Person:Hannah Stillwell (1)

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  1. Hannah StillwellAbt 1705 - 1740
  1. Deborah Scudder1721 - 1776
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Name Hannah Stillwell
Gender Female
Birth? Abt 1705 Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States
Marriage to Richard Betts Scudder, Jr.
Death[2] 21 Feb 1740 First Presbyterian Church of Ewing Cemetery, Ewing, Mercer, New Jersey, United States

Lee1 claims she is the wife of the Richard Betts who died in 1754 while Find A Grave2 claims she is the wife of his son Richard Betts who died in ca 1731. More research needed to straighten this out.

References
  1.   Lee, Francis Bazley. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey: a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation. (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910)
    67.

    (IV) Lieutenant Richard Betts, son of John (2) Scudder, ... died March 14, 1754, aged eighty-three years, twenty years after his wife Hannah, daughter of Joseph Stillwell.

    Their children were: Hannah, Mary, Richard, John, Abigail, Joseph, Samuel, Rebecca, Joanna and Deborah, married John Hart, the signer of the Declaration of Independence [per his will, she is a granddaughter]. ...

  2. 130032568, in Find A Grave
    includes headstone photo [illegible], last accessed Aug 2025.

    Inscription
    age 35 years