Notes on the Scull Family of New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia

PUBLICATIONS OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Vol. X. MARCH , 1929. No. 3. NOTES ON THE SCULL FAMILY OF NEW YORE:, NEW JERSEY AND PHILADELPHIA. . CONTRIBUTED BY WILLIAM ELLIS SCULL PIETEK JANSEN SCHOLL, the propositus of the Scull family of this monograph, was in New Amsterdam in 1661, where his name was indifferently written Schoel, Shull, Schuyl, Scholt, Skull. In March of that year he was a plaintiff with Abel Hardenbroeck in a suit at law against Coenraet Ten Eyck.* On November 26, 1661, at his marriage to Margaretje, daughter of David Provoost,! he is described , on the records * Court Minutes of New Amstei darrij 111, 275 et seq , t DAVID FROVOOST , bana Amsterdam , Holland , 10 Adjust , 1608 ; came to Nw Amsterdam before April , 1039, perhaps with Governor Kieft and Ms company in March, 1638. lie was a trader of the Dutch West India Company, 1640 ; commissary of provisions, tobacco inspector, commissary at Fort Good Hope, Hartford , Connecticut , where the Dutch maintained against the English a sep arate and independent government, 164.2, He returned to New Amsterdam in 1647. lie was schoolmaster , notary , attorney , counsellor, commissioner and commander of military forces. His name is lat the head of the list, 2nd Feb ruary , 1032, of the last Board of A7 me Men who were, says Dr. (VCalLaghan , “ The Immediate precursors of the Burgom alters and Sc happens, and of a mu nicipal form of government In the City of New Amsterdam . They were the chosen representatives of the entire commonalty , and it was declared in their commissions that what they did should be the act of the whole peopled They held their sessions in David Provoost‘s school - room. He was also a member of the Governor’s Council and in 1054 was sellout fiscal of the Brooklyn district ; and in May , 1656, schout or temporary secretary to the three Dutch towns* Breuckelen, Amer sfoort [ FLatlands] amd Midwout [ Flahbush ] , all of which were included in the Brooklyn district He died 3 January * 1 56, leaving a widow * Grtetje or Margaretta Gillis. Her name Is frequently spelled In the records ; ' - - 1929 - ^ * ( 213 ) Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 Notes on the Scull Family of 214 of the Collegiate Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, as of the Hague. At the Grand Church of the Hague, Pieter Jansen Scholl was baptized April 18, 1634, the son of Jan Pietersen Scholl and Annetje Claesdr van Soelen. He was preceded in Holland by three generations of Scholls and, in England, by a long line of ancestors whose patronymic was variously spelled Schuyl, Scholt, Schoel, Skull, Scull The Holland ancestors, proved by documentary evidence are briefly : HABMEN SCHOLL, who, for a time of Brielle, a town just south of the Hook of Holland , purchased a house at the Hague in 1596, and there died in 1604. By his wife Maritgen Willems he had several children , among them : PIETER HARMENSEN SCHOLL, born at Brielle ; married Maria Matthysdr van Nyenhoven, 21 May, 1606, and, among other issue had : JAN PIETERSEN SCHOLL, who was attached to the household of the Prince of Orange between 1640-1649, and deceased circa 1652 In 1647, he was appointed forrester of Etten and de Leur with Nicolaes Henric Smyers. The last occasion on which his signature is found, is in 1649, in connection with Dirck Claesr van Soelen, his brother in-law In 1652, Annetje Claesdr van Soelen , widow of Jan Pietersen Scholl, acknowledged house-rent debt to Cornelia Nies, widow of the late General Carel Nies. The baptismal Registers of the Grand Church, Hague, show several children of Jan Pietersen Scholl and his wife Annetje Claesdr as there baptized, and in 1634, Pieter Jansen Scholl, the propositus before mentioned Pieter Jansen Scholl of New Amsterdam took a more or less active part in the affairs of the little town When in February, 1664, the burghers and inhabitants were taxed for the “ fortification of the city ” he was assessed 100 florins. A few months later the Dutch Colony passed under English . . - . . . Jellis, Jellisen , YUUB and Yele i j. She was probably married in Holland and emigrated with her husband. She was the daughter of Gillis Jansen Verbrugge and Barbara Sichut , In March , 164#, David Frovoost gave to Gillis Jansen Verbrugge a power of attorney to receive an Inheritance accruing to his wife by the decease of her uncle in France, of whieh conn try she was probably a native. She was living 20 July , 1.701, when she acknowledged a deed to her aon, Jonathan Frovoont of a house and lot “ on the east aide of the great f . Bergen 's Kings street , formerly called the Prince graft " [ Broad :&treet ] County Settlers ; New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume VI , p, 3 et seqPr 4vost - Provoost-Provost Family Reoord , New York, 186ft. — * 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 New York , New Jersey and Philadelphia. 215 . control, 4 September, 1664 About this time he resided on Hoogh straat * and may have continued there as late as 13 August, 1671, when his son David was baptized at New Amsterdam,f There is, however, some evidence to indicate that he was living in Brooklyn in 1667, as on 20 August, 1667, he and Denys Isaack Van Sartervelt, “ honest persons ” were witnesses to a deposition involving property. On 27 No vember, 1668, he sold a house and lot in Flatbush and was a party to a deed for land there, 27 August, 16774 In 1673, his name appears on the Hempstead census as Peter Janse Schol § and at this Long Island settlement the remainder of his life was apparently spent Of his homestead lands on the “ south woods ” he conveyed fifty acres to his “ beloved son-in law, ” Hendrick Mandeville, by deed of 14 June, 1684,|| and died before 31 December, 1697 The entry of his marriage to Margaritje Provoost, already alluded to, reads: 26 Novemb,, 1661. Pieter Janszen Scholt, Uyt den Hage, en Grietje Provoost, TJyt ’t Vlacke bosch ** She was baptized at the New York Dutch Church, 24 Feb ruary, 1641. According to Edwin R. Purple, in his Sketch of David Provoost of New Amsterdam and Some of his Descend ants, a patent for 20 morgens, about 40 acres, located in Midwout, Flatbush, Long Island, was issued to her 9 May, 1660. It is possible that this patent was to her mother of the same name Children of Pieter Jansen and Grietje ( Provoost ) Scholt, the first four baptized at the New York Dutch Church The sons, John and Peter, reverted to the English spelling of their surname, while David, and many of his descendants, adhered to the Dutch form. - . - . - . . 1. i . ANNETJE, 2 baptized 16 July, 1662 ; died before 21 April , 1699 ; married, as first wife, Hendrick Mandeville, or de Mandeville, 18 July, 1680, a land owner at Hempstead and a patentee of Pacquenack or Pompton Plains, New Jersey. Through her * Court Minutes of New Amsterdam, vol. V , 222. t Records of the Reformed Dutch Church In New York . $ Conveyances, Brooklyn, Kings County , book II, 179. See New York Genealogical and Biographical Record , vol. LIV, 306. S Bergen, op. clt . , 256. II Hempstead Town Records. H Ibid . , Liber D, 55. Trlnted Records, vol . il , 171-2. Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York . tt New York Genealogical and Biographical Record , vol. vl , 4. •• 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 Notes on the Scull Family of 216 son, David de Mandeville,* she had a line of descendants f who had large land holdings on both banks of the Hudson as far north as Poughkeepsie. Her great -granddaughter Hannah Mandeville married Daniel Birdsall, and their family residence, the famous Birdsall House at Peekskill, is said to have sheltered more American officers during the Be volution than perhaps any other house in the Colonies.J ii. GRIETJE, baptized 24 Sept., 1664. 2. iii. JOHN , baptized 15 Oct., 1666 ; died 8 April, 1748. iv. DAVID, bapt. 13 Aug., 1671 ; removed to the Raritan, New Jersey. 3, v. PETEB, died Oct., 1739 ; married ( 2 ) Jane Mott . - 2. JOHN 2 SCULL ( Peter Jansen 1 ) , baptized at New Amster dam, 15 October, 1666 ; died at Great Egg Harbor, 8 April, 1748.§ He sold his lands at Hempstead , Long Island, in 1691 and about 1695, possibly somewhat earlier, removed to West Jersey. On 29 November of that year, being then described as late of Long Island , he purchased of Thomas Budd of Philadelphia two hundred and fifty acres of land at Great Egg Harbor in two lots, ' ‘ one between the marsh next to the Sound, Peter Cowanover and Patconck Creek ; the other between said marsh , Jonas Valentine and Patconck Creek/ 3 1) He acquired other land and became identified with public affairs in the young settlement. In May, 1701, he was appointed special tax assessor for Egg Harbor. On 26 January, 1717,** he was commissioned Justice of the Peace and of the Courts of Gloucester County and doubtless served many years in such capacity This was the period of exodus from the Long Island towns to the greater opportunities of the Delaware River and Jersey coast-line Of the pioneers some had the urge of the whaling industry, one of the most lucrative of early eighteenth-century avocations, whales being numerous from Sandy Hook to the Capes of the Delaware. Others of the pioneers were members ^ . . * The Marquis de Cbastelieux notes In his Travels in North America of 1780 that , “ Approaching Fmnpton, I was astonished at the degree of perfection to which agriculture is carried.11 Continuing, be draws especial attention to the well -cultivated and fertile lands oif “ the Mandeville brothers , whose father was a Dutchman and cleared the farms hie sous now tilt/'— Hartand , Some Colonial Homesteads and their Stories , t See YeUts Jansen de MandeviUe of Garderen, Holland , and Greenwich Vil lage on Manhattan Island , and Some of His Descendants : New York Genealogical and Biographical Record , xxxviii , 284 et seq . t Roebliog, Journal of the Reverend Silas Constant , Philadelphia, 1901, 257 , § 2ft? u? Jersey Archives , First Scries , x x x f 422, || Ibid ,, 50, 59, 605, 1 Learning and Spicerfs Laws of New Jersey, edition of 1758, ** Publications of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania , vUI # 64 , 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 Notes on the Scull Family of 218 was made overseer, and Jonathan Adams, John Scull, Jonas Valentine and Peter Conover were in membership. In 1716, a Friends meeting house was built at Seaville, in Cape MayCounty. The principal contributors from Gloucester County were John Somers and one [John] Scull. Known as the old Cedar Meeting House it is still standing. John Fothergill, an eminent minister among Friends, visiting the provinces in 1722, writes that he “ had a religious meeting at the house of John Scull, between Great Egg Harbor and Cape May, 7th 1 mo , 1722, which was well attended.’* The Journal of John Chalkley also mentioned a meeting at John Scull Js : . From Cape May, we traveled along the sea-coast to Egg Harbor. ‘We swam our horses over Egg Harbour river, and went ourselves in canoes, and afterwards had a meeting at Richard Somers ’ which was as large as could be expected, considering the people live at such a distance from each other.* The next meeting we had at John Scull ’s t [8th of the third month, 1726 ] . As early as 6th. first month, 1726/7, John Scull was made overseer of Great Egg Harbor meeting and first day services were ordered to be held at his house. Whether by the pursuit of whaling,$ or agriculture, or both , John Scull amassed a competence. This he disposed of by * For many years after the first settlements on the ocean, and river the only mads between them were the Indian trails- One of these started from Somers’ Point and It was along this trail that visiting Friends -were obliged to travel. t Journal of Thomas Chalkley , 65. J Dr. Daniel Ooxe’s Account of New Jersey , written about 168S, contains the etaternant : I have at the Expense of above Three thousand pounds settled a Towne and Established a fflshtng for Whales which are very numerous about Cape May , both within the Bay and without all along the sea coast, which I am assured If well manneged win bring In above £ 4000 per Annum all charges . . Defrayed." . . . . “ Because the only thing which baa hindered our setting up this fishery was want of salt, wee have lately seat over diverse ffrendhmen skillful In making salt by the sun In pitta or pane, whoe assure us that there are many convenient places upon the Coast over against the places of Ashing where millions of Bushel! may be made at the Expense of 4 pence per Bushel!.’* Biographical Notice of Doctor Daniel Coxe of London, by Gideon Delaplalne Scull of Oxford , England , In Pennsylvania Magazine of History , vol . vli, 317337. The Boston Noics Letter of March 17 to 24, 1718, has this Item : " We are told tliat the whale men catch’d six whales at Cape May and twelve at Egg Harbour. ” — 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 New York , New Jersey and Philadelphia. 219 will of 15 March , 1745,* giving to each of his children a proportionate share of his real and personal estate, and to his youngest sons, Recompense, Gideon and Isaiah, all his ‘ * Right to Absecom Beach. ” As a tribute to the business capacity of his wife he constituted her sole executor. His wife, Mary Somers, who survived him, was in all prob ability, a sister of his neighbor, John Somers,! founder of the well known New Jersey family of that surname. His will named all of his children 1 except David , who was then deceased . Children of John Scull, order according to will : i . JOHN,S removed to Cape May County, New Jeraey. 4. ii. ABEL, married ( 1 ) Tonkin ; ( 2 ) Martha. Hughes. iii . PETER, removed to Tuckahoe, Cape May County ; died intestate leaving good estate administered upon by brother, John Scull, “ gentlemanJ J of that county, 25 May, 1751. iv. DANIEL, married 14 June, 1731, Hannah Mannery ; was col lector of Egg Harbor ; died intestate before 25 Nov, 1751, leaving widow, Hannah. v. BENJAMIN, removed to Cape May County.§ vi . MARGARET, married Robert Smith. 5. vii. RECOMPENSE, married Phebe Dennis. 6. viii. GIDEON, married Judith Bellangee. is. MART, married ( 1 ) Jonas Wood of Great Egg Harbor ; his will, proved 4 Nov, 1732, named issue ; his widow married ( 2 ) 7 March, 1733, Abel Lee. * New Jersey Archives, vxx , 422. t John Somers, 1640-1723, said to have been a connection of John Lord Sotners, Lord High Chancellor of England , and of Sir George Somers, discov erer of the Bermudas, was a native of Woroeater He early became a fol lower of George Pox and tamed bis attention to Penn’s Holy Experiment on the Delaware. He purchased 500 acres of land In Pemnsylvanda and was In that Province on, or before, 8 September, 1082, when he witnessed Thomas Frame’s will , the first to be probated at Philadelphia He settled In Upper Dublin, now Somertom, but removed to Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, about 16&3. Here, in 1095, he purchased 3000 acres , which remained in his family’s possession many years and was known as “ Somerset Plantation , or Somers ” Point , from an early period , possibly from the establishment of the ferry, In 16&3, across Great Egg FTarbor River to Beesley 's Point, Many years justice of the peace and of the Courts of Gloucester County , he also served in the memorable Assembly of 1708 9. Among the most noted of his descendants was Richard Somers, a Colonel of militia, Judge of the County Court, and an active Whig during the Revolution ; also the latter’s eon, Richard Somers, gallant naval officer , who lost his life in the historic affair before Tripoli, Africa, 4 September , 1804 I We have the following melancholy Account, from Absecum on Egg harbour, viz., That on the 7th of May past , at Night, Deborah the Wife of Nehamlah Nickerson , and Granddaughter of John Scull of the same place, with a Girl about 10 Years of Age, and a Negroe Boy , attempted to come on Shore In a Canoe, from the Beach, where they lived ; but as appears by all Circum stances, they lost themselves In the Dark ; and a great Stoma happening at the same time, they put ashore on a small Island in the Marsh ; where, their Canoe driving away, they all three unhappily perish’d. The Pennsylvania Gazette, May 25 to June 1, 1738. I Descendants of the Scull brothers who settled In Cape May County are still resident in that county. - . . - . - - — 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 Notes on the Scull Family of 220 . proved 14 Jan., 1745, named issue. xi. RACHEL, married ( 2 ) James Edwards. . x CATHARINE, married Amos Ireland of Egg Harbor ; his will, . xii ISAIAH, married Ann Issue : Abigail Scull. xiii. DAVID, will dated 23 Sept., 1742, described him as of Great Egg Harbor ; left real estarte to brothers Recompense, Gideon and Isaiah ; personalty to father, John Scull . _ _ 3, PETER SCULL ( Peter Jansen 1 ) , born, doubtless, on Long Island ; died at Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, between 28 August, 1739 and 8 October, of the same year, the dates respectively of his will and the inventory of his estate. He left Long Island for the greater opportunities of West Jersey where he purchased one hundred acres on the coast near Great Egg Harbor and adjoining Bear Swamp. At the time of this transaction, 10 August, 1700, he was described as of “ near Great Egg Harbour, > > • He later added materially to his ori ginal land holdings and, at the time of his decease, his estate was close to a thousand acres.! The name of his first wife has not been ascertained ; he married ( 2 ) , 20 February, 1731, Jane Mott who survived him. Children of Peter Scull, order according to will : 3 . i PETERS 0 f Great Egg Harbor ; will of 10 Feb., 1764; proved 22 March of same year, named wife Susanna to whom is given one- half of estate to bring up children Issue : 1 Peter Scull who is to have one- half the estate, 2 Samuel Scull 3. Susanna Scull 4 John Scull , 5. Nicholas Scull, 6. Hezekiah Scull 7 , James Scull , 8. Mary Scull , 9. Catharine SculL ii PHILIP, married (1) 14 Sept , 1737, Abigail Townsend ; mar ried ( 2 ) Elizabeth who survived him His will , executed 10 Aug., 1773 ; proved 7 Sept, following, described him as of Great Egg Harbor, named wife Elizabeth, and made Richard Somers and David Scull executors. iii SAMUEL, married (1) 14 Nov,, 1745, Ruth Hickman ( 2 ) Mrs. Hannah Steelman , who is named in hi3 will of 3 June, 1774, proved 28 June, 1777, together with her children N modem us Steelman, Judith Steelman, Hannah Steelman, Christian Steelman iv. DANIEL, of Gloucester Township, Gloucester County, married , who is constituted executor in his will of 26 Rachel Jan., 1764, under which -the following children are legatees. Issue : 1 Jemima Scull 2. Hannah Scull 3 Jeane Scull 4 Judith Scull 5 John Scull 6 David Scull 7. Philip SculL v. DAVID, married Hannah . His will of 20 Feb , 1784, proved 9 April, 1793, described him as of Great Egg Harbor, named wife Hannah , who, wTith David Somers, is constituted executor ; son David and grandsons Recompense Scull , David Scull and Daniel Scull , sons of David Scull. vi. JOHX, named in father’s will vii. MARY, married Nathan Lake, son of John Lake of Egg Harbor . . . ,. , . , . - . . , . . . , . , , . . , . , , . . . • yew Jersey Archives , second series, vol . xrl , 673. t Hid., vol . xxx. 207, 422. 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 New York , New Jersey and Philadelphia . viii. PATIENCE, married Peter Truax of Gloucester. ix. ELIZABETH, married 6 March, 1735, Joseph Townsend. x , MARGARET, married 5 Jan., 1731, Charles Steelman. Gartrey Steelman, named in grandfather ’s will. xi. ANN, died after 28 Aug., 1739. 221 Issue : . 4 ABEL 3 SCULL { John,9 Peter Jansen 1 ) born, possibly, on Long Island ; died in Greenwich township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, in November, 1762. It was no doubt economic pressure that caused him to remove from Egg Harbor, where, however, he continued to hold the large cedar swamp noted in his will of 7 March, 1759.* In addition to his home plan tation in Greenwich which he gave to his son Abel, he had another in Springfield township, Burlington County, which was devised to son Joseph His two sons and brother-in-law Edward Tonkin were made executors of his will. He married first Tonkin ; and secondly, 16 April, 1749, Martha Hughes, who survived him. Children of Abel Scull ; order according to will : i. ABEL,* of Greenwich , Gloucester County ; married 1758, Mar- - . tha, daughter of Samuel Shivers, and died without issue circa 1 Feby., 1763 J leaving a good estate. ii. MARY , married Doughty. iii. SARAH, married lawkina. iv. JOSEPH , named in will. v. RACHEL, under age in 1759. vi . NAOMY, under age in 1759. 5. RECOMPENSE 3 SCULL ( John 9 Peter Jansen 1 ) born at Great Egg Harbor ; died there in September, 1792, In 1749 he was one of those to receive bounty for a wolf ’s head, animals of prey continuing to infest that region , X ( vide infra under No. 6 ) . He married Phebe Dennis who, with son John , is consti tuted executor of his will of 21 March , 1786, proved 1 October, 1792.§ Children of Recompense and Phebe ( Dennis ) Scull, order according to will : - i. JOHN,* married Sarah Somers. Issue : 1. Sarah Ann Scull , 2. Wesley Scull , 3. Somers Scull , 4. Julia Ann Scull , 5, Bachel Scull , 6. Martha Scull , 7 . Phebe Scull , 8. John Scull . ii. SARAH , married ( 1 ) David Scull, ( 2 ) Reese Gwvnne. iii. MARY, married Somers. iv. SOPHIA, said to have married twice. * New Jersey Archives, vol . xxxllt , 377. t Ibid ., 377 . t Proceedings , do. Surveyors’ Association of West New Jersey , 415, § Original win on file , Archives Department , Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, New Jersey. 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 222 Notes on the Scull Family of 6 . GIDEON 3 SCULL ( John,2 Peter Jansen 1 ) , bom at Great Egg 1 (arbor, 16 June, 1722 ; died there 6 December, 1776. As late as 1753, Great Egg Harbor was the prey of panthers, wolves and other wild animals destructive to life and the pursuit of agriculture, and awards were ordered by the township for their capture. In this year Gideon Scull had a bounty ol one pound, ten shillings for two panthers ’ heads and Andrew Griscom three pounds for a wolf ’s head .* He improved and added to the considerable estate inherited from his father and was recognized as one of the leading citizens of the community. The following contemporaneous evidence gives a pleasing picture of his upright walk before his fellowmen that is worthy of preservation : A Testimony from the Monthly Meeting at Egg Harbour and Cape May, concerning our Esteemed Friend Gideon Scull. He was bom at Egg Harbour, the 16th day of 4 mo. 1722 of Religious parents, who educated him in the way of Friends. He was early convinced and became an example of plainness and sobriety and was of a steady upright life and conversation from his youth upwards, being a diligent attender of our Religious Meetings ; and was a good degree exemplary in the station of an Elder many years ; and about the 48th year of his age he received a gift of the Ministry in which we believe he was mostly faithful, as some of us were sensibly satisfied of his Growth and improvement in the same. . . . He departed this life the 6th and was buried the 8th of the 12 mo. 1776, aged fifty four years, a Minister about six years. And we find freedom to add that he was a Loving Husband, a Tender parent, a sincere hearted Friend, who lived and died in good unity with Friends, and we have a well grounded hope he has entered into Everlasting Rest as a Reward of his faithful Labours. > From this it would appear that he had faith in that “ creed of creeds, the loveliness of perfect deeds. ” He married at Little Egg Harbor Friends Meeting, in 1750, * Proceedings of the West Jersey Surveyors’ A ssodatUMj 415. 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 New York , New Jersey and Philadelphia. 223 Judith, daughter of James * and Margery t ( Smith ) BeUangee, bom 26 March , 1729 ; named in her father ’s will of 9 March, 1781 ; was many years an Elder among Friends. With her sons James and Gideon she was an executor of her husband ’s , dated 17 June, 1776 ; proved 21 March, 1777. will! Children of Gideon and Judith ( BeUangee ) Scull, born at Great Egg Harbor : i. JAMES,* born 2 Oct., 1751; died 25 Aug., 1812 ; married in May, 1774, Susanna Leeda.§ Issue : 1. Daniel Scull , born 3 June, 1775 ; married Jemima Steelman. 2. Gideon Scull , bom 30 Oct., 1777 ; married Aliee Higbee, 3. Dorcas Scull , born 7 Oct ., 1780 ; married ( 1) Samuel Ireland ; ( 2 ) Jonas Leeds. 4. Paul Scull, born 2 April, 1783 ; married Sarah Steelman ; had issue. 5. James Scull, born 25 March, 1786 ; married Smith of Bristol, Penna. ( 1) Lorina Steelman ; ( 2 ) 6. Susanna Scull , born 25 Jan., 1789 ; married John Steelman. 7, Hannah Scull , born 20 June, 1792 ; married Edward Leeds. 8. Joab Scull , born 2 March, 1796 ; married Ann Stackhouse. 7. ii. GIDEON, married Sarah James, iii. PATJII, born 10 Dec., 1758 ; died 11 Dec., 1779. * JAMES BELLA NGEE, horn 24 March, 1703; ; died in 1790 ; buried with wife in Friends grounds at Tuekerbon ; married at Little Egg Harbor Meeting, 3 NOT., 1727, Margery Smith He was the son of Ive or Etve BeUangee, who produced certificate from Friends Meeting in Virginia to Meeting in Philadel phia, 26th 4 mo., 1696, and married 6 mo., 1696, Christiana, daughter of Nicholas and Hannah Delaplaime. In 1701 he purchased land In and removed to West New Jersey, hie estate there lying on Old mam’s Creek In Salem County , some twenty or more miles above John Scull's, where he died, between 2 Dec., 1719 , amd 10 May, 1720, the dates of the execution and probate of his will. Cf . Hew Jersey Archives , second series, vol, xxlli , 34, where hla name is given as Jene Bellange Instead of Ive Bellange. Ive Bellangee Is said to have been the son of Theophtlus de BeUangee, or Bellanger, a French Huguenot, who was shot during the dragonnadea of Louis XIV, and whose wife and children fled to England and later to America. James and Margery (Smith ) BeUangee had eight children , of whom, three daughters, Phebe, Susanna and Bath, married into the Rldgway family. Of the daughters, Phebe Bellanger, second wife of John Rldgway ( 1705 1775 ) , was the mother of “ Gentleman ” John Rldgway ( 1755 1845), whose daughter, Sarah Rldgway, married Nicholas Wain ; also mother of Jacob Rldgway (17681846 ) , one of Philadelphia’s merchant princes ; and grandmother of Thomas Rldgway ( 1797 1887 ) , thirty years president of Girard Trust Company, and of Madam Rush, whose large estate 1B represented In the Rush Library. Cf Shourd , History and Genealogy of Fenwick Colony ; Leach, Old Philadelphia . - - - - - . Families , under Ridgway. t Margery Smith, daughter of Thomas Smith of Cape May. West Jersey Association, 335. Proceedings of t Recorded Liber 18, f. 253 et seg ., New Jersey Wills, Secretary of State's . Office, Trenton S DANIEL LEEDS , the great - grandfather of Susanna ( Leeds) Scull , was the first surveyor-general of West New Jersey, and the compiler of the celebrated Leeds’ Almanac, printed fn 1687, by the famous printer William Bradford, Ills grandson, Daniel Leeds, father of Susanna ( Leeds ) Scull, was also a surveyor-general of New Jersey, under commission of 3 March , 1757. 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 Notes on the ScuU Family of 224 IT. MARY, born 17 Nov *, 1753 ; married David Bassett , Jr , , bom 17 Sept ., 1753. Issue : 1* Gideon Scull Bassett , born 30 March, 1777. 2. Mary Bassett , born 8 Feb., 1779. 3. Daniel Bassetf , born 31 Aug., 1781, died 7 Dec*, 1782 . 4, David Bassett , born 17 Nov ., 1783 / 5, Mark Bassett , bom 6 April, 1786. 6. Judith Bassett * v. JUDITH, born 13 Jan , , 1761 ; died 20 June 1786 ; married S Sept., 1779, David Offley, Jr., born Philadelphia , 20 Jan., 1756 ; died of yellow fever, serving his fellow men , 20 Oct . , 1793. Lieut. David Offleyf the only issue of this marriage , 1781-1838, was one of the three Commissioners who concluded the first treaty between the United States and Turkey , 1828 ; he married and had issue . Daniel Offley, Jr ,, married ( 2 ) 10 June, 1789, Ann Newbold, and had issue.f vi. HANNAH, bom 23 Dec., 1762 ; married David Davis. Issue : Hannah Davis7 married George Hollingshead ; had issue * vii. BUTH, married Samuel Reeve. Issue : 1. Joseph Reeve . 2. Martha Reeve . 3. Mary Reeve, 4 . Samuel Reeve. 5 * Rachel Reeve. 6 , Martha ReevCjt married Leeds. 8. Ruth Reeve . * Records of Salem Meeting of Friends, t For additional Information of this line, vide Descendants of Michael Offley : A Chartt by the late Richard P* Tatum , t An interesting letter , of no date* from Martha ( Reeve ) Leeds to Davids Scull, gives & .picture of the old Scull property , surroundings and family which la worthy of preservation . The wHter was staying at Aniscomb Cottage, Atlantic City and , talcing a trip by mil to Somers Point made a brief call upon " Richard Somers, just at the Point, who Jives in quite a large house with ' piazza and two balconies above overlooking the beautiful bay. The house Is partly composed of a very hard glazed brick, the small windows, corner cupboard and the winding sfeqp stairs made It very interesting to us to look at ; Ana Somers the wife kindly took us upstairs to see the old chairs with canvas worked seats! showed us the portraits of the family and the old china , we bad hut a short time to stay, taking the cars back to LeedsvUle, now * * called L t a wood, which has a number of houses covering the whole ground of our Grandfather SculTs property . . to take us in his carriage first to see Grandfather SculTs house. We entered by the kitchenj a pretty comfortable Biased room with a little Buttery back , and then went Into the tiny sitting room and parlor with the planed beams overhead, perhaps they were of cedar , with the tiny mantel piece, and then went up the narrow winding stalra where thy father and our own mothers must have trod into the three little bed chambers, and then I thought how could all those men of noble forms , judging from thy father who was the only one I ever saw , four I believe, Uncles Gideon , James, Paul and Mark , and those sis daughters, our beautiful Aunt Judith Offly, Mary Baasitt , Han ah I >avls, Aunt Margery Leeds, my own dear mother , and Aunt Rachel Bolton. I say how they all have lived and slept in those tiny rooms with the little windows ' as Wood says, ** where the sun came peeping In at dawn ,” But Sister says she remembers there was another part which was torn down. . * , then took us to the little graveyard , which has been reserved in the sale of the rest of the property , where repose the remains of various members of the Scull family. - * It la pretty well overgrown but some cedars and a holly bush would make it look quite nice if it was cleaned up I enclose thee a little branch of the holly. We there saw some tombstones, one having an inscription ; I could not make ont the data * . We then rode to the place where the Meeting House once stood where there is quite a nice graveyard now In possession of the Methodists who have a Meeting House near Friends gave the ground to thorn * reserving the right of burial It was on the road going to this place that the celebrated Dan led OOly dressed In regimentals and accompanied by Jonathan Evans, also a gay man., flrat saw our Aunt Judith, « . . * ’ 14 1 . , . * 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 New York , New Jersey and Philadelphia. 225 . viii MARGERY, born 24 Feb., 1767 ; married 11 March, 1788, Daniel Leeds of Leedsville, now Lenwood, Atlantic County, born 28 May, 1757 ; died 18 Oct , 1829, an Elder among Friends He was buried in the old Scull graveyard on his farm, near his dwelling house Issue: 1. Judith Leeds, married Nathan Willits of Haddonfield 2. Gideon Leeds 3 Josiah W Leeds 4 Daniel Leeds 5 Offley Leeds 6, Benjamin Sykes Leeds 7 Japheth Leeds 8 Margery Ann Leeds, born 27 Aug , 1810 ; married Mark Saunders Bassett , 9 Mary Bas sett Leeds, born 3 Oct , 1813 ; married Edward Ritchie ; had issue ix. EACHEL, bom 11 Oct., 1769 ; died Philadelphia, 10 June, 1818 ; . married 8 June, 1796, Samuel Bolton, son of Everard and Deborah ( Griscom ) Bolton Issue : 1 A quilla M Bolton, bora 11 March, 1797, married Christiana Aurand 2. Gidion Bolton, died young, 3 Rachel Bolton, died young 4 Sarah Bolton born 11 Oct,, 1801; died 7 Sept., 1852 ; married Henry C Corbit ; had issue 5. Joseph Reeves Bolton , bora 17 Dec , 1803 ; died 15 Feby , 1883 ; married 2 Sept , 1828, Sarah I Jones 6 James Murray Bolton, born 11 Feby , 1806 ; died 27 Aug , 1846 ; married 9 Jan , 1833, Mary Eliza English ; had issue 7. Hannah Scull Bolton, born 8 Sept , 1807 ; died 22 April, 1851; married 1 Nov., 1827, Isaac Lloyd ; had issue 8, Samuel Bolton , born 15 July, 1809 ; died 24 Aug., 1869 ; married 5 Dec., 1834, Hannah Saunders ; had issue x. MARK, born 20 Sept., 1773 ; died 16 Oct , 1808 ; married 2 June, 1794, Mary Banning Issue ; 1 Mark Scull , married Jane L. Landric ; had issue 2. Amelia Scull married Mica jab Reeve. 3 Hannah Scull , married Thomas Reeve 4 Sarah Scull , died unmarried 5 Lydia Scull , died young. 6. Ann Scull , un married 7. Judith Scull 8. Lydia Scull , died unmarried 9 Paul Ebenezer Scull married Rhoda Tyler ; had issue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . , . . -. 7. GIDEON 4 SCULL ( Gideon ,3 John,2 Peter Jansen *) bom at Great Egg Harbor, 27 April, 1756 ; died at Sculltown, Salem County, L ) April, 1825. In early manhood he sold his share of the paternal estate at Great Egg Harbor to his brother, Mark Scull, and removed to what was then known as Lockerton ,* a settlement at the head of navigation on Oldman ’s Creek, eighteen miles from its mouth , and on the line 1 and being captivated with her beauty , soon after made proposals to her, which were declined , but which when he became a converted man were afterwards accepted , so .Sister Ruth used to love to tell ns , . . . Even in this far off place the fashions of the day are followed and now the Railroad brings them so near to Philadelphia it cannot be long before our Grandfather’s p . ace of oOO acres perhaps, will vie with many others In the comforts and elegancies of others near to Atlantic City and Philadelphia. . . . I hope thee Is right comfortable with thy dear family about thee, so pleasant Just to be waiting with such assurance for the call to depart which is far better for the ready ones. With love to Cousin Hannah and thy children, I am very affectionately thy cousin, M. R. LEEDS. [ Written about 1880. ] * Originally so named from the descendants of the Rev. Lara Karlsson Lock , the early Swedish clergyman. 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 Notes on the Scull Family of 226 of Gloucester County. Here he became its leading merchant and was succeeded by his son in 1825 He owned a line of packet boats which operated between Sculltown and Philadelphia. He also built a blacksmith shop which was rented to various smiths, and the old forge was many years a land mark In honor of the Scull family, prominent citizens and large property holders, the town was called Sculltown , but is now Auburn * Gideon Scull and his family were members of Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting of Friends, and his wife Sarah Scull was a recommended minister in the Society. In the division in Pilesgrove Meeting, 1827-1828, the Orthodox branch was weaker than that of the Hicksites and the old house of worship was formally transferred to the stronger group. Gideon Scull gave the land on which was erected the unpretentious frame meeting house still standing at Woodstown, on Union Street near Elm, t with reversion of the land to his descend ants should the meeting house be no longer used for worship by the Orthodox branch of the Society. He married, at Salem Meeting, 29 April, 1784, Sarah James, born 24 August, 1759 ; died 20 April, 1836 ; buried in Meeting-house graveyard at Woodstown ; daughter of James James J and his wife Abigail Lawrence.§ The children of . . . - " * Of . Cushing and Sheppard , History of the Counties of Gloucester Salem and Cumberland , New Jersey , 443* t Ibid , , 460 t JAMES JAMES, bom in Phila. , lft Sept . , 172ft ; died at Sculltown , M May , 1807 ; married at Newtown, JL I . f 11 May , 17 &8 , Abigail Lawrence , q. v* According to the Bible Record of Sarah ( James ) Scull, their children were ; 1. Sarah James , above, 2. Mary James , b* 18 May , 1761 ; d . y , 3. Hannah James, In 8 Sept, 1762 4« James James , b 2 May, 1764 ; tn. Kerrauhiapspuck Powell ; removed to Sunfbury , Georgia, 5 Mary Hicks James , b. 7 June, 1766 ; m , Daniel Harker of Phila. 6 . Samuel Lawrence James , b, 5 June, 1768 ; m. Mary , dan. of Col . Edward Hall of Mannlngton , Salem Co, , N . J, ; their eldest dau. Clara Ma/ry James, m. David Reeves of Bridgeton , N , J , , who was subsequently of PhoenlivlMe, Penim. THOMAS JAMES , father of James James, died in Phlla . , 18 July [ 1768 ) , * aged about 72 years, ” according to the BUMfr record of his son * He married Sarah V who was living as late aa 31 May, 1762. Issue : 2 Thomas* b* 2ft Jan. , 1716 3. John, b. 2ft Mar , 171ft. 4, Hannah, b. 24 Nov . , 1722. 6. Sarah , bt 5 Max., 1725 ; d . 14 July , 1756. 6. James , above, b 19 Sept* , 172ft. This Bible record begins with the birth of Thomas , called u second son of Thomas James and Sal rah ” ; and above the date of death of Thomas James, the father , Is the entry ; “ bom 16 ft6.” 5 ABIGAIL LAWRENCE , born Newtown, L, I ** 14 May , 1737 ; died Woodstown , N , J , , 16 May , 1770 ; was burled in Friends* ground . She was the daughter of Samuel Lawrence, 1089-1760, of Black Swamp , Queens Co . , L I. and his wife Miary Hicks , q. v. m 1 Jan. , 1717 ; granddaughter of Major William Lawrence of Flushing, I* L, died March, 1710/20 ( member of Gov * Lelsler’ g } * * * * * * * * * 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 New York , New Jersey and Philadelphia. 227 this marriage became influential in different walks of life, several of the sons made their mark as successful business men.* Children of Gideon and Sarah ( James ) Scull, bora at Sculltown : i . ABIGAIL B LAWRENCE, bom 27 April, 1785 ; died young, i* •A- 816411'! born 14 Sept., 1786 ; died unmarried 5 Nov ., 1867. iii. JAMES, born 24 Nov., 1788 ; died at sea 7 Oct., 1825. 8. iv. GIDEON, married Lydia Ann Rowan. 9 v. PAUL, married Hope Kay. vi. OFFLEY, born 4 Dec, 1794 ; died 25 Nov ., 1797. vii. SARAH , bom 11 March, 1797 ; died unmarried 15 Feb., 1845. 10. viii. DAVID, married ( 1) Lydia Lippincott ; ( 2 ) Hannah Davis Wood. ix. HANNAH, born 21 Sept ., 1802 ; died 1 April, 1828 ; married 6 April, 1827, William Carpenter of Salem, born 21 Oct., 1802 ; died 13 April, 1889. . 8. GIDEON 6 SCULL ( Gideon * Gideon ,8 John,2 Peter Jansen 1 ) , born at Scultown, 22 October, 1790 ; died at Philadelphia 29 May , 1859. He was an enterprising business man and a member of the firm of Clement and Scull, f commission merchants on Market Street, Salem, New Jersey during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Subsequently of Philadelphia, he was a wholesale merchant of the well-known firm of Scull and Thompson, being also identified with the Schuylkill Coal Company and other business enterprises. At . Council , Justice fotr 0 range Co., N Y. ) p and his wife Deborah Smith, married ( license ) June, 1680, daughter of Richard Smith the patentee of Smith town, Ls I * ; great granddaughter of Captain William Lawrence , who, baptized at St Albans, Hertfordshire* England * 27 July, 1G22, came to America In the ship Planter , 1635., and settled at Flushing , L* I , serving In various positions of trust : Magistrate, Sheriff , Captain of Foot His ancestry has been traced to Will I aim Lawrence of St Albans, who married 25 Nov,, 1550, Katherine Beaumont MARY HICKS * wife of Samuel Lawrence, was the daughter of Col. Thomas Hicks ( patentee of Little Neck , L. L , who died 28 Oct. 1712 having been many years prominent in Queens County as Captain, Lieut -Colonel and Judge of the Courts ) , and Ms wife Deborah Wlhltehead , gt v * He was the son of Judge Thomas Hicks and hla wife Mary Washburn ; grandson of John Hicks, a patentee of Flushing, L. I. and his first wife Ilerodia Long, and great-grand * eon of Robert Hicks, who came to Plymouth , Massachusetts, In the ship Fortune in 1621. The ancestry of the latter is traced bo a family of English gentry settled art Totworth , Gloucester shire, whose earliest known ancestor, Str Ellis Hicks , was knighted at Potctlers in 135*6 for bravery in capturing a set of colore from the French. A etc York Genealogical and Biographical Record , vol * 33, 73. MAJOB DANIEL WHITEHEAD* father of Deborah Hicks * 1646-1704, magistrate, ranger-general , member of New York Assembly , 1601 ututll his death , married Abigail , daughter of Thomas Stevenson, who died in 1717, His father * Daniel Whitehead , who died 16 November 1668, aged 65 years, was a pro * prietor of Hempstead , L L la 1647 * Of . Sheppard and Cushing, op , ott 444 t Hid. - * t T " . 1929 - . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 Notes on the Scull Family of 228 the time of his death and for some years preceding he resided on Spruce Street above Ninth in Portico Row He married Lydia Ann Rowan, only child of Dr. John Rowan * and his second wife, Lydia Ann ( Tutness ) Howell, Children of Gideon and Lydia Ann ( Rowan ) Scull : . . . . . . i CHARLES ® PENRO.SE, died young ii THOMAS ROWAN, died young iii LYDIA, died unmarried. iv GIDEON, died 28 June, 1899; was commissioned 3 August, 1861, Captain and Commissary of Subsistence, TJ S Volunteers ; Colonel, 1 July, 1865, to 31 May, 1866 ; Brevet Major and Lieutenant Colonel Volunteers, 13 March, 1865, ' < for meri torious services in his department during the war ; honorably mustered out 31 May, 1866 He married Anna Jertha Hed wig Seiler of Canton Berne, Switzerland Issue: 1 Max L Scull 2. Marjorie Scull married Bartlet II Hayes 3 Guy H Scull, married Nancy Whitman 4. Dorothy Scull v HARRIET, married Jacob Anthony of New York ; had issue, vi ANN PENROSE, married Robert Newlin. Issue: 1. Gyrus New Un, 2 Robert Newlin 3. Charles Newlin, married Agnes Hewson 4. Alfred Newlin 5 , Walter Newlin 6 Anne Newlin, married George H Holt 7 William Verplanch Newlin. vii, JACOB RIDGWAY, born 26 June, 1835 ; Haverford, 1853; mar ried 3 May, 1865, Margaret Clevenstine viii. ALFRED PENROSE, married Mary James Reeves, born 10 Jan , 1824 ; died 1893 ; dau of David Reeves t of the Phoenixville iron works and his first wife Clara Mary James Issue: 1 Charles Scull 2 Thomas lScull 3. Nellie Scull, married J Boyd iN ixon. 4 Frederick Scull 5. Margaret Scull 6. Clara Scull 7, Mary Scull married Samuel Wagner ix „ SARAH JAMES, married Nathaniel B Curtis of Boston, Massa chusetts, at one time president of Somerset Club Issue : 1 Nathaniel Curtis Harvard, 1877. 2. Hamilton Curtis 3. Philip Curtis, married Mary Oliphant. x. MARGARET, married Nicholas Anthony Issue : 3 Emily Anthony married John Murray Forbes 2 Charles Anthony 3 Henry Anthony 4 Herbert Anthony 5 Alfred R Anthony 6 Walter Anthony. 7 Helen Anthony, married Wil liam Wisner, 8 Margaret Anthony . . . . . . . . . , .. . . . .. . . . - . . . . . - - . . . . , . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , , . . . - . . . - 9. PAUL 5 SCULL ( Gideon,4 Gideon,3 John,2 Peter Jansen 1 ) , bom at Scultown, 4 September, 792 ; died near Woodstown , 2 November, 1844. He settled on the Plainfield farm as it was called , about two miles from Woodstown , and was considered one of the foremost agriculturalists in the county, abreast with all the modern ideas of refertilization of the exhausted virgin soil. His premature death was regarded a public loss. * Son of John Rowan oJ Philadelphia, brewer, will proved 6 Dec. , 1759, amd his wife Margaret Sharp. t Of . Annals of the Sinnott , Rogers, Coffin, Reeves Bodinc and Allied Families Philadelphia, 1905, pp 128 9. , 1929 . - Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania , PGM Vol X No.3 New York , New Jersey mid Philadelphia. 229 He married 25 May, 1815, Hope, daughter of Isaac and Deborah Kay of Gloucester, New Jersey, born 11 June, 1789 ; died 1 September, 1868. Children of Paul and Hope ( Kay ) Scull, bom near Woodstown : * i. SARAH, born 19 Oct., 1816 ; married ( 1) 9 Nov., 1836, Biddle Reeves of Woodbury, ( 2 ) D. Oooper Andrews, Issue : 1. Paul Scull Reeves , born 10 Sept., 1837, of Philadelphia and Phoe* nixville; married Keturah Kreamer and had issue. 2. Elizabeth Reeves, born 4 Oct ., 1839 ; died 28 Sept ., 1857. 3. Ben jamin Reeves, born 21 Aug., 1841 ; d. 6 Oct., 1847. 4. Mary Scull Reeves, born 27 July, 1843. 5. Sarah Reeves , bom 9 Jan ., 1846 ; died 27 July, 1865, 6. Abby S . Reeves, born 16 May, 1848. 7. Biddle Reeves , born 18 Nov., 1850 ; died 29 May, 1898 ; married Maria Carver. Issue : BIDDLE REEVES, who died 9 July, 1883, and was the fifth of his Christian name in direct descent. ii. MARY, born 22 May, 1818 ; died unmarried. iii. ISAAC, bom 2 July , 1820 ; married Susan Wood. Issue : 1. Mary Scull , b. 9 Oct ., 1845. 2. Paul Scull, b. 7 Oct., 1848. 3 Joseph W . Scull, b. 22 Nov., 1852. 4. Anna M . Scull, b. 22 Nov., 1855. 5. Louisa W . Scull , b. 7 Nov., 1858. 8. Susan H . Scull , b. 24 April, 1861. iv. DEBORAH , born 7 Nov., 1822 ; married John H. Lippincott. - f 10. DAVID 8 SCULL ( Gideon ,4 Gideon,3 John,2 Peter Jansen * ) , horn at Sculltown, 8 December, 1799 ; died at his residence, 1516 Arch Street, Philadelphia, 24 December, 1884. While still a young man he left his native town for the wider oppor tunities of Philadelphia, where his business capacity and close application to his commission house, enabled him to acquire a competency and to retire from active control in favor of his sons. In civic affairs he took a lively interest ; was a director of the Bank of North America during the crucial period of the Civil War and reconstruction , 1860-1875, and a liberal con tributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital. In membership with the Twelfth Street Meeting of Friends he was many years an overseer of meeting He married (1) 23 November, 1823, Lydia Lippincott, bom at Moorestown , 16 September, 1801 ; died in German town , in August, 1854 ; daughter of Joshua Lippincott % and - - . - - * Records of Pilesgrove Friends Meeting . t Records Woodbury Meeting of Friends. Cf . Annals of the Sinnot and Allied Families , etc., 120, 132- 3. X JosHrAO LIPPINCOTT, b. £3 Oct., 1774 ; m. 7 Nov 1800, Esther Davis, He was descended from Richard.1 Lippincott of Devonshire, Eng., who emigrated to MasBBchusetts and was admitted a freeman at Boston 13 May , 1640. IDnibracing the principles of Friends he returned to Devonshire and resided 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 Notes on the Scull Family of 230 his wife Esther Davis.* He married ( 2 ) Hannah Davis Wood, who survived him and by whom there was no issue. His two marriages gave him the unusual distinction of celebrating two silver weddings . - at Stonetmrst, Ply DUD nth. In 1663 he came asain to New England but re moved to Shrewsbury , in East Jersey , where, occupy1 mg offices of trust he spent the last eighteen years of his life and died 25 Nov., 1683 ; his wife* Abigail * mother of his children , died 2 Aug. , 1677 ; In 1677 he was a member of the first legislative assembly in East Jersey. lies tore 2 TAppincott , his fourth child, b Plymouth, Eng. , 3 Juicy , 1.653 ; d . 20 July , 1741 ; m, (1) 6 NOT., 1674, Hannah Sbattack ; ( 2) Martha Owen , Ills eighth child , Jacobs Lippincott , b. Aug., 160i7 ; m , 17il 6, Mary Barr. Their son Joshua 4 Lippincott of Woolwich , Gloucester Co., N . 1, m . ( 2 ) Rebecca, dan * of William Wilkins, Lippi-ncotts of Eng and was the fathejr of Joshuas Lippincott first above land and America , edited from the Genealogical Papers of the late James S. Lippincott* Philadelphia, 1&Q9* * . * * * ESTHER DAVIS, lPTS- lSOI) , wife of Joshua Lippincott, was a daughter of Jacob Davis,1734-18210, and Esther Wilkins, 1736 1785, his wife, married 1761, of Pilosgrove, Salem Co * , N. J . ; granddaughter of David Davis, Justice of the Salem Co, Counts, and his wife Dorothy Cousins , and grea-t-gmnddaughjfcer of John Davis of Oyster Bay , L. L , who married* In 1GS0, Dorothea Gothorson and settled in Fllesgrove, West Jersey , In 1705. Dorothea ( Gotherson ) Davis - was a daughter of Major Daniel Gotherson * an office in the Parliamentary Army under Cromwell, citizen of London and author of several religious books and tracts, TV ho died 1668. lie married circa 1636, Dorothea Scott , who mar ried ( 2 ) 1670, Joseph Hogben of Kent, England , and was of Oyster Bay , In 1680. She was a daughter of Thomas Scott of Egerton, Godmershain, Kent * who died 1635 ; author of two MSS of 1626* now in the Bodleian Library, addressed to his kinsman , the Earl of Arundel * Earl Marshall of England His lineage has been traced to Edward I , King of England. Dorothea ( Scott ) Gotherson Iloghen of Egg Harbor and Scot ' s Hall, Godmersham , Kent , close to Canterbury , was a remarkable person * of ancient lineage. Having adopted the principles of Friends* Dorothea Gotherson held meetings in the name of the Scot’s Congregation and , by her conversation and writings, strove to ad vance the ca/ti»e. One of the latter, a pamphlet, printed in London , 1661, ©he presented to Charles II, under the title : To all that are unregenerate, a Coll to Repentance from dead works to Newness of Life. Paternally , Dorothea Scot was descended from John Baliol , Lord of Barnard Castle, who, with his wife* Devorgilda , Countess of Huntington , founded Raliol College* Oxford , and was the father of John Baliol, King of Scotland , 1.292 -1206, and of William Baliol le Soot. The Scotts of Scot's Hall in Kent* claim to derive their sur name and Scot’s Hall from the family of John le Scot , last Palatine Earl of Chester and Earl of Huntingdon ; through whom they likewise claim an un interrupted descent from William Baliol le Scot The mother of Dorothea Scott was Janet daughter of John Knatchbul of Merscham Hatch , Esq * and her grandmother was Lady Jane , daughter of Sir Thomas Wyatt of AlMngton Oasttie, Kent, who headed the celebrated rebellion to place Lady Jane Gray upon the English throne and was executed for high treason April 11, 1554 Ills father , Sir Thomas Wyatt , the celebrated poet, 1503 1542, was the son of Sir Henry Wyatt , keeper of the Crown jewels under Henry VIII . Of . Gideon Deleplaine Scull, Dorothea Scott , otherwise Gotherson and Hogbcn , of Eger ton House , Kent, &c. ; to which Is appended genealogical tables showing her descent from Charles Martel and William Baliol le Scot ; &ee also James Rena/t Scott, Memorials of the family of Scot , of Scot a-hall , in the County of ’ Kent , London, 1876, and Charles H.* Browning, Americans of Royal Descentt Philadelphia, 1891, 287, 243 373, 576* * ^ * * . - - * * - 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania . — * PGM Vol X No.3 231 New York , New Jersey and Philadelphia . Children of David and Lydia ( Lippincott ) Scull, horn at Sculltown : . . - i Gideon 8 Delaplaine, born 13 Aug , 1824 ; died Ilkley, York shire, England, 22 April, 1889 ; married at Leipsic, Saxony, 7 April, 1862, Anna, daughter of Thomas Holder, Esq of Temple Grafton, Yorkshire, England Mr Scull , Haverford, Class of 1843, was a widely- known scholar, litterateur and traveler, and many years resident in England A frequent contributor to magazines on historical subjects, he was the author of Genealogical Notes relating to the Family of Scull London, 1876 ; Memoir of W G Evelyn, followed by The jEvelyns of America , compiled from family papers and other sources, 1608-1805, Oxford, 1881; Dorothea Scott otherwise Gotherson and Hogben, of Egerton House, Kent, 1611-1680, Oxford, 1883, and Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson, being an Account of his Travels and Experiences among the North American Indians from 1654 to 1684 a volume of 400 pages printed by the Prince Society A work by him in manuscript compiled at Oxford, 1882, is in the library of the New England Historic Genealogical Society of which he was a member. It is entitled, Sir William Browne Knight 1556-1610 and Sir Nathaniel Rich, Knight , 1636 A Chapter of Family History The work has a particular interest for the descendants of Nathaniel Browne, an early settler of Hartford, Connecticut Issue : 1. Walter Delaplaine Scull of London, died in Eng land training for air service in the Great War ; an artist of some merit 2 Edith Maria Lydia Scull died unmarried shortly after her brother ii Caroline, died young, iii. Jane Lippincott Scull, married William Danforth Bispham. Issue: 1 David Scull Bispham , LL D , Haverford, 1914, born 5 January, 1857 ; died New York City, 2 Oct ,, 1921; married 28 April, 1885, Caroline S Bussell and had issue His im portant work, A Quaker Singer’ s Recollections and magazine articles on vocal music are well known ; his reputation as a singer was world wide iv Hannah Scull, died unmarried, 11 v David Scull, married Hannah Ellicott Coale vi Edward Lawrence Scull, born 7 March, 1846 ; died Surrey, Eng land, 14 June, 1884 ; Haverford, Class 1864 ; a recognized minister of Friends Twelfth Street Meeting, Philadelphia ; married 26 Nov., 1879, Sarah Elizabeth Marshall Issue : 1 Edward Marshall Scull born 7 Dec , 1880 ; married 26 May, 1914, Anne Price, daughter of Dr. Johnson of Chestnut Hill ; has issue 2 John iMwrence Scull boro 11 Jan., 1883; mar ried 1 Jan , 1907, Mary Rachel, daughter of Edward Bettle ; has issue vii Lydia Lippincott Scull, died unmarried viii Mary Scull, married Paschall Hacker . . . . , . . , , . . , , , , . . . . , . . .. . . . , - - . . . . . . . . . . , . - . . , . . - . - . 11, DAVID 8 SCULL ( DavidJ Gideon,4 Gideon, 3 John,2 Peter Jansen 1 ) , bom on the family estate at Sculltown, 17 January, 1836 ; died at his home, Leighton Place , Overbrook, Philadelphia, 22 November, 1907 . His early education was acquired at Westtown Boarding School. In 1849, he entered the Introductory Department of Haverford School and was graduated from Haverford College, 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 232 Notes on the Scull Family of 1854. During his college days, though enjoying the fulness of life and beauty, he began to show evidence of spiritual interests and serious concerns. This is well illustrated in an address, before the Loganian Society, given apparently in his senior year, in which he presents with considerable power the beauty of classical literature and its cultural value. “ But, ” he concludes, 1‘there is another literature and a higher, justly called sacred, which claims the attention of all. And the scholar who makes ancient ( i. e. classical ) literature alone the object of his attainments falls far short of the attainable standard of perfection. It is a treasure which he will share in common with the poor and lowly, a body of truths, which require not the soil of genius, or of talent, such as Plato and the heathen philosophers sought for but found not, such as even modem philosophers have sought in vain, who though they might speak in a hundred tongues would find themselves strangers to one small voice whose teachings would be unheeded and unknown, ” Soon after leaving college he entered upon what proved to be a very successful career as a wool merchant, in which, from 1864 to 1884, he was joined with his brother, Edward L. Scull, in the business begun by their father After the death of his brother he continued alone until 1891, when he retired. For fourteen years, from 1867, he was a director of the Girard National Bank ; was one of the most active members of the group who organized the Mortgage Trust Company of Pennsylvania, and its vice-president from the incorporation in 1886 ; was also a manager of the Grandom Trust ; and a director for some years of the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal. He was treasurer of the Law and Order Society for five years ; a member of ** The Committee of One Hundred ’’ ; a member of the Board of Managers of the William Penn Charter School ; treasurer of Haverford College for eighteen years, and of the Philadelphia Dispensary for twenty-eight years. By appointment of the Founder he was a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, and served on many important committees. Throughout his long life he remained a conscientious and devoted member of the Society of Friends, with which some of his ancestors had been identified for nearly three centuries. Following his decease Rufus M. Jones, in an estimate of the . 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 New York , New Jersey and Philadelphia. 233 life and character of David Scull for The American Friend , said : To me he was the consummate flower of American Quakerism in my generation. There were and are others who had a freer gift of utterance, a greater range of thought, a larger power of interpretation, but no one who has shown in fuller beauty that something which we call spirit, that indescribable thing called living personality I do not need to say many words of his large gener osity, for almost everybody knows of it. There have been hardly any movements in my time for the expansion of Quakerism, for the widening of education, for equipment to better service, to which he has not liberally contributed . Every Friends ' college had received means from his hands, and on many of them he had bestowed much more than his funds he had given his personal interest, coun sel, prayers and patient labor. Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges especially, and the William Penn Charter School and The American Friend owe him a vast debt, beyond all estimate . . But no contribution he has made or left compares with that of his own life God had given him a beautiful face, and He had made him, like Galahad, ‘ as good as he was beautiful. ' There was a fine harmony of outer and inner, so that the whole impression wras one of beauty.* - — - . . . On 27 November, 1907, a few days subsequent to David Scull ’s death, President M, Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr, delivered a memorial address to the students, in which, speak ing of the decedent ’s relation to the college, she said : For nearly a quarter of a century, from its opening in 1885, until a week ago, he had spent and been spent in its service. He held successively, and sometimes simultaneously, the most laborious offices in the gift of the Trustees. He was secretary of the Board of Trustees for ten years, from 1885 to 1895 ; Chairman of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds for nineteen years, from 1885 to 1904 ; Vice-President of the Board of Trustees, from 1895 until his going abroad in 1904, and President of the Board of Trustees, and also President of the Board of Directors, from his return in 1906 until his death. - * See short biography In Union with Oodt D, Scull. 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 234 Notes on the Scull Family of Every college building, after Taylor Hall and Merion Hall which were planned by the Founder of the College himself , was built under the supervision of David Scull as Chairman of the Trustees ’ Committee on Buildings and Grounds, Randor, Denbigh, the Pembrokes, Rocke feller, and the Library took their places in beautiful succession on the College campus, each in its appointed place. Their harmonious arrrangement and unity of design are due in great part to David Scull ’s love of beauty, to his belief in following expert opinion, to his openminded ness, his readiness to be convinced ; and above all to his great love for the College, and his single hearted deter mination to give it the very best. It was so in everything. He had no axes to grind, no enemies to defeat, no favourites to exalt He loved everyone, and was loved by everyone capable of under standing his lovableness He believed in everyone, and was believed in by everyone worthy of his belief He was very gentle and courteous by grace and nature, but when he was sure that it was right to act when the Col lege was at stake he was as bold as a lion - - - . - . . —. — - His contributions to religious literature should not be overlooked, among these the most important are : a booklet on the Ordinances, 1908 ; The Need of The Bible School to Supplement the Teaching in the Home and in the Ministry , 1895 ; Salvation in a Twofold Aspect, 1896 ; Communion and At -one-ment ; Union with God ; 1902. For many years he was an Elder in the Twelfth Street Meeting, Philadelphia, and he “ was worthy to stand among the pillar Friends who have adorned the doctrine of inward Light and Grace. # He married at Baltimore, 28 February, 1861, Hannah Ellicott Coale, daughter of William Ellis Coale t and his wife * Memoirs of David Scull , Philadelphia , 1008, xx , Wttketield ” 25- September, l,Tf > 5 ; died at Baltimore, Mary laud , 30 September , 1805 , was sixth In descent from Wit - t WILLIAM T ELLIS COALE* born at liami Coale , who arrived in Virginia In 1.018 ; he followed the teachings of George Fox ; suffered Imprisonment at Jaimestown for conscience sake ; subsequently removed to Calvert County, Maryland , and died at St. Jerome In that county in July , 1GG9. William 2 Coale, his son , born in Virginia ; died at Great Bonner ton, West River . Anne Arundel Co. , Md . in February , 1678 ; was a prominent Friend of Clift Meeting , West River ; Gwrge Fox makes mention 1 t ' 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 235 Atfto York , New Jersey and Philadelphia. Hannah Ellicott Carey,* bora at Baltimore, 27 February, 1837 ; died at Philadelphia, 24 April, 1871, thus ending a union of peculiar beauty and happiness. Child of David and Hannah Ellicott ( Coale ) Scull : 12. i. William f Ellis Scull , married Florence Moore Frail. in his Journal of a large and precious meeting at William Coaled ” Ilia third wife, Elisabeth , daughter of Philip and Sarah ( Harrison ) Thomas of West River, was the mother of his son , Philip Coale ,3 bora 6 September, 1673 ; died at Portand Manor ” on the Patuxent, after 10 July , 1718 ; married at West River Meeting, 6 April , 1007, Cassandra Skipwith , horn 29 Oct ., 1678, daughter of George Sfcipwlth of lf Silver Stone,” Anne Arundel Co., and his wife, Elizabeth Thurston . The former is said to have been the youngest eon of Sir Henry Skipwith , Bart., of Prestwould , Leicestershire ; and the latter was the daughter of Thomas Thurston , who with his wife Bridget, daughters Elizabeth and Ann, and twenty servants settled in Maryland in 1676, having first visited Maryland and Virginia ID 165$. His will, proved 18 A#ril , 1693, named daughter, Elizabeth, wife of George Skip<with.tt Cassandra ( Sklpwith ) Coade by will of 19 June, 1745, disposed of a large estate and made her BOH, Bkipwith Coale, executor thereof , Skipioith* Coale of Portland Manor , sou of Philip and Cassandra { SMpwlth ) Coale, married Margaret , daughter of William and Margaret ( GUI ) Holland of Calvert Co., Md. ; was Captain of militia and one of the 4 gentleman justices " of Baltimore County ; removed to his plantation “ Stone Hill,” on the Susquehanna in Baltimore , now Har ford Co., about 1787, and there died , having executed his will 31 August , 1755, and made bfe wife, Margaret, his executor. Their son W i l l i a m * C o a l e , born 6 Dec., 174*0, at Stone Hill , married (1) 7 Oct , 1761, Sarah , daughter of Isaac and Margaret ( Lee ) Welister of Baltimore Co., and died at hta jlanta tlon ” Travelera* Reet , ” Deer Creek, after March , 1805* His son , IsQtw* Coale, born at Travelers* Rest In 1765 ; married 7 Sept , 1786, at Darlington Friends Meeting House, Rachel , daughter of William and Mary ( Goldhawk ) Cox of Harford Oo ; resided at Waked eld , X >eeir Creek , Harford Oo. t where he died circa 18215, and was the father of WILLIAM 7 ELLIS COALE of Baltimore. . i - . Discrepancies appear Ln various printed works as to the parentage of Cassandra Skipwlbh Ooale. Some writers call her the daughter of Sir Gray Sklpwlth who died in Virginia In 1680 having emigrated to that province * during the Cromwellian period. There Is agreement , however , as to the de scent of her grandfather, Sir Henry Sktpwlth of Prestwould, from Sir William Skip with, Kmt , of Ormsby , High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, whose wife Alice, WAS daughter of -Sir Lionel Pymoke of the Pymokes, Kings Champion, who de scended from Henry III of England . Cf , The Colonial Families of America , vol . 11, 191 ; Lawrence Buckley Thomas, P.D*,, The Thomas Book, New York, - - — . 1896, 287 8 tt Elizabeth ( Thurston ) Skipwith, widow of George Sklpwith and mother of Cassandra ( Sklpwith ) Coale, became the second wife of William Coaie, the elder half -brother of Philip Coaie She married ( 8) , as second wife, 29 June, 1704 , Samuel Chew, merchant of Anne Arundel Co., whose will of 16 July, 1718, named grand -children -4 nd -aw, Cassandra and Elizabeth, daughters of Philip Coale and Oasaandra , his wife Mrs. Elizabeth ( Thurston ) Sklpwith CoaJe Chew died 27 Fehy., 1709/10. Cf . The Thomas Book * * Hannah Ellicott Carey , bom 7 August , 1795, wife otf WlUiam ElUs Coale, was the daughter of James Carey (1751/ 2 18&4 ) , president otf the first City Council of Baltimore and second president of the old Bank otf Maryland , and Ills wife Martha Ellicott. The latter was eldest daughter of John ftlltoott and his first wife, T ^eath Brown. About 1772 John Ellicott, and his brothers, Andrew Fllkott and Joseph Ellicott , sons of Andrew EUtioott ( 1708 1741 * and bis wife Ann Bye, removed from Bucks County , Pennsylvania, and bought WndK and water rights on the Fatapsco River , ten miles west of Baltimore, where EiKcott City now stands. Here the brothers, and their families after them , carried on an extensive milling business. . . - - 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 236 Notes on the Scull Family of 12, WILLIAM 7 ELLIS SCULL ( David , David * Gideon * Gideon,3 John,2 Peter Jansen 1 ) was bom at Philadelphia, 3 March , 1862. Acquiring his early education at Friends’ Select School and William Penn Charter School, he was graduated from Haverford College, Class of 1883. He has spent much time in foreign and domestic travel, in philanthropic pursuits, civic betterment and church advancement. At one time vice- president of 'he John C, Winston Company, Publishers, Philadelphia ; he is now a trustee of the Austen Riggs Foundation, Stockbridge, Massachusetts ; editor Westminster Abbey and The Cathedrals of England ; Concerning a Cathe dral proposed for the Diocese of Pennsylvania, including First Ten Years Founding the Cathedral Church of Christ ; a vestryman for thirty years of St Asaph ’s Church, Bala, Pennsylvania ; incorporator, vice-president, secretary and treasurer of Christ Church, Dark Harbor, Maine ; proposer, incorporator and first Canon Registrar of the Cathedral Church of Christ of the Diocese of Pennsylvania ; in 1923 started sanitariums in Bulgaria and Serbia for exiled Russians which at this date are being successfully operated ; a director of the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal ; a member of New Charter Committee of Philadelphia ; a founder of the Tarratine and the Dark Harbor clubs ; a member of the Philadelphia, Rittenhouse, Racquet, Radnor Hunt, Merion Cricket, Philadelphia Country, Bryn Mawr Polo, and Church clubs ; The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, The Genealogical Society of Pennsyl vania and a fellow of the American Geographical Society. He married at Paterson, New Jersey, 16 February, 1887, Florence Moore Prall, daughter of Hon Edwin Theodore Prall * of Paterson, New Jersey, and his wife, Rachel Moore - . - . * EDWIN THEODORE PRALD, born at Staten Island, 11 November, 1821 ; died at Paterson ; was sixth in descent from Arenti des Prael , or Prall , who came from Holland to New York in 1000 ; settled in Staten Island , where he purchased 100 aeines of land and married ( 1 ) Maria , daughter of Peter and Francoise ( da Bols ) Billou of Staten Island , who died prior to U September , 1699. Arent Prall died shortly before the .probate of his will , 4 Nov . , 1725 , His eldest son , Peter 2 Prall of Staten Island , married Marla Christopher, and died 27 Oct, , 1748. Abrahams Prall , fourth son of the latter, born U3 Oct , 1706 ; inherited the homestead , “ Morning Star ," but subsequently removed to Northifield , a*nd died 28' Sept., 1775 , having- married his cousin, Allda Ileger man , 9 May , 173\t ; botrn 6 Oct , 1702 ; died 15 Sept . , 1781 ; daughter of Ben jamln ** and Barentje liegeman of FT&tbuah. Their youngest child , Abraham * Prall , bom 11 Jan . , 1740 ; died 6 May , 1820 ; married 22 May , 1768 , ** Cf . Bergen's Kings County Settlers under Hegerman. 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 New York , New Jersey and Philadelphia. 237 Thomson. Mrs. Scull is a member of the Acorn and Sedgeley clubs of Philadelphia, and of The Colonial Dames of America, Chapter II , Philadelphia . Child of William Ellis and Florence Moore ( Prall ) Scull : Margartet 8 Ellis Scull, born 7 Oct ., 1896 ; married 12 Sept., 1917, Alexander Biddle, son of Alexander Williams Biddle1 M.D. and his wife Anne McKenna. He was born 4 April, 1893, and is a descendant of John Biddle, younger brother of William 8 Biddle who married Mary, daughter of Nicholas Scuil , the Surveyor General of Pennsylvania. Issue : 1. Alexander Williams Biddle , born 4 March, 1919. 2. David Scull Biddle , born 23 April, 1925. Mary, daughter of Daniel Stillwell tt and hU wife Catharine ( Larzelere ) Johnson, horn 28 May, 17433' ; died 25 April , 1811. Daniel 6 prall , second eon, horn 25 March , 1773 ; died 16 Oct., 1817 ; married 22 Jan., 1794, Ann Mersere &u , who died 17 April, 1813 ; daughter of Peter Mersereau tt and his wife Rebecca Lake. William 9 PraU , eldest eon, horn 27 April, 1795 ; died 16 Aug., 1826 ; married 26 Oct., 1815, Ann Egbert of Staten. Island, born 9 June, 1792 ; died in Oct ., 1853. Their son was Edwin T Theodore Prall , first named. A forthcoming work on Staten Island will contain an article on the PraJls of that place. tt Cf Ibid , 277-80, for line of descent : Daniels Stillwell (1702-1760 ) ; Col Richard* Stillwell (1677 1758) and Marla Golding ; Capt. Nicholas 3 Stillwell ( c. 1636 1715) and Mrs. Catharine Morgan ; Lieut Nicholas 2 Stillwell ( c 1600 1671 ) and Abigail Hopton ; John l Stillwell of Surrey, England. Dr John Stillwell Is about to publish the Genealogy of the Stillwell Family , to which he has devoted years of research. TTPETBB MEESBEBAO, bom 19 Jan., 174<1, member of Committee of Safety, 1776 ; married 22 Oct., 1765, Rebecca Lake. Genealogy of the Lake Family ; (’Kite’s History of Staten Island ; Register of Eglise Francoise of New York. . - . - - - - . . . . — 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 P S G 1928 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.2