Died one month after wife - they both had a long fever. One son and two daughters also died the same year of the same fever. Only 4 of the 10 children lived to maturity.

Rudd, Nathaniel, Jun., son of Serj. Nathaniel, had his dwelling where John Q. Cross now lives. He married, Dec. 22, 1730, mary Backus, and had a numerous family of children.102

Horace Rudd says of this man: “As to my great grandfather, I know not his first name, neither the time nor the place of his birth, but when he was settled with a family he lived in the town of Norwich Parish of Bozrah, Connecticut. From all that I have ever heard of this man I should think he was a farmer. As little of anything concerning this man has been handed down to the writer of this I will mention one circumstance which my grandfather related to me. When my great grandfather was reaping in the field with his oldesn son whose name was Nathaniel, the son cut his finger very badly with his sickle. “There,” said his father, “Nathaniel has cut his finger so bad he will not reap any more this year. He must pick blackberries.”