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Note: Thomas with sisters & brothers, moved from Salem, MA to Southold, Long Island in 1651. In 1656, all sold out to John Baylis, and moved to Huntington, LI. Later some of the families went to Jamaica, L.I. to reside.Thomas owned land there in 1654. He sold it in 1656 to move, apparently spending a year or more in Babylon, Long Island before settling in Huntington [Charles Moore, TOWN OF SOUTHOLD (New York: n.pub., 1868), p. 36]. The first record of Thomas in Huntington is in 17 October 1660, when he brought suit for 100 pounds against Edward Higby for defamation of character (Thomas won the suit but received only 20 pounds in damages). In 1668, Thomas was chosen Town Constable. He settled "by the waterside" of Huntington Bay, possibly on the site of the "Old House at the Inlet" near the junction of present New York and Park avenues, Huntington. Thomas' tanning mills faced the water in the area now called Tanyard Lane. Here, leather was cured and sent by wagon to a drum factory on Rogues Path to be transformed into drums for military use all over the world. Thomas, over a period of time, acquired some one thousand acres of land, including land previously acquired in Babylon, most of it along the Huntington Bay waterside, but some extending well up into the hills from the shore. He also purchased land eastward to Cow Harbor and Crabmeadow, now Northport. In his will, dated 2 December 1686, he left most of his property, real and personal, to be divided equally between his widow, Mary,and his third son, Benjamin. To his oldest son, Timothy, he left valuable property at Babylon, Cow Harbor, North Point, Red Hook, Vernon Valley, and at Crabmeadow.
More About THOMAS II JR SCUDDER: Christening: May 1622 Proved: October 22, 1691 Will: December 07, 1686
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