Nicholas Scull II

A Map of Philadelphia and Parts Adjacent, with a perspective view of the State-House, by N. Scull and G. Heap Nicholas Scull II (1687–1761) was an American surveyor and cartographer. He served as Surveyor General of Pennsylvania from 1748 to 1761.

Early life Nicholas Scull II was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His Irish-born father, surveyor Nicholas Scull, began laying out the path for the Old York Road in 1697, and Nicholas II assisted on this as a teen. and noted that Scull was fluent in the local Lenape language. through which the Penn family claimed an area of 1,200,000 acres (4,860 km2). Scull was formally appointed Surveyor General in 1748, and Edward Scull was appointed to the father's former position as Deputy Surveyor of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties.

Personal life

Nicholas Scull II married Abigail Heap in 1708. Together they had a daughter, Mary; and three sons: Edward, John, and Nicholas III, who became surveyors. His daughter Mary married Captain Robert Callender, a fur trader in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Nicholas’s grandson was William Scull.

Scull died in 1761, and was buried in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania. Scull & Heap's 1752 map of Philadelphia was adapted and republished by William Faden in London in 1777, during the American Revolution.