Removed middle name of Morgan. There are no records that show this. Some researcher with no sources picked it up and has been carrying it on. Also deleted county of Shenandoah. The family lived in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, not the county as there were no counties at this time.
All information below was obtained from the internet and is the work of others. Some information obtained from the "Pike County History" by Jess Thompson.
PETER SCHOLL, was one of the most colorful characters in early Kentucky history. A slave-holder and a hard master, he quarreled with his younger brother, Abraham, who upbraided him for his treatment of his slaves, the quarrel contributing to Abraham's resolve to leave Kentucky and settle in Pike county, Illinois, which he did in the spring of 1825.
Peter Scholl was a soldier of the Revolution, as was his brother, Pike county Abraham. He was with Daniel Boone in the old Indian wars and at the famous battle of the Blue Licks, on the Licking River in Kentucky, August 19, 1782, when Daniel Boone's son Israel fell in battle and 60 Kentucky women were widowed. Scholl was with General Andrew Lewis at the great battle with the tribes at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1774, one of the greatest battles ever fought between the whites and the Indians. Scholl was a lieutenant under Daniel Boone with General George Rogers Clark in 1782.
John Scholl gave the following information about his father, Peter Scholl, to Dr. Lyman C. Draper, then secretary of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, in 1868:
"He (Peter Scholl) wore short breeches, long silk stockings and queued his hair; wore large knee and shoe buckles, long vest and coat. He memorialized Congress for a pension, but got none since he was in good circumstances. He was a lieutenant under Daniel Boone with George R. Clark."
Peter Scholl was a son of William Scholl and Leah Morgan. (Note: Some descendants have claimed that William Scholl was twice married, that his first wife was a Van Meter who was the mother of Peter Scholl and his brother Joseph. Scholl genealogies mention only Leah Morgan as a wife of William Scholl).
Peter Scholl was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia September 15, 1754. In 1779, when Peter was 25, the Scholl family journeyed out to Boonesborough on the Kentucky river, under the guidance of Daniel Boone. In the party traveled Edward Boone and his wife, with their family of six children, Charity, Jane, Mary, Sarah, George and Joseph Boone. Charity was already married, her husband, Francis Elledge, being with her on the journey. Mary Boone, Charity's sister, was then about 15. On the wild Wilderness Road, cut by Boone in 1779, Peter Scholl and young Mary Boone came to care for one another and in Boone's Station in Kentucky in 1782 they were married, the groom being then 28 and the bride 18.
Edward Boone Scholl, founder of Booneville (now Perry), a son of Peter Scholl and Mary Boone and named for his grandfather, Edward Boone, writing from Griggsville to Dr. Lyman C. Draper of Madison, Wisconsin, August 25, 1854, said of his father and mother:
"My father was Peter Scholl, who came to Kentucky with the Boone family. He married Mary Boone, Edward's daughter. He served two years in the old war (the Revolution) as a regular soldier for himself, and six months for another man. I have seen his discharge, with a $5.00 Continental bill, receipted on the back, which he gave for a bushel of salt, which was all he ever got for his services. When the first Pension law was passed he was the only man out of 32 who applied that could show he had been in the service but got nothing owing to the provision and died before there was any amendment. Peter Scholl died September 11, 1821, aged 67 lacking four days. My mother (Mary Boone) had 14 children.
"Peter Scholl was made lieutenant (Ky.) under Daniel Boone when he went to drive the Indians from the Miami, Ohio, and was one of the company that agreed to go there 50 years later if alive to the same place but died just 10 years before." Note: The drive against the Indians on the Miami was in 1782 and Peter Scholl therefore died 11 years before the expiration of the half-century agreed upon for a reunion.
Peter Scholl and his brother John were both in the War of Independence and John died of smallpox while stationed at Point Pleasant, West Virginia (then Virginia). He had married a Miss Morris and they had two children. Peter Scholl was with John at Point Pleasant and had the smallpox the same time. Recovering, he went home and married Mary Boone. "They had 14 children," wrote Boone Scholl, "six born on Marble Creek, west part of Fayette county, Kentucky. In 1792 they moved to the east part of said county. There they had eight more on Georges Fork of Stoner." This last settlement was on a 1400 acre tract which was shared by William Scholl's three sons, Peter, Joseph and Abraham. This tract had been settled and preempted by Daniel Boone, who later assigned it to his cousin, William Scholl. A. C. Barrow, a Scholl descendant, who owned and lived on a part of this tract, wrote in 1920: "A portion of the house Peter Scholl lived in is still standing and is just across the hill from where I live."
The William Scholl and Edward Boone families, setting out over the Wilderness Road in 1779, reached Daniel Boone's fort on the Kentucky river on Christmas Day. The Scholls were from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia; the Boones from the Yadkin, in North Carolina. At Boonesborough, on Christmas Day, 1779, the families ate their last bread until grain was raised in 1780. That winter was a bitter one in Kentucky, the coldest on record. In the spring, members of the two families went to Louisville, then called Clarksville, to buy bread.
Arriving at Boonesborough on Christmas Day, after eating their last bread, the Scholl and Boone families crossed the Kentucky river the same day and traveled about four miles. Then Daniel Boone killed a young buffalo cow and the party camped to cook the fine beef. Next morning the awful winter, memorable in Kentucky annals, howled around them. Snow covered the ground. For protection against the weather, the little party set to work erecting half-fitted camps made of boards and forked sticks. During that cold winter, the camp lived on buffalo, deer and turkeys. After the snow went off in March, cabins were erected and the camp stockaded, with port holes for resisting Indian attack. This stockade became known as Boone's Station. Here, where the company had camped to cook the buffalo cow Daniel Boone had killed, Peter Scholl and Mary Boone were married in 1782.
Peter Scholl and Mary Boone had 14 children, namely, William, Martha, John, Lydia Ann, Joseph, Dudley, Malinda, Jesse Bryan, Peter Morgan, Edward Boone, Dudley (the second), Mary, Louisa and Charity Scholl. Of these 14 children, 13 grew to maturity. The first Dudley died in infancy.
Documentation of Peter's service during the revolutionary war from the DAR database:
SCHOLL, PETER (Lt.) DAR Ancestor #: A100984
Service: VIRGINIA Rank: LIEUTENANT
Birth: 9-15-1754 VIRGINIA
Death: 9-11-1821 CLARK CO KENTUCKY
Service Source: DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS, GEORGE ROGERS CLARK PAPERS, SERIES J, VOL 17, PP 18-19, ROLL #26
Service Description: 1) GEN GEORGE ROGERS CLARK
Residence 1) District: KENTUCKY DIST - State: VIRGINIA
Spouse 1) MARY BOONE
Rev War-Peter Scholl Lt VA, Capt William Hayes, Col George Rogers Clark, DAR #A100984
source: dar.org genealogy ancestor search
Linda Rosenthal DAR
ancestors: William Grant and Elizabeth Boone Grant, sister of Daniel Boone
All information below was obtained from the internet and is the work of others. Some information obtained from the "Pike County History" by Jess Thompson.
PETER SCHOLL, was one of the most colorful characters in early Kentucky history. A slave-holder and a hard master, he quarreled with his younger brother, Abraham, who upbraided him for his treatment of his slaves, the quarrel contributing to Abraham's resolve to leave Kentucky and settle in Pike county, Illinois, which he did in the spring of 1825.
Peter Scholl was a soldier of the Revolution, as was his brother, Pike county Abraham. He was with Daniel Boone in the old Indian wars and at the famous battle of the Blue Licks, on the Licking River in Kentucky, August 19, 1782, when Daniel Boone's son Israel fell in battle and 60 Kentucky women were widowed. Scholl was with General Andrew Lewis at the great battle with the tribes at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1774, one of the greatest battles ever fought between the whites and the Indians. Scholl was a lieutenant under Daniel Boone with General George Rogers Clark in 1782.
John Scholl gave the following information about his father, Peter Scholl, to Dr. Lyman C. Draper, then secretary of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, in 1868:
"He (Peter Scholl) wore short breeches, long silk stockings and queued his hair; wore large knee and shoe buckles, long vest and coat. He memorialized Congress for a pension, but got none since he was in good circumstances. He was a lieutenant under Daniel Boone with George R. Clark."
Peter Scholl was a son of William Scholl and Leah Morgan. (Note: Some descendants have claimed that William Scholl was twice married, that his first wife was a Van Meter who was the mother of Peter Scholl and his brother Joseph. Scholl genealogies mention only Leah Morgan as a wife of William Scholl).
Peter Scholl was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia September 15, 1754. In 1779, when Peter was 25, the Scholl family journeyed out to Boonesborough on the Kentucky river, under the guidance of Daniel Boone. In the party traveled Edward Boone and his wife, with their family of six children, Charity, Jane, Mary, Sarah, George and Joseph Boone. Charity was already married, her husband, Francis Elledge, being with her on the journey. Mary Boone, Charity's sister, was then about 15. On the wild Wilderness Road, cut by Boone in 1779, Peter Scholl and young Mary Boone came to care for one another and in Boone's Station in Kentucky in 1782 they were married, the groom being then 28 and the bride 18.
Edward Boone Scholl, founder of Booneville (now Perry), a son of Peter Scholl and Mary Boone and named for his grandfather, Edward Boone, writing from Griggsville to Dr. Lyman C. Draper of Madison, Wisconsin, August 25, 1854, said of his father and mother:
"My father was Peter Scholl, who came to Kentucky with the Boone family. He married Mary Boone, Edward's daughter. He served two years in the old war (the Revolution) as a regular soldier for himself, and six months for another man. I have seen his discharge, with a $5.00 Continental bill, receipted on the back, which he gave for a bushel of salt, which was all he ever got for his services. When the first Pension law was passed he was the only man out of 32 who applied that could show he had been in the service but got nothing owing to the provision and died before there was any amendment. Peter Scholl died September 11, 1821, aged 67 lacking four days. My mother (Mary Boone) had 14 children.
"Peter Scholl was made lieutenant (Ky.) under Daniel Boone when he went to drive the Indians from the Miami, Ohio, and was one of the company that agreed to go there 50 years later if alive to the same place but died just 10 years before." Note: The drive against the Indians on the Miami was in 1782 and Peter Scholl therefore died 11 years before the expiration of the half-century agreed upon for a reunion.
Peter Scholl and his brother John were both in the War of Independence and John died of smallpox while stationed at Point Pleasant, West Virginia (then Virginia). He had married a Miss Morris and they had two children. Peter Scholl was with John at Point Pleasant and had the smallpox the same time. Recovering, he went home and married Mary Boone. "They had 14 children," wrote Boone Scholl, "six born on Marble Creek, west part of Fayette county, Kentucky. In 1792 they moved to the east part of said county. There they had eight more on Georges Fork of Stoner." This last settlement was on a 1400 acre tract which was shared by William Scholl's three sons, Peter, Joseph and Abraham. This tract had been settled and preempted by Daniel Boone, who later assigned it to his cousin, William Scholl. A. C. Barrow, a Scholl descendant, who owned and lived on a part of this tract, wrote in 1920: "A portion of the house Peter Scholl lived in is still standing and is just across the hill from where I live."
The William Scholl and Edward Boone families, setting out over the Wilderness Road in 1779, reached Daniel Boone's fort on the Kentucky river on Christmas Day. The Scholls were from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia; the Boones from the Yadkin, in North Carolina. At Boonesborough, on Christmas Day, 1779, the families ate their last bread until grain was raised in 1780. That winter was a bitter one in Kentucky, the coldest on record. In the spring, members of the two families went to Louisville, then called Clarksville, to buy bread.
Arriving at Boonesborough on Christmas Day, after eating their last bread, the Scholl and Boone families crossed the Kentucky river the same day and traveled about four miles. Then Daniel Boone killed a young buffalo cow and the party camped to cook the fine beef. Next morning the awful winter, memorable in Kentucky annals, howled around them. Snow covered the ground. For protection against the weather, the little party set to work erecting half-fitted camps made of boards and forked sticks. During that cold winter, the camp lived on buffalo, deer and turkeys. After the snow went off in March, cabins were erected and the camp stockaded, with port holes for resisting Indian attack. This stockade became known as Boone's Station. Here, where the company had camped to cook the buffalo cow Daniel Boone had killed, Peter Scholl and Mary Boone were married in 1782.
Peter Scholl and Mary Boone had 14 children, namely, William, Martha, John, Lydia Ann, Joseph, Dudley, Malinda, Jesse Bryan, Peter Morgan, Edward Boone, Dudley (the second), Mary, Louisa and Charity Scholl. Of these 14 children, 13 grew to maturity. The first Dudley died in infancy.
Documentation of Peter's service during the revolutionary war from the DAR database:
SCHOLL, PETER (Lt.) DAR Ancestor #: A100984
Service: VIRGINIA Rank: LIEUTENANT
Birth: 9-15-1754 VIRGINIA
Death: 9-11-1821 CLARK CO KENTUCKY
Service Source: DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS, GEORGE ROGERS CLARK PAPERS, SERIES J, VOL 17, PP 18-19, ROLL #26
Service Description: 1) GEN GEORGE ROGERS CLARK
Residence 1) District: KENTUCKY DIST - State: VIRGINIA
Spouse 1) MARY BOONE
Rev War-Peter Scholl Lt VA, Capt William Hayes, Col George Rogers Clark, DAR #A100984
source: dar.org genealogy ancestor search
Linda Rosenthal DAR
ancestors: William Grant and Elizabeth Boone Grant, sister of Daniel Boone
Removed middle name of Morgan. There are no records that show this. Some researcher with no sources picked it up and has been carrying it on. Also deleted county of Shenandoah. The family lived in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, not the county as there were no counties at this time.
All information below was obtained from the internet and is the work of others. Some information obtained from the "Pike County History" by Jess Thompson.
PETER SCHOLL, was one of the most colorful characters in early Kentucky history. A slave-holder and a hard master, he quarreled with his younger brother, Abraham, who upbraided him for his treatment of his slaves, the quarrel contributing to Abraham's resolve to leave Kentucky and settle in Pike county, Illinois, which he did in the spring of 1825.
Peter Scholl was a soldier of the Revolution, as was his brother, Pike county Abraham. He was with Daniel Boone in the old Indian wars and at the famous battle of the Blue Licks, on the Licking River in Kentucky, August 19, 1782, when Daniel Boone's son Israel fell in battle and 60 Kentucky women were widowed. Scholl was with General Andrew Lewis at the great battle with the tribes at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1774, one of the greatest battles ever fought between the whites and the Indians. Scholl was a lieutenant under Daniel Boone with General George Rogers Clark in 1782.
John Scholl gave the following information about his father, Peter Scholl, to Dr. Lyman C. Draper, then secretary of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, in 1868:
"He (Peter Scholl) wore short breeches, long silk stockings and queued his hair; wore large knee and shoe buckles, long vest and coat. He memorialized Congress for a pension, but got none since he was in good circumstances. He was a lieutenant under Daniel Boone with George R. Clark."
Peter Scholl was a son of William Scholl and Leah Morgan. (Note: Some descendants have claimed that William Scholl was twice married, that his first wife was a Van Meter who was the mother of Peter Scholl and his brother Joseph. Scholl genealogies mention only Leah Morgan as a wife of William Scholl).
Peter Scholl was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia September 15, 1754. In 1779, when Peter was 25, the Scholl family journeyed out to Boonesborough on the Kentucky river, under the guidance of Daniel Boone. In the party traveled Edward Boone and his wife, with their family of six children, Charity, Jane, Mary, Sarah, George and Joseph Boone. Charity was already married, her husband, Francis Elledge, being with her on the journey. Mary Boone, Charity's sister, was then about 15. On the wild Wilderness Road, cut by Boone in 1779, Peter Scholl and young Mary Boone came to care for one another and in Boone's Station in Kentucky in 1782 they were married, the groom being then 28 and the bride 18.
Edward Boone Scholl, founder of Booneville (now Perry), a son of Peter Scholl and Mary Boone and named for his grandfather, Edward Boone, writing from Griggsville to Dr. Lyman C. Draper of Madison, Wisconsin, August 25, 1854, said of his father and mother:
"My father was Peter Scholl, who came to Kentucky with the Boone family. He married Mary Boone, Edward's daughter. He served two years in the old war (the Revolution) as a regular soldier for himself, and six months for another man. I have seen his discharge, with a $5.00 Continental bill, receipted on the back, which he gave for a bushel of salt, which was all he ever got for his services. When the first Pension law was passed he was the only man out of 32 who applied that could show he had been in the service but got nothing owing to the provision and died before there was any amendment. Peter Scholl died September 11, 1821, aged 67 lacking four days. My mother (Mary Boone) had 14 children.
"Peter Scholl was made lieutenant (Ky.) under Daniel Boone when he went to drive the Indians from the Miami, Ohio, and was one of the company that agreed to go there 50 years later if alive to the same place but died just 10 years before." Note: The drive against the Indians on the Miami was in 1782 and Peter Scholl therefore died 11 years before the expiration of the half-century agreed upon for a reunion.
Peter Scholl and his brother John were both in the War of Independence and John died of smallpox while stationed at Point Pleasant, West Virginia (then Virginia). He had married a Miss Morris and they had two children. Peter Scholl was with John at Point Pleasant and had the smallpox the same time. Recovering, he went home and married Mary Boone. "They had 14 children," wrote Boone Scholl, "six born on Marble Creek, west part of Fayette county, Kentucky. In 1792 they moved to the east part of said county. There they had eight more on Georges Fork of Stoner." This last settlement was on a 1400 acre tract which was shared by William Scholl's three sons, Peter, Joseph and Abraham. This tract had been settled and preempted by Daniel Boone, who later assigned it to his cousin, William Scholl. A. C. Barrow, a Scholl descendant, who owned and lived on a part of this tract, wrote in 1920: "A portion of the house Peter Scholl lived in is still standing and is just across the hill from where I live."
The William Scholl and Edward Boone families, setting out over the Wilderness Road in 1779, reached Daniel Boone's fort on the Kentucky river on Christmas Day. The Scholls were from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia; the Boones from the Yadkin, in North Carolina. At Boonesborough, on Christmas Day, 1779, the families ate their last bread until grain was raised in 1780. That winter was a bitter one in Kentucky, the coldest on record. In the spring, members of the two families went to Louisville, then called Clarksville, to buy bread.
Arriving at Boonesborough on Christmas Day, after eating their last bread, the Scholl and Boone families crossed the Kentucky river the same day and traveled about four miles. Then Daniel Boone killed a young buffalo cow and the party camped to cook the fine beef. Next morning the awful winter, memorable in Kentucky annals, howled around them. Snow covered the ground. For protection against the weather, the little party set to work erecting half-fitted camps made of boards and forked sticks. During that cold winter, the camp lived on buffalo, deer and turkeys. After the snow went off in March, cabins were erected and the camp stockaded, with port holes for resisting Indian attack. This stockade became known as Boone's Station. Here, where the company had camped to cook the buffalo cow Daniel Boone had killed, Peter Scholl and Mary Boone were married in 1782.
Peter Scholl and Mary Boone had 14 children, namely, William, Martha, John, Lydia Ann, Joseph, Dudley, Malinda, Jesse Bryan, Peter Morgan, Edward Boone, Dudley (the second), Mary, Louisa and Charity Scholl. Of these 14 children, 13 grew to maturity. The first Dudley died in infancy.
Documentation of Peter's service during the revolutionary war from the DAR database:
SCHOLL, PETER (Lt.) DAR Ancestor #: A100984
Service: VIRGINIA Rank: LIEUTENANT
Birth: 9-15-1754 VIRGINIA
Death: 9-11-1821 CLARK CO KENTUCKY
Service Source: DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS, GEORGE ROGERS CLARK PAPERS, SERIES J, VOL 17, PP 18-19, ROLL #26
Service Description: 1) GEN GEORGE ROGERS CLARK
Residence 1) District: KENTUCKY DIST - State: VIRGINIA
Spouse 1) MARY BOONE
Rev War-Peter Scholl Lt VA, Capt William Hayes, Col George Rogers Clark, DAR #A100984
source: dar.org genealogy ancestor search
Linda Rosenthal DAR
ancestors: William Grant and Elizabeth Boone Grant, sister of Daniel Boone
All information below was obtained from the internet and is the work of others. Some information obtained from the "Pike County History" by Jess Thompson.
PETER SCHOLL, was one of the most colorful characters in early Kentucky history. A slave-holder and a hard master, he quarreled with his younger brother, Abraham, who upbraided him for his treatment of his slaves, the quarrel contributing to Abraham's resolve to leave Kentucky and settle in Pike county, Illinois, which he did in the spring of 1825.
Peter Scholl was a soldier of the Revolution, as was his brother, Pike county Abraham. He was with Daniel Boone in the old Indian wars and at the famous battle of the Blue Licks, on the Licking River in Kentucky, August 19, 1782, when Daniel Boone's son Israel fell in battle and 60 Kentucky women were widowed. Scholl was with General Andrew Lewis at the great battle with the tribes at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1774, one of the greatest battles ever fought between the whites and the Indians. Scholl was a lieutenant under Daniel Boone with General George Rogers Clark in 1782.
John Scholl gave the following information about his father, Peter Scholl, to Dr. Lyman C. Draper, then secretary of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, in 1868:
"He (Peter Scholl) wore short breeches, long silk stockings and queued his hair; wore large knee and shoe buckles, long vest and coat. He memorialized Congress for a pension, but got none since he was in good circumstances. He was a lieutenant under Daniel Boone with George R. Clark."
Peter Scholl was a son of William Scholl and Leah Morgan. (Note: Some descendants have claimed that William Scholl was twice married, that his first wife was a Van Meter who was the mother of Peter Scholl and his brother Joseph. Scholl genealogies mention only Leah Morgan as a wife of William Scholl).
Peter Scholl was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia September 15, 1754. In 1779, when Peter was 25, the Scholl family journeyed out to Boonesborough on the Kentucky river, under the guidance of Daniel Boone. In the party traveled Edward Boone and his wife, with their family of six children, Charity, Jane, Mary, Sarah, George and Joseph Boone. Charity was already married, her husband, Francis Elledge, being with her on the journey. Mary Boone, Charity's sister, was then about 15. On the wild Wilderness Road, cut by Boone in 1779, Peter Scholl and young Mary Boone came to care for one another and in Boone's Station in Kentucky in 1782 they were married, the groom being then 28 and the bride 18.
Edward Boone Scholl, founder of Booneville (now Perry), a son of Peter Scholl and Mary Boone and named for his grandfather, Edward Boone, writing from Griggsville to Dr. Lyman C. Draper of Madison, Wisconsin, August 25, 1854, said of his father and mother:
"My father was Peter Scholl, who came to Kentucky with the Boone family. He married Mary Boone, Edward's daughter. He served two years in the old war (the Revolution) as a regular soldier for himself, and six months for another man. I have seen his discharge, with a $5.00 Continental bill, receipted on the back, which he gave for a bushel of salt, which was all he ever got for his services. When the first Pension law was passed he was the only man out of 32 who applied that could show he had been in the service but got nothing owing to the provision and died before there was any amendment. Peter Scholl died September 11, 1821, aged 67 lacking four days. My mother (Mary Boone) had 14 children.
"Peter Scholl was made lieutenant (Ky.) under Daniel Boone when he went to drive the Indians from the Miami, Ohio, and was one of the company that agreed to go there 50 years later if alive to the same place but died just 10 years before." Note: The drive against the Indians on the Miami was in 1782 and Peter Scholl therefore died 11 years before the expiration of the half-century agreed upon for a reunion.
Peter Scholl and his brother John were both in the War of Independence and John died of smallpox while stationed at Point Pleasant, West Virginia (then Virginia). He had married a Miss Morris and they had two children. Peter Scholl was with John at Point Pleasant and had the smallpox the same time. Recovering, he went home and married Mary Boone. "They had 14 children," wrote Boone Scholl, "six born on Marble Creek, west part of Fayette county, Kentucky. In 1792 they moved to the east part of said county. There they had eight more on Georges Fork of Stoner." This last settlement was on a 1400 acre tract which was shared by William Scholl's three sons, Peter, Joseph and Abraham. This tract had been settled and preempted by Daniel Boone, who later assigned it to his cousin, William Scholl. A. C. Barrow, a Scholl descendant, who owned and lived on a part of this tract, wrote in 1920: "A portion of the house Peter Scholl lived in is still standing and is just across the hill from where I live."
The William Scholl and Edward Boone families, setting out over the Wilderness Road in 1779, reached Daniel Boone's fort on the Kentucky river on Christmas Day. The Scholls were from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia; the Boones from the Yadkin, in North Carolina. At Boonesborough, on Christmas Day, 1779, the families ate their last bread until grain was raised in 1780. That winter was a bitter one in Kentucky, the coldest on record. In the spring, members of the two families went to Louisville, then called Clarksville, to buy bread.
Arriving at Boonesborough on Christmas Day, after eating their last bread, the Scholl and Boone families crossed the Kentucky river the same day and traveled about four miles. Then Daniel Boone killed a young buffalo cow and the party camped to cook the fine beef. Next morning the awful winter, memorable in Kentucky annals, howled around them. Snow covered the ground. For protection against the weather, the little party set to work erecting half-fitted camps made of boards and forked sticks. During that cold winter, the camp lived on buffalo, deer and turkeys. After the snow went off in March, cabins were erected and the camp stockaded, with port holes for resisting Indian attack. This stockade became known as Boone's Station. Here, where the company had camped to cook the buffalo cow Daniel Boone had killed, Peter Scholl and Mary Boone were married in 1782.
Peter Scholl and Mary Boone had 14 children, namely, William, Martha, John, Lydia Ann, Joseph, Dudley, Malinda, Jesse Bryan, Peter Morgan, Edward Boone, Dudley (the second), Mary, Louisa and Charity Scholl. Of these 14 children, 13 grew to maturity. The first Dudley died in infancy.
Documentation of Peter's service during the revolutionary war from the DAR database:
SCHOLL, PETER (Lt.) DAR Ancestor #: A100984
Service: VIRGINIA Rank: LIEUTENANT
Birth: 9-15-1754 VIRGINIA
Death: 9-11-1821 CLARK CO KENTUCKY
Service Source: DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS, GEORGE ROGERS CLARK PAPERS, SERIES J, VOL 17, PP 18-19, ROLL #26
Service Description: 1) GEN GEORGE ROGERS CLARK
Residence 1) District: KENTUCKY DIST - State: VIRGINIA
Spouse 1) MARY BOONE
Rev War-Peter Scholl Lt VA, Capt William Hayes, Col George Rogers Clark, DAR #A100984
source: dar.org genealogy ancestor search
Linda Rosenthal DAR
ancestors: William Grant and Elizabeth Boone Grant, sister of Daniel Boone
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