OCCU Carpenter
DATE 25 AUG 2001
DATE 25 AUG 2001
Death Record: State of Tenn 1917 Vol. 33 #415 (Tuberculosis)
Born 11 Mar 1912
DATE 25 AUG 2001
DATE 9 NOV 1999
TIME 15:51:16DATE 25 AUG 2001
BIRTH-DEATH: Cemetery records for Old Burying Ground adjoining St. James' Episcopal Church, Piscataway, NJ.; I saw this headstone myself in June, 2001.
BIRTH: Microfilm # 16,576. Drake, Lewis Lincoln. Piscataway, NJ Town Register from 1668 to 1805. Made from a copy in the library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; presented to the New Jersey Historical Society. 1906. p.44.
BIRTH-DEATH: US/CAN film# 0,002,112: Saint James Episcopal Church cemetery records, Raritan Township; Nixon, Middlesex County, New Jersey / compiled by the Genealogical Committee, L.D.S. Church; filmed by the Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1954; p. 18; age at death, 75 yrs.; wife Mercy.
BIRTH-DEATH: US/CAN microfilm# 0,547,209: Monnette, Orra Eugene; First settlers of ye plantations of Piscataway & Woodbridge; Los Angeles : LeRoy Caman Press; 1930-33; v. 3, p. 366: "Piscataway tombstone inscriptions": In memory of Ephram Pyatt late deacon in Piscataway church who departed this life August 10th 1814 aged 75 years, 9 months and 10 days: On wings of love my soul doth rise; To meet my Saviour in the skies; From sorrow toil and pain I go; And leave this world of care behind"
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2 PLAC Stelton NJ
BIRTH-DEATH: Cemetery records for Old Burying Ground adjoining St. James' Episcopal Church, Piscataway, NJ.; I saw this headstone myself in June, 2001.
BIRTH-DEATH: US/CAN film# 0,002,112: Saint James Episcopal Church cemetery records, Raritan Township; Nixon, Middlesex County, New Jersey / compiled by the Genealogical Committee, L.D.S. Church; filmed by the Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1954; p. 18; age at death, 77 yrs. 20 days; wife of Deacon Pyatt.
BIRTH-DEATH: US/CAN microfilm# 0,547,209: Monnette, Orra Eugene; First settlers of ye plantations of Piscataway & Woodbridge; Los Angeles : LeRoy Caman Press; 1930-33; v. 3, p. 366: "Piscataway tombstone inscriptions": Prompt by filial affection This stone is raised in rememberance Mrs. Mercy Pyatt widow of the late Dea n. Pyatt of the Bapt church Pisy. of which she was a respectful member about 36 years. Truly it may be said she lived the life of a christian died in the faith of the Gospel Octr 15 A.D. 1821. respected and beloved by all who knew her aged 77 years 7 months & 20 days. "Sweetly sleep in Jesus Arms; Fre'd from all the world's concerns; Till in glory he shall come; Burst your Tomb and take you home; There to reign forever more; Boundless Glory to explore."
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2 PLAC Stelton NJ
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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
DATE 25 AUG 2001