page 13 desisted, and entered into a league of peace, which was kept without violation." In this uncertainty my effort shall be to show at what time the settlers moved across the Bay into East Jersey. In the office of the Surveyor-General at Perth Amboy are preserved the warrants for the land obtained under the Monmouth Patent. The date of record is 1675. Richard Stout's name heads the list of claimants. It reads as follows: "Here begins the Rights of Land due according to Concessions: "Richard Stout, of Middletown, brings for his rights for himself, his wife, and two sons, John and Richard, 120 acres each, 480 acres. Item. For his sons and daughters that are to come of age since the year 1667, viz: James, Peter, Mary, Alice, and Sarah, each 60 acres, 300 acres. Total 780 acres." It will be observed from the above that John and Richard were the only children that had come of age in the year 1667, and that Jonathan, David and Benjamin are not even mentioned.(2) After reading this record why should there be any doubt that the settlement of Middletown was begun in 1667? I had none until I received a letter from Dr. William H. Mitchell, (2)In Richard Stout's will the sons are named first, followed by the daughters, in the same order in which they are given in the Concession, with this difference: Peter is not mentioned in the will, for the reason that he predeceased his father by a short interval of time; and Jonathan, David and Benjamin are not mentioned in the Concession, from which it may be inferred they were unborn at that date. page14 of Bayonne, N.J., dated 14 May, 1913, telling me that he had found in the original town-books of Gravesend, Long Island, that Pennellopey Prince [thus he wrote it] was a witness in a suit for slander between Ambrose London and Thomas Aplegate, September 12, 1648; and that it was the only time her name is mentioned in the town-books. If this is Penelope Vanprincis, as seems probable, she must have married before this date to have had sons of age in 1667. In the allotment of town lots in Middletown, recorded 30 December, 1667, John Stout was among those who received them. His name is included in the list of first settlers, and he is put down as coming from Long Island. All accounts agree that he was the oldest child. Salter states that he was married 12 January, 1671. The probable date of his birth was in the year 1643 or 1644, which agrees with the conclusion arrived at from the other events.(3) Leaving out of consideration the confusing dates of the Gravesend town-books, the sequence of events here narrated follows, with sufficient accuracy, contemporaneous history and the official records to make the following recapitulation seem probable: The vessel was stranded on Sandy Hook about 1640, or near (3)Dr. Mitchell further states in his letter to me that the town records of Gravesend records the marriage of Mary Stout and James Bowne at Gravesend, 26 December, 1665, at which date she was sixteen years old, coming of age (eighteen) in 1667, having been born in 1649. He would also have her the oldest child of her parents; in which he is evidently in error. The Concession says she came of age after 1667.