Jonathan-Claire - Person Sheet
Jonathan-Claire - Person Sheet
NameKENT 
Spouses
1van PRINCIS, Penelope 
, 11G Grandmother
, 11G GrandmotherBirth PlaceAmsterdam, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Death Dateabt 1725
Death PlaceMiddletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey
Misc. Notes
SHIPWRECK
The story of Penelope’s shipwreck and encounter with the Indians is very similar to the story recounted about her mother on her profile. From reading various accounts, it is possibly a true account for Penelope the daughter, embellished greatly over time, with no proof.
"Some time during the seventeenth century, probably about 1680 or '90, a young couple just married in Holland, embarked on a vessel bound for America. The voyage was prosperous until they were nearing the port of New Amsterdam, now the city of New York. The vessel was wrecked off what is now the coast of New Jersey, and nearly all on board drowned. The young couple of Hollanders, escaped drowning and with a small number of the passengers and crew succeeded in reaching the shore. Upon landing they were attacked by Indians, who lay in ambush awaiting their arrival. The whole party were tomahawked, scalped and otherwise mutilated, and left for dead. All were dead except the wife, from Holland."
"In 1643 Penelope and her Dutch husband took a ship from the Netherlands to New Amsterdam. Their ship foundering, she and her husband and several others made land at Sandy Hook. Her husband, John Kent was not able to travel due to illness and she remained with him. After the couple was abandoned, they suffered an attack from the natives and her husband was killed. She survived the attack and sheltered in a hollow tree until she, due to hunger she said, felt compelled to make herself known to the Navesink tribe of Leni Lenapi. They bound up her wounds, and when she was well enough to travel she was, perhaps sold, to the Dutch at New Amsterdam. There she married Richard Stout."
Penelope and Richard could not have married much before 1645, in Gravesend. She was born in 1622, and supposedly had been married already.
Several sources claim Penelope was the first white woman to live in Middletown in about 1665. Obviously, this is not true.
Richard Stout was one of the twelve patentees that came from Gravesend, New York to Monmouth County, New Jersey , was living there 1664 with four other families, a Patentee and was one of the founders of the first Baptist Church in New Jersey.
The story of Penelope’s shipwreck and encounter with the Indians is very similar to the story recounted about her mother on her profile. From reading various accounts, it is possibly a true account for Penelope the daughter, embellished greatly over time, with no proof.
"Some time during the seventeenth century, probably about 1680 or '90, a young couple just married in Holland, embarked on a vessel bound for America. The voyage was prosperous until they were nearing the port of New Amsterdam, now the city of New York. The vessel was wrecked off what is now the coast of New Jersey, and nearly all on board drowned. The young couple of Hollanders, escaped drowning and with a small number of the passengers and crew succeeded in reaching the shore. Upon landing they were attacked by Indians, who lay in ambush awaiting their arrival. The whole party were tomahawked, scalped and otherwise mutilated, and left for dead. All were dead except the wife, from Holland."
"In 1643 Penelope and her Dutch husband took a ship from the Netherlands to New Amsterdam. Their ship foundering, she and her husband and several others made land at Sandy Hook. Her husband, John Kent was not able to travel due to illness and she remained with him. After the couple was abandoned, they suffered an attack from the natives and her husband was killed. She survived the attack and sheltered in a hollow tree until she, due to hunger she said, felt compelled to make herself known to the Navesink tribe of Leni Lenapi. They bound up her wounds, and when she was well enough to travel she was, perhaps sold, to the Dutch at New Amsterdam. There she married Richard Stout."
Penelope and Richard could not have married much before 1645, in Gravesend. She was born in 1622, and supposedly had been married already.
Several sources claim Penelope was the first white woman to live in Middletown in about 1665. Obviously, this is not true.
Richard Stout was one of the twelve patentees that came from Gravesend, New York to Monmouth County, New Jersey , was living there 1664 with four other families, a Patentee and was one of the founders of the first Baptist Church in New Jersey.
Marr Date1640