John (SCHOLEY) SCHOOLEY, Jr.
(December 15, 1674 - December 17, 1735)

GENETIC PARENTS

Father: John SCHOOLEY, Sr.
Mother: Isabel HANCOCK

SPOUSE

(1) Rebecca Bennett M: December 8, 1697, Burlington MM, NJ
(2) Frances TAYLOR NICHOLSON (? - 1750) M: 1711

GENETIC CHILDREN

From (1) Rebecca Bennett

1. Edith SCHOOLEY
2. Ann SCHOOLEY

From (2) Frances Taylor NICHOLSON

1. Susannah SCHOOLEY
2. John SCHOOLEY
3. Thomas SCHOOLEY
4. Mary SCHOOLEY
5. Isabel SCHOOLEY
6. Samuel SCHOOLEY
7. Rebecca SCHOOLEY
8. Sarah SCHOOLEY
9. Jonathan SCHOOLEY

BASIC DATA

Names: John (SCHOLEY) SCHOOLEY, Jr.
Born: October 15, 1674, All Saints of Aston Parish, England
Married: Frances TAYLOR NICHOLSON (?-1750) M: 1711
Resided: England and Springfield, West Jersey
Occupation:
Died: December 17, 1735, Springfield, West Jersey
Buried:

NOTES

Sources:
http://www.gendex.com/users/millerm/html/d0003/g0000011.html - millerm@halcyon.com

A PIONEER SCHOOLEY FAMILY
By MAY SCHOOLEY IVEY
THE FRANKLIN PRESS, INC., MIAMI, FLORIDA

CHAPTER ONE
THE SCHOLEY - SCHOOLEY LINEAGE IN ENGLAND AND IN AMERICA
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John Scholey's (Scoley), Sr., second marriage was in 1660 with Isabelle Hancock, daughter of Robert and ? Hancock, of the parish of Sheffield. (Sheffield Marriage Registers). To this mating was born "John sonne of John' Scholey, Oct. 15, 1676." (Registers of All Saints of Aston Parish).
He become known in America as John Scholey, Junior.
(Note--John, Jr., had a daughter named Isabel).

CHAPTER TWO
JOHN SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY, SR. AND JR.
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JOHN SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY, JUNIOR
Of this member of the original family of Scholeys who came to America, nothing is to be found in Smith's History, and but little in the records of the Friend's Religious Society. Some data has been obtained from the public records.

John was a mere boy of five or six years of age when he arrived at the Friend's Colony on the Delaware, in West Jersey, with his parents, to greet his older brothers. He was under age in 1695, the date of his father's will, but the records disclose that two years later, in 1697, he took in marriage, Rebecca Bennet, at the home of Thomas Williams.
The Witnesses present at their marriage were: Thomas Scholey, Ann and Sarah Bennet, Rebecca Williams, Mathew Champion, and seventeen others.

John, Jr., and Rebecca had only one child of whom any record was left, Ann, who was born in 1699, and was married to Thomas Scattergood Junior, of Mansfield in Burlington County. Rebecca probably lived only a few years. Ann was remembered in the will of her father, and also in the will of her stepmother.

For his second venture in matrimony, John, Jr., chose Frances Nicholson, widow of Joseph Nicholson. The Chesterfield Friend's Records, (Vol. A. p. 126) aver that on the
"1st. of the 1st. mo. 1711, John Scholey and Frances Nicholson declare their intentions of taking each other in. marriage; Her father and mother being present, gave their consent thereto." "2d. mo. 5th. day, 1711, John and Frances declare a second

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time He producing a certificate from Burlington, and they were given liberty to proceed according to the good order amongst Friends." Frances was a daughter of Samuel and Susannah Taylor. John Scholey and Frances raised a large family of three sons and
six daughters. In Rev. Chambers History may be found a list of the names of their children and their marriages:

• Susannah, born in 1712, married in 1730 to Michael Newbold of Springfield township.
• John, III., born in 1714, married in 1745 with Rachel Emly.
• Thomas, born and died in 1718.
• Mary, born in 1720, married Johnathan Barton, later, Thomas Black, and finally Samuel Wright.
• Isabel was named for her grandmother Scholey.
• Samuel, who died in 1751 intestate, was born in 1723 of Springfield Twp.
  His brother John administered his estate.
• Rebecca, born in 1725, married in 1747 to Joseph Wright.
• Sarah, born in 1727, married Joseph Horner .
• Johnathan, born in 1729, married Mary Wright. He died in 1758.

John Scholey, Jr., became possessed of large estates in lands in Springfield and Hanover, and adjoining townships, in his busy life. The children of John, Jr., and Frances, became intermarried with the leading and thrifty families of Burlington County, who, with their descendants, have for several generations, continued to reside in the sections of country in which their ancestors had settled.

John, Jr., died as a resident of Springfield Township in 1735, his will being probated on Feb. 8th of that year. Frances named executrix.
In his will he mentions his sons John, Samuel, Johnathan, and daughters Rebecca and Sarah, all under age, in 1731; His daughter, Ann Scattergood.

Frances survived John, Jr., about fifteen years. Her will was probated in 1750. There seems to be no record of any male descendants from John Scholey, Jr.

The following is quoted from the proceedings of the Surveyors' Association of New Jersey, page 84, printed in 1870.

"Early settlements in Springfield Twp.: In 1687, Syman Charles, Deputy Surveyor, surveyed lands adjoining land of Mathew Champion, John Schooley, Thomas Shinn; these lands were conveyed in 1687 to 1697 to John Scholey, Jr. John Scholey, Jr., was a son of John Scholey of Woodhouse, Yorks, England, etc."

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