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    1. Re: STOUT-D Digest V00 #69
    2. Bob & Wanda Deitemeyer
    3. Here it is-This is from some loose bound information on NJ cemeteries. This information is located at the library at Rutgers University. Old graveyard on the Stout Farm near Hopewell where the Hunt House is located, and now owned by the Pomeroys. This graveyard is about a mile north of Stoutsburg in a small grove. The farm is the original farm of the first Jonathan Stout and Anna Bullen then Col. Joseph, then Wilson Stout. It was rented to a cousin, John Price Hunt, for two years during the Revolution, and it was during his time there that the council of war was held by Gen. Washington. In 1799 the place was bought by John Weart, Sr. It later passed to his son John, Jr. then to his only child Spencer S. Weart. Next it was bought by Specer Algernon Weart, son of Spencer S. Weart. He died in 1898. In 1899 it was bought by a brother-in-law, Jonathan Hunt Blackwell who rented it to George E. Weart, son of Alfred. He bought it later and sold it to _______ Elsworth. Next it was sold to _________ Swarts, editor of the True Story Magazine. He sold it to Eugene Pomeroy. For many years it was called simply “Hilltop”. Susan S. Weart. And also from the Pioneers of Old Hopewell by Ege-The first pioneer of northern Hopewell, Jonathan Stout of Monmouth, settled there about 1704, and at his death in 1722 the far passed on to his son, Col Joseph Stout. This was Washington’s headquarters during the Revolution. The great council of war held in this house was the turning point in the history of the great struggle of the colonies for independence. This scene is beautifully and grandly immortalized by one of the bronze tablets on the Battle Monument at Freehold, and is thus described. “This table represents Generals Washington, Lee, Greene, Sterling, Layfayette, Steuben, Knox, Poor, Wayne, Woodford, Patterson, Scott, and Duportail, as they appered in the important council of war held at Hopewell, in old Hunterdon County, June 24, 1778.”

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