Capt. Nathaniel Rudd

Was five years old at the death of his father, and after his mother’s second marriage was taken to Windham.

The settlement of Scotland, a few miles east of Windham, was begun about the year 1700, by a Scotsman named Issac Magoon, who gave it the name of his native land. About the year 1702, Nathaniel Rudd purchased a tract of land in this section and about the time of his marriage removed to the new settlement. It was in the town of Windham and so remained until May 1857, when it was incorporated as an independent town.

In October 1722, Mr. Rudd was commissioned Ensign of the second Company of the trainband of Windham on the General Court of the colony in the session of October 1737.

Captain Nathaniel Rudd (1684-1760) of Windham, Conn., of which place he was an original settler. He was an officer in the Militia, and represented Windham in the General Assembly of connecticut in 1737.