Amos Scudder

[2] According to his biographer, Shelley Carroll, Scudder was "an aggressive, litigious entrepreneur who made financial success his business.

Amos was also a prominent Savannah citizen who constructed some of the city's finest public and private buildings.

His siblings were Rachel, Ephraim, Sally (or Sarah), Elizabeth (or Jenny), Arrowsmith (Smith), Anne, Phebe and John Spinning.

[4] Scudder moved from Westfield to Savannah in the first quarter of the 19th century, appearing regularly in post-office records from 1811.

[3] The couple had eleven children: Theodore, Emily P., Mary, Ann Eliza, Amos Picton, John, Catherine C., Ephraim, Caroline Mathilda, Phoebe and Sarah.