[1] Adapted from Margery Boyden, unpublished manuscript, From Conscience to Liberty, v. 2, 16601796. This article will be included in Scudder Family Historical & Biographical Journal Volume 5 no 1 (Winter 2023) issue.

William8 W. Scudder I, Early Years of the Arcot Mission, Widower Again and a Third Marriage, And Glastonbury, Connecticut, the Years 1853–1895
The three Scudder brothers were hard at work their first year to establish the Arcot Mission, which was “about sixty miles from India’s eastern coast.