“Straight from the Horse’s Mouth:
Time Again to Separate Scudder Facts from Fiction,”
by ©Margery Boyden, Scudder Association Foundation Historian,
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The Scudder Association Foundation journal is dedicated to preserving and sharing the remarkable 385-year Scudder family heritage in America. While our primary focus is on our philanthropic endeavors, we also have stewardship over many family records collected for more than 100 years.
The strong ROOT of the American Scudder Family Tree was a yeoman in England named Henry Skudder, who died at Horton Kirby, Kent in 1594/5, but it took more than 100 years of research to prove it.
The 29th daye of September beinge the Feast of St. Micaell the archangell in the yeere of our Lorde God one thousand fyve hundreth fourscore and fowre[teen] and the Sixxe and thirtieth yeere of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England etc.
The Scudders of India have a long family tradition of devoting their lives to the assistance of others. But what if you were not a Scudder? When a Scudder took a bride, planning to return to India, did their vow include,” …to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse,
Find the Answer in This True 130-Year-old Love Story from India On the Scudder Association’s Foundation’s 2019 bicentennial excursion to India, Samuel approached James Taylor with his prized possession, a Bible that is at least 125 years old. “Who was Mabel J. Scudder?” he asked. On the flyleaf was written, “Mr. Gopalsamy Mudalier from Mabel J. Scudder, Christmas 1893.”
“I go from love to Christ and to souls. The very self-denial of the work allures me. It is my happiness to go.”
It is two hundred years from the time the Rev. John Scudder embarked on his trail-blazing journey as the first medical missionary from America to go to a foreign land, to minister to body and spirit of then unknown souls more than 8000 miles away
Why in some records does it refer to the original John Scudder as ” doubtful”.
i am a born Scudder from Rochester, N.Y.
My father was Merrill Frederick Scudder from Fulton, N.Y.
His father was Leon R Scudder (called L R as in the age of LLBean) he was born in Palermo, N.Y. and ran a meat market on Oneida St with a brother in Fulton, N.Y
His father was Leander Scudder, , Palermo …dairy farmer
Original Scudder with wife & 3 kids about 1799 went here to Palermo but have been trying to find where they lived before that and which Scudder (John or Thomas) they came from. Cape Cod seemed to keep their boys close, but Thomas’ kid were adventurers.
I have been looking into these Scudders and spent some time at Lathrop house library in roped off room where Elizabeth married Samuel. Have now stumbled over your association and have corrected my notes.
I am 86…near 87 and remember my great grandparents on visits to Palermo. My son lives in Huntington, LI and I lived in Port Washington raising family, but now live in Wilmington, N.Y. near Lake Placid. Many, many graves in Huntington & home of John.1
I am a Scudder from Kenton County, Kentucky.
I am now 61 years old and would like to trace my Scudder ancestors.
If anyone would have any information I could reasearch, it would be most appreciated.
I am new to this and I don’t really know how to track down my ancestors.
Thankyou so much for your time.