Daughter of "the Rev'end Divine that was, Mr. Thomas Stoughton, last a minister at Coggeshall, Essex Co, England, 1600-1606."

See the Essex Co, England Heritage Page

From: TAG 72:285-300: A New England Immigrant Kinship Network, Jane Fletcher Fiske, F. A. S. G.

"JOHN SCUDDER (HenryA ) was born probably at Horton Kirby, Kent, say 1590, and died, probably at Strood, Kent, in 1625 or 1626.  He married at Maldon, Essex, in 1613, ELIZABETH STOUGHTON  daughter of the Rev. Thomas Stoughton. As Mrs. Elizabeth Scudder, widow, she married secondly, at Strood, Kent, "the last daye of Aprill 1627, Mr. Robert Chamberlayne Pastor of the Parrishe of Stroud," whose first Wife, Joanna, was buried there on 20 February 1626/7  Robert Chamberlaine's son Thomas, schoolmaster, "by Gods providence deprived of his life at Rochester Bridge," was buried at Strood on 9 October 1630. The record of the marriage states that Elizabeth was the daughter of "the Rev’end Divine that was, Mr Thomas Stoughton." Thomas Stoughton received his M.A. from Queen's College, Cambridge, in 1580, and was vicar of Coggeshall, Essex, from 1600 to 1606. He was father also of Thomas1  and Israell1  Stoughton, who came to New England in 1630 and 1633  Robert and Elizabeth (Stoughton) (Scudder) Chamberlain had three children, Samuel, Joanna, and Sarah, baptized at Strood.

Mr. Robert Chamberlaine died at Strood and was buried there on 1 June 1639. (There is a twenty-year gap in the Strood register following his burial.) His widow came to New England with her children, Elizabeth Scudder and Samuel and Joanna Chamberlain, following her brothers Thomas and Israel Stoughton and her son John Scudder, all of whom were here by 1635. She was certainly in New England by 6 October 1644, when, as "Mestres Chamberlin," she joined the Rev. John Lothrop's church at Barnstable.39  She apparently moved to the Bay colony shortly thereafter, for on 14 May 1645, the Massachusetts Bay General Court, calling her “ Mrs Chamberlin, widowe, sister to Mr  Israell Stoughton," directed, '[u]pon weighty reasons moveing," that she be allowed either a cow or £5.40

The late Lewis D. Cook, FASG, investigated "Mrs. Chamberlin" and her children in Essex County, Massachusetts, without having access to the English records that provide the Scudder and Stoughton connections. Elizabeth (Stoughton) (Scudder) Chamberlain died intestate, apparently in Ipswich, Massachusetts, before the inventory of her estate was filed on 30 1st month [March] 1647; the court ordered that the estate, which totaled only £32 4s. 5d., be divided: two parts to the son and one part to the daughter.42 Two years later, “Richard Betts, who married Joana Chamberlin. [was] allowed 27: 1 [March]: 1649, as administrator of' the estate of Samuell Chamberlin, brother to said Joana, who was heir to the estate. ''43 Richard and Joanna (Chamberlain) Betts moved to Long Island, where his will, dated 16 March 1711, indicates his continuing associations with the Scudders.44  It is unusual that Elizabeth Chamberlain's Scudder children did not share in her estate.  However, in cases when the estate was small and included no land, the courts sometimes exercised considerable leeway.

The first child in this Scudder family whose baptismal record was found in the Strood registers was Thomas in 1616/7, but an older child, Elizabeth, was buried there in 1616. While it is tempting to surmise that Bridget, wife of  Thomas Verry and Edward Giles, might belong in this family, that placement is impossible unless John was older than calculated and had an earlier wife--Bridget must have been already at least seven or eight years old at the time of his marriage to Elizabeth Stoughton."

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 William Stoughton, judge of the Salem witch trials. William was a son of Israel Stoughton, Elizabeth's brother. He was a first cousin of Joanna (Chamberlain) Betts, and of John Scudder and his sister, Elizabeth (Scudder) Lathrop.

Stoughton Notable Kin - Gary Boyd Roberts

More on the Notable Kin of Scudders - Gary Boyd Roberts

TAG 72:285-300, 1997: A New England Immigrant Kinship Network, Jane Fletcher Fiske, F. A. S. G., (Editor of NEHGR, but contributor/author of this TAG article.)

"The English Ancestry of Thomas Stoughton 1588-1661 and his son Thomas Stoughton 1624-1684 of Windsor CT".

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See the Betts Page for more about her daughter, Joanna (Chamberlain) Betts and her descendants.

The Children and Grandchildren I have so far is (based primarily on the 1997 TAG article, which is probably not complete, as it's focus was the Scudders.)

 
 1   Thomas Stoughton 1560 -
........... 2   Elizabeth Stoughton 1600 - 1647 - Migrated to America with these children, when she was a widow, c 1640
...............  +John Scudder 1590 - 1625 - Brother of Thomas Scudder of Salem
........................ 3   Elizabeth (1) Scudder 1614 - 1616
........................ 3   Thomas Scudder 1617 - 1617
........................ 3   John Scudder 1618 - 1690 -  Lived Barnstable, Mass
............................  +Hannah 1625 -
........................ 3   Thomas Scudder 1620 -
........................ 3   Elizabeth Scudder 1625 - 1682 - Moved onto Norwich, Con
............................  +Samuel Lathrop 1623 - 1700
...........  *2nd Husband of Elizabeth Stoughton:
...............  +Robert Chamberlain 1590 - 1639
........................ 3   Samuel Chamberlain 1628 - 1649
........................ 3   Joanna Chamberlain 1630 - 1711 - Moved onto Newtown, Long Island, New York
............................  +Richard Betts 1613 - 1713
........................ 3   Sarah Chamberlain 1632 - 1635
........... 2   Thomas Stoughton 1600 -
........... 2   Israel Stoughton 1600 -
........... 2   Judith Stoughton 1600 -
...............  +Denman 1600 -
...........  *2nd Husband of Judith Stoughton:
...............  +Smead 1600 -

Direct Descendants of Thomas Stoughton
 

 1   Thomas Stoughton 1550 - 1622 b in Prob Sandwich, Kent, England
....  +Katherine Montpesson 1560 - b in England
 2   Elizabeth Stoughton 1590 - 1647 b in England
......  +Robert Chamberlain 1590 - 1639 b in England

Per marriage record, was daughter of "the Rev'end Divine that was, Mr. Thomas Stoughton"
Immigrated as a widow, following her Stoughton brothers and her Scudder kin, abt 1640.
 
 
... 3   Joanna Chamberlain 1630 - 1711 b in Strood, Kent, England
.........  +Richard Betts 1613 - 1713 b in Hemel, Hemstead, England
Joanna was half-sister to Elizabeth (Scudder) Lathrop and John Scudder of Barnstable.
Moved to Long Island. Future generations were born on Long Island, until generation 11 below.
 
 
..... 4   Mary Betts 1654 - 1734 b in Newtown, Queens Co, New York
...........  +Joseph Swezey 1653 - 1734 b in Southold, Long Island, New York
........ 5   Richard Swezey 1690 - 1782 b in Southold, Long Island, New York
..............  +Elizabeth [Parshall?] 1701 - 1739 b in Southold, Long Island, New York
........... 6   Elizabeth Swezey 1722 - 1806 b in Aquebogue, now Riverhead, Long Island, New York
.................  +Zerubabel Hallock 1721 - 1800 b in Southold, Long Island, New York
............. 7   Zachariah Hallock 1749 - 1820 b in Southold, Long Island, New York
...................  +Hannah Youngs 1754 - 1823 b in Aquebogue, Long Island, New York
................ 8   Bethuel Hallock 1790 - 1866 b in Aquebogue, Long Island, New York
......................  +Harmony Howell 1795 - 1864 b in Riverhead, Long Island, New York
.................. 9   John Kasar Hallock 1831 - 1875 b in West Mattituck, Long Island, New York
........................  +Mary Jane Aldrich 1836 - 1862 b in Mattituck, Long Island, New York
 
 
After several generations of Long Islanders, Generation 10 below are the Kansas Pioneers:
Read this story of life on the farm with Morris and Harriet.
 
 
..................... 10   Morris Wells Hallock 1858 - 1941 b in West Mattituck, Long Island, New York
...........................  +Harriet Loetta Pollock 1865 - 1936 b in Richland Co, Ohio
Morris met Harriet when barely a teenager, married at age 16. Harriet  became an instant mom to younger brothers and sisters as her mother had died a few months before they married.


 
........................ 11   Inez Evangeline Hallock 1886 - 1976 b in Near Milo, Lincoln Co, Kans
..............................  +Arthur Willis Baldwin 1876 - 1961 b in Near Ada, Fountain Twp, Ottawa Co, Kans
 

Related Links:

 
See the Scudder Kinship Network Page.

Betts Page

Norman Stephan's Stoughton Page.

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