Gideon Scull (abt. 1722 - 1776)

Born about 16 Jun 1722 in Egg Harbor Township, Gloucester, New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Judith (Bellangee) Scull — married about 1750 in Egg Harbor, Atlantic County, New Jersey [uncertain]

Descendants

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Biography

Gideon was born in 1722 to John Scull and Mary Scull in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. He was their twelfth child. He member and participant in the Little Egg Harbor Society of Friends. It was there that he was married in 1750 to Judith Ballange.

Gideon and Mary passed away in 1776 in Great Egg Harbor after contracting small pox at the Salem Quarterly Meeting of the Society of Friends.

Genealogy of the Scull Family of South Jersey

Gideon Scull, b. 1722; m. Judith Belange, in 1750. She was the granddaughter of Ires Belange and Christiana De la Plaine, French Hugunots of Polton, France, and daughter of Jamed Belange, Sr. A record states that in 1753 Gideon was paid 10 pounds for two panther heads. Both Gideon and his wife died in 1776, of smallpox, contracted at Salem Quarterly Conference.

The tribe of Indians who lived around Great Egg Harbor, belonged to the Delawares, or Lenape or first people. In the year 1758 the celebrated Indian Chief, Isaac Still, claimed land from the mouth of Great Egg Harbor river to the head branches, except the Somers’, Steelman’s and Scull’s tracts of land. John Scull owned 550 acres of land purchased of Jacob Valentine; it being on Patounk creek. He died 1745. His son, Gideon Scull, married Judith Bellanger. The Bellanger family, which name has been corrupted into Bellangee, came from the province of Poitou, in France, and emigrated first to England and from thence to America, between the years 1682 and 1690. In the early work of French Heraldry, the name is written de Bellinger.

Sources

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZKD-3V9
• The History and Genealogy of the Fenwick's Colony New Jersey by Thomas Shourds, of Salem County 1876
• https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_and_Genealogy_of_Fenwick_s_Colon/njsVAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lenape+Tribal+leader+Isaac+Still&pg=PA218&printsec=frontcover

• Genealogy of the Scull Family of South Jersey (NJ) [1]
• Early Bergen County Families [2]