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Notes for Samuel Shinn and Sarah Schooley

1693 Sarah Schooley was born 1-22-1692/93. [1]

1718 Samuel Shinn, with a certificate from Burlington, and Sarah Schooley made their second declaration of intention to marry, as recorded in the Chesterfield, Burlington County, monthly meeting minutes, dated 5 of month 4 (June). Their parents were present and gave consent. [2] [3] [4] [5] Sarah Schooley married Samuel Shinn, son of Thomas and Mary Stockton Shinn. Had daughters Mary and Alice. [6]

1723 Thomas Scholey Jr married Hannah Fowler on May 26, at Chesterfield. Witnessed by Samuel and Sarah Shinn and others. [7]

1725 Avis Holloway and Samuel Schooley, both of Chesterfield, were married on May 27, at Chesterfield Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Sarah and Samuel Shinn and others. [8] [9]

1733 Sarah Schooley Shinn died. [10]

1740 Alice Shinn, daughter of Samuel Shinn, married Thomas Stevenson, son of Elnathan Stevenson, on March 20, at Northampton meeting house, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Elnathan Stevenson, Sarah Stevenson, Samuel Shinn, Sarah Stevenson, Sarah Shinn, Charity Stevenson, Cornell Stevenson, Thomas Shinn, William Stevenson, Silus Crispin, Mary Crispin, Benjamin Crispin, and others. [11]

Research Notes:

1740 Sarah Shinn, daughter of Samuel Shinn, married Philo Leeds Jr, on November 1, in Monmouth County, New Jersey. [12]

Thi births of Samuel and Sarah Shinn's children were recorded in Burlington meeting records. [13] [14] Samuel Shinn was son of Thomas and Mary Stocton Shinn. The Shinn family lived in Springfield township in Burlington county. [15]

1723 Sarah Scholey Shinn had two daughters who were mentioned in the will of Sarah's father in 1723-4. Their names there given were Mary and Alice Shinn.


Footnotes:

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

[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1688-1809, 106, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[3] Lewis D. Cook, "Marriage Intentions, 1685-1730, Burlington County, New Jersey," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 53 (1965), 129-32, at 131.

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

[5] Marie M. Schooley, Scholey - Schooley and Allied Families (1990), 29.

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

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

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

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

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

[11] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[12] New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].

[13] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Births and Burials At Burlington in America, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[14] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[15] Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers, The Early Germans of New Jersey (1895), 480, [InternetArchive].