A Christmas Gift to You from Amos and Jedediah Scudder, etc., and the Miracle of
The Battle of Trenton with No ‘Summer American Soldiers or Sunshine Patriots There!’[1]
by Margery Boyden, Scudder Association Foundation Historian, with permission, © 2022

[1] Adapted from Margery Boyden, unpublished manuscript, From Conscience to Liberty, v. 2, 16601796.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.

 

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