soon commenced cloth
manufacture. Within 20 years " crepes, good plushes, camblets (part hair)
and other side Linnen were mentioned by English writers."very good serges,
woolen cloths be-Flax twice Hackled, sold for 9d. pound. "
Generally speaking, the
Quaker Colonists to West Jersey were of a better social class than those who
went to East Jersey at this time, 1676-77. Few settlers purchased less than 100
acres; the-most frequent sizes were 2, 3, 4 and 5 hundred acres. A greater
number of settlers had a Proprietary interest in the colony. ‘
The Proprietor who sold his
land made his own arrangements with purchaser, collecting such rents from his
tenants as they mutually agreed upon, and undertook, himself, the maintenance of
the Proprietary Claims." "Survey, 1680, for Thomas and Robert Scholey
of 200 acres along the Delaware river, between John Rogers and Crosswick
Creek." (N. J. A., Vol. 21). "1690, to Thomas Scholey, Burlington,
200 acres at Oneanickon." "1699, surveyed then for Thomas Scholey, in
two knolls, sixty-five acres, by John Sykes, also of 29 acres adjoining."
"Surveyed for Robert Scholey in 1682 for 205 acres on Delaware river
adjoining his dwelling house; north, John Rogers, east Crosswick Creek. "
"By an indenture called April, 1690, title to 40 acres was taken by Sarah
Scholey, ‘relect of Robert Scholey, dec.,’ of Nottingham Wood-house, in West
Jersey. the Yorkshire Tenth."
This tract of land adjoined
Thomas Scholey in Survey notes indicate the abode of Robert, Thomas and Mary
Scholey-Rogers in their first five years in West Jersey, to be near the
Delaware River and near the Falls of the Delaware (Trenton). John Scholey, Sr.,
was named as creditor in the will of James Pharo of West Jersey, made in 1690.
The Pharos were from the same locality in England as the Scholeys, and related
to the Scholeys.
From Danker’s map, made in
1679, we find that an attempt was then made to found Crookhorn (Crewcorn) on
the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware river between the bend of the river and
the Falls. Among the owners of lands there were Thomas Scholey, 105 acres;
Robert Scho-ley, 208 acres; William Byles, 309 acres; Samuel Syche, 278 acres;
Rich-ard Ridgway, 278. The following two items are from the book,
"Descendants of Thomas French," p. 204, and are quoted verbatim:
"
That Robert, Thomas and
John Scholey were valuable citizens is shown by the Court Records of the time,
wherein they appear as coexecutors, appraisers of estates, wit-nesses of
property transfers &etc." "Robert Scholey and John Pancoast were
appointed Constables of the Yorkshire Tenth by the Provincial Assembly in 1687.
This position required men of reliability and good standing."
Records show that Rob-ert was
a juror at Bristol in Pennsylvania, opposite Burlington, in 1681. The
following, quoted from PENN’S GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE: "January the lOth,
1713, Patent for Township of Chesterfield. To begin at mouth of Black creek,
thence up said creek to Daniel Bacon’s Run, thence up said run to a place
formerly Thomas Scholey’s Planta-tion, including the same, thence down to
Crosswick’s creek, to be known as Township of Chesterfield."
CHAPTER TWO
JOHN SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY,
SR. AND JR.
JOHN SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY, SR.
Only approximately can the
date of John Scholey’s arrival in Amer-ica, at the Friend’s Settlement on the
Delaware River, with his family, be determined. Some events of which records
exist in New Jersey, indicate that John and his family were there early in the
sixteen-hundred eighties.
John and Isabel and their
young son John, well known later as an Elder among Friends, and as John
Scholey, Jr., were probably in West Jersey about1681-2, in which year John
became the owner of land on "Doctor’s Creek where he lives," which he
had bought of Godfrey Newbold, in that year. Though John Scholey lived about
fourteen years in and near
Chesterfield where his
sons, Thomas and Robert lived, there is no mention of his name or Isabel’s, his
wife, in the records of the Chester-field Friends. There are ample proofs that
his sons and their families were members of this Society.
His daughter Mary probably
came over with her brother Robert and his family, in 1678. In the Burlington
Friend’s Records, are minutes of the declaration of intentions of marriage with
Mary Scholey, made by John Rogers, on 7-2-1680. They were married at the home
of Thomas Lambert on 8-l-1680. The witnesses were: Robert Scholey, Mahlon
Stacy, John and Thomas Lambert, William Wood, Joshua Wright, John and Robert
Murfin, Richard Ridgway, et al. These records further assert that "Mary,
wife of John Rogers, of the Falls, died in childbirth and was buried in
6-20-l681."
In the year 1682, John
Scholey, Sr., late of Aughton, in the Parish of Aston, purchased from
"Godfrey Newbold of Woodhouse, in the Parish of Handsworth, in Yorkshire,
England,"a tract of land in West Jersey. The quoted words are from the
Deed of conveyance of the title to said tract of land. Five years later John
sold his small farm on Doctor’s Creek, near Crosswicks Creek, to his old
friend, William Watson, "late of Farnsfield, County of Nottingham,
Eng." by "Indenture made this Tenth day of ye Moneth Called June in
ye year of our Lord according to English acco’t, 1687." (Dept. of State of
New Jersey, Vol. B. of Deeds-p. 188.) In the same year, John purchased from
Ralph Trenoweth a "Planta-tion conteyning 100 acres, and all that dwelling
house, "scituate and being in the said county of Burlington."
Four years later, John sold
half of this tract "whereon he liveth" to Katherine Beard, widow of
William. ‘The witnesses to John’s were, Joseph Hutchinson,formerly of Sheffield
in England. Distiller at Burlington, sold to John Scholey 125 acres of land.
Stacy of Philadelphia, and his son John, in the year 1697 sold Scholey 300
acres near Onea Nickon, adjoining lands of Joh and William Beard.A survey of
181 acres for John Scholey, and signing Then a Robert to John n Shinn another
one of 50 acres adjoining land of Mathew Champion, which he sold to Gervis
Pharo.
When John Scholey became
"olde in years and decrepit in health" he prepared for
death by making a will. It is among Unrecorded Wills. vol. 3, p. "I, John
this my 377 (D. of S. of N. J.). His will was Scholey, being weak of body, but laste
will and testament." "First,dated "March ye 29th, 1695. of good
memory, do ordean I commit my Soule into the hand of Almighty God; next my body
to be buried att my wife and sonn discretion. "I give to my wife Isabel
all my chattels and my plantation where I now live, until my sonn John Corn att
age, and then my plantation, goods and chattels to be equally divided betwixt
them." I give to my son Thomas, my land liing next to John Wareing
(Warren) ao him and his Heirs an asignes
forever;"Likewise I give to my sonn Thomas, a piece of meadow, to him and
his heirs forever, containing quaintitie of 6 acres."
This Will "was sealed
and delivered in the presence of" Mathew Champion, and William Bustill.
"The seaventh day of Aprill, Anno. 1696," then proved ye Codocill, or
Testatis Mentis of John Scholey within named. Edward Hunloke, Nathan Westland,
Thomas Revell, Sec’y. and Reg’t. As the Executrix of John Scholey’s will,
Isabel was required to give bond. Her fellow signers on her bond, were Mathew
Champion and Daniel Smith, both of Burlington county in ye Province of West
Jersey." This bond was sealed on the "Seaventh day of April1 anno dom
1696." By this bond Isabel was required to give account from time to time
concerning the estate. A plantation called Scholey’s, was mentioned in the will
of Thomas Lambert, in the year 1693.This was about three years before the death
of John Scholey, Senior.
JOHN SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY, JUNIOR Of this member of the original
family of Scholeys who came to America, nothing is to be found in Smith’s
History, and but little in the records of the Friend’s Religeous Society. Some
data has been obtained from the public records. John was a mere boy of five or
six years of age when he arrived at the Friend’s Colony on the Delaware, in West
Jersey, with his parents, to greet his older brothers. He was
under age in 1695, the date of his father’s will, but the records disclose that
two years later, in 1697, he took in marriage, Rebecca Bennet, at the home of
Thomas Williams. The Witnesses present at their marriage were: Thomas Scholey,
Ann and Sarah Bennet, Rebecca Williams, Mathew Champion, and seventeen others.
John, Jr., and Rebecca had only one child of whom any record was left, Ann, who
was born in 1699, and was married to Thomas Scattergood Junior, of Mansfield in
Burlington County. Rebecca probably lived only a few years.
Ann was remembered in the
will of her father, and also in the will of her stepmother. For his second
venture in matrimony, John, Jr., chose Frances Nichol-son, widow of Joseph
Nicholson. The Chesterfield Friend’s Records, (Vol. A. p. 126) aver that on
the"1st. of the 1st. mo. 1711, John Scholey and Frances Nicholson declare
their intentions of taking each other in . marriage; Her father and mother
being present, gave their consent thereto." "2d. mo. 5th. day, 17 11,
John and Frances declare a secondtime
He producing a
certificate from Burlington, and they were given liberty to proceed according
to the good order amongst Friends." Frances was a daughter of Samuel and
Susannah Taylor.
John Scholey and Frances
raised a large family of three sons and six daughters. In Rev. Chambers History
may be found a list of the names of their children and their marriages:
Susannah, born in 171 I-12, married in 1730 to Michael Newbold of Springfield
township. John, III., born in 1714, married in 1745 with Rachel Emly. Thomas,
born and died in 1718. Mary, born in 1720, married Johnathan Barton, later,
Thomas Black, and finally Samuel Wright. Isabel was named for her grandmother
Scholey. Samuel, who died in 175 1 intestate, was born in 1723 of Springfield
Twp. His brother John administered his estate. Rebecca, born in 1725, married
in 1747 to Joseph Wright. Sarah, born in 1727, married Joseph Horner .
Johna-than, born in 1729, married Mary Wright. He died in 1758.
John Scholey, Jr., became
possessed of large estates in lands in Springfield and Hanover, and adjoining
townships, in his busy life. The children of John, Jr., and Frances, became
intermarried with the leading and thrifty families of Burlington County, who,
with their descendants, have for several generations, continued to reside in
the sections of country in which their ancestors had settled. John, Jr., diedas
a resident of Springfield Township in 1735, his will being probated on Feb. 8th
of that year. Frances named executrix. In his will he mentions his sons John,
Samuel, Johnathan, and daughters Rebecca and Sarah, all under age, in 1731; His
daughter, Ann Scatter-good. Frances survived John, Jr., about fifteen years.
Her will was pro-bated in 1750. There seems to be no record of any male
descendants from John Scholey, Jr.
The following is quoted
from the proceedings of the Surveyors’ Association of New Jersey, page 84,
printed in 1870. "Early settlements in Springfield Twp.: In 1687, Syman
Charles, Deputy Surveyor, surveyed lands adjoining land of Mathew Champion,
John Schooley, Thomas Shinn; these lands were conveyed in 1687 to 1697 to John
Scholey, Jr. John Scholey, Jr., was a son of John Scholey of Woodhouse, Yorks,
England, etc."
Among the names of persons
frequently found in records of earliest days of the Friend’s Colony on the
Delaware River, were those of people who came, most of them, from that section
of England which had been the home places of the Scholeys for several hundreds
of years.
They came on the Willing
Mind, in 1677, just before the arrival of the Flie-Boat- Martha.. Some
passengers remained down river at Salem and Gloucester. These came up river and
settled in the Burlington Friends Colony: Thomas Gardner, James Satterthwaite,
John Stacy, Thomas Wood, John Shinn, John Dewsbury, William Biddle, and
others." (Smith’s History.) Earliest Deeds to lands in the Friends Colony
in West Jersey, was given Dec. 28, 1677, by Thomas Hutchinson of Beverly,
Thomas Pearson of Bonwick, Joseph Helmsley of Kelk, Geo. Hutchinson of
Sheffield, and Mahlon Stacy of Dove House, England.
Names of other men
prominent in its affairs who were from that part of Yorkshire, Derby, and
Notts, whence came the Schooleys. Thomas Lambert and Mahlon Stacy of
Handsworth. In 1678 a bond from Godfrey Hancock of Handsworth, and in 1678 deed
from John Wright of Beighton, in Derbyshire, Eng.
Quotations given below are
found in Smith’s History of New Jersey: "A letter was written
from"The Falls of the Delaware, in West Jersey, 26th. of 4th. mo.
1680." by Mahlon Stacy to his brother Revell, and others in England about
"Orchards laden with fruit to admiration" and "Peaches in such
plenty that some people took their carts to a peach gathering. " "The
cranberries, much like cherries for color and bigness, an excellent sauce is
made of them for venison, turkeys, and other great fowl." "They are
brought to our houses by the Indians." "We have brought to our houses
by the Indians, seven or eight fat bucks a day."
Stacy wrote of many kinds
of fish not known to the people of England. So well satisfied were settlers
here, he said, that he knows not one among them "that desires to be in
England again." The Falls of the Delaware whence Stacy sent his letters,
are at Trenton where the waters fall about eight feet. These make the end of
boat navigation, and was the northern end of the Friends Settlement.
A letter copied from the
original, appears in Gordon’s History of New Jersey. It was written by Mary
Smith, a Friend, of the primative colonists. She was a daughter of Robert
Murfin, and Ann, his wife, of Nottingham, Eng., where she was born in the year
1674.
The Murfins came over in
1678 on THE SHIELD with Mahlon Stacy, Thomas Lambert, Robert Scholey, and
families.Mary married Daniel Smith, of Burlington.
Her letter says
their"first homes were in caves, or palisaded houses. The Indians brought
them corn and venison." These Friends bought their lands from Indians, the
tracts being described as reaching from creek to creek, which was paid for to
the Indians with Match coats, guns, hatchets, hoes, kettles, etc. When these
goods arrived from England and were paid to the Indians on terms agreed upon,
the settlers took possession, but did not move very far from the river
settlements. Settlers had to submit themselves "to mean living"
pounding Indian corn one day for the next." "It may be observed how
God’s providence made room for us in a wonderful manner, in taking away the Indians.
There came a distemper among them so mortal, that they could not bury all the
dead. Others went away, leaving their town. Of the eight Indian Sachems, or
Kings, of West Jersey, Okanicon was the most favorably known by these English
Quaker settlers. The government of these Indians usually passed from the father
to a son; when the old Chief was dying at Burlington, about the year 1681, he
called for his brother’s son, Sahkurso, and made him Sachem, in succession. The
old King died about 1682 and was attended to his grave in the Quaker’s burial
ground in Burlington, by Indians and Englishmen to whom he had been a true
friend. The place or community of settlers known as Ony-Onickon, often referred
to in early land descriptions, named for this old Chieftain, and once his royal
home, was, in- about 1696, known as Carmel, or Mt. Carmel, and so stated in
some land Deeds. The Indians of upper Delaware county were of the tribe known
as the Lenni Lennapes, but the English called them the Delawares.
CHAPTER THREE
THOMAS SCHOLEY AND HIS
FAMILY
THOMAS SCHOLEY AND SARAH PARKER
THOMAS SCHOLEY and Sarah Parker were united in marriage at
Burlington, New Jersey, in the 8th. mo. (October) (old style of time). 1686.
Thomas Scholey was the son of John Scholey and Elizabeth Fletcher, wife, of
Scholey’s Copes, Smallage Farms, in the Parish of Aston, Yorkshire, England. He
died in the year 1724 at Onea Nickon, in Chesterfield township, Burlington
county, West Jersey, in the 74th. year of his age. SARAH PARKER was a daughter of
George Parker and Sarah, his wife, of Monmouth county, East Jersey, but later
of Northampton twp., in Burlington county, N. J. The date of her death has not
been ascer-tained but the records prove that she survived her husband.
Thomas Scholey
first"declared his intentions of marriage" with Sarah Parker of
Burlington, at a meeting held at the house of Francis Davenport, at
Chesterfield, on the 3d. day of 4th. mo. 1686. (Chesterfield Friend’s records,
Vol. A. p. 5) his second declaration and marriage, before the meeting at
Burlington was on the 4th. day of the 8th. mo. 1686. The certificate of
marriage of Thomas Scholey and Sarah Parker was not spread upon the records of
the Burlington Meeting, but is noted in the index of Marriages in the records
of said meeting of the Friend’s Society, which are preserved in the vaults of
the Department of Records of the Friend’s Library at Philadelphia.
Very little information has
been obtained concerning the life and activities of the Scholey brothers during
the first few years they lived in the Friend’s colony on the Delaware river. In
1679 each of them owned lands near the Falls in Pennsylvania, later known as
Bucks county. This place was then known as Crookhorn.
The Lundy Family History
states that "On April 12th, 1680, Robert and Thomas Schooley of Crew-corn
(Bucks Co., Pa.), signed a petition that no licquor be sold to the Indians.
" In the year of 1685 it appears that Thomas left Mansfield and bought
land up near the Falls. "Indenture’ of July, 1685, William Emley of
Nottingham, near ye Falls, yeoman, grants to Thomas Scholey late of Mansfield
and Wood-house, in West Jersey,"Deed for One hundred acres to be surveyed
and devided out of lands of William Emley, lying in ye First Tenth, called
Yorkshire Tenth." Witnesses were Robert Scholey and Mathew Watson. (Vol.
B. of Deeds, Dept. of State of N. J.) 1685-6 and 1689. Survey for Thomas
Scholey of 340 acres between Geo. Hutchinson, M. Newbold, E. Higgins, and
William Biddle. (N. J. A. Vol. 21.)
Thomas and Sarah lived most
of the thirty-eight years of their married lives on their large
"Plantations" about Onea Nickon in Chester-field township, and there
raised a large family. The children of Thomas and Sarah were, as evidenced by
the records of the Chesterfield Friend’s Meetings (Vol. L, p. 18): Thomas, Jr., born in 1691, and married Hannah Fowler in 1720. Wil-liam,
born in 1691, and married Elizabeth French in ------. Sarah, born in 1692, and
married in 1718 to Samuel Shinn. Elizabeth, born in 1694, ap-parently unmarried
in 1723, date of her father’s will. Samuel, born in 1698, and married in 1725,
Avis Hollowoy. Joseph, born in 1697, died in infancy. John, born in 1701, and
married Mary Willson in 1727 at Bur-lington by a New Jersey license. Thomas
Scholey, Senior, died in 1724. He made his "Last will and Testament"
under date of the Sixth day of February, 1723.
The im-portant items of his
will are in quotation marks as follows: "Thomas Scholey of Chesterfield,
of the county of Burlington and the West Division of New Jersey, being weak of
body, but of perfect mind and memory." The devisees of his will were
"My son Thomas Scholey""My son William Scholey." "All
my improved lands unto Sarah, my wife, for, and during the term of her natural
life and after her decease, I give it unto my son Samuel Scholey."
"My son John" "My daughter Elizabeth Scholey""My
daughter Sarah Shinn and her two daughters Mary and Alice." "I will
that 350 acres of land which I purchased of Thomas Stevenson to be sold."
"And I do nominate my loving wife, Sarah Scholey, and my loving sons,
SamuelScholeyand John Scholey, jointExecutrix andExecutors ofthis mylast
willand Testament. " This will was "Proven the twenty-first day of
April, 1724, at Burling-ton, before Samuel Bustill, Surrogate, and letters
granted to Sarah, and Samuel and John. (Vol. 2 of Wills. D. of S. of N. J.)
Of the sons of Thomas
Scholey, it is noted that Thomas, Jr., and William had married before their
father’s death; that Samuel and John remained at the father‘s home. Thomas,
Jr., and William had been given large farms by their father while he lived.
Samuel and John also received large improved farms. In his will Thomas Scholey
refers to "that 350 acres of land which I purchased of
Thomas Stevenson." "This purchase was made in the year 1714, two and
a half years after Thomas Stevenson and others had bought several thousand
acres in the Upper Purchase. This last Indian Purchase covered all the lands
lying above the Falls of the Delaware. It included all of what became Sussex
and Warren counties and the west end of Morris county.
This purchase made by
Thomas Scholey, of 350 acres from Thomas Stevenson was the circumstance which
gave his name to the mountains in Northern Jersey, which soon after were known
as SCHOOLEY MOUNTAINS. These lands were disposed of as directed in the
will of Thomas, but two years later, the same lands were owned by Samuel
Schooley, his son. It appears by the records hereinafter quoted, that this
Thomas Stevenson was recognized as a mentor in public affairs of the Colonies.
During the same years that he was a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, he was
also owner of a Proprietary in the Western Division of New Jersey. "This
Indenture made in the 15th. of September 1714, Thomas Stevenson of Bucks
county, Penn. Yeoman, of one part, and Thomas Schooley of Chesterfield,
Burlington Co., N. J. yeoman, of the other part." The said Stevenson for
the said sum of Fifty pounds paid him by the said Scholey, grants a tract of land surveyed forth of Thomas Stevenson, lying in
the last Purchase above the Falls." Isaac DeCow had previously owned lands
adjoining this tract as stated in this Indenture. This tract of land "Containing 350 acres, besides seventeen acres
for allowances for roads." Signed Thos. Stevenson.) Witnesses: Joseph
Kirkbride, John Borradail, Isaac DeCow." Proved by Isaac DeCow on the
25th. of 12th. mo. 1723-4, before Jacob Doughty, Esq. one of the Judges of
Burlington county. (Vol. D. of Deeds, p. 11. Dept. of State of N. J.) In 1712 Thomas
Stevenson and Joseph Kirkbride had bought one half of a Proprietary of all that
tract of land in the Western Division of New Jersey, in the Upper Purchase
above the branch of the Raritan river between the Delaware and Raritan
rivers." (Quoted from Reading’s "The Surveyor’s Journal").
THOMAS SCHOLEY’S SONS AND DAUGHTERS THOMAS: Of the family of Thomas and
Sarah Parker Scholey, the first born was named Thomas. He was about 29 years
old when in 1720 he married Hannah Fowler at Chesterfield.
The Records of the Friend’s
Meetings there (Vol. S. p. 29) have the following notations: "Thomas
Scholey, son of Thomas Scholey and Sarah Parker Scholey, declare intentions of
marriage, first time, 2-7-1720." (Vol. A.) and then the letter dated,
"Ye 7th. of the mo. 1720, "This may satisfie the Monthly Meeting at
Crosswix that we are willing that Thomas Scholey shall take our daughter to
wife, and if you see cause to admit them to pass in your meeting wee shall be
we1 satisfied theare with.John and Rose Fowler." The witnesses were:
William Wood, Richard French, William and Elizabeth French Scholey, John, John,
Jr., and Frances Scholey, Jeremiah Fowler, Anthony Woodward, Jr., et al.
When the new Quaker Settlement was effected in Bethlehem town-ship
of Hunterdon county, about the years 1726-7, we have found that Thomas Scholey,
Junior, with the families of his brothers, William and Samuel, had joined with
the other Friends who traveled northward from Chesterfield to the settlement
located near the present Quakertown. Thomas was a weaver. Thomas Scholey was
the grantee in an "Indenture dated First of November 1729," which
conveyed to his title to 136 acres of land in "the township of Lebanon in
Hunterdon County, which adjoins lands of Samuel Scholey and others."
(Before 1729 Samuel,
brother of Thomas, Jr., had become owner of the 350 acres on Schooley’s
Mountain, men-tioned in the will of their father.) The Grantors in the
"Indenture" to Thomas, were, Thomas Witherill and Isaac DeCow. The
deed says this "land to be surveyed and taken up in the Western Division
of the Province of New Jersey, lawfully pur-chased of the Indians, or
natives." In 1733 "Thomas Scholey, of Bethle-hem, Hunterdon county,
New Jersey, sold above lands to William Pew. (Vol. N. Deeds, D. of S. of New
Jersey.) The above tract of land laid at the southern end of Schooley’s
Mountain. Previous to 1778, his widow, Hannah, lived at Bound Brook, N. J., in
August of that year, she was appointed as administratrix of the estateof her
son, Michael, of Bridgewater, Summerset county, N. J. Items specified in the
inventory of Michael Schooley, included: "Services in the Militia last
June. (1778.) "A mare in the hands of General Wayne."
"Certificate from the D. Q. M. General, for 32 days service."
Hannah Schooley died at her
home in Middlebrook in 1780. (579-r, 23, 128, of Wills, D. of S. of N. J.)
SARAH was the second child
of Thomas and Sarah Scholey. She was born in 1692 and married in I718 and died
in 1733. The Shinn family lived in Springfield township in Burlington county.
The Chesterfield M. M. Records show that on 12-6-1718, Samuel Shinn and Sarah
Scholey first declared their intentions of marriage. Their 2d. declaration was
on 1-4-1718. (Vol. A. p. 164.) Samuel Shinn was son of Thomas and Mary Stocton
Shinn. Sarah Scholey Shinn had two daughters who were mentioned in the will of
Sarah’s father in 1723-4. Their names there given were Mary and Alice Shinn.
ELIZABETH, the other
daughter of Thomas and Sarah Parker Scholey, married Richard Brown, date not
given. They had a son Richard and a son Benjamin. A daughter Hannah who married
a Ridgeway.
WILLIAM SCHOLEY was the
second son of Thomas and Sarah Scholey. He was born in the year 1691 in
Chesterfield twp., Burlington county. He married Elizabeth French, daughter of
Richard French and Mary-of the same place. Elizabeth French was born in 1694.
William and Elizabeth had a
family of five sons and five daughters. The first child of record in the family
of William and Elizabeth, was Robert, who was born at Chesterfield in 1718.
Sarah was born in 1720. Richard-French was born in 1723-4 and Thomas in 1725.
William Scholey was a resident of Chesterfield township in 1724, the date of
his father’s will, as evidenced by an "Indenture made this 17th. of 2d.
mo. 1724, between Thomas Wetherall of town and county of Burlington,and William
Scholey of Chesterfield, grants to William Scholey, 31 acres of land."
Witnessed by Mathew Champion, Abraham Haines, and Thomas Scattergood. In the
disbursements under the will of Richard Heath, we find that William and his
brother Samuel were recipients. William Scholey became a Member of the Friend’s
Settlement in Bethlehem township of Hunterdon county, if not at its founding,
then soon after.
From this Bethelhem section
where is now Quakertown, after a residence there of over a dozen years, the
Schoolys, William and Samuel, and possibly Thomas also, moved with the hegira
of Friend’s northward onto Schooley’s Mountain, and over to the Great Meadows
country, then in western Morris county, New Jersey, after 1738. In the records
of the Friend’s Meetings, that section of country was known as Hardwick.
At the marriage of Ann
Scholey, daughter of Samuel, brother of William, to Samuel Lundy (later Judge),
"both of Hardwick" in the year 1751. William and Elizabeth French
Scholey were witnesses. Sussex county was formed out of Morris county in the
year of 1753. In the next year, William Schooley and Richard Lundy and five
others were constituted a committee to divide the new county into townships.
(From Rev. Tuttle’s address in 1853.)
From the book of minutes,
1753, County Clerk’s Office, at Newton, Sussex county, is quoted "Court of
General Sessions, held at Hardwick, 28th. May, year 1754, in the 27th. year of
his Majecty’s Reign. The Grand Jury being-called, the following persons
appeared and were sworn or affirmed: William Schooley, Foreman."
"Jurors for the grand inquest" the next year at Hardwick, in the
county of Sussex"--William Schooley, Josiah Dyer, Sr., and others. In the
same court in 1756 sessions that year at Newton, William Schooley was a member
of the Grand Inquest.
In the minute book I, of
same clerk’s office, we find that the "Board of Freeholders" of that
county had in 1759, among others, William Schooley, Nathan Armstrong and
Ephriam Darby. In 1760 William was a member of the Board.
In the LUNDY FAMILY,
genealogy may be found that Robert Schooley, born 1718, first son of William
and Elizabeth, married in 1747, Elizabeth Young. Sarah married a Mr. Luken.
Richard French Schooley married Marthe Tantorn in 1751. William, Jr., married
Elizabeth Dell of Mendham, in 1760. Elizabeth married Richard Dell in 1754.
Mercy, Alice, and Mary were probably born at Bethlehem. Mercy and Alice married
Henry and James Brotherton. Mary married Jacob Bonnell in 1760. Isaac Schooley
married Mary Jones in 1763.
JOHN SCHOOLEY was the
youngest child of Thomas and Sarah Parker Schooley. He was born in 1701 in
Burlington county, N. J. John had learned the trade of Weaver of cloth. In 1727
he married Mary Willson of Burlington. He seems to have run counter to the
discipline of the Friends Meetings. In the Chesterfield Records (Vol. A, p.
239) of date of 8-5-1727, is this memo:"John Scholey, son of Thomas, of
this township, deceased, who was educated in ways of Friends and has proceeded
in marriage with one not of our Society has been labored with." On page
244 of date of 3-1728 is: "John Scholey, son of Thomas, having made
acknowledgement, is retained as a member."
We have no record that the
"acknowledgement" consisted of Mary joining her husband as a member
of the Friend’s Society. John was one of the executors of his father’s will, by
which he inherited a farm of one hundred and elevn acres. He sold part of this
by "Indenture, made the 12th of 6 mo. 1742. John Scholey of Chester-field,
Burlington County, N. J., weaver, and Benjamin Busson of same place." John
grants 40 acres in Chesterfield, "it being part of that one hun-dred and
eleven acres given said Scholey by the will of his deseased fathr, Thomas
Scholey, dated 6 of Feb. 1723."
John and Mary (Willson)
Scholey and their children, lived out their lives in the old township of
Chesterfield, unlike the brothers of John who moved up to Bethlehem and then on
northward to Schooley’s Mountain, and Hardwick, and Newton. In the N. J.-A.
Vol. 30, p. 4 19, Wills, is a brief of the will of John Scholey of
Chesterfield, weaver, wife, Mary, "lands to my son, Jehosada. Children are
under age and left to care of their mother." The Executors were his
friends, Michael Newbold and Isaac De Cow (DeCou). This will was affirmed may
1Oth, 1748, before J. Scattergood, "Serogate." Disbursements of the
property were made in 1766, showing the following persons as recipients of
funds from John’s estate: Mary Scholey, John Scholey, William Holloway and many
others.
CHAPTER FOUR
SAMUEL SCHOLEY AND HIS
FAMILY
SAMUEL SCHOLEY AND AVIS
HOLLOWAY
Samuel Willson, Jr., was
appointed by Kingwood Friends Meeting, to be Overseer of the Hardwick Meeting
at Great Meadows. The early settlers were famillies named: Lundy, Willson,
Schooley, Brotherton, Willets, Shotwell, Dyer, Buckley, Adams, and others. The
records of the Chesterfield Meetings held the 10th of the 4th month, back in
the year 1729, have the following minutes: "Our Friends Thomas, William,
and Samuel Schooley, and others, made application to this Meeting, that,
whereas, their settlement being remote from Friends they request Friends
approbation and consent to meet together at one of their houses every First Day
of the week to worship God."The appro-bation was granted.
Professor Moore of LeHigh
University, editor of the Kingwood Records, said, "This is supposed to be
the authority for the establishment of the Bethlehem-Kingwood Meeting." In
the year 1751 Samuel Schooley is described in land Deeds as a resident of
Hardwick. In that year his daughter Ann married Samuel Lundy. Both Ann and
Samuel Lundy are recorded as "of Hardwick." From the book of Deeds
E*2, p. 206, of the clerk’s office at Newton in Sussex, is quoted below the
deed dated 12th of March, 175 1" in which the grantors are Thomas Penn,
and Richard Penn, Esquires, and the grantees are Samuel Schooley and Samuel
Willson, Jr., Joseph Willets and Joseph Lundy, all of Hardwick township, Morris
County, Province of West Jersey, yeomen. This Deed conveys the title to a tract
of land of 1250 acres lying in the township of Hardwick.
This original Deed is filed
with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. In 1756 the first
Elders (the Hardwick Meeting) were appointed, and among them were Samuel and
Avis Schooley.‘" (From The Friends Meeting House at Quakertown"by
Mary C. Vail.) The records of Bethlehem Meetings were kept at Chesterfield
until 1744, then Kingwood became a Monthly Meeting and kept rcords for
Kingwood, Hardwick, and Mendham until 1797 for the Friends. From several
sources of information it has been confirmed that Samuel Scholey died in 1761.
The Genealogical Society of
Pa. Vol. 3, p. 112 to 134, published personal items from the "Friend,"
a Quaker publication from an item is quoted the following: "Samuel
Scholey, 1697-1761, Kingwood." The item quotes from the Friend directly,
Vol. 33, p. 45-6, "Samuel Schooley was born in the year 1691, of parents
who were members of the Society of Friends and early settlers. He was educated
with care. He was cheerful and pleasant in conversation, and of a sound and
deep judgment, well grounded in the principles of truth. Although it was his
lot to live mostly remote from Friends Meetings, amongst peoples of other
societies, yet, the education of his children became his care and concern.
Samuel Schooley was held in much esteem as an Elder of the Kingwood Monthly
Meeting." His memorial closes:"He delighted much in
the company of his friends and was well beloved by them, and others, He
departed this life Second month, 8th. 1761, being nearly 64 years old."
This means that Samuel and his brother-in-law, Holloway, were members of the
Board of Freeholders of Hunterdon County, from Leb-anon township.
This Lebanon township of
Hunterdon county, previous to the organi-zation of Morris county in 1738, and
possibly for some time thereafter, extending northward and included several of
the townships made there-from, now in the southwestern part of Morris county
through which traverse Schooley’s Mountain.
A portion of this Lebanon
township, previous to 1809, had been organized as Washington township of Morris
county, In it was located the residence of Samuel Schooley, by the Mineral
Springs many years before. A "Warrant from the Council of
Proprietors" of the new Western Division of New Jersey, issued on the
first day of August, 1809, required a "Resurvey of lands for James
Schooley, son of Joseph, and a grandson of Samuel."
These lands were "situate
in the township of Washington, formerly Lebanon, in the county of Morris,
formerly Hunterdon in the western Div. of N. J."The beginning of the
survey was near the Mineral Springs about one mile and a half northeast from
Samuel Schooley’s former home, or residence." The return of this survey
was made the 30th day of August, 1809, and record is in Liber of Surveys, in
the Sur-veyor- General’s office at Burlington.
Samuel Schooley, by a
certain Indenture dated the first of June,
1732, granted to George
Holloway, his brother-in-law, 130 acres of land situated in Hunterdon county on
a ridge of little hills lying between the river or creek called Muskenobcong,
and the south branch of the "Raritan River." This was about the time
Schooley and Holloway were living on Schooley’s Mountains. These mountains lie
between the Musconetcong River on the west, and on the south branch of the
Raritan River. (Vol. of Deeds Dept. of State of N. J.)
About the year 1749, it is
determined by the public and Friends meeting records, Samuel and Avis and their
children, probably including Mrs. Simcock and her family, established a new
home in the township of Hardwick; Ancient Hardwick, it was frequently called,
then in Morris County. Their removal thence was from their former homes in
Hunterdon Co. or from Schooley’s mountains. Hardwick township at that time in
Morris county, became a part of Sussex county in 1753, when it was organized.
Here Samuel lived until the
year of 1761, the date of his death. Here his children married and lived for
various lengths of time. His widow survived his demise for more than a score of
years. Samuel was buried in "The Burying Ground of the Hardwick Monthly
Meeting of Friends’s" which was used from 1735 to 1920. It is beside the
road westward from Allamuchy to Johnsonburg, and is now enclosed by a stone
wall.
Concerning the family of
Avis Holloway, who became the wife of Sam’1 Scholey, Sr., but little has been
found in public or church records. Her father, John Holloway, died when Avis
was about aged 18. TheHolloways lived also at Chesterfield as early as 1708, or
years before that. Samuel and wife are described as "of Bethlehem
township, Hunterdon county, N. J." Several neighboring townships have been
erected from the original township. The Quakers settlement was later known by
the name of Kingwood in 1747. About the year 1859 the name was changed from
Kingwood to Quakertown, by which name it is known up to the present date.
Early in the year of 1726,
presumably prior to his removal from Chesterfield north to the new settlement
at Bethlehem, Samuel sold one-half of the tract of land of the old homestead of
his father. He had inherited one hundred and eleven acres of the homestead. He
conveyed title to Wm. Wood for one-half of same. The Deed recites that,
"Thomas Scholey, yeoman, deceased, father of said Samuel, by will
bequeathed to Samuel, one-hundred and eleven acres, being part of the
Plantation whereon Thomas Scholey lived at the time of his death. (Vol. D. of
Deeds, p. 102, Dept. of State, N. J.)
An exhaustive search of the
public records in the office of the Secre-tary of State at Trenton, confirmed
the fact that the name of Schooley was given to the hills or mountains known by
that name during the past two Centuries, because the first purchase there was
made by Thomas Schooley, or Scholey, very soon after Stevenson acquired the
lands. This tract of 350 acres or more, Thomas, by proviso in his will,
directed to be sold, but in 1726 a few years after such sale was con-summated,
the same lands weer again owned by a Schooley, being bought that year by
Samuel, his son. These earliest locations and ownerships by Thomas and his son,
Samuel, of lands on the mountains seem to determine definitely that the name, SCHOOLEY’S
MOUNTAINS, was given to that section because of them.
Thomas Scholey, Jr., in 1729, became the owner of a large tract of
land on Schooley’s Mountains which he sold in 1733 to William Pew. William
Scholey, son of Thomas, Sr., owned lands near Draketown, on the mountains.
Samuel Scholey continued to own this tract of 350 or more acres from 1726 to
1745, when as his Deed expresses it, on the "22d. day of the month called
April" Samuel Scholey, yeoman, of Bethlehem, Hunter-don County, Province
of New Jersey, and his wife Avis, sold a "certain Plantation containing
190 acres"to William Henn, of Lebanon in said county. The next day a
"Release"was passed between same parties for "190 acres, being
the remainder of the 350 acres which Isaac DeCow, of Burlington, by. Indenture,
the 1 lth. of January, Anno. Dom. 1726, grant to SamuelScholey and his heirs
and assigns in fee." (Vol. G. of Deeds, p. 438,Dept. of State of N. J.).
did G.
An original survey was made
on the 26th. of April, 1734, for Samuel Scholey by Joseph DeCow and covered a
large tract of land on the mountains-near his other holdings. From the History
of Hunterdon & Sumerset counties" by Rev. George Mott, "Lebanon
twp. Pioneer Records, Lebanon, March 17th. 1734,-Election of Officers Schooley
and Holloway, Freeholders. Samuel Schooley, George Malloat, Overseers of the
Poor." Freeholders means the governing body of a county. In the early part
of the year of 1726, Samuel had sold to William of Chesterfield, a small tract
of land which he had inherited from his father. (Vol. D. of Deeds. p. 102.
Dept. of State, N. J.) In that year, the next after their marriage,
Samuel and Avis became
members of the Colony of Friends which was organized in, and then went from
Chesterfield and other townships, up into the new country, in Hunterdon County.
This county was organized as a new county in 1713, and covered all the country
from the Falls of the Delaware north-ward to the state line. This Colony
located and settled on the wide and open plains about twenty-five or thirty
miles north of the Falls. This sec-tion and township was named Bethlehem. The
trading place for this section now is Quakertown. Here, Samuel and Avis lived
many years and raised most of the children of their large family of four sons
and four daughters.
Their children were: ASENATH,
born 1727, and in 1744 married John Simcock, Jr., of Pennsylvania, at
Bethlehem, N. J. ANN, born 1728, and in 1751, at Hardwick, married Samuel
Lundy, later known as Judge Lundy. He was a son of Richard Lundy. Samuel and
Ann were both of Hardwick.
JOSEPH, born 1732; in 1755
married Sarah Brown at Chesterfield; daughter of Preserve Brown.
JAMES, born 1732, in 1765
married Margaret . . .
BENJAMIN, born 1733, in
1755, at Hardwick, married Martha Lundy, daughter of Richard Lundy, sister of
Samuel Lundy.
RACHEL, born 1736, in 1755
married Josiah Dyer, Jr., son of Josiah, of Plumstead, Pa.
JEHOADEN, born 1739, in
1758 married Ebenezer Willson, son of Robert Willson and Mary Lundy Willson.
SAMUEL, born February 16th,
1743, in 1766 married Margaret Brown Gibbon, widow of Nathan Gibbon, in
Pennsylvania; later, in 1770, he married Elizabeth Willson, of Warren County,
N. J. Historical writers assure their readers that among the families of
Quakers who first settled on the wide and untimbered plain of Bethlehem were:
"In 1730 or before, came Jacob Doughty, Stevensons, Kings, Rock-hills,
Emleys, Schooleys, Larges, Willsons, Williams, John and William Coats, from
Chesterfield in Burlington Co., N. J., and from Bucks Co., Pa." Samuel
Scholey was the active executor of the will of his father, Thomas Scholey,
Sr.,who died in 1724. In his father’s will was a direction to sell a tract of
land designated therein at "three hundred and fifty acres I purchased of
Thomas Stevenson."As such executor Samuel, his mother, and brother Thomas,
Jr., owned and sold lands near Drake-town, both places are in townships which
continued as a part of Morris Countv. . . . joining, sold the said tract of 350
acres to Hon. Isaac DeCow, who’ owned adjoining lands. In the year 1726 and
about the time of their effecting a home in the new settlement at Bethlehem,
Samuel and Avis are the
Grantees in a Deed from Isaac DeCow conveying to them the title to the same 350
acres of the Stevenson tract.
SAMUEL SCHOOLEY and Avis
Holloway were married on the 27th day of the third month (old style) May, 1725,
at Chesterfield, Burlington county, New Jersey.Samuel was the third son of
Thomas Scholey, Senior, and Sarah Parker, his wife. He was born at
Chesterfield, February 25th, 1698 (old style of time.) He died in 176 1 at his
home in Sussex county, N. J., aged over 63 years.
Avis was the daughter of
John Holloway and Mary . . ., his wife, of Chesterfield. She died in 1785 at
Newton, Sussex County, N. J., aged 83 yrs. Samuel died intestate. Avis left a
will dated 1771; probated 1785.
Relating to the marriage of
Samuel and Avis, the following is certified from the Chesterfield Friends
Monthly Meetings Records (Vol. A. p. 217) 2d. of 1st. mo. 1725, Samuel Scholey
and Avis Holloway de-clare their intention of marriage. The 6th. of third mo.
they declare intention the second time. The Chesterfield M. M. Records (Liber
I. p. 49) contains the following autographed record of their marriage:
"SAMUEL SCHOLEY--1725." Whereas, Samuel Scholey of Chesterfield and
Western Division of New Jersey, and Avis Holloway, of the same place, having
declared before several Monthly Meetings, of the people called Quakers, at
Chesterfield, in the county of Burlington, aforesaid, according to the good
order used among them whose proceedings therein after deliberate consideration
thereof, and having consent of parents and relations con-cerned, nothing
appearing to obstruct, were approved of by said Meeting." "Now these
are to Certifie all to whom it may concern, that for the full accomplishment of
their said intentions this twenty-seventh day of the third month, in the year
of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty-five." "They, the
said Samuel Scholey and Avis Holloway appeared at a public meeting of the said
people, and others at their public meeting house in Chesterfield,
aforesaid." And the said Samuel Scholey taking the said Avis Holloway by
the hand did in a solemn manner openly declare that he took her to be his wife,
promising through the Lord’s assistance, to be to her a loving and faithful
husband until the Lord should please by death to separate them. And, moreover,
the said Samuel Scholey and Avis Holloway (she according to the custom of
marriage, assuming the name of her husband) as a further confirmation thereof,
did then and there to these presents set their hands. And we whose name are
hereunto subscribed, being among others present at the solemnization of the
said marriage and subscription in like manner aforesaid as witnesses hereunto
have also to these presents set our names, the day and year above
written." Samuel Scholy-Avis Scholey. Richard French, John Sykes, John
Abbott, Robert Murfin, John Scholey, Mary Holloway, James
Holloway, George Holloway, James Pharo, John Taylor, William Taylor, John
Bunting, Wm. Wood, Wm. Murfin, Sarah Scholey, Thomas Scholey, Hannah Scholey,
John Scholey, Mathew Champion, Richard Lawrence, Benj. Busson, Isaac Cowgill,
Robert Tudor, Samuel Shinn, Sarah Shinn, Elizabeth Scholey, Daniel Smith, Mary
Smith, and eleven others."10th. mo, 1763, at request of Friends at
Paulinskill, a meeting is allowed to be held at the house of Avee
Schooley.""12-10-l 775, Meeting at Paulinskill directed to be held at
home of Benjamin Schooley at Newton." (Kingwood records.)
In the year 1765 the name
of Avis Schooley is mentioned in a Deed to some lands as a "widow."
An Indenture, dated the 25th day of October, in 1765, and given by Jonathan
Hampton of Elizabethtown, Sussex county, N. J., as the grantor, and Avis Schooley
of Newton, Sussex County, in the province of New Jersey, "widow," of
the other part."For a consideration of "Proclamation Money,"
Hampton conveyed title to her for a "Lot of Upland and meadow situate in
Newton, part of a tract surveyed for Governor Penn, running along lands owned
by Asa Schooley.
The reader should note the
terms stated in this Deed: "Together with all and singular, the mines,
minerals, ways, waters, watercourses, fowlings, fishings, huntings, powers,
profits, commodities, Inprovements, Hereditaments, and appurtenances to the
same belonging, or in any way appurtaining." This Indenture or Deed was
acknowledged by Hampton, on the 20th of February, 1771, before Nathan Pettit,
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Sussex County. (Deed Book A2-p. 205,
Office of County Clerk at Newton, in Sussex.) The above tract of land was 20
years later, in 1785, by will of Avis Schooley, bequeathed to her son Samuel
Schooley, Jr., and was by him conveyed to Samuel Lundy, formerly his
brother-in-law.
As far as can be reliably
ascertained, Samuel Schooley died intestate. No mention of a will of his making
can be found of record anywhere, but his widow Avis, made a will date
"June the Twentyeth, Anno Dom. 1771. "I, Avis Schooley, of Newton, in
the county of Sussex, and in the Western Division of the Province of New
Jersey, being of perfect mind and memory and knowing the mortality of my Body,
do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament.
First, I give and bequeath
unto my son Joseph . . . Secondly, I give and bequeath unto my son Benjamin . .
. Thirdly, I give and bequeath unto my Granddaughter, Ann Simcock
Fifthly, I give and
bequeath unto my Granddaughter, Avis Dyer . . . Sixthly, I give and bequeath
unto my Son Samuel Schooley, all and every part of the remainder of my estate
both real and personal, to be his, his heirs and assigns forever, and lastly I
do make, constitute and ordain my son, Samuel Schooley, my only and sole
executor of this, my last will and testament. Signed, Sealed, Pronounced and
De-clared by the said Avis Schooley as her last will and testament by us the
subscribers. Avis Schooley (seal) Witnesses: Isaac, Daniel, and Samuel Lundy.
Avis died in the year 1785
at Newton. Samuel Lundy, afore-mentioned, was Judge Lundy, formerly the husband
of Ann Schooley in her life time; she was the second daughter of Avis. George
and Daniel were sons of Ann Schooley Lundy. Samuel Schooley, as sole executor,
was "affirmed and qualified, 24th. of May, in 1785, at
Newton,"SCHOOLEY’S SONS
JOSEPH, JAMES, BENJAMIN,
SAMUEL, JR.
Before passing to the next
chapter some reader may be interested in learning about the other sons of
Samuel the senior. The eldest of these was JOSEPH, who was born at Bethlehem
(Quakertown) in the year 1730. In the year 1756, before the Chesterfield
Friends Meeting, he married Sarah Brown, a daughter of Preserve Brown, Jr., and
his wife, Mary French, of Mansfield, ‘both places being of Burlington County.
Sarah was born in 1737 and died in the year 1811. Joseph died in 1778. It appears
that Joseph lived most of his life time in Burlington county, unlike his
brothers who made their homes on the frontiers of Morris and Sussex counties.
Joseph’s and Sarah’s family consisted of: James, who was born in 1757, married
in the year 1786 Mary Roger, and died in 1826. Samuel was born in 1759. Martha
was born in 1761. Mary was born the year 1762, married Isaac Thomas in 1780 at
at Chesterfield. Their marriage was witnessed by Jonas Schooley. Among the
witnesses to the marriage of James Schooley and Mary Rogers, were James
Hollo-way, Joseph DeCow, and Sarah Brown Schooley. Joseph Schooley became the
owner of large holdings of lands in the three counties aforementioned. (Joseph
had a son John, born in 1769.)
From old deeds it was ascertained
that by trade or business, he was a "cooper." Preserve Brown made his
will in the year 1759. It was proved in 1760 by his son Richard. In this will
the testator bequeathed to his "daughter or Sarah Schooley, Land in
Nottingham and houses and lots in Chesterfield." Joseph Schooley’s name is
mentioned as one of the trustees for a burial lot of one and one-half acres at
Burlington, 28th. of 9th. MO. 1770, as
noted on page 57 of Vo. 24 of the Penn’s Magazine of History.
JAMES SCHOOLEY was born in Bethlehem
township of Hunterdon county, N. J., in 1732. The records of the Kingwood
Friends Meetings have a minute of James being conceded permission to marry. The
date was the 8th of the 8th. MO. 1765. His
bride’s name was not recorded. He died two years later in 1767.We have no
record of any children of James and Margaret. The items inventoried in the
settlement of his estate prove that he was a farmer and had lived near Newton
in Sussex County. Margaret was appointed administratrix of his estate, but she
"renounced" this appointment and in her stead his brother Samuel,
Jr., was authorized and bonded. "Appraisements"were made by Jacob
Lundy, Samuel Lundy and Benjamin Scholey. The report of the administrator
mentions disbursements to the following persons, among other names: Avis, the
mother of James, Josiah Dyer, his brother-in-law, William Schooley, his uncle;
Asa Schooley, Samuel Lundy, Jr., Darby, and Samuel Willson. Samuel Lundy,his
brother-in-law; Ephriam
The third son of Samuel
Schooley, Sr., was named BENJAMIN, He was born in the year 1733 in Bethlehem
township (near Quakertown), Hunterdon County, West Jersey. The Kingwood Friends
Records supply the information that in 1755 he married Martha Lundy at
Hardwick. She was a daughter of Richard Lundy and a sister of Judge Samuel
Lundy, who, in 1751 had married Ann Schooley, a sister of Benjamin. Samuel and
Avis, his father and mother, signed as witnesses of the marriage of Benjamin
and Martha. In 1763 Benjamin was living in Stillwater township in Sussex County.
In 1775, Benjamin lived near New Town. Benjamin had a large family. He died in
the year 1809.Martha was not living at the time of his death.
Their children were:
Elizabeth,born in Hardwick in 1757;married ------- White. Ann, born in 1759,
married Jesse Dennis in 1781. Joseph, born in Newton in 1760, and married Susan
Case in 1786. Martha, born at Newton in 1762, married Joseph Phillips.
Benjamin, born at Newton in 1766.
In Benjamin’s will, which
was dated at "Newton the 13th. of 1 lth. MO. 1804," he avers he was then "advanced in years and
infirm." His will was probated at Newton on the 26th of Dec., 1809. He
refers in his will to only two of his children-Joseph, who was an executor of
the same, and his daughter Martha, widow of Joseph Phillips. Benjamin was
"buried at Sussex Court House," now called Newton. Among the Judgment
Rolls for the years 1762-1769, with the records in the office of the County
Clerk at Newton, is one-Benjamin Schooley vs. Richard Shackleton-Capias in
case. A deed dated on the 16th of August 1786 was given to Benjamin Schooley by
John Jay, Phillip Liv-ingston, and John Rutherford, for a tract of land lying
in Newton, township of Sussex County, on which was Schooley’s Log House."
(Book B. of deeds p. 185.)
In the year 1793, Benjamin,
a farmer, and Martha, his wife, conveyed title to a small lot in New Town, now
Newton, to John Jay of New York City. This lot was described as "being
part of the farm on which said Benjamin now lives and joins the farm of John
Jay on which John Pettit lives. " (Book B. of deeds, p. 359 of Sussex
County Records).
Dr. Cummins in his History
of Warren County, New Jersey (Sussex included Warren until 1824),
says,"The Quakers Settlement in Alla-muchy township was made in 1745 (then
called the Great Meadows, in Hardwick township.) Samuel Willson, Jr., was
appointed by Kingwood Friends Meeting, to be overseer of the Hardwick Meeting
(at Great Meadows.) The early settlers were families named: Lundy, Dyer,
Willson, Schooley, Willets, Schmuck, Shotwell, Brotherton, Laing, Adams,
Buckley, and Hoey. Francis Bazley Lee, in his "New Jersey as Colony and
State" says: In the western part of the county (Morris) came the Schooleys
and Budds from Burlington county, at Wantage, the Meddaghs, at Hardwick, the Dyers,
Willsons, Lundys, and Hacketts."The "Great Meadows" comprised
over six thousand acres along the Pequest River in what are now Hope,
Independence, Allamuchy and Green townships of Warren and Sussex counties.
"Johnsonburg, at first known by the name ‘the log gaol,’ is near the
center of what was Old Hardwick. Before 1765 Johnsonburg. was the seat of
justice for Sussex County. The first families to settle in that section were
Greens, Hunts, Shafers, Schooleys, Dyers, Willsons, Arm-strongs and
Lundys." History of New Jersey, by Barber & Howe.
At the first Centenary
celebration of the erection of Sussex County at Newton in 1853, the Rev. Joseph
Tuttle in his address on that occasion said: "From 1753, when Sussex was
organized, until 1768 the county was without representation in the Colonial
Assembly. No one was eligible as a representative who did not own at least one
thousand acres of land or five hundred pounds sterling English money." In
1776 Sussex was represented in the new Republican Assembly of New Jersey, by John
Cleves Symmes, Casper Shafer and Abia Brown, as stated in the above address of
Rev. Mr. Tuttle. From Vol. 3 of the Jerseyman is quoted the following: Among
the settlers on the large plantation holdings of Dr. Coxe, disputing his title
to lands northeast of Quakertown, were William Oakes-200 acres, John Oakes-100
acres. From the lists prepared by William Emley in 1757 of claimants of lands
on the road from Pittstown to Bloomsbury, in Hunterdon County, William Oakes,
Isaac Oakes, Samuel Schooley, and John Oakes. In 1779 Isaac Oakes owned lands
in Alexandria and Lebanon townships. (N. J. Archives, Vol. 3, p. 533.)
"Samuel Schooley
entered into a contract in 1758 with Lord Stirling to build a saw mill and dam
on the Neshasackaway creek near the Delaware river. (The Jerseyman, Vol. p.
22.)The "Great Meadows" comprised over six thousand acres along the
Pequest River in what are now Hope, Independence, Allamuchy and Green townships
of Warren and Sussex counties. "Johnsonburg, at first known by the name
‘the log gaol,’ is near the center of what was Old Hardwick. Before 1765
Johnsonburg. was the seat of justice for Sussex County. The first families to
settle in that section were Greens, Hunts, Shafers, Schooleys, Dyers, Willsons,
Arm-strongs and Lundys." History of New Jersey, by Barber & Howe.
At the first Centenary
celebration of the erection of Sussex County at Newton in 1853, the Rev. Joseph
Tuttle in his address on that occasion said: "From 1753, when Sussex was
organized, until 1768 the county was without representation in the Colonial
Assembly. No one was eligible as a representative who did not own at least one
thousand acres of land or five hundred pounds sterling English money." In
1776 Sussex was represented in the new Republican Assembly of New Jersey, by
John Cleves Symmes, Casper Shafer and Abia Brown, as stated in the above
address of Rev. Mr. Tuttle. From Vol. 3 of the Jerseyman is quoted the
following: Among the settlers on the large plantation holdings of Dr. Coxe,
disputing his title to lands northeast of Quakertown, were William Oakes-200
acres, John Oakes-100 acres. From the lists prepared by William Emley in 1757
of claimants of lands on the road from Pittstown to Bloomsbury, in Hunterdon
County, William Oakes, Isaac Oakes, Samuel Schooley, and John Oakes. In 1779
Isaac Oakes owned lands in Alexandria and Lebanon townships. (N. J. Archives,
Vol. 3, p. 533.)
"Samuel Schooley
entered into a contract in 1758 with Lord Stirling to build a saw mill and dam
on the Neshasackaway creek near the Delaware river. (The Jerseyman, Vol. p.
22.)
CHAPTER FIVE
CAPTAIN SAMUEL SCHOOLEY,
JR.
SAMUEL SCHOOLEY. JUNIOR
Samuel Schooley was the
youngest child of Samuel, and his wife, Avis HollowayHe was born in Bethlehem
township (near Quakertown) in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, on Feb. 16th. 1743.
He died at his "Schooley’s Pine Creek Farms" near Ocala, in Grayson,
now Carroll County, Virginia, in the early part of the year of 1832. aged 69
years. Samuel Schooley, Sr., father of above, died in 1761. At the time of his
death, his children, except James and Samuel, Jr., had married and were in
homes of their own. In 1765 James married and set up his home on his farm near
Newtown, where he died in 1767. In that same year, their mother bought from
Jonathan Hampton, a homestead just east of Sussex Court House, now the city of
Newton, where, apparently, she lived during the next twenty years of her life,
until her death. Samuel continued living with his mother at her Newton home
until. and after he married. Samuel Schooley, Jr.. first married Margaret Brown
Gibbon, widow of Nathan Gibbon, on the 9th day of Jan., 1766, at Lower
Makefield, Bucks County, Pa. Nathan Gibbon died in 1765, leaving two daughters,
Sarah, and Katherine, to her care. To Samuel and Margaret, one child was born,
a son, William, at Newton, on Nov. 8th, 1766. Through tradition came the
information that at the home of Avis, at Newton, lived Samuel and his wife and
children, until her death, and also his second wife, Elizabeth Willson, and
children, lived there for about fifteen years.
Samuel Schooley’s marriage
to Elizabeth Willson took place in 9th. mo. 1770. She was the daughter of
Gabriel and Elizabeth Lundy Willson, of Allamuchy, Warren County, N. J.
Children born to Samuel and Elizabeth in Newton, were: Leah, b. 8-18-1774.
Margaret, b. 11-14-1776. James, b. I-1-1780. John, b. 2-13-1782. Samuel, b.
8-25-1784. Besides farming the homestead of his mother who was now well along
in years, he did some surveying of lands, and teaching of private schools. A
memorandum long existed of a survey of lands he made for his brother Joseph of
8th of Oct., 1769, near Hamberg. It appears that in some surveys he acted as
assistant for Samuel Green, the Surveyor for the West Jersey Proprietors. He
made another survey on a location for Richard Armstrong, the lands lying along
the Paulins Kill River, and Dark Moon Creek. Another of his surveys was of
lands for Jesse Lundy, on the south side of Pine Run, which Jesse had received
from his Father, Samuel Lundy.
Samuel Schooley taught a
country private school in the winter of 1766-7, at Newton. Inscriptions in an
old spelling book recently in possession of one of his great, grand children,
indicate he taught a school thereabouts during a few subsequent winters. He
taught an English Primer, Dilworth’s Spelling Book, and Arithmetic and the New
Testament. Samuel’s name as "master" was found in an old Dilworth
speller of 1767.
An old hour-glass used by
him was preserved for many years. As teacher, surveyor, farmer, and Militiaman,
he was a busy man. The records disclose that after the death of Samuel, Sr., in
1761, Avis and her son Benjamin, in 1763, were living near the place named
Stillwater, along the Paulins Kill River, southwest of Newton. In 1765 she had
moved to Newtown. In 1771, she had made her Will at New-town, and dated it
20th. of June. Her son James died at Newtown in 1767. His widow Margaret, on
the 20th of April, 1767, "Renounced all right to administer"and her
"Renunciation" -signature was witnessed by her brothers-in-law,
Benjamin Schooley, and Josiah Dyer, Jr.
On that same day, Samuel
Schooley of Newton, or Newtown, was appointed Administrator of James’ estate.
His bond as administrator sets forth that "Samuel Schooley, of Newtown, in
the County of Sussex and Province of West Jersey, are bound unto his
Excellency, William Franklin, Esq., Governor of New Jersey, in the sum of One
Hundred and seventy-three Pounds, Proclamation Money." Samuel was to
"cause to be exhibited into the Registry of the Pre-rogative Court, in the
Secretary’s Office at Burlington" an inventory of all goods and chattels,
and Credits" pursuant to the true Intent and Meaning of the Act of
Parliament, made in the 22d. and 23d. years of the Reign of King Charles 1 ld.
Samuel and Josiah signed in the presence of John Pettit and Thomas Anderson.The
Appraisers were: Jacob Lundy, Samuel Lundy, and Benjamin Schooley. To Thos.
Anderson, Surro. was paid 2 lbs. for "Letters Administra-tory."
David Gould was paid over
ten pounds "in full for his attendance as Doctor of ye Dec’d."
received over 20 pounds. Josiah Dyer was paid a claim. Avis Schooley Some other
claimants who were paid were, Nathaniel Pettit, William Schooley, Asa Schooley,
Samuel Lundy, John Pettit, Bostain Chestnutwood, George Rea, Dan’l. Pettit,
Caspar Shafer, Eph’m Darby, Samuel Willson, Justice Ayers, for Ann Quick, Hezz.
Dunn, Peter Schmuck. "Before Thomas Anderson, Surrogate for ye County of
Sussex, appeared above, accompanied Samuel Schooley, and being one of the people
called Quakers,upon his solemn affirmation which he took according to Law, did
declare that the foregoing account is true, both as to charge and discharge, to
the best of his knowledge." "April, ye 12th. 1769. The within
acc’t." approved. Thomas Ander-son, Surro. for ye County of Sussex."
(Book 1238, Wills, D, of S. of N. J.)
MILITARY RECORD OF CAPTAIN SAMUEL SCHOOLEY Some Military necessities about the
year 1772 arose, which required the attention of Samuel Schooley, Aaron
Hankinson and others. Hankin-son, about 1765, came up from Lower Hunterdon
County and became "Captain of Upper Hardwick,"with his home at, or
near Stillwater. Their activities were associated with the Block Houses built
for defence along "the frontiers in the three river Townships from Water Gap, to Carpenters Point, for protection against the Indians.
When the War of the
Revolution came on, and in New Jersey preparations were being made for
recruiting and equipping armies, the Militia experiences which Samuel had in
the organizations engaged at times along the frontier, brought him offers of
place in the new estab-lishments of the Militia. Though he had the
responsibilities of a large family, he enlisted in June, 1776, for five months,
but served six months with the State troops.
He was in four important
battles in that term. He was Ensign in Captain Bond’s Company, and was promoted
to Second Lieutenant in Nov. 28th, 1776. In May, 1777, he was a First
Lieutenant in Col. Thompson’s First Sussex Regiment, in the Continental Army.
In the "Fall of 1778," Samuel was a Captain in the Sussex County
Militia, First Regiment, under Major Bescherer, and Col. Jacob West.The
following is a verbatim copy of a certificate issued by the Adjutant General,
New Jersey:
STATE
OF NEW JERSEY OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL, Trenton, March 13, 1912. It is
certified that the records of this office show that, SAMUEL SCHOOLEY, was in
commission as Ensign, Sussex County, New Jersey, Militia; Residence, Greenwich,
Sussex Co., N. J. Commissioned Ensign, Captain William Bond’s Company, Col.
Ephriam Martin’s Battalion, Brigadier General Na-thaniel Heard’s Brigade, New
Jersey State Troups, June 24th, 1776, five months serv-ice; Assigned to Major
General Nathaniel Green’s Division, Continental Army, on Long Island, New York,
Aug. 27, 1776; At battles of Long Island, New York, Aug. 27, 1776; and White
Plains, New York, Oct. 28, 1776; Appointed Second Lieutenant, Fourth Battalion,
New Jersey Continental Line, Col. Ephriam Martin, and received warrant for
recruiting,November 16, 1776; Commission declined; Second Lieutenant, First
Regiment, Sussex County, New Jersey Militia, date unknown. First Lieutenant,
Cap-tain Andrew Malick’s (First) Company, First Regiment, Sussex County, New
Jersey Militia, Colonel Mark Thompson Commanding, May 24, 1776. Final Record
unknown during the Revolutionary Wark.
(Seal) W. F. SADLER, JR. THE
ADJUTANT GENERAL
Captain Samuel Schooley was
mentioned as such by a soldier of that war, Cornelius Van Fleet, in Oct. 1832,
when he was a resident of Washington Township, Lycoming County, Pennsa., whence
he came from New Jersey, in his application to the United States for a
soldier’s pension. He stated his services in that war were under Captain Samuel
Schooley, Captain John Tenbrook, and others during the years 1776-1778.
Van Fleet (Van Fliet) and Tenbrook and many others from New Jersey
were, in a few years after the close of that war, residents of White Deer
Valley, in Washington township, Lycoming County, Pa. After his mother’s death
at Newtown in 1785, Samuel, by the terms of her Will which was made fourteen
years previous, inherited most of her property, and was nominated therein to be
the sole executor thereof. It appears by the records of Newtown, Deed Book A2,
p. 206, that among the properties he received by his mother’s bequest, was the
old Homestead at Newtown. By an "Indenture made the 16th day of the 9th.
mo. 1785, between Samuel Schooley of Hardwick, Sussex Co., and Samuel Lundy of
Newtown County aforesaid" the title was conveyed to "a lot of Upland
and Meadow in Newton, being part of a tract of land surveyed for Gov.
Penn." Signed Samuel Schooley (seal), wit-nessed by Samuel Willson, Sr.,
Samuel Willson, Jr.
This Deed was acknowledged
before George Allen, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, of Sussex County by
"Samuel Willson who saw Samuel Schooley sign and seal." The Deed was
not recorded until March 14th, 1814. Soon after his Mother’s demise and his
settlement of her estate, Samuel in the year 1785, had issued to him a
certificate of Removal from Kingwood (Friends) Meeting, as shown by its
records, for himself and sons, his wife and daughters, and joined a colony of
Friends with Lundys and others, at Deep River, Surry County, N. C.
The Certificates were dated
the 13th of 10th month, 1785, and entered on Deep River M. records,6th. of 2d. mo. 1786. (p-110 Vol. 1). On page 24
is the following entry:
Children of Samuel and Elizabeth Schooley. Leah, b. 8-18-1774 at Newtown Twp.,
Sussex, E. Div. of N. J. Margaret, b. 11-l 4-I 776, Newton Twp., E. Div. of N.
J. James, b. l-13-1780, Hardwick Twp., W. Div. of N. J. John, b. 2-l 3-1782,
Hardwick Twp., W. Div. of N. J. Samuel, b. 8-25-1784, Hardwick Twp., W. Div. of
New Jersey. Gabriel, b. 9-4-1786, Surry Co., N. C. Benjamin, b. 4-2-1788, Surry
Co., N. C. Nathan, b. 1-9-1792, Stokes Co., N. C. Elizabeth, b. 1-7-1797,
Stokes Co., N. C. At the time of the first Census of the United States, 1790,
they were located in Stokes County, N. C. In 1795-1-5, Samuel and family
request advice as to moving to Chestnut Creek M. but was advised not to
remove.In 1802-7-5,
Samuel and family are given
certificates of removal to Mt. Pleasant, Chestnut Creek, near Galax., Va., in
Grayson County, with many of their old neighbors and friends. In a few years
Samuel Schooley had become the owner by purchase of several tracts of land. The
aggregate of these tracts exceeded one-thousand acres.His lands were situated
along both sides of Pine Creek, about one and one half miles east of its
confluence with Big Reed Island Creek. His residence and springs were about
three miles northwest from Dugspur, which is on the Floyd Pike Highway, and
about two miles southeast from the Post town of Ocala, all in the Pine Creek
Magisterial District of Carroll County, which in the year of 1843 was set off
from Grayson County.
Hillsville is the County
Seat of Carroll County. It is located on the Floyd Pike. Dugspur is a Post
Office and village, situated six miles northeast of Hillsville. Among the
families in the Pine Creek District as neighbors of Samuel Schooley were the
Wrights, Hiatts, Ballards, Lindseys, Marshalls, Bournes, Hyltons and
Montgomerys. The descendants of some of these families are among the honored
residents if this district.
These lands were known as Schooley
lands as late as 1930, or later. Samuel’s pioneer log houses were then in use
over one hundred and twenty-five years. His sons and youngest daughter
Elizabeth, were married from this home. The U. S. Census for Grayson County,
year 1820, give data of the two families of the name Samuel Schooley. The elder
Samuel and his wife were then living.
In the reports of 1830 his
wife was not reported, thus it appears that she had died since the 1820 report.
His age given as between 80 and 90, as averages were then used. In the Census
of 1820, it was reported that Samuel, the younger son of Captain Samuel, had
four sons and three daughters.
The Census of that year
enrolled both father and son, Samuel, Sr., and Samuel, Jr., as the owners of
several slaves. In the 1830 Census, no slaves were reported in their ownership.
The tract’of land which was the "Schooley Homestead" consisted of 260
acres, described in his deed as "A certain parcel or tract of land lying
on both sides of the Pine Creek, a branch of Big Reed Island Creek in the said
county of Grayson, he bought from Zachariah Stanley of Montgomery County, Va.,
in March, 1802." The survey of the tract is described in part with the
words "Begining at a chestnut tree on the ridge near Chiswell’s Road."
This Grantor signed "This Indenture" in the presence of Robert
Commons, Amos Hiatt, James Schooley, as sub-scribing witnesses. (Deed Book2-p.
83, Grayson Records).
Two years later Captain
Schooley bought from said Stanley, 80 acres more on said Creek. The witnesses
to Stanley’s signing were John, Samuel, and Benjamin Schooley, sons of Capt.
Schooley. In the year 1813, Samuel purchased from Thomas Johnson, or John-ston,
449 acres, which adjoined the aforesaid Schooley Homestead; The deed declares
they are situated, lying, and being on both sides of Pine Creek, the Branch of
Big Reed Island Creek." The signatures of wit-nesses affixed in this deed
were: Samuel Nathan Schooley, Zachariah Wright. Schooley, Jr.:Isaac Johnson,
A further purchase of
lands-was made by the Captain, described as follows:"This Indenture, made
this 25th. day of the 3d. mo. (March) 1822,from Isaac Wright, ‘both of Grayson
County, state of Thistract of 175 acres has its beginning at a chestnut tree on
Virginia?
Chiswell’s Road, being
Samuel Schooley’s corner" and the ridge near sides of Pine Creek, a branch
of Big Reed Island Creek. lying on both The wit-nesses hereon were, Samuel
Schooley, Jr.,-Abraham Wright, and Stephen Lindsey. In the year 1822, Samuel
conveyed title to his son Samuel, to a large tract of these lands, and the
witnesses to his signature were, Alexander Smith, Charles Smith, Benjamin
Schooley.
In the same year a further
conveyance of a large tract of above lands was made to hisson Samuel. The
witnesses were: William Ballard, Sr., Abraham Wright and Stephen Lindsey. The
son Samuel continued living on with his father until after 1832 when his father
died. Captain Samuel Schooley left his Will dated "This twentyeth day of
the third month in the year 1825. It announces that "Samuel Schooley of
Grayson County in the state of Virginia." "I give to my daughter
Margaret a tract of land near Muddy Creek in Stokes Co., North Carolina.
"My son John,""My son Benjamin," "My son Nathan,"
"My daughter Elizabeth,""My son Samuel, one tract of land lying
on both sides of Pine Creek in Grayson Co., state of Va." The witnesses to
his will were: Thomas Marshall, John Lindsey, Henry Bourne.
He also bequeathed to
Samuel all the money and credit that were due to him. Also his livestock and
all the implements of husbandry and household goods. A Hackle, used in
preparing flax for weaving, made in his workshops, is now in the possession of
one of his descend-ants, Victor Schooley. Samuel, Jr., with William Montgomery
were designated in the Will, to act as executors thereof.This will was recorded
in Will Book, 1. p. 397. The inventory and appraisal of the estate, were made
19th. July, 1832, by Stephen Lindsey, Peter Huff and Samuel Hylton, recorded in
the county records at Independence, Virginia. The mortal remains of Captain
Samuel Schooley were laid in eternal rest in the small Quaker burial ground on
Grape Hill, a few miles south of Dugspur, in Carroll County, Va. n u
The old Fort Chiswell road,
mentioned in all of the Schooley Deeds, was established in pre-Revolutionary
war times. It was built in the year 1758, under direction of Col. William Byrd,
and named for Col. Chiswell owner of the New River Lead mines. This road ran
from Dugspur, or from its location, a post town on the main highway east and west
through Carroll County about six miles east of Hillsville, northerly across
Pine Creek valley to Fort Chiswell in Wythe County.
n u
This hackle was made in the
workshop on the Schooley farms about the year 1822. The Marshall family,
descendents of former neighbors and now occupying the old Schooley farm home,
states that the hackle was made by Samuel Schooley himself.THE WILLSON FAMlLY
ROBERT AND ANN HOAG
WILLSON, were English Quakers from Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, and came to
Philadelphia in 1682. SAMUEL WILLSON, son of Robert and Ann, married Hester
Overton, of Quakertown, Hunterdon County, N. J. GABRIEL WILLSON, son of Samuel
and Hester Overton Willson, married Elizabeth Lundy, daughter of -------------
Lundy, in 1749. Gabriel was born 23-7-1725, and died in 1805. The family lived
on Great Meadows, near Allamuchy, Warren Co., N.J. Children of Gabriel and
Elizabeth Lundy Willson were: I: Charity. II: Elizabeth, b. 7-8-1751. Robert
died in Ky. Records from Hardwick Society of Friends, Warren County, N. J.
ELIZABETH WILLSON, daughter of Gabriel and wife, Elizabeth Lundy Willson,
married Samuel Schooley (son of Samuel Schooley), having declared their
intentions of marriage on the 13th. day, 9th. mo. 1770, before the Kingwood
(now Quakertown) Monthly Meeting of Hunterdon County, N.J.
n u
This log cabin was built in
1801-Z by Capt. Samuel Schooley. It is located in Carroll County (formerly part
of Grayson), Virginia, near Ocala.It was following
the successful war waged in
1779 by Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governor of Virginia, to defend Virginia’s
claim to the Vir-ginia Military Land District, that so many Virginians found
new homes in this fertile valley of the Ohio.
CHAPTER SIX
SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF
CAPTAIN SAMUEL AND ELIZABETH WILLSON SCHOOLEY
JOHN AND LEAH SCHOOLEY PIKE
LEAH SCHOOLEY, daughter of
Samuel and Elizabeth Willson Schooley, was born in Newtown, Sussex, West Div.
of New Jersey, in the year of 8-18-1774. Married to John Pike, son of Nathan and
Elizabeth Pike, at Deep River, Surry County, N. C., on the 10-16-1793. John
Pike, born in 8-10-1772. Died November 5th, 1844, in Henry County, state of
Indiana, aged seventy-one years. CHILDREN: Nathan, John, Margaret and Samuel.
Leah Pike is named as one of the original members of the Women’s Meetings of
Mt. Pleasant, Grayson County, Va., year of 1801-2. John Pike given certificate
to Mt. Pleasant, year of 1804. In the year of 1800, Nathan, son of John and
Leah Pike, received certificate from Deep River, M. M., N. C., to Westfield, N.
C., the 7th. day, 7th. mo. and in 1801 a certificate to Mt. Pleasant, M. M., in
Va. Samuel Pike, son of John and Leah Pike, was born April 6th. 1804, in
Grayson County, Va. Was married to Elizabeth Lupton Pope, 1826, in Highland
County, Ohio. Children: Martha Helen, William Wallace, and infant. William
Wallace Pike, married Sarah Jane Newell. Children: Eliza-bethLuptonPopePike
----------- Grace. Elizabeth Lupton Pope Pike married Charles F. Spiegel, of
Cin-cinnati, 0. Children: Grace F. Spiegel. From Records of Highland County,
Ohio: Marriage of John Pike to Hannah Reams, 12-1817. Marriage of Margaret Pike
to Wm. Moore, 2-12-1818.
COLONEL SAMUEL PIKE, EDITOR
From the history of Ross
and Highland Counties, O., is the follow-ing: p. 89- "The Chillocothe
Advertiser, owner 1840, John Hough. In 1865, owner, Hon. James Emmitt, with Sam
Pike, editor. p. 147- "In Jan., 1862, the office of ‘Hillsborough
Gazette" was purchased by Samuel Pike. He at once changed the tone of the
paper in regard to war, and advocated what was then known as the "Peace
Policy." At one time, threats of mobbing the office were made by soldiers
in camp at Camp Mitchell, near town. Col. Pike was a bitter partisan, and from
the fact of his having pub-lished papers in the South, had a warm feeling for
her people. Hiscourse seemed to be endorsed by the result of the election in
Ohio that autumn, for the Democrats carried the state. ". Sold the Gazette
to W. H. Hummell, in 1865 Col. Pike returned to Hillsboro and published the
weekly paper called the "Highland Democrat," name later changed to
Hillsboro Gazette," until 1867."
"Col. Pike was
probably the most widely known editor of Highland county. He was born April
6th, 1804, in Grayson County, Va., but spent his early life on a farm in Penn
township, and when grown to manhood, removed to Leesbourgh and engaged in
mercantile business. His first appearance as an editor and publisher was in
Leesbourgh in 1832. To advocate the construction of Belpre & Cincinnati R.
R., Joel Wright bought a small newspaper called the Highland County Democrat
and R. R. Advocate, and installed Col. Pike as editor. Later, Col. Pike started
a paper in Peru, Ind., then to Bloomington, Ill., to Piketon, O., Covington,
Paducah and Maysville, Ky., returned to Leesbourgh in 1841, Hillsborough,
1862-9, to Leesburgh, Aug., 1871. Thus, after forty years in newspaper
business, finished his career in same little village where he had commenced it.
"As an editor he had very considerable ability, but was always a bitter
partisan; In private life he was a social, genial, and high toned gentleman.He
died in Leesburgh, Dec. 15th, 1874, aged seventy-five."
Miss Grace F. Spiegel of
Cincinnati, descendant of Co1 Pike, states that his father was John Pike of North
Carolina and Grayson county, of Va. Leah Scholey Pike, wife of John Pike, was
eldest daughter of Capt. Samuel Schooley, of Grayson County, Va., and of Stokes
County, N. C. Miss Spiegel has a fine portrait of Col. Pike, which hung in the
office of the Leesburg Citizen until about 1937.
JONATHAN AND MARGARET
SCHOOLEY HARROLD
Margaret, second daughter
of Samuel and Elizabeth Schooley, Deep River, N. C., was born at Newtown,
Sussex Co., W. Div., N. J., in 1 l-l 4-l 776, and married to Jonathan
Harrold,son of -------------- ------------------ Muddy Creek, Stokes Co., N.
C., in the year 7-13-1796. Jonathan was born 9-3-l 773. They later became
original members of Union M. M. Stokes Co., now Forsythe Co., N. C. Sons and
Daughters of Jonathan and Margaret: Samuel, Andrew, Mary, Benjamin, John,
Jonathan, Nathan, Richard, Elizabeth, and Margaret. In the year 1830, the sons
and daughters had certificates from Union, M. M., Stokes Co., N. C., to Center,
Ohio, New Garden and Dover, Ind. Jonathan, Jr., had certificate to Center M.
M., near Wilmington, O., 1830. Several descedants of this family became
Ministers and Doctors. Book of Marriages, New Garden M. M., Ind. p.85-
"Samuel Bond, son of Samuel Bond, of Wayne Co., Ind., and Mary Harrold,
daughter of Jonathan Harrold and Margaret Harrold, his wife, of same
place,having declared their intentions of marriage, etc., 23-l 1-1831. "A
public meeting of sd. people held at Dover, sd. Samuel Bond, taking the sd.
Mary Herrold by the hand, etc."Witnesses: Samuel Bond, Elizabeth Harrold,
Nathan Harrold, Jona-than Harrold, Margaret Harrold, and
others. Page 90: Whereas, Joseph Bond, son of Joseph Bond, and Rachel, his wife, and Elizabeth Harrold, daughter of Jonathan and Margaret
Harrold, his wife, of Wayne Co., Ind., etc. "Whereas, Nathan Harrold, son
of Nathan Harrold and Margaret, his wife, and Betsy Hawkins, daughter of Nathan
and Rebecca Hawkins at New Garden, Ind., year 1832. "Whereas, Amos Bond,
son of Joseph Bond, etc., marries Lucy Coggshall, 1839. John Harrold, son of Jonathan
and Margaret Harrold, married Mary Stanley.
JAMES AND SUSANNAH BETTS SCHOOLEY
JAMES, first son of Captain
Samuel, and wife, Elizabeth Willson Schooley, was born I-13-1782, at Hardwick,
W. Div., New Jersey. (New-town) lived in this community, and in Surry and
Stokes counties, N. C., until the year of 1802, when he was given certificate
of removal from the Deep River M. M., Stokes Co., to Mt. Pleasant M. M.,
Chestnut Creek, Grayson Co., Va., on the 7-5. Recorded on page 9 of the Mt.
Pleasant M. M. book of Marriage Records is that of James Schooley, son of
Samuel and Elizabeth Schooley, to Susanna Betts, daughter of William and Mary
Betts; all of Grayson County, Va. Dated 12-7-1802. In Deed Book No. 2, Grayson
Co. Records, is James’ signature as witness to purchase of the Schooley
Homestead, March,, 1802, and in year 1803 he is named in Personal
Tax lists of Grayson Co. The Appraisement of the estate of James Schooley is
recorded in the Grayson County Court of April 4th,
1804. Among things listed, is one Flax Wheel, one old chest, one woman’s
saddle, one looking glass, and pewter dishes. Records of men’s meetings having
been lost, the date of James’ death is not known, and no record of the date of
his son William’s birth. Minutes of the Mt. Pleasant Meetings dated 1809-8-26,
issue certi-ficates of removal to Susanna Schooley and son William, to
Fairfield M. M., Leesburgh, Highland Co., Ohio. From Book of Center M. M.
(Wilmington, 0.) page 104, is the follow-ing: "A certificate for Amos
Lundy, his wife Susanna, and her minor son, William Schooley, was read and
received from Fairfield M. M. (Lees-burgh, O.), dated 26th, 2d. 18 16."
JOHN AND SUSANNAH JOHNSON SCHOOLEY
JOHN SCHOOLEY, 2d. son of
Captain Samuel and Elizabeth Schooley, was born 2-l 3-l 782, at Hardwick Twp.,
West Division of New Jersey, at Newton. After living some years in Surry and
Stokes County, N. C., and Grayson County, Va., he has grown to young manhood,
and in the year 1804 was one of the witnesses to his father’s purchase of 80
acres of land from Zachariah Stanley. In November, 1805, John purchased from
Zachariah Stanley, 175 acres of land on Lower Pine Creek. Recordedin Grayson
Co., Virginia Land taxes, Deed Book at Independence, Va., entry is made of sale
of these lands to Stephen Wright in the year 1818. Land tax records also show
these lands in John’s name in Ohio, until the year 1823. The Mt. Pleasant,
Chestnut Creek Meetings record the marriage of John on page 29: "John
Schooley of Grayson Coun Schooley, married Susanna Johnson, son, of same place,
1805-4th. day of house.ty, Va., sonof Samuel and Elizabeth daughter of Thomas
and Ann John-4th. month,at Mt. Pleasant Meeting
Witnesses were: John
Johnson, Samuel Carey, John Simcock, Ann Lundy, John Davis, Benjamin Hiatt,
John Ballard, Joseph Ballard, Morris Davis, Elizabeth Ballard, and Amos Lundy.
Minutes of same Meeting, date, 1811-9-28; give the following: "John
Schooley, wife Susanna, and daughter Asenath, granted cer-tificates of removal
to Elk M. M., Preble Co., 0. (now Elkton.) Son, Isaac, born 25th. of 10th. mo.,
1808, in Grayson Co., three years old, not mentioned in certificate of removal.
IN OHIO AND INDIANA
Very few early land deeds
and court records were available at time of this writing. They did not accept Military Lands. Wilmington,
Clinton Co., 0.
Book of Center M. M. p. 83.
"A certificate was produced for John Schooley and his wife, Susanna, with
their children, Asenath and Isaac, from Elk M. M. dated 4th. of 7th. month, 18
12, which was read and received." Birth of daughter Elizabeth, daughter
Rachel and daughter Sarah. Dates not given. In this Book of Center Records is
the following account of the pur-chase of books for the use of Friends’
children: "13 Testaments, 13 Spelling Books, 12 Primers, 1 Murray’s
Introduc-tion to the English Reader, 2 English Readers, and 3 Bibles."
From the Springfield meetings in Clinton Co., year 18 18, a certificate is
given for John Schooley and son, Isaac, to New Garden, Wayne Co., Ind.
From the New Garden, Ind., records
of the Men’s meetings, p. 84, states that "Certificate received for John
Schooley and son Isaac, from Springfield M. M., OHIO, date, 24-4-1819."
and in the following year, 1820, "Arba M. M. preparative proposes, and
this meeting appoints John Schooley Overseer of that meeting." Arba is
northeast of New Garden in Randolph county. In the year 1823 John Schooley
requests to be released as Overseer of Arba.
During the following years
at New Garden, John Schooley was serving on various committees as:"Ira
Hough, John Schooley, Eli Over-man and others, corn. on spiritous licquors, in
1823." On other com-mittees with Stephen Thomas, Daniel Jones, and W.
Whilson, etc. The following, taken from the New Garden records, show location
of John Schooley’s home, and some of his neighbors. " . . . the balance of
New Garden as far as to line dividing between Jonathan Hough’s and George
Shugart’s, and between JohnSchooley’s and John Huff’s, the 3d. and remaining
part should be divided by the main Creek into two districts. The several
districts are pretty well satisfied with the boundries thereof, except the
district of New Port, and have agreed on location for school houses."Eli
Osborn and Charles Baldwin, year 1830." The above may have been the first
establishment of Public schools.
In the year 1827 is the
marriage of his son Isaac, and in the year of 1829 the marriages of daughter
Elizabeth, as follows: Book of Marriages, p. 72: "Whereas, William
Sheridan of the County of Henry, and State of Ind., son of John Sheridan and
Margaret his wife, of the same place, and Elizabeth Schooley, daughter of John
Schooley and Susannah, his wife, of the County of Wayne, and State aforesaid,
having declared their intentions of marriage with each other before a Monthly
Meeting of the religious Society of Friends held at New Garden, and having
consent of parents, their said proposals were allowed. For the full
accomplish-ment of their said intentions, this day of 25th. of 6 m.,
1829." Witnesses: John Thomas John Schooley Susannah Schooley Isaac
Scholey Lydia Thomas Margaret Sheridan
Apparently Asenath Schooley
and Asa Burnsides were married out of meeting, as no record is given. From the
New Garden Women’s records is the following:"Those appointed in the case
of Asenath Schooley report to some satisfaction, and that the case be
dismissed." and in the entry:"Susannah Schooley and Asenath
Burnsides, appointed to attend marriage, etc."1830, indicate that she was
married at this time. In the year 1831, Susannah Schooley requests for herself
and daughters, (Rachel and Sarah) rights of membership to Duck Creek M. M.
(Henry Co.), Indiana. The Women’s Records of Northern Quarterly Meeting, of the
9th. mo. 20th. 184 1, at Mississinwa M. M., have the following entry:
"Committee to visit other meetings: Polly Overman, Susannah Schooley, Mary
Thomas, Anna Winslow, and others." Other entries: "Sarah Thomas,
Susannah Schooley, Mary Thomas, and others." "Esteemed Friend, Lydia
Thomas (an Elder) attended meeting, year 1855. "Susannah Schooley on
committee, year 1846; which is the last record of her services.She died at the
age of 83 years, in ----------- Ind.
In the Men’s records is the
entry: "John Schooley and others, on committee for welfare of people of
color." Year 1860. Date and place of his death is not known. The time and
place of the marriages of John and Susannah’s two younger daughters is not
known. Rachel married Curtis Beauchamp, and had one son, Robert Beauchamp, who
was an attorney. One daughter, Bonnie. The family lived at Tipton, Indiana.The
other daughter, Sarah, married Henry Shugart, and had sons, William and Albert.
Daughter, Rachel, who married Elwood Davis. In letters of Leander Schooley is
mentioned Will Shugart, who is to be made Captain.Also a letter from Asenath
Sheridan, his cousin, and daughter of William and Elizabeth Schooley Sheridan.
SAMUEL AND RACHEL JOHNSON
SCHOOLEY
SAMUEL SCHOOLEY, 3d. son of
Capt. Samuel and wife, Elizabeth Willson Schooley, was born 8-25-1784, at
Hardwick, W. Div. of New Jersey, near Newton.) His early years were spent in
Surry and Stokes counties of N. C. and in Grayson County, Va. That part of
Grayson, now Carroll. He is mentioned as a witness with brothers John and
Benjamin, in purchase of lands by his father, in the year 1804. Mt. Pleasant M.
M. records to Rachel Johnson, daughter of the marriage of Samuel Schooley,
Co., Va., on the 2d. day of
the 1 Thomas and Ann Johnson, of Gray st. mo., 1809.Jr., son
In the Census of 1820, it
was reported that Samuel and Rachel had four sons and three daughters born in
Grayson Co., Virginia. As has been mentioned in preceding chapters, Samuel
received most of the family lands, household goods from his father in later
years. On the death of his father, he, with his family, received certificates
of removal to White Lick M. M., Morgan Co., Ind., in the year of 1833, 11 th.
day, of 2d. month. (Guilford College Records, N. C.), and Wm. Wade Hinshaw
Records. Samuel Schooley died 1-27-1844, age 69 years, and is buried in old
Center burying ground near Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio. Rachel Schooley, his
wife, died 4th. mo. 1 Id., 1863, and is buried beside her husband. GABRIEL,
fourth son of Capt. Samuel, and wife, Elizabeth Willson Schooley, was born in
Surry County, N. C., in the year 1786-9mo. 4th day. He was evidently named for
his maternal Grandfather, Gabriel Willson of Allamucha, Warren Co., N. J. No
other records being found of this son Gabriel, it is supposed he died early in
life.
BENJAMIN AND REBECCA
JOHNSON SCHOOLEY
BENJAMIN, fifth son of
Capt. Samuel, and his wife, Elizabeth Willson Schooley, was born 4-2-1788, in
Surry County, N. C., lived for a time in Stokes County, and thence to Grayson
Co., Va. Records of the Mt. Pleasant, Chestnut Creek M. M. show that Benjamin
Schooley was married to Rebecca Johnson, daughter of Thomas and Ann Johnson,
and sister of Susanna and Rachel Johnson, all of same county and state, in the
year of 1809-2-l. Benjamin Schooley and wife Rebecca, were granted certificates
of removal to Center M. M. near Wilmington, Ohio, the 9-26-18 12. From Center
M. M.: "A certificate for Benjamin Schooley, his wife Rebecca, from Mt.
Pleasant M. M., Va., dated 26th. of the 9th. mo. 1812, which was read and
recieved." p. 93. (Men’s Book, Springfield M. M., 0.)"Benjamin
Schooley, and wife Rebecca, and children Eliza, Samuel, and Nelson, requests
certificates to New Garden, Ind., year 1820, the 30th. day of the 12th. mo.
John Sheridan appointed to make inquiries." "From Men’s Records, New
Garden M. M. p. 158, year 1821. "Certificate recieved for Benjamin
Schooley and sons William and Samuel, from Springfield M. M., dated
30-12-1820." Page 236. Page 236: "Certificate for Benjamin Schooley
and family to Cherry Grove M. M. Ind." Page 270. Page 270: "Benjamin
Schooley, John Shugart, and others, on committee to collect money for the M.
M., 1825."
NATHAN AND SARAH STANBRAUGH
SCHOOLEY
NATHAN, sixth, and youngest
son of Captain Samuel, and his wife, Elizabeth Willson Schooley, was born in
Stokes County, N. C., 1-9-1792, and lived in Grayson Co.,Va., on his father’s
farms, until he joined others going west.
In Southern Ohio: Center M.
M. (Wilmington) date, 15-2-1817, has the following entry on page 152 of the
men’s records:"A certificate was produced to this meeting from Mt.
Pleasant M. M., Virginia, dated 26th. day of 10th. mo. 1816, for Nathan
Schooley, which was read and recieved." Another entry reads: "Nathan
Schoolly and Sarah Stanbraugh, appeared and declared their intentions of
marriage with each other. Enoch Wickersham and Samuel Stanton, are appointed to
inquire into the young man’s clearness. Date, 15-of the 3d. mo. 1817."
"Friends appointed to enquire into Nathan Schooley’s clearness, report
they found nothing to hinder his marriage with Sarah Stanbraugh; they are left
at liberty to accomplish the same, agreeable to our order, and appoints Enoch
Wickersham and Samuel Stanton to attend, as the Discipline directs."
"19th. d. of 4th. mo. 1817, Friends report marriage of Nathan Schooley
orderly." Nathan and Sarah were members of the Springfield M. M. in same
County of Clinton, and on page 235 of the men’s book of Records is
given,"A certificate was produced for Nathan Schooley, his wife Sarah, and
children, Aaron, and -Nancy, from Springfield M. M., 25-l l-1820." Again
from the Centre M. M. records, page 317, is given some account of his
activities. "Jesse Thatcher, Jesse Painter, Nathan Scholey, and others,
appointed to collect an account for Friend’s Suffer-ings, for year 1825."
Center Records: "Nathan Schooley, wife Sarah, and children, Aaron, b. 18
18, Nancy, b. 1820, Omri, b. 1822, Ezra, b. 1824, Rachel, 1826, Benjamin, 1828,
Nathan, 1832, and Unice, 1837, recieved certificates to Mississinwa M. M. (in
Grant Co., Ind.) the 11 th. d. 12th. mo. 1845."
ELIZABETH SCHOOLEY HENSON
ELIZABETH, third, and youngest
daughter of Capt. Samuel and his wife, Elizabeth Willson Schooley, was born 1st
day of 7th mo., 1797, in Stokes County, N. C., and lived with parents on the
Schooley farms in Grayson County (now Carroll), Virginia. According to records
of the Mt. Pleasant, Chestnut Creek Friends Meetings, Elizabeth was married the
8th mo., 16th day, 1815, to -Henson, and thereby disowned, according to custom
of Friends, for "having been married out of Unity" to one not of
their faith, or service performed by another religious sect.
FAMILY OF THOMAS AND ANN JOHNSON
There is no record of
former home, or places of births before they resided at Westfield, Guilford
Co., N. C. (Guilford College Records). The Westfield M. M. (near Guilford C.
H.). The minutes of these meetings, Vol. I., p. 126, year 1796, the 11th mo.,
19th day, has the fol-lowing entry: "THOMAS JOHNSON requests for himself
and family, namely, John, Samuel, Elizabeth, Susanna, Jesse, Rachel and
Rebecca, having been for sometime under the care of the Preparative meet, and
now requests to be joined in full membership, which this meet grants."
Date of their removal to Mt. Pleasant M. M., Grayson Co., Va., is not known,
but minutes of M. M. show that they were members in the year of 1805. Three
daughters, Susanna, Rachel and Rebecca, married brothers, John, Samuel and
Benjamin Schooley, of same meetings and county. James, son of Amos and Ann
Lundy, married Elizabeth Johnson, other daughter of Thomas and Ann Johnson,
1801-12-13, Westfield M. M. 1814-2-26, Mt. Pleasant, Va. "Certificates for
Thomas Johnson, wife, Ann, and daughter to Elk Creek, (Preeble Co., Ohio)
." Center M. M., Ohio. "Certificate for John Johnson, wife, Lydia,
and children, Rhoda, Eliza-beth, Mary, Susannah, Thomas, Lydia and Anna, from Mt. Pleasant, Virginia, dated 27th, 11 th
mo., 1813."
CHAPTER SEVEN
ISAAC AND SELAH THOMAS
SCHOOLEY
Isaac Schooley was born in
Grayson County, Virginia, in 1808, and came to Center, near Wilmington, Ohio,
with his parents, thence, in 1818, to New Garden, Indiana, when he was about
twelve years of age. Selah Thomas came to New Garden with her parents in the
year of 18 12 from North Carolina. In Records of Men’s Meetings, New Garden, is
the following, p. 322: "Isaac Schooley and Selah Thomas declared intentions
of marriage 4th month, 1827. P. 323: "Isaac Schooley and Selah Thomas
declared they continued their intention of marriage, 5th. month, 1827." P.
55, BOOK OF MARRIAGES, New Garden M. M., Wayne Co., Ind. "Whereas, Isaac
Schooley of Wayne County, Indiana, son of John Schooley and Susanna, his wife,
and Selah Thomas, daughter of Stephen Thomas and Hannah, his wife, of the
County and State aforesaid, having declared their intentions of marriage with
each other before a monthly meeting of the religious Society of Friends County
aforesaid, and nothing appearing to of marriage, were allowed by s-d meeting
held atNewGarden, in the obstructthiers-d proposals
"Now these are to
certify whom it may concern that for the full ac-complishment of their s-d
intentions this the 24th day of the 5th month in the year of ourLord 1827,
they, the s--d Isaac Schooley and Selah Thomas appearedin public meetingof
thes-d people, held at New Garden, and the s--d Isaac Schooleytakingthe s-d
Selah Thomas by the hand, declaredthat he took her,the s-d Selah Thomas, to be
his wife, promising to be unto her a loving and faithful husband until death
should separate them, and then the s--d Selah Thomas did in like man-ner
declare that she took him, the s-d Isaac Schooley, to be her hus-band, promising
to be unto him a loving and faithful wife until death should separate them.
Moreover, the said Isaac Schooley and Selah Thomas, she, accord-ing to the
custom of marriage, assuming the name of her husband, did as a further
confirmation thereof, then and there to these presents set their hands.
"Isaac Schooley, "Selah Schooley." "Solemnized in the
presence of us: John Schooley, Susanna Schoo-ley, Stephen Thomas, Ira Hough,
Charles Baldwin, Ahira Balard, Mary Ballard, Beulah Puckett, Mary Huff."
Account of above marriage
is given on page 302 of Wayne Co., Indiana, History, 1872, by Young. Page 327:
"Those appointed to attend the marriage (Cader Woodward and John Huff) of
Isaac Schooley and Selah Thomas report it was orderly, and produced the certificate."
In the same year of 1827, Isaac and Selah Schooley were witnesses to the
marriage of her sister, Sarah, to Lewis Moorman.Anna, first child of Isaac and
Selah, was born at New Garden, 5-26-28, and Nancy, the second child, was born
11-24-1831.
From New Garden Friends
Book of Records: "To Duck Creek M. M. of Friends (Henry Co.). "Dear
Friends: The occasion of our writing to you at this time is on account of Isaac
Schooley, who requests our certificate to your meeting for himself and family,
namely, Celia, his wife, and their two children, Anna and Nancy. This is to
certify that they are members of our religious Society and we recommend them to
you as such. Their outward affairs are settled to satisfaction as far as
appears given forth from New Garden M. M. of Friends, held the 21st day of 1st
mo., 1832. "Signed by direction of the same by: "Eleazar Hiatt, Clerk
for Day. "Sarah Williams. "Francis Thomas, Corresp." Selah
Thomas Schooley received from her mother, Hannah Men-denhall Thomas, several
interesting books, including a family Bible, Shakespeare’s Complete Works, The
Life of Thomas Shilatoe, from Friends Library, and early books used for
instruction of children. At Duck Creek and the small town of Dublin, in Henry
County, were other families of friends and relatives, including the Pikes,
Harrolds, Sheridans, and perhaps the Burnsides. The exact date of their removal
to Grant County is not known, but was about the time of establishment of
Mississinwa Meetings.
SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF ISAAC
AND SELAH SCHOOLEY ANNA, born 5-26-1828, at New Garden, Ind., married to Eli
Thomas in Grant County in 1845. Died 1853, aged 26 years. Left two sons, Marcus
and Sylvanus. NANCY, born I I-24-1831, at New Garden, Ind. Married Eli
Richards, lived in Nebraska. HANNAH, born 10-8-1833, in Henry County, Ind.
EDITH, born I-5-1835, married John Lemon in -Died Jan. 16th, 1915, at Fairmont,
Ind. Had two sons, and one daughter, Lola, who died at age of nineteen, at
Fairmont. JOHN Mendenhall, born 10-29-1836, in -Indiana. Died at Littsville,
near Marysville, MO., year 1859. STEPHEN, born
8-27-1838, at Marion, Ind. Died -. SUSANNAH, born 7-18-1840, at Marion, Ind.
Drowned at age of two years in Deer Creek, near Marion, Tnd. She tried to
follow her mother across on a foot-log and fell in. EMILY, born 9-23-1842, at
Marion, Ind. Married Wesley Bates. Chil-dren are: William, Lee, Zella, Essie,
Edith and Frederick. Edith married at doctor and moved to Chicago, Ill. Emily
died about 1885 at Jonesboro, Ind., and later other members of the family went
west to live. LEANDER, born 6-15-1844, at Marion, Ind. Died 3-20-1916 at
Chatta-nooga, Tenn. Buried at National Cemetery, Chattanooga. Married Anna S.
Dannefer in 1873. CAM THOMAS, born 4-1846, at Marion, Ind. Died at Johnson
City, Ten-nessee, in 1912. Married Mattie -.Children, -.CONSTANTINE, born
11-18-1848, at Marion, Ind. Died- Grant Co., Indiana. * * *
In the year 1849 Isaac
Schooley had returned to his former home near Center M. M. Clinton County
History states that he was one of the Petitioners for the formation of Adams
Township, in Clinton county. Later he was Trustee, and Tax Collector for same
township. Anephew, Isaac in theU. S. Army. Schooley, 25years,enlisted from
thiscounty
Sometime before the
beginning of the Civil War, he was in Missouri where the Indians were giving a
great deal of trouble. It was at Litts-ville, near Marysville, Mo., that his
oldest son, John M. Schooley, died. The next record of his activities is in the
state of Kansas, though it is not known just what year he went out there.
From History of Republic
Co., Kans. By I. 0. Savage; Jones & Cubbic, Printers; 1901. Beloit, Kans.
Settlement of Salt Creek.
Fall of 1862, Isaac M. Schooley settled on N.W.1/4 of Sec. 7, town 4 South, 2
West, and made homestead entry No. 54 on same, Jan. 17th, 1863, and final proof
on same Jan. 17th, 1868. Cert. number 9. (Land office at Junction City.)
Population of Republic Co. in 186 1, was only five. R. P. West came to Republic
Co. in 1863. (P. 37). The first organized armed resistance to Indians in
Republic county was made Sept. 1864.A company of Militia formed of fifty men
mounted on horses of theirown, from and Republic, corn.manded by at Elk Creek, nowClyde.the counties ofClay, Cloud,Washington, Captain IsaacM.
Schooley,headquarters
The Arms and munitions
furnished by the General Government, drawing same at Fort Riley, nearest
military Post. Captain Schooley held Commission from Governor Robinson, and
seems to have been chosen to this distinction on account of gallant services in
Missouri, or some other place in the early part of the war. He fas said to be
prudent and careful. (P. 45). The Convention at Pleasant Hill, Oct., 1868, was
the first in county for purpose of nominating a candidate for Representative in
State Legis-lature, and nominate county officers, for November elections. At
this convention, fifteen voters present and Captain Schooley was nominated for
Representative, but defeated at polls by Rev. R. P. West, Independent
Candidate, by majority of nine votes.West, 37 votes, Schooley, 28 votes. West
had been candidate for Representative in 1867 while Republic Co. was attached
to Washington County. (P. 58). In 1867-8, a school was taught in what is now
District No. 1, by a Miss Adkins, in a part of Captain Schooley’s residence on
N.W.l/4 Sec. 7, Grant Township." Isaac Schooley died while in Grandview,
Texas, July lOth, 1883. Selah Schooley lived the latter part of her life with
her son Leander, and while at his home in Moline, Kans., died at the age of 83
years, the 12th. of July, 189 1. (P. 229).
CHAPTER EIGHT
LEANDER AND ANNA
DANNEFER SCHOOLEY
Leander Schooley was born
at Marion, Grant Co., Indiana, in 1844. In this county were many relatives and
friends. In the year 1862, he enlisted in Company K, First Ind. Cavalry, at the
age of eighteen years, and served three years or until the close of the war. He
was made Orderly for Major General Siegel, and was in a number of important
battles. His descriptive letters written in camps and on battlefields are still
preserved. He was a member of Modern Woodman Camp Number 3557, at Marion, Ind.
Following the war, Leander,
or Lee, as he was more often called, returned to Marion and to Jonesboro, at
Tipton and other places. Ind., where he taught school In 1871-2 he went to
Republic County, Kansas, and took up a Claim, or Homestead, fifteen miles away,
in Cloud county. In this new western country he continued teaching country
schools. It was at the home of a neighbor that he met another country school
teacher, Miss Anna Dannefer.
On November the 13th, 1873,
they were married at the home of her parents in Republic county, by Rev. R. P.
West of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They continued teaching and boarding
around among patrons. Later they established a home in Republic county where first
child was born at "Prairie Home,"near Belleville. Some years later
they returned to Marion, Ind., where other chil-dren were born, but the lure of
vast prairie lands calls them again, this time to the little town of Moline, in
Elk County, Kansas, in the year 1886. In a few years came the drouths, the
grass-hoppers, and the cyclones, and in 1891, the ne w home is in Tampa, Fla.
At this time, Tampa had been incorporated but six years.
Sanitary and drainage
fa-cilities had not yet been installed, which caused much trouble from
mos-quitoes; and then came the last quarantine for yellow fever, from which the
family fled in a borrowed wagon to Lake Thonotosassa until the quarantine was
lifted. Tampa was then the home until all had grown up, and in homes of their
own, with the exception of the second daughter, Lola Gay, who died July 3lst,
1895. Three years later, April 18th, 1898, the mother and wife passed away, and
both lie in the little cemetery, undr the old oak trees with the swaying moss
above.
Anna Schooley had the love
and respect of all who knew her, a good, Christian character. Leander Schooley
died while on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Walter J. Turnbull, in Chattanooga,
Tenn., in the year 1916, aged 72 years, and is buried in the National Cemetery,
at Chattanooga, Tenn. It was in the little town of Moline, Kansas, that the
youngest child, Victor Stanley, was born in 1890, and as he has since stated,
"that as soon as he found out where he was, he came to Florida" and
has lived in that state ever since.
HANS OLESON DANNEFER FAMILY
The home of the Dannefer family was in Nieukobing, Falster
Island, Denmark. They were dealers in, and manufacturers of shoes, having
thirty or more apprentices, and workmen. The family came to America in 1865,
and went to Racine, Wisconsin, where they lived for a time, later going to
Viroqua, Vernon County. The daughter Anna taught school in LaCross, Wis. His
wife, Mary, died at Viroqua.
After a few years they
moved to Kansas, locating six miles east of Belleville, County seat of Republic
County. They took up three Home-steads adjoining, the father, his son Nelson
O., and daughter Anna. They erected stone houses and outbuildings, and planted
trees.
The Dannefer family were
members of the Lutheran Church, and a prayer book written in the Danish
language, was in the family descend-ants for many years. Anna Dannefer became
converted, and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church while living in Republic
county. Hans Oleson Dannefer died, and his son Nelson married, and went into
the mercantile business. Later, all went to the central part of Kansas, near
Burlingame. His daughter Mary died, and his son Henry remained unmarried and
lived in Kansas. From History of Kansas, by A. T. Andreas, 1883. Biographies of
Republic County. Page 1049: NELSON 0. DANNEFER, Merchant, Cuba, Kans., was born
in Den-mark 1847. In 1863, he emigrated to America and located in Vernon Co.,
Wis. Engaged in farming until 1870 when he emigrated to Kansas and took a
homestead on Sec. 4, Twp. 3, Range 2, which he lived on and improved until 188
1. He broke 70 acres, planted four acres of timber, 350 peach trees, a good
grove of plum trees, and some fine hedge. In September 1881 he went into the
mercantile business in Cuba, Kans., with a general line of merchandise. Store,
18 by 30 ft., well filled, and a good trade. Was married in Belleville, Kans.,
in 1876 to Miss R............. Jackson. Have two children: Sarah May and Grace
H. From Republic Co. History, by I. 0. Savage-1901. Jones & Chubbic,
Printers, Beloit, Kans. Page 187: Nelson 0. Dannefer built first general store
on corner of N.W.1/4, corner of Sec. 4, and was for several years the leading
merchant.
SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF
LEANDER AND ANNA DANNEFER
WALTER M. AND MAY S. IVEY
SELAH MAY SCHOOLEY,born
Kansas, January 19th 1875. Li in Belleville, Republic County, ved inMarion,
Ind., Moline, Kans., and Tampa, Fla.; Married in Tampa,Fla., toWalter M. Ivey,
of Orlando, Fla., May 28, 1903, and lived in Montgomery, Ala., then to
Savannah, Ga., Birmingham, Ala., Washington, D. C., in 1912-16, and to
Pittsburgh, Pa.
After World War, 1918,
adopted three sons, brothers, Jack Delbert, William Earnest, and Robert Lee, in
the year of 1919. In the year 1933, came to Columbus, Ohio. Member of Indianola
Church of Christ, Ohio State University Mother’s Club, McGuffey Society, and
the Ann Simpson Davis Chapter of D. A. R. In later years, home in Chattanooga,
Tenn. Jack Delbert Ivey, born April 13th, 1913, near Philadelphia, Pa.
At-tended Pittsburgh Business Academy; member DeMolays, member Pres-byterian
Church. The Jack D. Ivey Insurance Agency, Pittsburgh, Pa.
William Earnest Ivey, born
Aug. 8th, 1915, near Philadelphia, Pa. Attended Ohio State University 1934136.
Member Polo Club, Phi. Sigma Kappa Fraternity, and Indianola M. E. Church.
Special agent for the Monarch Life Insurance Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa. Robert Lee
Ivey, born near Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 1 Oth, 1917. At-tended North High
School, Columbus, 0. Member School Band, Orchestra, and Glee Club. Attended
Ohio State University 1935-37. Member of Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity, Polo Club,
and Indianola Church of Christ. Attended Thiel College, Greenville, Pa.
1938-39, Member College Chorus, and Sadhe Aleph Fraternity. Licensed air-plane
pilot, member National Guard.
LOLA GAY SCHOOLEY. Lola Gay
Schooley wasborn inMarion, Ind., August died at Tampa, Fla., July 31st,
1895,aged nineteen years. 16th, 1876, and
BERNAL CONNOR SCHOOLEY.
Bernal Connor Schooley was born in Marion, Ind., March 9th, 1878. After living
in Kansas a few years, and then in Tampa, Fla., where he became of-age, he again went west on his twenty-first birthday, in
1899. He lived at Butte, Montana, Gebo, Wyoming, and Pocatello, Idaho. Since
World War his address unknown.
JOHN HARRIS AND DESSA SCHOOLEY JOHNSON
LENA ODESSA SCHQOLEY, born
in Marion, Ind., November 26th, 1880. Lived in Moline, Kansas, Tampa, Fla.,
Montgomery, Ala., and Greenville, Ala. Member M. E. Church South. Reared family
of six children. Present home, Birmingham, Ala. John Harris
Johnson, son of James Harris Johnson, Sr., and wife, Emma Francis McGehee
Johnson, was born in Greenville, Ala., April
16th, 1882. Married at
Montgomery, Ala., July 17th, 1904, to Dessa Schooley, of Tampa, Fla. Inherited
Livery stable business from his father and later became Ford Agent, and dealer
in automobiles. Died Feb. 21st, 1924, and buried at Greenville, Ala.
SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF
HARRIS AND DESSA SCHOOLEY JOHNSON:
VICTOR EWING
JOHNSON, born April
IOth, 1905, in Montgomery, Ala. Graduated from Butler County High School in
Greenville, Ala., as Salutatorian. Graduated from University of Ala., May 29th,
1928. Fra-ternities, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Sigma Pi, and Quadrangle. Accountant
for Jemison Seibles, Birmingham, Ala. Member M. E. Church South. Mar-ried
Lillian Beatrice Kumli, of Birmingham, Ala., April 17th, 1937. Lillian Beatrice
Kumli, was born in Montgomery, Ala., April lst, 1914. Graduate of Mt. Sinai
Hospital for Nurses, New York City. Mem-ber of M. E. Church South, Birmingham,
Ala.
EUGENE HARRIS JOHNSON, born
Oct. 17th, 1906, at Greenville, Ala. Was graduated from Butler County High
School, Greenville, Ala., as Valedictorian. Graduated from University of
Alabama, 1907. Winner of first Algernon Sidney Sullivan Medallion, as most promising
student in senior class, at University of Alabama. Member of Phi Beta Kappa,
and Quadrangle. Finished Law Course and admitted to Bar in 1932. Employed in
Trust Dept. of First National Bank, Birmingham, Ala., in June, 1932. Assistant
Trust Officer in 1938. Married Knoxie Faulk, of Birmingham, June, 1932. Knoxie
Faulk, was born August, 1905, in Birmingham, Ala. Gradu-ated from Birmingham
Southern College. Summa Cum Laudi, Alpha Omicron Pi. Permanent Honor Roll.
-Teacher of Languages for five years at Phillips High School. Leader and
Director for several years at Camp Winnetaska. Member of Julia Tutwiler
Federated Clubs. Held each* office in Alpha Omicron Pi Allumni Association.
President Birm-ingham City Panhellenic. Children of Eugene and Knoxie Johnson: Knoxye
Falk, born Oct. 14, 1935; Eugene Harris, Jr., born Oct. 9th, 1938; Betty Wynn,
born Oct. 8th, 1940. Members of M. E. Church South.
RUBY MAY JOHNSON, born Oct. 24th, 1911, at Greenville, Ala. Graduated
from Butler County High School at Greenville, Ala. Attended Birmingham Southern
College, 1929-30-31. Graduated from Alabama College, Montevallo, Ala., in 1932.
Member of Belles Lettres, and Pi Mu. Majored in Music and Mathematics. Married
to William Alton Wilder, June 30th, in 1934. Member M. E. Church South,
Birmingham, Ala. William Alton Wilder, born June 16th, 19 12, in Birmingham,
Ala. Member First Methodist Church South. Ass’t. Foreman American Cast Iron
Pipe Company, Birmingham.
JAMES LEE JOHNSON, born
Aug. 7th, 1914, Greenville, Ala. Gradu-ated from University of Alabama, year
1936. Member of Delta Sigma Pi. Member of Junior Weslyian Board of Stewards, M.
E. Church South. Home in Knoxville, Tenn. Employed with the Southern Bell Telephone Co., of Knoxville. Married Betty Kelley, of Dunlap, Tenn., May lOth, 1940. Betty Kelley, Graduate of
University of Tennessee. Teacher of Domestic Science. Born, 1918.
EMMA McGEHEE JOHNSON, born
Aug. 7th, 1914, Greenville, Ala. Graduate of Alabama College, Montevallo, Ala.,
in 1937. Member Athletic Club. Sports Director at Lake Junaluska Camp, N. C.
Course in Physiotherapy, at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., 1940-4
1. Member of M. E. Church, South.
DESSA SCHOOLEY JOHNSON,
born Feb. 17th, 1918, at Greenville, Ala. Attended Ramsey High School, Birmingham.
Graduated from University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., in June, 1939. Member
of Delta Zeta Sorority. Secretary of Alumni Ass’n., 1940. Married Robert Jerome
Rea, June 17th, 1939. Member M. E. Church South. Robert Jerome Rea, born Dec.
5th, 1914. Graduate of University of Alabama, 1938. Member M. E. Church, South.
Assistant Steel Buyer, Ingalls Iron Works Company, Birmingham, Ala.
DANE 0. AND CARRIE WILSON
SCHOOLEY
Dane 0. Schooley was born in
Marion, Ind., May 23d, 1882. Lived in Moline, Kansas, and Tampa, Fla. Iater
going to Jacksonville, Fla., while still a young man, and has continued to
reside there. Enlisted with National Guards June 15th, 1917. Helped organize
Regimental Medical Inf.Encamped at Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga., and at Mineola, L.
I., before going over for World War. Arrived in Glasgow, Scotland, on English
Transport Bal Moral Castle. Had brush with German sub-marines. Sank one with a
depth bomb. Attached to the 106th English Regiment Medical Inf. as Pvt. 1st.
Acting Sergt. 31st. Division; arrived in France, Sept. 29th, 1918.Left Brest
July 5th, 1919, and arrived in ‘Newport News, Va., July 5th, 1919. Member
American Legion Post No. 9. (Edw. DeSassure.) F. & A. M. Scottish Rite Masons;
S. S. Davis Lodge 15, K. of of Jacksonville; Clerk of Duval County Hospital.
Married Carrie Belle Wilson, daughter of Jo Wilson, of Winston-Salem, N. C.,
July 27th, 1926.P.; First BaptistChurch
seph and ElizaBolding She
was bornJan. 29, 1887. One daughter, Peggy Lee, born Nov. 3d, 1927, Attends
Kirby Smith Junior High School, Jacksonville.
WALTER J. AND INEZ SCHOOLEY
TURNBULL
ELLA INEZ SCHOOLEY, was
born in Marion, Ind., April 27th, 1884. After a few years in Kansas, she spent
her girlhood in Tampa, Fla., and while on a visit to friends in Ashville, N.
C., she met, and was married to Walter J. Turnbull, in that city, Sept. 16th,
1903. Reared six children. Died Aug. 31st, 1939, and buried in Chattanooga
Memorial Park. Walter Jones Turnbull, was born in Elm City, N. C., Oct. 23d,
1878. Engaged in the mercantile business in Ashville, N. C., Johnson City,
Knoxville, and Chattanooga, Tenn.,Member Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias, and
M. E. Church South.
CHILDREN: LOIS MAY
TURNBULL, was born Aug. 17th, 1905, in Ashville, N. C. Educated in Chattanooga,
Tenn. Received reward as Decorative Artist and employed by the Cavalier
Corporation of Chattanooga. Member of the Presbyterian Church, Signal Mountain.
Married Bernard T. White, Jr., in Chattanooga, Dec. 22d, 1928. Bernard T.
White, Jr., born March 4th, 1903, in Blackstone, Va. Graduate of William and
Mary College, B. A. 1924, at Williamsburg, Va. Fraternities, Kappa Sigma, and
Phi Delta Kappa. Principal of Mineral High School, Mineral, Va., 1924-5. Prof.
of Spanish at Baylor Prep. School, four years. Past Master, Chattanooga Ma 199,
year 1937. Claim Examiner, Provident Life Insuran Chattanooga.sonic Lodge No.
ce Company, at Member Presbyterian Church, Signal Mountain.
WALTER JOHNSON TURNBULL,
born Nov. 25th, 1907, at Bristol, Tenn. Died on May, 1908, in Johnson City,
Tenn.
EDITH DANNEFER TURNBULL,
born Oct. 27th, 1909, in Johnson City, Tenn. Graduate Chattanooga High School,
Sorority, Kala Sophia. Married Frank Wilmuth Farmer, Jr., Dec. 19th, 1931.
Member St. Elmo M. E. Church South. Frank Wilmuth Farmer, Jr., was born Jan.
30th, 1905, Chicago, Ill. Educated University of Chattanooga, Emory & Henry
University, and Georgia School of Technology. Pianist for Glee Club at Emory
and Henry. Fraternities, Phi Gamma Delta, and Delta Chi. Ass't. Manager Postal
Telegraph Co. 1929-37. Special Agent for Provident Life and Accident Insurance
Co., Chattanooga, 1938-9. Special Agent for Aetna Life Insurance Co.,1939-40.
Member St. Elmo M. E. Church South.
WILLARD JUSTIN TURNBULL was
born Dec. 1Oth, 1911, at Knoxville, Tenn. Graduate Chattanooga High School, as
Salutatorian. Graduate of Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., in 1933.
Editor of The Technique. Member of Kappa Sigma. Elected to Phi Kappa Phi, and
Omicron Delta-Kappa. Was Grand Vice President, Pi Delta Epsilon, Honorary
National Journalistic Fraternity. Representative National Theatre Supply Co. of
New York City, 1934-5.Manager National Theatre Supply Co., Detroit, Mich.
Married to Jacqueline Boyd, in Detroit, Mich., Juno 18th, 1939. Jacqueline
Boyd, born in West Fraikfort, Ill.
KATHERINEINEZ TURNBULL,
born August 25th, 1913, inChatta-nooga, Tenn. Graduate of Chattanooga High
School. Member High-land Park M. E. Church, South.
ANNA LEE TURNBULL, born
Feb. 22d, 1918, Chattanooga, Tenn. Graduated from Chattanooga High School.
Married to Charles
Henry Trotter, of
Chattanooga, November 25th, 1939. Charles H. Trotter, born Aug. 15th, 1919,
Chattanooga, Tenn. Pressman, Photographer. One daughter, Marjorie Ann, born
Oct. 16th, 1940, ‘Chattanooga, Tenn. Members of the Baptist Church. ROBERT DANE
TURNBULL, born Nov. IOth, 1920, Chattanooga, Tenn. Graduate Chattanooga High
School 1939. University of Tenn., 1939-40-41. Member of M. E. Church.
VICTOR S. AND GOLDIE I. SCHOOLEY
VICTOR STANLEY SCHOOLEY,
born in Moline, Kansas, May 11, 1890. Attended public schools of Hillsboro
County at Tampa, Florida. Owner and operator of Motion Picture Theatres at
Tampa under firm name of Ortagus and Schooley. Moved to Miami, Florida, in
September, 1913. Projectionist with Paramount Enterprises, Inc.,until 1921;
during the following years he became president of the following: Miami Realty
and Development Co., Schooley Realty Co., Tamiami Square Development Co.,
Autocrat Auto Service Co., and M. P. M. 0. No. 545. Member of Miami Realty
Board, Miami Chamber of Commerce, James Carnell Lodge F. & A. M., Knights
of Pythias, Athletic Governing Board for Dade County High Schools,Treasurer of
Rader Memorial M. E. Church, Vice President (1939 & 1940) Florida State
Society Sons of the American Revolution. Sound projectionist associated with
Paramount Enterprises, Inc. Married June 25th, 1914, to Goldie Irene Perry.
Children: Bernal LaVelle and Dorothy May. Goldie Irene Perry-daughter of
Converse and Daisy Snyder Perry, born March 3, 1896, at Barberton, Ohio. Member
of Rader Memorial M. E. Church, Parent-Teachers Association.
BERNAL LaVELLE
SCHOOLEY-born at Akron, Ohio, September 12, 1917. Member of Rader Memorial M.
E. Church. Graduated from Miami Edison High School, Class of 1937. Awarded
letter in football, basket ball, and baseball. Sailing instructor at St. Leo
Camp for boys. University of Miami, Senior in College of Business
Administration. Class of 1941. Member and treasurer in 1938-39 of Phi Alpha
Fraternity-oldest fraternity on campus of University of Miami, which became
Gamma Omega Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha National Fraternity in May, 1940, of
which he was a charter member, also member of Alpha Phi Omega, National Boy
Scout Service Fraternity, M. P. M. 0. No. 316, Miami Yacht Club, Coral Gables
Country Club and Sons of the American Revolution. Sound projectionist
associated with Wometco Theatres Corporation.
DOROTHY MAY SCHOOLEY-born
at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 30, 1918. Member of Rader Memorial M. E.
Church. Graduated from Miami Edison High School, Class of 1936. Attended
Florida State College for Women at Tallahassee, Fla., (1937-38.) Graduated from
University of Miami with Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree.
Class of 1940. Member of Young Women’s Christian Association, Charter member of
Wesleyan Society, Alpha Omega Sorority (local) which became Beta Nu Chapter of
Delta Zeta National Sorority in 1939, of which she was a charter member at the
University of Miami, President of Pledge Class, 1939, Vice-President of active
Chapter,1940. Carnival Queen, 1940, Magazine Chairman of Delta Zeta Alumnae
Chapter, 1940-4 1. Associated with Administrative Dept., Technical Division of
Em&y-Riddle School of Aviation, Miami, Fla.
CHAPTER NINE
HANNAH MENDEHALL (1780-1871)
MENDENHALL LINEAGE
JOHN MENDENHALL came from
Wiltshire, England, and settled in Pennsylvania, and in 1685 married Elizabeth
Maris. AARON MENDENHALL ,son of John and Elizabeth, married Rose Peirson. JAMES
MENDENHALL, son of Aaron and Rose Pierson Mendenhall, of Jamestown, North
Carolina, married Hannah Thomas. PHINEAS MENDENHALL, son of James and Hannah
Thomas Men-denhall, married Tamar Kirk. Caleb and Joseph were sons of Phineas
and Tamar Kirk Mendenhall. Above records from book’ "Centennial
Anniversary of West Branch, Ohio, 1807-1907." ELIJAH MENDENHALL, son of
James and Hannah Thomas Menden-hall, married Mary Kendall, daughter of Thomas
Kendall, 4-17-17 11. CHILDREN of Elijah and Hannah Thomas Mendenhall were:
Isiah, James, Daniel, Sarah, and Hannah. DEEP RIVER M. M. Records, p. 827,
North Carolina. HANNAH MENDENHALL, daughter of Elijah and Mary Kendall
Mendenhall, married Stephen Thomas, 1804-2-9. Above records from Guilford
College Vaults, North Carolina. CHILDREN OF Stephen and Hannah Mendenhall
Thomas: Born in North and South Carolina, Piney Grove M. M., Mary, born
12-20-1804. Sarah, born I-3-1807. Selah, born 11-21-1808. Charles, born
10-15-1810. Children born in Wayne Co.,Ind., were: Nancy, Lydia, Daniel, Ann,
Camm, Francis, Christina. HANNAH MENDENHALL THOMAS was born in 1780, died in
1871, aged 91 years and buried in Friends burying ground, New Garden, Wayne
Co., Ind. To her daughter Selah, she gave her Family Bible, "The Life of
Thomas Shillitoe" and Shakespeare’s complete works.
THE THOMAS FAMILY
JOHN THOMAS, SR., son of
Stephen and Mary Thomas, came from Chester County, Pennsylvania (notes of
Francis W. Thomas, Spiceland, Ind.) and united with Friends at Piney Grove M.
M., nine miles north of Bennettsville, in Marlborough County, South Carolina’
near the line of North Carolina, later moving over into North Carolina.Piney
Grove M. M. Records: John Thomas was born 6-1743. His wife, Molly Clark,
daughter of Francis and Christina Clark, was born 1 1-1748. Children of John
and Molly Clark Thomas: Isaac, born 1767. John Jr., b. 1769. Betty, born 1770.
Mary, 1773, Rebecca, born1775. Elijah, born 1777. Stephen, born 2-23-Francis,
born 2-19-1781. Benjamin, born 1-9-l 783. Christina, 2-12-1785. Susanna,born 2-25-1787.
Sarah, born 2-19-1790.born 1779. born
Stephen Thomas, was given
certificate to Deep River M. M. Guilford Co., North Carolina, for marriage to
Hannah Mendenhall, daughter of Elijah and Mary Kendall Mendenhall, dated
I-21-1804. Children of Stephen and Hannah Thomas, recorded in Piney Grove M.:
Mary, born 12-20-1804. Sarah, born l-3-1807. Selah, born 11-21-1808. Charles,
born 10-15-1810. Selah, born in N. C. near Fayetteville. Stafford C. H. Piney
Grove M. M. gives certificate to Stephen Thomas and family, to White Water M.
M. (Richmond, Wayne Co., Ind.) 3-19-1814. (The family moved about 1812.) The
route taken was over the mountains, through Saluda Gap? and on through the
Cumberland Gap, at junction of Tenn., Virginia, and Kentucky, crossing Kentucky
to Lexington and to the Ohio river, crossing at Cincinnati, then occupied by
the British. It is remembered that as they were crossing, someone called out,
"You British, stop that Barge." Selah Thomas, then about four years
old, remembered pushing on the front of the wagon to help the horses get over
the mountains.
THOMAS FAMILY, WAYNE CO., INDIANA
The following is taken from
Young’s History of Wayne Co., Ind., 1872. BENJAMIN THOMAS, arrived in 1811, settled
where his son Eli lives. JOHN THOMAS, brother of Benjamin, arrived in 1811 or
1812, and settled where Elias Baldwin lives. STEPHEN THOMAS, from S. C. about
1812, on land owned by Charles Thomas, one mile S. E. of Fountain City. ISAAC
THOMAS, arrived 1814. It is stated that while John Thomas, Sr., of Marlborough
Co., S. C., was on a visit to his sons and daughters in Wayne County, he was
taken ill and died in 1814, and is buried in New Garden Friend’s burying
ground. History of Wayne county states that none of the family were married the
second time, and all had large families. In 1872 there were eighty-three
Grandchildren of John Thomas, Sr." Children of Stephen and Hannah
Mendenhall Thomas who were born in Wayne Co., Ind., were: Nancy, Lydia, Daniel,
Ann, Camm, Francis, and Christina. Marriages of sons and daughters of John,
Sr., and Molly Clark Thomas: Isaac, married Rachel Knight. John, Jr., married
Lydia Sneed. Betty, died. Mary, married Moses Mendenhall. Rebecca died. Elijah
married Susannah Sneed. Stephen married Hannah Mendenhall. Francis mar-ried
------------------, Benjamin married ------------------, Christina married ,
----------------, Sarah married Charles Baldwin.
Marriages of sons and
daughters of Stephen and Hannah M. Thomas: Mary, married Thomas Hobson; died in
Grant Co. Sarah, married Lewis Moorman, 1827; died in Grant Co., Ind. Selah,
married Isaac Schooley, 1827; died in Moline, Kansas, 1891. Charles, married
Nancy Moorman. Nancy, married David Little, 1833; died in Randolph Co.; Lydia,
married Thomas Baldwin, 1833; died in Fairmount, Ind. Daniel, married Eleanor
Newby, Grant Co., Ind. Ann, died at age 25 unmarried. Camm, married Pricilla
Crampton, Iowa. Francis, married Lydia Wood-ward; lived at New Garden, Ind.
Christina, married Thomas Knight; lived in Grant Co., Ind.
CHILDREN OF THOMAS AND
LYDIA THOMAS BALDWIN: Addison, Steve G., Terah, Asa T., Mrs. E. A. Stanley,
Mrs. Ann Fel-low, Mary and Daniel.
CHILDREN OF JOHN AND LYDIA SNEED THOMAS:
Polly, married Eli Overman. James died. Jesse, married Hannah Cox. Hannah,
married Richard Jones. Nancy, married Aaron Morris. Lydia, married John
Pierson. Hendly, married Polly Hunt. Hulda, married, 1825, Levi Pierson. John
died. William, married Martha Ad-dington. Noah, married Elizabeth Overman.
CHILDREN OF JESSE AND
HANNAH COX THOMAS: Hannah, Jeremiah, Amy, Enoch, b. 1823. Eli, born 1825.
Hulda, 1827. Mary, 1829. Jesse, ----. ELI THOMAS married Anna Schooley,
daughter of Isaac and Selah Schooley, at Marion, Ind., date, ----. Anna died
1853, aged 26.
CHILDREN OF ELI AND ANNA
THOMAS: Sylvanus,born1847,married Mary . . . . . _._._ . .._......_..._._ _
__.. _ ._.._ ____; sons:Glen,Guy, Kenneth, Gonner. Marcus,
born 1850, married Sarah Elizabeth Shugart, Marion, Ind.
CHILDREN OF MARCUS AND SARAH
E. S. THOMAS: Ethelbert Lomax and Anna Nancy.
THOMAS FAMILY-NOTES
COPIED FROM OLD NEW GARDEN,
INDIANA, BURYING GROUND: HANNAH MENDENHALL THOMAS, wife of Stephen, died at age
of 91, born 1780 in N. C., died 1871, and buried in Friend’s burying ground in
New Garden. NANCY MOORMAN THOMAS, wife of Charles Thomas, buried at New Garden.
BENJAMIN THOMAS, died 1869, aged 82 years. ELI H. THOMAS, 1858-1825. ISAAC
THOMAS, 1828-1919. MAHALA THOMAS, 1829-1913. MARRIAGES: MARY THOMAS, daughter
of Francis Thomas, of New Garden, married Ahira Ballard, 18.
F I N I S
And so ends these
chronicles of one pioneer family as to how they
were woven into that fabric
called AMERICA. It is with pride that we
present this younger
generation, prepared to carry on the high ideals
that were our forefathers’
when they came to these shores to establish
homes, so many years ago.
APPENDIX I SCHOOLEY'S MOUNTAIN
Schooley’s Mountain is a
broad plateau in the northern part of New Jersey, 1,200 feet above tidewater,
overlooking the Musconetcong Valley on the north and German Valley on the
south. The Musconetcong River flows along its northern base and the south
branch of the Raritan River forms its southern lines. Lake Hopatcong and
Delaware Water Gap are within easy reach. The mineral springs made this
mountain a favorite for Indian tribal councils long before the advent of the
palefaces in the Jerseys. The mountain is reached by the D. L. & W.
Railroad at Hacketts-town, and the Central Railroad of New Jersey at
Washington. The Chalybeate mineral spring is located about a half-mile from the
Heath House. "The iron springs at Schooley’s Mountain were known to the
Indians for many generations.
Their virtues and altitude and the beauty of the surrounding
country rendered it a favorite place of resort. Thither for many years after
the Revolutionary War came the old aristocracy of Philadelphia, who traveled in
their own conveyances, large coaches drawn by four or six horses and with the
family coat of arms emblaz-oned on their sides."
"First Century of
Hunterdon County," p. 107, by George S. Mott, D.D. "Morse"
Geography (1789) explains the chemical qualities of the springs. In 18 10
Professor Mitchell of Columbia College made an analysis of the water and
announced it perfect water.
Before 1800 Joseph Heath
(1762-1825) of Bethlehem township of Hunterdon county erected a build-ing at
the Schooley’s Mountain Springs for boarders. In 18 17 the larger Heath House
was built by Ephriam Marsh, son-in-law of Heath. Belmont Hall was erected in
1820 and later was named The Dorin-court. Schooley’s Mountain Springs have been
a resort place since 1770.
From Early Germans of New
Jersey, by Rev. T. F. Chambers, p. 181. The New Jersey Historical Society held
its convention at Schooley’s Mountain and reported:"The Society was
royally entertained by the proprietors of the Heath House and Belmont Hall and
evidenced their appreciation by gifts which were acknowledged as follows:
Schooley’s Mountain Springs, N. J. Stephen Wickes, Esq., Sept. 24th, 1886. Cor.
Sec., N. J. Historical Society. Dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your
esteemed favor of the 13th instant, and to express my warmest thanks for the
valuable donation of ten volumes of the New Jersey Archives. The pleasure of
meeting so many enthusiastic members of the society at the gathering of 1886 at
Schooley’s Mountain which they received. Society, I remain was ample compensation for any little attention With assurances
of interest in the welfare of the
Very truly yours, J. Warren
Coleman. (Proceedings of the N. J. Historical Society).
"The famous Schooley’s
Mountain Springs, which were for half a century the most fashionable watering
place in America. Here the wealth and fashion of New York and Philadelphia came
in the summers. The mountains were named in honor of Thomas Schooley, one of
three brothers who came to New Jersey from Yorkshire, England." (History
of Warren County, N. J., p. 149)
. "The celebrated
spring on Schooley’s Mountain is on the western declivity of the eminence,in a
deep defile, between two beautifully wooded mountains. The chalybeate was
originally known to the In-dians and used by them for rheumatic complaints and
cutaneous erup-tions. It has been a place of fashionable resort for about forty
years." (History of New Jersey, by Barber & Howe, p. 403, published
1844).
"Roxbury township-In
this township and the adjoining one, Wash-ington,. are the celebrated
Schooley’s Mountains, a great summer resort for invalids." (Barber &
Howe, p. 269).
"The Morristown
Railroad connected in that town with stage coaches for Schooley’s, the more
famous Spa which rapidly grew as a summer resort after it could be reached by
railroad." (N. J. Hist. Society, vol. xv, p. 371, July, 1930).
"Schooley’s Mountain Seminary was founded about 1870 in the
Forest Grove-House, near the post office, by Rev. Luke I. Stoughtenburg, for
years a minister of the Congregational Church of Chester." (Families of
Wyoming Valley, p. 930).
II OLD HOTEL DORINCOURT, ONCE CENTER OF
SPA, TO BE RESTORED MAY GLORIFY SCHOOLEY’S MOUNTAIN AGAIN
(Hackettstown N. J., Sept.
2Oth, 1935-Newark Evening News) The glory that once was Hotel Dorincourt’s has
the promise of com-ing back. Richard Rosendale recently purchased the property
on Schoo-ley’s Mountain from W. J. Landau. Mr. Landau spent many thousand
dollars in additions and repairs but never operated it. He died three years
ago. Belmont Hall, later Dorincourt, was built in 1820 by Conover Bowne. The
early history of the hotel was in the tallyho and coach days, the turnpike being
a stage road. When the railroad extended its tracks to Hackettstown in 1855 the
resort was made more accessible.
Schooley’s Mountain history
as a fashionable resort goes back to the building of the turnpike over
Schooley’s Mountain-the present motor route. The turnpike, connecting
Morristown and Easton, was chartered in 1806 and completed in 1810. Along this
pike in the days of old rolled many a gay barouche, drawn by blooded horses,
carrying well-to-do persons to Schooley’s Mountain, which was known for its
beauty and healthfulness and its mineral springs famed for chalybeate water.
The tallyho’s horn rang through the hills. Dorincourt, forty years ago, was a
summer hotel that rivaled those of Newport, Saratoga and Long Branch.
Surrounding it are thirty-nine acres and all about are noble trees. The
original building, a sturdy structure of stone covered with cement, stands next
to the highway. The next addition is of brick at the end of which is a more
modern addi-tion of wood.