William Coyler Scholl

SCHOLL, WILLIAM DAR Ancestor
Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: (CIRCA) 1731 VIRGINIA (see baptism record below)
Death: (ANTE) 4-30-1797 FAYETTE CO KENTUCKY
Service Source: KERR, HIST OF KY, VOL 5, PP 309,310; BARROW, SCHOLL'S STATION - COPY IN DOCUMENTATION WITH DAR #749484+843
Service Description:
1) DEFENDER OF THE FRONTIER
2) SURVEYOR, 1783
Residence 1) County: FAYETTE CO - District: KY DIST - State: VIRGINIA
Spouse
1) X VAN METRE
2) REAH MORGAN

NOTE: the following children are documented by the DAR genealogists:
ELIZABETH [1] ARNOLD CUSTER ; JOSEPH [1] LEVINA BOONE ; PETER [1] MARY BOONE; RACHAEL [1] DAVID DENTON

He may have been born in NJ:
New Jersey, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931
Name: Willem Schol
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 31 Mar 1731
Christening Place: Harlingen Dutch Reformed Church,Montgomery Twp,Somerset,New Jersey
Residence Place: Njer, Newjersey
Father: Peter Schol
Mother: Sara Koljer

William Scholl

Little is known of William Scholl's background. It is clear that William was the son of a Peter and Sarah Scholl as identified in a deed from 1779. William is thought to have been born about March 21, 1730, when his baptism is recorded in the First Reformed Church on the Raritan and Harlingen Dutch Church, both in Somerville, New Jersey.

William and his father, Peter, in Augusta County, Virginia (1731-1779)

There are records of a Peter Scholl who was in Augusta County, Virginia, from 1742 until at least 1765. He was a leader of the community and served as "Gentleman" Justice of the Peace overseeing court business for years. He
lived on Smith's Creek west of North Mountain and had a grant of 420 acres on July 21, 17491.This is where William would have grown up.

There is a William Scholl who was appointed Captain of the Militia in Augusta County, Virginia, and qualified for that office on November 15, 17522. Other court documents list William Scholl in Augusta County from 1747-1763 as a witness.

There is also the fact that William Shull, the only surviving son of Peter, and Leah sold land inherited from his father in Shenandoah County, Virginia, on August 25, 1779, to William McDowel3. A Sarah [Peter's wife?] also signed the deed with her mark. The timing of this sale is when the Scholls would have joined the Boone group in the fall of 1779 to go to Kentucky. The Scholls arrived on Christmas Day 1779 in Boonesborough. This lends credibility to the notion that this William is the son of this Peter and this William is the father of Joseph Scholl who married Levina Boone.

Other descendants believe that a Jacob Scholl is William's father and that William was born in Virginia4.

William Marries Leah Morgan (1750)

William had a wife named Leah and most agree that her surname is Morgan although there is no direct evidence. There is also some thought that she may have been a second wife with Annette Van Meter as the first wife and mother of the first several children5.

William apparently married Leah Morgan by 1751. A record in the International Marriage Index says that they were married in 1750 in Botetourt County, Virginia.6 This information is supplied by an individual so could be conjecture and not a definitive source. There is also uncertainty about her background. Theories include that she is the sister of Sarah Morgan who married Squire Boone (Daniel's father) which can't be accurate because of birth dates.

Other sources purport that William had married Annette Van Meter before marrying Leah but this idea has not been documented.

William and Leah's children were:

1. Jacob [born 1751? Firstborn, VA – died in infancy7
2. William [Jr., born 1752?]
3. John, married Nancy Norris [Morris?] [born about 1753? - died about 1777-80 of small pox in the Revolutionary War,]
4. Peter, born September 15, 1754, Shenandoah Valley, VA, married Mary Boone
5. Joseph, born 1755, married Levina Boone
6. Abraham, born 1765, married Nellie Humble and Tabitha Noe
7. Sarah (Sally), married Samuel Shortridge, died before 1798
8. Elizabeth, married Arnold Custer (grandparents of General George Custer)
9. Rachel, born March 1773, married David Denton
10. Aaron [?]
11. Isaac [?]

The order of birth is not defined anywhere. The primary sources are Spraker, Scholl, Thompson as shown in the references at the end.

"It is possible (indeed there seems to be some evidence) that William Scholl and possibly some of his older sons helped Daniel Boone hew out the Wilderness Road into Kentucky [from 1774-1779], a trail that was destined to carry a great emigration to the west8." The Daughters of the American Revolution list William as a patriot with civil service as a surveyor and defender of the frontier.9

William Shull, the only surviving son of Peter, and Leah sold land inherited from his father in Shenandoah County, Virginia, on August 25, 1779, to William McDowel3. A Sarah [Peter's wife?] also signed the deed with her mark. Presumably, shortly thereafter, the Scholls made the trek to Kentucky.

William in Kentucky

"In December, 1779, Boone's cousin, William Scholl, with his family, from Shenandoah County, Virginia, joined Boone at Boonesborough10."

There is general agreement that the William Scholl family started out with the Boone party for Boonesborough in the summer of 1779. The Scholls, for some reason, stopped along the way (probably near Barbourville, Kentucky), and did not get to Boonesborough until December 25, 1779, and then went on a few more miles on the way to Boone's Station that same day.11 The winter of 1779-1780 was called "the hard winter" and it is said by Scholl descendants that the last bread they ate was on that Christmas Day in Boonesborough.

I think it is possible given the dates of the sale of land in Augusta County, Virginia, that the William Scholl family met up with the Boone party in
Barbourville, Kentucky, which is on the Cumberland Gap Trail just inside the Kentucky border with Virginia.

Boone's Station was "on the banks of Boone's Creek, across the Kentucky River, at a point several miles northwest of Boonesborough, where he [Daniel Boone] built a log house called Boone's Station. This location was within the then limits of Fayette county, near the present site of Athens, in present Fayette, and 12 miles southeast of Lexington11." Boone's brothers, Edward (Ned) and Samuel, and son-in-law, William Hays and their families were also there.

William and Leah Scholl with their children Elizabeth, Rachel and Peter were listed as members of the Marble [I believe the researcher meant Boone's] Creek Baptist Church, Boone's Station, Kentucky, from December 1779 until 1787.12 Nineteen members of Boone's Creek Church split off in 1785 including William, Leah, and Samuel Boone to form the Marble Creek Church.13 They met there on the second Sunday of November 1785 as the first congregation.
This church is one-half mile from Boone's Station near Cross Plains, now
Athens, Kentucky. Both churches were Baptist churches.

Battle of Blue Licks

While at Boone's Station, the Scholls (William and his sons – Abraham, Peter and Joseph) along with other groups of young men in the vicinity rode to the aid of nearby Bryan's Station which was attacked by Indians on August 15-17, 1782. The Station was besieged by about 300 Shawnee Indians and British Canadians under Captain William Caldwell and Simon Girty. The attackers lifted the siege after Indian scouts reported that a force of Kentucky militia was on the way. The Indians withdrew on the August 17th and the settlers and relief force followed them to the lower Blue Licks.

The highest-ranking officer, Colonel John Todd of the Fayette militia, was in overall command; under him were two lieutenant colonels, Stephen Triggof Lincoln County and Daniel Boone of Fayette County. On a hill next to the Licking River in what is now Robertson County, Kentucky (but was then in Kentucky County, Virginia), a force of about 50 Canadian and American Loyalists along with 300 American Indians ambushed and routed 182 Kentucky militiamen.

The Battle of Blue Licks is one of the last battles of the American Revolutionay War. The battle occurred ten months after Lord Cornwallis's famous surrender at Yorktown, which had effectively ended the war in the east. Although called the Battle of Blue Licks, the event on August 19th was generally a massacre of the settlers' relief party. It was the worst defeat for the Kentuckians during the frontier war. Israel Boone, son of Daniel Boone, and approximately 70 others were killed and several others kidnapped14. The Battle of Blue Licks had again proven the vulnerability of the Kentucky settlements to attack. Not until the end of the War of 1812 would Kentuckians feel secure from possible Indian raids from across the Ohio River.

Schollsville

About this same time in 1781 or 1782, three of William's sons (Peter, Joseph, andAbraham) began a settlement on a tract of land which had been preempted by Daniel Boone in 1775 or 1776 and awarded to him by the first land court of
Kentucky on December 24, 1779 (the day that the William Scholl family arrived in Boonesborough).15 This land was approximately 10 miles east of
Winchester in present Clark County and 15 miles northeast of Boonesborough.16

This land was surveyed and boundary markers set in August 1783. William and his two sons (Peter and Abraham) along with Daniel Boone, William Hays, Robert Boog, Samuel Shortridge, Killis Mounce, and Samuel Boone surveyed the land.15

By 1792 (when Kentucky became a state), Joseph, Peter and Abraham had established the station of Schollsville which stands near the center of the old
Boone-Scholl tract. Although Daniel Boone had originally settled the land, he assigned it to William Scholl. It is not clear whether or when William Scholl and his wife may have resided around Schollsville. William is known to be near Boone's Station until 1787 yet with land in Fayette County (on Marble Creek) in 1794.

Thompson's history says that "William Scholl, abiding for a while at Boone's Station, obtained and moved to 100 acres of land about 12 miles from Lexington, on the Tate's Creek Pike, where he died about the turn of the century"16. This land was in what was then Fayette County, on Marble Creek, nearWilliam Hays, another son-in-law of Daniel Boone, and close to where Daniel made his home after he lost the land upon which he built his station. It is most likely that, although William had been assigned the "Schollsville" land, he stayed on Marble Creek while his sons settled the 1400-acre tract.

Thompson writes about the establishment of Schollsville: "William intended it for his three sons, Peter, Abraham and Joseph, but made no legal transfer and he died without a will, and the rest of his children brought suit for an equal
partitioning of this land and won. The land was divided among the heirs of William Scholl by an order of the court. Abraham, Peter and Joseph then bought out the other heirs and continued in possession of Schollsville."16

"Schollsville Station was never attacked but was threatened in 1793. The Scholls were warned and all the men nearby came into the fort to defend it. The Indians suddenly turned east and attacked Morgan's Station and captured or killed all the inmates excepting an old Negro who saw a crow light on the barn and regarded it as an evil omen and he made his way out of the fort and escaped." 16

Enos Hardin was the first to set up a claim to a portion of the Scholls' land. On July 29, 1794, William made a deposition to the Kentucky Court of Appeals regarding a lawsuit brought by Enos Hardin disputing William's claim to 1000 acres on Stoner's Fork of the Licking in Clark County17. Before the case could be settled, William died.

On October 14, 1794, William Scholl and Leah, his wife, of Fayette Co., Ky., sold to George Frye his property18. Perhaps William and Leah then moved to Schollsville in Clark County and lived with or near their sons and their families.

William was dead by October 1, 1798, when the Hardin suit against his heirs began. [The case was reopened October 1, 1798, with William's heirs and settled on September 3, 1803, by William's heirs giving Hardin the 200 acres in dispute.] William's eldest son, Peter, was appointed administrator of his father's estate19. John William Scholl20 says that William died near Winchester, Kentucky, which could have been the Marble Creek property in Fayette County or in Schollsville in Clark County. Most sources say that William died in Clark County.

SOURCE: notes from ancestry.com member jerryseery1 originally shared this on 18 jul 2012 using 21 sources

SCHOLL--William SCHOLL, of England, married a Miss Morgan, and they had--
Peter, Isaac, Aaron, Joseph, John, Sally, Elizabeth, and Rachel.

Joseph was born in 1755, and died 1835. He married Lavinia BOONE, daughter of Daniel
BOONE, and settled in Clark county, Ky. They had eight children--Jesse B.,
Septimus, Marcus, Joseph, Selah, Marcia, Leah, and Daniel B. Jesse B. married
Elizabeth MILLER, of Kentucky, and settled in St. Charles county, Mo., in
1811. He died in 1839. Septimus married Sallie MILLER, and came to Missouri.
His children were--Nelson, Daniel B., Marcus, Joseph, Cyrus, Catharine, and
Eliza. Marcus SCHOLL was married twice, and by his second wife had two sons,
Marcus, Jr., and Joseph. Joseph, son of Joseph SCHOLL, Sr., married Rebecca V.
G. MILLER, and settled in Callaway county in 1820, where his wife died in
1829. Their children were--Oliver P., Cyrus R. M., and James R. Mr. SCHOLL
was married the second time to Eliza A. BROUGHTON, of Kentucky, by whom he had--
-Rebecca, Elizabeth, Catharine, Louisa, Eliza, Celia, Septimus, Jesse B.,
Joseph R., Nelson and Sarah. Mr. SCHOLL was a Justice of the Peace in Callaway
county for twenty-two years, and in early days was a great bear and deer
hunter. His second wife, who is still living, often hunted with him, and has
killed several deer. Mr. S. would frequently go into caves after bears, and
was present when Robert Graham had the fight with the wolf in Loutre creek. He
is now in his 76th year, and his eye sight is so good that he can see to read
fine print through an awl hole in a pair of leather spectacles.--Peter, son of
William SCHOLL, of England, married Mary BOONE, daughter of George BOONE, a
brother of Daniel, by whom he had thirteen children. Two of his sons, John and
Peter, came to Callaway county, the former in 1830, and the latter in 1826.
John married Cenia JONES, and they had seven children. Peter married Elizabeth
HUNTER, and they had William M. and Mary. The former was Sheriff of Callaway
county in 1875. He married Sallie Milton JONES, and died some time afterward.
SOURCE: 'A history of the pioneer families of Missouri' by Wm. S. Bryan 1935