Notes:

A. Source: Records of Joyce Lorraine Clore Elkins of Parke County,Indiana. You must contact compiler for further information. SLJuhl,compiler--sljuhl1234@yahoo.com.

Family/Spouse: *Mary Stout. *Mary (daughter of James Stout and Jemima Reeder) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. David L. D. Labaw, II was born about 1775 in New Jersey; died on 13 Jul 1851 in Fountain County, Indiana.
2. Charles Labaw and died.
3. James Labaw and died.
4. Francis Labaw and died.
5. Lewis Labaw and died.
6. Deliverance Labaw and died.
7. Mary Labaw and died.
8. Daniel Labaw and died.

Notes:

A. Source: Records of Joyce Lorraine Clore Elkins of Parke County,Indiana.
There is no doubt what so ever that the LaBaw, Stout, Burk, Smith,Douglass, French, and all of the families listed below in Indiana arerelated.
I am a direct descendant of all of them. My grandmother's maiden namewas Douglass and my mother's maiden name was Clore and my father'ssurname was Elkins. The Douglass intermarried with LaBaw, French,Reynolds, Smith, Redenbaugh, Sparks, Burk. The Clore's intermarriedwith the Martin, Otterback, Rector families. My father's Elkinsfamily intermarried with the Clore's, Sparks, Rector, Deer families.My folks were third cousins, so I am related by descent to all of thefamilies.
My mother's (Joyce Lorraine Clore Elkins) research was exemplary andconcise. She knew many of the older family members as well in almosteveryone of the above families. Mother gathered source informationfrom those family members and then backed it up with biographies,obituaries, census records, marriage & death records, etc.... thesources are so multiple that I have not listed all of them in mynotes, but be assured there is a reference source somewhere amongstall of the many volumes of her work that I now own throughinheritance. I have endeavored over the last ten years to also updaterecords when time allows. When I do update, the sources are usuallyincluded in the notes of the person being updated in my Family TreeMaker program. The families are so multiple in origin with hundredsof branch families that putting all of the information into thecomputer has been a work in progress, and it continues even now.There are more than 12 books on the different families that I haveworked on so far already at the Crawfordsville Public Library.
You must contact SLJuhl, Compiler & FamilyGenealogist--sljuhl1234@yahoo.com for further information.

Francis + *Deliverance Stout. *Deliverance (daughter of *David Stout and Rebecca Ashton) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A. Source: Records of Joyce Lorraine Clore Elkins of Parke County,Indiana. You must contact compiler for further information. SLJuhl,compiler--sljuhl1234@yahoo.com.

Notes:

A. Source: Records of Joyce Lorraine Clore Elkins of Parke County,Indiana. You must contact compiler for further information. SLJuhl,compiler--sljuhl1234@yahoo.com.

*David + Rebecca Ashton. Rebecca and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Richard Stout [Parents - See Above] was born in 1615 in Nottinham,Nottinghamshire, England. He died on 13 Oct 1705 in Middletown,Manmouth Co. NJ,. He married Penelope Van Princen.
Other marriages:
Van Princess, Penelope
Internet Source:http://www.member-webroots.org/deadrelatives/allg97.htm
EARLY STOUT HISTORY
In 1600 in Nottinghamshire, England, an entry was made in the BurtonJoyce Parish record book telling of the marriage of one John Stout, ofgood family, to Elizabeth Bee. To this union was born Richard Stout in1602 or 1604. When Richard grew up he quarreled with his father over agirl friend whom the father considered beneath him in social standing.Consequently, Richard ran away from home and joined the English Navy.After seven years, when his time was out, Richard got a discharge fromthe Navy, and left his ship at New Amsterdam about 1640. He took uparms for the Dutch, and so was unharmed by the English when they tookover New Amsterdam in 1664.
Richard found friends among some English settlers who, because oftheir religion, had fled to New Amsterdam from neighboring colonies.Among them were Lady Deborah Moody, her son, Sir Henry Moody, RichardSalter, William Browne, and Thomas Applegate. Together they obtained acharter from the Dutch governor to found the first English settlementon Long Island at Graves End. Thirty-eight others joined Richard wherehe settled in 1644 on Plantation No. 18, which he had purchased fiveyears earlier. Richard became the largest land owner of the group. Hemay have married when he settled there, if so his first wife was deadwhen Penelope Prince, a widow, appeared on the scene.
When religious persecution made life intolerable for dissenters inEngland at this period, they fled to Holland and later to America. Itseems likely a Baptist Preacher, Rev. Prince, was driven out ofSheffield and lived for a time in Amsterdam, Holland, when Penelopewas born. Years later Penelope married a boy from Amsterdam, andtogether they took a ship for America. This ship was wrecked in 1640at the northeast corner of New Jersey, on a point called Sandy Hook.The passengers that could, fled overland to the settlement latercalled New Amsterdam, but Penelope?s husband, ill of a fever, was notable to go. Penelope busied herself making him comfortable on theshore when they were attacked by Indians, who killed her husband andleft Penelope seriously wounded. In fact the Indians thought her dead.
But Penelope did not die. Gradually she aroused from her swoon.Suffering from a fractured skull, a hacked shoulder, and a gash on herbody which allowed her intestines to protrude, she crept to shelter ina hollow log or tree near by. No doubt she found water from a spring,and food from the bushes, for she suffered alone there for severaldays until two Indians came by on a hunt. When they saw her theyseemed to argue over what to do with her. The younger wanted to killPenelope, but the older objected, and finally won the argument, for hecame, put her across his shoulder and carried her away to the Indianvillage. He sewed her wounds with a fish bone needle and thread ofvegetable fiber. He treated her kindly and she recovered. She helpedthe squaws with their work and otherwise adapted herself to Indianlife for perhaps a year.
Gradually the rumor reached New Amsterdam that a white woman had beenseen in the Indian village. When some of the white men came andoffered to buy her, the old Indian called to Penelope and made theirdesire known, then asked what she wished to do. When she replied thatshe wished to go with the men, her captor agreed but accepted the paythey offered for her. Penelope lived in New Amsterdam among some ofthe English families until Richard Stout chose her for his wife in1644. A historian of the period says that then they settled at GravesEnd on Long Island. Richard was forty years of age, and Penelope wasin her twenty-second year.
About the time the English took over the rule of the town, perhaps toescape the English, perhaps seeking more land, Richard and a few othermen began exploring the main land of the New Jersey coast, near theplace where the Indian had saved Penelope's life. About 1648, Richard,with eleven others purchased a large section of East New Jersey,called Monmouth, from Governor Nichols. Richard bought lot number sixand some upland country, in all 745 acres. Thirty years later he hadaccumulated so much land that he was able to deed eighteen hundredacres to his heirs. Considered the largest landed proprietor, Richardserved as overseer of the district of Middletown.
One day, not long after they founded Middletown, the old Indian whohad saved Penelope appeared at their home. When he refused to eat withher family Penelope followed him out of the house to learn what waswrong. He had come to warn her that the tribes were coming to attackthe settlement. He urged her to take her family and flee to safety inhis canoe. When she told Richard the news he refused to believe it.Penelope then gathered the children to the boat and paddled away asbest she could to seek aid at New Amsterdam. After Penelope left,Richard reconsidered and gathered the men of the settlement togetherto make plans. They armed themselves, sent the women and children incanoes to wait off shore while they prepared to watch all night. Atmidnight the Indians came. When the whites, from a point of vantageattacked, the Indians, armed with only bows and arrows, were soon onthe run. Then Richard Stout walked into the open and demanded aparley. After a conference, the whites and Indians held a two-dayceremonial to celebrate a treaty of peace. When the whites agreed tobuy the lands on which they had built their town, an alliance formutual assistance was formed. This treaty was faithfully kept. Thoughother settlements had war, this one was able to avoid it. The date ofthe purchase of the land from the Indians was January 25, 1664.Governor Nichols gave the settlers a statement called the MonmouthPatent, which guaranteed them religious and political freedom. Therewere supposed to be fifty families of whites and 500 Indiansinhabiting the area at this time.
As the settlement in New Jersey grew into the town of Middletown,Richard Stout was appointed to assist in laying out the lots. In 1668,Richard, Penelope, and their family met with others in the kitchen ofthe Stout home to organize the first Baptist Church of New Jersey.Richard and John, his oldest son, were among the eighteen male chartermembers. Every Sunday the group met at the homes of its members tosing hymns. Twenty years later a log church was built. Today, a newchurch stands on the spot, but some of the materials of the old logchurch are carefully preserved, after two hundred years, in thismodern building.
Richard's Will, approved October, 1705, is on file in the Office ofthe Secretary of State at Trenton. In it he gave his home farm to hisyoungest son, Benjamin. Though Richard formerly was required to reportto the agents of the proprietors in writing, he signed his will withan X, doubtless due to his age, or the state of his health.
Penelope outlived Richard by twenty-seven years, dying in 1732, at theage of 90 or 110. She had been the mother of ten children; seven sonsand three daughters. By the time of her death, she had welcomed somefive-hundred and two descendants into the world. It was told of herthat she had always to wear a cap because of her scalp scar, and thatshe had no use of her left arm. Her knowledge of the Indian language,and the fact that she was a friend of the Indian who mended herwounds, no doubt were a great help to the little New Jerseysettlement.
Five of Richard and Penelope?s seven sons, namely John, Richard,James, Peter, and Ben settled at Middletown or in Monmouth County. Twosons, Jonathan and David, removed to adjoining districts to the southof Middletown. The last two were the ancestors of all Stout familieswho settled in Western Virginia, so far as is known.
Benjamin, a son of Jonathan, married Hannah Bonham, a descendant ofEdward Fuller who came to America on the Mayflower as the twenty-firstsigner of the Mayflower Compact. She was also a descendant of CaptainFrancis Drake, a relative of Sir Francis Drake.
Five sons of Benjamin and Hannah were among the early settlers ofpresent day Harrison County, West Virginia. They were Jonathan,Hezekiah, Benjamin, Ezekiel, and Hosea.
The Stout family which descended from Richard, first in America, andhis wife, Penelope, had been living in the northern part of New Jerseyfor more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the RevolutionaryWar. Only explorers or hunters and traders had yet entered the denseforests of Western Virginia.
[mullens family. FTW]
Richard was one of twelve patentees of what is now known as theMonmouth Patent. By 1667, Richard Stout held lot no. 64 and uplandcountry in Middletown. In 1668 the First Baptist Church of New Jerseywas organized in the Stout home. John, the eldest son, was among theeighteen male charter members.
DATE 25 AUG 2001
Penelope Van Princess [Parents] was born in 1622 inAmsterdam,Holland,Netherlands. She died in 1732 inMiddleton,Monmouth,n.J.. She married Richard Stout on 1 Jan 1644/1645in Gravesend,Long Island,Ny.
Other marriages:
Kent, John
They had the following children:
M i #John Stout
M ii #Richard Stout
F iii #Penelope Mary Stout
F iv #Deliverance Alice Stout
M v #Peter Stout
F vi #Sara Elizabeth Stout
M vii #Johnathan Stout
M viii #David Stout
M ix #Benjamin Stout
M x #James Stout
F xi #Mary Stout

*Richard married Penelope Kent Vanprincis Vanprincin in 1644 in New Amsterdam, Holland. Penelope (daughter of Reverand Kent) was born about 1622 in Amsterdam, Holland; died in 1712 in Abt. 90 Years Old; Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey; was buried in 1712 in Family Estate, Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Penelope Kent 460,461
Born: Abt 1622, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Marriage: (1): Jan Van Princin Abt 1642, Holland 460
Marriage: (2): Richard Stout Abt 1644, Gravesend, Kings, New York460,461
Died: 1712, Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, about age 90
Buried: Family Estate, Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey
Internet SOURCE:http://deckernet.com/Genealogy/DeckerGenealogy/3555.htm

General Notes:
BIOGRAPHY: STORY: There is a remarkable story told about Penelope whenshe was a young woman. It goes has follows: She and a first husband aJan VanPrincin, had left Holland and were on their way to America.Their ship wrecked off the coast of New Jersey, by a place calledSandy Hook. This was in about 1642. The crew and some of thepassengers made it to shore. But Penelope's husband was either sick orinjured, and so they were left behind, as she would not leave him.They, the crew promised to send help back. They had not been alonelong when some Indians killed them both (or so they thought) byskinning them alive. However Penelope came to after the Indians hadleft. Although her skull was fractured and her left shoulder was sohacked that she could never use that arm like the other. She also wascut across the abdomen so that her bowels were hanging out, she pushedthem back in with her hands. She continued this way for about 7 days,taking shelter in a hollow tree and eating the excrescence of it.About the seventh day she saw two Indians and hoped that they wouldput her out of her misery. One went to do exactly that but the otherIndian an older man stopped him. This Indian put his coat around herand took her to his wigwam and doctored her cuts and bruises. As soonas she was well enough to travel he took her to New York and made apresent of her to her countrymen, viz: an Indian present, expectingten times her value in return. She lived in New York and it was therethat she meet and married Richard Stout and bore him 7 sons and 3daughters. She lived to be 110 years of age and she had 502 decendantswhen she died.

BIOGRAPHY: STORY: Now about Penelope. She was the daughter of the Rev.Kent from England and Holland. I have not been able to find his firstname yet. She was married to Jan VanPrincin first in Holland around1642. Shorthly after their marriage they left Holland for America.Close to the New Jersey shore a severe storm hit and the ship crashedon the rocks. Most of the crew and passengers died, however, Penelopeand her husband Jan along with a few crew members made it to shore.Jan was hurt pretty bad as were a few of the crew members. There weremaybe 4 or 5 that weren't hurt and so they left to go find help.Penelope stayed with her husband and the other men and tried to doctorthem the best she could. A day or so later Indians found them andkilled all the men including Jan. They scalped Penelope and skinnedher alive, however she did not die. Then they slit open her belly andpulled her intestines out and she still was alive. About this time anold Indian stopped the warriors and said to leave her alone and shewould die eventually. The Indians left and the old Indian sewed up herstomach and then doctored her with plants from the forest and kept herfeed. At least a month or two past and then the old Indian took her toa fort up around New York somewhere and traded her for some food andsupplies. The men at the fort did not think she would live and weresurprised when she told them how long ago it had been since the shipwreck and since the Indians had tortured her. No one ever heard aboutthe men that had left them in the forest and it was assumed that theIndians that found her probably had killed them before findingPenelope and the others. Penelope, however, did survive the ship wreckand the torture and in about 1644 she married James Stout who wasliving there at the fort that the old Indian had taken her to.Penelope eventually had 10 children and none of these children diedyoung. They all married and had families. For that time period it wasvery unusal as the mortality rate was very high for infants. They sayshe never grew much hair back just a few tufts here and there and shealways wore a stocking cap to cover her head and long sleeves alwaysso that no one could see her arms. Her body was covered in scarssimiliar to 3rd degree burns. She lived to be 110 years of age andwhen she died it is said that she had 502 descendants also living atthat time. The story has been told along the New Jersey coast eversince with very little varation over the last 360 years. Her husbandRichard Stout lived to be 90 years of age, so between the two of themthey must have come from some very sturdy stock.

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Newspaper article - Newspaper name and time of publication unknown,author was John T. Cunningham

------------ THE STORY OF PENELOPE STOUT -----------
There is cause to dispute the traditional claim that PenelopevanPrincis Stout of Monmouth County lived to a mature 110 years beforeshe died in 1712, but no one can deny that for indomitable will tolive and in number of descendants Penelope has had few equals.
Penelopes's story is obscured slightly by discrepanceies in the datesof her birth and other occurrences in her life, but consider first thenarrative as it is usually told.
Born in Holland (in 1602 according to the usual version,) PenelopevanPrincis joined her young husband and other Dutch settlers headedfor New Amsterdam in 1620. Violent storms caught their ship, drove itoff course and finally wrecked it off Sandy Hook.
--- ON THE BEACH ---
All survived, and the passengers and crew set off for New Amsterdam onfoot, leaving Penelope on the beach to nurse her desperately illhusband (whose name was never recorded by Penelope and all of thelarge brood she would later rear.) Indians found the Dutch couple onthe beach, killed the husband and left Penelope viciously hacked.
The young widow lay unconscious, her skull fractured, her left arm somangled that it would never again be normal and her abdomen slashedopen. Somehow she revived and crawled into a hollow tree, where twoIndians found her several days later.
---- SHE PRAYED ---
Penelope prayed that they might end her misery and the younger Indianwas willing to oblige. The older Indian dissented, carried her overhis shoulder to camp, and there nursed her back to health. She stayedwith the Indians, working, learning their language and their ways.
Some of her shipwrecked friends returned after a time and asked theIndians to give her up. Penelope's Indian benefactor said he would letthe young woman decide for herself. Penelope decided to leave, "verymuch to the surprise of this good Indian," according to FrankStocktons's version.
About two years later Penelope met Richard Stout who had leftNottingham, England, because of parental disapproval of his loveaffair with a girl they considered socially inferior. He enlisted inthe navy, served for seven years and left ship in New Amsterdam whenhis enlistment ended.
Penelope vanPrincis and Richard Stout were married in 1624 (accordingto tradition), when she was 22 and Richard was 40. Some time after,they moved to Middletown, where through the years their family grewand prospered.
Several years after the Stouts came to Middletown, Penelope's oldIndian benefactor called on her to warn of an impending attack by histribe. Penelope and her children fled in a canoe, but Richard Stoutand his neighbors stood up to the Indians and argued them out of anattack. So the Stouts lived on into the 18th century.
Dr. Thomas Hale Streets questioned the time sequence in a study hemade of the Delaware branch of the Stout family in 1915.
He said that all dates in recorded accounts were about 20 years tooearly, thus making the date of the shipwreck about 1640 rather than1620 and making the date of the marriage to Richard Stout about 1644rather than 1624. This logic seems sound.
For example, there was no New Amsterdam in 1620 and certainly therewas no Middletown at the time when the Stout allegedly moved over.Advancing all dates 20 years, however, makes New Amsterdam, Middletownand all else fall in line.
His most telling rebuttal hinged on the known birh date of Penelope's10th and last child, David, born in 1669. That would have made Mrs.Stout a mother at age 67 and Richard a father at 85. Speaking of themother, Dr. Streets commented drily:
"No medical man, it is safe to say, ever knew of such a case."
Penelope vanPrincis Stout died in 1712, either at the age of 110, ifyou believe traditional accounts, or at the age of 90 if Dr. Streetsis correct.
Before dying, Mrs. Stout saw her seven sons and three daughtersmultiplied into 492 other descendants.
One son, Jonathan, bought a large tract of land at Hopewell in 1706and quickly the number of Stout descendants in and near Hopewellbecame almost as numerous as those in Monmouth. Today huge numbers ofStout descendants cherish a noble name; they recognize that withoutPenelope vanPrincis, a stout-hearted woman if ever there was one, theywouldn't be here at all.

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12 Sep 1648": Ambrose London plaintive agt:ye wife of Tho: Aplegatedefent in an action of slander for saying his wife did milke her Cowe"

"The defent saith yt shee said noe otherwise but as Penellopey Princetould her yt Ambrose his wife did milke her Cowe"

"Rodger Scotte being deposed saith yt being in ye house of Tho:Aplegate hee did heare Pennellopy Prince saye yt ye wife of AmbroseLondon did milke ye Cowe of Tho: Aplegate"

"Tho: Greedye being deposed saith yt Pennellope Prince being att hishouse hee did heare her saye yt shee and Aplegates Daughter must comas witnesses agat: Ambrose his wife milking Aplegates Coew"

"Pennellope Prince being questationed adknowled her faulte in soespeaking and being sorrie her words she spake gave sattisfaction onboth sides."

Source: Gravesend Town Book, vol. 1, Sept 12, 1648.

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Excerpts from a STOUT-L posting by Linda Stout Deak:

I traveled today to Amsterdam and went to the Scheepsvaart (maritimeor Ship Navigation, esp. Atlantic) Museum. It is a splendid oldgranite building on the water a fifteen minute walk from AmsterdamCentral Station. I was looking for Penelope's name on a passengerlist. I had to find the ship upon which she sailed.

107.1 Kath Hans Jelisz. (owner) Jacht (yacht or sailboat) WIC (WestIndies Company) 1647 Nieuw Amsterdam voor 06-06-1647

Kreeg in Juni 1647 de opdracht tot kaapveren. November 1648 bij SandyHook gestrand. Did not return

This has to be Penelope's ship. I scanned the doctoral thesis (inDutch) of a J.A. Jacobs from Leiden University on the ships sailing tothe new world from Holland between 1609-1675. The average was 3.75ships per year, about five ships per year in the period 1639-1648. Itis very unlikely that a ship other than the Kath was beached at SandyHook.

Penelope married Jan Van Princin about 1642 in Holland.460 (Jan VanPrincin was born about 1615 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlandsand died about 1643 in New York.)
Penelope also married Richard Stout, son of John Stout and ElizabethBee, about 1644 in Gravesend, Kings, New York 460.,461 (Richard Stoutwas born about 1615 in Burton Joyce, Nottingham, England and died on23 Oct 1705 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey.)
Jan Van Princin 531 (1st Husband)
Born: Abt 1615, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Marriage: Penelope Kent Abt 1642, Holland 460
Died: Abt 1643, New York, about age 28

General Notes:
DEATH: His was murdered by indians when their ship wrecked off thecoast of New York.

Jan married Penelope Kent about 1642 in Holland.460 (Penelope Kent wasborn about 1622 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands, died in 1712in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey and was buried in Family Estate,Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey.)

). Internet source:http://www.finlayfamily.org/genealogy/family.php?famid=F254&show_full=1

Penelope KENT OR LENT (VAN PRINCIN) ?(I467)? BESP
Birth 1622 -- Amsterdam, Noord, Holland
Death 1732 (Age 110) -- Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey

Text by Douglas B. Dick, a descendent of Penelope Stout
(2). Internet Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/stout.html
About or around 1642/43 Penelope Van Prince, a widow of twenty-threewas a noble woman who had passed through many struggles nearing deathseveral times during her efforts to reach America.
The ship which was bringing Penelope and her husband wrecked off SandyHood, New Jersey. Her husband had been quite ill during the voyage andwas seriously injured in the attempt to reach land. The ship'spassengers feared an attack by Indians, so they decided to travelimmediately to Amsterdam. Penelope's husband was in no condition totravel so they were left behind.
Shortly after they were left alone, a large party of Indians foundthem and attacked them. Penelope and her husband were left for dead,but she survived. She suffered a fractured skull. Her left arm washacked so severely that she was never able to use that arm again likeshe did the other. A cut across the abdomen left bare part of herbowels, these she held in with her hands. She suffered in this painfulcondition for seven days.
Two indians approached her. She felt relief for she thought they wouldput her out of her misery. However, the older of the two stayed thehand of the younger man who intended to kill her; and took her to hiswigwam where he tended her. He then took her to New Amsterdam where hetraded her to the white settlers expecting ten times her value inreturn. She met Richard Stout and they were married in 1644. To themwere born ten children. She lived to see 510 of her descendents anddied at the age of 110. A monument stands to her honor in New England.

Penelope Kent

(3). Internet Source:http://www.johnpratt.com/gen/a/0/9.penelope.html
Penelope Kent was born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1622. She married aMr. Van Princen in 1642 and they set off to make their fortune in theNew World. The ship bringing them wrecked just off Sandy Hook, NewJersey, in 1643. Her husband had been very ill on the journey, and wasseriously injured in their attempt to reach land. When they did reachland, those who had survived feared an Indian attack. They decided tohasten to New Amsterdam, but Mr. Van Prince was in no condition totravel, so the group left Penelope and her husband behind to fare forthemselves. Soon afterward in the woods the dreaded attackmaterialized and both of them were hacked up and left for dead.Penelope survived, having had her skull fractured, and left shoulderso badly cut that she never regained full use of her arm. Her abdomenwas also slit open so that her intestines appeared, so she held themin with hand. She took shelter in a hollow tree, trying to recover.After seven days, she saw a deer with arrows sticking in it, and soontwo Indians appeared. The younger was going to kill her, but the othermore elderly man prevented him. He carried her to his wigwam and curedher of her wounds. Then he took her to New Amsterdam, and returnedher, collecting a reward for her.
The young widow met Richard Stout in New Amsterdam and they weremarried in 1644. Later she prevailed on him to move to Middleton, NewJersey in 1648. They had ten children, and she lived to be 110 yearsold and lived to see 502 total offspring before she died in 1732.

Richard Stout was born in Nottingham, England, in 1615 (one sourcesays 1602). His father John Stout was a country gentleman who insistedthat Richard marry within his station. But Richard was in love withsomeone else, and because of the resultant quarrel, Richard left homeand joined the British Navy for a seven-year stint.
Richard Stout landed in NewAmsterdam (now New York City) about 1642,after having completed his enlistment time in the British Navy. Hehadn't really planned to stay in New Amsterdam, but his seven yearsjust happened to end at the time the ship docked there. Thus, he wasfreed to seek his fortune in the Dutch city in the New World.

Richard met the charming Penelope Van Princen. She was a widow ofabout 23 years of age whose maiden name had been Penelope Kent. Herhusband had been killed by Indians who also had left her for dead.Richard and Penelope were married in 1644 in Gravesend, N.Y. In 1648Penelope convinced Richard to move to Middleton, New Jersey, and sincethen that city has been a gathering place for the Stout clan inAmerica. They had ten children. Richard died there in 1705.