Scudder Falls on the Delaware River
Scudder Falls on the Delaware River is named for our 7th great-grandfather Richard Betts Scudder.
Huguenots: Protestant Exiles from France
Two sets of our ancestors represent the Huguenot migrations from France in the 17th century.
Slave Insurrection of 1712
On Monday morning, April 7, 1712, New Yorkers gasped at the bodies strewn about town after a night of unprecedented violence. August Grasset
Land Grab on Long Island
Richard Betts was a settler on Long Island prior to the takeover of New Netherland by the English and a bitter rival of Peter Stuyvesant.
