tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16721577472215398122024-03-08T13:05:23.246-05:00 Searching for Penelope StoutIf you’re reading this blog, I assume you’re a descendant of Penelope and Richard Stout and are familiar with her story and want to know more. I would love to discover the truth behind Penelope’s story but facts are scarce. I'll have to settle for conjectures.<br><br>
Together, we can combine our incomplete knowledge and arrive at better conclusions. So please comment.jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-81227961428339935482014-01-02T22:18:00.003-05:002014-01-02T22:22:27.440-05:00A New Version of the Richard and Penelope Story<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thanks go to Jay R. Stout, who grew up in NJ and is a direct male
descendant of R&P, for providing a copy of this article published in 1931 or
‘32 (exact date and page unknown) in the Keyport Weekly newspaper. This version of the Richard and Penelope story has a few details that I have never seen published. Jay states that this story is handed down over the generations by his ancestors. It is consistent with the 1765 and 1790 versions; furthermore, it has reasonable dates and no obvious errors and does not appear to be derived directly from either of the two original published versions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here is the two-paragraph R&P part, which is followed by the entire article.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> "</span>Mr. Stout was a lineal descendant of Richard Stout, who married Penelope Van Princis, said to be the first white woman in the State of New Jersey. Penelope Van Princis and her husband, who was ill, (name unknown) were crossing the ocean on a Dutch ship bound for New Amsterdam, when the vessel was shipwrecked off Sandy Hook and came ashore near what is now the Highlands of New Jersey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The passengers were able to get on shore, but being afraid of the Indians, would not stay until the sick man recovered. They set out to walk to New Amsterdam, but promised to send for them as soon as they arrived. The sick man’s wife, Penelope Van Princis, would not leave her husband. It was not long before two Indians discovered them and soon relieved the husband from all pain, mutilated the wife and left her for dead also, but Penelope was not dead. She found herself possessed with strength enough to creep into a hollow tree, and lived mostly in it for several days, when unexpectedly an old Indian discovered her hiding there and carried her to his little wigwam, near where Middletown now stands, and there nursed her with herbs, such as the Indians alone knew the value of, treated her kindly and she began to improve, gaining strength day by day, until she became entirely well. When the time came that Penelope wished to go to New Amsterdam to find her friends, he conveyed her in his canoe to that city. The old Indian remained faithful to her as long as she lived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> "</span>Among the people Penelope Van Princis met in New Amsterdam was one Richard Stout, an Englishman, aged about 42 years, having been born in 1602, while Penelope was about 22 years of age when they were married in 1644, and settled in Gravesend, L. I. Here, most, if not all of their ten children, seven sons and three daughters, were born. The date of Richard Stout’s arrival and permanent settlement on the Monmouth Tract (Old Middletown) was in 1664. Mr. Stout, one of the twelve Monmouth Patentees, was on the most respectable and respected men in his day in the Monmouth settlement. Richard Stout died in 1705 at the age of 103 years, while his wife, Penelope Stout, died in 1732, at the age of 110 years."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Life-long Friends Nimrod Bedle and Thomas Bedle Stout<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mr.
Nimrod Bedle was born January 22, 1806, and Mr. Thomas Bedle Stout was born on
December 17, 1807, Mr. Bedle being one year, ten months and twenty-five days
older than Mr. Stout. Mr. Bedle’s parents’ farm was in what was called the “Newtown”
section of the Bethany district, about two miles east of Keyport, while Mr.
Stout was born on the old Stout farm at Centreville, near Bethany, in a
locality then termed “Jericho.” The farms were not far apart. These boys,
Nimrod and Thomas, went through life together; played together, both attended
the old Bethany school; also attended the same Sunday school; both became
members of Old Bethany Church, and were church workers there together. Both Mr.
Bedle and Mr. Stout were class-leaders in three churches, viz: Bethany, old first
Methodist Episcopal Church and Calvary M. E. Church, Keyport, and when Thomas
Stout’s friend, Nimrod Bedle, decided to build a home in the wilderness, even
though Mr. Stout thought it was a “crazy” idea for him to do so, he would be
there to help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mr.
Thomas Bedle Stout was the son of John and Martha (daughter of Thomas and Amy
Bedle) Stout. He was one of fourteen children, being the seventh child. There
were nine sons and five daughters in this family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mr.
Stout was a lineal descendant of Richard Stout, who married Penelope Van
Princis, said to be the first white woman in the State of New Jersey. Penelope
Van Princis and her husband, who was ill, (name unknown) were crossing the
ocean on a Dutch ship bound for New Amsterdam, when the vessel was shipwrecked
off Sandy Hook and came ashore near what is now the Highlands of New
Jersey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The passengers were able to get
on shore, but being afraid of the Indians, would not stay until the sick man
recovered. They set out to walk to New Amsterdam, but promised to send for them
as soon as they arrived. The sick man’s wife, Penelope Van Princis, would not
leave her husband. It was not long before two Indians discovered them and soon
relieved the husband from all pain, mutilated the wife and left her for dead
also, but Penelope was not dead. She found herself possessed with strength enough
to creep into a hollow tree, and lived mostly in it for several days, when
unexpectedly an old Indian discovered her hiding there and carried her to his
little wigwam, near where Middletown now stands, and there nursed her with
herbs, such as the Indians alone knew the value of, treated her kindly and she
began to improve, gaining strength day by day, until she became entirely well.
When the time came that Penelope wished to go to New Amsterdam to find her friends,
he conveyed her in his canoe to that city. The old Indian remained faithful to
her as long as she lived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Among
the people Penelope Van Princis met in New Amsterdam was one Richard Stout, an
Englishman, aged about 42 years, having been born in 1602, while Penelope was
about 22 years of age when they were married in 1644, and settled in Gravesend,
L. I. Here, most, if not all of their ten children, seven sons and three
daughters, were born. The date of Richard Stout’s arrival and permanent
settlement on the Monmouth Tract (Old Middletown) was in 1664. Mr. Stout, one
of the twelve Monmouth Patentees, was on the most respectable and respected men
in his day in the Monmouth settlement. Richard Stout died in 1705 at the age of
103 years, while his wife, Penelope Stout, died in 1732, at the age of 110
years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thomas
Bedle Stout was the sixth generation, through the line of the eldest son of
Richard and Penelope (van Princis) Stout, the first “Stout” settlers of
Monmouth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thomas Bedle
Stout, when about twenty-three years of age, went into business as a blacksmith
at Shrewsbury and carried it on successfully for a number of years. He was of
inventive mind and patented quite a number of articles that were very salable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On
September 25, 1832, Mr. Stout, then about twenty-five years of age, married
Miss Amelia, daughter of Cornelius Walling and Elizabeth Murphy, his wife . The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. Thomas G. Stewart, (this being Rev. Mr.
Stewart’s first year as circuit preacher on the Freehold Circuit,) in the home
of her parents, the old Walling homestead, then designated as being in “Bethany.”
The “Walling” farm is now owned and occupied by Mr. John H. Curtis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mrs. Stout’s mother was the daughter of Mr. Timothy and Mary
(Garrison) Murphy, who settled at “Bethany” about 1777, and from that date
until they passed away, (over forty years) their home was a preaching place for
all of the itinerant ministers on the Circuit, and “Friday” was their regular
day for preaching services every two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Stout moved to Keyport
from Shrewsbury in 1838, and were residents here from that time until they
passed away. Mr. Stout never engaged in business here but invested largely in
real estate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
1855, he was elected to the assembly from this district after an exciting
campaign, his opponent being Eusebius M. Walling, his brother-in-law. In his
younger days, Mr. Stout was noted for his great strength, and many are the
feats told of his prowess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On
March 31, 1840, Isaac K. Lippincott and Caroline W., his wife, conveyed to
Thomas B. Stout, one hundred and ninety-five acres of land covering “Key Grove,”
the Mansion House tract, which property was a part of Mr. Lippincott’s purchase
at the Partition Sale of the Captain Edmund Kearney estate on November 3 and 4,
1829. The consideration was $8,500. The eastern boundary of part of the tract
was “Main Street.” It was about 1838 that William Bedle Sr. purchased of Isaac
Lippincott a plot of ground located on the northwest corner of what is now Main
and Stout Streets, erected a dwelling, brought his wife and family to reside in
the new settlement, and was a resident here from that time until his death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thomas
B. Stout selected from that one hundred and ninety-five acres of land, for his
homestead, the property that is now the southwest corner of Main and Stout
Streets. He cut a street through his farm on the north edge of his homestead tract,
naming in “Stout” Street. The home property extended the width of a block, east
and west, along Stout Street, giving tow street entrances to it. The timber for
the “mansion House” was piled on the plot for a year to be seasoned before
commencing to build. While waiting for the timber to season, and while
building, Mr. Stout and family occupied the “Key Grove-Mansion House,” his
recent purchase, until his new home was ready for occupancy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
home of Mr. and Mrs. Stout was like the home of Mrs. Stout’s parents, Mr.
Cornelius and Elizabeth (Murphy) Walling, and the home of her grandparents, Mr.
Timothy and Mary (garrison) Murphy. Since the settlement of Mr. Murphy at
Bethany in 1777, these homes have been the Methodist headquarters for all the
itinerant ministers on the Circuit, and also for the ministers and their wives
until they passed away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(Note:
The Thomas B. Stout homestead (1931) is owned and occupied by Horace S. Burrowes.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was
on March 2, 1846, that Thomas B. Stout and Amelia, his wife, conveyed to Joseph
I. Beers, William Walling and William H. Crawford, ninety-five acres (covering
the Mansion House tract) of the one hundred and ninety-five acres of land purchased
in 1840, of Isaac Lippincott. Consideration $9,000. The deed was signed, sealed
and delivered in the presence of Francis Murphy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(Note:
The “Key Grove-Mansion House tract (1931) is owned and occupied by Peter Sondergaard.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In the
spring of 1842, (ninety years ago) the New Jersey Methodist Conference
appointed the Rev. James K. White and the Rev. James Rogers, the preachers on
the Keyport Circuit. During their pastorate there was a great revival, about
seventy people were converted and added to the church membership. This
necessitated the forming of new classes and Brother Nimrod Bedle, William Bedle
and Thomas Bedle Stout were appointed leaders, the first that had been
appointed in Keyport proper. At this time the class meetings were held in the
new church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
children of these early class leaders were brought up in the Sunday school;
later in life they entered the class of their fathers and took an active part
in church work until they passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
three Methodist class leaders first settled on Main Street, but after five
years, Mr. William Bedle purchased a larger piece of property on the corner of
Broadway and Front Street, settled and remained there many years, leaving his
brother class leaders to pass their days together. These life-long friends
lived nearly opposite each other the remainder of their lives. They were church
workers together, they had one common interest, the church, the Methodist
Episcopal Church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
came a day when these life-long Methodist friends were to part. Mr. and Mrs.
Nimrod Bedle, after living together over fifty-three happy years together, were
the first to be separated. Mrs. Bedle passed away on January 15, 1882, at the
age of 77 years, 9 months and 24 days. Mr. Bedle followed shortly after, his
death occurring on July 17, 1883, at the age of 77 years, 5 months and 25 days,
having outlived his wife about a year and a half.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mr.
Thomas Bedle Stout outlived his life-long friend, Mr. Bedle, five years, having
passed away on September 1, 1888, at the age of 80 years, 8 months and 14 days,
while Mrs. Stout outlived her husband early ten years, she having passed away
on May 16, 1898, at the age of 82 years and 9 days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>These
active, pioneer settlers have gone to their reward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The “Methodist”
seed sown by Nimrod Bedle, (the first settler in the town of Keyport) when he
invited the Methodist Circuit preachers, the Rev. Thomas Stewart, to conduct a
prayer meeting and preaching service in his home on Main Street, (in December,
1831) has grown and multiplied to about ten hundred and forty Methodist Church
members and Sunday school scholars during the century, 1831-1931.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(Note:
The population of Keyport given in the 1930 census was about 4,900.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-55049185706301812342013-06-02T11:09:00.003-04:002013-06-02T11:09:51.713-04:00The 1648 Slander TrialSomeone reminded me that I have never posted the details of the 1648 slander trial where the name Penelope Prince is written. That is a critical document in searching for the true Penelope because it is one of the few documents (or perhaps the only one) containing her name and created during her lifetime.<br />
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John Tilton, town clerk for Gravesend and long-time resident, recorded the village's transactions in English for many years in a ledger that has survived for over 350 years. I have never seen the actual book and can't locate it although I think it's buried deep in the New York library system. There is a microfilm copy in the NY library system and a transcript exists at the Brooklyn Historical Society, <br />
<span class="address">128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201 (718-222-4111 <a href="mailto:library@brooklynhistory.org">library@brooklynhistory.org</a> ) The BHS description is "3.0 items, in 3 folders. Transcriptions of early town records of
Gravesend, dated 1646 to 1670, and a 100-page historical sketch of Gravesend.
The transcribed records and the historical sketch were prepared by Works
Progress Administration researchers of the Historical Records Survey, Service
Division, New York, NY, in March of 1942. The transcribed records include town
meeting minutes, dated 1646 to 1653, as well as property deeds and leases, dated
1653 to 1670.with call phrase 1977.308 box A0061."<br />
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An Internet entry ( <a href="http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Dutch-Colonies/2002-11/1038519631">http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Dutch-Colonies/2002-11/1038519631</a> ) provides an index in which Penelope Prince is mentioned on page 24 and Richard Stout in 19 places: <span style="font-family: Courier New;"> pp. 4, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 38, 41, 43, 45, 46, 68, 69, 99, 103, 114. (No Van Princis listed.)</span></span><br />
The slander trial has been posted on the Internet in several places. Do a Google search on the misspellings Penellopey Aplegate. Here's one from an Applegate site: <a href="http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/APPLEGATE/2007-12/1197518311">http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/APPLEGATE/2007-12/1197518311</a><br />
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12 Sep 1648:Ambrose London plaintive agt:ye wife of Tho: Aplegate defent in an action of slander for saying his wife did milke her Cowe.<br />
<br />The defent saith yt shee said noe otherwise but as Penellopey Prince tould her yt Ambrose his wife did milke her Cowe.<br />
Rodger Scotte being deposed saith yt being in ye house of Tho: Aplegate hee did heare Pennellopy Prince saye yt ye wife of Ambrose London did milke ye Cowe of Tho: Aplegate.<br />
Tho: Greedye being deposed saith yt Pennellope Prince being att his house hee did heare her saye yt shee and Aplegates Daughter must com as witnesses agat: Ambrose his wife milking Aplegates Coew.<br />
Pennellope Prince being questationed adknowled her faulte in soe speaking and being sorrie her words she spake gave sattisfaction on both sides.<br />
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Here is a very clear summary from <a href="http://this.ismyfamily.info/PhpGedView/index.php?ctype=gedcom&ged=Sajdak#">Ken Sajdak</a> at <a href="http://this.ismyfamily.info/PhpGedView/note.php?nid=N60&ged=Sajdak">http://this.ismyfamily.info/PhpGedView/note.php?nid=N60&ged=Sajdak</a> : September 12, 1648. "Deposition was given by [Thomas] Applegate’s wife that Penelope Prince had stated in her presence that Ambrose London’s wife had milked Applegate’s cow. Rodger Scott also deposed that he had heard the same. Thomas Greedye further testified that Penelope Prince had stated while at his home that she and Thomas Applegate’s daughter would be summoned as witnesses against Ambrose London’s wife. Upon questioning, Penelope Prince acknowledged her error in speaking and 'gave satisfaction' on both sides."<br />
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Ken Sadjak further comments: " The appearance of Penelope’s surname as Prince in this record has caused many researchers to question the traditional belief that her surname was Van Princes. It might indeed suggest an attempt to give a Dutch appearance to her otherwise English surname in the traditional accounts. The fact that she was not at this time referred to by her married name of Stout may also imply that her marriage to Richard Stout did not take place until after this event in 1648."<br />
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jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-49395170367577043542013-05-31T18:48:00.001-04:002013-05-31T18:48:50.996-04:00What is an Indentured Servant?An indentured servant was a person who signed a contract (also known as an indenture or a covenant) by which he agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for monetary compensation upfront. The term was often four to seven years for adults and younger for children if they were apprenticed to learn a trade. Often the monetary compensation paid off a debt or paid for transportation to America. I was not previously aware that indentured servitude was common in England at the time but that explains why no one thought it unusual for bringing workers to America.<br />
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Below is the format that Lord Baltimore recommended to use for indentured servants coming to Maryland. He suggested 5 years as a typical length of service.<br />
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The Indenture made the ____ day of ____ in the ____ yeere of our Sovereign Lord King Charles, etc between ______ of the one party and ________ on the other party, witnesseth that the said _____ doth hereby covenant promise and grant to and with the said ____ his Executer and Assinge, to serve him from the day of the date hereof, untill his first and next arrival in Maryland, and after for and during the term of ____ years in good service and employment, as the said ________ or ssigns shall him empoy him, according to the custome of the country. In consideration whereof, the said _______ doth promise and grant, to and with the said ______ to pay for his passage and to find him with Meat, Drinke, Apparell and Lodging with the necessaries during the said term; nad at the end of the said time, to give him one whole yeeres provision of Corne, and fifty acres of land, according to the custome of the Country. In witness whereof, the said _____ hath put his hand and seale, the day and yeere above written.<br />Sealed and delivered in the presence of __________<br />
The most common problem with the whole process was cruel treatment (such as whippings and poor food) by the master (owner of the contract), thus leading to numerous runaways. The common punishment for runaways was more beatings and extension of the period of service.jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-14745392282871697652013-05-19T16:48:00.003-04:002013-05-19T16:49:44.948-04:00More information on Kent Island<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p>The Facebook Group Penelope Stout Descendants is having a vigorous discussion of Kent Island and indentured servant Penelope Prince (who may or may not be famous Penelope of Sandy Hook), who was transported by Captain Robert Vaughan in 1644, who sold her contract to William Cox. She ran away in 1646.</o:p></span></div>
From the following source, I have extracted detailed information about William Clayborne, Robert Vaughan and William Cox. This reference doesn't shed much light about the Times of Troubles on Kent Island around 1646-48, but does provide other background information. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">George A. Hanson. The Eastern Shore of Maryland:
Notes Illustrative of the Most Ancient Records of Kent County, Maryland. Baltimore,
1876.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">March 27, 1634: An expedition led by Leonard Calvert (Lord Baltimore’s brother) founded a settlement at St. Mary's. Until 1650 the whole of the Western Shore was called "St. Mary's," to distinguish it from the Eastern Shore, or Kent. <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sept 1634: Maryland established jurisdiction over Kent Island and confiscated Clayborne’s properties. Clayborne fled to Virginia and then to England.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Evelyn to be “Commander” of Kent Island.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">April 1638: King Charles re-affirmed Maryland’s jurisdiction over Kent Island<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">February 25, 1638/9: Two delegates, representing the 24 male heads of families of Kent Island, were accepted into the Maryland assembly. This implies a population of about 120 residents.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1639: Maryland refused Clayborne’s request for restitution.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">February 3, 1639/40: Capt. Giles Brent became Commander.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">August 14, 1640: William Brainthwayte became Commander again.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">July 10, 1641: Governor proclaims it lawful to kill any Indians found on Kent Island.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1642: King Charles appointed Clayborne Treasurer of Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1 Dec 1644: Governor Calvert proclaimed William Clayborne and Richard Thompson enemies of the Maryland for attempting to stir up the Indians.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Jan 1, 1644/5: William Brainthwayte became Commander again. Robert Vaughan and William Cox were commissioners.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1644: Clayborne persuaded the Indians to make war on Maryland. Then Clayborne occupied Kent Island while his associate Richard Ingle militarily drove Governor Calvert from Maryland and took over the western shore.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">April 16, 1647: The inhabitants of Kent Island either fled or swore loyalty to Maryland.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Jan 30, 1648/9: The puritans beheaded King Charles I.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1649: Capt. Robert Vaughan was Kent Island representative to Maryland legislature<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sept 1651: Lord Protector Cromwell authorizes Clayborne to conquer Maryland.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">March 1651/2: Clayborne with help of English warships conquers Maryland.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">July 1652: Clayborne allowed Governor Stone to have the western shore while Clayborne kept the eastern shore.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">August 1652: Thomas Ward was arrested upon “suspicion of felony.” A servant had run away several times. Mrs. Ward whipped her with a peach tree rod and afterwards salted her. The court fined the Wards 300 pounds of tobacco for "unreasonable and unchristian-like punishment … considering her weak estate of body” but didn’t find them guilty of the maid’s death.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Edward Coppedge was fined 600 pounds of tobacco for "living in" with Elizabeth Kisby, who received 15 lashes.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Capt. Robert Vaughan was fined for insulting the “Puritan” court.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">April 1, 1653: Robert Vaughan apologized and his fines were remitted.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Uncertain date: “In the year 1652, Mark Benton " petitioned against Robt. Vaughan for order from the Court for his freedom, with corne and clothes." The Court decided in his favor.”<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Late 1654: Lord Baltimore claimed all of Maryland.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">March 25, 1655: Clayborne defeated Governor Stone in battle.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1658: Governor Stone re-establishes permanent control of Kent Island.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">genealogy notes: Major James Ringgold, of Huntingfield, " lord of the <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">manor on Eastern Neck," son of Thomas Ringgold, was twice <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">m. By his 1st wife he had one son, Thomas Ringgold. His <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2d wife was Mary Vaughan, dau. of Capt. Robert Vaughan, <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the Commander of Kent from 1647 to 1652,<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">January 26, 1668/9: Mrs. Mary Vaughan, the Relict of Capt. <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Robert Vaughan, brought a suit against John Muggison.</span></pre>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To the above, we can add from other sources that indentured servant Penelope Prince was transported to Kent Island in 1644 and ran away in 1646. The above reference doesn't shed much light about the Times of Troubles on Kent Island around 1648-48, but does provide other background information.</span></div>
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of Maryland, LIV (vol 54), Proceedings of the County Courts of Kent
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(unnamed), residue of estate, real and personal during widowhood; if she marry,
entire estate to John Vanheck, except dower rights. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Caesar Prince</b> to live with testator’s wife until he is 18 yrs. of age.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Catherine was widow of Oliver van Heck of Virginia and mother of John van Heck,
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page 16, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Caesar Prince</b> is “overseer”
of will of William Martine, probated 4 Jul 1660. I think an overseer was a work
foreman, implying that Caesar was probably a teenage in 1660 and thus near 18
in 1662.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Note: Archives of Maryland Online has very detailed
biographies of Maryland legislators: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature
1635-1789 by Edward C. Papenfuse, et. al.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-87741914044244481042012-12-29T20:54:00.000-05:002012-12-29T20:58:02.692-05:00Penelope Prince, a runaway from Kent Island, Maryland?The text below is a letter written by Nora James (please identify yourself) to the website WeRelate, where people work to "build a unified family tree containing the best information from all contributors." See <a href="http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person_talk:Penelope_Kent_(1">http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person_talk:Penelope_Kent_(1</a>) <br />
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"After many years (approximately 10) of obsessive research about the identity of the person known in legend as Penelope Van Princis/Van Princess/Kent and Thomson before deciding that I needed to get on with actual life on this here Earth, it is my strong opinion that her name was Penelope Prince; that she was English, that she came to Kent Island (note, "Kent" Island) in the Chesapeake under indenture by Robert Vaughan (note the similarily in pronunciation to the "Van" in one version of the legends about her; that she was the same Penelope Prince whom Robert Vaughan testified in court records in about 1656 and who ran away from her indenture in 1646-7 or so during the time of troubles on Kent Island; that she was working out her indenture in the service of William Cox and his wife Frances on Kent Island and that they lived near Richard Thompson/Thomson (note the "Thompson/Thomson" in some versions of her name) on Kent Island who was involved in a big old major way in the "Time of Troubles" that led to her running away; that another version of her surname that pops up in some versions is "Lent" and there was a man named "Lent" living on Kent Island and who figured in that "Time of Troubles." It is also very possible (though by no means proven) that she was the Penelope Prince who was born in 1629 in Stepney and baptized at St. Dunstan's.<br />
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"Penelope Prince ran away from Kent Island in 1646-7 (according to the testimony of Robert Vaughan); the Penelope who marries Richard Stout appears in the historical record as "Penelope Prince" in 1648 on Gravesend in Long Island. It is an educated guess on my part, and based on extraordinarily strong circumstantial evidence contained in the legends about her, that the Penelope Prince who married Richard Stout is the same person who was the Penelope Prince living on Kent Island from 1644-6.<br />
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"Take this and run with it or ignore it, I don't much care at this point, but anyone who wants to see this for themselves can look at Filby's at the entry for Penelope Prince which references the court testimony of Robert Vaughan in 1656, and read about the history of Kent Island during the time of troubles with William Claiborne, and read the various versions of the legends of Penelope Van Princess in all of those old histories of New Jersey, and consider how it is that legends take shape over time and names become misunderstood, and begin to understand how it might be that those who wrote down the stories of Penelope Prince many years after her death might have misunderstood how a young English girl on "Kent" Island in the 1640's, who was brought to the island by Robert "Vaughan," and who ran away during a war in which her neighbor Richard "Thompson" figured prominently as did her neighbor "_____ Lent," and might have merged all of these names into hers in print, making it almost impossible to determine her identity without careful consideration.<br />
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"At another time I will try to explain all of this and source it better, including why I believe there is a strong chance that she was the same Penelope Prince born in England, but at least for now I offer you Filby's for Penelope Prince and the Gravesend Town Records for someone of the same name. And for whatever it's worth, the records of St. Dunstan's in the East where Penelope Prince was baptized in 1629, the child of Mary Kilburn and Lawrence Prince."<br />
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unsigned User:Norajames<br />
posted at WeRelate by administrator Jennifer JBS66 19 April 2011<br />
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On another page <a href="http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Penelope_Prince_(2">http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Penelope_Prince_(2</a>) of the same website is written:<br />
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"Penelope Prince was born in Stepney, in what is now the east end of London, in 1629. Her mother, Mary Kilburn, was a widow when she married Lawrence Prince, a tailor, at St. Dunstan's in the East on 17 May 1629. Penelope was baptized at St. Dunstan's three months later, on 20 Sep 1629. Lawrence died in 1630 and was buried at St. Dunstan's in February of that year. See the records of St. Dunstan's church for the records of all of these, which can be viewed on microfilm at a Family History Center....<br />
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"Penelope Prince was an indentured servant at home of William and Frances Cox on Kent Island from 1644 to 1646. The Coxes had a tobacco plantation on Kent Island, and two small children. Penelope ran away during the "time of troubles" on that island, in 1646. See Filby's for the reference to a record of a court proceeding in 1656 wherein Robert Vaughan testifies that Penelope ran away in that year. "<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is Jim writing now. I don't know what to make of this
but if an indentured servant were fleeing Kent Island in 1646-7, the logical
path would be northeast to the Swedish settlement of Fort Christina (now
Wilmington, DE) on the Delaware River, about 40 miles as the crow flies. The
economies of both Maryland and Virginia were built on indentured servitude at
that time and the authorities in those colonies were sure to enforce the law by
returning runaways to the master. New Sweden was a foreign country and, as far as I know, didn't have
indentured servants.</span></div>
I am intrigued because of Nicholas Stillwell, another ancestor of mine.
Virginia Protestants settled Kent Island in Cheaspeake Bay, east of Annapolis,
and did not take kindly to their king re-assigning their home to Catholic
Maryland in the 1630s . The political squabbles and armed assaults led by
William Claiborne resulted in Nicholas Stillwell (among others) being banished
from both Maryland and Virginia. Stillwell settled in Manhattan and joined the
Gravesend group in the original settlement of 1643, did not rejoin in 1645
resettlement but purchased a lot in 1648 and was elected magitrate in 1649.<o:p></o:p><br />
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In my novel Nicholas Stillwell and his wife are major characters who help
Penelope.<o:p></o:p><br />
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If anyone has more to contribute to this subject, please let me know.<o:p></o:p><br />
jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-79362464615813520182012-12-20T19:11:00.000-05:002012-12-20T19:11:16.089-05:00Was Penelope Scalped?
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The earliest reference I’ve found
that claims Indians scalped Penelope was printed in 1876 by John Carroll
Power in Early Settlers of Sangamon County [IL] – 1876. Springfield, IL: E. L.
Merritt & Bro., Printers, 1876. pp 690-3 <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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cites Benedict’s book as a source, this 1876 version disagrees in many respects
with Benedict. See how many you can identify.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This garbling of a cited source
suggests that the scalping was invented or at least was an embellishment of the
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“STOUT, the origin of this
family in America is quite romantic. The principal points in their history may
be found in Benedict's History of the Baptists. Some of his statements are
based on the writings of an earlier historian. The following embraces all that
is known on the subject: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“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. She alone survived,
and although her scalp was removed and she was otherwise horribly mangled, she
had sufficient remaining strength to crawl away from the scene of the
slaughter, and secreted herself in a hollow log which was concealed by
underbrush. She lay there a day or two, during which time her mental and bodily
suffering may be imagined but cannot be described. She finally made up her mind
that there was no possibility of her escaping with life; that if she remained
quiet she would certainly die of hunger and thirst, and if she attempted to
seek sustenance, that would expose her to the Indians, who would be sure to
kill her. At this juncture, a deer, with an arrow sticking in its body, ran
past where she was. This led her to believe that Indians were near, and she
reasoned that it would be a much easier death to let them kill her, than to
endure the pangs of starvation by remaining where she was. She then summoned
all her remaining strength and dragged her body out to an open space that the
Indians might see her should they pursue the deer. In a short time three of the
savages appeared on its trail. Two of them rushed upon her with uplifted
tomahawks, but the third one, a chief, restrained them and saved her life. It
was not humanity, but gain that prompted him to this act of mercy. He took his
prisoner to New Amsterdam and there received a ransom for her. That placed her
in the hands of friends who gave her the proper surgical treatment and nursing
as she recovered. The name of her husband is not known, neither is her own
family name, nothing but her first or given name, Penelope; a name that has
stood for more than twenty-five centuries, in tradition and literature, as the
highest ideal of a true and loyal wife. It will readily be understood that I
allude to one of the creations of Homer, the father of Greek poetry. A brief
statement of the case, gleaned from his works will not be out of place here. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"When the Greeks declared war
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“This modern Penelope had no
such doubts to contend with. The death of her first husband was only too sure,
having been witnessed by her own eyes. After her recovery, she became
acquainted with and married an Englishman by the name of Richard Stout. They
then went over into New Jersey, made themselves a home and raised a family of
twelve sons. One of them, Jonathan Stout, and his family, were the founders of
the Hope well settlement, in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, where Hopewell
Baptist Church was afterwards constituted. Of the first fifteen members, nine
were Stouts. The church was organized at the house of a Stout, and for forty
years their meetings were held chiefly at the houses of the Stouts; after which
they erected their first house of worship. In 1790, two of the deacons and four
of the elders were Stouts. Jonathan Stout lived until his descendants were
multiplied to one hundred and seventeen....<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<pre style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“The Stouts very justly take pride in their family history, and being mostly Baptists, they take pride in their Baptist history also. When they meet a stranger by the name of Stout, who manifests a disposition to claim relationship, they apply one test only in their family history. They do not ask him to pronounce the word Shibboleth, but ascertain if he has any knowledge of PENELOPE, and if he knows nothing of her, they know nothing of him. In other words, they do not cultivate his acquaintance, in the direction of relationship, any further.”<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The same passage (minus the long-winded
paragraph about the Trojan War) also appeared in PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL
ALBUM OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS , Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1891<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>p 493 and in PAST AND PRESENT OF THE CITY OF
SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY ILLINOIS by Joseph Wallace, M. A. of the
Springfield Bar (The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, IL 1904).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The novel ideas in this passage
are <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Voyage about 1680 or 1690<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A mention of New Jersey but not Sandy Hook<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Indians lay in ambush at time of shipwreck<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Tomahawked and scalped<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Three Indians rescued her<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Twelve sons<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">However, I do like their method
of distinguishing Stouts who are relatives from non-relatives.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If anyone knows of an earlier
scalping reference, please let me know.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-84488358951135776022012-12-05T11:54:00.000-05:002012-12-05T11:54:53.179-05:00Often Heard about her Adventures When He Was Young
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The previous blog entry discussed Therese Walling Seabrook.
Among some hand-written letters to Therese found in the Vera Conover collection at
Monmouth County Historical Association by Kathleen Mirabella is the one below
from Joseph Harrison West, of Mercer County, NJ, a local politician and
historian and genealogist as well as descendant of Penelope. The content under
discussion is obviously the account of Penelope’s experiences, presumably
similar to what Mrs. Seabrook published in the Midget (circa 1891) and what
John Stillwell published in 1916.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What I find interesting are the memories of the writer’s
father, Joseph L. West, who “never saw or read an account of Penelope Stout.”
Mr. West, Sr. had heard many of stories but not the scar story.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Hamilton Square, NJ July 8, 1886<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Cousin Therese:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I venture to call you cousin, although we are beyond the
third degree of consanguinity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I have been much pleased in reading your letter, and have
read it two or three times. The tradition, as you have it, reads very much like
the account in Smith’s, 1765, history of New Jersey, excepting the part which
speaks of Penelope’s allowing her grandson, John, to pass his hand over the
scar. There is no doubt but what it is all true, though I never heard that part
before. Penelope must have lived to 1730, as John Stout was probably a young
man about that time; and though I have doubted, a little, that she lived to be
110 years old, yet according to your accounts, it must have been a fact.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“My father, also, never saw or read an account of Penelope
Stout, yet when I read to him the story as published in 1790, he said he had
often heard about her adventures when he was young. I am a grandson of Annie Stout
West. In her father’s bible it is spelled Anne and in the West bible Anna. It
is likely that I am the youngest of all the great grand children of John Stout.
My father was her youngest son, and I am his youngest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Grandmother was born in 1755, my father in 1798, and I in
1847.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[skip sections]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“And now I come to grandmother Anne, who married William
West, a son of Bartholomew, who was of the Monmouth Wests. I suppose you saw my
“West” article in the Monmouth Democrat last April. William and Anne had nine
children. They have all passed away. My father died in 1876, and he the next
youngest, William S., died last spring aged 90 years and some months.
Grandmother died in 1814.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[no closing; missing page(s); but we know it is from Joseph
West from the contents as well as from other complete letters in this
handwriting and with his signature.]<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The genealogy of Joseph H. West is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Richard Stout + Penelope<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">John Stout (-1724) + Elizabeth Crawford<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Richard Stout (1678-about 1749/50)+ Esther Tilton<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">John Stout (1701-1782) + Margaret Taylor (about 1711-)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Anne Stout (1755-1814) + William West (-1850)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Joseph Lippet West (1798-1876) + Hannah Hammell (1804-)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Joseph Harrison West (1847-) + Mary Reed Appleton (-)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thus Joseph H. West and Therese Walling Seabrook were 2<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">nd</span></sup>
cousins, one generation removed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s nice to know that the various stories passed down through the
generations in New Jersey substantially agree and that Penelope herself wanted her
descendants to remember her adventures and survival. Next time, a family
tradition that seems somewhat garbled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-76794741792159852422012-11-19T17:21:00.002-05:002012-11-19T17:25:23.731-05:00Penelope's Scar<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
In his 1916 book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Historical and
Genealogical Miscellany, Early Settlers of New Jersey and their Descendants,</i>
John Stillwell quotes Therese Walling Seabrook as follows: <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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"My grandmother, Helena Huff, told me how her grandfather, John Stout, had
felt the wounds of Penelope Stout, and that he blushed like a school boy. She
wished the knowledge of the Indian assault transmitted to her posterity and it
has been done, for there are but two hands between Penelope and me."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Monmouth County Historical
Library in Freehold NJ has a large file of Seabrook family documents donated by
Vera Conover, granddaughter of Therese Walling Seabrook. Here are two-<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">—</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a genealogy and a story</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">—discovered</span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> by Kathleen Mirabella of Clarksburg, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to Mrs. Seabrook, her
genealogy is as follows [with some dates and spouses added by me for
clarification]:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">John Stout<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Richard Stout of Nottingham, Eng. + Penelope van Prince of Holland<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">John Stout [-1724] + [Elizabeth Crawford]<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Richard Stout [1678-1749/50] + [Ester Tilton]<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">John Stout [1701-1782] + Margaret [Taylor]<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Helena Stout [1734- ] + John William Hoff<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Helena Hoff (1771-1849) + Daniel I. Walling<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Leonard Walling (1793- ) + Catherine Aumack<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Therese Walling (1821-1899] + Henry Seabrook<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Annie Longstreet Seabrook (1852-1943] + William Hubbard Conover<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Vera Conover [1896-1977]<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Before I begin the story,
let me explain that Ethel Stout, mentioned below, was born in 1882, started a
temperance newspaper, The Midget, when she was eight years old in Delaware,
Ohio but lived in Melbourne, Florida in 1892. Her father, a newspaperman,
agreed to print her journal if she set the type. Therefore, Mrs. Seabrook, a strong supporter of the The Women's Christian Temperance Union,
wrote this account in 1890-92.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Also of note, this is the
earliest record I have found of Kent or Lent as a last name for Penelope.
However, Mrs. Seabrook offers the maiden name as Penelope van Prince with the
last name of Kent or Lent belonging to her first husband, not to her father. [Personally I think these should be flip-flopped to agree with the Gravesend
Town Records of 1648.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Vera Conover typed her
grandmother’s story (which differs somewhat from the account published 20 or so
years later by Stillwell), ending with “This was copied from a very yellowed,
single sheet of printing. 7-1-1961-vc”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
more clues from Kathleen Mirabella, I tracked down a copy of the original printed
sheet, which appears to be Ethel Stout’s newspaper, at the Leatherby Libraries
of Chapman University, in Orange, CA (thanks to Rand Boyd, librarian, for a copy)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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THE MOTHER OF THE STOUTS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">_______________________________________________________________________<br />
Mrs. Therese W. Seabrook, of Keyport, New Jersey, prepared the following historical
sketch for Ethel Stout, wee editor of THE MIDGET, of Delaware, Ohio. Mrs.
Seabrook is doubtless the best authority on the continent for the early history
of the Stout family, which she estimates now numbers 10,000, in America. The
narrative, so full of interest to those who bear the name, is published by, and
sent out with the compliments of the little editor and her parents.<br />
_______________________________________________________________________<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Penelope Van Prince was a native of
Holland</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">—</span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">married there and sailed for the “New World” with her
husband, whose name was Kent or Lent, I have really forgotten the husband’s
name, and as he was nothing to us, it matters little. As they approached the
end of their voyage, a storm arose which cast the vessel upon the beach
somewhere between Long Branch and Sandy Hook, I think it was at the Highlands
as she was taken to Middletown, or near it and that is the nearest those
points. The passengers and crew who were not drowned were said to have been
murdered by the Indians, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">—</span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> at least Penelope was the only one known to have
survived. An Indian who went to the shore in the early morning after the storm,
was attracted by the barking of his dog, to a “clump of bushes,” under which he
discovered a naked woman, apparently dead.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He walked backward to her side [for
modesty?] and threw his blanket over her, and discovering that there was life
still there, carried her to his wigwam.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her abdomen was cut open so that the bowels
protruded. “He washed and sewed up the wound, using for thread the inside bark
‘withes,’ of a tree, and fishbones for needles.” She remained here until she
was entirely recovered, the only white person, so far as is known in this (Monmouth)
Co.</span><b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> —</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">perhaps many months. The Indian then took her in his
canoe to New Amsterdam (now New York city) and sold her to the Dutch. She met
Richard, son of John Stout, of Nottinghamshire, England, whom she afterwards
married. He had wished to marry some girl in Eng. whom his father did not
consider his equal, and in anger had enlisted on a man-of-war ship, and the seven
years of service expiring while the vessel was in New Amsterdam he remained
there. After his marriage to Penelope, they went to Gravesend, L. Island, to
live, but Mrs. Stout sighed for a return to the Indian home in New Jersey, but
not until she had two or three children was she able to come. Then she induced
four other heads of families to come with her to this place. Their names were
Hartshorne, Browne [sic Bowne], Lawrence and Groves. These five families
purchased of the Indians immense tracts of land. Bartown is built on a part of
the land owned by Andrew Browne [sic].<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The properties owned by the Stouts had the
old village of Middletown on it and an extensive farming country known as
Pleasant Valley. It was all known as Middletown for many years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some say that these five white families came
here in 1648 but I am inclined to think it was 1648 when the wreck occurred.
Two or three years ago the Baptist Church of Middletown celebrated its
bicentennial, and as Richard Sr. and Richard Jr. were among its constituent
members, I think they made their permanent settlement in the latter part of the
decade 1650</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">—</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">nearly 1660. What I give
here is tradition</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">—</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">history begins in 1667 when
twelve men obtained a grant from Gov. Nichols. My tradition has come through
only two persons from Penelope, herself, and I think it more correct than much
that is told. The second son, Richard, had a son, John, who was therefore
grandson of Penelope. When his grandmother was about 85 years old, he took her
on his horse to visit one of her children and when he helped her to alight she
insisted upon his putting his hand through the pocket hole of her garment to
feel the seam which the Indian sewed up--he was young and bashful but she said,
“Johnny, you can tell it to your grandchildren because you will know it’s true,
and they can tell it to their grandchildren.” My grandmother was one of the
grandchildren to whom he told the story, and when she told it to me, she would
say “and so I tell it to you just as she said”; with an air of having descended
from a prophetess. I am telling it to you in the language, chiefly, in which I
heard it.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therese
W. Seabrook<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<o:p></o:p></span></span>jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-5842528878809836042012-11-07T08:57:00.000-05:002012-11-07T09:04:11.768-05:00More Records from Rev. Oliver Hart's Journals<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rev. Oliver Hart (minister of Hopewell, NJ, Baptist Church from 1780 to 1795) kept a chronological journal of sermon titles he preached
plus an index of the Biblical text plus notes in his diary—a triple set of overlapping
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>information. Below is the list of
sermon dates where people’s names (a dozen marriages and 80 funerals) were
mentioned [plus other details from his diary in brackets]. I think in every
case where he enters both the death and the funeral, the funeral was always the
day after the death. Note: Most of these events are apparently mentioned in the
<em>Town Records of Hopewell, NJ</em>, a book I haven’t seen, but another independent
source is always good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I find two other things of interest. In February 1790, Rev. Morgan
Edwards preached on three consecutive Sundays in Hopewell Baptist Church. Edwards
was the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Materials Towards a
History of the Baptists in Jersey</i>, its preface dated May 1, 1790. This
book, published in 1792, contains the famous passa<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ge about Penelope Stout: “</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The mother lived to the age of 110, and saw her offspring
multiplied into 502 in about 88 years.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Referring to the death of
Benjamin Stout in Feb 1782 at the age of 86, Rev. Hart (then 58 himself)
remarked,</span> “older than oldest of Stout family, now living.” Obviously the
Stout family noted such things.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1780</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>[</strong>Oct 15 Zephaniah Stout’s child’s funeral]<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Dec 11 Zebulun Stout is brother of Capt. David Stout]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Dec 21 Hart calls Zebulun Stout his uncle, likely by marriage not
blood]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1781<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Feb 4 preached at John Stout’s house [in Amwell]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Feb 12 John Stout of Hopewell gave Hart $100]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Feb 14 Miss Rachel Stout is sister of Richard Stout; she gave Hart
$22]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Mar 8 mentioned that Anne Stout is a widow]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mar 12 Preached at Richard Stout’s house<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Aug 16 saw Miss Eunice Evans and Miss Margaret Parks]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Sep 16 Married Asa Osborne to Orpha Hart; witnesses<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Levi Stout, Ann Wall, and Phoebe Gillmore]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oct 5 Mr. David’s Stout funeral [at Amwell, age 86] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oct 11 Mr. Zephania Stout’s funeral [was buried at Col. Stout’s Burying
Ground on the Hill; left widow and 2 young children]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oct 15 Zeph. Stout’s child’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Nov 2 Married Andrew Higgins to Sarah Applegate]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1782<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Jan 13 Married John Ford to Anna Vanhess]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Feb 9 Old Mr. Benj. Stout’s funeral [died Feb 8 at age 86, <strong>“older than
oldest of Stout family , now living”]<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Feb 18 Mary-Ann Little was very ill]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Feb 23 Mrs. Baldwin’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[May 26 Rev. Hart’s diary ends here; next several diaries are missing]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oct 4 Old Mrs. Runyan’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nov 20 preached at Mr. Jacob Stout’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nov 24 at Capt. David’s house for funeral of child [Mr. Saxton’s child]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dec 11 preached at Benj. Stout’s house<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1783<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jun 4 Benj. Reader’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">July 22 old Mrs. Hixon’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aug 31 baptized Polly Gillmore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oct 30 Mr. Saml. Hunt’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dec 8 William Stiniman’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1784 <o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Feb 13 Sarah Hunt’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Feb 15 Benj. Stout’s son’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Feb 21 Mrs. Bryant’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Feb 25 preached at Jacob Stout’s <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">May 24 Mr. Jos. Green’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sep 20 Mrs. Merrell’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sep 28 Effy Merrell’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oct 6 Mrs. Simmons’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oct 8 Ambrose Barracraft’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nov 2 Mr. Harris’s son’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1785<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jan 3 Old Mrs. Sarah Vankirk’s fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Feb 6 Penelope Stout’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 6 John Senteny’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jun 4 Joshua Higgins’s wife’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aug 28 at Southampton Jos. Dungan’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sep 8 Sally Merrell’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sep 13 Sarah Fano’s [Gano] funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sep 22 Mr. Jacob Stout’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sep 25 [Squire] Jared Saxton Esq’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dec 23 Barbara Antony’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1786<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jan 12 Benjamin Merrell’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Feb 24 Catharine Vanpelt’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mar 14 Francis Quick’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 16 Mr. Isaac Hough’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">May 29 Mary Armstrong’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jun 7 John Hart’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jun 27 Mrs. Vanpelt’s funeral</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dec 18 [Absalom Houghton’s funeral]<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1787<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 3 Mrs. Jewel’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 7 David Stout’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 30 N. Drake’s wife’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jun 26 Michal Blew’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aug 15 Daniel Gano’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sep 21 [young Mr.] Golden’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dec 1 Higgin’s child’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dec 10 Anthony Stout’s wife’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dec 15 Mr. Fisher’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dec 21 George Corvine’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1788<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jan 31 Rebeka Drake’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Feb 11 Thos. Drake’s child’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Feb 13 Lucina Park’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mar 7 Nc. Drake’s grandchild’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 13 funeral for Mrs. [R.] Drake’s son<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">May 6 Mrs. Blackwell’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jun 5 Mr. Thomson’s fun N.Y.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jul 8 Naomi Lot’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aug 11 Jas. Swallow’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aug 12 John Snook’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aug 24 Alice Cone baptis’d<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aug 25 Young Blew’s funeral [son of Abr’m Blue]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aug 28 Zebulun Stout Senr.’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aug 31 Temperance Hixon baptized<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sep 1 preached at widow Golden’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[another diary begins]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nov 25 Caty Stout’s funeral [“died of a decline”]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Dec 3 Married Mr. Daniel Drake to Miss Frances Golden at home of her
father Jacob Golden]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dec 8 Capt. Dd. Stout’s funeral [David Stout died y’day, age 83 years;
left 4 sons, 5 daughters, many great and great grand children]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Dec 8 William Simmon’s funeral]<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Dec 28 Married Capt. Jacob Sckanek to Miss Anne Law]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Dec 31 Married Mr. William Barrey to Miss Ruth Golden at home of her
father Jacob Golden in Hopewell]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1789<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Jan 1 Married Mr. Nicholas Drake to Miss Hannah Bryant at home of her
father Valentine Bryant in Hopewell]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Jan 11 Married his daughter Polly Hart to Mr. Benj. Merrell]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Feb 4 Married Mr. Bemjamin Randolph to Miss Mary Stout at her uncle
Zebulun Stout’s house]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Feb 5 Married Mr. Jonathan Stout (son of Daniel) to Miss Hannah Horval
at home of her father Mr. Stephen Horvel in Somerset County]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Feb 15 baptized Amy Blue (wife of Isaac)]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mar 26 Jno. Runyan’s wife’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Apr 4 Married Mr. Reuben Anderson to Miss Sarah Runyan at home of John
Stout]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 8 at Elder Jno. Stout’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 9 at Mr. B. Stout’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 10 funeral of old Mrs. Golden [aged 90]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 24 funeral of old Mrs. Sarah Stout [at John Merrell’s]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 25 Ichabod Leigh [Lee] <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esqr.’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 26 Baptized Sarah Smith<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Apr 30 old Mr. Benj. Stout in Amwell was dangerously ill]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">May 6 Rachel Hill’s funeral [in Amwell, wife of James]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[May 16 “R. Stout was cut off, for which I am sorry.”]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">May 25 Benjamin Stout Senr.’s funeral [in Amwell]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jun 21 baptized Mary Blue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jul 29 Natl. Hixon’s <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Aug 11 Married Mr. Joab Stout to Miss Elizabeth Bryant at her father
William Bryant house in Hopewell]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Aug 15 new deacons Saml. Stout and Jediah Stout; James Stout is Elder]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">[end of this diary]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oct 1 Jesse Christopher’s child’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nov 5 Jos. Harris’s child’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nov 14 Mrs. Harris’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1790<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jan 6 at Thomas Drake’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jan 22 Andrew Nannoy’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jan 25 Nancy Hunt’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Feb 14 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rev. Morgan Edwards
preached<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Feb 21 and 28 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rev. Morgan
Edwards preached<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mar 8 Ury Osborn’s daught.s fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mar 9 Sally Drake’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mar 22 Old Mrs. Gulick’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 10 old Mr. Slack’s funeral [possibly Mrs. Slack]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">May 5 Francis Blackwell’s child’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1791<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jan 12 Mr. Hull’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jan 14 at Ezek. Anderson’s for his son<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mar 13 funeral for Mr. Aaron Runyan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 1 funeral for Mrs. Blackwell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 14 Mr. Larson’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apr 19 Mrs. Hunt’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">July 24 mentioned following names: Mr. Ewing, Mr. Ustick, Deacon Natl.
Stout, Dr. Rogers, Mr. Allison, Dr. Jones, Mr. Wilson, Thos. Drake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aug 12 Sally Blackwell’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aug 21 Eph. Carle’s son’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sep 24 Hannah Brush baptized<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nov 12 old Mr. Blacwell’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nov 28 Elias Golden’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dec 10 Fun. The Drake’s child<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dec 14 Mrs. Drake’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1792<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jan 20 Jemmy Gordon’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mar 11 Thos. Drake’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">May 22 in room of Moses Hadley<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sep 14 Mrs. Merrell’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1793<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jul 3 John Ketcham’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jul 26 at Mr. James Parine’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1794<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jan 10 Mrs. Pettitt’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jan 28 Idin Post’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">May 1 Gideon Lion’s son’s funeral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jun 13 Polly Furman’s funeral</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">{Editor's Note: Rev. Hart died Dec 31, 1795}</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-40749921177376371862012-10-31T17:09:00.003-04:002012-11-01T22:06:10.603-04:00The Hopewell Church Records of Rev. Oliver HartThis post was updated Thursday, Nov 1 after I went to the South Caroliniana library on the USC campus in Columbia, SC to view the papers of Rev. Oliver Hart. What does he have to do with Penelope? Hart was the minister of Hopewell Baptist Church when Morgan Edwards published his book <em>Materials Toward a History of the Baptists</em>, the second printed account of Penelope's ordeal and the first to claim 502 descendants and an age of 110 years. I had assumed that Hart provided the data to Edwards but the journals recorded that Rev. Morgan Edwards preached in Rev. Hart's church in Hopewell on Feb 14, 21 and 28 of 1790, about the time that Edwards was supposedly collecting his data from various towns in New Jersey.<br />
<br />
Why are the records in South Carolina. Rev. Hart was a Baptist minister in Charleston for 30 years before he was chased away by the British because he was an active patriot. He was originally from Bucks County, PA, just across the Delaware River from Hopewell, NJ but his older children remained in Charleston and his widow returned there (presumably with his journals and papers).<br />
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Here from Rev. Hart's journals is the list of the 216 members of the Hopewell Baptist Church on Dec. 1, 1780, when Rev. Hart became the pastor. Typos may be embedded due to Rev. Hart's tiny but neat handwriting, 200 years of fading, the person who oiginally transcribed his journal, and my typing. This list makes it much easier to believe that Penelope had 502 descendants when she died. <br />
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Note: Later I will update this page with additional information in [brackets] from the journals.<br />
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86 male members--<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">John
Stout, Elder; David Stout, Elder; ??Stout, Deacon; Nathaniel Stout, Deacon; Nathan
Stout, Deacon; Zebulun Stout, Jacob Stout, David Stout, Hezekiah Stout,
Benjamin Stout, Andrew Stout, James Stout, David Stout, John Stout, Zebulun
Stout, Richard Stout, Samuel Stout, Benjamin Stout, Richard Stout, Samuel
Stout, Benjamin Stout, Jedidiak Stout, David Stout, Levi Stout, Zehania [Zephaniah] Stout,
Benjamin Stout, Thomas Drake, James Drake, John Drake, Ralph Drake, Enoch
Drake, Timothy Titus Senr., Timothy Titus, Junr., Stephen Barton, Deacon;
Zebulun Barton, John Hunt, James Hunt, Wilson Hunt, Nathaniel Hixon, Andrew
Hixon, Bonham Runyan, John Corwine, John Corwine, Joseph Reed, James Wicoff,
David Labaw, Francis Labaw, Moses Labaw, Ichabod Lee, Joseph Lee, Elijah Lee,
Henry Vankirk, David Snowden, John Jewel, Jacob Huff, James Osborne, Uriah
Osborne, William Osborne, Abraham Servie, Joseph Merrell, Samuel Merrel, John
Matthew, Benjamin Matthews, Jedidiah Higgins, Geshome Herren, Samuel Hill,
Thomas Craven, James Hill, Alexander Buchanan, William Parks, John Manners,
Joseph Higgins, John Disberry, John Hixon, Gideon Lyan, Jerrer’d Saxton,
Nathaniel Foster, Ephraim Smith, Abm. Runkle, Rev. John Blackwell, Rev. Benjamin
Coles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">122 female members--<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
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Rachel Stout, Sarah Stout, Mary Stout, ?? Stout, Esther
Stout, Grace Stout, Marcy Stout, Eppenetus Stout, Martha Stout, Catharine
Stout, Charity Stout, Mebal Stout, Penelope Stout, Hannah Stout, Ann Stout,
Rhoda Stout, Rachel Stout junr., Rachel Stout, Dorothy Drake, Jemima Hunt,
Jemima Laban, Jerusha Lee, Charity Lee, Mary Jewel, Lidya Huff, Lidya Servie,
Leah Merrell, Elizabeth Matthews, Frances Higgins, Sarah Higgins, Barsheba
Hill, Rachel Buchanan, Rachel Parks, Rachel Shannon, Jemima Hixon, Martha
Smith, Sarah Blackwell, Mary Coles, Sarah Runkle, Ann Wilkins, Martha Hogland,
Alice Runyan, Sarah Vankirk, Sussannah Gano, Sarah Park, Rebekah Eaton, Eleanor
Merrell, Jane Vannelt, Hannah Saxton, Elizabeth Hise, Lucretia Chamberlain,
Elizabeth Knowles, Mary Carbines, Tabitha Brush, Phoebe More, Anne Manners, Penelope
Stout, Elizabeth Roberts, Anne Sherd, Mary Silvers, Marcy Runyan, Catherine
Nanpelt [Vanpelt?], Abigal Vannoy, Anne Warford, Martha Dollos, Thamar Drake,
Elizabeth Hart, Amy Olivant, Sarah Stout, Anne Brinson, Sarah Matthews, Sarah
Randolph, Lucina Stout, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anne Craven,
Lucina Park, Miriam Younk, Penelope Hart, Elizabeth Cochran, Martha Reed,
Elizabeth Drake, Margaret Sherrard, Hephziba Stout, Mable Cannuel, Hosa
Vankirk, Catherine Saxton, Mary Barton, Margaret Vankirk, Elizabeth Lefever, Mary
Hise, Jane Hutchefon, Mary Prawl, Pamelia Hunt, Sarah Goflin, Sarah Wildgoose,
Elizabeth ??, Mary Runayn, Elizabeth Stout, Naomi Osborne, Pencina Osborn,
Frances Laryson, Hannah Merrell, Sarah Listsen, Sarah Runkle, Elizabeth Hill, Sarah
Hunt, Sarah Brush, Jane Stout, Mary Biggs, Sarah Roberts, Mary Stout, Elizabeth
Stout, Rachel Snowden, Sussannah Allen, Elizabeth Hixon, Margaret Wilson, Sarah
Hilsy, Mary Vanpelt, Rebekah Chetester.<o:p></o:p></div>
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7 Negroes--<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bonto,
Cate, Dinah, Weld, Cate, Sor, Frank</span></span><br />
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I think the pattern of names is a grouping by families.
Unfortunately, I see no distinction between groups. A listing of "Jem<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">ima Hunt, Jemima Laban" suggests Jemima Laban is the daughter of
Jemima Hunt.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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More details next week.</span>jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-82993616855122293512012-10-24T10:06:00.000-04:002012-11-15T11:01:45.888-05:00A Summary of What's Known about Penelope<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last week I listed the major sources of the stories about
Penelope. Combining all threads produces the following summary of what we know
about Penelope:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="usercontent"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Penelope (whose
maiden name was possibly Kent or Lent or Thompson or Thomson or vanPrincis or
vanPrinces or vanPrincen or vanPrincess or van Prince or van Printzen) was born
probably in the 1620s in either England or Holland to unknown parents who were
either English or Dutch. Rumors suggest her father was a minister. In the 1640s
at approximately 20 years of age, Penelope married either an Englishman or a
Dutchman (whose name was probably Kent or Prince or vanPrince or vanPrincis or
vanPrinces or vanPrincess or van Prince or van Printzen) probably in Amsterdam.
Soon thereafter they sailed on a ship (name unknown) from Amsterdam to the
Dutch West Indies colony of New Amsterdam possibly by way of the Caribbean
island of Curacao.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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<span class="usercontent">Sometime in the 1640s somewhere in the Sandy Hook area of
Raritan Bay (in what is now Monmouth County, NJ), Penelope’s ship (which might
have the Kath/Kat/Cat/Cath which sank in 1648, returning from Curacao with a cargo
of salt) ran aground or capsized in a storm or sank. Everyone except Penelope
perished in the incident or else everyone except Penelope was killed by Indians
after surviving the wreck or else everyone safely made it to shore except
Penelope’s husband who was either injured in the wreck or had been sick on the
voyage. If other passengers and crew survived the incident, they hiked to New
Amsterdam, but Penelope refused to abandon her husband, who was too sick or
injured to travel.</span><br />
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<span class="usercontent">After the wreck, Indians attacked whoever was still
there on the beach. If Penelope’s husband survived the wreck, the Indians
killed him. The Indians mutilated Penelope (head injury and/or shoulder injury
and/or partially disemboweled and/or scalped), and left her for dead. She
managed to crawl into a hollow log or tree for protection and survived on the
fungus growing on the rotten wood.</span><br />
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<span class="usercontent">Later (perhaps a week), one or two Indians possibly
with a dog were on the beach. Possibly they wounded a deer, which ran by
Penelope’s log/tree with an arrow sticking out of it. Penelope called to the
Indians to put her out of her misery. The young Indian (assuming there were
two) was anxious to do so, but the older one prevailed. The older Indian
carried the wounded white woman to his village near where the town of
Middletown now stands. She recovered from her injuries.</span><br />
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<span class="usercontent">Either Penelope lived with the Indians for many years,
or else she escaped in a canoe, or else white men heard of her presence and
rescued her, or else the old Indian delivered her to New Amsterdam for a
ransom.</span><br />
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<span class="usercontent">On 12 Sep 1648 (our only reliable date) in Gravesend,
Long Island, colony of New Netherland, Pennellopy Prince testified in a slander
trial about one woman milking another woman’s cow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="usercontent"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Penelope married
Richard Stout, an early settler of Gravesend (on Long Island near Coney Island), who may have been 40 years old
when they married in the 1640s (probably between 1642 and 1648). Richard was
likely from Nottinghamshire, England, likely left home after an argument with
his father possibly about a woman his father deemed unsuitable, and served in
the English navy (possibly involuntarily) for probably seven years before being
discharged in America (probably in New Amsterdam) about 1642. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><tt><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"Octoberr
13th, 1643, Richard Aestin, Ambrose Love [London?] and Richard Stout made declarations
that the crew of the Seven Stars and of the privateer landed at the farm of
Anthony Jansen, of Salee, in the Bay, and took off 200 pumpkins, and would have
carried away a lot of hogs from Coney Island had they not learned that they
belonged to Lady Moody."</span></tt><span class="usercontent"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span class="usercontent"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Penelope and
Richard Stout had 10 children who lived to maturity and populated New Jersey.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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<span class="usercontent">At some point after marriage and by 1666 at the latest,
Penelope and Richard left Gravesend and (with other settlers) founded the town
of Middletown, NJ, near where the old Indian’s village was. At some point while
she had young children (probably near Middletown but possibly in Gravesend),
the old Indian warned Penelope that other Indians planned to attack her
settlement. She could not persuade her husband of the truth, so she took the
children away in a canoe (possibly provided by the old Indian). At her
departure, her husband decided to be prudent, gathered the other settlers, and
thwarted the attack before it occurred. Thereafter, the Indians and settlers
lived in peace.</span><br />
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<span class="usercontent">Richard Stout died as an old man (probably around age
90), his will being probated in 1705. Penelope died probably between 1712 and
1732 at an old age, which some claim was 110 years, at which time she had 502
descendants. She was buried somewhere in the Middletown area. Her numerous
descendants recounted her adventures to their numerous descendants.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="usercontent"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Penelope told her
great grandson John Stout to reach into her apron pocket and feel her abdominal
scar. John told this story to his granddaughter Helena Hoff, who told her
granddaughter Therese Walling.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">
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</span>jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-36908299119150973752012-10-17T10:54:00.004-04:002012-10-24T14:15:49.314-04:00Conjecture # 6: The different stories of Penelope all derive from a common source.Technorati claim code # UF6CS44PUDMR<br />
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The story of Penelope had to have been shared among the family for generations or else it would never have been printed so often. The Stout family was large and dispersed in many directions. Among the different branches of the family, and over the centuries, some of the details were lost or "improved." But there should be a solid core of truth that all these legends developed from. By comparing the versions, perhaps we can derive the core or at least separate the plausible from the inplausible.<br />
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First let me enumerate the various threads. There are 7 historical: Burlington, Hopewell, Amwell, Sangamon, Seabrook, Ocean Grove, and Monmouth and three fictional threads: Crawford, Phillips and McFarlane. If anyone else has another original source, please let me know. I don’t have time now but I would like to compare the similarities and differences between these versions.<br />
<strong>Historical</strong><br />
1. <strong>Burlington</strong>: Samuel Smith (author of The History of the Colony of Nova Caesaria or New Jersey to Year 1721, pub. 1765) was born in Burlington (near Trenton), was a merchant in Philadelphia, returned to Burlington where he served as mayor, treasurer of the colony of West Jersey from 1750 to 1775 and on the New Jersey Council. Even though he was from the western part of the state and Middleton is in the eastern part, he was a Quaker (as were many of the Stouts) and likely knew people from everywhere. Therefore, we don’t know where Smith heard the story of Penelope that he used to illustrate the relative absence of Indian wars in New Jersey, compared to New York and New England.<br />
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2. <strong>Hopewell</strong>: Morgan Edwards (author of Materials Toward A History of the Baptists in New Jersey, pub 1792 and expanded by Benedict, David. A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, and Other Parts of the World. London: Lincoln & Edmands, 1813) was pastor of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia from 1761 to 1771, then moved to Delaware, and was the first Baptist historian. His information about Penelope came from Rev. Oliver Hart, Baptist pastor at Charleston, SC (1751 to 1780) and Hopewell, NJ from Dec 1780 to 1795. [Note: Hart’s papers reside in the South Caroliniana Library in Columbia, SC (only 100 miles from me; I’ll have to research that. What if Edwards only published a summary of Hart’s report?)]<br />
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3. <strong>Amwell</strong>: Nathan Stout of Amwell, NJ wrote The History of the Stout Family,1823. His great grandson, Simpson Stout, erected a monument with a long, detailed genealogy. This is the first published account by a direct descendant of Penelope.<br />
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4. <strong>Sangamon</strong>: Stout descendants of Sangamon County, Illinois, related the family history to a local historian, John Carroll Power, who wrote Early Settlers of Sangamon County [IL] – 1876. Springfield, IL: Edwin Wilson & Co., 1876, pp 690-2. No offense to my Illinois cousins, but this sounds like a poorly remembered and slightly garbled account of the New Jersey versions with a unique twist, namely, the earliest mention of Penelope being scalped.<br />
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5. <strong>Seabrook</strong>: In his 1916 analysis [Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Early Settlers of New Jersey and their Descendants] of the Penelope saga, John Stillwell, M.D., recounts an incident that was passed down through the generations to Mrs. T. W. Seabrook: “My grandmother, Helena Huff, told me how her grandfather, John Stout, had felt the wounds of Penelope Stout, and that he blushed like a school boy. She wished the knowledge of the Indian assault transmitted to her posterity and it has been done, for there are but two hands between Penelope and me.”<br />
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6. <strong>Ocean Grove</strong>. William Montgomery Clemens (1860-1931), a genealogist, newspaperman and author, published American Marriages Before 1699 in the year 1926. This book is mostly New England data plus a few mid-Atlantic entries. In 1931, he died in Ocean Grove, NJ, which is in Monmouth County. Therefore, I conjectured that he discussed genealogy with Stout descendants in the area.<br />
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7. <strong>Monmouth County</strong>: Both the Monmouth County Historical Association Library in Freehold and the Spy House Museum Complex in Port Monmouth have local newspaper articles, which are most likely based upon local family legend. I haven’t seen them but many people refer to them on the Internet.<br />
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<strong>Fictional</strong> <br />
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8. <strong>Crawford</strong>: The young adult book Four Women in a Violent Time (Crawford, 1970) purports to be historical yet her only listed source that links to Penelope is Samuel Smith’s 1765 account. However, most of the details in Crawford’s book are found in no source. Therefore, I conclude the portion of Crawford’s book about Penelope is 99% fictional, basically a novel. But it’s important to point out her fictions, such as a maiden name of Thompson.<br />
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9. <strong>Schott:</strong> In the narrative poem Penelope: The Story of the Half-Scalped Woman, the author writes in the forward, "Where little is known, much is invented." Penelope marries vanPrincis, miscarries on the beach after the Indian attack, is rescued by an Indian named Machk, marries John Richard Stout, is Applegate's niece, and dies in 1712.<br />
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10. <strong>Phillips</strong>: The novel As Good As Dead: The Penelope Stout Story is also an interesting work of fiction. Her fictional genealogy is that Rev. Thomson forces his daughter Penelope to marry Baron Kent Van Princis.<br />
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11. <strong>McFarlane</strong>: In my novel Penelope: A Novel of New Amsterdam the fictional genealogy is that Penelope Kent, born 13 Aug 1626, marries Matthew Prince in order to search for her missing father, John Kent, an English merchant. The novel includes the documented history of the ship Kath and conjectures that Penelope was a passenger when it wrecked.<br />
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If anyone knows of other original sources that draw on different family memories, please let me know.jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-90564238598214488202012-10-10T14:10:00.005-04:002012-10-10T14:12:03.801-04:00Voyages to New Amsterdam and CuracaoHere are voyages (and related events) to and from New Amsterdam and Curacao from Sept 1646 to Dec 1648. Note that Kath is also spelled de Kath, Kat, Kadt, Cath, or Cat in the various accounts:<br />
14 Sep 1646, Curaçao: Ship Wapen van Nieu Nederlandt arrives in Curaçao and will depart for New Amsterdam.<br />
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1647, Amsterdam: Ship Witte Doffer sails to New Amsterdam.<br />
11 May 1647, New Amsterdam: With a fleet of 4 ships, new Director-General Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam by way of the Caribbean island Curaçao (also a part of New Netherland and which he formerly commanded). The Princess Amelia (also called Princess) sailed from Texel (near Amsterdam) on 25 Dec 1646. The Groote Gerrit [Great Crow] under command of Paulus Leendertzen van der Grift likely accompanied the Princess Amelia. Kath [Cat] and Swol [Swallow] probably sailed later and rendezvoused at Curaçao.<br />
1647 May 31. Bill of sale of the ship Amandare, by Peter Stuyvesant, director of<br />
New Netherland, to Thomas Broughton, and charter of the same,<br />
to go to Boston, Isaac Allerton of New Amsterdam and Thomas<br />
Willett of New Plymouth, being securities<br />
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5 Jun 1647, New Amsterdam: Ship Wapen van Nieu Nederlandt is in port and will sail for Amsterdam. June 6. Power of attorney. William de Key, merchant, and Jan Claesen<br />
Snial, skipper of the Arms of New Netherland, to Isaac Allerton,<br />
to sell horses on their account in Virginia.<br />
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6 Jun 1647, New Amsterdam: The council orders the West India Company ships Groote Gerrit, De Kath and De Liefde [Love] to be made ready to go to sea as privateers against the Spanish. <br />
Unknown dates, New Amsterdam. Groote Gerrit sails to “…Boston in the English Virginia with a load of salt…”. A frigate from Medenblick arrives. Hercules, with skipper Cornelis Claessen Snoo, arrives. Ship Tamarande is sold.<br />
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24 Jun 1647, New Amsterdam: ship de Princes is in port. [probably Pincess Amelia]<br />
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5 Jul 1647, New Amsterdam: Thomas Broughton buys ship ‘T Amandaree (“arrived here from Brazil”) from the West India Company and will sail to Boston. He borrows some crew and will return them to Groote Gerrit in Boston.<br />
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26 Jul 1647, New Amsterdam: Liefde is in port.<br />
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2 Aug 1647, New Amsterdam: Prins Willem is in port.<br />
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10 Aug, 1647, New Amsterdam: The ship St. Beninjo, under master Cornelis Claessen Snoo, is charged with smuggling.<br />
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14 Aug 1647, New Amsterdam: Valckenier is in port.<br />
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16 Aug 1647, New Amsterdam: Princess Amelia departs New Amsterdam and sinks in the Bristol Channel on 27 Sep 1647.<br />
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21 Sept 1647: Stuyvesant sells Swol to the vice-governor of New Haven. <br />
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Before 6 Oct 1647: Valckenier [Falconer] leaves for Amsterdam.<br />
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1647: The yacht Siruen when seized by the Swedes on the South River in 1647 was carrying six guns and 60 lbs. of powder.<br />
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Oct 1648: When the Dutch crew delivers Swol to New Haven on a Sunday, they execute a plan to seize the disputed Dutch ship St. Beninjo and sail it back to New Amsterdam to answer the charge of smuggling.<br />
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19 Feb 1648, Curaçao: Vice_Director Roodenborch writes Stuyvesant that Groote Gerrit was damaged by a storm and sickness has rendered the crews of Cath and Liefde unfit for duty. The letter goes by way of Boston [presumably on an English ship].<br />
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7 Apr 1648, Amsterdam: The company officials in Amsterdam write a letter to Stuyvesant . Included are these passages: “The bearer hereof, Wm. Thomassen, skipper of the ‘Valckenier’ [Falconer] and Peter Cornelissen, master of the ‘Pynappel’ [or Pijnappel, Pineapple], who takes out the duplicate of this letter… We send you a list of all the free men, whom we have given permission to go over on each ship…”<br />
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14 Apr 1648, New Amsterdam: The council receives Rodenborch’s letter of 19 Feb.<br />
15 Apr 1648: Kath captures a Spanish ship in the Caribbean.<br />
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17 Apr 1648, New Amsterdam: Nieu Swol [New Swallow] arrives from Amsterdam.<br />
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20 Apr 1648, New Amsterdam: The council dispatches Nieu Swol to Curaçao.<br />
23 Apr 1648, New Amsterdam: Kath arrives in New Amsterdam with captured Spanish ship.<br />
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10 May 1648, Boston: John Winthrop’s Journal records that three ships arrived from London in a single day.<br />
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22 May 1648, Boston: John Winthrop’s Journal: “This year corn was very scarce, and so it was in all Europe. Our scarcity came by occasion of our transporting much to the West Indies, and the Portugal and Spanish islands.” Implies frequent trade with the Caribbean.<br />
4 Jun 1648, Boston: John Winthrop’s Journal: “At this court one Margaret Jones of Charlestown was indicted and found guilty of witchcraft, and hanged for it....The same day and hour she was executed, there was a very great tempest at Connecticut, which blew down many tress, etc....A vessel [under command of Master Bull] of Connecticut being the last winter at Quorasoe [Curacao]...”<br />
23 Jun 1648, New Amsterdam: “…they detained Verbrugge’s ship ‘den Valckenier’ (The Falconer) as it arrived from the Netherlands and searched it for contraband or smuggled goods.”<br />
2 Jul 1648, New Amsterdam: The council gives 30-day public notice of the auction of the Spanish bark Nostra Singnora (Sic) Rosario, “…laden with hides, captured in the Caribbean by Hans Wyer, the honorable company’s captain on the yacht de Cat…” <br />
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2 Jul 1648, New Amsterdam: Fiscaal [sheriff] Hendrick van Dyck charges the “…crew of Kat who captured the prize below Margarita…” with finding some pieces of eight and pearls and dividing them among themselves instead of reporting the discovery to the company. Because of the scarcity of crew and the immediate need for salt, the company pardoned the crew yet confiscated their share of the prize money if they would sail to the West Indies. <br />
Before 18 Jul 1648, New Amsterdam: Pijnappel [Pynappel, Pineapple] arrives from Amsterdam.<br />
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20 Jul 1648, New Amsterdam: Council orders the captured ship to be made ready to sail to Curaçao for a load of salt. <br />
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Before 5 Aug 1648, New Amsterdam: Prins Willem arrives from Amsterdam. [Editor’s Note: A plausible scenario is that Penelope sailed from Amsterdam to Curaçao on either Valckenier, Pijnappel or Prins Willem and then changed ships at Curaçao. Perhaps her husband was sick.]<br />
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After 31 Aug 1648, New Amsterdam: Valckenier departs for Amsterdam.<br />
12 Sep 1648, Gravesend, Long Island: Penelloppey Prince testifies in a slander trial.<br />
After 23 Sep 1648, New Amsterdam: Pijnappel departs for Amsterdam.<br />
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9 Nov 1648, New Amsterdam: Council receives a report, “Whereas the yacht De Cath, of which Jeuryaen Andries was master, arrived here from Curaçao with a cargo inside Sandy Hook, otherwise called Godyn Point, in a safe port and, the wind being contrary, tried to tack to before Fort Amsterdam, said yacht, in tacking, stranded on a sand bank with such force that notwithstanding all effort it could not be brought off, except the effects which were in and on her, inclusive of the masts; only, by the splitting of the ship, a quantity of salt was dissolved.” The council notes that the value of the salvage was sufficient to pay the crew. [Editor’s note: How long does it take to salvage the wreck and account for the money? The council minutes often report on things that happened much earlier.]<br />
in 1648 the ship de Liefde of something just over 100 tons burden carried [a crew of ]16 on a<br />
voyage to Barbados. <br />
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The point I'm trying to make is that there was a lot of shipping other than just direct routes between Amsterdam and New Amsterdam. Not to mention ships to and from Virginia and New England.jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-91592384903833172272012-10-03T14:43:00.000-04:002012-10-03T15:02:49.413-04:00Who was Alice Stout, daughter of Richard and Penelope, named after?<span class="usercontent"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I found an Internet site that
claims Alice was very popular in medieval times (See Chaucer), was scarce for
several centuries, then returned to popularity in the Victorian era in time for
Alice in Wonderland. Futher checking revealed an Internet site (<a href="http://victoria.tc.ca/~tgodwin/duncanweb/documents/names.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://victoria.tc.ca/~tgodwin/duncanweb/documents/names.html</span></a>)
that extracted names for babies born in England in 1620-1629 from a reliable
source. (The author was interested in adults in the English Civil War, but
names from 1650-1659 England would be skewed by the Puritan success in the
Civil War. Thus 1620-1629 is fine for our purposes. A sampling of WorldConnect
entries for people born in England in 1620-30 confirmed these were popular
names.)<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="usercontent"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The ranking of the popularity of the names of the seven sons
of Richard and Penelope are:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="usercontent"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">#1 John</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">#4 Richard</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">#7 James</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">#21 Peter</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">#30 Benjamin </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">#39 Jonathan</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">#45 David<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Likewise for the daughters:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">#2 Mary<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">#5 Alice<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">#12 Sarah<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">All ten are common names from the 17<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> as well as the 20<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
century. All except Richard and Alice are found in the Bible. <span class="usercontent">Interestingly, none are Puritan-like names, such as Eli,
Caleb, Hope, and Charity.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="usercontent"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The English naming practices for several centuries was to
often name the first two babies of each sex after the grandparents and then parents.
I just disproved my own theory that Alice was a rare clue to Penelope’s
ancestry. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="usercontent"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">But the question still remains: Who was Alice Stout named
after? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="usercontent"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">And Mary? And Sarah? Why no Elizabeth if Richard’s mother
was Elizabeth Bee?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-54566538129037380432012-09-26T09:45:00.005-04:002012-09-26T09:48:40.584-04:00Conjecture #5: Penelope sailed from Amsterdam in the spring of 1648 with a stopover in Curacao.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the previous
post I conjectured that de Kath picked up Penelope and her first husband in
Curaçao. How could they get to Curaçao?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dutch West India Company<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Dutch West
India Company had responsibility for the trade and protection of all Dutch
colonies along the Atlantic, such as Pernambuco in Brazil, west Africa, and New
Netherland (which included the Manhattan region plus the Caribbean islands of
Curaçaoand nearby Bonaire with its salt pans). In 1647 Peter Stuyvesant, the
new Director-General of New Netherland, sailed to New Amsterdam by way of
Curaçao, partly because Curaçao was part of his domain, and partly because it
made sense.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sailing Ship Routes<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The route of a
sailing ship was determined largely by sailing conditions and profit opportunities.
As the Pilgrims learned when sailing directly west across the North Atlantic
from England to Plymouth, the prevailing westerly winds made that a dangerous
voyage of 66 days. John Winthrop’s fleet sailed from Yarmouth, England (51° N
lattitude) to Massachusetts Bay (42° N) in 1630 via the Azores (40° N), a more
southerly route, in 6 weeks yet the winds were still often from the west. In
later years his Journal recorded the length of many voyages to New England, the
fastest being 5 to 6 weeks, the longest being 12 to 20 weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">However, the more
typical sailing route to the Caribbean is by way of the Canary Islands at 28°
N. Even Columbus stopped here on his first voyage in 1492. The trade winds
generally deliver ships to the Windward (literally, facing the wind) Islands of
the Lesser Antilles, a long arc of small islands that mark the eastern edge of
the Caribbean and stretch from Puerto Rico to Venezuela. While the Spanish
concentrated on the Greater Antilles (that is, the big islands of Puerto Rico,
Hispaniola, Cuba, and Jamaica), the English and French were able to colonize
Windward Islands such as Barbados, St. Lucia, and Martinique before 1650. The
Dutch settled further west in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Barbados<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to
Wikipedia, in 1644, before the workforce began to shift to African slaves, the
Caribbean island of Barbados had a population of 30,000 (compared to about
23,000 in New England and maybe 1000 in New Netherland), mostly English
indentured servants working the sugar fields. By 1660, when the population was
27,000 black and 26,000 white, this one island generated more trade than the
rest of the North American English colonies combined. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At first, Dutch
traders supplied the financing and African slaves and transported most of the
sugar to Europe. This information is pertinent because 1) it shows that </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Curaçao </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(about 500 miles
away from Barbados) was near the trade routes in the 1640s and 2) Conjecture #3
mentioned that the New Jersey Concessions retained much of the language of the
Carolina Concessions that were intended to lure small Barbados farmers who
couldn’t compete with the neighboring big slave-driven plantations by 1665. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Four ships that sailed from Amsterdam to New
Amsterdam in 1648<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Since I published
my novel, I learned from </span><a href="http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/mm_shipamny.shtml%20" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Olive Tree Genealogy</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (which I think took its data
from Jaap Jacobs’s master’s thesis in Dutch) the names of three ships with
passengers that left Holland for New Amsterdam in the spring or summer of 1648
and one that probably sailed later in the year . Those were <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">den Valckenier</i> (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Falconer</i> owned by the trading family Verbrugge, whose son Seth
Verbrugge appears in the novel as a merchant) was detained on 23 Jun 1648 upon
its arrival in New Amsterdam and searched for smuggled goods. No record on what
was found. It departed for Holland after 31 Aug 1648.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pijnappel (</i>also spelled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pynappel</i>, which translates to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pineapple</i> and was owned by Hardenbergh)
arrived in New Amsterdam before 18 Jul 1648 and departed after 23 Sept 1648.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Prins Willem</i> (which translates to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Prince William </i>and was owned by the West
India Company) arrived in New Amsterdam before 5 Aug 1648. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4. </span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jonge Prins van Deenemarcken</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (translates to Young Prince of
Denmark, possibly a reference to Shakespeare’s Hamlet) arrived in New Amsterdam
after 21 Dec 1648.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Summary</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The above
discussion is intended to show that there was considerable ship traffic between
Holland, the Caribbean islands, and the New Amsterdam/New England area and thus
it is plausible that Penelope sailed from Amsterdam to New Amsterdam by way of Curaçao.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Privateering in
1654</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I just came
across a detailed treatise</span><i><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> entitled </span><a href="http://www.nnp.org/nnp/publications/ABAFB/2.2.pdf%20" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ships and Workboats of New Netherland 1609-1674</span></span></a><v:shape adj="0,,0" coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_s1026" o:spt="100" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f" style="height: 50pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 50pt; z-index: 251658240;" u1:preferrelative="t" u1:spt="75"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
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</v:path></v:formulas></v:stroke></span></v:shape><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that contained<i> </i>an interesting tidbit:</span>“In June 1654 the
yacht de Huen (Cock) left New Amsterdam for Curacao, her official orders being
to bring back a cargo of salt. She had, however, been‘equipped with such
munitions of war as she requires.’ In spite of this generous armament, she was
taken by the Spanish on her homeward voyage.”<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Comments</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Again the
comments section awaits you. Does anyone know any good reference books on the 17th
century sailing routes in the Atlantic?<o:p></o:p></span></span>jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-22529094017130914872012-09-19T08:31:00.000-04:002012-09-19T15:21:04.946-04:00Conjecture #4: Penelope sailed on de Kath, which wrecked in the summer of 1648<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Margaret Thomas Buchholz’s book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New
Jersey Shipwrecks: 350 Years in the Graveyard of the Atlantic</i> opens with a
vignette of Penelope’s shipwreck and claims it’s the first one known along the
New Jersey coast. However, she doesn’t list ships by name until 1731 and even
our favorite nameless shipwreck is lifted from H. F. Stout’s book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stout and Allied Families</i>. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kath is the First Documented
Wreck in New Jersey<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But Ms. Buchholz has a point. The first documented shipwreck is the
Dutch West India Company’s ship <em>de Kath</em> (whose name is spelled many different
ways), whose salvage report is recorded in the New Amsterdam Council Minutes on
9 Nov 1648 as follows: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Whereas
the yacht <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">De <span class="spelle">Cath</span></i>,
of which <span class="spelle">Jeuryaen</span> <span class="spelle">Andries</span>
was master, arrived here from Curaçao with a cargo inside Sandy Hook, otherwise
called <span class="spelle">Godyn</span> Point, in a safe port and, the wind
being contrary, tried to tack to before Fort Amsterdam, said yacht, in tacking,
stranded on a sand bank with such force that notwithstanding all effort it
could not be brought off, except the effects which were in and on her,
inclusive of the masts; only, by the splitting of the ship, a quantity of salt
was dissolved. The effects and merchandise being calculated against the monthly
wages earned by the crew of the said ship, the proceeds according to the
inventory were found to amount to more than the accrued wages; and whereas the
ship’s crew appearing in a body before the council request a final settlement
according to maritime law, it is therefore resolved and concluded in council to
furnish a proper account to all members of the crew of the yacht De <span class="spelle">Cath</span>, who shall be paid and satisfied by the honorable
directors at Amsterdam, on condition that they shall continue in the Company’s
service until their bounden time shall have expired. <span class="grame">This
day, the 9th of November 1648.</span> Present: The honorable general, Mr. <span class="spelle">Dincklagen</span>, <span class="spelle">Briant</span> <span class="spelle">Nuton</span> [Brian Newton] and <span class="spelle">Paulus</span> <span class="spelle">Leedersz</span>.”</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Slowness of Bureaucracy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aha, you say, d<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">e Kath</i> wrecked
in November and Penelope was already in Gravesend in September. No, the November
date pertains to the salvage report being entered into the Council Minutes.
There is no mention of when the wreck occurred but surely the bureaucracy of
investigating shipwrecks took months, even in the 17th century.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Stopover<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aha, you say, <em>de Kath</em> sailed from Curaçao, an island in the Caribbean,
whereas Penelope sailed from Amsterdam. I ask, why can’t both statements be
true? If you flew from Los Angeles to New York with a change of planes in
Chicago, then you traveled from Los Angeles but both you and your second plane
flew from Chicago. How much importance do you attach to the stopover? So, is it
plausible that Penelope sailed on one ship from Amsterdam to Curaçao and took
another ship from Curaçao to New Amsterdam?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kath was a Busy Ship<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Follow the
career path of <em>de Kath,</em> as recorded in the contemporary records. Source details
can be found on
my <a href="http://www.jim-mcfarlane.com/Documentation/Timeline_Penelope.html" target="_blank">website</a>. Note: the Dutch had already converted to the Gregorian
calendar; thus all these dates are in modern format.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">6 Jun 1647</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">:
The New Amsterdam Council ordered the ships <em>Groote Gerrit</em>, <em>de Kath</em>, and <em>de
Leifde</em> to voyage to the West Indies as privateers. No info on when they actually
departed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">19 Feb 1648</span>:
Vice Director Lucas Roodenborch of Curaçao wrote a letter to Stuyvesant that
the <em>Groote Gerrit</em> was severely damaged by a storm and that <em>de Cath</em> and <em>de
Liefde</em> were ravished by sickness. Stuyvesant received the letter by way of
Boston on April 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">15 Apr 1648: In the Caribbean <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><em>de Kath</em>
captured a Spanish ship</span> with a cargo of hides and tobacco. Note the
delay between capture (15 Apr) and official announcement (2 Jul).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">2 Jul 1648</span>:
The New Amsterdam Council announced that Hans Wyer, captain of the yacht <em>De
Cath</em>, arrived in New Amsterdam with a captured Spanish bark <em>Nostra Signora
Rosario</em>, laden with hides, captured below Margarita in the Caribbean Islands.
Note: The West India Company protocol required three public announcements for
an auction of seized goods but Stuyvesant was reprimanded for issuing only one
announcement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">20 Jul 1648</span>:
The New Amsterdam Council ordered a ship to Curaçao to deliver supplies and
bring back salt. Author’s Note: The sale of salt to New England fishermen was a
big business. Name of ship was not recorded. The Council records often
documented events that had already happened. In the Council minutes for July 2,
they were already planning this voyage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">9 Nov 1648:
The salvage report for <em>de Kath</em>’s salt was entered into Council Minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How Long to Sail from New Amsterdam to </b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Curaçao</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
Back?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> I</span>f <i>de Kath</i>
sailed from New Amsterdam in early July, took 5 weeks for a trip to the
Caribbean and back, picked up passengers in </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Curaçao</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, and wrecked in mid-August, that schedule allows four weeks for
Penelope to be attacked, rescued, and delivered to Gravesend before 12 Sep
1648. This scenario assumes that she is recuperating from her injuries at the
Applegate home in Gravesend when she witnessed the cow incident. This timeframe
also allows a plausible 3 months for creation of the salvage report.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Don’t buy it? Then counter with
a better idea. But first look at the previous blog entry Conjecture #3: Penelope and Richard Stout married in late 1648/early 1649.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The
Chain of Circumstances<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> T</span>oo unlikely? Every unusual
event has a long chain of circumstances leading to it. Why was a particular
passenger on the Titanic? If a child is hit by a stray bullet on the streets of
Chicago, why was that particular child in that particular location at that
particular time and why was the shooter there at that time? If my daughter
hadn’t moved away from Brooklyn in Feb 2001, then my wife might have been
waiting for discount Broadway tickets in the World Trade Center lobby eight
mornings after Labor D</span>ay in 2001.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Comments , Please<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please use the comments section to express your opinions about my
conjecture and the logic behind it or to ask questions that might spur further
research.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sponsored by </span><a href="http://www.jim-mcfarlane.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Jim's website</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> and the book</span><a href="http://www.fiction-addiction.com/si/9780985112202N.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"> Penelope: A
Novel of New Amsterdam</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-68297808130902393652012-09-12T08:38:00.001-04:002012-09-12T08:41:11.851-04:00Conjecture #3: Penelope and Richard Stout married in late 1648/early 1649.<span style="font-family: inherit;">When did Penelope marry Richard Stout? This date is often associated
with the date of the shipwreck but let’s save the shipwreck for next week and argue
these two controversial events independently.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two Marriage Opinions: 1644 or
1648</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The popular answer is circa 1644 and the minority opinion is soon after
the slander trial on 12 Sept 1648. Let’s deal with the minority opinion first
because its argument is simply that the trial record lists her name as
Penellopey Prince because she was a widow (</span><a href="http://searchingforpenelopestout.blogspot.com/2012/08/conjecture-1-penelope-was-of-english.html"><span style="font-family: inherit;">See Conjecture #1</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">) and thus hadn’t yet remarried. If she had
remarried, she would have been referred to the wife of Richard Stout or
possibly as Mrs. Stout.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The 1644 Argument<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
The argument for a marriage date of 1644 was introduced by Dr. John Stillwell in 1916 and relies
on A) the documented fact that the two eldest sons of Richard Stout (namely,
John and Richard, Jr.) were awarded full land grants of 120 acres based upon
residence in New Jersey before 1 Jan 1665 as adults, not minors, and assumption
B) that the sons were thus eighteen years of age in 1664. Because no one
suggests that Richard had sons from a prior marriage, assumption C) is that the
first son was born about one year after the marriage date of Richard and
Penelope and the second son between two and three years after the marriage
date.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Working backwards, the math is </span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
Before 1 Jan 1665 = ages of sons are 19/20 and 18</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
Before 1 Jan 1647 = second son’s birth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
1645 = first son’s birth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
1644 = Marriage date</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A marriage date much earlier than 1644 is implausible because Gravesend
was settled in 1643, then abandoned because of Indian troubles and resettled in
1645. Also it is generally accepted (without proof) that Richard Stout arrived
in New Amsterdam around the spring of 1643.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two Challenges to Majority
Opinion<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
I challenge the interpretation of both the date 1 Jan 1665 and the
legal age of eighteen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Concessions Document<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
The charter that the new governor of New Jersey brought with him in
1665 designating the requirements for land grants to settlers was a little more
generous than the one announced the same year for the Carolinas. The
concessions for New Jersey and Carolina had three things in common:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
1. They encouraged rapid settlement by reducing the size of the land
grants in later years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
2. They required settlers to physically occupy the land to eliminate
speculators.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
3. They gave the largest grants to heads of household, wives, and
able-bodied men ready and able to defend the colony against Indian attack and half-grants
to “weaker” servants.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The section of the </span><a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/nj02.asp" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Jersey Concessions</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> under which the Stouts
claimed land stated, “<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">To every master or mistress that shall go before the
first day of January, which shall be in the year one thousand six hundred
sixty-five; one hundred and twenty acres of land. And for every able man
servant, that he or she shall carry or send, arm'd and provided as aforesaid” [which
an earlier section explained as arm'd with a good musket, bore twelve bullets
to the pound, with ten pounds of powder, and twenty pounds of bullets, with
bandiliers and match convenient, and with six months provision for his own
person], “ and arriving within the time aforesaid, the like quantity of one
hundred and twenty acres of land: And for every weaker servant or slave, male
or female, exceeding the age of fourteen years, arriving there, sixty acres of
land.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span> </div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Challenge #1: The Day After 31
Dec 1665 is 1 Jan 1665 </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
the English legal year began on March 25 until the conversion from the Julian
to Gregorian calendar nearly a century later in 1752. Therefore the legal date
of 1 Jan 1665 is the day after 31 Dec 1665, or 1 Jan 1666 as we would think of
it. To reduce confusion, a date between 1 Jan and 24 Mar was often written in
the format of 1 Jan 1665/66 but not in legal documents.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To further confirm the deadline of 1 Jan 1665/66, consider the
timeframe of relevant events, including the fact that the document itself didn’t
arrive in New York until July 1665:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
8 Sept 1664—Col. Nicholls captured New Amsterdam for the English and
renamed it New York.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
10 Feb 1664/65 – Lords Proprietors of New Jersey, John Lord Berkley and
Sir George Carteret (both of whom were also among the proprietors of the
Carolinas), signed the Concession and Agreements document with the 1 Jan 1665/66
deadline.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
29 Jul 1665—the new governor Philip Carteret (relative of Sir George
Carteret) arrived in New York with the documents, the first English ship since
the conquest.<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
Aug 1665—Governor Philip Carteret accompanied the first settlers to found
Elizabethtown, the capital of New Jersey. These able-bodied settlers accompanying
the governor received 150 acres.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
1 Jan 1665/66—deadline for other settlers to receive maximum land grants of
120 acres.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Challenge #2: Able Man Servant
or Weaker Servant</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Secondly, how do you distinguish “able
man servant” from “<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">weaker servant or
slave, male or female, exceeding the age of fourteen years”? I claim that a
“weaker servant” is one not “arm'd with a good musket, bore twelve bullets to
the pound, with ten pounds of powder, and twenty pounds of bullets, with
bandiliers and match convenient.” Thus, a weaker servant is anyone whom the
master would not trust with a musket, such as an African slave, a feeble old man,
or an untrustworthy servant brought along to claim and work the land, whereas an
able man servant is any male over the age of fourteen who can handle a musket. The
inclusion of slaves may seem odd but there were numerous slaves in New
Amsterdam/New York and the language was copied from the Carolina document intended to lure
slave-owning sugar planters from the Caribbean.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Also consider the history of Gravesend.
Attacked and burned by the Indians in 1643 before it was properly built. Resettled
in 1645 with a town charter that required residents to maintain a section of
the palisade wall and to stockpile musket, lead, and powder. In fact, a person
could not buy a lot in Gravesend without an armed, able-bodied man to live on
it. Plus the story about Tisquantum warning Penelope to flee from an impending
Indian attack. And the Peach War of 1655. In those circumstances do you think it
likely that a fourteen-year-old boy knew how to handle a musket?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
New Math<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Therefore the revised math is</span><br />
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By 31 Dec 1665 = ages of sons are 15/16 and 14, satisfying Concessions
requirement.</div>
By 31 Dec 1651 = second son’s birth<br />
1650 = first son’s birth <br />
After 12 Sep 1648 and before mid-1649 = Marriage date<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Conclusion</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thus a marriage around 31 Dec 1648 would allow a plausible thirty-six
months to birth two children, sons luckily enough, and would allow Penelope to
still be an umarried widow <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on 12 Sep
1648.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just Wondering<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wonder if the descendants of other New Jersey settlers have better
documented ages of their ancestors’ children who claimed land under the same
provisions.</span><br />
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</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Comments Please</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Please use the comments section to express your opinions about my
conjecture and the logic behind it or to ask questions that might spur further research.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sponsored by </span><a href="http://www.jim-mcfarlane.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Jim's website</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and the book</span><a href="http://www.fiction-addiction.com/si/9780985112202N.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"> Penelope: A
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-61393512529436835382012-09-05T09:03:00.001-04:002012-09-07T23:02:43.817-04:00Conjecture 2: Penelope’s first husband was English and his surname was Prince.<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today I argue against the commonly accepted idea that Penelope’s first
husband was a Dutchman with the surname Vanprincis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>A Contemporary Record, 1648</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The only contemporary record of Penelope is the September 1648 slander
trial about milking a cow in the Gravesend Town Records, which recorded her
name as Penellopey Prince. Notice how the other women in the trial are mentioned:
wife of Tho. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Aplegate; his wife; Ambrose
his wife; wife of Ambrose London; Aplegate’s daughter; and Ambrose his wife.
Under the English legal doctrine of coverture, as the saying goes, “<span style="background: white; color: black;">husband and wife were one person as far as
the law was concerned, and that person was the husband.” </span></span>The fact
that the English clerk wrote her name as Penellopey Prince strongly implies
that she had passed from the legal status of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">feme covert</i> (literally, covered woman in archaic Anglo-Norman
French legalese, meaning married) to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">feme
sole</i> (single woman) because she was a widow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In a Dutch context, one might reasonably argue that Penelope Prince was
her maiden name, but the list of Gravesend founders was all English. Being
mostly Anabaptists, they picked a location at the southwestern tip of Long
Island that was as far as practical from the Dutch government, Dutch Reformed
Church, and New England Puritans. Therefore, I find it implausible that
Englishmen would apply Dutch naming conventions to an English woman. </span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>17th Century Writings</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I would like to know how other women (single, married, or widowed) were
referred to in the rest of the Gravesend Town Records but, I as far as I know,
the book has never been published nor put on the Internet. Instead I skimmed
300 pages of the John Winthrop’s Journal (1630-1640, Massachusetts Bay Colony) and
found two women mentioned by their full name: “one Abigail Giffor, widow” and “Dorothy
Talbye was hanged at Boston for murdering her own daughter.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Winthrop used the customary English format for real ladies, that
is, the title and first name, such as “the Lady Arabella,” for whom Winthrop's
ship was named, and "Mr. Humfrey and the Lady Susan, his wife." Two
married women who were personally accused of religious crimes were designated
“Mrs. Hutchinson” (20 mentions because of her infamy) and “Mrs. Dyer.” Every
other time that a female was mentioned in conjunction with a man’s name,
Winthrop used phrases such as James Sagamore's wife, wife of one William Dyer,
one Hawkins's wife, wife of one Scott, Faber's wife, his wife (numerous times),
gentlewoman and two daughters. This are the same techniques cited above in
Gravesend Town Records and confirm the tradition of coverture that a married
woman’s Christian name was not written except in special circumstances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Smith, 1765</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The second written record of Penelope is in Samuel Smith’s 1765 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The History of the Colony of Nova Caesaria,
or New Jersey</i>, where <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">she is not
mentioned by name but described first as the wife of a young Dutchman and later
as “marrying to one Stout.” This phrasing sounds familiar. I realize Smith
describes the husband as a Dutchman but the account uses the word Dutch five
times including the historically inaccurate statement that the Dutch settled
Middleton. The New Netherland Project website comments that “<span style="background: white; color: black;">most histories of early colonial America
either dismiss New Netherland in a few lines or rely on English sources, which
portray the Dutch colony from an adversary's viewpoint.” Therefore, it is
difficult to know which histories to trust, such as the next example.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<strong>Edwards, 1790</strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The third written record is my favorite description despite its inaccuracies,
Morgan Edwards’s 1790 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Materials Towards a
History of the Baptists,</i> repeated by Benedict in 1813 and Nathan Stout in
1823 and Mayes around 1890 where I first read it: “Mrs. Stout was born in
Amsterdam, about the year 1602 (sic). Her father's name was Vanprinces. She and
her first husband (whose name is not known) sailed for New York (then New
Amsterdam) about the year 1620 (sic).” Notice that here the Dutch name belonged
to her father, not her husband. Therefore, the common practice of calling the
husband Vanprinces appears to mistakenly combine Smith’s description of
Penelope as “wife of a young Dutchman” with Edwards’s “her father’s name was
Vanprinces.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Other versions</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nathan Hale Streets’s version in 1897 quotes Benedict as saying “he<span style="color: black;">r father's name was <span class="spelle">Vanprincis</span>”
with the “is” ending.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In 1916 John Stillwell quotes Mrs. Seabrook in
calling her ancestor “Penelope van Prince.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">I have heard that Kent or Lent is the
traditional maiden name for Penelope, perhaps from a newspaper article at the </span>Spy
House Museum Complex in Port Monmouth, New Jersey. <span style="color: black;">As
far as I can tell, Deborah Crawford invented the maiden name of Thompson in her
book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Four Women in a Violent Time.</i></span></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Is Vanprincis a real name?</strong></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I believe that Vanprinces is the result of “dutchifying” the English surname
Prince to be better fit the story that Penelope and her first husband sailed
from Amsterdam. If her descendants can’t remember the guy’s first name, how
much should we trust their memory of the last name? Other commentators have
pointed out that “van,” meaning “from,” and thus should refer to a place as the
German “von” does. But no one has found such a Dutch place like “Princes” to be
from. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Searching WorldConnect database</strong></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I searched in the WorldConnect databases and found numerous records for
Vanprincis (60), van Princis (446), Vanprinces (17), van Princes (212),
Vanprincess (11), van Princess (229),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vanprincen
(1), van Princen (53), Vanprincin (22), van Princin (143), Vanprince (16 plus 2
obvious errors) and van Prince (35 including some errors). Every valid record (except
a Martin van Buren Prince sometimes listed as Martin Van Prince) referred to
either Penelope, her first husband or her father. I feel sure that other
genealogy repositories will produce the same results. If this were a real name
there would be other relatives, as occurs for the name van Prins (16 different
Dutch names in 39 records after 1764).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>A Challenge to Researchers</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here is my challenge as to whether Vanprinces or Vanprincis is a valid
name. Find another person in 17th century Holland with that name. What the
heck--in the history of the world with that surname. </span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Real Dutch Surnames</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I found a Dutch website purported to determine the frequency of Dutch surnames:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nfb/<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using the Google translator, I chose the
“starts with” option for “van prin” and got a couple of hits for "van Prinsenbeek" and “van Prinsenhof”
and several for Her Royal Highnesses because Queen Juliana of Holland had four daughters and “prinses” translates to
“princess.” I still think Penelope marrying a baron is cute fiction but poor
genealogy. But no hits for the Dutch versions of Prince that I have discussed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>The Question</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The question boils down to which is the more plausible source for the surname
of Penelope’s first husband: A) a contemporary legal document or B) family stories
decades after her death, which disagree with each other, some assigning a non-Dutch Dutch name to Penelope’s
husband and some to her father.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What do you think? Please leave a comment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
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Four lines of reasoning support the theory that Penelope was of English
heritage.</div>
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1. Historically, only in Greek and English cultures was Penelope a
common first name. It is implausible that she was Greek because Greece was
under the restrictive rule of the Ottoman Empire from the 15th century until
its independence in 1821. The original Penelope was the patient wife of Odysseus in Homer's classic, <i>The Odyssey.</i></div>
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2. My Dutch friends have never heard of a Dutch woman named Penelope. In
June 2005 I spent a day in Amsterdam and visited a municipal archive building
where the Amsterdam marriage records for several centuries have been
transferred to cards and sorted by first and last names. I found no records for
the name Penelope in the 1600s and 1700s. I know very little Dutch but the hand-printed
cards were quite legible. Unfortunately the clerk spoke only conversational
English and I have no idea how complete their collection is. On a whim, I checked
for Smith and found several entries.</div>
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3. After her rescue, Penelope settled in Gravesend, composed entirely
of English families in 1645 and for many years afterwards. Her other choices
were the new English (and Puritan) village of Hempstead, several Dutch villages
or else New Amsterdam, a very cosmopolitan town where seventeen languages were
spoken and only half the population was Dutch. Admittedly, Gravesend was the
closest village to her shipwreck site across the bay at Sandy Hook but
Gravesend was located about a mile from the coast and wasn’t convenient for
boats.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">
4. Penelope married an Englishman, Richard Stout, and lived in the
English village of Gravesend. Around 1665 the Stouts moved to New Jersey and
helped found the village of Middleton, also comprised only of English settlers.
All ten of their children had English first names and married into English
families.</div>
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On the contrary side, Edward Morgan’s 1790 pamphlet <i>Materials Towards a History of the Baptists </i>says
Penelope was born in Amsterdam in 1602. However, it also says she sailed to New Amsterdam about 1620, several years before the colony was founded. Which parts of Morgan's information that was gathered by a clergyman talking to Penelope's descendants 50 years after her death are plausible? Besides, she could have been born in Amsterdam to English
parents.</div>
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I welcome discussion about Penelope and my conjectures. Together, we
can combine our incomplete knowledge and arrive at better conclusions.</div>
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