Generation No. 1
1. Hiram Ulysses Grant, born April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Clermont, OH; died July 23, 1885 in Mount Mcgregor, New York, NY. He was the son of 2. Jessie Root Grant and 3. Hannah Simpson. He married (1) Julia Boggs Dent August 22, 1848 in St. Louis, MO. She was born January 26, 1826 in St Louis, MO, and died December 14, 1902 in Washington, DC.
Notes for Hiram Ulysses Grant:
"Grant was an outstanding military figure and the savior of the Union during the Civil War, as well as the 18th President of the United States from 1869-77. He was an author of unusual ability and his Memoirs are widely regarded as one of the great books written in the English language. He was also a complex individual with uncommon virtues." From: Ulysses S. Grant Homepage (internet site)
Notes for Julia Boggs Dent:
Julia Dent has two lines that can be traced back to royalty, according to the genealogist Gary Boyd Roberts.
Generation No. 2
2. Jessie Root Grant, born January 23, 1794 in Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., PA; died June 29, 1873 in Covington, Campbell, KY. He was the son of 4. Noah Grant and 5. Rachel Kelly. He married 3. Hannah Simpson June 25, 1821 in Point Pleasant, Clermont, OH.
3. Hannah Simpson, born November 23, 1798 in Horsham, Philadelphia, PA.
Child of Jessie Grant and Hannah Simpson is:
1 i. Hiram Ulysses Grant, born April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Clermont, OH; died July 23, 1885 in Mount Mcgregor, New York, NY; married Julia Boggs Dent August 22, 1848 in St. Louis, MO.
Generation No. 3
4. Noah Grant, born June 20, 1748 in Tolland, CT; died in Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., PA. He was the son of 8. Noah Grant and 9. Susannah Delano. He married 5. Rachel Kelly March 04, 1792 in Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., PA.
5. Rachel Kelly, died April 10, 1805 in Deerfield, Portage, OH.
Child of Noah Grant and Rachel Kelly is:
2 i. Jessie Root Grant, born January 23, 1794 in Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., PA; died June 29, 1873 in Covington, Campbell, KY; married Hannah Simpson June 25, 1821 in Point Pleasant, Clermont, OH.
Generation No. 4
8. Noah Grant, born July 12, 1718 in Tolland, CT; died September 20, 1756 in Lake Champlain, VT. He was the son of 16. Noah Grant and 17. Martha Huntington. He married 9. Susannah Delano November 05, 1746 in Tolland, CT.
9. Susannah Delano, born June 23, 1724 in Tolland, CT; died August 16, 1806 in Coventry, Tolland, CT.
Child of Noah Grant and Susannah Delano is:
4 i. Noah Grant, born June 20, 1748 in Tolland, CT; died in Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., PA; married Rachel Kelly March 04, 1792 in Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., PA.
Generation No. 5
16. Noah Grant, born December 16, 1692 in Windsor, Hartford Co., CT; died October 16, 1727 in Tolland, CT. He married 17. Martha Huntington June 12, 1717 in Tolland, CT.
17. Martha Huntington, born December 09, 1695 in Norwich, CT; died August 26, 1779 in Tolland, CT. She was the daughter of 34. John Huntington and 35. Abigail Lothrop.
Child of Noah Grant and Martha Huntington is:
8 i. Noah Grant, born July 12, 1718 in Tolland, CT; died September 20, 1756 in Lake Champlain, VT; married Susannah Delano November 05, 1746 in Tolland, CT.
Generation No. 6
34. John Huntington, born March 15, 1665/66 in Norwich, CT; died November 07, 1732 in Norwich, CT. He married 35. Abigail Lothrop December 09, 1686 in Norwich, New London, CT.
35. Abigail Lothrop, born May 11, 1665 in Norwich, CT; died November 19, 1745 in Norwich, CT. She was the daughter of 70. Samuel Lothrop and 71. Elizabeth Scudder.
Child of John Huntington and Abigail Lothrop is:
17 i. Martha Huntington, born December 09, 1695 in Norwich, CT; died August 26, 1779 in Tolland, CT; married Noah Grant June 12, 1717 in Tolland, CT.
Generation No. 7
70. Samuel Lothrop, born Abt. 1623 in England; died 1700 in Norwich, New London, CT. He was the son of 140. John Lothrop. He married 71. Elizabeth Scudder November 28, 1644 in Barnstable, MA.
71. Elizabeth Scudder, born May 12, 1622 in England; died 1700 in Salem, Essex, MA. She was the daughter of 142. John Scudder and 143. Elizabeth Stoughton.
Notes for Samuel Lothrop:
"Samuel Lathrop was a builder of Boston, and a farmer of Barnstable, finally settling in now New London, Connecticut, where he became one of the judges of the local court organized in 1649. In 1668 he moved to Norwich, Connecticut, where he was chosen constable. He married (first), November 28, 1644, in Barnstable, Elizabeth Scudder. they were the parents of nine children, their eldest, a son John, baptized December 7, 1645, their youngest a daughter, Anne, born August 7, 1667. Samuel Lathrop married (second), in 1690, Abigail Doane, born January 29, 1632, daughter of Deacon John Doane, of the Plymouth Colony. She survived her husband thirty-four years, living to the great age of one hundred and two."
Excerpt from the biography of Ernest Avery Lathrop, "A Modern History of New London County, Connecticut," published 1922
Notes for Elizabeth Scudder:
Samuel and Elizabeth’s descendants include two presidents--Grant and FDR; Benedict Arnold and the wives of two other noted Revolutionary figures --"signer" Samuel Huntington and General Israel Putnam; various modern political figures --Thomas Edmund Dewey, the Dulleses, the last two Adlai Ewing Stevensons (via Bordens), and the wife of Charles Joseph Bonaparte, "Teddy" Roosevelt’s cabinet minister and Napoleon’s great-nephew; and various "tycoon" families -- the Scribners, publishers, of New York, the Marshall Fields and the chewing-gum Wrigleys of Chicago, the King-Klebergs of the King Ranch in Texas, Charles William Post of Post Toasties, and the wives of Levi Z. Leiter of Chicago and Leland Stanford of California. Boston "Brahmins" among Samuel’s and Elizabeth’s descendants include the two Oliver Wendell Holmeses and John Lothrop Motley, whose daughter married British Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir William G.V. Harcourt. Other British connections include the 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Foreign Secretary and Indian Viceroy, son-in-law of Leiter and father-in-law of Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley: European descendants include the wife of Czeckoslovakian President Thomas Jan (later Garrigue) Masaryk and mother of Jan Garrigue Masaryk, Czech Foreign Minister (Charlotte Garrigue, whose mother was a New England Whiting).
Hollywood figures among Lathrop/Scudder descendants include Dina Merrill, Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld and a wife of director Preston Sturges. Mormon descendants include Mary Anne Van Cott, one of the 16 wives of Brigham Young by whom he left children, 4th president Wilford Woodruff, and leaders Orson and Parley Parker Pratt, plus Parley’s great-grandson, political figure George Romney. Later intellectual figures of Lathrop/Scudder descent include college presidents Daniel Coit Gilman of Johns Hopkins, Frederick A.P. Barnard of Columbia and Charles Seymour of Yale, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead of Central Park, poet Hart Crane, critic William Lyon Phelps, composer Charles Ives, novelist Louis Auchincloss, Soviet expert George Frost Kennan, and the wives of architect Richard Morris Hunt, composer Edward Alexander MacDowell, and novelist Robert Penn Warren, and the husband of anthropologist Ruth Benedict. Lastly among these Lathrop/Scudder descendants, I wish to mention Serena Alleyne Stanhope Armstrong-Jones, Viscountess Linley, Princess Margaret’s daughter-in-law and a "minor royal", whose matrilineal great-grandmother was a Sumner of Boston. Presidents, some Revolutionary and later political figures, tycoons (in New York City and the midwest especially), some Boston Brahmin intellectuals, several British or European figures (including some prime ministers, presidents, or "royals") and Hollywood and Mormon figures from the West are all expected descendants of Connecticut or Connecticut Valley pioneers.
Jane Fiske discovered from Strood, Kent parish registers, the will of Reverend Henry Scudder, a marriage record of John Scudder and Elizabeth Stoughton, and other sources, some already published in TAG or in publications of the Scudder Family Association, that Elizabeth Scudder, wife of Samuel Lathrop, was the daughter of the above John Scudder and Elizabeth Stoughton, a sister of Thomas and Israel Stoughton of Dorchester, Mass. John Scudder was a brother of Thomas Scudder of Salem and an uncle of Thomas Scudder of L.I.
Source: Genealogical Thoughts by Gary Boyd Roberts, NEHGS Senior Research Scholar, author and reference librarian
Descendants of Elizabeth Scudder include Ulysses S. Grant, Benedict Arnold, Marjorie Merriwether Post, her daughter Dina Merrill (the actress), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Thomas E. Dewey, John Foster Dulles and Frederick Law Olmsted, codesigner of New York's Central Park.
SOURCE: Scudder Association
Children of Samuel Lothrop and Elizabeth Scudder are:
i. Samuel Lathrop, born March 06, 1649/50 in Norwich, New London, CT; died December 09, 1732 in Norwich, New London, CT; married Hannah Adgate; born October 06, 1653 in Norwich, New London, CT; died September 18, 1695 in Norwich, New London, CT.
ii. Martha Lathrop, born January 1656/57 in New London, CT; died September 21, 1719 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT; married John Moss December 12, 1676 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT; born October 12, 1650 in New Haven, CT; died March 31, 1717 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT.
Notes for John Moss:
W/ HIS FATHER, ONE OF THE FIRST SETTLERS IN WALLINGFORD, CT., ACTIVE IN CIVIC AFFAIRS. OWNED OVER 500 ACRES IN MULTIPLE FARMS; ONE ON TEN MILE HILL, ONE AT BUSBY HILL, ANOTHER AT HONEY POT.
iii. Israel Lathrop, born October 1659 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT; died March 28, 1733 in Norwich, New London, CT; married Rebecca Bliss April 06, 1686 in Norwich, CT; born March 18, 1662/63 in Norwich, CT; died August 22, 1737 in Norwich, CT.
iv. Joseph Lathrop, born October 1661 in Norwich, New London, CT; died July 05, 1740 in Norwich, New London, CT; married (1) Mary Scudder April 08, 1685 in Norwich, CT; born Abt. 1663 in New London, CT; died September 18, 1695 in Norwich, New London, CT; married (2) Elizabeth Waterhouse February 02, 1696/97 in Norwich, New London, CT; born March 22, 1671/72 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT; died November 29, 1726 in Norwich, New London, CT.
35 v. Abigail Lothrop, born May 11, 1665 in Norwich, CT; died November 19, 1745 in Norwich, CT; married John Huntington December 09, 1686 in Norwich, New London, CT.
vi. Anne Lathrop, born August 1667 in New London, CT; died November 19, 1745 in Norwich, New London, CT; married William Hough; born October 13, 1657 in Saybrook Point, Middlesex, CT; died April 22, 1705 in New London, CT.
vii. Elizabeth Lathrop, born March 1647/48 in New London, CT; died 1690 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT; married (1) Isaac Royce December 15, 1669 in New Haven, CT; born 1641 in Boston, MA; died 1681; married (2) Joseph Thompson 1683; born April 04, 1664 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT; died December 14, 1711 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT.
viii. John Lathrop, born December 07, 1645 in Norwich, New London, CT; died August 26, 1688 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT; married Ruth Royce December 15, 1669 in New London, CT; born December 07, 1645 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT; died November 10, 1732 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT.
ix. Sarah Lathrop, born October 1655 in Norwich, CT; died November 11, 1706 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT; married Nathaniel Royce April 21, 1681; born March 24, 1638/39; died February 08, 1735/36 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT.
Notes for Nathaniel Royce:
He was five times married, his fourth wife being the widow Abigail Hoyt, in whose life had occurred a gruesome tragedy--a not uncommon event in those days of savage Indians and frontier life.
She had previously been the wife of Deacon David Hoyt, of Deerfield, Mass. Two hours before daybreak on February 29, 1703-4, a party of French and Indians under the command of M. de Rouville, swooped down on the sleeping town and butchered many and captured a number of others. David Hoyt, his wife Abigail, and four of their children were among the prisoners, and, suffering such tortures as may be imagined on a winter trip under such conditions, they were started on the way to Canada; one child was killed on the road and David died of starvation at Cowass in N. H., near the mouth of Wells river. She was finally brought back from Canada and married Nathaniel Roys in 1708.
Source: Historic Record of the Town of Meriden, Connecticut, 1906, Vol 1
Generation No. 8
140. John Lothropp
Notes for John Lothrop:
Excerpt from the biography of Ernest Avery Lathrop, "A Modern History of New London County, Connecticut," published 1922
. "Samuel Lathrop, who was brought from England by his father, Rev. John Lathrop, in 1734. Rev. John Lathrop came into open conflict with the Archbishop of London, where he was pastor of an Independent church, and with forty-three members of his church was arrested, April 29, 1632, and thrown into prison. While he was in prison, his wife died and finally he was released on the condition that he would leave England. Accordingly he sailed with his children, and in 1634 arrived in New England. He founded a church in Scituate, Massachusetts, and with many of his congregation moved to Barnstable."
Child of John Lothrop is:
70 i. Samuel Lothrop, born Abt. 1623 in England; died 1700 in Norwich, New London, CT; married Elizabeth Scudder November 28, 1644 in Barnstable, MA.
142. John Scudder, born Abt. 1588 in Kent, England. He was the son of 284. Henry Scudder. He married 143. Elizabeth Stoughton.
143. Elizabeth Stoughton
Child of John Scudder and Elizabeth Stoughton is:
71 i. Elizabeth Scudder, born May 12, 1622 in England; died 1700 in Salem, Essex, MA; married Samuel Lothrop November 28, 1644 in Barnstable, MA.
Generation No. 9
284. Henry Scudder, born 1545; died Bet. 1594 - 1595. He was the son of 568. John Scudder.
Notes for Henry Scudder:
Henry Scudder was the father of the immigrant, Thomas Scudder, and is referred to as Reverend Doctor Scudder.
Henry Scudder, d 1594-1595 is likely the son of a John Scudder, who died by October 18, 1584, when his widow Margaret deeded property at Sutton at Hone and Horton Kirby to her son Henry Scudder, carpenter; a William Scudder (likely brother) signed the "final concord" with her on "eighth day of St. Martin", Nov 19, 1585.
TAG 72:291, 1997
Henry Scudder is an ancestor of General Hiram Ulysses Grant. He is also an ancestor of General John Sedgwick.
Children of Henry Scudder are:
i. Thomas Scudder, born 1586 in Darenth, Kent, England; died June 1658 in Salem, Essex, MA; married 1618 in Darenth, Kent, England.
Notes for Thomas Scudder:
Family members in this country probably will find they are descended from four Scudders who arrived from England in the early 17th century to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. First was Margaret who, with her husband Captain John Johnson and their family, settled in Roxbury. Then followed John and his sister Elizabeth, married later to Samuel Lathrop, who settled in Barnstable. Finally, Thomas, his wife Elizabeth, and their children settled in Salem in 1636.
THOMAS SCUDDER is said to have been a son of "Rev. Dr. Henry Scudder of England, who presided at a convention of clergymen appointed by the King at Westminster in 1643," and to have come from Groton, England, in 1636 with his wife ELIZABETH, and children John and Elizabeth. He settled in Salem, Mass., and died in 1657. The daughter married Samuel Lothrop. A correspondent of the New York Evening Mail, February 25, 1905, says the wife of Thomas Scudder was Elizabeth Lowers of Daruth, Kent Co., England, and gives the following children: John; Thomas; Henry, married Catherine Este; Elizabeth, born in 1622; married, 1st, Henry Bartholomew, and second, November 28, 1644, Samuel Lothrop; William; and Martha.
Source: Bibliographic Information: Boardman, William F. J. The Ancestry of William Francis Joseph Boardman. Harford, Connecticutt. 1906.
Back many years ago, a genealogical researcher named H.F. Waters published an item entitled, "Genealogical Gleanings in England." In it he wrote about a will from 1645 for John Lowers of Darenth, Kent, England. In the will, John spoke of his daughter, Elizabeth, and her children, all surnamed Scudder. Since Thomas Scudder of Salem was from the same area in Kent, and the childrens' names in the will were similar to Thomas', Waters assumed that Thomas' wife was Elizabeth Lowers. Some other researchers in reading this old will, read the name to be Somers. Later, a will of Henry Scudder of North Cray, Kent, dated 1641, was found. This will proved that Henry, not Thomas of Salem, was the husband of Elizabeth Lowers, daughter of John Lowers. The surname of Thomas' wife is still unknown.
Many family historians, being somewhat lazy or unversed in research, accepted Waters' assumption as fact. That's why we still see Thomas of Salem married to Elizabeth Lowers or Somers. In some cases, adding confusion, other family historians confuse Thomas with John Scudder of Barnstable (actually Thomas' nephew) who was married to Hannah, surname unknown. In other cases, family historians confuse Thomas with his son, John Scudder, who married Mary King.
142 ii. John Scudder, born Abt. 1588 in Kent, England; married Elizabeth Stoughton.
iii. Henry Scudder, born Abt. 1585 in Kent, England; died Abt. 1652 in Wiltshire, England; married Elizabeth Hunt; born Abt. 1600 in England; died Abt. 1625 in England.
Generation No. 10
568. John Scudder, died October 18, 1584.
Notes for John Scudder:
Henry Scudder, d 1594-1595 is likely the son of a John Scudder, who died by October 18, 1584, when his widow Margaret deeded property at Sutton at Hone and Horton Kirby to her son Henry Scudder, carpenter; a William Scudder (likely brother) signed the "final concord" with her on "eighth day of St. Martin", Nov 19, 1585. TAG 72:291, 1997
Child of John Scudder is:
284 i. Henry Scudder, born 1545; died Bet. 1594 - 1595.