FATHER

Richard Stout

MOTHER

Penelope Van Princin

WIFE

Elizabeth

CHILDREN

1. Elizabeth Stout b. 1691

2. Penelope Stout b. 20 May 1700

3. Ann Stout b. Abt. 1704

4. James Stout b. 1706

5. Benjamin Stout b.

From Stout and Allied Families

James Stout settled in Monmouth Co., NJ with holdings of 142 acres.  "1690 received a lot on Hop River and a farm of 5 acres at Conesconk, NJ from his father."

          JAMES STOUT was born about 1655-1660 in Gravesend, Long Island, New York, the son of RICHARD STOUT and his wife PENELOPE VAN PRINCES. He removed with his parents to Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey after the granting of the Monmouth Patent in 1665, his father Richard Stout being one of twelve men to whom the patent was granted. His name first appears in the “Grants and Concessions” made under the Monmouth Patent on November 2, 1675, in which his father was allowed 60 acres on his behalf, suggesting that he was then over the age of 14 years in 1675 (East Jersey Deeds, Liber 3 (Reversed Side), 1665-1682, p. 1). On February 16, 1685, James Stout recorded his cattle mark, which was described as a “Crap [Crop] one the Left Eare and one hafe peny one under sid[e] of the Right Eare” (First Town Book of Middletown, NJ, p. 83 ½). On June 29, 1690, James Stout received from his father Richard Stout a tract of land along Romanis [Ramanessin] Brook on the Hop River near present day Holmdel, New Jersey adjoining his brother Jonathan Stout, and another tract containing 5 acres of meadow at Conesconk [Conaskonck Point near Union Beach, NJ] adjoining his brother David Stout (East Jersey Deeds, Liber F, 1680-1698, p. 651-652).

    In his father Richard Stout’s will dated June 9, 1703 (Proven October 23, 1705), James Stout received a legacy of one shilling. On March 18, 1705, he purchased land from George Willocks. That same year, the Grand Jury of Middletown, New Jersey summoned Elizabeth Stout, the daughter of James Stout of Middletown, for having a bastard child by James Hid, late of Middletown. The jury ruled that she was to be fined £ 5 and costs, or be whipped ten lashes on her bare back. James Stout paid the fine for his daughter.

  James Stout and his wife ELIZABETH of Middletown conveyed land on April 6, 1706, and by August 11, 1707, they were residing in Freehold when they had another land transaction there. Stout and his wife were also living in Freehold, New Jersey when they sold land on May 8, 1711. In 1712, Elizabeth Stout of Freehold is listed as a member of the Baptist Church at Middletown. This may have been the wife of James Stout. On January 29, 1714, James Stout of Freehold, yeoman, and his wife Elizabeth conveyed to Thomas Williams of Freehold, for £ 250, the land which Stout had purchased from George Willocks in 1705. The land adjoined David Clayton, John Fraiser, and John Warford, and contained 11 acres with ½ acre of land reserved where John Clayton and his wife were buried (proven February 27, 1717) [Monmouth County, NJ Deed Book G, pp. 5-6]. On the same date, James Stout and his wife Elizabeth also sold 103 acres of land in Freehold, New Jersey to John Warford for the sum of £ 40. The land adjoined David Clayton, John Taylor, Samuel Layton, and Thomas Williams, and consisted of the tract where John Warford was then living. John Fraizer, Thomas Combs, and William Maddock witnessed the transaction (proven February 28, 1716) [Monmouth County, NJ Deed Book F, pp. 12-14]. This appears to be the last recorded reference to James Stout and his wife. Land records show that John Warford sold his 103 acres tract acquired from James Stout to David Clayton on April 2, 1717 (proven May 30, 1717) [Monmouth County, NJ Deed Book E, pp. 272-273]; likewise, Thomas Williams and his wife Mary sold the 11 acres tract purchased from Stout to David Clayton on May 12, 1720 (proven May 24, 1720) [Monmouth County, NJ Deed Book F, pp. 147-149].

  In summary, Elizabeth Stout, wife of James, was most likely NOT a Truax. Morgan Edwards' passage undoubtedly referred to the wife of Benjamin Stout's wife Agnes, but was misinterpreted by genealogist Herald F. Stout as referring to James Stout's wife. None of the principal sources before Herald Stout's publication in 1951 refer to Elizabeth, the wife of James Stout, as being a member of the Truax family. Nathan Stout in his 1823 family history stated that he did not know the family into which James Stout married. Likewise, John Edwin Stillwell, an expert genealogist and historian, identified her merely as Elizabeth. Even Herald F. Stout did not designate her as such until 1951, as his earlier 1935 publication does not supply a maiden name. There are simply no primary source documents to provide us with Elizabeth’s identity. In spite of this, the identification of Elizabeth Stout as a Truax has unfortunately been accepted as unquestioned fact by almost every researcher. Issue:

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