Elizabeth Stoughton^{[1, 2]}

Abt 1595 - Abt 1647  (52 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Stoughton
  Birth	Abt 1595	of Coggeshall, Essex, Kent, England
  Gender	Female
  Death	Abt 1647	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I2075	Scudder
  Last Modified	18 Feb 2019

  
  

  Father	Rev Thomas Stoughton,   b. 1557, St Peters, Sandwich, Kent, England d. Aft 20 Aug 1622, St. Bartholomewes by Sandwich, Kent, England (Age > 65 years)
  Mother	Katherine,   b. Abt 1564, England d. 18 Apr 1603, Coggeshall, Essex, England (Age 39 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1585	Naughton, Suffolk, England
  Family ID	F23486	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	John Scudder,   b. Abt 1590, Horton Kirby, Kent, England d. Bef 30 Apr 1627, Strood, Kent, England (Age < 37 years)
  Marriage	4 Sep 1613	Malden, Essex, England
  Children	1. Elizabeth Scudder,   b. Abt 1614, Strood, Kent, England d. 1616, Strood, Kent, England (Age 2 years)   2. Thomas Scudder,   c. Mar 1616, Strood, Kent, England d. 31 Mar 1617, Strood, Kent, England (Age ~ 1 years)   3. John Scudder,   b. 24 May 1618, Strood, Kent, England d. 1689, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 70 years)   4. Thomas Scudder,   b. 1620, Strood, Kent, England d. Bef PROB 1639, England (Age < 19 years)   5. Elizabeth Scudder,   c. 31 Jul 1625, Strood, Kent, England d. 1688, Norwich, Connecticut, British Colonial America (Age ~ 62 years)
  Family ID	F332	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Rev Robert Chamberlayne,   b. Abt 1586, England d. Bef 1 Jun 1639, Strood, Kent, England (Age < 53 years)
  Marriage	30 Apr 1627	Strood, Kent, England
  Children	1. Samuel Chamberlayne,   b. 1628, Strood, Kent, England d. Abt 1647, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, British Colonial America (Age 19 years)   2. Joanna Chamberlayne,   b. 1630, Strood, Kent, England d. Abt 1711, Newtown, Queens, New York, British Colonial America (Age 81 years)   3. Sarah Chamberlayne,   b. 1632, Strood, Kent, England d. Yes, date unknown (Age ~ 3 years)
  Family ID	F23469	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Elizabeth Stoughton, daughter of Rev. Thomas Stoughton, married John Scudder, son of Henry Scudder, yeoman of Horton Kirby, Kent, England. The marriage took place at Malden, Essex on 4 September 1613. They had 5 children, two of whom survived to become the immigrant ancestors of their branches of the Scudder family of America. After her husband John died at Strood by 1627, Elizabeth married as his second wife, Robert Chamberlaine, the Strood Parish pastor. The record of this marriage stated that Elizabeth was the daughter of "the Rev'end Divine that was, Mr. Thomas Stoughton." Robert and Elizabeth had three children, all baptized at Strood. Robert died and was buried at Strood on 1 June 1639. D. B. Scudder, ed., "John and Elizabeth Scudder of Strood, England, and Barnstable, MA, once again," Scudder Searches, v. 5, no. 2, (Summer 1993): 6. John Blythe Dobson, "A Note on the Reverence Robert Chamberlayne of Strood, Kent, Father-in-law of Capt. Richard (1) Betts of Newtown, Long Island," The American Genealogist, volume 79, no. 3, (July 2004): 228. https://johnblythedobson.org/genealogy/documents/Chamberlayne_2004.pdf The widowed Elizabeth came to New England with her children, Elizabeth Scudder and Samuel and Joanna Chamberlain, following her brothers Thomas and Israel Stoughton and her son John Scudder, all of whom were there by 1635. She was in New England by 6 October 1644, when, as "Mestres Chamberlin," she joined the Reverend John Lothrop's church at Barnstable. See transcriptions of Rev. John Lothrop's "Scituate and Barnstable Church Records,"New England Historical & Genealogical Register, volume 9, no. 3, (July 1855): 280. She apparently moved to the Bay colony shortly thereafter, for on 14 May 1645, the Massachusetts Bay General Court, calling her “Mrs Chamberlin, widowe, sister to Mr Israell Stoughton," directed, '[u]pon weighty reasons moveing," that she be allowed either a cow or £5.40. Elizabeth died intestate, apparently in Ipswich, Massachusetts, before the inventory of her estate was filed on 30 March 1647. The court ordered that the estate, which totaled only £32 4s. 5d., be divided: two parts to the son and one part to the daughter. Two years later, “Richard Betts, who married Joana Chamberlin. allowed 27 March1649, as administrator of' the estate of Samuell Chamberlin, brother to said Joana, who was heir to the estate.'' Richard and Joanna (Chamberlain) Betts moved to Long Island, where his will, dated 16 March 1711, indicates his continuing associations with the Scudders. It is unusual that Elizabeth Chamberlain's Scudder children did not share in her estate. However, in cases when the estate was small and included no land, the courts sometimes exercised considerable leeway. The first child in this Scudder family whose baptismal record was found in the Strood registers was Thomas in 1616/7, but an older child, Elizabeth, was buried there in 1616. While it is tempting to surmise that Bridget, wife of Thomas Verry and Edward Giles, might belong in this family, that placement is impossible unless John was older than calculated and had an earlier wife--Bridget must have been already at least seven or eight years old at the time of his marriage to Elizabeth Stoughton. The widowed Elizabeth came to New England with her children, Elizabeth Scudder and Samuel and Joanna Chamberlain, following her brothers Thomas and Israel Stoughton and her son John Scudder, all of whom were there by 1635. She was in New England by 6 October 1644, when, as "Mestres Chamberlin," she joined the Reverend John Lothrop's church at Barnstable. She apparently moved to the Bay colony shortly thereafter, for on 14 May 1645, the Massachusetts Bay General Court, calling her “Mrs Chamberlin, widowe, sister to Mr Israell Stoughton," directed, '[u]pon weighty reasons moveing," that she be allowed either a cow or £5.40. Elizabeth died intestate, apparently in Ipswich, Massachusetts, before the inventory of her estate was filed on 30 March 1647. The court ordered that the estate, which totaled only £32 4s. 5d., be divided: two parts to the son and one part to the daughter. Two years later, “Richard Betts, who married Joana Chamberlin. allowed 27 March1649, as administrator of' the estate of Samuell Chamberlin, brother to said Joana, who was heir to the estate.'' Richard and Joanna (Chamberlain) Betts moved to Long Island, where his will, dated 16 March 1711, indicates his continuing associations with the Scudders. It is unusual that Elizabeth Chamberlain's Scudder children did not share in her estate. However, in cases when the estate was small and included no land, the courts sometimes exercised considerable leeway.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1479] "A New England Immigrant Kinship Network". [S35] Eliz. and Mary Scudder of Norwich, CT. [S1277] John and Elizabeth Scudder of Strood, Kent, and Barnstable, Massachusetts, Vol. V, No. 1, page 4. [S31] John and Elizabeth Scudder of Strood, Kent, and Barnstable, Massachusetts, Vol. V, No. 1, page 4.