This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stout Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QKQBAIB/1975.1 Message Board Post: From "Unrecorded Wills & Inventories of Monmouth Co., NJ" in John E. Stillwell's "Historical & Genealogical Miscellany," vol. VI, p. 115: John Stout of Middletown, Monmouth Co., dated Dec. 14, 1724. Proved in Perth Amboy Feb. 11, 1724-5: Gives unto Hugh Hartshorne, sole executor for him to dispose of to his wife and children at such times and seasons and for such use as Hugh Hartshorne shall think meat. Executors shall have whole power to putting all my children out or binding them out to such places or people - the girls for 18 years and boy for 21 years. Book A, p. 329, Book of Wills. I also see in New Jersey Archives, 1st Series, vol. 33, "Calendar of Wills, 1670 - 1730" that witnesses were: Corneljous Comton, Elisabeth Watson, Mary Estete (??), John Watson. I am descended from John's daughter Frances who married Job Throckmorton about 1720. See my Throckmorton article at <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bart/> for their descendants.