The following material is verbatim from Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Early Settlers of New Jersey and their Descendants, by John E. Stillwell, M.D., Vol. IV, New York, 1916, p. 304 et seq. Patty Myers The Rev. Mr. Hart, of Hopewell, drawing his information from the descendants of Jonathan Stout, and supplying it to Morgan Edwards, gave a series of dates which are wrong upon their face and extremely confusing. He stated that Penelope, the wife of Richard Stout, was born in 1602, and sailed for New York about 1620, and was wrecked. That she met and married, in New York, Richard Stout, when she was in her twenty-second year, and he in his fortieth, and that she lived to the age of one hundred and ten years, and saw her offspring multiplied into five hundred and two in about eighty-eight years. Allowing one year for her widowhood, Penelope Stout would have married Richard Stout, according to these dates, in 1621, in her twenty-second year, which would make her born about 1600; and he, at this date, in his fortieth year, would have been born about 1582; she, living to one hundred and ten years of age, would have died about 1710. If Penelope Stout was born in 1602, she was sixty-three years old when the settlement of Middletown occurred, and as only two of her children, John and Richard, had arrived at age, and were presumably about twenty and eighteen years, respectively, she must have been aged forty-three years when she bore her first child, and as we know that she had ten children that grew to adult life, and perhaps others who died young, it would have prolonged her child-bearing period till she was near, if not over, the age of sixty, when, as a matter of fact, it should have encompassed thirty years, between the ages of sixteen years and forty-six years, or thereabouts. Evidently there is a mistake in Mr. Hart's dates, and I think it lies in the fact that he erroneously gave the date of birth, 1602, to Penelope Stout instead of to Richard Stout, her husband. If we accept this as likely, and fit her marriage to the date of 1644, which we have proved was the probable date of her arrival, then we! can intelligently apply the other figures, given by Mr. Hart, and the results would be: Richard Stout was born 1602; married 1644; died 1705. Penelope Stout was born 1622-3; married 1644; died 1732/3. The correctness of the dates assigned Richard Stout is sustained by the fact that he was very old in 1686, and that he became inactive, in town affairs, about 1670. We have little knowledge of him in his later days. 1679-80 Feb. 26. Richard and Penelope Stout sold to Thomas Snowsell, Sr., sixteen acres of land, with dwelling house, barn and orchard, and nine acres of upland, in the Poplar Field, and other small parcels, for £66.6.3. This land later passed to John Crafford and then to Peter Tilton. In 1690 he conveyed to his son, Peter Stout, land on Hop River, and six and two-thirds acres of meadow, at Conesconck, joining David Stout. In 1690 he conveyed to his son James Stout land on Hop River, on whose boundaries was Jonathan Stout, and another piece of land, at Conescunk, adjoining David Stout. 1703, June 9th. Will of Richard Stout, of Middletowne, County of Monmouth; proved, by attestation of Richard Hartshorne, one of the witnesses, and also to the signatures of witnesses, John Weekham, [Meekham?], and Peter Vandevandetere, before Edward, Vifcount [Viscount] Cornbury, Governor, Perth Amboy, ye 23th, 8ber, 1705, mentioned: "unto my louing wife deuring her naturall life All my orchard and that part or rome of the houfe fhee now lives in with the cellar and all the land I now Improue. . . . unto my louing wife all my horfe kind excepting one mare and coult my Sonn Beniamin is to haue for wintering my cattell laft yeare." "to my Sonns, John, Richard, James, Jonathan, Dauid, Beniamin, one fhilling each of them." "to my Daughters, Mary, Alce and Sarah, each of them, one fhilling." "to my daughter in law, Marey Stoute, and to her fonn, John, one fhilling each of them." "unto my kinswoman, Mary Stoute, and daughter formerly of peter ftouts, one Cow to be paid within fix days After my wifes death." Residue "of personall eftate. . . . unto my louing wife, and . . . I mak my fonn John and my fonn Jonathan my Exseceters to fee this my will performed." Witnesses: Richard Hartshorne, John Weekham [Meekham?] and Peter Vandevandeter. He signed with his mark. 1705, 8ber, 23th. Oath of executors, John and Jonathan Stout, before Edward, Vifcount Cornbury, Perth Amboy. Richard Stout, as has been deduced, probably married in 1643 or 1644, and had by his wife, Penelope, issue, most, if not all of whom, were born in Gravesend, Long Island. If no account is taken of any deceased children, or the exact order of succession, the dates of birth of the known children would be about as follows: John Stout, b. about 1644/5 Richard Stout, born about 1646. Mary Stout, b. about 1648. James Stout, born about 1650. Alice Stout, born about 1652. Peter Stout, born about 1654; died between 1702 and 1703. Sarah Stout, born about 1656. Jonathan Stout, born about 16__. 1646 says James Hervey Stout. Benjamin Stout, born about 1669? David Stout, born about 1667 or 1669.