1733 Benjamin Schooley, the third son of Samuel and Avis Holloway Schooley, was born in Bethlehem township (near Quakertown), Hunterdon County, West Jersey.
1723 Martha Lundy was born to Richard Lundy. [1] [2]
1751 Martha's brother, Judge Samuel Lundy, married Ann Schooley, a sister of Benjamin. [3]
1755 On 10 of month 4, Martha Lundy and Benjamin Schooley first declaration their marriage intentions at Kingwood Meeting [4] [5] [6]. Benjamin Schooley of Newtown, Sussex County, and Martha Lundy of Hardwick were married in Hardwick, Sussex County on the 21th day of the 5th month. Benjamin's parents, Samuel and Avis, signed as witnesses of the marriage of Benjamin and Martha. The marriage certificate, copied from the Record of Marriages for Hardwick and Randolph Monthly Meeting: "Whereas Benjamin Schooley of Newtown in the county of Sussex in the Eastern Division of the Province of New Jersey and Martha Lundy of Hardwick in the county and Province afs'd Having declared their Intentions of Marriage with each other before several Monthly Meetings of the people called Quakers in the county of Hunterdon in the Province afs'd according to the good Order used among them whose Proceedings therein after a Deliberate Consideration thereof & Having Consent of parents and relations concerned nothing appearing to obstruct were approved of by the said Meetings. Now these are to certifie all whome it may concern that for the full accomplishment of their sd intentions this 2 1st Day of the 5th Month 1775 They the sd Benjamin Schooley & Martha Lundy appeared in a publick Meeting of the sd people at Hardwick afsd & sd Benjamin Schooley taking the sd Martha by the hand Did in a solemn manner openly Declare that he took her the s'd Martha Lundy to be his Wife promising thro Divine assitance to be a Loving & faithful Husband till Death should seperate them or words to that effect & then & there in the same assembly she the sd Martha Lundy Did in like manner Declare that she took the sd Benjamin Schooley to be her husband promising thro Divine assistance to be a Loving & faithful Wife till Death should seperate them or words to that effect And moreover the sd Benjamin Schooley & Martha Lundy she according to the custom of marriage assuming the Name of her Husband as a further Confirmation thereof Did then & there to these presents set their hands & we whose names are here under subscribed being among others present at the Solemnization of sd Marriage & Subscription in the manner afs'd as witnesses thereunto have also to these presents set our Hands the Day & year above Written Benjamin Schooley and Martha Schooley. The witnesses were Samuel Schooley, Richard Lundy, Avis Schooley, Mary Willson, Anne Lundy, Margaret Willson, Elizabeth Willson, Robert Willson, Mary Lundy, Joanna Lundy, Richard Lundy jur, Joseph Lundy, Samuel Lundy, John Willson, Ebenezer Willson, Jonathan Willson, David Willson." [7] [8] [9] [10]
1759 Benjamin Schooley and Martha moved to Newton.
1762 Found among the Judgment Rolls for the years 1762-1769, with the records in the office of the County Clerk at Newton, was one--Benjamin Schooley vs. Richard Shackleton--Capias in case.
1763 Benjamin Schooley and Martha settled in Stillwater Twp (then Hardwick Twp), Sussex county, NJ and lived there in 1763.
1764 Benjamin Schooley brought suit against Isaac Hull for debt at the Sussex County court. [11] [12]
1764 Benjamin Schooley brought suit against Ephraim Darby Esqr., high sheriff of Sussex County, for trespass and debt, at the Sussex County court. [13] [14]
1771 Son Benjamin Schooley and daughter-in-law Martha Schooley were named in the will of Benjamin's mother Avis Schooley. [15]
1772 Daughter Elizabeth Schooley was named in the will of Martha's father, Richard Lundy of Hardwick Twp, Sussex County. [16]
1773 Benjamin Schooley [Scoolly] was taxed in Newton for 64 acres, 16 horses, and cattle. In 1774, Benjamin Scooly's herd had increased by 2.
1775 12 October, the Kingwood monthly meeting allowed Quakers of Paulinskiln to hold their meetings at the home of Benjamin Schooley. [17]
1781-82 Benjamin Schooley was appointed at the Hardwick monthly meeting to serve on a "Committee of Sufferings" which was to keep account of losses suffered by by Friends on account of adherence to the principles of peace, to keep account of fines imposed for refusal to serve in the army or to take oaths, and to record the confiscation of property. The fines imposed on the members of this meeting amounted to 206 pounds 5 s 6d. [18]
1786 On 16 August, John Jay, Philip Livingston, and John Rutherford conveyed land in Newton Twp, Sussex County to Benjamin Schooley, on which was located "Schooleys Log House", suggesting that Benjamin was already living on it at that time. [19]
1793 Benjamin Schooley farmer and wife Martha convey to John Jay of New York City land being "part of the farm on which said Benjamin now lives and joines the farm of John Jay on which John Pettit lives.". [20]
1796 Benjamin Schooley and Alexander Huston made the inventory for the estate of Patrick Storey of Newton Twp, Sussex County, New Jersey.
1803 Martha Schooley, late a resident of Sussex County, New Jersey died 9th month eleventh, 1803 and was buried at Newton. [21] [22]
1804 The will of Benjamin Schooley, farmer of Newton Twp, Sussex County, dated at "the 13th. of 11th. Mo. 1804," was probated at Newton on 26 December, 1809. The will named son Joseph, executor, Martha, widow of Joseph Phillips, who received $125. Grandsons Ezekiel Dennis received $25 and Schooley Dennis recieved $62.50. Grandson Benjamin Schooley, "eldest son of my son Joseph" received 4 acres "to be run off my farm where I now live; the use and profits thereof to be my son Joseph's till said Benjamin is 21.". The land was adjacent to John Jay. Son and executor Joseph received all the rest. Executors: Joseph Schooley, William A. Byerson, and Ezekiel Dennis. [23] [24]
1809 Benjamin Schooley, son of Samuel and Avis, died on December 17 in Newton Twp near Sussex courthouse [25]. Martha was not living at the time of his death. Benjamin was "buried at Sussex Court House," now called Newton.
Benjamin Schooley and Martha had children: Elizabeth, born in Hardwick in 1757; married Mr 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. [26]
Research Notes:
Benjamin Schooley reportedly received certificate 1, voucher 581, June 15, 1785, amounting to £1.4.5, as listed in an account entitled "The State of New Jersey to James Mott, Treasurer, on account of Cash paid in Bills of Credit for one year's interest on Continental Certificates given by Benjamin Thompson, Esquire, Commissioner," - Revolutionary War. The Adjutant General. [30]
A biosketch reports [31]:
5. Martha Lundy, born in Buckingham, 6 mo. 1, 1723, married in New Jersey in 1755, Benjamin Schooley; died there 9 mo. 11, 1803; left four children.
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[2] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 116, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[3] William C. Armstrong, The Lundy Family and Their Descendants of Whatsoever Name (1902), 32, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting, Union, New Jersey, Register of Marriages, Births, and Deaths, 1687-1871, 54, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] James W. Moore, Records of the Kingwood Monthly Meeting of Friends, Hunterdon County, New Jersey (Flemington, NJ: H. E. Deats, 1900), 10, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[6] James W. Moore, "The Kingwood Records" The Jerseyman 4 (1898), 15, left column, [InternetArchive].
[7] Quaker Meeting Records, Hardwick and Mendham Monthly Meeting, Marriages, Birth and Deaths, 1714-1861, 7, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[8] May Schooley Ivey, A Pioneer Schooley Family (1941), 21.
[9] William C. Armstrong, The Lundy Family and Their Descendants of Whatsoever Name (1902), 189, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[10] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 116, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[11] Brad Stark, Carol Stark, The minute book of Sussex County, New Jersey : court records, 1764-1766 (1993), 10, 11, [GoogleBooks].
[12] Brad Stark, Carol Stark, The minute book of Sussex County, New Jersey : court records, 1764-1766 (1993), 28, [GoogleBooks].
[13] Brad Stark, Carol Stark, The minute book of Sussex County, New Jersey : court records, 1764-1766 (1993), 46, 47, [GoogleBooks].
[14] Brad Stark, Carol Stark, The minute book of Sussex County, New Jersey : court records, 1764-1766 (1993), 67, [GoogleBooks].
[15] Elmer T. Hutchinson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 35. (Wills and Administrations 6, 1781-1785) (1939), 342, [InternetArchive].
[16] 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), 324, [InternetArchive].
[17] James W. Moore, Records of the Kingwood Monthly Meeting of Friends, Hunterdon County, New Jersey (Flemington, NJ: H. E. Deats, 1900), 8, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[18] William C. Armstrong, The Lundy Family and Their Descendants of Whatsoever Name (1902), 191, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[19] James B. Schooley. Trails of Our Fathers, revised (1988), 225, citing deed B-185 of Sussex County, [GoogleBooks].
[20] James B. Schooley. Trails of Our Fathers, revised (1988), 225, citing deed B-359 of Sussex County, [GoogleBooks].
[21] William C. Armstrong, The Lundy Family and Their Descendants of Whatsoever Name (1902), 30, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[22] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 116, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[23] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Sussex, Will A-185, FHL film 960519, image 115, [FamilySearchImage].
[24] Elmer T. Hutchinson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 40. (Wills and Administrations 11, 1806-1809) (1947), 295, [FHLBook], [GoogleBooks].
[25] Quaker Meeting Records, Hardwick and Mendham Monthly Meeting, Marriages, Birth and Deaths, 1714-1861, 53, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[26] William C. Armstrong, The Lundy Family and Their Descendants of Whatsoever Name (1902), 191, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[27] Marie M. Schooley, Scholey - Schooley and Allied Families (1990), 39.
[28] May Schooley Ivey, A Pioneer Schooley Family (1941), 21.
[29] Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers, The Early Germans of New Jersey (1895), 481, [InternetArchive].
[30] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, The reported descent is not documented, and may not be correct, based upon our research, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[31] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 116, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].