Nathaniel Scudder
He was a member of the county's committee of safety and represented it in the Provincial Congress held in 1774.That same year he was named lieutenant colonel in the county's first regiment of militia.[2] In 1777, Scudder became the colonel of his militia regiment and was sent as a delegate to the Continental Congress.He wrote a series of impassioned letters to local and state leaders urging the adoption of the Articles of Confederation, and when New Jersey's legislature approved them in November, he endorsed them for the state at the Congress.On October 17, 1781, he led a part of his regiment to offer resistance to a British Army foraging party and was killed in a skirmish near Shrewsbury, New Jersey.