Lt. Richard Betts Scudder

RICHARD BETTS SCUDDER was born in 1671 in Newtown, New York and died on March 14, 1754 in Ewing, New Jersey. In 1691 he married Hannah Reeder in Newtown. Richard spawned the various Scudder families of the Trenton, New Jersey area. He came to Trenton 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:

1. Hannah
2. Mary
3. Richard
4. John
5. Abigail
6. Joseph
7. Samuel
8. Rebecca
9. Joanna

Richard and Hannah are buried in the Ewing Church yard.