1759 On 14th day of the 1st month, Ann Schooley, daughter of Benjamin and Martha, was born at Hardwick, Sussex County, New Jersey. [1]
1781 On 13 day, 9 month, Jesse Dennis and Ann Schooley made their first declaration of intent to marry at Kingwood Meeting. [2] [3]
1781 On 18 of month 10, Jesse Dennis of Wantage, Sussex County, and Ann Schooley, of Newton, were married at Newton, Sussex County. [4]
"Jesse, son of Joseph and Hannah (Lewis) Dennis, was born in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1755, and died September 27, 1802, in Wantage, Sussex county, New Jersey. He married (first), October 18, 1781, at Newton, Ann, daughter of Benjamin and Martha (Lundy) Schooley; (second), May 16, 1787, Martha, daughter of John McCoy. Her father was one of the pioneer settlers of Wantage township, near Roy's station. Children, two by first marriage: 1. Ezekiel, referred to below. 2. Schooley, born September 13, 1784; married, September 23, 1809, Anna, daughter of John and Sarah (Givens) Magee, or Mabee. 3. John, born May 12, 1788; married, September 9, 1809, Diadema Tingley. 4. Joseph, born September 28, 1790; died March 14, 1794. 5. Jesse, born October 18, 1791; died May 24, 1877; married Margaret Ann Barton. 6. Nathaniel, born October 24, 1793; died January 2, 1849; unmarried. 7. Lewis, born November 11, 1798; died August 16, 1836; married, October 25, 1818; Charlotte Turner." [5]
[1] Quaker Meeting Records, Hardwick and Mendham Monthly Meeting, Marriages, Birth and Deaths, 1714-1861, 49, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] James W. Moore, "The Kingwood Records" The Jerseyman 4 (1898), 16, right column, [InternetArchive].
[3] James W. Moore, Records of the Kingwood Monthly Meeting of Friends, Hunterdon County, New Jersey (Flemington, NJ: H. E. Deats, 1900), 11, left column, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[4] Quaker Meeting Records, Hardwick and Mendham Monthly Meeting, Marriages, Birth and Deaths, 1714-1861, 11, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 4 (1910), 1581, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[6] William C. Armstrong, The Lundy Family and Their Descendants of Whatsoever Name (1902), 191, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[7] William C. Armstrong, Pioneer Families of Northwestern New Jersey (1979), 404, see also 420, [GoogleBooks].