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He published " Letters from the East" (Boston, 1833) ; "Appeal to Youth in Behalf of the
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at the special request of the Board though not appointed as a member of it. In 1849 Scudder returned to his mission in Madras, where he laboured till his death. He took a visit for the benefit of his health to
Wynberg, Cape of Good Hope, Africa where he died on January 13, 1855. He and his wife
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50:, on September 3, 1793, the son of Joseph (a lawyer) and Maria Scudder. His family was of English descent, with their first ancestor in the Americas being Thomas Scudder, who arrived from England. He graduated from
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