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Family Sheet
HUSBAND
Name: Richard Betts Scudder Note
Born: 1676 at Newtown, Long Island, NY
Married: Abt 1700
Died: 14 Mar 1759 at Trenton, NJ
Father: John Scudder
Mother: Joanna Betts
WIFE
Name: Hannah Reeder Note
Born: Abt 1678
Died: 1741 at Trenton, NJ
CHILDREN
Name: John Scudder
Born: 1701 at Trenton, NJ
Died: 10 May 1748 at Trenton, NJ
Wife: Phoebe Howell
NOTES
1). Richard came to New Jersey as early as 1709, the d a t e o f h is deeds . His plantation, in the possession o f h i s li nea l descendants at th e turn of the 20th centu ry , wa s o n th e Delaware, near the falls know n by his n ame . H e wa s on e of the most active and influential m e n i n th e town . Hi s name is mentioned often in publi c in struments , char t ers , etc., and heads the list of g rante es to who m the la nd o n which t o build a church wa s conv eyed by Al exander L ockar t, in March, 1709. Richard was commissioned a lieutenant in the milit i a i n 1 7 11 since h is will identifies him as a captai n , he a ppar en tly remained in the mi litia for some tim e . In 173 3, Ri cha rd is listed as a church deacon. In 1715, a new family was built to replace the first , w h i c h had burne d. A mansion, the second house whic h sti l l st an ds, remained in the h ands of Richard s des cendan t s unti l 1 938. In June 1715, Richard purc hase d a 170 a cr e trac t o f land in adjoining Maidenhead no w Lawrenc e T ownship . H e later deeded this to his so n Joseph.
2). !BIRTH Richard Alan Scudder, comp., Ancestry of Ri c h a r d Betts Sc udder and Hannah Reeder, SCUDDER ASSO CI AT I O N NEWSLETTER, no. 117 Winter 1986 , p. 10. !MARRIAGE Ibid. !DEATH Ibid.
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