HomeMy WebLinkAboutBiographies of Revolutionary War Veterans of Tompkins Co Thomas Scudder
Name: Thomas Scudder
Date of birth:1747 (PF)
Birthplace:Elizabethtown, Essex, NJ
Parents: Samuel Scudder and Phebe Miller
Spouse:Elizabeth DeCamp b. 1744 Essex Co., NJ daughter of HendrikDeCamp and Sarah Moss Marsh
Marriage date:
Place of marriage:Essex County, NJ.
Date of death:June 25, 1836 (U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872 Record for Thomas Scudder)
Place of death:Enfield, Tompkins, NY
Place of burial:Unknown
Children:
Pension Application File #:S11358
Place of enlistment: Rahway, Essex, New Jersey
Service Record:
State of New York
Tompkins County
On this 3rd day of October personally appeared in open court before the judge of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting, Thomas Scudder, a resident of the town of Enfield, in the county
of Tompkins and state of New York, aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following name officers and served as herein stated.
That he lived at Rahway, New Jersey at the time he entered the service.
That in the month of April 1776 he cannot recollect the day, he volunteered under Capt. Moses Jacquith in Col. Crane’s Regiment in the New Jersey state troops and served one month at
Trembly’s Point as a guard and was dismissed at the end of the time and went home.
In June 1776, the day he cannot recollect, he was called out again under the same Capt. And Colonel and served one month as a guard at the place mentioned above at the end of which he
was dismissed.
That in August, 1776 he was called out again under the same Captain and Colonel and served one month at Trembly’s Point above mentioned.
In October following he was called out again under the same Captain and Colonel and served one month at Trembly’s Point above mentioned.
In March or April 1777 he was called out under the same Captain and Colonel and served one month at Trembly’s Point above mentioned.
In June following he was called out and served one month under the same Captain and Colonel at Trembly’s Point aforesaid.
In September following he was called out and served as above.
In November following (as above)
In March of April 1778 he was called out (as above)
The troops were enrolled for the purpose of a guard and were called and served alternately every other month during the winter season. Trembly’s Point was the place where they were stationed.
This deponent cannot recollect the particular day when each month’s service commenced or expired. There were no Continental troops stationed near them.
In March 17779 he volunteered under Captain Amos Moss in Colonel Edmund Thomas’ Regiment of the New Jersey state Troops-marched to Elizabethtown Point, was there stationed as a guard
against the refugees and British and served one month and at the end of the time was dismissed.
In May 1779 he volunteered again under the same Captain and Colonel last mentioned and served another month at Elizabethtown Point as a guard last mentioned.
He cannot state the time of entering the service and of being dismissed from the same with more precision than above stated.
In Oct. 1779 he was drafted for three months in the militia under Captain Amos Moss in Col. Crane’s Regiment to pursue the Indians-that he hired Enoch DeCamp to go in his place-that
he paid him full wages but does not recollect the amount- that the substitute served out the time as this deponent believes, that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure
who can testify to his service.
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He further testified that he was born at Elizabethtown, NJ in the year 1747
He lived at Elizabethtown when he enlisted the service. After the war he moved to Westfield, NJ and from there to Morristown and from there to Enfield where he now lives and has lived
there for about 21 years.
New York Pensioners, 1835:
Thomas Scudder served as a private in the New Jersey militia. He applied for a pension from Tompkins Co.
He was awarded a pension of $50.00 annually, and collected a total of $125 by the time of his death in 1836.
He was placed on the pension roll Aug. 3, 1833 with pension commencing as of Mar. 4, 1831
1820 US Federal Census Hector, Tompkins, NY (2 boys and 1 girl)
1830 US Federal Census Enfield, Tompkins, NY Thomas Scudder age 80-90
Listed on the 1815 Jury List for Ulysses, Seneca, NY
Notes: Thomas Scudder has children in the 1820 census but they are unknown at this date.
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FamilyFileGed 08 20 08 at www. ancestry.com
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Original data:
"New Jersey Births and Christenings, 1660-1931." Index.FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.
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Original data: Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record
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Ancestry.com. New York Pensioners, 1835 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1998. Original data: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War,
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Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.