General Notes

Penelope Kent van Princin (or Princess) came with her husband John Kent,th
ey were captured and he was killed by the Indians.  She survived and the I
ndians thought she was a witch and saved her life,  she then lived with t
he Indians and later married Richard Stout.  Her life is told in the bo
ok " The History of New Jersey .
PENELOPE IS LISTED AS VAN PRINCESS IN MANY SOURCES. THAT WAS HER FIRST
HUSBANDS LAST NAME.
BIRTH:  927.273 St76st STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE. There are discrepanci
es in the year of Penelope's birth.  Good research shows it must have be
en in 1622.  This was one item in which Robert Ripley was wrong. In RIPLEY
'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT, a syndicated news item, carried in hundreds of pape
rs nation wide during the 1940's and 1950's, there was an article about th
is ancestor. "PENELOPE VAN PRINCIS (1602 - 1712) After journeying to Ameri
ca from Amsterdam at the age of 18, was attacked by Indians, who killed h
er husband, fractured her skull, shoved a spear through her body AND LE
FT HER IN THE BELIEF SHE WAS DEAD she spent 7 days in a hollow tree, survi
ved to live another 92 years, and had 502 DESCENDANTS WHEN SHE FINALLY DI
ED AT THE AGE OF 110"   The STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE continues the story "
After the Indians were gone, the wife revived and crawled into a hollow tr
ee or log, where she remained for several days ...two Indians appeared wh
om she was glad to see, in hope they would put her out of her misery. .
.. The old man wished to keep her alive; ...and dressed her wounds and so
on healed them.... Nathan Stout says he {the Indian} sold her to the Dut
ch in New Amsterdam."
EMMIGRATION: Penelope sailed for New Amsterdam (Now known as New York Cit
y) on a Dutch ship. " The ship was stranded at SANDY HOOK.  The story go
es on to relate that all the shipwrecked people were safely landed from t
he stranded ship. But Penelope's husband, who had been sick for most of t
he voyage, was taken so ill, after getting ashore that he could not trav
el with the rest. He was hurt in the wreck and could not march.  The othe
rs were so afraid of the Indians that they would not stay with him...but h
astened away...The wife alone remained behind with her husband."
MARRIAGE:  927.273 St76st Stout Family of Delaware
Ledgend has it that her second Husband, Richard Stout, was a British sail
or who "jumped ship" at New Amsterdam.  Penelope hid him from the Briti
sh until they were gone.  Richard then married his protector.
DEATH: Age at time of death was 110.
BURIAL: Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah, Film # 1421612, shows buria
l
"Interred ancient Lippit or Taylor Burying Ground, Middletown, N.J. Monmou
th County."