Richard Scudder^{[1, 2, 3]}

1696 - 1731  (35 years)

• Name	Richard Scudder
  Birth	1696	Newton, Queens, New York   [4, 5]
  Christening	2 Aug 1711	Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1731	Hunterdon county, New Jersey   [4]
  Burial	Ewing, Mercer, New Jersey   [6]
  Person ID	I257	Scudder
  Last Modified	30 Aug 2020

  
  

  Father	Richard Betts Scudder,   b. Abt 1671, Maspeth Kills, Newtown, Queens, New York d. 14 Mar 1754, Scudder Falls, Hunterdon, New Jersey (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Hannah Reeder,   b. Abt 1671, Newtown, Queens, New York d. 12 Feb 1734, Trenton, Hunterdon, New Jersey (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	1691	Newton, Queens, New York   [7]
  Family ID	F128	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mrs. Richard Scudder,   b. Abt 1700   d. Abt 1721, Hunterdon county, New Jersey (Age 21 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1720
  	Research by the Scudder Association, published in Scudder Searches, v. 1, no. 2, (Fall 1989): 3–4, states that the name of the wife of Richard Scudder, son of Richard Betts Scudder, was unknown. In error, some have claimed that his was Hannah Stillwell. In the first several generations of the Stillwell family histories, however, and not until after the birth of Richard Scudder II's daughter Deborah was born in 1721 and Richard's own death in 1731, does a Hannah appear anywhere in the Stillwell family. Three Stillwell histories with genealogical material show no one named Hannah Stillwell was born until after the death of Richard Scudder II. Early memoirs of the Stilwell family, comprising the life and times of Nicholas Stilwell, the common ancestor of the numerous families bearing that surname, with some account of his brothers John and Jasper and incidentally a sketch of the history of Manhattan island and its vicinity,under the Dutch, with some contributions to a genealogy of the family, by Stilwell, Benjamin Marshall, published in 1878. See at: https://archive.org/details/earlymemoirsofst00stil/page/278 17 pages of Stillwell genealogical history in this book have no Hannah listed in any of Stillwell family. John E.  Stillwell, The History of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell, progenitor of the Stillwell Family in America, (New York City, 1929). John E.Stillwell, “The History of Captain Richard Stillwell, son of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell, and his descendants,” Third generation starts on p. 14. A Hannah was mentioned but she was too late to have md. Richard Scudder, Jr.
  Children	1. Deborah Scudder,   b. 11 May 1721, Hunterdon county, New Jersey d. 26 Oct 1776, Hunterdon county, New Jersey (Age 55 years)
  Family ID	F140	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S127] Ancestral File (R). [S15] Genealogy of Early Settlers of Trenton and Ewing, "Old Hunterdon County," New Jersey, p. 218. [S24] Richard Scudder (1671-1754) of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Vol. I, No. 3 (Fall 1989), p. 4. [S24] Richard Scudder (1671-1754) of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 4. [S4] Scudder Family in America: The Beginnings, Vol. I, No. 2, p. 9. [S1329] Find a Grave Index, 1600s to Current. [S106] Ancestry of Richard [Betts] Scudder and Hannah Reeder, No. 117, p. 10.