Individual Details
(1671 - 14 March 1754)
Richard Betts Scudder is the ancestor of the various Scudder families of the Trenton, New Jersey area. He came to Trenton from Long Island sometime before 1709 and in May, 1709, purchased a plantation of some 500 acres on the Delaware River at the Falls now known as Scudder Falls about two miles below where Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas 1776. He was commissioned a Captain on March 10, 1713. Richard and Hannah had the following children: Hannah, Mary, Richard, John, Abigail, Joseph, Samuel, Rebecca and Joanna. Richard and Hannah are buried in the Ewing Church yard.
Events
| Birth | 1671 | Newtown, Long Island | | | |
| Marriage | 1691 | Newtown, Long Island - Hannah Reeder | | | |
| Death | 14 March 1754 | Ewing, New Jersey | | | |
| Burial | | First Presbyterian Church of Ewing Cemetery, | | | |
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