Here's some more of what I've gathered: Register of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, New York, p. 286-7: ". . . one of the first settlers of [Gravesend] in 1643 and allotted plantation-lot No. 18 in 1646, as per town rec'd. about 1688. He also bought Apl. 5, 1661, plantation-lot No. 26 of Edward Griffen. With a number of his neighbors he left [Gravesend] and settled at Middletown, Monmouth Co., N.J., of which place he was one of the patentees or original purchasers of the Indians, as per p. 73 of Vol. I of Raum's N.J. There is a story, founded on tradition, on p. 76, etc., of said Vol. of the shipwreck of a Dutch ship on Sandy Hook; of the crew and passengers leaving a sick young Dutchman and his wife there while they went for relief; of the Indians tomahawking the man, mangling the wife and leaving her for dead; of her recovering and crawling into a hollow log and subsisting for several days on berries, and then being discovered and taken prisoner and her life preserved by an old Indian, ransomed by the Dutch of N.Y., where she married Richard Stout, being at the time in her 22d year and he in his 40th. They settled at Middletown, where the old Indian often visited her, and on one occasion, by informing her of a plot to massacre the whites, put them on their guard and saved the settlement from destruction. This woman, whose maiden name was Penelope Van Prince, lived to the age of 110 years, her posterity numbering 502 at the time of her death. The compiler gives this tradition as he finds it, having little faith therein. Issue (per Rev. G.C. Schenck):--John; Richard; Jonathan; Peter; James; Benjamin; David; Deliverance; Sarah; and Penelope, whose descendants are numerous in N.J. Made his mark to documents." 8 April 1665 -- "Captain John Bowne and his associates had anticipated the British occupation of New Netherlands, and negotiated with the Indians for lands -- made the beginnings of a settlement near Middletown. Now they proceeded to obtain from the Royal Governor, Colonel Richard Nicholls, confirmation and sanction of their purchases. On their petition, Letters Patent were issued 8 April 1665 by Governor Nicholls granting these lands and his authority to the twelve men ever after to be know as the Patentees of Monmouth: William Goulding (Golden), Samuel Spicer, Richard Gibbons, Richard Stout, James Grover, John Bowne, John Tilton, Nathaniel Sylvester, William Reape, Walter Clark, Nichols Dais and Obediah Holmes. The Patentees and their associates were bound to settle on the lands granted them, within three years of the date of the Patent at least one hundred families." Monmouth County Historical Society (Woolman & Rose) 1665-1670 -- "The Men Who Came to Monmouth": From the limitations and conditions contained in the Monmouth Patent and for other reasons, the period from 1665-1670 may be considered as marking the first wave of early settlement and the settlers ... being the Founders of Monmouth. These were: [The twelve Patentees]. Monmouth County Historical Society, Monmouth Patent Granted, taken from This Old Monmouth of Ours, by William Homer, Originally Published by Moreau Brothers of Freehold, NJ, 1932.