1693 Sarah Schooley was born 1-22-1692/93. [1]
1718 Samuel Shinn, with a certificate from Burlington, and Sarah Schooley made their second declaration of intention to marry, as recorded in the Chesterfield, Burlington County, monthly meeting minutes, dated 5 of month 4 (June). Their parents were present and gave consent. [2] [3] [4] [5] Sarah Schooley married Samuel Shinn, son of Thomas and Mary Stockton Shinn. Had daughters Mary and Alice. [6]
1723 Thomas Scholey Jr married Hannah Fowler on May 26, at Chesterfield. Witnessed by Samuel and Sarah Shinn and others. [7]
1725 Avis Holloway and Samuel Schooley, both of Chesterfield, were married on May 27, at Chesterfield Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Sarah and Samuel Shinn and others. [8] [9]
1733 Sarah Schooley Shinn died. [10]
1740 Alice Shinn, daughter of Samuel Shinn, married Thomas Stevenson, son of Elnathan Stevenson, on March 20, at Northampton meeting house, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Elnathan Stevenson, Sarah Stevenson, Samuel Shinn, Sarah Stevenson, Sarah Shinn, Charity Stevenson, Cornell Stevenson, Thomas Shinn, William Stevenson, Silus Crispin, Mary Crispin, Benjamin Crispin, and others. [11]
Research Notes:
1740 Sarah Shinn, daughter of Samuel Shinn, married Philo Leeds Jr, on November 1, in Monmouth County, New Jersey. [12]
1723 Sarah Scholey Shinn had two daughters who were mentioned in the will of Sarah's father in 1723-4. Their names there given were Mary and Alice Shinn.
The births of Samuel and Sarah Shinn's children were recorded in Burlington meeting records. [13] [14] Samuel Shinn was son of Thomas and Mary Stocton Shinn. The Shinn family lived in Springfield township in Burlington county. [15]
The children of Samuel and Sarah (Scholey) Shinn were listed in a Shinn genealogy [16]:
99. (1) Mary Shinn, b. 3/16/1719, died young.
100. (2) Alice Shinn, b. 1/20/1721, married Thomas Stevenson 3/10/1739.Alice, second child of Samuel and Sarah (Scholey) Shinn, born 1/20/1721 ; married, 3/10/1739, Thomas, son of Elnathan and Sarah (Cornell) Stevenson, at Northampton Meeting House. (Burlington Minutes and Marriage Record.) nathan, father of Thomas, was son of Edward Stevenson, who married Charity Jennings, and grandson of Thomas Stevenson, of London, who married Maria, widow of William Bernard, and moved to Newton, L. I., about 1690. The certificate is recorded, and besides the signatures of the parents of the young people, there appear thirty other names. Dr. Stevenson, of Haddonfield, a descendant of this marriage, has supplied me with a Bible record of the descendants of Alice and Thomas, which is transcribed.
101. (3) Sarah Shinn, b. 6/16/1723, married Philo Leeds 1740.
Sarah, third child of Samuel and Sarah (Scholey) Shinn, born 6/16/1723, in Springfield Township, Burlington County, N. J.; married under civil law to Philo, son of Daniel and Ann (Stacy) Leeds. Daniel Leeds was the maker of the first almanac ever printed in New Jersey. He left a will, dated June 27, 1720, naming seven children, Philo being one of them.
102. (4) Thomas Shinn, b. 5/2/1725, married Ruth Stratton 1743. (Perhaps a son of Levi Shinn, instead of Samuel).
Thomas, fourth child of Samuel and Sarah (Scholey) Shinn, born 5/2/1725, was married in 1743 to Ruth Stratton. Thomas lived at Evesham in after years, and is named in Friends' records as "Thomas Shinn, wife Ruth." … by the marriage of Mark and Ann (Hancock) Stratton, among others, there was a daughter, Ruth, who m. Thomas Shinn. … He was a miller and a man of large business capacity. He was High Sheriff of Burlington County in 1760 and 1762, and was appointed guardian of John Hollinshead in February, 1776. (Burlington Wills, Liber 16, page 496.) His will bears date 12/5/1781, and was probated 1/7/1782. (Ibid, Liber 24, page 180.) This instrument places his residence at Evesham, and names sons Thomas, Samuel, daughters Mary, Elizabeth, Ann, Lucretia, son Levi and grandson William, son of Samuel.
103. (5) Mary Shinn, b. 12/3/1727, married William Taylor, Jr., 1745.
104. (6) Elizabeth Shinn, b. 4/14/1730, unmarried.Elizabeth, sixth child of Samuel and Sarah (Scholey) Shinn, was born 4/14/1730, and was never married. She was of a highly religious nature and favored with the gifts which are demanded by the eldership in the Quaker Church. On the 7th of January, 1764, she was made an elder by the Burlington Society of Friends. At the first monthly meeting at Mt. Holly after its creation as a separate meeting, February 4, 1777, Elizabeth Shinn was reported as an elder of Mount Preparative Meeting. In the little volume "Friends at Burlington," page -, she is put down in the lists of ministers.
105. (7) Marcy Shinn, b. 10/31/1733, unmarried.
[1] William Schooley, The journal of Dr. William Schooley: pioneer physician, Quaker minister, abolitionist, philosopher, and scholar, 1794-1860 (1977), 181, [GoogleBooks].
[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1688-1809, 106, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] Lewis D. Cook, "Marriage Intentions, 1685-1730, Burlington County, New Jersey," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 53 (1965), 129-32, at 131.
[4] "Marriages at Chesterfield, New Jersey, 1685-1730," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 9 (1885), 347-352, at 350, [GoogleBooks].
[5] Marie M. Schooley, Scholey - Schooley and Allied Families (1990), 29.
[6] William Schooley, The journal of Dr. William Schooley: pioneer physician, Quaker minister, abolitionist, philosopher, and scholar, 1794-1860 (1977), 181, [GoogleBooks].
[7] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 87, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[8] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 92, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[9] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 49, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[10] William Schooley, The journal of Dr. William Schooley: pioneer physician, Quaker minister, abolitionist, philosopher, and scholar, 1794-1860 (1977), 181, [GoogleBooks].
[11] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[12] New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[13] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Births and Burials At Burlington in America, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[14] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[15] Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers, The Early Germans of New Jersey (1895), 480, [InternetArchive].
[16] Josiah Hazen Shinn, The history of the Shinn family in Europe and America (1903), 84, [HathiTrust].