John (SCHOLEY) SCHOOLEY, Sr.
(1609 - 1696)

GENETIC PARENTS

Father: Richard SCHOLEY, Jr.
Mother:

SPOUSE

GENETIC CHILDREN

John SCHOOLEY, Jr.

BASIC DATA

Names: John (SCHOLEY) SCHOOLEY, Sr.
Born: 1609 in Northampshire, England or Yorkshire, England
Married: Isabel HANCOCK, 1660, Sheffield, England
Resided: England and Springfield, West Jersey
Occupation:
Died: 1696 in Chesterfield, near Burlington, 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 TWO
JOHN SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY, SR. AND JR.

JOHN SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY, SR.
Only approximately can the date of John Scholey's arrival in America, at the Friend's Settlement on the Delaware River, with his family, be determined. Some events of which records exist in New Jersey, indicate that John and his family were there early in the sixteen-hundred eighties.

John and Isabel and their young son John, well known later as an Elder among Friends, and as John Scholey, Jr., were probably in West Jersey about 1681-2, in which year John became the owner of land on "Doctor's Creek where he lives," which he had bought of Godfrey Newbold, in that year.

Though John Scholey lived about fourteen years in and near Chesterfield where his sons, Thomas and Robert lived, there is no mention of his name or Isabel's, his wife, in the records of the Chesterfield Friends. There are ample proofs that his sons and their families were members of this Society.

His daughter Mary probably came over with her brother Robert and his family, in 1678. In the Burlington Friend's Records, are minutes of the declaration of intentions of marriage with Mary Scholey, made by John Rogers, on 7-2-1680. They were married at the home of Thomas Lambert on 8-l-1680. The witnesses were: Robert Scholey, Mahlon Stacy, John and Thomas Lambert, William Wood, Joshua Wright, John and Robert Murfin, Richard Ridgway, et al. These records further assert that "Mary, wife of John Rogers, of the Falls, died in childbirth and was buried in 6-20-l681."

In the year 1682, John Scholey, Sr., late of Aughton, in the Parish of Aston, purchased from "Godfrey Newbold of Woodhouse, in the Parish of Handsworth, in Yorkshire, England," a tract of land in West Jersey. The quoted words are from the Deed of conveyance of the title to said tract of land. Five years later John sold his small farm on Doctor's Creek, near Crosswicks Creek, to his old friend, William Watson, "late
of Farnsfield, County of Nottingham, Eng." by "Indenture made this Tenth day of ye Moneth Called June in ye year of our Lord according to English acco't, 1687."
(Dept. of State of New Jersey, Vol. B. of Deeds-p. 188.)

In the same year, John purchased from Ralph Trenoweth a "Plantation conteyning 100 acres, and all that dwelling house, "scituate and being in the said county of Burlington."

Four years later, John sold half of this tract "whereon he liveth" to Katherine Beard, widow of William. 'The witnesses to John's Signing were, Joseph Hutchinson, formerly of Sheffield in England. Then a Distiller at Burlington, sold to John Scholey 125 acres of land. Robert Stacy of Philadelphia, and his son John, in the year 1697 sold to John Scholey 300 acres near Onea Nickon, adjoining lands of John Shinn and William Beard.
A survey of 181 acres for John Scholey, and another one of 50 acres adjoining land of Mathew Champion, which he sold to Gervis Pharo.

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When John Scholey became "olde in years and decrepit in health" he prepared for death by making a will. It is among Unrecorded Wills. vol. 3, p. 377 (D. of S. of N. J.). His will was dated "March ye 29th, 1695.

"I, John Scholey, being weak of body, but of good memory, do ordean this my laste will and testament." "First, I commit my Soule into the hand of Almighty God; next my body to be buried att my wife and sonn discretion.
"I give to my wife Isabel all my chattels and my plantation where I now live, until my sonn John Corn att age, and then my plantation, goods and chattels to be equally divided betwixt them." I give to my son Thomas, my land liing next to John Wareing (Warren) ao him and his Heirs an asignes forever;" Likewise I give to my sonn Thomas, a piece of meadow, to him and his heirs forever, containing quaintitie of 6 acres."
This Will "was sealed and delivered in the presence of" Mathew Champion, and William Bustill. "The seaventh day of Aprill, Anno. 1696," then proved ye Codocill, or Testatis Mentis of John Scholey within named.

Edward Hunloke, Nathan Westland, Thomas Revell, Sec'y. and Reg't. As the Executrix of John Scholey's will, Isabel was required to give bond. Her fellow signers on her bond, were Mathew Champion and Daniel Smith, both of Burlington county in ye Province of West Jersey." This bond was sealed on the "Seaventh day of April1 anno dom 1696." By this bond Isabel was required to give account from time to time concerning the estate.

A plantation called Scholey's, was mentioned in the will of Thomas Lambert, in the year 1693. This was about three years before the death of John Scholey, Senior.

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