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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: John Thompson Note Born: Abt 1620 at London, , Middlesex County, England Married: Abt 1640 Died: 1655 at East Haven, , New Haven Colony, CT Other Spouses: Dorothy

WIFE
Name: Elizabeth Scudder Note Born: Abt 1620 at London, , Middlesex County, England Died: Bef 1651 Father: Henry Scudder Rev. Mother: Elizabeth Hunt
CHILDREN

NOTES
1). !MARRIAGE Will of Henry Scudder, 12 February 1651 , C o l l ingbourne Du cis, Wiltshire, England.
2).  !BIRTH   Will of Henry Scudder, 12 February 1651  pr o v e d 3 1 May 1652 , London , Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltsh ir e , E ngl and.  The will names w ife Joyce  daughters Ja ne , M arth a, B ridgett, and deceased daughter, E lizabeth   g rand daugh ter , Elizabeth  and brother   Thomas Scudder , a n d al l hi s sonn es and his daughter Elizabeth now i n Ne w Englan d...     T h e will also names   cousins Bridge tt Gi les, an d Joh n Scudde r and Eliz abeth Lathrop now i n Ne w England.  !DEATH   Ibid.id.  !DEATH   Ibid.e who then became mas ter held the pos t u n t i l his death, at the age of eighty eight, in Jan u ar y 16 97  8 , and was buried in Guildford Church  AUBREY , Hi sto r y o f S urrey, iii, 502 . Brook  Lives of the Pu ritan s, i ii , 22 9  states tha t Grayle, having married , in th e en d o f 1645 , a daughter of one Mr. H enry Scud der, wen t i n th e next ye ar, probably as minister, to li ve a t Co llin gbour ne Ducis , Wiltshire.  He subsequentl y became re cto r of T i dworth i n the same county,   where ,   says Wood ,   h e was muc h follow e d by the precise an d godly party.     H e was a ma n of muc h erudition, a n d a   pious, faithf ul, a nd laboriou s ministe r,   much bel oved by his p arish ioners .  While a s trict pres byteria nGrayle as apparentl y charg ed with Armin ianism an d def end ed his principle s in a wor k, which was p ublished a f ter his death wit h a pref ace b y Constantine Je ssop, min is ter at Wimborne , Dorsetshire , entitled   A Mo de st Vin dicati on of theDo ctrine of Cond itions in the Covena n t of Grace a n d the D efenders thereo f from the Aspersio n s of Arminianis m an d Popery, whic h M r. W. Eyre cast o n th em.   London, 165 5 .  The preface  dat ed 15 Sept. 165 4   say s that the boo k h ad beendelivere d to Eyre in th e author   s lifet ime . Grayl e died, aged 40 , early in 16 54. afte r a lingerin g illnes s . He was burie d in Tidwor th Church , and a neig hbouring mi nister, Dr . H umphry Ch ambers, prea ched his f uneral sermo n   before the brether n , who were pr esent i n great numbers.    It is pu blishe d with the   Mode s t Vind ication.    A son o f the sam e na mes, educated at Exet er C ollege , Oxford, wa s recto r o f Blickling, Norfolk, an d p ublished many sermon s .   W o od  s Athenae Oxon.  Bliss   , iii, 362, iv, 501. in 16 9 9 , bu t theinscription is co rre ctl y preserved in Ding ley    s   History in Mar ble    Ca mde n Soc.   A daughter ma rrie d Jo hn Grayle  q.v.  in 164 5. Sc udder was author i f a cel ebrate d devotionalwork en title d   The Christian   s Daily W alke i n Holy Securitie an d Peace .   The sixth e diti on, is sued i n 1635, has an   Ep istle t o the Reader,    by John Dav enpo r t  q.v. , dated f rom Colem an Street , 25 April 1627 .  Dave nport write s th atthe fir st cop pie was more brie fe  but?  , upon occasi on of a s eco n d letter, wherein som e other cas es were pr opounded, th e j udiciou s author no t only handle d these a rguments la rgel y in his public mini s tery, but als o adde d more par ticular s for his friends f ull satisfacti o n i n a secon d coppy.     The title page des cribes it as   fir s t intend e d for pri vate use  now throug h importunitie p ubli she d for the comm o n good.   A Germa n translation b y Theod o re Haak appeare d at Frankfur t i n 1636. The boo k was f reque ntly reissued .  the editions o f 1690 and 17 6 1 hav e commend ations by Jo hn Owen, D.D.  q .v. , whos e portra it is prefixe d , and b y Richard Baxte r  q.v.  .  The lat ter could not rem ember   a ny book whi c h is wri tten to b e the daily companio n of Chr istians, t o guide t hem in t h e practise of a holy l ife,   w hich he p referre d to it .  A fifteenth ed ition was i ssue d in 1813 .  Th e fina l edition of 1826, containing Dav e npo rt  s epi stl ean d Owen and Baxter  s recommendations, ha s a n intro d u cto ry essay by Thomas Chalmers  1780 1847   q. v.   Scu dd e r also published   1.    A Key of Heaven  the Lord    s P ra y e r opened and applyed,   1632, 12mo  dedicated t o    M r . Th omas Crew,and to all h is hopefull children,    a n d h a s a preface by R. Sibbs of Gray  s Inn, wh o des crib e s i t a s   writted without affectation.   2.   Prototy pe s , o f t he P rimarie Precedent Presidents out of the B oo k e of Genes is, W it h Mr. Whatelyes Life and Death,    164 0 , fol., an d 1647 .  Here Scudde r had the assistan ce o f Ed ward Leig h  q.v.  , who was, like himself, o n e of Wh ately   s executo rs.  A po rtrait was engraved by S herwin i n 16 7 4.   Author ities cite d  Fuller  s Hist. of Cambrid ge Un iversity, 1655 , p . 92  M itchell and Stru there  s Mi nute s of the Westmins ter Assembly , pp. 10 3 , 252, 346, 4 07, 4 83, 502  Hodgson   s Entries in P aris h Registers of C olling b ourne Ducis, rep rinted from t h e Wiltshire Archaeologica l Magazine, xxvi, 3 20  privat e inf ormation  Grang er  s Bio gr. Hist., ii, 183   Broo k   s Lives o f the Puriti ans, ii , 504, 505  Bromley a nd Eva n  s Cat . o f Engr. Por traits.

						

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