Mary Scudder

Mary King

• BIRTH 1623 Dorset, England
• DEATH 5 Jan 1668 (aged 44–45) New York, USA
• BURIAL Old Burying Ground of First Presbyterian Church Southold, Suffolk County, New York, USA

Mary King came with her family from Dorset, England to Salem, MA on March 20, 1653.

Family

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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. 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) is my line and is covered in the next section.
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.

Biography

Mary Kinge was born in 1624 in Sherbourne, Dorset, England. She emigrated to Salem, Massachusetts with her parents on the “Abigail” in March 1635 when she was 12.

The first English settlers (the Dorchester Company) came to Salem in 1626. It was at the mouth of the Naumkeag river at the site of an ancient Native American village and trading center. More settlers arrived with the Great Puritan Migration/Fleet of 1629/1630 and it was at this time that John Winthrop was elected Governor. Mary and her parents arrived in 1635.

Her future husband, John Scudder left England for Salem on the ship “James” in 1635 when he was 16.

Mary married John Scudder in 1642. In the year that they married, John was granted a half acre lot as a house lot near his 10 acres, located by Kings Cove in "Royalls Neck." This half acre was for "other uses" so he may have had his business there. John was a currier, that is a person who dresses, dyes, and colours leather. During June 1650, he was regularly excused from military training because of his trade, since leather might spoil after a day's absence. He was obliged, however, to pay an 18 pence fine for each day of training he had to miss.

They appear on the Salem Church list in 1647. They had five children and their fourth was Elizabeth, our ancestor, who was born in 1648.

In 1651, John sold their house in Massachusetts and moved to Southold, Long Island. They sailed, along with his brothers Thomas and Henry, 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 the Scudders were on board.

Southold is the oldest English settled town in New York State and the church is the second oldest in New York State, after the Dutch Reform 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. Economically, the region was heavily dependent on small farming, with fishing along the coastal areas, and trade with New England.

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.

On October 3, 1662, John Scudder and others purchased the neck of land commonly called by the English ‘Plungers Neck’ lying on the south side of Long Island bounded on the east by the river Hohosboco, from the Indian Chiefs Womatupa, Wonoxi and Powatahuman.

They made application to the Hon. Richard Nicoll by the inhabitants of Newtown, L.I., June 23, 1663 to empower them to make whatever land purchases they should think fit. In pursuance of said license, in the same year, John Scudder, Samuel Scudder and others did in due form of law purchase of and from the Indian Natives, all that tract of land situate between Mespath Kills and Flushing Creek to hold unto the inhabitants of Newtown forever, by certain deed made under the hand and seal of Powwanhon, Indian Chief dated July 9, 1666.

Mary died on 5 Jan 1668 in Newtown, New York at the age of 44.

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.

On 13 December 1680 John gave his estate to his son, Samuel, in exchange for the maintenance of himself and his wife for the remainder of their lives.

John Scudder died in Jun 1692 in Newtown, New York at the age of 73.

References

• http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/1381/scudder/d0003/g000001...
• “New England Marriages Prior to 1700.” By Clarence Almon Torrey. Page 658. GoogleBooks
• http://billputman.com/the-genealogy/families-related-to-my-putman-l...
• Vital Records of Salem - births. https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Salem/aBirthsS.shtml “SCUDDER Elizabeth, d. –––––, bp. 18: 1m: 1649. CR1; Hanna, d. John, bp. 19: 6m: 1649. CR1; Mary, d. John, bp. 11: 4m: 1648. CR1”