• General Notes

  Source: Stilwell"s "Genealogy of the Stout Family", vol. # 4
  Immigrant: Stout , Richard
  Name of Ship: ?
  Arrival Date: abt. 1643
  Origin of Immigrant: Nottinghamshire, England
  Immigrant's Date & Place of Birth: 1615, Nottinghamshire, England
  Immigrant's Date & Place of Death: Oct 1705, Middletown, Monmouth Co. NJ Immigrant's Spouse: Penelope VanPrincin
  Immigrant's Children:
  John Stout, 1645 Gravesend L.I. New Netherlands, m. Elizabeth Crawford, d. 1724 NJ
  Richard Stout, 1646 -- 1717, m Frances Heath, Mary Seymour
  James Stout, 1648 - ? , m Elizabeth Truax
  Mary Stout, 1650 - ? , m Judge James Bowne 1665
  Alice Stout, 1652 - ? m John Throckmorton 1670
  Peter Stout, 1654- 1703, m Mary Bollen, then Mary Bowne
  Sarah Stout, 1656 - ? m John Pike
  Johnathan Stout, 1660 - 1723, m Anne Bollen 1685
  All the above were born in Gravesend Long Island
  David Stout, 1667 - ? b in Middletown NJ, m Rebecca Ashton 1688
  Benjamin Stout, 1669-1734, m Mary Leonard, then Agnes Truax
  
  Notes: Married in Gravesend, Long Island in 1644, a member of Lady Deborah Moody's anabaptist settlement. He accompanied her from Massachusetts. In 1664 he moved his family from NY to NJ and was an original patentee of Middletown, Monmouth Co. NJ. (records in the NJ Archives)
  
  Source:"Stout and Allied Families", by Herald F. Stout, vol. 1, 1951 edition, pg. xxii:
  The Will of Richard Stout
  KNOW ALL MEN, by these presents that I, Richard Stout of Middletown, in the county of Monmouth, in East Jersey, being of Sound Mind and disposing memory, do make and ordain this to be my last will and testament which is as followeth:
  I will that all my just debts be paid; I give and devise unto my loving wife, during her natural life, all my orchard and that part of rooms of the house she now lives in, with the cellar, and all the land I now possess. I give and bequeath unto my loving wife, all my horse kind, excepting one mare and colt. My son Benjamin is to have for keeping my cattle last year.
  I give unto my sons John, Richard, James, Johnathan, David and Benjamin, one shilling each of them.
  I give unto my daughters, Mary, Alice and Sarah, each of them one shilling.
  I give to my daughter-in-law Mary Stout and her son John one shilling each of them.
  I give and bequeath unto my kinswoman Mary Stout, the daughter of formerly Peter Stout, one cow, to be paid within six days after my wife's death.
  All the remainder of my personal estate whatsoever, I give and bequeath unto my loving wife, and to this, my last will and testament, I make my son John and my son Johnathan my executors to.
  For this my will performed, in witness hereof I have hereunto put my hand and seal, June the ninth day, in the year one thousand seven hundred and three.
  His
  Richard X Stout
  Mark
  Signed, sealed and published in the presence of us: Richard Hartshorne
  John Weekham
  Peter Vandervere
  
  Proved before Lord Cornbury, Governor, Captain General, & Etc. 23 October 1705 at Perth Amboy.
  
  (Recorded in Liber I, p 120, of Wills at Trenton, N.J.)

Details of Richard's family with Penelope Van PRINCIN