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1688 Thomas Scoley, son of Thomas and Sarah Scoley, was born on 25 of month 9. [1] [2]

1711 Thomas Scholey, perhaps this one or his father, was overseer of the poor in Chesterfield Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey.

1717 Samuel Danford, of Burlington County, and Mary Wright [likely Mary Schooley, widow of Joseph Wright] married on November 5, at Chesterfield. Witnessed by Thomas Schooley Jr [likely first cousin to Mary Scholey] and others. [3]

1720 Thomas Schooley [Scholey] Jr of Burlington County married Hannah Fowler of Monmouth County, daughter of John Fowler, at Chesterfield. "Thomas Scholey, son of Thomas Scholey and Sarah Parker Scholey, declare intentions of marriage, first time, 2-7-1720.". "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 wel 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. They were married 26th 3d mo. 1720. Witnesses:Thomas Scholey, Sarah Scholey, John Fowler, Sam. Shinn, William Fowler, Francis Fowler, Jn Thorn Jr, John Powel, Sarah Shinn, Sam'l Danford, William Scholey, Elizabeth Scholey, John Fowler Jr, Mary Stevenson, Mary Wood, Constant Woodward, Mary Danford, Samuel Bunting, Wm Wood Sr, Edward Rockhill, John Bunting Sr, Richard French, Wm Murfin, Wm Satterthwaite, John Wood, Anthony Woodward Jr, Jos. Rodgers, Jeremiah Fowler, Isaac Davenport, Tho. Miller, Joseph Reckless. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

1721 Rebecca Scholey, daughter of Thomas and Hannah Scholey, was born on 5 of month 5. [11]

1725 Avis Holloway and Samuel Schooley, both of Chesterfield, were married on May 27, at Chesterfield Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Thomas and Hannah Scholey and others. [12] [13]

1726-27 When the new Quaker Settlement was started in Bethlehem township of Hunterdon county, Thomas Scholey, Junior, and the families of his brothers, William and Samuel, had moved with other Friends from Chesterfield to the settlement located near the present Quakertown. Thomas was a weaver.

1727 Thomas Schooley was overseer of the poor Chesterfield Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. [14]

1729 Thomas Scholey was reported to have allowed Thomas Draper to be married at his house in a disagreeable way. Dated 6 of month 12, 1728/29, at the Chesterfield meeting. [15]

1729 From our monthly meeting in Chesterfield to our friends at Burlington... Thomas Scholey and his wife were recommended. Dated 6 of month 12 (February), 1728/29. [16]

1729 Samuel Schooley, brother of Thomas, Jr., already owned the 350 acres on Schooley's Mountain, mentioned in the will of their father.

1729 Thomas Scholey was the grantee in an "Indenture dated First of November 1729," of 136 acres of land in "the township of Lebanon in Hunterdon County, which adjoins lands of Samuel Scholey and others." 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 purchased of the Indians, or natives." This tract of land was at the southern end of Schooley's Mountain.

1731 Thomas and Hannah Scholey were granted a certificate from Burlington to Chesterfield Monthly Meeting. [17]

1733 Thomas Scholey, of Bethlehem, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, sold above lands to William Pew. [18] [19] [20]

1739 "Isaac Horner is desired to deliver Thomas Scholey thirty shill out of the interest of the money belonging to the Poor of this meeting from a consideration of a necessity of his families present circumstances." Recorded on 4 of month 8, at the Chesterfield meeting. [21]

1750 Thomas Schoooley was buried on 6 of month 8 at Rahway-Plainfield Meeting. [22]

1778 Widow Hannah Schooley lived at Bound Brook, New Jersey. In August of that year, she was appointed as administratrix of the estate of her son, Michael, of Bridgewater, Summerset county, New Jersey [23]. 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.

1780 Hannah Schooley died at home in Middlebrook. [24]

Research Notes:

1781 An inventory was made of the goods of Hannah Schooley, perhaps this one or her daughter-in-law. Dated 23 of month 6. [25]

1728/29 A certificate of removal for Thomas Schooley and wife Ann, of Chesterfield, Ireland [is this correct?] to Burlington was listed at the Burlington monthly meeting. Dated 6th day, 12th month. [26]

See also, [27]


Footnotes:

[1] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 16, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[2] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 11, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[3] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 81, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[4] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Removals, Deeds, Acknowledgements, 1750-1920, Book 2, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[5] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Removals, Deeds, Acknowledgements, 1750-1920, Book 2, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[6] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 87, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[7] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 22. (Marriage Records, 1665-1800) (1900), 667, see Chesterfield (NJ Burlington County) Friends' Monthly Meeting Marriage Records, 1686-1800, Vol. S. p. 29, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[8] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Marriage Intentions (from the Minutes), Certificates of Removal 1684-1847 (NJ/B2F:L), [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[9] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 8.

[10] "Marriages at Chesterfield, New Jersey, 1685-1730," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 9 (1885), 347-352, at 350, [GoogleBooks].

[11] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 30, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[12] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 92, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[13] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 49, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[14] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 280, left column, [HathiTrust].

[15] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Men's Minutes, 1684-1738, 251, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[16] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Certificates Received, 1675-1750; Births and Deaths, 1679-1805, 47, [AncestryImage].

[17] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 257, [HathiTrust].

[18] Colonial Conveyances East & West New Jersey. Deed (Book-Page), vol. N, page not recorded.

[19] Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers, The Early Germans of New Jersey (1895), 176, [InternetArchive].

[20] Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers, The Early Germans of New Jersey (1895), 460, [InternetArchive].

[21] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Men's Minutes, 1684-1738, 12, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[22] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting, Union, New Jersey, Register of Marriages, Births, and Deaths, 1687-1871, 138, line 9, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[23] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 34. (Wills and Administrations 5, 1771-1780) (1931), 447, [InternetArchive].

[24] William Schooley, The journal of Dr. William Schooley: pioneer physician, Quaker minister, abolitionist, philosopher, and scholar, 1794-1860 (1977), 181, [GoogleBooks].

[25] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Removals, Deeds, Acknowledgements, 1750-1920, Book 2, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[26] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1994), 45.

[27] Marie M. Schooley, Scholey - Schooley and Allied Families (1990), 28, 34.