(1) John Scholl and wife, of Dillenburg, Nassau, Principality of the Prince of Orange, Germany, emigrated to America, bringing with them three sons, Johan Jost, John, and George, and leaving a daughter behind in the Fatherland. Family legend says that he asked his children which of them chose to stay in Germany and inherit that portion of the estate which he could not take with him to the new country. The daughter chose to stay. So the father and mother and the sons sailed to New York City in 1769.  They settled at Fort Herkimer, about two miles from the village of Herkimer, in Herkimer County, New York.

Children:

1. a daughter, name unknown
2. Johan Jost, mentioned below
3. John; married and settled near Lowville, Lewis County, New York, where his sons William and Conradt also settled. They spelled the family name as it is now written -- Shull -- and their descendants have followed that orthography.
4. George

        (2) Johan Jost Shull, born about 7 October 1751 in Nassau, Dillenburg, Principality of the Prince of Orange, Germany.  He died 10 January 1837 in Herkimer County, New York, and is buried in Indian Castle Cemetery, Town of Danube, Herkimer County.  He immigrated with his parents from the Palatinate region of Germany when seventeen years of age and settled at Fort Herkimer in 1769. He was subsequently a farmer, miller and merchant at Ephratah, Fulton Co., New York. He moved to Lowville, Lewis County, New York, in 1800 and in 1810 he removed to the town of Danube, Herkimer, County.
        There is some dispute over the identity of Johan's first wife. John William Scholl’s genealogy of the family published in 1930 claims that he married Marilania (i.e. Maria Magdelena) Schmidt (Smith), born in Europe in 1749, died at Lowville, New York, 27 September 1794. However a profile of the Shull family in America in the History of Montgomery and Fulton Counties, (reprint 1981), claims that “the son Johan Jost married Catherine, daughter of Heinrich Winkell, of Ephratah, in 1773, and settled on the estate of his wife, on the hill north of the village of Ephratah,” which later became the Murray farm. Further research needs to be done to determine the identity of Johan’s first wife.
        On 8 July 1788 at the Reformed Dutch Church at Stone Arabia, Herkimer County, Johan married Anna Eva Getman, of Palatine, New York. Anna was born about 17 December 1767, died 14 January 1842 in Herkimer County, and is buried in Indian Castle Cemetery, Town of Danube, according to cemetery records there.  Their marriage is confirmed in David Kendall Martin’s recent work, The Eighteenth Century Zimmerman Family of the Mohawk Valley (1994), in the will of Christian Getman, made 15 April 1803, as well as in Johan's Revolutionary War Pension Application (#W16396).
        A document written by John Herkimer and contained in the Incorporation Book A, page 35, at the Herkimer County Clerk's Office, Herkimer, says:

        "At a meeting duly notified acording to law of the members of the congregation called the Union Church Congregation of Indian Castle in the town of Danube in the county of Herkimer held at the church meeting house of said congregation on this 29th day of February one thousand eight hundred and twenty, the day expressed in notices calling this meeting for the purpose of incorporating this congregation according to the statute in such case made and provided.  We Peter R. Bellinger, Jr., and Nicholas Lawyer, two of the members of this congregation, were duly chosen and appointed to preside at this meeting for the election of trustees and incorporating this society, do certify that George Dominick, Peter Bellinger, Jr., and John Jost Shull were duly elected trustees of this Society by plurality of voices that being the [?] to be elected and chosen, and we do certify that the name and title by which the said society its trustees and their successors shall be known as called the Union Church of the Indian Castle in the town of Danube and in the County of Herkimer given under our hands and sealed this 29th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty."

Children (all baptized at Stone Arabia Dutch Reformed Church):

1. Anna Eva, born 24 June 1789, baptized 5 July 1789, witnessed by Christian and Anna Eva Goedmann
2. Jacob, mentioned below
3. Anna, born 13 April 1794, baptized 20 April? 1794, witnssed by Peter and Elisabeth Gettman
4. Delia, born 4 September 1794, baptized 20 April? 1794 at Stone Arabia Dutch Reformed Church, witnessed by Johannes and Rahel Scholl; married Peter Dillenbach.
5. Christian, born or baptized 6 October 1799, godparents were Christian and Maria Kitman.
6. John, born 20 February 1808, baptized 13 March 1808.
7. Catherine; married Peter Smith.
8. Nancy; married Jacob Getman.
9. Lany; married Abraham Smith.

        (3) Jacob Shull, born 30 August 1792, baptized 2 September 1792 at Stone Arabia Dutch Reformed Church, witnessed by Jacob Gettmann and Maria Schollin, died 19 January 1859 in Herkimer County, New York, buried in Indian Castle Cemetery, Town of Danube, Herkimer County.  He married Anna Klock, (at right), born about 9 January 1798 and died 4 January 1876 in Herkimer County, New York, buried in Indian Castle Cemetery, Town of Danube.
        "Jacob Scholl son of John Jost" was admitted as a member to the German Reformed Dutch Church at Stone arabia on 14 October 1809.
        Jacob's will, probated 24/27 December 1856 (difficult to read the date), mentions wife Anna, sons Josiah, Jacob I., Norman, daughter "Caty" and her children "Louiza Ann and John Jacob Thorpe."  George Rice and Jacob I. Sholl, both of Danube, were witnesses and proved the will on 18 April 1859.
         Records of the Consistory of the Reformed Dutch Church at Indian Castle indicate that on 5 August 1860 -- not long after Jacob's death -- under the leadership of Rev. Joseph Kneaskern, Anna Klock "widow of Jacob Sholl" was received into membership by virtue of letter from the Presbyterian Church at Little Falls.

Children:

1. Josiah (at right), named executor in his father's will, was born 5 January 1820, died 26 September 1894, age 74; married Sally Maria Stafford, born 21 April 1823, died 23 December 1891, age 68.  Parents of:
1. Elizabeth, born 30 October 1845, died 25 March 1865, buried in Mohawk, Montgomery Co., New York.
2. Winfield S., born 31 August 1847, a resident of Illion, Herkimer Co., New York, died 17 December 1871, age 24, buried in Mohawk, Montgomery Co., New York; married Elizabeth A. Benedict, born 31 December 1847, died 21 February 1885, age 37, buried in Mohawk, Montgomery Co., New York, a daughter of Jasper W. Benedict and Catherine Empie.  Parents of:
1. Mabel S., born 1 March 1870; married first Lincoln C. Ackerman, born 22 April 1867, died 24 January 1902, age 34; married second Lewis N. Foot, born 20 September 1872, of Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York.
2. George, born 16 May 1822, died 24 June 1843, age 21, unmarried.
3. Catherine, called "my daughter Caty deceased" in her father's will, died about 1850 in Rockwood Cemetery, Rockwood, town of Ephratah, Fulton Co., New York; married Joshua Thorp.
4. Jacob J., named an executor in his father's will, was born 3 May 1826, baptized at St. John's Reformed, Montgomery Co., NY on 4 Jun 1826, died 24 June 1890, age 64.  He resided at Indian Castle, Town of Danube, Herkimer Co., New York.  He married first Magdalene Wagner, born 4 August 1830, died 20 June 1875, age 44.  He married second Maria Shimmel, born 6 January 1825.  Children of Jacob and Magdalene were:
1. Anna E.
2. Amelia A.
3. Laura E.
4. Jane L.
5. Rosa A.
6. William J.
5. Lany, about 1831.
6. Norman, named an executor in his father's will.
1. Nellis J.
2. Edward
3. Jessie A.