Nicholas Scull (abt. 1660 - 1703)

Born about 1660 in County Cork, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Farmer) Scull — married about Nov 1685 in Chester, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 1703 at about age 43 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Nicholas Scull was born circa 1660 in County Cork, Ireland. According to a small notation in a biography of the Biddle family, ^[1] John Scull was the father of early colonial immigrant Nicholas Scull. The family were of Norman and Viking heritage. Several documents pieced together prove that Nicholas Scull was the son of Alice Fermor, the sister of Jasper Farmer.

Nicholas Scull immigrated to Colonial Pennsylvania on a ship named "Bristol Merchant"^[2] and captained by John Stephens.^[3] The ship arrived at Chester, Pennsylvania on November 10, 1685.^[4] Many members of the Farmar or Farmer family took the same ship to America. Jasper Farmer or Fermor, Nicolas Scull's uncle, died either on the voyage or shortly therafter, as his will was presented to the Probate Court in Philadelphia on November 17, 1685, just seven days after the Bristol Merchant reached dry land. In Jasper Farmer's will, a bequest was made to "my sister Alice Scull."^[5] Alice Fermor Scull has been proven as the mother of Nicholas Scull by this document and others.^[6][7][8]

Nicholas and his wife Mary were the parents of six known sons:^[9]

Nicolas Scull^[10]

Jasper Scull

John Scull^[11]

James Scull^[12]

Joseph Scull

Edward Scull

Research Note

Fermor/Farmar/Farmer descendant and author Philip Alan Farmer has compiled a list of genealogical sources for the Farmar family. He cites several sources for Nicholas Scull, the nephew of Jasper Fermor/Farmar/Farmer, and others on his blog and book entitled Edward Farmar and the Sons of Whitemarsh.^[13] His works are extensive on the genealogy of the Farmer family in America.

Sources

1. ↑ Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 for Nicholas Scull, Colonial Families of the United States of America, Volume VI, Biddle Family, page 93. Link_to_Book_on_Ancestry
2. ↑ FUTHEY, JOHN SMITH, AND GILBERT COPE. "A Partial Registry of Arrivals Was Made Between the Years 1682 and 1687." In History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1881, pp. 22-24.
3. ↑ Hough, Mary Paul Hallowell, Penrose, Anna Hallowell, The Hallowell-Paul Family History, Including the Ancestry of the Related Families of Worth, Lukens, Jarrett, Morris, Scull, Stokes, Heath, and Others, 1924, p 147. Read_On_Google
4. ↑ Passengers_of_Bristol_Merchant
5. ↑ Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Will Book A, page 25. The Last Will and Testament of Jasper Farmer. Names his "sister Alice Scull" and claims estates in Ireland and Pennsylvania. Link_to_Will_Book_A
6. ↑ Bean, Theodore W. History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (1884), p 1139.
7. ↑ Cook, Lewis D. “Farmar of Ardevalaine, County Tipperary, Ireland and of Whitemarsh, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.” The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 21, no. 2 (1959), pp 90-91.
8. ↑ “A Partial List of the Families Who Arrived at Philadelphia Between 1682 and 1687,” Philadelphia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 8 (1884), p 336.
9. ↑ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Will Book B, pages 456-457, Family HIstory Library Film Number Film # 007726371, Image 797 of 820. Link_to_Will
10. ↑ Bedini, Silvio A., "The Scull Dynasty of Pennsylvania Surveyors", Professional Surveyor Magazine, May, 2001 Bedini
11. ↑ "Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WF-PJ21 : 6 February 2020), Elizabeth Farmer in entry for John Scull, 1722.
12. ↑ "Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WF-P29D : 6 February 2020), Susannah Siddon in entry for James Scull, 1721.
13. ↑ Philip_Alan_Farmer's_Work