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Col. Nathaniel Scudder, M.D.

Col. Nathaniel Scudder, M.D.

Male 1733 - 1781  (48 years)

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  • Name Nathaniel Scudder  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] 
    Title Col.  
    Suffix M.D. 
    Born 10 May 1733  Huntington, Suffolk, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] 
    Gender Male 
    Died 16 Oct 1781  Black Point, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] 
    • Age: 48
    Buried Tennent, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 8] 
    Person ID I1046  Clark-Hart
    Last Modified 22 Sep 2022 

    Father Jacob Scudder,   b. 29 Nov 1707, Long Island City, Queens, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 May 1772, Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years) 
    Relationship putative 
    Mother Abia Rowe,   b. 23 May 1708, Long Island City, Queens, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 05 May 1791, Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Relationship putative 
    Married 05 Aug 1731  Huntington, Suffolk, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 6, 7, 15] 
    Family ID F394  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Isabella Anderson,   b. 06 Jul 1737, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Dec 1782, Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 45 years) 
    Married 23 Mar 1752  Monmouth Co., New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 9, 11] 
    Children 
     1. Lydia Scudder,   b. 27 Oct 1767, Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1808, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 41 years)
     2. Kennth Anderson Scudder,   b. 21 Aug 1765, Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Oct 1843, Homer, Cortland, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
     3. Joseph Scudder, MD,   b. 12 Feb 1762, Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 05 Mar 1843, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)  [natural]
     4. Hannah Scudder,   b. 16 Aug 1763, Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 09 Dec 1834  (Age 71 years)  [natural]
     5. John Anderson Scudder, MD,   b. 22 Mar 1759, Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 06 Nov 1836, Washington, Daviess, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 15 Mar 2017 
    Family ID F373  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 10 May 1733 - Huntington, Suffolk, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 23 Mar 1752 - Monmouth Co., New Jersey, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 16 Oct 1781 - Black Point, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Tennent, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos

    Col. Nathaniel Scudder, M.D.    		Col. Nathaniel Scudder, M.D.

    Documents
    Family of Nathaniel and Isabella Scudder.pdf    		Family of Nathaniel and Isabella Scudder.pdf

    Headstones
    Find A Grave    		Find A Grave
    Old Tennent Churchyard, Tennent, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA

    Histories
    Wikipedia article about Nathaniel Scudder    		Wikipedia article about Nathaniel Scudder
    Describes his service during the Revolutionary War. A delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey.
    History of New Jersey    		History of New Jersey
    Details the Scudder Family in America, including Isabella Anderson's family.
    Story of Nathaniel Scudder    		Story of Nathaniel Scudder
    Short story of Nathaniel Scudder of New Jersey.

  • Notes 
    • From https://www.venividiscripto.com/nathaniel-scudder-revolutionary-war/
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      Nathaniel married Isabella Anderson, the only daughter of Colonel Kenneth Anderson, the year after his college graduation, and following a charming and whirlwind romance.

      The History of NJ Medicine records the courtship and romance as told a century later by Dr. Scudder’s granddaughter, Maria.

      Seems the beautiful Isabella, a member of an old Scottish family that came to the colonies during the Scottish troubles of 1715, came to church services on horseback, and was quickly seen and appreciated by a young college graduate, Nathaniel Scudder. She alighted from her horse and fastened him to a tree before walking up to and into the church. The daring young medical student went up to the horse, disarranged the equipment and entangled the bridle before he, too, went into church. When service was over, and young Isabella went back to her horse, only to be chagrined by the entanglement, Nathaniel suddenly appeared, quite dignified and graceful, and offered to come to her assistance. He righted all the reins he had entangled, then assisted the young lady into the saddle. He mentioned to her that since they were both traveling in the same direction, a distance of some four miles or more, he felt the need to travel with her and offer her protection. She acquiesced to his gallantry, Nathaniel mounted his own horse, and the two rode off together, the beginning of a courtship that culminated in a marriage in 1752 and ultimately the birth of three sons and two daughters.
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      From book

      Calvin's Crusaders in the Wars That Made America:
      The Story of Nathaniel and Isabella Scudder-Princeton Patriots of the Revolutionary Era
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      Nathaniel Scudder, a well-educated Presbyterian physician, was an idealistic early advocate of the rebellion. Like many of his fellow graduates of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) he believed in the Calvinist vision of a pious republic. His wife, Isabella Anderson Scudder, a wealthy heiress and granddaughter of a royal governor, reluctantly accepted her husband's radical political inclinations while fearing the tragic consequences that might result.

      After a brilliant career as a physician and elder of the Presbyterian Church, he was elected to represent New Jersey in the Continental Congress, where he became one of the signatories of the Articles of Confederation. He eventually grew so frustrated by the blatant corruption he experienced that he abandoned politics and helped form an extra-legal vigilante organization, the Retaliators.

      Nathaniel's inner journey to the abandonment of his congressional mandate in favor of participation in violent retaliation was driven by his friendship and admiration for David Forman, the main architect of the retribution strategy.

      On October 16, 1781, Nathaniel Scudder became the only person who served in the Continental Congress to die in action in the War of American Independence. In a skirmish between Retaliators and Loyalists, he was struck by a bullet meant for David Forman.
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    • From Wikipedia:
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      Scudder was born in Monmouth Court House, Province of New Jersey, which later became Freehold Borough, New Jersey. He attended the College Of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and graduated in 1751. He then studied medicine before setting up a practice in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

      Dr. Scudder was active in civic and militia affairs. When the revolution split the colonies, he supported the rebel cause. He was a member of the county's committee of safety and represented it in the Provincial Congress held in 1774. That same year he was named lieutenant colonel in the county's first regiment of militia. In 1776 he was elected to a one-year term as Monmouth County's first member of the newly constituted New Jersey Legislative Council, and in 1780 he was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly.[2]

      In 1777, Scudder became the colonel of his militia regiment and was sent as a delegate to the Continental Congress. During the summer of 1778, he was particularly busy and abandoned his medical practice. He split his time between the Congress and militia activities. He led his regiment in the Battle of Monmouth in June. He wrote a series of impassioned letters to local and state leaders urging the adoption of the Articles of Confederation, and when New Jersey's legislature approved them in November, he endorsed them for the state at the Congress.

      Scudder continued both forms of service for several years. On October 17, 1781, he led a part of his regiment to offer resistance to a British Army foraging party and was killed in a skirmish near Shrewsbury, New Jersey. He is buried in the Tennent Church Graveyard in Manalapan Township. Dr. Scudder was the only member of the Continental Congress to die in battle during the Revolutionary War and the last colonel to die in battle.

  • Sources 
    1. [S22] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
      Record for Jacob Scudder

    2. [S80] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Book Title: Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 019 : 1897.
      Record for Jacob Scudder

    3. [S70] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Volume: 239.
      Record for Jacob Scudder

    4. [S22] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
      Record for JACOB Scudder

    5. [S22] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
      Record for Isabella Anderson

    6. [S22] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
      Record for Abiah Roe Rowe

    7. [S22] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
      Record for Abia Rowe

    8. [S23] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
      Record for Nathaniel Scudder

    9. [S80] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Book Title: Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR Vol 152.
      Record for Isabella Anderson

    10. [S80] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Book Title: Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 070 : 1908.
      Record for Isabella Anderson

    11. [S80] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Book Title: Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR Vol 077.
      Record for Isabella Anderson

    12. [S70] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Volume: 302.
      Record for Isabella Anderson

    13. [S70] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Volume: 239.
      Record for Isabella Anderson

    14. [S80] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Book Title: Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR Vol 152.
      Record for John Anderson Scudder

    15. [S80] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Book Title: A register of the ancestors of Dorr Eugene Felt and Agnes (McNulty) Felt.
      Record for Jacob Scudder