Son of Timothy Scudder and Mary Whitehead, husband of Sarah Brush, the daughter of Tredwell Brush and Hannah Platt, whom he married on September 20, 1770, in the First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, New York, by the Rev. Prime, and father of Tredwell and Hannah Scudder (married Samuel Skidmore).
"Died of fever aboard the horror ship Jersey."
"Lieutenant Joel Scudder was born November 8, 1746, at West Hills, Long Island. Joel was baptized on January 1, 1747, in Huntington. He married Sarah Brush who was born May 25,1747 and baptized July 26, 1747, in Huntington. Joel and Sarah were married on September 20, 1770, in the same town.
Joel was one of the men chosen by the Huntington Committee of Safety to be 2nd Lieutenant of one of the three Huntington companies of militia, First Company, on September 11, 1775. On April 5, 1776, Joel was promoted to Captain in the 1st Regiment, Suffolk County Militia.
A report from William Boyd states: "The Minute Men and those to be Enlisted into the Continental Service to be taken from the above list of officers (including Joel Scudder). The Regiment is about two-thirds furnished with bayonets and others are getting them as fast as they can get them made; they are furnished with a half-pound of powder and two pounds of ball per man, and a Magazine in the Regiment to furnish them with about as much more when it shall be wanted; they are pretty industrious in fixing their accoutrements, and I hope in a short time they will be tolerably prepared."
On August 27, 1776, Joel Scudder was with his Huntington militia company and fought in the Battle of Long Island. Along with many others who were the victims of Washington's first major defeat, they were herded aboard prison hulks hastily assembled in the Wallabout, an indentation in Long Island near Brooklyn. There were eight prison ships altogether, including the infamous Jersey.
The Jersey was once a stately 64-gun ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, now reduced to a stinking derelict housing American soldiers and seamen. Her two tiers of gun ports, now empty of cannon, were only twenty inches square and spaced ten feet apart. The air inside the hull was almost suffocating, for the ports let in little air and less light. Aside from the British captain, mates and seamen, about thirty British or Hessian soldiers acted as guards.
The food was meager and without fresh meat or vegetables; putrid pork and biscuits crawling with maggots. The water was slimy and stagnant. As might be expected, malnutrition, scurvy, dysentery and fever carried off hundreds each week. Every day on the shores of Wallabout Bay burial parties of emaciated prisoners interred the previous night's quota of bodies. These deadly prison hulks remained at their moorings for nearly seven years. It has been estimated that 11,000 Americans died in them during the Revolution. All were dumped into shallow graves in the mudflats ashore.
Was Joel Scudder one of those pitiful human skeletons who lie there? All we know is that he died of fever aboard the horror ship Jersey."
(Long Island Surnames; Suffolk County Web Exchange)
"Died of fever aboard the horror ship Jersey."
"Lieutenant Joel Scudder was born November 8, 1746, at West Hills, Long Island. Joel was baptized on January 1, 1747, in Huntington. He married Sarah Brush who was born May 25,1747 and baptized July 26, 1747, in Huntington. Joel and Sarah were married on September 20, 1770, in the same town.
Joel was one of the men chosen by the Huntington Committee of Safety to be 2nd Lieutenant of one of the three Huntington companies of militia, First Company, on September 11, 1775. On April 5, 1776, Joel was promoted to Captain in the 1st Regiment, Suffolk County Militia.
A report from William Boyd states: "The Minute Men and those to be Enlisted into the Continental Service to be taken from the above list of officers (including Joel Scudder). The Regiment is about two-thirds furnished with bayonets and others are getting them as fast as they can get them made; they are furnished with a half-pound of powder and two pounds of ball per man, and a Magazine in the Regiment to furnish them with about as much more when it shall be wanted; they are pretty industrious in fixing their accoutrements, and I hope in a short time they will be tolerably prepared."
On August 27, 1776, Joel Scudder was with his Huntington militia company and fought in the Battle of Long Island. Along with many others who were the victims of Washington's first major defeat, they were herded aboard prison hulks hastily assembled in the Wallabout, an indentation in Long Island near Brooklyn. There were eight prison ships altogether, including the infamous Jersey.
The Jersey was once a stately 64-gun ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, now reduced to a stinking derelict housing American soldiers and seamen. Her two tiers of gun ports, now empty of cannon, were only twenty inches square and spaced ten feet apart. The air inside the hull was almost suffocating, for the ports let in little air and less light. Aside from the British captain, mates and seamen, about thirty British or Hessian soldiers acted as guards.
The food was meager and without fresh meat or vegetables; putrid pork and biscuits crawling with maggots. The water was slimy and stagnant. As might be expected, malnutrition, scurvy, dysentery and fever carried off hundreds each week. Every day on the shores of Wallabout Bay burial parties of emaciated prisoners interred the previous night's quota of bodies. These deadly prison hulks remained at their moorings for nearly seven years. It has been estimated that 11,000 Americans died in them during the Revolution. All were dumped into shallow graves in the mudflats ashore.
Was Joel Scudder one of those pitiful human skeletons who lie there? All we know is that he died of fever aboard the horror ship Jersey."
(Long Island Surnames; Suffolk County Web Exchange)
Son of Timothy Scudder and Mary Whitehead, husband of Sarah Brush, the daughter of Tredwell Brush and Hannah Platt, whom he married on September 20, 1770, in the First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, New York, by the Rev. Prime, and father of Tredwell and Hannah Scudder (married Samuel Skidmore).
"Died of fever aboard the horror ship Jersey."
"Lieutenant Joel Scudder was born November 8, 1746, at West Hills, Long Island. Joel was baptized on January 1, 1747, in Huntington. He married Sarah Brush who was born May 25,1747 and baptized July 26, 1747, in Huntington. Joel and Sarah were married on September 20, 1770, in the same town.
Joel was one of the men chosen by the Huntington Committee of Safety to be 2nd Lieutenant of one of the three Huntington companies of militia, First Company, on September 11, 1775. On April 5, 1776, Joel was promoted to Captain in the 1st Regiment, Suffolk County Militia.
A report from William Boyd states: "The Minute Men and those to be Enlisted into the Continental Service to be taken from the above list of officers (including Joel Scudder). The Regiment is about two-thirds furnished with bayonets and others are getting them as fast as they can get them made; they are furnished with a half-pound of powder and two pounds of ball per man, and a Magazine in the Regiment to furnish them with about as much more when it shall be wanted; they are pretty industrious in fixing their accoutrements, and I hope in a short time they will be tolerably prepared."
On August 27, 1776, Joel Scudder was with his Huntington militia company and fought in the Battle of Long Island. Along with many others who were the victims of Washington's first major defeat, they were herded aboard prison hulks hastily assembled in the Wallabout, an indentation in Long Island near Brooklyn. There were eight prison ships altogether, including the infamous Jersey.
The Jersey was once a stately 64-gun ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, now reduced to a stinking derelict housing American soldiers and seamen. Her two tiers of gun ports, now empty of cannon, were only twenty inches square and spaced ten feet apart. The air inside the hull was almost suffocating, for the ports let in little air and less light. Aside from the British captain, mates and seamen, about thirty British or Hessian soldiers acted as guards.
The food was meager and without fresh meat or vegetables; putrid pork and biscuits crawling with maggots. The water was slimy and stagnant. As might be expected, malnutrition, scurvy, dysentery and fever carried off hundreds each week. Every day on the shores of Wallabout Bay burial parties of emaciated prisoners interred the previous night's quota of bodies. These deadly prison hulks remained at their moorings for nearly seven years. It has been estimated that 11,000 Americans died in them during the Revolution. All were dumped into shallow graves in the mudflats ashore.
Was Joel Scudder one of those pitiful human skeletons who lie there? All we know is that he died of fever aboard the horror ship Jersey."
(Long Island Surnames; Suffolk County Web Exchange)
"Died of fever aboard the horror ship Jersey."
"Lieutenant Joel Scudder was born November 8, 1746, at West Hills, Long Island. Joel was baptized on January 1, 1747, in Huntington. He married Sarah Brush who was born May 25,1747 and baptized July 26, 1747, in Huntington. Joel and Sarah were married on September 20, 1770, in the same town.
Joel was one of the men chosen by the Huntington Committee of Safety to be 2nd Lieutenant of one of the three Huntington companies of militia, First Company, on September 11, 1775. On April 5, 1776, Joel was promoted to Captain in the 1st Regiment, Suffolk County Militia.
A report from William Boyd states: "The Minute Men and those to be Enlisted into the Continental Service to be taken from the above list of officers (including Joel Scudder). The Regiment is about two-thirds furnished with bayonets and others are getting them as fast as they can get them made; they are furnished with a half-pound of powder and two pounds of ball per man, and a Magazine in the Regiment to furnish them with about as much more when it shall be wanted; they are pretty industrious in fixing their accoutrements, and I hope in a short time they will be tolerably prepared."
On August 27, 1776, Joel Scudder was with his Huntington militia company and fought in the Battle of Long Island. Along with many others who were the victims of Washington's first major defeat, they were herded aboard prison hulks hastily assembled in the Wallabout, an indentation in Long Island near Brooklyn. There were eight prison ships altogether, including the infamous Jersey.
The Jersey was once a stately 64-gun ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, now reduced to a stinking derelict housing American soldiers and seamen. Her two tiers of gun ports, now empty of cannon, were only twenty inches square and spaced ten feet apart. The air inside the hull was almost suffocating, for the ports let in little air and less light. Aside from the British captain, mates and seamen, about thirty British or Hessian soldiers acted as guards.
The food was meager and without fresh meat or vegetables; putrid pork and biscuits crawling with maggots. The water was slimy and stagnant. As might be expected, malnutrition, scurvy, dysentery and fever carried off hundreds each week. Every day on the shores of Wallabout Bay burial parties of emaciated prisoners interred the previous night's quota of bodies. These deadly prison hulks remained at their moorings for nearly seven years. It has been estimated that 11,000 Americans died in them during the Revolution. All were dumped into shallow graves in the mudflats ashore.
Was Joel Scudder one of those pitiful human skeletons who lie there? All we know is that he died of fever aboard the horror ship Jersey."
(Long Island Surnames; Suffolk County Web Exchange)
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