Peter Scholl
Birth: Sep. 15, 1754
Shenandoah County
Virginia, USA
Death: Sep. 11, 1821
Clark County
Kentucky, USA
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.
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.
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