Russel R. Stout and Olive M. Stout's 1964 book Richard Stout Descendants in West Virginia says on pages 5-6, "Jonathan [son of Richard and Penelope Stout] and Anna lived on a farm at Hopewell, south of Amwell township. Together with Nathan Drake, John Hart, and the Bowne Family, Jonathan helped establish the Baptist Church of Hopewell. For forty-one years the meetings were held at the home of Jonathan or at that of one of his children, before a meetinghouse was built in the early 1700's. John Hart, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, donated the land for the church and was later buried in the graveyard adjoining." (The chronology of this account troubles me a bit.) I have not found any family connection between Penelope Stout and John Hart. I have found one marriage between a Stout descendant and a Hart descendant, shown below using my ahnentafel numbers. 560 Johnathan Stout 572 Samuel Hart 280 Samuel Stout 286 James Hart 140 Johnathan Stout 142 Samuel Opdycke m. 143 Jane Hart 70 Samuel Stout married 71 Letitia Updyke However the elder Samuel Hart was possibly born in 1690 in Ulster, Ireland, and probably not related to John Hart, Signer. Frances Van Scoy [email protected]