John Scudder, of Newtown

Not the same as John Scudder, of Barnstable

[1] John Scudder arrived during the Puritan Great Migration in 1635, Salem, Massachusetts.[2] It is reported that he associated himself with the Antinomians.

http://www.billputman.com/Scudder.pdf

John Scudder was born in Kent, England in 1619 and traveled with his family to Salem in 1636. In 1642 he received a land grant in Salem for himself. In the same year he married Mary King. They appear on the Salem Church list in 1647.

In 1651 John, along with his brothers Thomas and Henry, sailed from Salem to Southold on the eastern tip of Long Island. Southold was originally settled in the early 1640s by a Salem Minister, John Youngs. It was established as a part of the newly founded New Haven Colony. In 1651 Reverend Youngs brought a boatload of Puritans from Salem and our Scudders were on board.

Southold is the oldest English settled town in New York State and their church is the second oldest in New York State, after the Dutch Church in New York City. Originally part of the New Haven Colony jurisdiction, Southhold later joined with the Connecticut Colony in 1662 and was acquired by the New York Colony in 1664.

John Scudder was a currier and tanner of leather while in Salem and he continued this profession after he moved to Long Island.

John and Mary Scudder remained in Southold from 1651 to 1657 when they moved to Huntington. By 1660 they were prominent in Newtown, New York where they lived for the remainder of their lives.

In 1668 John owned what was later known as Schenck's Mill on a dammed river in the Buswick area. There was a fever spreading in the area at the time, and the officials felt the dam was stagnating the river and causing the problem. The Court of Newtown ordered that the dam be broken.

John Scudder died sometime afterwards in Newtown. Mary had died on January 5, 1668.

They had 5 children, all born in Salem, Massachusetts:

1. SAMUEL married Phoebe Titus, daughter of Edmund Titus of Westbury. He died in January 1689 and Phoebe remarried on February 24, 1690 to a Robert Field of Newtown. Samuel and his brother John (II) were among a group of four Newtown Quakers who refused to swear the oath of allegiance in August of 1673. Samuel had acquired the family lands as mentioned above. Their children were Samuel, Mary (Renne), Sarah, Deborah (Denton).
2. JOHN (II) John junior was born in Salem, Massachusetts on 1645. After moving to Newtown with his family, he married Joanna Betts there in 1669. The license was dated April 20, 1669, the marriage was shortly thereafter. Joanna was the daughter of Captain Richard Betts and Joanna Chamberlain Betts.
3. ELIZABETH was baptized in Salem on March 18, 1648/9. In 1669 she married John Alburtis. John was the son of Peter Alburtis and Judith Jans Manje. The Alburtis family was the first Italian family to settle in New York State. He died in April of 1691 and Elizabeth married again in 1693 to William Lawrence. They moved to New Jersey where he was a senator from Monmouth County. Lawrence died in 1704, I do not know when Elizabeth died, but it was after 1712.
4. MARY was baptized in Salem on June 11, 1648.
5. HANNAH was baptized in Salem on August 19, 1649. Hannah married William Smith in 1668.

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came from England with his family before 1635 to Salam, MA?

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http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.scudder/268/mb.ashx_ from "The Descendents of Henry Scudder"

John Starr "The Emigrant" Scudder son of Thomas Scudder, Sr. & Elizabeth Somers Lowers

 John I Starr Scudder, 

• b. 1619, Groton, England of Salem, Essex, Ma;
• d. June 1692, Maspeth Kills, Newton, Queens County, New York
• m. Mary (Dorothy?) King 1642 in Newtown, Long Island, New York, dtr. of William King ..................................................................&Dorothy Hayne.
• b. 1623 in Sherbourne, Suffolk, England,
• d. January 05, 1667/68 in Newtown, Queens, New York

References

• “New England Marriages Prior to 1700.” By Clarence Almon Torrey. Page 658. GoogleBooks
• “Scudder” in “Memoir of Johannes Schenk” - Long Island Genealogy. PDF page 16.
• “The annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York; containing its history from its first settlement, together with many interesting facts concerning the adjacent towns;” by Riker, James, 1822-1889. Publication date 1852. Archive.Org
• George Trakas at the Water’s Edge: Newtown Creek Urban Omnibus • Mar 18, 2009
• https://www.newtownhistorical.org/newtown-creek.html