Re: Scholl's of Callaway Co., MO
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In reply to:
Scholl's of Callaway Co., MO
Jim Knipp 2/07/02
I tend to agree that William Scholl was not from England but rather was a descendant of early settlers in the New Netherlands.Were you aware that William's father Peter was the Captain Peter Scholl who lived around New Market VA in the 1740's till probably his death.I am related to Capt. Peter Scholl through is son-in-law Peter Bowman.Peter and his brother George married daughters of Capt. Scholl.Peter had a son Cornelius (b abt 1740) who was my ancestor.Cornelius migrated from VA to NC to TN to KY.Cornelius had a son Rev. Thomas Bowman who is also my ancestor. Here are some relevant excerpts from my recent book on Conelius Bowman. Would appreciate any comments you might have.If you think you might be interested in a copy of my book email [email protected] for more details.
Matilda Bowman, the daughter of Rev.Thomas Bowman and Mary "Polly" Moore, married a William Hamilton Tincher Jr Dec 6, 1823, in Clay Co. KY. One might conclude that William Hamilton Tincher Jr was the son of William Tincher and Isabella Hamilton Tincher, the daughter of William Hamilton. I've also seen it reported that an Elias Tincher who was born in 1795 in Estill County KY had a daughter Rhonda Jane who married a William S. Newman about 1845 in Estill County KY and a daughter Mary who married a Guias Hastin Howell in 1838 in Pebworth, Owsley County, KY.William S. Newman has been said to have been the son of John (b 1790) and Leah Scholl Newman. Leah Scholl, the wife of John Newman, was the daughter of Joseph and Levina Boone Scholl and Joseph Scholl was the s/o of William and Leah Morgan Scholl and the grandson of Capt. Peter Scholl of the New Market/Harrisonburg VA area. Thus Ronda Jane Tincher Newman was related by marriage to the Capt. Peter Scholl who was the grandfather of Cornelius Bowman (b abt 1740) who was the father of Rev. Thomas Bowman.
The Tincher's and the Hamilton's were probablyneighbors of Cornelius in Madison Co KY for the 9/30/1794 issue of the Kentucky Gazette reported that a Robert Tincher hadfound a horse on Muddy Creek in Madison County.That likely would have been near the farm of Cornelius.The Kentucky Gazette also reported that in 8/21/1794 a John Bowman had found a horse in Madison County.That John could have been Cornelius's son John or possibly a son of Cornelius's son John.
Jack Bowman Bailey also informed me that the Augusta County website contained a post which stated that William Hamilton, his daughter Isabella, son-in-law William Tincher, son of Patrick Tincher (or Tencher), his son Patrick Hamilton, and other children moved to Greenbrier West VA in the 1780's but that William Hamilton died in Madison County KY about 1801, which is a time period when Cornelius and some of his children lived in the same area.
The Rev. Thomas Bowman Bible included a Family Temperance Contract including the names of several family members including some Tincher's. Chalkley's Chronicles mentions a 1768 deed from a William and Mary Tincher to Moses Eagar for 129 acres on the Pine Run on the south side of Beverly Manor in VA.Perhaps those Tincher's were ancestors of the William Tincher who married Matilda Bowman.
John Bowman, another son of Cornelius Sr, had a son named John who married an Ann Hamilton in 1813 in Madison County KY. It appears likely that the Ann Hamilton who married John Bowman's son John was related to Eleanor Hamilton, the wife of James Moore who were the parents of a number of children who married children ofCornelius Sr.Jack Bailey has forwarded me information which tends to indicate that they were related.Ann Hamilton is believed to be the daughter of Patrick Hamilton, the son of William Hamilton (1717-1801) and Mary Margaret Walkup Gay. Thus Patrick Hamilton and Eleanor Hamilton could have been brother and sister and Ann Hamilton would have been the niece of Eleanor. Note that Chalkley mentions that in 1750-1751 there was a Samuel Gay, a John Moore, and an Andrew Hamilton living in the Calf Pasture area of VA. Recall that in 1745 James Patton and John Lewis gave William Campbell, Robert Gay, and others deeds for 2247 acres in the Cowpasture area of VA.
According to the "Settlers" book page 143, there was a John Benson in Capt Peter Scholl's militia company "No 5" in 1742. Others in that company included Lt Andrew Bird, Zebulon Harrrison, Valentine Sevier, Benjamin Hames (Haines?), John Harrison, and a Robert Caldwell (Colwell?). Capt Peter Scholl was under Col Beverly.Keep in mind that Peter Scholl was one of the first justices appointed for Augusta County in 1745 and was probably the father-in-law of the George Bowman of the Bowman v Bird lawsuit.If it seems strange that Capt Scholl would have been a justice in Augusta County when he lived near NewMarket, which was at one time in Frederick County,keep in mind that when the original line was drawn for the boundary of Frederick and Augusta Counties about 1743 the line went through Toms Brook , which is about midway between Strasburg and Woodstock. It wasn't until 1754 that the Fairfax line became the boundary for Augusta and Frederick Counties. Thus in 1745 the area around New Market would have been in Augusta County.
In 1742 Valentine Sevier, a French Huguenot and the father of John Sevier, came from Ireland to Baltimore MD. He later moved to Culpepper VA and then to the area of New Market Virginia.At that time an Andrew Bird was a Lieutenant under Col. Beverly in Capt. Peter Scholl's Company in Augusta County VA. Others in Capt. Scholl's company included Valentine Sevier, Math Skeens, John Harrison, Zebulon Harrison, Thomas Moore, John White, and Robert Caldwell.
Wayland in his "Virginia Valley Records" questions whether Brocks Gap was named after a Capt Brock, saying that General Sir Isaac Brock was not born until 1769 and did not serve in America until 1802. Wayland implies that the Gap was probably named after some people named Brock who lived near there in the 1750's. Page 500 of Volume 2 of Chalkley's lists the militia musters of 1742 in Company No 6 was headed by Capt. Sam Gay. Company No 7 was headed by Capt. Peter Scholl (Sheul). Company No. 8 was headed by Capt. James Gill. Men in Capt. Gill's Company included Nicola Brock, Martin Shoemaker, Andrew Holman, Sam Beason, Michael Brock, Nicol Cain, Henery (Henry) Brock, and Fraderich (Frederick) BrockFurther Chalkey noted that in 1748 Daniel Holdman was made guardian of Julia, George, and Elsye Brock, orphans of Rudal Brock.In 1750 there was the accounting of Daniel Holdman against the estate of Rudy Brock for services to the children. Also mentioned was cash paid for George Brock's land and for Efey Brock's grain.
It appears highly likely that the George and Peter Bowman of the Bowman v Bird lawsuit were the son-in-laws of Capt. Peter Scholl, with George having married Peter Scholl's daughter Jane and Peter having married Peter Scholl's daughter Margaret. I've seen it reported that the Jannetje Scholl was born in the Raritan District of New Jersey and was christened in 1720 in Somerville New Jersey. Somerville is about 10 miles north west of New Brunswick.
There were Bowmans living near Readington and New Brunswick NJ by about 1717. The book "The Early Germans of New Jersey, Their History, Churches, and Genealogies" by Theodore Frelinghusen Chambers lists a Thomas Bowman and his wifeNeetje as a members ofthe Reformed Dutch Church of New Brunswick in 1717 and says that their children may have been:
Thomas b 1717
Cornelius m ca 1739 Maritje (Mary) Ronsevel
Peter m by 1740 Margrietje (Margaret Scholl)
Joris (George) b abt 1718 m about 1743-45 Jannetje (Jane) Scholl(b 1720)
The Reformed Church may also have been known as the church of "the River and Lawrence Brook".
There is some question in my mind whether the George and Peter who married the Scholl sisters were actually the children of Thomas and Neetje Bowman or whether instead they were the children of Cornelius and Ann Staats Bowman. It is possible that George Bowman (b abt 1718) was the son of a Cornelius who was a brother or cousin of the Thomas Bowman who married Neetje Snybrow. In some ways it seems rather surprisingthat the George who married Jane Scholl could have been the son of Cornelius and Ann Staats Bowman because if George was born about 1718that would have been about 23 years after Cornelius and Ann were married. However, it has also been reported that Cornelius and Ann Staats Bowman had a daughter Neetje born in 1720 and a son Cornelius born in 1721.
In the Hite v Lord Fairfax lawsuit Peter Scholl, Thom Lockey, William, Carroll, Sam Newman, John Skeen, Joseph Landgon, Sam Lusk, William Rogers, Cornelius Ruddell and Barnaby Eagon made a sworn statement that they "removed from Pennsylvania and the Jerseys to this Colony and settled their land at great expense and trouble and considerably improved them, and hope to be quited (released from the lawsuit)". In 1777 Peter Scholl sold 30 acres of his tract known as "Long Bottom" to his cousins Unis and Mary Stratton, daughters of Seriah Stratton, deceased. Capt.Peter Scholl (b by 1690 d by 1779) and his first wife Deborah have been said to have had the following children:
Elsjen (Alice)(b 1714 Somerville NJ) m 1741 Isaac Van Meter (b 1713 NJ d 1748 VA), s/o Jan Jansen (John) Van Meteren and Margaret Mollenauer, and later m Capt Richard Morgan
Mergrietje (Margaret) (b 1717 NJ) m Peter Bowman
Jannetje (Jane) (b 1719/20) m Joris (George) Bowman abt 1745
Pieternelltje (Nell) (b 1722)
Elizabeth (b 1726) Sommerville NJ
I've seen it reported that Capt. Peter Scholl's married his second wife Sarah Kalyer Colyer in Somerville in 1727. They will be discussed further below.
Note that Capt. Peter Scholl's daughter Elsje(Elsjen) married an Isaac Van Meter.This Isaac Van Meter is believed to have been the son of John and Margaret Mollenauer Van Meter and the one who sold VA land grants to Jost Hite. John Van Meter, s/o Joost Jansen Van Meter, married Margaret Mollenauer in Somerville in 1710. There wereVan Meter'sliving in the area of Sommerville NJ about the same time that the Scholls and the Bowmans lived there.
The grandfather of John and Isaac Van Meter is believed to be Jan Joosten Van Meteren (b 1621 Holland d abt 1706) who left Amsterdam in May of 1662 on the Ship "Fox" or "Vox" and arrived at Sandy Hook in the New Netherlands on August 31, 1662 with his wife, Macyken Hendricksen, and five children, three of which were his wife's by her first husband Willem Krorn
(Crom). I've seen it said that the ship landed on the East River at the foot of what is now Wall Street. Jan Joosten Van Meteren has been said to have first settled at Wiltwyck (now Kingston) NY.
I've seen it reported that the father of the aforementioned Capt Peter Scholl was a David Scholl who lived in NY by 1671. David Scholl (b bef 1671 in NY) has been said to have been the son of Pieter Jansen Scholl (b abt 1633) and Margaritje Provoost (b abt 1661) d/o David Provoost and Margaretha Jillis Ten Waert.Pieter Jansen Scholl has been said to have come from the Hague in Holland. I've seen it suggested that the ancestors of Pieter Jansen Scholl came to Holland from England sometime between 1556 and 1585. Pieter Jansen Scholl is listed in the 1673 Census of Hempstead Long Island but is also believed to have lived in Brooklyn and Flatbush.
I've seen it reported that Capt. Peter Scholl was born in Holland in 1685 and that he married his first wife before coming to America, but I think that is doubtful. I think he was more likely born in American and that he married his first wife in Somerville NJ. Peter Scholl and his second wife Sarah (Kalyer) Colyer (b abt 1706) were said have married about 1727 in Somerville NJ and to have had:
Deborah (b1728) Somerville NJ
William (b 1731Somerville NJ d 1794-1798) m Leah (Morgan?) by about 1751
Chalkley's indicates that in 1753 an orphan James Grymes was bound out to a Peter Scholl.I've also seen it reported that Peter and Sarah Colyer Scholl had a number of other children including Peter, Joseph, Jacob, Sarah, John, Elizabeth, Rachel, Abraham, Isaac, and Aaron.A number of those names; however, match the names of the children of Peter's son William.
Peter Scholl's son William Scholl (b 1731) has been reported to have been born or at least christened in Harlinger VA.However, I am not aware of a Harlinger VA and I suspect that the entry should have indicated that he was christened at Harlingen Church in Sommerville NJ. The William Scholl who was born in 1731 marriedLeah Morgan. It may be that the Leah Morgan who married William Scholl (b 1731) was related to Sarah Morgan (1700-1777), the wife of Squire Boone and mother of Daniel Boone.(Note that some seem to think that the William Scholl who married Leah Morgan was from England.) I've also seen it reported that William Scholl (b 1731) married an AnnetteLoray Van Meter.I don't know if that was his first or second marriage or if that was a different William Scholl.. William and Leah Morgan Scholl may have had the following children:
Jacob (b 1751) died as an infant
William (b 1752)
John
Peter (b 1754 d 1821) m Mary Boone (1764-1825), daughter of Edward "Ned" Boone
Joseph (b 1755 d 1835) m Levina Boone (1766-1802), daughter of Daniel Boone
Abraham (1765-1851)
Isaac
Aaron (b 1765)
Sarah (b 1771)
Elizabeth (b 1762 d 1825) m Arnold Custer (1755-1840)
Rachael (b 1775)
The Arnold Custer who married Elizabeth Scholl was probably the son of William Custer who was an early settler in the area of Greenbrier West Virginia. William Custer had relatives, possibly parents, who at one time lived in the Brocks Gap area of VA. Arnold Custer's sister Polly married an Edmond Cain about 1767 when she was about 14. Edmond Cain was from the Brocks Gap area but moved to the Greenbrier West Virginia area about 1767.Edmond Cain's brother was James Cain.Chalkley mentions a Nicol Cain in the 1742 militia of Capt. James Gill, probably in the Brocks Gap area.Arnold Custer and James Cain and some of Edmond Cain's sons moved to KY, which was where Arnold Custer married Elizabeth Scholl. The James Cain family settled just south of what is now Burgin, KY which was about midway between Fort Harrodsburg and Clark' Station.I have not determined whetherthe George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876), who died at the Battle of Little Big Horn, was related to the family of the Arnold Custer who married Elizabeth Scholl.