Richard and Penelope's children probably included:
Jonathan Stout (1645, married Ann Bullen),
Richard Stout (1646),
James Stout (1648, married Elizabeth Treux),
Mary Stout (1650),
Alice Stout (1652)
Peter Stout (1654, married Mary Bullen),
Sarah Stout (1656),
David Stout (1669),
Benjamin Stout (1669),
Richard was one of the twelve men named in the Monmouth Patent.
In 1667 Richard Stout was appointed to assist in laying out the lots at Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
In 1669 he was one of the overseers of Middletown.
The will of Richard Stout was dated June 9, 1703 and was proved October, 1705.
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from William Bowne, of Yorkshire, England and His Descendants by K. Miller Reading
Richard Stout was one of the twelve men named in the Monmouth Patent. Under grants and concessions his name heads the list of claimants as recorded in Surveyor's office at Perth Amboy. In the allotments of Town lots at Middletown, recorded Dec. 30th, 1667, Richard Stout was appointed to assist in laying out the lots. In 1669 he was one of the so-called overseers of Middletown. Richard Stout was prominent in public affairs in the new settlement and his name frequently mentioned in Freehold records.
In 1690 Richard Stout and his wife Penelope conveyed to Benjamin Stout all the tract and plantation whereon they then lived at Hop River, after decease of himself and wife Penelope. The will of Richard Stout, first of the family, is filed in Secretary of State's office at Trenton. It is dated June 9th, 1703, and was proved October, 1705. Richard Stout was one of the most respectable and respected men in his day in the Monmouth settlement.
Penelope Van Princes was born at Amsterdam, Holland, about 1602; her father's name was Van Princes; she and her first husband (whose name is not known) sailed for New York, (then New Amsterdam,) about the year 1620. The vessel was stranded at Sandy Hook; the crew got ashore and marched toward the said New York; but Penelope's (for that was her name) husband being hurt in the wreck, could not march with them; therefore he and the wife tarried in the woods; they had not been long in the place before the Indians killed them both (as they thought), and stripped them to the skin; however, Penelope came to, though her skull was fractured and her left shoulder so hacked that she could never use that arm like the other; she was also cut across the abdomen so that her bowels apptared: these she kept in with her hand; she continued in this situation for seven days, taking shelter in a hollow tree and eating the excrescence of it; the seventh day she saw a deer passing by with arrows sticking in it, and soon after two Indians appeared, whom she was glad to see, in hope they would put her out of her misery; accordingly, one made towards her to knock her in the head; but the other, who was an elderly man, prevented him, and throwing his match coat about her carried her to his wigwam, and cured her of her wounds and bruises. After that he took her to New York and made a present of her to her countrymen, viz: [namely] an Indian present expecting ten times the value in return.
It was in New York that one Richard Stout married her; he was a native of England and of a good family. She was now in her 22d year, and he in his 40th. She bore him seven sons and three daughters, viz:
Jonathan [Stout] (founder of Hopewell),
John [Stout],
Richard [Stout], James [Stout],
Peter [Stout], David [Stout],
Benjamin [Stout],
Mary [Stout],
Sarah [Stout], and
Alice [Stout].
The daughters married into the families of the Bownes, Pikes, Throckmortons and Skeltons, and so lost the name of Stout; the sons married into the families of Bullen, Crawford, Ashton, Fraux, &c, and had many children. The mother lived to the age of 110, and saw her offspring multiplied into 502 in about 88 years.
Richard Stout was born in Nottinghamshire, England, in 1584; died in 1705; married Penelope Van Princes in New Amsterdam, in 1624; was one of the thirty-nine original settlers of Gravesend, Long Island, 1645; removed with his family to Middletown, N. J., 1664, and was one of the first five families of said settlement.
A land patent is an exclusive land grant made by the government. The certificate that grants the land rights is also called first-title deed and final certificate. In the United States, all land can be traced back to the original land patent.
Eastern Long Island was settled at Southold by English Puritans on October 21, 1640. Western Long Island was Dutch. The Conklins and other related families owned the entire area in the 17th century. The Dutch granted an English settlement in Hempstead (now in Nassau) in 1644. In 1664, the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam became English and was renamed New York.
