Thomas SCUDDER

Birth:
Abt 1706
Elizabethtown, Union, New Jersey
Death:
8 Jan 1761
Rahway, Union, New Jersey
Burial:
Rahway Cemetary, Union., New Jersey
Marriage:
Abt 1731
Essex County, New Jersey
Sources:
Ancestral File (TM)
Notes:
                   SCUDDER FAMILY RECORDS, FHL FILM 1533246, PAGE 19400. ANCESTRAL FILE.  HE WAS 55 YEARS OLD AT TIME OF DEATH.  THE SCUDDER FAMILY RECORDS RECORD HIS DEATH AT RAHWAY, NEW JERSEY, WITH BURIAL IN THE OLD CEMETARY.    HIS WILL DATED 29 DEC 1760 AND PROVED 15 JAN 1761 NAMES WIFE SARAH AND CHILDREN, DAVID JAMES, RICHARD, JOHN (DECEASED), THOMAS, ELIAS, AND SARAH.  THOMAS'S WIDOW SARAH DIED 10 APR 1784 ACCORDING TO THE REVEREND JONATHAN ELMER'S REGISTER OF DEATHS.  WILL OF THOMAS SCUDDER, PAGE 377 OF THE NEW JERSEY ABSTRACTS, FIRST SERIES, VOL XXX, ABSTRACT OF WILLS, 1761-1770.  ON PAGE 376, PETITION OF RICHARD SCUDDER, WARD, AND HIS GUARDIAN, ABRAHAM CLARK, JR. WHICH ESTABLISHES THAT THOMAS SCUDDER (WHOSE WILL DATED 29 DEC 1760 AND PROVED 15 JAN 1761) WAS RICHARD'S DECEASED FATHER)  THE ANCESTRAL FILE RECORDS THAT ALL THEIR CHILDREN WERE ADOPTED.  ADDITIONAL SOURCE IS ANCESTRY.COM.
Sarah ROGERS
Birth:
Abt 1709
Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Death:
10 Apr 1784
Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Sources:
Ancestral File (TM)
Notes:
                   SCUDDER FAMILY RECORDS, FHL FILM 1533246, PAGE 19400.  ANCESTRAL FILE.
Children
Marriage
1
John SCUDDER
Birth:
Abt 1732
Middlesex, New Jersey
Death:
20 Jan 1757
Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   SCUDDER FAMILY RECORDS, FHL FILM 1533246, PAGE 19424. JOHN WAS INTESTSTE ON 22 APR 1758, AND THOMAS (EITHER HIS FATHER OR BROTHER) WAS APPOINTED ADMINISTRATOR OF HIS ESTATE.  HE LEFT TWO MINOR CHILDREN, ANN AND JOHN.  HIS WIFE IS UNIDENTITIED. HIS GRAVESTONE IS IN RAHWAY NEW JERSEY.
2
David SCUDDER
Birth:
Abt 1733
Essex, New Jersey
Death:
Abt 1785
Essex, New Jersey
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   SCUDDER FAMILY RECORDS, FHL FILM 1533246, PAGE 19420,
3
James SCUDDER
Birth:
Abt 1734
Essex, New Jersey
Death:
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   SCUDDER FAMILY RECORDS, FHL FILM 1533246, PAGE 19420.
4
Elias SCUDDER
Birth:
Abt 1736
of Elizabethtown, Union, New Jersey
Death:
23 Jun 1750
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   SCUDDER FAMILY RECORDS, FHL FILM 1533246, PAGE 19246.  DIED AGE 14.
5
William SCUDDER
Birth:
Abt 1738
of Elizabethtown, Union, New Jersey
Death:
8 Mar 1747
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   SCUDDER FAMILY RECORDS, FHL FILM 1533246, PAGE 19426.  HE DIED AGE 5.

SCUDDER FAMILY RECORDS, FHL FILM 1533246, PAGE 19426.  HE DIED AGE 5.
6
Richard SCUDDER
Birth:
9 May 1742
Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Death:
24 Dec 1785
Scotch Plains, Union, New Jersey
Rebecca STITES 
Marr:
31 Jan 1764
Presbyterian Church, Westfield 
Notes:
                   SCUDDER FAMILY RECORDS, FHL FILM 1533246, PAGES 19422, 73400  SEE SCUDDER BULLETIN XXIII, & LITTELL, PAGE 373 FOR THEIR CHILDREN.  HE IS BURIED IN THE BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETARY.  HIS MARRIAGE IS RECORDED IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY.  HE DIED IN HIS 43RD YEAR.  ALSO RECORDED  IN THE "GENEALOGIES OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF THE PASSAIC VALLEY."  FHL 974.9 D2L, PAGES 373-375, 407-410.  HIS MARRIAGE  AND BIRTH RECORD ARE FROM "SCUDDERS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION" BY HAMILTON COCHRAN, FHL 929.273SCU24A.  HE SERVED AS A PRIVATE IN THE ESSEX COUNTY MILITIA.  AFTER THE WAR IN 1784, HE RECEIVED A CERTIFICATE FOR ONE POUND, TWO SHILLINGS AND ELEVEN PENCE FOR DEPRECIATION OF HIS CONTINENTAL ARMY PAY.  hE IS KNOWN TO HAVE LIVED ON A FARM NEAR PASSAIC RIVER, 18 JUNE 1763.   ANOTHER RESOURCE IS THE "SCUDDER FAMILY IN NEW JERSEY", FHL 929.273SCU23KR.    HE WAS EVIDENTLY A BAPTIST.  ONE RECORD INDICATES HIS MARRIAGE AS 31 JAN 1764.  HIS OCCUPATION WAS "YOEMAN"  HE WAS ALSO IDENTIFIED AS PRESBYTERIAN.  RICHARD, 18,  SETTLED DEBT WITH DAVID MILLER.  HIS BIRTH DATE IS ALSO REPORTED TO BE 9 MAY 1742.
7
Eliphalet SCUDDER
Birth:
Abt 1743
Essex, New Jersey
Death:
17 Jun 1751
Rahway, Union, New Jersey
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   SCUDDER FAMILY RECORDS, FHL FILM 1533246., PAGE 19246.  DIED AGE 8
8
Thomas SCUDDER
Birth:
Abt 1745
of Elizabethtown, Union, New Jersey
Death:
20 Feb 1828
Greene County, Pennsylvania
Abigail CLARK 
Marr:
5 Apr 1773
New Providence, Union New Jers 
Notes:
                   SCUDDER FAMILY RECORDS, FHL FILM 1533246, PAGE 19424.
9
Sarah SCUDDER
Birth:
Abt 1746
of Elizabethtown, Union, New Jersey
Death:
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   SCUDDER FAMILY RECORDS, FHL FILM 1533246, PAGE 19426.
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Thomas Scudder - Sarah Rogers

Thomas Scudder was born at Elizabethtown, Union, New Jersey Abt 1706. His parents were John Scudder and Mary Peck or Pack.

He married Sarah Rogers Abt 1731 at Essex County, New Jersey . Sarah Rogers was born at Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Abt 1709 .

They were the parents of 9 children:
John Scudder born Abt 1732.
David Scudder born Abt 1733.
James Scudder born Abt 1734.
Elias Scudder born Abt 1736.
William Scudder born Abt 1738.
Richard Scudder born 9 May 1742.
Eliphalet Scudder born Abt 1743.
Thomas Scudder born Abt 1745.
Sarah Scudder born Abt 1746.

Thomas Scudder died 8 Jan 1761 at Rahway, Union, New Jersey .

Sarah Rogers died 10 Apr 1784 at Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey .