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Notes for Joseph Wright and Rebecca Schooley

1725 Rebecca Schooley, daughter of John and Frances Scholey, was born on 3 of October (month 8). [1]

1747 Rebecca Schooley was reported married to Joseph Wright [son of John Wright] at the Burlington Meeting. [2] [3] [4]

1783 Joseph Wright and wife Rebecca and children Sarah, Mary, Schooly, Joseph, Frances, and Elizabeth were named on a list of members of the Upper Freehold particular meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey. Dated 7 of month 5. [5] [6] [7]


Footnotes:

[1] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1994), 10.

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

[3] Barclay White, "Early Settlements in Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey," Proceedings, Constitution, By-Laws, List of Members, &c. of the Surveyors' Association of West New Jersey (1870), 83-92, at 85, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[4] Larry C. Wright, Wrights’ 400 Years (1984), 28, [GoogleBooks].

[5] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Upper Springfield Monthly Minutes, 1707-1842, 3, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[6] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Records of Marriage Certificates from Upper Springfield Meeting, commencing 1783, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[7] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 3 (1995), 1.