Person:Thomas Scudder (1)

Brief Biography

Thomas Scudder was probably born in Kent, England. The Rev. Henry Scudder identified his brother as Thomas with wife Elizabeth as living in New England in his will of 1651; Rev. Scudder is otherwise known to have had extensive property in the area of Darenth, Kent County. Thomas is thought to have owned property in the nearby community of Horton Kirby. It seems likely that both Henry and Thomas were born in this area.

Darenth =red dot, Horton Kirby=Green dot; both in Kent County

Thomas emigrated to America in 1635 during the Great Migration. He was accompanied by his wife Elizabeth, and children, all of whom had been born in England. The family settled in Salem, Massachusetts. Thomas died there about 1657. In 1645 Thomas, his wife Elizabeth, their sons and daughter Elizabeth are identified as living in New England in the will of his brother, the Reverend Henry Scudder.

Source Materials

• Source:Scudder, 1989 Huntington Long Island data
• Source:Perley, 1924 has considerable information on the Scudders of Salem, particularly land records

• MySource:Holman and Felt, 1921:114
• MySource:Holman and Felt, 1921:115
• MySource:Boardman, 1906:288

• Source:Holman and Felt, 1921

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Fiske, Jane Fletcher. A New England Immigrant Kinship Network: Notes on the English Origins of the Scudders of Salem and Barnstable, Massachusetts, Bridget (-----) (Verry) Giles of Salem, and Joanna (Chamberlain) Betts of Long Island. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jul-Oct 1997)
   72:293.

   Thomas¹ Scudder (Henry^A) was born probably at Horton Kirby, Kent, say 1586 and died at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1657 (after 30 September, the date of his will). … Thomas Scudder was a proprietor of at Salem, having first been granted land there on 25 December 1637. … In his will, dated 30 September 1657 and proved 29 June 1658, "Thomas Scudder inhabitant of Salem in Newengland, sick and weak in body," named his wife Elizabeth, and children John, Thomas and Henry Scudder, and Elizabeth Bartholomew, and grandson Thomas Scudder son of William, deceased. Administration was given to Mr. Henry Bartholomew and Hillyard Veren on 28 9th month [Nov.] 1665, and it was noted that Thomas Scudder's wife was lately deceased.