SCUDDER, Nathaniel, a Delegate from New
Jersey; born at Monmouth Court House, Monmouth County, N.J., May 10, 1733; was
graduated from Princeton College in 1751; studied medicine and commenced
practice in Monmouth County, N.J.; member of the committee of safety; delegate
to the Provincial Congress of New Jersey in 1774; member of the State general
assembly, serving as speaker in 1776; lieutenant colonel of the New Jersey
Militia in 1776 and colonel in 1781; Member of the Continental Congress
1778-1779; trustee of Princeton College 1778-1781; was killed October 17, 1781,
at Blacks Point, near Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, N.J., while resisting an
invading party of the British Army; interment in Tennent Church Graveyard,
Tennent, N.J. - -Biographical
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