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- 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
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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.
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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
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