1743 Samuel Schooley, son of Samuel Schooley and Avis Holloway, was born on April 16 in Quakertown, Bethlehem Twp, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. [1] [2]
1766 Samuel Schooley married Margaret Brown Gibbon, widow of Nathan Gibbon, in Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [3] [4]
1766 Son William Schooley was born on November 8, 1766, in Newton Twp, Sussex County, New Jersey, to Samuel Schooley and Margaret [Brown].
1769 Daughter Avis Abia Schooley was born April 14, 1769.
1767 Samuel Schooley was executor for the estate of James Schooley, likely his brother. [5]
1770 Samuel Schooley married Elizabeth Wilson, of Warren County, New Jersey, daughter of Gabriel and Elizabeth Lundy Willson, at Kingwood meeting, New Jersey. [6] [7] They declared intentions on 13 day, 9th month. [8] [9] [10]
1776-77 "Samuel Schooley, second lieutenant, Heard's Brlgade, June 24, 1776; Second lieutenant First Regiment; first lieutenant, ditto, May 24,1777; also second lieutenant in Continental army." [11] [12]. Samuel Schooley was second lieutenant in Colonel Martin's Fourth Battalion [13] [14] [15] [16]
1785 Sam and Elizabeth Schooley were admitted to Hunterdon meeting on October 13, with their children: Leah, Margaret, James, John, & Sam'l. [17]
1786 Lieutenant Schooley commanded 8 men of the 1st Regiment, Sussex County, New Jersey, as Guard under Col. Hankinson. Dated September 1. [18]
1790 Samuel Scooley lived in Stokes County, North Carolina, in a household with 5 males under age 16, 1 males age 16 and over, and 3 females. [19]
1800 Samuel Schoolley lived in Salisbury, Stokes County, North Carolina in a household with males: 1 (under 10), 2 (10 thru 15), 3 (16 thru 25), and 1 (45 and over); and females: 1 (under 10), 1 (10 thru 15), and 1 (45 and over). [20]
The Deep River Monthly Meeting in North Carolina listed births of the children of Samuel and Elizabeth Schooley [21]:
Leah 8-18-1774, Newtown Tp., Sussex, E. Division of N.J.
Margaret 11-14-1776, same place
James 1-13-1780, Hardwick Tp., W. Division of N. J.
John 2-13-1782, same place
Samuel 8-25-1785, same place
Gabriel 9-4-1786, Surry Co., N.C.
Benjamin 4-2-1788, same place
Nathan 1-9-1792, Stokes Co, N.C.
Elizabeth 1-7-1797, same place
1820 Saml Schooley lived in Grayson County, Virginia in a household with males: 1 (45 and over); and females: 1 (45 and over). [22]
1830 Son Samuel Schooley (age 40-50) and female (age 30-40) lived in Grayson County, Virginia in a household with male (age 80-90), perhaps Samuel Schooley Senior, and 4 younger males and 3 younger females. [23]
1832 Samuel Schooley of Grayson County, Virginia dated his will 20th day, 3rd month (March) 1825 (Will 1-397). An inventory of his estate was dated 19 July, 1832 in Independence, Virginia. [24]
1832 Captain Samuel Schooley died in April 1832 at age 89y 1m. [25] [26] [27]
Research Notes:
A substantial biosketch is given in [28]
A biosketch of a descendant reports [29]:
The Schooleys were of Welsh stock [this is likely an error]. Samuel Schooley, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Rogers, was a farmer in Grayson county, Va., and was a member of the Society of Friends. His family was among the earliest in Virginia. Mrs. Rogers has a letter written by Samuel to his son Benjamin in Indiana. This letter shows him to have been a man of education, and is penned in a plain clear hand. His wife was Elizabeth, and their children were : Benjamin, Nathan and Margaret (who married a Mr. Horrell).
For more military records and family descent, see [30] [31] [32] [33]
Some researchers have named Samuel's first wife Margaret Abia Brown as a daughter of Preserve Brown [34] and Mary French. Preserve and Mary Brown had a child named Abiah, born 1743, whom we show as a male. We seek further evidence to clarify the parents of Margaret Brown.
DNA [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44]
[1] May Schooley Ivey, A Pioneer Schooley Family (1941), 27.
[2] Marie M. Schooley, Scholey - Schooley and Allied Families (1990), 40.
[3] May Schooley Ivey, A Pioneer Schooley Family (1941), 21, 24, 27.
[4] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, [AncestryRecord].
[5] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 33. (Wills and Administrations 4, 1761-1770) (1928), 374, [InternetArchive].
[6] May Schooley Ivey, A Pioneer Schooley Family (1941), 21, and 28.
[7] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, [AncestryRecord].
[8] James W. Moore, "The Kingwood Records" The Jerseyman 4 (1898), 16, [InternetArchive].
[9] James W. Moore, Records of the Kingwood Monthly Meeting of Friends, Hunterdon County, New Jersey (Flemington, NJ: H. E. Deats, 1900), 10, 34, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[10] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, [AncestryRecord].
[11] James P. Snell, History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey (1881), 69, [InternetArchive].
[12] William S. Stryker, Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War (1872), 439, [InternetArchive].
[13] William S. Stryker, Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War (1872), 38, [InternetArchive].
[14] William S. Stryker, Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War (1872), 40, [InternetArchive].
[15] William S. Stryker, Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War (1872), 102, [InternetArchive].
[17] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting, Union, New Jersey, Register of Marriages, Births, and Deaths, 1687-1871, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[18] James P. Snell, History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey (1881), 75, [InternetArchive].
[19] United States Federal Census, 1790, [AncestryRecord].
[20] United States Federal Census, 1800, [AncestryRecord].
[21] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 1 [North Carolina] (1936), 001049-791, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[22] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryRecord].
[23] United States Federal Census, 1830, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[24] May Schooley Ivey, A Pioneer Schooley Family (1941), 32.
[25] Marie M. Schooley, Scholey - Schooley and Allied Families (1990), 40.
[26] Find A Grave Memorial 161194578, [FindAGrave].
[27] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[28] May Schooley Ivey, A Pioneer Schooley Family (1941), 27-32.
[29] J.H. Beers & co., Commemorative biographical record of prominent and representative men of Indianapolis and vicinity (Chicago: 1908), 733, [HathiTrust].
[30] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[31] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[32] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[33] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[34] Janet and Robert Wolfe, Genealogy Page for Preserve Brown, [JRWolfeGenealogy].
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