Jonathan-Claire - Person Sheet
Jonathan-Claire - Person Sheet
Namevan 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.
Spouses
1KENT
Marr Date1640
2STOUTE, Richard I , 11G Grandfather
, 11G GrandfatherBirth Date2 Apr 1622
Birth PlaceBurton Joyce Parish, Nottinghamshire, England
Death Datebef 23 Oct 1705 Age: 83
Death PlaceMiddletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey
Misc. Notes
Circa 1640 -- Richard Stout served in the English Navy, but when his term was up he got a discharge and left the ship in New Amsterdam, New Netherland. Some say he made this choice to board a ship of war because of an argument with his father over a young woman he had addressed.
In the Spring of 1643 New Netherland Director-General Willem Kieft employed Richard Stout during a Native American uprising. On October 13, 1643 Richard Stout was at Gravesend, New Netherland when he with two others unloaded 200 pumpkins from the ship "Seven Stars" and as noted in Gravesend Town Book.
Spring 1643 -- 1644 -- Richard Stout and widow Penelope Kent van Princis married at New Netherland.
Sometime between 1644 and 1664 -- Richard and Penelope Kent van Princis Stout moved to what became Middletown, Monmouth County, Province of New Jersey. There is some disagreement among the following sources regarding when they arrived. One states they left as soon in 1644 as they got married, another says they were in Gravesend in 1657, Streets suggests 1664.
February 20, 1646 -- Richard Stout received Lot 16 in the allotment of house lots at Middleton. October 26, 1649 -- Richard Stout sold a crop of tobacco at Gravesend, New Netherland.
In short Richard Stout had a lot in 1643, a plantation in 1657 and was the largest landowner in 1661 in Gravesend, New Amsterdam, New Netherland (now Brooklyn, Kings County, New York City, New York). Gravesend, NY was getting crowded and Richard and Penelope Stout crossed the bay to New Jersey in 1664 to take advantage of New Netherland Director-General Peter Stuyvesant's proclamation after a settlement was reached with the Indians for the purchase of the land. As one of the Monmouth Patentees he received the following: 480 acres for him, his wife and two sons, John and Richard or 120 acres each. His sons James, Peter, and daughters Mary, Alice, and Sarah each received 60 acres for a total of 300 acres. Stillwell included the husband of Mary Bowne, James Bowne, and Alice Throckmorton, John Throckmorton with a total each of 240 acres.
January 25, 1664 -- The Patentees purchased land from the Native American Sachem Popomora with the following: "118 fathoms seawamp, 68 fathoms of which were to be white and 50 black seawamp, 5 coats, 1 gun, l clout capp, 1 shirt, 12 lbs. tobacco, 1 anker of wine: all of which has been acknowledged as having been received: and in addition 82 fathoms of seawamp was to be paid twelve months hence."
September 9, 1664 -- At his home in the Bouwerij, New Amsterdam, Netherland Director-General Peter Stuyvesant signed a treaty surrendering New Netherland to British Commander Colonel Richard Nicholls. Henceforth, New Netherland became New York.
April 7, 1665 -- New York Governor Richard Nicholls approved this deed and two other deeds that followed. All of them are a matter of record in the Secretary of State's office at Albany, NY, in Lib. 3, page 1, the Proprietor's office of Perth Amboy, "also a map of the land embraced," in the Secretary of State's office in Trenton, New Jersey and New Jersey Archives, volume 1, page 44.
The first Baptist Church of New Jersey was founded in the kitchen of the Stout home. For twenty years eighteen charter members met in the home until a log church was built. A new church stands there now, but part of the original church has been preserved in it.
In the Spring of 1643 New Netherland Director-General Willem Kieft employed Richard Stout during a Native American uprising. On October 13, 1643 Richard Stout was at Gravesend, New Netherland when he with two others unloaded 200 pumpkins from the ship "Seven Stars" and as noted in Gravesend Town Book.
Spring 1643 -- 1644 -- Richard Stout and widow Penelope Kent van Princis married at New Netherland.
Sometime between 1644 and 1664 -- Richard and Penelope Kent van Princis Stout moved to what became Middletown, Monmouth County, Province of New Jersey. There is some disagreement among the following sources regarding when they arrived. One states they left as soon in 1644 as they got married, another says they were in Gravesend in 1657, Streets suggests 1664.
February 20, 1646 -- Richard Stout received Lot 16 in the allotment of house lots at Middleton. October 26, 1649 -- Richard Stout sold a crop of tobacco at Gravesend, New Netherland.
In short Richard Stout had a lot in 1643, a plantation in 1657 and was the largest landowner in 1661 in Gravesend, New Amsterdam, New Netherland (now Brooklyn, Kings County, New York City, New York). Gravesend, NY was getting crowded and Richard and Penelope Stout crossed the bay to New Jersey in 1664 to take advantage of New Netherland Director-General Peter Stuyvesant's proclamation after a settlement was reached with the Indians for the purchase of the land. As one of the Monmouth Patentees he received the following: 480 acres for him, his wife and two sons, John and Richard or 120 acres each. His sons James, Peter, and daughters Mary, Alice, and Sarah each received 60 acres for a total of 300 acres. Stillwell included the husband of Mary Bowne, James Bowne, and Alice Throckmorton, John Throckmorton with a total each of 240 acres.
January 25, 1664 -- The Patentees purchased land from the Native American Sachem Popomora with the following: "118 fathoms seawamp, 68 fathoms of which were to be white and 50 black seawamp, 5 coats, 1 gun, l clout capp, 1 shirt, 12 lbs. tobacco, 1 anker of wine: all of which has been acknowledged as having been received: and in addition 82 fathoms of seawamp was to be paid twelve months hence."
September 9, 1664 -- At his home in the Bouwerij, New Amsterdam, Netherland Director-General Peter Stuyvesant signed a treaty surrendering New Netherland to British Commander Colonel Richard Nicholls. Henceforth, New Netherland became New York.
April 7, 1665 -- New York Governor Richard Nicholls approved this deed and two other deeds that followed. All of them are a matter of record in the Secretary of State's office at Albany, NY, in Lib. 3, page 1, the Proprietor's office of Perth Amboy, "also a map of the land embraced," in the Secretary of State's office in Trenton, New Jersey and New Jersey Archives, volume 1, page 44.
The first Baptist Church of New Jersey was founded in the kitchen of the Stout home. For twenty years eighteen charter members met in the home until a log church was built. A new church stands there now, but part of the original church has been preserved in it.
Marr Dateabt 1645
Marr PlaceNieuw Amsterdam, Nieuw Nederland