Sarah Kip^[1]

1755 - Aft 1830  (> 76 years)

• Name	Sarah Kip
  Birth	9 Mar 1755	New York City, New York
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 1830	Greenbriar county, Virginia
  Person ID	I4137	Scudder
  Last Modified	8 May 2013

  
  

  Family	Colonel William Scudder,   b. 25 Jul 1747, Westfield, Essex, New Jersey d. Oct 1798, Manhattan, New York (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	21 Apr 1792	New York City, New York   [2]
  Children	1. Sarah Ogden Kip Scudder,   b. 1794   d. 27 May 1880, New York City, New York (Age 86 years)   2. William Kip Scudder,   b. 10 Jul 1798, New York City, New York d. 10 Jul 1884, Clintonville, Greenbrier, West Virginia (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F4528	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  After William Scudder's death, and left with two young children, Sarah was fortunate to be in New York City, where she had the support of family members. Sarah's brother, James, a brass founder, had a business on Broadway. Her brother, Richard Kip, an upholsterer by trade, had a shop at Hanover Square in New York City; and her sister's husband, Daniel Ebbets, was a well-respected New York merchant in the fine china and glass firm of Ebbets & Gale. After the turn of the century, Daniel Ebbets was commissioned by the City Council to lay out Canal Street in Manhattan. Today that street borders Chinatown and Little Italy and stands near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel on the West and at the Manhattan Bridge on the East. Financially, these were difficult times for Sarah. In spite of William Scudder's distinguished ranking during the Revolution, and regardless of his membership in the elite Society of the Cincinnati, the inventory of his estate only amounted to some forty dollars. In order to pay off his debts, Sarah had to appeal to the court to sell property in Onondaga, New York, to which William Scudder held title. She received aid from the Society of the Cincinnati fund. Sarah took on jobs as a teacher and a seamstress, while Asa started up a business making and repairing saddles, and her son, Joseph, worked at a boarding house. In December 1819, Sarah, along with her son, William, and her daughter, Sarah, and son-in-law, first contracted to sell 150 acres of land in (West) Virginia. Her son, Joseph, witnessed the document on the sale of the tract of land, which was part of the 5,590 acres that Lt. William Scudder had purchased in 1791 while living in Orange County, New York.

  
  

• Sources

  [S62] John Scudder III (1675-1738) of Essex County, New Jersey, Vol. II, No. 1, p. 5. [S233] Email from Diane Benelli, 1 January 2001. Compiler cites "Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church - New Amsterdam, New York City," Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Volume IX, pp. 242, 266.