Nicholas Scull and Abigail Heap

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Husband Nicholas Scull ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1686 2
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           Died: 1761 2
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         Father: Nicholas Scull (      -      ) 3
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Wife Abigail Heap ²

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           Died: 1753 2
         Buried:  - Whitemarsh, Montgomery Co, PA

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Children

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1 M Jasper Scull ²

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2 F Mary Scull ⁴

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           Died: 9 May 1789 4
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         Spouse: William Biddle (Abt 1697-1736) 4
           Marr: 3 Apr 1730 4

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3 F [Unk] Scull

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         Spouse: Capt. Robert Callender (      -1776) 5 6 7

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General Notes: Husband - Nicholas Scull

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He was the first surveyor general of the province of Pennsylvania, and in addition to those duties he and his brother frequently acted as interpreters at councils held by or on behalf of the proprietors with the various Indian nations. He was present, on behalf of the government of the province, at the famous Indian walk. He was a friend and intimate of Benjamin Franklin, who refers to him, in speaking of the Junta Club, as "a young man who sometimes made verses." He married and was the father of five sons and four daughters. His wife died and was buried in an old family graveyard at Whitemarsh, her tombstone being the only one standing 150 years later. When the death of Nicholas Scull occurred, he was buried in the same place as, it is believed, was his father before him.

He was surveyor general of Pennsylvania from 1748 to 1761, and, in connection with Thomas Cookson, a deputy surveyor, laid out the town of Carlisle, Cumberland County, in the spring of 1751.
In Franklin's Autobiography, Nicholas Scull is referred to as one "who loved books and who sometimes made verses." His daughter Mary inherited his poetic faculty and a number of her metrical productions are still preserved.

1 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 306.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 506.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 505.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 9.

5 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 171, 306.

6 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 663.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 49.