William Schooler

   General Notes:

!After 1760, the Virginia Council offered stong inducements to get people to settle in the new county of Augusta. Many families flocked to these new lands. Among them were Harrisons, Schoolers, Vances, Crawfords, Springers and other friends and relatives. After settling in what was thought to be Augusta County, Virginia, it transpired that they were in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. As population increased, counties were divided and divided again so that some people found themselves in four different counties without ever leaving the farm. About 1785, many of these related families moved from Pennsylvania to Kentucky. They located in Cynthiania, Harrison County. They went down the Ohio River to Limestone (Maysville) and along the Licking River to Cynthiania and Paris. Among them were the Schoolers. They were probably drawn to Kentucky by the land grants given for war service. "The Kentucky Gazette" of 8 September 1787 noted that Mr. Schooler of Harrison's Station on Licking Creek was fired on by Indians on the 5th of September. George Mason and Mr. Glascock were fired on by the Indians while cutting wood on Licking Creek on 7 September. Mason was fatally wounded." On 10 July 1795, William Schooler is mentioned as a 'teste' in court documents in Harrison Co., Kentucky in the will of Robert McKittrick, Sr. -Bundle #9, Suit #263 in 1798 William Schooler and wife Elizabeth vs. Lawrence Harrison -- charge of slander for claiming that Elizabeth committed adultery Michael McLaughlin. Lawrence had made the claim in public on 1 Oct 1796 apparently in hopes of breaking up William and Elizabeth. The court appointed two arbitration groups, but neither could apparently reach a decision as to whether Lawrence should pay the plantiffs for damages to the tune of a few hundred pounds of money. The outcome of the defamation suit is not clear, but William and Elizabeth requested subpoena of many of their neighbors. -Bundle #37, Suit #1036 John Yarnall vs. William and Charles Schooler -- defendants signed a statement on 20 Oct 1806 promising to pay the plaintiff with 125 gallons of whiskey. On 28 Nov 1799 in Harrison Co., Kentucky Deeds. John Harrison and wife Mary Ann of Jefferson Co., Kentucky to William Schooler and wife Betsy (Formerly Harrison and sister of the said John) and Elizabeth Schooler, infant dau. of Willam and Betsy of Harrison Co. right to 140 1/2 acres on Mill Creek a branch of south fork of Licking, and then to Elizabeth Schooler. Said Mary Ann being a representative of Benjamin Johnson Sr. !MARRIAGE:William and Elizabeth's marriage is mentioned in the Harrison Co., Historical Magazine Vol 55 pg 85-94. !CENSUS:1800 Harrison Co., Kentucky pg 260 !CENSUS:1810 Tax List Harrison Co., Kentucky

   Marriage Information:

William married Elizabeth (Betty) Harrison, daughter of Charles Harrison and Sarah Smithers, about 1779 in Cynthiana, Harrison, Kentucky. (Elizabeth (Betty) Harrison was born in 1760-1763 in , , Virginia and died before 1808 in , Harrison, Kentucky.)