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TEXT Date of Import: Apr 28, 2000[CelestineStout.ftw][Stout.ftw]Source: "History of the Stout Family" by Nathan Stout, 1823"I now bring forward the seventh and last son of Richard the first. It is
said he was born in the year 1669, and that he was married to Rebecca Ashton, and lived in Middletown on land, part of which is now in the possession of Dennis Hendrickson. He had by the said wife
five sons and three daughters, viz: James, Freegift, David, Joseph, Benjamin, Rebecca, Sarah, Deliverance. He continued his residence at Middletown, a near neighbor to Obediah Holmes, who had
married his wife's sister Alice, until he had raised his family, and two of them were married -- James and Rebecca, whom he settled in Upper Freehold, with each of them a hundred acres of land.
James, the eldest son of David, was married in the year 1712 to Catherine Simson, by whom he had seven children, six sons and one daughter, viz: John, James, Joseph, David, Jacob, Jonathan, and
Rebecca. After he had three children he sold his property at upper Freehold and moved to Amwell (where Abraham Runkle now lives) and purchased about seven hundred acres of land, built a house and
barn, cleared and improved to a considerable extent, and bid fair to be very rich. But when about thirty-six years old he was taken with the pleurisy, and died with a few days' illness, and left a
widow and the above mentioned seven small children. David Stout, the father of the said James, sold all his possessions in Middletown and moved to Amwell, some years before the death of his son
James, and settled where Henry Young now lives, and purchased large tract of land - at which place he died a very old man, was buried on his own farm, which laid the foundation of a burying ground,
where his descendants continue to bury to this day. After the death of the above said James Stout, his widow married his own cousin, Samuel Stout, the youngest son of Jonathan Stout, and had one son
by him named Samuel, whose family I have before treated of."
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EARLY STOUT HISTORY
In 1600 in Nottinghamshire, England, an entry was made in the Burton Joyce Parish record book telling of the marriage of one John Stout, of good family, to Elizabeth Bee. To this union was born Richard Stout in 1602 or 1604. When Richard grew up he quarreled with his father over a girl 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 from the Navy, and left his ship at New Amsterdam about 1640. He took up arms for the Dutch, and so was unharmed by the English when they took over New Amsterdam in 1664.
Richard found friends among some English settlers who, because of their religion, had fled to New Amsterdam from neighboring colonies. Among them were Lady Deborah Moody, her son, Sir Henry Moody, Richard Salter, William Browne, and Thomas Applegate. Together they obtained a charter from the Dutch governor to found the first English settlement on Long Island at Graves End. Thirty-eight others joined Richard where he settled in 1644 on Plantation No. 18, which he had purchased five years earlier. Richard became the largest land owner of the group. He may have married when he settled there, if so his first wife was dead when Penelope Prince, a widow, appeared on the scene.
When religious persecution made life intolerable for dissenters in England at this period, they fled to Holland and later to America. It seems likely a Baptist Preacher, Rev. Prince, was driven out of Sheffield and lived for a time in Amsterdam, Holland, when Penelope was born. Years later Penelope married a boy from Amsterdam, and together they took a ship for America. This ship was wrecked in 1640 at the northeast corner of New Jersey, on a point called Sandy Hook. The passengers that could, fled overland to the settlement later called New Amsterdam, but Penelopes’ husband, ill of a fever, was not able to go. Penelope busied herself making him comfortable on the shore when they were attacked by Indians, who killed her husband and left 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 her body which allowed her intestines to protrude, she crept to shelter in a 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 several days until two Indians came by on a hunt. When they saw her they seemed to argue over what to do with her. The younger wanted to kill Penelope, but the older objected, and finally won the argument, for he came, put her across his shoulder and carried her away to the Indian village. He sewed her wounds with a fish bone needle and thread of vegetable fiber. He treated her kindly and she recovered. She helped the squaws with their work and otherwise adapted herself to Indian life for perhaps a year.
Gradually the rumor reached New Amsterdam that a white woman had been seen in the Indian village. When some of the white men came and offered to buy her, the old Indian called to Penelope and made their desire known, then asked what she wished to do. When she replied that she wished to go with the men, her captor agreed but accepted the pay they offered for her. Penelope lived in New Amsterdam among some of the English families until Richard Stout chose her for his wife in 1644. A historian of the period says that then they settled at Graves End on Long Island. Richard was forty years of age, and Penelope was in her twenty-second year.
About the time the English took over the rule of the town, perhaps to escape the English, perhaps seeking more land, Richard and a few other men began exploring the main land of the New Jersey coast, near the place 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 six and some upland country, in all 745 acres. Thirty years later he had accumulated so much land that he was able to deed eighteen hundred acres to his heirs. Considered the largest landed proprietor, Richard served as overseer of the district of Middletown.
One day, not long after they founded Middletown, the old Indian who had saved Penelope appeared at their home. When he refused to eat with her family Penelope followed him out of the house to learn what was wrong. He had come to warn her that the tribes were coming to attack the settlement. He urged her to take her family and flee to safety in his canoe. When she told Richard the news he refused to believe it. Penelope then gathered the children to the boat and paddled away as best she could to seek aid at New Amsterdam. After Penelope left, Richard reconsidered and gathered the men of the settlement together to make plans. They armed themselves, sent the women and children in canoes to wait off shore while they prepared to watch all night. At midnight the Indians came. When the whites, from a point of vantage attacked, the Indians, armed with only bows and arrows, were soon on the run. Then Richard Stout walked into the open and demanded a parley. After a conference, the whites and Indians held a two-day ceremonial to celebrate a treaty of peace. When the whites agreed to buy the lands on which they had built their town, an alliance for mutual assistance was formed. This treaty was faithfully kept. Though other settlements had war, this one was able to avoid it. The date of the purchase of the land from the Indians was January 25, 1664. Governor Nichols gave the settlers a statement called the Monmouth Patent, which guaranteed them religious and political freedom. There were supposed to be fifty families of whites and 500 Indians inhabiting 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 of the Stout home to organize the first Baptist Church of New Jersey. Richard and John, his oldest son, were among the eighteen male charter members. Every Sunday the group met at the homes of its members to sing hymns. Twenty years later a log church was built. Today, a new church stands on the spot, but some of the materials of the old log church are carefully preserved, after two hundred years, in this modern building.
Richard's will, approved October, 1705, is on file in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton. In it he gave his home farm to his youngest son, Benjamin. Though Richard formerly was required to report to the agents of the proprietors in writing, he signed his will with an X, doubtless due to his age, or the state of his health.
Penelope outlived Richard by twenty-seven years, dying in 1732, at the age of 90 or 110. She had been the mother of ten children; seven sons and three daughters. By the time of her death, she had welcomed some five-hundred and two descendants into the world. It was told of her that she had always to wear a cap because of her scalp scar, and that she 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 her wounds, no doubt were a great help to the little New Jersey settlement.
Five of Richard and Penelopes’ seven sons, namely John, Richard, James, Peter, and Ben settled at Middletown or in Monmouth County. Two sons, Jonathan and David, removed to adjoining districts to the south of Middletown. The last two were the ancestors of all Stout families who settled in Western Virginia, so far as is known.
Benjamin, a son of Jonathan, married Hannah Bonham, a descendant of Edward Fuller who came to America on the Mayflower as the twenty-first signer of the Mayflower Compact. She was also a descendant of Captain Francis Drake, a relative of Sir Francis Drake.
Five sons of Benjamin and Hannah were among the early settlers of present day Harrison County, West Virginia. They were Jonathan, Hezekiah, Benjamin, Ezekiel, and Hosea.
The Stout family which descended from Richard, first in America, and his wife, Penelope, had been living in the northern part of New Jersey for more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Only explorers or hunters and traders had yet entered the dense forests of Western Virginia.
[mullensfamily.FTW]EARLY STOUT HISTORY
In 1600 in Nottinghamshire, England, an entry was made in the Burton Joyce Parish record book telling of the marriage of one John Stout, of good family, to Elizabeth Bee. To this union was born Richard Stout in 1602 or 1604. When Richard grew up he quarreled with his father over a girl 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 from the Navy, and left his ship at New Amsterdam about 1640. He took up arms for the Dutch, and so was unharmed by the English when they took over New Amsterdam in 1664.
Richard found friends among some English settlers who, because of their religion, had fled to New Amsterdam from neighboring colonies. Among them were Lady Deborah Moody, her son, Sir Henry Moody, Richard Salter, William Browne, and Thomas Applegate. Together they obtained a charter from the Dutch governor to found the first English settlement on Long Island at Graves End. Thirty-eight others joined Richard where he settled in 1644 on Plantation No. 18, which he had purchased five years earlier. Richard became the largest land owner of the group. He may have married when he settled there, if so his first wife was dead when Penelope Prince, a widow, appeared on the scene.
When religious persecution made life intolerable for dissenters in England at this period, they fled to Holland and later to America. It seems likely a Baptist Preacher, Rev. Prince, was driven out of Sheffield and lived for a time in Amsterdam, Holland, when Penelope was born. Years later Penelope married a boy from Amsterdam, and together they took a ship for America. This ship was wrecked in 1640 at the northeast corner of New Jersey, on a point called Sandy Hook. The passengers that could, fled overland to the settlement later called New Amsterdam, but Penelopes’ husband, ill of a fever, was not able to go. Penelope busied herself making him comfortable on the shore when they were attacked by Indians, who killed her husband and left 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 her body which allowed her intestines to protrude, she crept to shelter in a 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 several days until two Indians came by on a hunt. When they saw her they seemed to argue over what to do with her. The younger wanted to kill Penelope, but the older objected, and finally won the argument, for he came, put her across his shoulder and carried her away to the Indian village. He sewed her wounds with a fish bone needle and thread of vegetable fiber. He treated her kindly and she recovered. She helped the squaws with their work and otherwise adapted herself to Indian life for perhaps a year.
Gradually the rumor reached New Amsterdam that a white woman had been seen in the Indian village. When some of the white men came and offered to buy her, the old Indian called to Penelope and made their desire known, then asked what she wished to do. When she replied that she wished to go with the men, her captor agreed but accepted the pay they offered for her. Penelope lived in New Amsterdam among some of the English families until Richard Stout chose her for his wife in 1644. A historian of the period says that then they settled at Graves End on Long Island. Richard was forty years of age, and Penelope was in her twenty-second year.
About the time the English took over the rule of the town, perhaps to escape the English, perhaps seeking more land, Richard and a few other men began exploring the main land of the New Jersey coast, near the place 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 six and some upland country, in all 745 acres. Thirty years later he had accumulated so much land that he was able to deed eighteen hundred acres to his heirs. Considered the largest landed proprietor, Richard served as overseer of the district of Middletown.
One day, not long after they founded Middletown, the old Indian who had saved Penelope appeared at their home. When he refused to eat with her family Penelope followed him out of the house to learn what was wrong. He had come to warn her that the tribes were coming to attack the settlement. He urged her to take her family and flee to safety in his canoe. When she told Richard the news he refused to believe it. Penelope then gathered the children to the boat and paddled away as best she could to seek aid at New Amsterdam. After Penelope left, Richard reconsidered and gathered the men of the settlement together to make plans. They armed themselves, sent the women and children in canoes to wait off shore while they prepared to watch all night. At midnight the Indians came. When the whites, from a point of vantage attacked, the Indians, armed with only bows and arrows, were soon on the run. Then Richard Stout walked into the open and demanded a parley. After a conference, the whites and Indians held a two-day ceremonial to celebrate a treaty of peace. When the whites agreed to buy the lands on which they had built their town, an alliance for mutual assistance was formed. This treaty was faithfully kept. Though other settlements had war, this one was able to avoid it. The date of the purchase of the land from the Indians was January 25, 1664. Governor Nichols gave the settlers a statement called the Monmouth Patent, which guaranteed them religious and political freedom. There were supposed to be fifty families of whites and 500 Indians inhabiting 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 of the Stout home to organize the first Baptist Church of New Jersey. Richard and John, his oldest son, were among the eighteen male charter members. Every Sunday the group met at the homes of its members to sing hymns. Twenty years later a log church was built. Today, a new church stands on the spot, but some of the materials of the old log church are carefully preserved, after two hundred years, in this modern building.
Richard's will, approved October, 1705, is on file in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton. In it he gave his home farm to his youngest son, Benjamin. Though Richard formerly was required to report to the agents of the proprietors in writing, he signed his will with an X, doubtless due to his age, or the state of his health.
Penelope outlived Richard by twenty-seven years, dying in 1732, at the age of 90 or 110. She had been the mother of ten children; seven sons and three daughters. By the time of her death, she had welcomed some five-hundred and two descendants into the world. It was told of her that she had always to wear a cap because of her scalp scar, and that she 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 her wounds, no doubt were a great help to the little New Jersey settlement.
Five of Richard and Penelopes’ seven sons, namely John, Richard, James, Peter, and Ben settled at Middletown or in Monmouth County. Two sons, Jonathan and David, removed to adjoining districts to the south of Middletown. The last two were the ancestors of all Stout families who settled in Western Virginia, so far as is known.
Benjamin, a son of Jonathan, married Hannah Bonham, a descendant of Edward Fuller who came to America on the Mayflower as the twenty-first signer of the Mayflower Compact. She was also a descendant of Captain Francis Drake, a relative of Sir Francis Drake.
Five sons of Benjamin and Hannah were among the early settlers of present day Harrison County, West Virginia. They were Jonathan, Hezekiah, Benjamin, Ezekiel, and Hosea.
The Stout family which descended from Richard, first in America, and his wife, Penelope, had been living in the northern part of New Jersey for more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Only explorers or hunters and traders had yet entered the dense forests of Western Virginia.
[mullensfamily2.FTW]EARLY STOUT HISTORY
In 1600 in Nottinghamshire, England, an entry was made in the Burton Joyce Parish record book telling of the marriage of one John Stout, of good family, to Elizabeth Bee. To this union was born Richard Stout in 1602 or 1604. When Richard grew up he quarreled with his father over a girl 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 from the Navy, and left his ship at New Amsterdam about 1640. He took up arms for the Dutch, and so was unharmed by the English when they took over New Amsterdam in 1664.
Richard found friends among some English settlers who, because of their religion, had fled to New Amsterdam from neighboring colonies. Among them were Lady Deborah Moody, her son, Sir Henry Moody, Richard Salter, William Browne, and Thomas Applegate. Together they obtained a charter from the Dutch governor to found the first English settlement on Long Island at Graves End. Thirty-eight others joined Richard where he settled in 1644 on Plantation No. 18, which he had purchased five years earlier. Richard became the largest land owner of the group. He may have married when he settled there, if so his first wife was dead when Penelope Prince, a widow, appeared on the scene.
When religious persecution made life intolerable for dissenters in England at this period, they fled to Holland and later to America. It seems likely a Baptist Preacher, Rev. Prince, was driven out of Sheffield and lived for a time in Amsterdam, Holland, when Penelope was born. Years later Penelope married a boy from Amsterdam, and together they took a ship for America. This ship was wrecked in 1640 at the northeast corner of New Jersey, on a point called Sandy Hook. The passengers that could, fled overland to the settlement later called New Amsterdam, but Penelopes’ husband, ill of a fever, was not able to go. Penelope busied herself making him comfortable on the shore when they were attacked by Indians, who killed her husband and left 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 her body which allowed her intestines to protrude, she crept to shelter in a 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 several days until two Indians came by on a hunt. When they saw her they seemed to argue over what to do with her. The younger wanted to kill Penelope, but the older objected, and finally won the argument, for he came, put her across his shoulder and carried her away to the Indian village. He sewed her wounds with a fish bone needle and thread of vegetable fiber. He treated her kindly and she recovered. She helped the squaws with their work and otherwise adapted herself to Indian life for perhaps a year.
Gradually the rumor reached New Amsterdam that a white woman had been seen in the Indian village. When some of the white men came and offered to buy her, the old Indian called to Penelope and made their desire known, then asked what she wished to do. When she replied that she wished to go with the men, her captor agreed but accepted the pay they offered for her. Penelope lived in New Amsterdam among some of the English families until Richard Stout chose her for his wife in 1644. A historian of the period says that then they settled at Graves End on Long Island. Richard was forty years of age, and Penelope was in her twenty-second year.
About the time the English took over the rule of the town, perhaps to escape the English, perhaps seeking more land, Richard and a few other men began exploring the main land of the New Jersey coast, near the place 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 six and some upland country, in all 745 acres. Thirty years later he had accumulated so much land that he was able to deed eighteen hundred acres to his heirs. Considered the largest landed proprietor, Richard served as overseer of the district of Middletown.
One day, not long after they founded Middletown, the old Indian who had saved Penelope appeared at their home. When he refused to eat with her family Penelope followed him out of the house to learn what was wrong. He had come to warn her that the tribes were coming to attack the settlement. He urged her to take her family and flee to safety in his canoe. When she told Richard the news he refused to believe it. Penelope then gathered the children to the boat and paddled away as best she could to seek aid at New Amsterdam. After Penelope left, Richard reconsidered and gathered the men of the settlement together to make plans. They armed themselves, sent the women and children in canoes to wait off shore while they prepared to watch all night. At midnight the Indians came. When the whites, from a point of vantage attacked, the Indians, armed with only bows and arrows, were soon on the run. Then Richard Stout walked into the open and demanded a parley. After a conference, the whites and Indians held a two-day ceremonial to celebrate a treaty of peace. When the whites agreed to buy the lands on which they had built their town, an alliance for mutual assistance was formed. This treaty was faithfully kept. Though other settlements had war, this one was able to avoid it. The date of the purchase of the land from the Indians was January 25, 1664. Governor Nichols gave the settlers a statement called the Monmouth Patent, which guaranteed them religious and political freedom. There were supposed to be fifty families of whites and 500 Indians inhabiting 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 of the Stout home to organize the first Baptist Church of New Jersey. Richard and John, his oldest son, were among the eighteen male charter members. Every Sunday the group met at the homes of its members to sing hymns. Twenty years later a log church was built. Today, a new church stands on the spot, but some of the materials of the old log church are carefully preserved, after two hundred years, in this modern building.
Richard's will, approved October, 1705, is on file in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton. In it he gave his home farm to his youngest son, Benjamin. Though Richard formerly was required to report to the agents of the proprietors in writing, he signed his will with an X, doubtless due to his age, or the state of his health.
Penelope outlived Richard by twenty-seven years, dying in 1732, at the age of 90 or 110. She had been the mother of ten children; seven sons and three daughters. By the time of her death, she had welcomed some five-hundred and two descendants into the world. It was told of her that she had always to wear a cap because of her scalp scar, and that she 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 her wounds, no doubt were a great help to the little New Jersey settlement.
Five of Richard and Penelopes’ seven sons, namely John, Richard, James, Peter, and Ben settled at Middletown or in Monmouth County. Two sons, Jonathan and David, removed to adjoining districts to the south of Middletown. The last two were the ancestors of all Stout families who settled in Western Virginia, so far as is known.
Benjamin, a son of Jonathan, married Hannah Bonham, a descendant of Edward Fuller who came to America on the Mayflower as the twenty-first signer of the Mayflower Compact. She was also a descendant of Captain Francis Drake, a relative of Sir Francis Drake.
Five sons of Benjamin and Hannah were among the early settlers of present day Harrison County, West Virginia. They were Jonathan, Hezekiah, Benjamin, Ezekiel, and Hosea.
The Stout family which descended from Richard, first in America, and his wife, Penelope, had been living in the northern part of New Jersey for more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Only explorers or hunters and traders had yet entered the dense forests of Western Virginia.EARLY STOUT HISTORY
In 1600 in Nottinghamshire, England, an entry was made in the Burton Joyce Parish record book telling of the marriage of one John Stout, of good family, to Elizabeth Bee. To this union was born Richard Stout in 1602 or 1604. When Richard grew up he quarreled with his father over a girl 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 from the Navy, and left his ship at New Amsterdam about 1640. He took up arms for the Dutch, and so was unharmed by the English when they took over New Amsterdam in 1664.
Richard found friends among some English settlers who, because of their religion, had fled to New Amsterdam from neighboring colonies. Among them were Lady Deborah Moody, her son, Sir Henry Moody, Richard Salter, William Browne, and Thomas Applegate. Together they obtained a charter from the Dutch governor to found the first English settlement on Long Island at Graves End. Thirty-eight others joined Richard where he settled in 1644 on Plantation No. 18, which he had purchased five years earlier. Richard became the largest land owner of the group. He may have married when he settled there, if so his first wife was dead when Penelope Prince, a widow, appeared on the scene.
When religious persecution made life intolerable for dissenters in England at this period, they fled to Holland and later to America. It seems likely a Baptist Preacher, Rev. Prince, was driven out of Sheffield and lived for a time in Amsterdam, Holland, when Penelope was born. Years later Penelope married a boy from Amsterdam, and together they took a ship for America. This ship was wrecked in 1640 at the northeast corner of New Jersey, on a point called Sandy Hook. The passengers that could, fled overland to the settlement later called New Amsterdam, but Penelopes’ husband, ill of a fever, was not able to go. Penelope busied herself making him comfortable on the shore when they were attacked by Indians, who killed her husband and left 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 her body which allowed her intestines to protrude, she crept to shelter in a 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 several days until two Indians came by on a hunt. When they saw her they seemed to argue over what to do with her. The younger wanted to kill Penelope, but the older objected, and finally won the argument, for he came, put her across his shoulder and carried her away to the Indian village. He sewed her wounds with a fish bone needle and thread of vegetable fiber. He treated her kindly and she recovered. She helped the squaws with their work and otherwise adapted herself to Indian life for perhaps a year.
Gradually the rumor reached New Amsterdam that a white woman had been seen in the Indian village. When some of the white men came and offered to buy her, the old Indian called to Penelope and made their desire known, then asked what she wished to do. When she replied that she wished to go with the men, her captor agreed but accepted the pay they offered for her. Penelope lived in New Amsterdam among some of the English families until Richard Stout chose her for his wife in 1644. A historian of the period says that then they settled at Graves End on Long Island. Richard was forty years of age, and Penelope was in her twenty-second year.
About the time the English took over the rule of the town, perhaps to escape the English, perhaps seeking more land, Richard and a few other men began exploring the main land of the New Jersey coast, near the place 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 six and some upland country, in all 745 acres. Thirty years later he had accumulated so much land that he was able to deed eighteen hundred acres to his heirs. Considered the largest landed proprietor, Richard served as overseer of the district of Middletown.
One day, not long after they founded Middletown, the old Indian who had saved Penelope appeared at their home. When he refused to eat with her family Penelope followed him out of the house to learn what was wrong. He had come to warn her that the tribes were coming to attack the settlement. He urged her to take her family and flee to safety in his canoe. When she told Richard the news he refused to believe it. Penelope then gathered the children to the boat and paddled away as best she could to seek aid at New Amsterdam. After Penelope left, Richard reconsidered and gathered the men of the settlement together to make plans. They armed themselves, sent the women and children in canoes to wait off shore while they prepared to watch all night. At midnight the Indians came. When the whites, from a point of vantage attacked, the Indians, armed with only bows and arrows, were soon on the run. Then Richard Stout walked into the open and demanded a parley. After a conference, the whites and Indians held a two-day ceremonial to celebrate a treaty of peace. When the whites agreed to buy the lands on which they had built their town, an alliance for mutual assistance was formed. This treaty was faithfully kept. Though other settlements had war, this one was able to avoid it. The date of the purchase of the land from the Indians was January 25, 1664. Governor Nichols gave the settlers a statement called the Monmouth Patent, which guaranteed them religious and political freedom. There were supposed to be fifty families of whites and 500 Indians inhabiting 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 of the Stout home to organize the first Baptist Church of New Jersey. Richard and John, his oldest son, were among the eighteen male charter members. Every Sunday the group met at the homes of its members to sing hymns. Twenty years later a log church was built. Today, a new church stands on the spot, but some of the materials of the old log church are carefully preserved, after two hundred years, in this modern building.
Richard's will, approved October, 1705, is on file in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton. In it he gave his home farm to his youngest son, Benjamin. Though Richard formerly was required to report to the agents of the proprietors in writing, he signed his will with an X, doubtless due to his age, or the state of his health.
Penelope outlived Richard by twenty-seven years, dying in 1732, at the age of 90 or 110. She had been the mother of ten children; seven sons and three daughters. By the time of her death, she had welcomed some five-hundred and two descendants into the world. It was told of her that she had always to wear a cap because of her scalp scar, and that she 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 her wounds, no doubt were a great help to the little New Jersey settlement.
Five of Richard and Penelopes’ seven sons, namely John, Richard, James, Peter, and Ben settled at Middletown or in Monmouth County. Two sons, Jonathan and David, removed to adjoining districts to the south of Middletown. The last two were the ancestors of all Stout families who settled in Western Virginia, so far as is known.
Benjamin, a son of Jonathan, married Hannah Bonham, a descendant of Edward Fuller who came to America on the Mayflower as the twenty-first signer of the Mayflower Compact. She was also a descendant of Captain Francis Drake, a relative of Sir Francis Drake.
Five sons of Benjamin and Hannah were among the early settlers of present day Harrison County, West Virginia. They were Jonathan, Hezekiah, Benjamin, Ezekiel, and Hosea.
The Stout family which descended from Richard, first in America, and his wife, Penelope, had been living in the northern part of New Jersey for more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Only explorers or hunters and traders had yet entered the dense forests of Western Virginia.
[mullensfamily.FTW]EARLY STOUT HISTORY
In 1600 in Nottinghamshire, England, an entry was made in the Burton Joyce Parish record book telling of the marriage of one John Stout, of good family, to Elizabeth Bee. To this union was born Richard Stout in 1602 or 1604. When Richard grew up he quarreled with his father over a girl 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 from the Navy, and left his ship at New Amsterdam about 1640. He took up arms for the Dutch, and so was unharmed by the English when they took over New Amsterdam in 1664.
Richard found friends among some English settlers who, because of their religion, had fled to New Amsterdam from neighboring colonies. Among them were Lady Deborah Moody, her son, Sir Henry Moody, Richard Salter, William Browne, and Thomas Applegate. Together they obtained a charter from the Dutch governor to found the first English settlement on Long Island at Graves End. Thirty-eight others joined Richard where he settled in 1644 on Plantation No. 18, which he had purchased five years earlier. Richard became the largest land owner of the group. He may have married when he settled there, if so his first wife was dead when Penelope Prince, a widow, appeared on the scene.
When religious persecution made life intolerable for dissenters in England at this period, they fled to Holland and later to America. It seems likely a Baptist Preacher, Rev. Prince, was driven out of Sheffield and lived for a time in Amsterdam, Holland, when Penelope was born. Years later Penelope married a boy from Amsterdam, and together they took a ship for America. This ship was wrecked in 1640 at the northeast corner of New Jersey, on a point called Sandy Hook. The passengers that could, fled overland to the settlement later called New Amsterdam, but Penelopes’ husband, ill of a fever, was not able to go. Penelope busied herself making him comfortable on the shore when they were attacked by Indians, who killed her husband and left 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 her body which allowed her intestines to protrude, she crept to shelter in a 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 several days until two Indians came by on a hunt. When they saw her they seemed to argue over what to do with her. The younger wanted to kill Penelope, but the older objected, and finally won the argument, for he came, put her across his shoulder and carried her away to the Indian village. He sewed her wounds with a fish bone needle and thread of vegetable fiber. He treated her kindly and she recovered. She helped the squaws with their work and otherwise adapted herself to Indian life for perhaps a year.
Gradually the rumor reached New Amsterdam that a white woman had been seen in the Indian village. When some of the white men came and offered to buy her, the old Indian called to Penelope and made their desire known, then asked what she wished to do. When she replied that she wished to go with the men, her captor agreed but accepted the pay they offered for her. Penelope lived in New Amsterdam among some of the English families until Richard Stout chose her for his wife in 1644. A historian of the period says that then they settled at Graves End on Long Island. Richard was forty years of age, and Penelope was in her twenty-second year.
About the time the English took over the rule of the town, perhaps to escape the English, perhaps seeking more land, Richard and a few other men began exploring the main land of the New Jersey coast, near the place 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 six and some upland country, in all 745 acres. Thirty years later he had accumulated so much land that he was able to deed eighteen hundred acres to his heirs. Considered the largest landed proprietor, Richard served as overseer of the district of Middletown.
One day, not long after they founded Middletown, the old Indian who had saved Penelope appeared at their home. When he refused to eat with her family Penelope followed him out of the house to learn what was wrong. He had come to warn her that the tribes were coming to attack the settlement. He urged her to take her family and flee to safety in his canoe. When she told Richard the news he refused to believe it. Penelope then gathered the children to the boat and paddled away as best she could to seek aid at New Amsterdam. After Penelope left, Richard reconsidered and gathered the men of the settlement together to make plans. They armed themselves, sent the women and children in canoes to wait off shore while they prepared to watch all night. At midnight the Indians came. When the whites, from a point of vantage attacked, the Indians, armed with only bows and arrows, were soon on the run. Then Richard Stout walked into the open and demanded a parley. After a conference, the whites and Indians held a two-day ceremonial to celebrate a treaty of peace. When the whites agreed to buy the lands on which they had built their town, an alliance for mutual assistance was formed. This treaty was faithfully kept. Though other settlements had war, this one was able to avoid it. The date of the purchase of the land from the Indians was January 25, 1664. Governor Nichols gave the settlers a statement called the Monmouth Patent, which guaranteed them religious and political freedom. There were supposed to be fifty families of whites and 500 Indians inhabiting 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 of the Stout home to organize the first Baptist Church of New Jersey. Richard and John, his oldest son, were among the eighteen male charter members. Every Sunday the group met at the homes of its members to sing hymns. Twenty years later a log church was built. Today, a new church stands on the spot, but some of the materials of the old log church are carefully preserved, after two hundred years, in this modern building.
Richard's will, approved October, 1705, is on file in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton. In it he gave his home farm to his youngest son, Benjamin. Though Richard formerly was required to report to the agents of the proprietors in writing, he signed his will with an X, doubtless due to his age, or the state of his health.
Penelope outlived Richard by twenty-seven years, dying in 1732, at the age of 90 or 110. She had been the mother of ten children; seven sons and three daughters. By the time of her death, she had welcomed some five-hundred and two descendants into the world. It was told of her that she had always to wear a cap because of her scalp scar, and that she 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 her wounds, no doubt were a great help to the little New Jersey settlement.
Five of Richard and Penelopes’ seven sons, namely John, Richard, James, Peter, and Ben settled at Middletown or in Monmouth County. Two sons, Jonathan and David, removed to adjoining districts to the south of Middletown. The last two were the ancestors of all Stout families who settled in Western Virginia, so far as is known.
Benjamin, a son of Jonathan, married Hannah Bonham, a descendant of Edward Fuller who came to America on the Mayflower as the twenty-first signer of the Mayflower Compact. She was also a descendant of Captain Francis Drake, a relative of Sir Francis Drake.
Five sons of Benjamin and Hannah were among the early settlers of present day Harrison County, West Virginia. They were Jonathan, Hezekiah, Benjamin, Ezekiel, and Hosea.
The Stout family which descended from Richard, first in America, and his wife, Penelope, had been living in the northern part of New Jersey for more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Only explorers or hunters and traders had yet entered the dense forests of Western Virginia.
[mullensfamily2.FTW]EARLY STOUT HISTORY
In 1600 in Nottinghamshire, England, an entry was made in the Burton Joyce Parish record book telling of the marriage of one John Stout, of good family, to Elizabeth Bee. To this union was born Richard Stout in 1602 or 1604. When Richard grew up he quarreled with his father over a girl 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 from the Navy, and left his ship at New Amsterdam about 1640. He took up arms for the Dutch, and so was unharmed by the English when they took over New Amsterdam in 1664.
Richard found friends among some English settlers who, because of their religion, had fled to New Amsterdam from neighboring colonies. Among them were Lady Deborah Moody, her son, Sir Henry Moody, Richard Salter, William Browne, and Thomas Applegate. Together they obtained a charter from the Dutch governor to found the first English settlement on Long Island at Graves End. Thirty-eight others joined Richard where he settled in 1644 on Plantation No. 18, which he had purchased five years earlier. Richard became the largest land owner of the group. He may have married when he settled there, if so his first wife was dead when Penelope Prince, a widow, appeared on the scene.
When religious persecution made life intolerable for dissenters in England at this period, they fled to Holland and later to America. It seems likely a Baptist Preacher, Rev. Prince, was driven out of Sheffield and lived for a time in Amsterdam, Holland, when Penelope was born. Years later Penelope married a boy from Amsterdam, and together they took a ship for America. This ship was wrecked in 1640 at the northeast corner of New Jersey, on a point called Sandy Hook. The passengers that could, fled overland to the settlement later called New Amsterdam, but Penelopes’ husband, ill of a fever, was not able to go. Penelope busied herself making him comfortable on the shore when they were attacked by Indians, who killed her husband and left 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 her body which allowed her intestines to protrude, she crept to shelter in a 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 several days until two Indians came by on a hunt. When they saw her they seemed to argue over what to do with her. The younger wanted to kill Penelope, but the older objected, and finally won the argument, for he came, put her across his shoulder and carried her away to the Indian village. He sewed her wounds with a fish bone needle and thread of vegetable fiber. He treated her kindly and she recovered. She helped the squaws with their work and otherwise adapted herself to Indian life for perhaps a year.
Gradually the rumor reached New Amsterdam that a white woman had been seen in the Indian village. When some of the white men came and offered to buy her, the old Indian called to Penelope and made their desire known, then asked what she wished to do. When she replied that she wished to go with the men, her captor agreed but accepted the pay they offered for her. Penelope lived in New Amsterdam among some of the English families until Richard Stout chose her for his wife in 1644. A historian of the period says that then they settled at Graves End on Long Island. Richard was forty years of age, and Penelope was in her twenty-second year.
About the time the English took over the rule of the town, perhaps to escape the English, perhaps seeking more land, Richard and a few other men began exploring the main land of the New Jersey coast, near the place 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 six and some upland country, in all 745 acres. Thirty years later he had accumulated so much land that he was able to deed eighteen hundred acres to his heirs. Considered the largest landed proprietor, Richard served as overseer of the district of Middletown.
One day, not long after they founded Middletown, the old Indian who had saved Penelope appeared at their home. When he refused to eat with her family Penelope followed him out of the house to learn what was wrong. He had come to warn her that the tribes were coming to attack the settlement. He urged her to take her family and flee to safety in his canoe. When she told Richard the news he refused to believe it. Penelope then gathered the children to the boat and paddled away as best she could to seek aid at New Amsterdam. After Penelope left, Richard reconsidered and gathered the men of the settlement together to make plans. They armed themselves, sent the women and children in canoes to wait off shore while they prepared to watch all night. At midnight the Indians came. When the whites, from a point of vantage attacked, the Indians, armed with only bows and arrows, were soon on the run. Then Richard Stout walked into the open and demanded a parley. After a conference, the whites and Indians held a two-day ceremonial to celebrate a treaty of peace. When the whites agreed to buy the lands on which they had built their town, an alliance for mutual assistance was formed. This treaty was faithfully kept. Though other settlements had war, this one was able to avoid it. The date of the purchase of the land from the Indians was January 25, 1664. Governor Nichols gave the settlers a statement called the Monmouth Patent, which guaranteed them religious and political freedom. There were supposed to be fifty families of whites and 500 Indians inhabiting 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 of the Stout home to organize the first Baptist Church of New Jersey. Richard and John, his oldest son, were among the eighteen male charter members. Every Sunday the group met at the homes of its members to sing hymns. Twenty years later a log church was built. Today, a new church stands on the spot, but some of the materials of the old log church are carefully preserved, after two hundred years, in this modern building.
Richard's will, approved October, 1705, is on file in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton. In it he gave his home farm to his youngest son, Benjamin. Though Richard formerly was required to report to the agents of the proprietors in writing, he signed his will with an X, doubtless due to his age, or the state of his health.
Penelope outlived Richard by twenty-seven years, dying in 1732, at the age of 90 or 110. She had been the mother of ten children; seven sons and three daughters. By the time of her death, she had welcomed some five-hundred and two descendants into the world. It was told of her that she had always to wear a cap because of her scalp scar, and that she 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 her wounds, no doubt were a great help to the little New Jersey settlement.
Five of Richard and Penelopes’ seven sons, namely John, Richard, James, Peter, and Ben settled at Middletown or in Monmouth County. Two sons, Jonathan and David, removed to adjoining districts to the south of Middletown. The last two were the ancestors of all Stout families who settled in Western Virginia, so far as is known.
Benjamin, a son of Jonathan, married Hannah Bonham, a descendant of Edward Fuller who came to America on the Mayflower as the twenty-first signer of the Mayflower Compact. She was also a descendant of Captain Francis Drake, a relative of Sir Francis Drake.
Five sons of Benjamin and Hannah were among the early settlers of present day Harrison County, West Virginia. They were Jonathan, Hezekiah, Benjamin, Ezekiel, and Hosea.
The Stout family which descended from Richard, first in America, and his wife, Penelope, had been living in the northern part of New Jersey for more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Only explorers or hunters and traders had yet entered the dense forests of Western Virginia.EARLY STOUT HISTORY
In 1600 in Nottinghamshire, England, an entry was made in the Burton Joyce Parish record book telling of the marriage of one John Stout, of good family, to Elizabeth Bee. To this union was born Richard Stout in 1602 or 1604. When Richard grew up he quarreled with his father over a girl 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 from the Navy, and left his ship at New Amsterdam about 1640. He took up arms for the Dutch, and so was unharmed by the English when they took over New Amsterdam in 1664.
Richard found friends among some English settlers who, because of their religion, had fled to New Amsterdam from neighboring colonies. Among them were Lady Deborah Moody, her son, Sir Henry Moody, Richard Salter, William Browne, and Thomas Applegate. Together they obtained a charter from the Dutch governor to found the first English settlement on Long Island at Graves End. Thirty-eight others joined Richard where he settled in 1644 on Plantation No. 18, which he had purchased five years earlier. Richard became the largest land owner of the group. He may have married when he settled there, if so his first wife was dead when Penelope Prince, a widow, appeared on the scene.
When religious persecution made life intolerable for dissenters in England at this period, they fled to Holland and later to America. It seems likely a Baptist Preacher, Rev. Prince, was driven out of Sheffield and lived for a time in Amsterdam, Holland, when Penelope was born. Years later Penelope married a boy from Amsterdam, and together they took a ship for America. This ship was wrecked in 1640 at the northeast corner of New Jersey, on a point called Sandy Hook. The passengers that could, fled overland to the settlement later called New Amsterdam, but Penelopes’ husband, ill of a fever, was not able to go. Penelope busied herself making him comfortable on the shore when they were attacked by Indians, who killed her husband and left 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 her body which allowed her intestines to protrude, she crept to shelter in a 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 several days until two Indians came by on a hunt. When they saw her they seemed to argue over what to do with her. The younger wanted to kill Penelope, but the older objected, and finally won the argument, for he came, put her across his shoulder and carried her away to the Indian village. He sewed her wounds with a fish bone needle and thread of vegetable fiber. He treated her kindly and she recovered. She helped the squaws with their work and otherwise adapted herself to Indian life for perhaps a year.
Gradually the rumor reached New Amsterdam that a white woman had been seen in the Indian village. When some of the white men came and offered to buy her, the old Indian called to Penelope and made their desire known, then asked what she wished to do. When she replied that she wished to go with the men, her captor agreed but accepted the pay they offered for her. Penelope lived in New Amsterdam among some of the English families until Richard Stout chose her for his wife in 1644. A historian of the period says that then they settled at Graves End on Long Island. Richard was forty years of age, and Penelope was in her twenty-second year.
About the time the English took over the rule of the town, perhaps to escape the English, perhaps seeking more land, Richard and a few other men began exploring the main land of the New Jersey coast, near the place 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 six and some upland country, in all 745 acres. Thirty years later he had accumulated so much land that he was able to deed eighteen hundred acres to his heirs. Considered the largest landed proprietor, Richard served as overseer of the district of Middletown.
One day, not long after they founded Middletown, the old Indian who had saved Penelope appeared at their home. When he refused to eat with her family Penelope followed him out of the house to learn what was wrong. He had come to warn her that the tribes were coming to attack the settlement. He urged her to take her family and flee to safety in his canoe. When she told Richard the news he refused to believe it. Penelope then gathered the children to the boat and paddled away as best she could to seek aid at New Amsterdam. After Penelope left, Richard reconsidered and gathered the men of the settlement together to make plans. They armed themselves, sent the women and children in canoes to wait off shore while they prepared to watch all night. At midnight the Indians came. When the whites, from a point of vantage attacked, the Indians, armed with only bows and arrows, were soon on the run. Then Richard Stout walked into the open and demanded a parley. After a conference, the whites and Indians held a two-day ceremonial to celebrate a treaty of peace. When the whites agreed to buy the lands on which they had built their town, an alliance for mutual assistance was formed. This treaty was faithfully kept. Though other settlements had war, this one was able to avoid it. The date of the purchase of the land from the Indians was January 25, 1664. Governor Nichols gave the settlers a statement called the Monmouth Patent, which guaranteed them religious and political freedom. There were supposed to be fifty families of whites and 500 Indians inhabiting 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 of the Stout home to organize the first Baptist Church of New Jersey. Richard and John, his oldest son, were among the eighteen male charter members. Every Sunday the group met at the homes of its members to sing hymns. Twenty years later a log church was built. Today, a new church stands on the spot, but some of the materials of the old log church are carefully preserved, after two hundred years, in this modern building.
Richard's will, approved October, 1705, is on file in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton. In it he gave his home farm to his youngest son, Benjamin. Though Richard formerly was required to report to the agents of the proprietors in writing, he signed his will with an X, doubtless due to his age, or the state of his health.
Penelope outlived Richard by twenty-seven years, dying in 1732, at the age of 90 or 110. She had been the mother of ten children; seven sons and three daughters. By the time of her death, she had welcomed some five-hundred and two descendants into the world. It was told of her that she had always to wear a cap because of her scalp scar, and that she 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 her wounds, no doubt were a great help to the little New Jersey settlement.
Five of Richard and Penelopes’ seven sons, namely John, Richard, James, Peter, and Ben settled at Middletown or in Monmouth County. Two sons, Jonathan and David, removed to adjoining districts to the south of Middletown. The last two were the ancestors of all Stout families who settled in Western Virginia, so far as is known.
Benjamin, a son of Jonathan, married Hannah Bonham, a descendant of Edward Fuller who came to America on the Mayflower as the twenty-first signer of the Mayflower Compact. She was also a descendant of Captain Francis Drake, a relative of Sir Francis Drake.
Five sons of Benjamin and Hannah were among the early settlers of present day Harrison County, West Virginia. They were Jonathan, Hezekiah, Benjamin, Ezekiel, and Hosea.
The Stout family which descended from Richard, first in America, and his wife, Penelope, had been living in the northern part of New Jersey for more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Only explorers or hunters and traders had yet entered the dense forests of Western Virginia.
[mullensfamily.FTW]EARLY STOUT HISTORY
In 1600 in Nottinghamshire, England, an entry was made in the Burton Joyce Parish record book telling of the marriage of one John Stout, of good family, to Elizabeth Bee. To this union was born Richard Stout in 1602 or 1604. When Richard grew up he quarreled with his father over a girl 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 from the Navy, and left his ship at New Amsterdam about 1640. He took up arms for the Dutch, and so was unharmed by the English when they took over New Amsterdam in 1664.
Richard found friends among some English settlers who, because of their religion, had fled to New Amsterdam from neighboring colonies. Among them were Lady Deborah Moody, her son, Sir Henry Moody, Richard Salter, William Browne, and Thomas Applegate. Together they obtained a charter from the Dutch governor to found the first English settlement on Long Island at Graves End. Thirty-eight others joined Richard where he settled in 1644 on Plantation No. 18, which he had purchased five years earlier. Richard became the largest land owner of the group. He may have married when he settled there, if so his first wife was dead when Penelope Prince, a widow, appeared on the scene.
When religious persecution made life intolerable for dissenters in England at this period, they fled to Holland and later to America. It seems likely a Baptist Preacher, Rev. Prince, was driven out of Sheffield and lived for a time in Amsterdam, Holland, when Penelope was born. Years later Penelope married a boy from Amsterdam, and together they took a ship for America. This ship was wrecked in 1640 at the northeast corner of New Jersey, on a point called Sandy Hook. The passengers that could, fled overland to the settlement later called New Amsterdam, but Penelopes’ husband, ill of a fever, was not able to go. Penelope busied herself making him comfortable on the shore when they were attacked by Indians, who killed her husband and left 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 her body which allowed her intestines to protrude, she crept to shelter in a 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 several days until two Indians came by on a hunt. When they saw her they seemed to argue over what to do with her. The younger wanted to kill Penelope, but the older objected, and finally won the argument, for he came, put her across his shoulder and carried her away to the Indian village. He sewed her wounds with a fish bone needle and thread of vegetable fiber. He treated her kindly and she recovered. She helped the squaws with their work and otherwise adapted herself to Indian life for perhaps a year.
Gradually the rumor reached New Amsterdam that a white woman had been seen in the Indian village. When some of the white men came and offered to buy her, the old Indian called to Penelope and made their desire known, then asked what she wished to do. When she replied that she wished to go with the men, her captor agreed but accepted the pay they offered for her. Penelope lived in New Amsterdam among some of the English families until Richard Stout chose her for his wife in 1644. A historian of the period says that then they settled at Graves End on Long Island. Richard was forty years of age, and Penelope was in her twenty-second year.
About the time the English took over the rule of the town, perhaps to escape the English, perhaps seeking more land, Richard and a few other men began exploring the main land of the New Jersey coast, near the place 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 six and some upland country, in all 745 acres. Thirty years later he had accumulated so much land that he was able to deed eighteen hundred acres to his heirs. Considered the largest landed proprietor, Richard served as overseer of the district of Middletown.
One day, not long after they founded Middletown, the old Indian who had saved Penelope appeared at their home. When he refused to eat with her family Penelope followed him out of the house to learn what was wrong. He had come to warn her that the tribes were coming to attack the settlement. He urged her to take her family and flee to safety in his canoe. When she told Richard the news he refused to believe it. Penelope then gathered the children to the boat and paddled away as best she could to seek aid at New Amsterdam. After Penelope left, Richard reconsidered and gathered the men of the settlement together to make plans. They armed themselves, sent the women and children in canoes to wait off shore while they prepared to watch all night. At midnight the Indians came. When the whites, from a point of vantage attacked, the Indians, armed with only bows and arrows, were soon on the run. Then Richard Stout walked into the open and demanded a parley. After a conference, the whites and Indians held a two-day ceremonial to celebrate a treaty of peace. When the whites agreed to buy the lands on which they had built their town, an alliance for mutual assistance was formed. This treaty was faithfully kept. Though other settlements had war, this one was able to avoid it. The date of the purchase of the land from the Indians was January 25, 1664. Governor Nichols gave the settlers a statement called the Monmouth Patent, which guaranteed them religious and political freedom. There were supposed to be fifty families of whites and 500 Indians inhabiting 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 of the Stout home to organize the first Baptist Church of New Jersey. Richard and John, his oldest son, were among the eighteen male charter members. Every Sunday the group met at the homes of its members to sing hymns. Twenty years later a log church was built. Today, a new church stands on the spot, but some of the materials of the old log church are carefully preserved, after two hundred years, in this modern building.
Richard's will, approved October, 1705, is on file in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton. In it he gave his home farm to his youngest son, Benjamin. Though Richard formerly was required to report to the agents of the proprietors in writing, he signed his will with an X, doubtless due to his age, or the state of his health.
Penelope outlived Richard by twenty-seven years, dying in 1732, at the age of 90 or 110. She had been the mother of ten children; seven sons and three daughters. By the time of her death, she had welcomed some five-hundred and two descendants into the world. It was told of her that she had always to wear a cap because of her scalp scar, and that she 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 her wounds, no doubt were a great help to the little New Jersey settlement.
Five of Richard and Penelopes’ seven sons, namely John, Richard, James, Peter, and Ben settled at Middletown or in Monmouth County. Two sons, Jonathan and David, removed to adjoining districts to the south of Middletown. The last two were the ancestors of all Stout families who settled in Western Virginia, so far as is known.
Benjamin, a son of Jonathan, married Hannah Bonham, a descendant of Edward Fuller who came to America on the Mayflower as the twenty-first signer of the Mayflower Compact. She was also a descendant of Captain Francis Drake, a relative of Sir Francis Drake.
Five sons of Benjamin and Hannah were among the early settlers of present day Harrison County, West Virginia. They were Jonathan, Hezekiah, Benjamin, Ezekiel, and Hosea.
The Stout family which descended from Richard, first in America, and his wife, Penelope, had been living in the northern part of New Jersey for more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Only explorers or hunters and traders had yet entered the dense forests of Western Virginia.
[mullensfamily2.FTW]EARLY STOUT HISTORY
In 1600 in Nottinghamshire, England, an entry was made in the Burton Joyce Parish record book telling of the marriage of one John Stout, of good family, to Elizabeth Bee. To this union was born Richard Stout in 1602 or 1604. When Richard grew up he quarreled with his father over a girl 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 from the Navy, and left his ship at New Amsterdam about 1640. He took up arms for the Dutch, and so was unharmed by the English when they took over New Amsterdam in 1664.
Richard found friends among some English settlers who, because of their religion, had fled to New Amsterdam from neighboring colonies. Among them were Lady Deborah Moody, her son, Sir Henry Moody, Richard Salter, William Browne, and Thomas Applegate. Together they obtained a charter from the Dutch governor to found the first English settlement on Long Island at Graves End. Thirty-eight others joined Richard where he settled in 1644 on Plantation No. 18, which he had purchased five years earlier. Richard became the largest land owner of the group. He may have married when he settled there, if so his first wife was dead when Penelope Prince, a widow, appeared on the scene.
When religious persecution made life intolerable for dissenters in England at this period, they fled to Holland and later to America. It seems likely a Baptist Preacher, Rev. Prince, was driven out of Sheffield and lived for a time in Amsterdam, Holland, when Penelope was born. Years later Penelope married a boy from Amsterdam, and together they took a ship for America. This ship was wrecked in 1640 at the northeast corner of New Jersey, on a point called Sandy Hook. The passengers that could, fled overland to the settlement later called New Amsterdam, but Penelopes’ husband, ill of a fever, was not able to go. Penelope busied herself making him comfortable on the shore when they were attacked by Indians, who killed her husband and left 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 her body which allowed her intestines to protrude, she crept to shelter in a 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 several days until two Indians came by on a hunt. When they saw her they seemed to argue over what to do with her. The younger wanted to kill Penelope, but the older objected, and finally won the argument, for he came, put her across his shoulder and carried her away to the Indian village. He sewed her wounds with a fish bone needle and thread of vegetable fiber. He treated her kindly and she recovered. She helped the squaws with their work and otherwise adapted herself to Indian life for perhaps a year.
Gradually the rumor reached New Amsterdam that a white woman had been seen in the Indian village. When some of the white men came and offered to buy her, the old Indian called to Penelope and made their desire known, then asked what she wished to do. When she replied that she wished to go with the men, her captor agreed but accepted the pay they offered for her. Penelope lived in New Amsterdam among some of the English families until Richard Stout chose her for his wife in 1644. A historian of the period says that then they settled at Graves End on Long Island. Richard was forty years of age, and Penelope was in her twenty-second year.
About the time the English took over the rule of the town, perhaps to escape the English, perhaps seeking more land, Richard and a few other men began exploring the main land of the New Jersey coast, near the place 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 six and some upland country, in all 745 acres. Thirty years later he had accumulated so much land that he was able to deed eighteen hundred acres to his heirs. Considered the largest landed proprietor, Richard served as overseer of the district of Middletown.
One day, not long after they founded Middletown, the old Indian who had saved Penelope appeared at their home. When he refused to eat with her family Penelope followed him out of the house to learn what was wrong. He had come to warn her that the tribes were coming to attack the settlement. He urged her to take her family and flee to safety in his canoe. When she told Richard the news he refused to believe it. Penelope then gathered the children to the boat and paddled away as best she could to seek aid at New Amsterdam. After Penelope left, Richard reconsidered and gathered the men of the settlement together to make plans. They armed themselves, sent the women and children in canoes to wait off shore while they prepared to watch all night. At midnight the Indians came. When the whites, from a point of vantage attacked, the Indians, armed with only bows and arrows, were soon on the run. Then Richard Stout walked into the open and demanded a parley. After a conference, the whites and Indians held a two-day ceremonial to celebrate a treaty of peace. When the whites agreed to buy the lands on which they had built their town, an alliance for mutual assistance was formed. This treaty was faithfully kept. Though other settlements had war, this one was able to avoid it. The date of the purchase of the land from the Indians was January 25, 1664. Governor Nichols gave the settlers a statement called the Monmouth Patent, which guaranteed them religious and political freedom. There were supposed to be fifty families of whites and 500 Indians inhabiting 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 of the Stout home to organize the first Baptist Church of New Jersey. Richard and John, his oldest son, were among the eighteen male charter members. Every Sunday the group met at the homes of its members to sing hymns. Twenty years later a log church was built. Today, a new church stands on the spot, but some of the materials of the old log church are carefully preserved, after two hundred years, in this modern building.
Richard's will, approved October, 1705, is on file in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton. In it he gave his home farm to his youngest son, Benjamin. Though Richard formerly was required to report to the agents of the proprietors in writing, he signed his will with an X, doubtless due to his age, or the state of his health.
Penelope outlived Richard by twenty-seven years, dying in 1732, at the age of 90 or 110. She had been the mother of ten children; seven sons and three daughters. By the time of her death, she had welcomed some five-hundred and two descendants into the world. It was told of her that she had always to wear a cap because of her scalp scar, and that she 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 her wounds, no doubt were a great help to the little New Jersey settlement.
Five of Richard and Penelopes’ seven sons, namely John, Richard, James, Peter, and Ben settled at Middletown or in Monmouth County. Two sons, Jonathan and David, removed to adjoining districts to the south of Middletown. The last two were the ancestors of all Stout families who settled in Western Virginia, so far as is known.
Benjamin, a son of Jonathan, married Hannah Bonham, a descendant of Edward Fuller who came to America on the Mayflower as the twenty-first signer of the Mayflower Compact. She was also a descendant of Captain Francis Drake, a relative of Sir Francis Drake.
Five sons of Benjamin and Hannah were among the early settlers of present day Harrison County, West Virginia. They were Jonathan, Hezekiah, Benjamin, Ezekiel, and Hosea.
The Stout family which descended from Richard, first in America, and his wife, Penelope, had been living in the northern part of New Jersey for more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Only explorers or hunters and traders had yet entered the dense forests of Western Virginia.See Historical Document.
Richard was one of twelve patentees of what is now known as theMonmouth Patent. By 1667, Richard Stout held lot no. 64 andupland country in Middletown. In 1668 the First Baptist Churchof New Jersey
was organized in the Stout home. John, the eldestson, was among the eighteen male charter members.
DATE 25 AUG 2001In 1600 in Nottinghamshire, England, an entry was made in the Burton Joyce Parish record book telling of the marriage of one John Stout, of good family, to Elizabeth Bee. To this union was born Richard Stout in 1602 or 1604. When Richard grew up he quarreled with his father over a girl 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 from the Navy, and left his ship at New Amsterdam about 1640. He took up arms for the Dutch, and so was unharmed by the English when they took over New Amsterdam in 1664.
Richard found friends among some English settlers who, because of their religion, had fled to New Amsterdam from neighboring colonies. Among them were Lady Deborah Moody, her son, Sir Henry Moody, Richard Salter, William Browne, and Thomas Applegate. Together they obtained a charter from the Dutch governor to found the first English settlement on Long Island at Graves End. Thirty-eight others joined Richard where he settled in 1644 on Plantation No. 18, which he had purchased five years earlier. Richard became the largest land owner of the group. He may have married when he settled there, if so his first wife was dead when Penelope Prince, a widow, appeared on the scene.
When religious persecution made life intolerable for dissenters in England at this period, they fled to Holland and later to America. It seems likely a Baptist Preacher, Rev. Prince, was driven out of Sheffield and lived for a time in Amsterdam, Holland, when Penelope was born. Years later Penelope married a boy from Amsterdam, and together they took a ship for America. This ship was wrecked in 1640 at the northeast corner of New Jersey, on a point called Sandy Hook. The passengers that could, fled overland to the settlement later called New Amsterdam, but Penelopes’ husband, ill of a fever, was not able to go. Penelope busied herself making him comfortable on the shore when they were attacked by Indians, who killed her husband and left 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 her body which allowed her intestines to protrude, she crept to shelter in a 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 several days until two Indians came by on a hunt. When they saw her they seemed to argue over what to do with her. The younger wanted to kill Penelope, but the older objected, and finally won the argument, for he came, put her across his shoulder and carried her away to the Indian village. He sewed her wounds with a fish bone needle and thread of vegetable fiber. He treated her kindly and she recovered. She helped the squaws with their work and otherwise adapted herself to Indian life for perhaps a year.
Gradually the rumor reached New Amsterdam that a white woman had been seen in the Indian village. When some of the white men came and offered to buy her, the old Indian called to Penelope and made their desire known, then asked what she wished to do. When she replied that she wished to go with the men, her captor agreed but accepted the pay they offered for her. Penelope lived in New Amsterdam among some of the English families until Richard Stout chose her for his wife in 1644. A historian of the period says that then they settled at Graves End on Long Island. Richard was forty years of age, and Penelope was in her twenty-second year.
About the time the English took over the rule of the town, perhaps to escape the English
See Historical Document.
See Historical Document.
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PLAC Gravesend, Kings, NYJohn and Elizabeth were married by Justice of the Peace John Bowne.
In 1675 he was chosen a magistrate of a Monthly Court of small cases. 1679-1680 he was chosen a deputy to represent Middletown in the local Assembly. On July 4, 1681, John was appointed an ensign
in the military company of Middletown and in 1684-5, he drew a lot on Main Street and one in an outlying area.drew lot no. 19 in Middletown.
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PLAC Gravesend, Kings, NYJohn and Elizabeth were married by Justice of the Peace John Bowne.
In 1675 he was chosen a magistrate of a Monthly Court of small cases. 1679-1680 he was chosen a deputy to represent Middletown in the local Assembly. On July 4, 1681, John was appointed an ensign
in the military company of Middletown and in 1684-5, he drew a lot on Main Street and one in an outlying area.
DATE 25 AUG 2001
Never Married.