page 9 cluded who she must be, and some of them went to her relief. They did not have occasion to rescue her by force, as the old Indian gave her the choice of going or staying, and of course she went. Thus far I have quoted the different versions of the legend. As confirmatory evidence of the time when these events were happening, I will cite from Whitehead's East Jersey under the Proprietors. He says: "In East Jersey the greatest harmony prevailed [between the Dutch and the Indians] until, by misconduct of the colonist, the anger of the natives was aroused. In 1640, an expedition fitted out against those on the Raritan caused the maltreatment of some of the leading chiefs and led the following year to retaliatory measures upon the settlers of Staten Island, who were killed, and their plantations broken up." Peace was not restored until 1644. The troubles then existing between the Dutch and Indians would account, therefore, for the sudden and murderous attack on the shipwrecked people on Sandy Hook. The facts of history, thus far, seem to agree very well with the story. It is said that in New Amsterdam, whither she had gone after her rescue, Penelope Van Princes became acquainted with Richard Stout and soon afterwards married him. "She was now in her twenty-second year and he in his fortieth." If the date of her birth, as given in Benedict's history, is correct, her marriage took place in 1624. As Richard Stout was then in his fortieth year, he would have been born in 1584. But as his will, which is recorded in Trenton, is dated 9 June, page 10 1703, and was probated 23 October, 1705, this age is probably wrong, as well as the date of his marriage in 1624. If it be assumed, however--as in the stranding of the vessel on Sandy Hook--that there is a same error of about twenty years in the date of their marriage, it would have taken place about 1644. We shall have corroboration of this in the time when the two oldest children came of age. In fact, there seems to run through the whole story an error of antedating of about twenty years. After their marriage the career of this couple was associated more or less intimately with the settlement of Monmouth county, New Jersey. Smith tells us that a while after marrying they lived together at Middletown, among other Dutch families. On the authority of Nathan Stout we learn that, "immediately after her marriage with Richard Stout, they crossed the Bay and settled Middletown, and this was in 1648. There were then but six white families, including the Stouts, in the settlement." This statement of Nathan Stout has caused some dissension as to the actual time when Middletown was first settled. Richard Stout's name is found among the patentees to whom Governor Kieft issued, 19 December, 1645, the patent for the settlement at Gravesend, Long Island. (New York Genealogical and Historical Record, 1885, volume 16, page 102.) Thompson, in his History of Long Island, gives a list of the inhabitants and "probably freeholders" of Gravesend in 1656, and among them is the name of Richard Stout. Salter says that "in 1657 Richard Stout seems to have