1701 On 18 of month 12, John Scoly was born to Thomas and Sarah Scoly in Chesterfield Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. [1] [2] [3]
Research Notes:
John Schooley learned the trade of weaver of cloth.
1723 John Schooley was one of the executors of his father's will, and inherited a farm of one hundred and eleven acres. On 6 February, 1723, John Schooley sold 40 acres of that land. [4]
1725 On May 27, Avis Holloway and Samuel Schooley, both of Chesterfield, were married at Chesterfield Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by John Scholey and others. [5] [6]
1727 On 14 September, John Schooley and Mary Willson of Burlington were licensed to marry. 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 returned to membership." [7] [8] 1728 On 2nd day, 3rd month, John Schooley, son of Thomas Schooley, expressed reomorse for marrying one not a member.[9] [10]
1739 John Schooley Sr voted in an election in Burlington County, New Jersey. [11]
1742 John Schooley sold part of his inheritance by "Indenture, made the 12th of 6 mo. 1742. John Scholey of Chesterfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, weaver, and Benjamin Busson of same place." John granted 40 acres in Chesterfield, "it being part of that one hundred and eleven acres given said Scholey by the will of his deseased fathr, Thomas Scholey, dated 6 of Feb. 1723." [12]
1745 On 15 April, John Schooley, perhaps this one, was a freeholder in Chesterfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. [13]
John and Mary (Willson) Scholey and their children, lived in Chesterfield Twp, unlike the brothers of John who moved up to Bethlehem and then on northward to Schooley's Mountain, and Hardwick, and Newton.
1748 The will of John Scholey, weaver of Chesterfield, Burlington County, was dated April 18 and named wife Mary. Land I surveyed adjoining William Chapman and Godfrey Beck, to my son Jehosada. Other children mentioned but not named; left to care of their mother. Executors -friends Michael Newbold and Isaac DeCow. Witnesses - Thomas Scholey, Rebeckah Taylor, Benja. Busson. Proved May 10, 1748. [14]
1748 On May 9, Inventory, £l62.11.10; made by Godfrey Beck and Thos. Black. [15]
1768 On February 28, Account of Eber DeCow, executor of Isaac DeCow of Mansfield who was executor of John Scholey. Moneys paid Hoppins and Schooley, Mary Schooley, William Halloway, Samuel Schooley, Hopkins and Black. William Chapman, Isaac Ivins. Christian Wilson, George Nicholson. Barzilla Newbold, Samuel Cheshire, Kirbey and Foster. David Wright, Samuel Satterthwaite, John Schooley, Jos. DeCow, Benjamin Busson, Samuel Tuely, George Taylor, Samuel Ivins, Daniel Smith, Daniel Tillton, John Taylor, Benjamin Thorn, Ann Arion, William Beakes, Daniel Doughty, Jos. Reckless, Marmaduke Watson, Isaac Price, Antho. Sykes, Caleb Shreeve, Ellizabeth Watson, William Hopkins, John Bunting, Widow Merrell, Thomas Ivins, John Padgo, William Ivins. James Farro, William Taylor, Peter Harvey, Benjamin Roberts, Abraham Thorne, Edlth Newbold, Peter Kirl. [16]
1748 The will of John Scholey of Chesterfield, weaver, mentioned wife, Mary, "lands to my son, Jehosada. Children are under age and left to care of their mother." [17]
1748 John Scholey died in late April or early May in Chesterfield, Burlington County, New Jersey. [18]
The Executors were his friends, Michael Newbold and Isaac De Cow (DeCou). This will was affirmed may 10th, 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.
Research Notes:
Reports have named children: Asa Schooley, 23 June 1739 in Chesterfield Twp., Burlington County, New Jersey, and died 1 June 1815 in Ontario, married Sarah with son Azaliah Schooley; Jehosada (son), Jehoshabah; married John Thompson. [19]
More about Asa Schooley [20]
"John Harrit came from Sussex County, New Jersey in 1787, according to his later land petition. He brought his wife, who was a daughter of Friends, Asa Schooley, and their one child." "A second migration of Friends came in 1788. Asa Schooley and his family brought a certificate with them from Hardwick Township in Sussex County affirming that "he is an orderly and peaceable man, and is a member of the Society of The People called Quakers" and dated in April 1788. They were following their married daughter and others might have come with them from Sussex County." "Joseph Havens, Benjamin Willson, Daniel Pound, Joel White Morris, John Harrit, whose petition suggested he had settled on Lots 28 and 29 as early as 1787, Asa Schooley, Jehoiada Schooley, John Hill, and Azaliah Schooley owned adjacent farms to the Humberstone line." " Asa and Sarah Schooley were the first overseers." [J. C. Fretz, The Early History of the Mennonites in Welland County, Ontario]
[1] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 5, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] James B. Schooley. Trails of Our Fathers, revised (1988), 172, [GoogleBooks].
[3] William Schooley, The journal of Dr. William Schooley: pioneer physician, Quaker minister, abolitionist, philosopher, and scholar, 1794-1860 (1977), 181, [GoogleBooks].
[4] James B. Schooley. Trails of Our Fathers, revised (1988), 172, [GoogleBooks].
[5] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 92, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[6] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 49, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[7] James B. Schooley. Trails of Our Fathers, revised (1988), 172, [GoogleBooks].
[8] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 22. (Marriage Records, 1665-1800) (1900), 342, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[9] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 50.
[10] William Schooley, The journal of Dr. William Schooley: pioneer physician, Quaker minister, abolitionist, philosopher, and scholar, 1794-1860 (1977), 181, [GoogleBooks].
[11] John J. Thompson, "Poll Book of an Election in 1739, Burlington County, New Jersey," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 18 (1894), 185-193, at 191, columns 3 and 4, [GoogleBooks].
[12] James B. Schooley. Trails of Our Fathers, revised (1988), 172, [GoogleBooks].
[13] Carlos E. Godfrey, "A List of the Freeholders for the City and County of Burlington," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 29 (1905), 421-26, at 423, [InternetArchive].
[14] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 419, citing Lib. 5D 477, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[15] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 419, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[16] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 419, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[17] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 419, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[18] James B. Schooley. Trails of Our Fathers, revised (1988), 172, [GoogleBooks].
[19] Marie M. Schooley, Scholey - Schooley and Allied Families (1990), 29, 40.
[20] Richard MacMaster, Friends in the Niagara Peninsula, 1786-1802 (published online), [Quaker Archives Canada].