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His grandfather, John L. White, was born at Ocean Beach, N. J., was a farmer, reared a family of children, and died there. One son, Richard, father of our subject, born in 1798 at Ocean Beach, was also a farmer. He was a man of sterling characteristics, and held positions of trust in his township. His first wife was Hannah Pearson, who died about 1832, leaving children,-John Pearson, Susan, and Ellen. His second wife, Latitia Conover, was a descendant of Wolfert Gerretson Von Covenhoven (now spelled Conover), who settled on Long Island in 1630 from Holland. She bore him children,-Lydia Ann, wife of L. B. Fox ; Susan, wife of Shipley W. Haines ; and William H. White. Richard White died in 1880. and his second wife died March 24, 1882. William H. White, youngest son of Richard and Latitia White, was born Aug. 27, 1845, on the homestead in Hamilton township, Mercer County, and has there, so far, spent his life, engaged in agricultural pursuits and dealing in real estate. In 1881 he began the manufacture of bone dust as a fertilizer, in partner- ship with Joseph Y. Dilatush, which business is not only successful, but the demand for their product in- creasing. Mr. White married, Oct. 16, 1873, Ella E., daughter of Samuel T. Duffell and Sarah B. Stiles, of Hamilton township. Their children are Richard Irving, Aileen Duffell, Samuel Jerrald, and William Norman and Ella Norra (twins). The latter died in infancy.
JOSEPH Y. DILATUSHI.
His father, Nahor, born in Washington township, Mercer County, died there in 1873, aged seventy-six years. His wife, Lydia McCabe, survives in 1882. Their children are Loretta, John, Lavinia, Enoch, Annie, Joseph Y., Edward, George, and Louise. Of these, Joseph Y. Dilatush, born in Jamesburg, Mid- dlesex Co., N. J., July 22, 1853, at the age of five years removed with his parents to Newtown, Mercer Co. He married, Dec. 20, 1875, Annie, daughter of John Ayres, of Hamilton township, who has borne him children,-Carrie Maud, died in infancy ; Robert Mortimer, and Mary Lavinia. The same year of his marriage Mr. Dilatush settled where he now resides, and owns one hundred and five acres of land. In 1879 he conceived the idea of manufacturing a land fertilizer from bones, and in a small way began the manufacture of bone dust on a small creek on his own ' farm, where for two years he successfully carried on this business. With a desire to increase his business and meet the increasing demand of this product he, in 1881, erected his present commodious mill, which has a capacity of ten tons per day. This business has increased one-half within the past six months, and Mr. Dilatush, as its founder, sees promise of a large and lucrative manufacturing interest.
CHAPTER LXVHIL
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP.
Situation and Boundaries .- This is by consider- able the largest township in the county. Historically. it is perhaps the most important.
Descriptive .- Hopewell contains an area of thirty- six thousand nine hundred and ninety acres, mostly in improved farms. The surface in the northern part is hilly. The southern portion is level and fertile. In the western part is a small elevation known as Beile Mount.
The general worth and enterprise of the inhabitants of Hopewell tends greatly towards its development and progress.
Settlement .- The early history of this township is so ably and so succinctly stated by Rev. George Hall, D.D., that it is deemed best to reproduce here what he has written.
The Survey of the Township .- Sir George Car- teret sold out his right in the part (of New Jersey) which subsequently bore the name of West Jersey to John Fenwick, as trustee for Edward Billinge and others. This section having been divided into one hundred parts and distributed among the proprietors, the tract called the thirty thousand acres above the Falls of the Delaware fell to the lot of Thomas Sadler and Edward Billinge, who, on the 20th of October, 1685, sold out their title and interest to Dr. Daniel Cox, of London. This is the original township of Hopewell, the first accurate survey of which extant is to be found in the Book of Surveys, page 103, in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, having the marginal note, " Resurvey of Hopeweil tract for Col. Cox. 31,000. By Daniel Leeds."
The Purchase from the Indians .- It may be in- teresting to know that there is every reason to believe that the land in this region was fairly purchased of the Indians. We have here a copy of the deed from the Indian chiefs to Adlord Bowde, agent of Dr. Daniel Coxe, as follows :
" To all people to whom this present writing shall come, Hoham Teplaopamon, Mehakigline, Capernonickon, Nahusing, Mehkaekan, and Shawonne, Indian Sachimachers and owners of the following tracts of land in the Province of West Jersey, send greeting,
" Know ye that the said Indiau Sachimachers and owners of the Tract of land hereinafter mentioned for and in consideration of one hundred fathoms of wampum, Tenne stript Dutch Dufhelds, Tenne broad stenwel- water matchroles sixty matchroles, Thirty Gunus, Twenty Kittles, Twenty shirts, ffoity pair of stockings, Eighty Hatchetts, two half Anchors of powder, one hundred knives, one hundred and twenty barres of lead, sixty pounds of shott, one Anchor of Runne, Two Barrels of Beere, Three pounds of Readlead, Three hundred pipes, Three hundred needles, and Three Anchors of tobacco, by Adlord Bowde now of Burlington, nifchant and within ye Province of West Jersey aforest at and before the sealing and delivery hereof for and on the behalfe of Daniel Coxe, Esqr Gov:nor of the said Province to them the said Indian Sachimachers and owners in hand paid whereof and wherewith they dve hereby ackaowi- edge themselves fully contented's satisfy'd. Have granted bargidned and sold, alyened, enfeofled and confirmed, and by these presents do fully clearly and absolutly grant bargain and sell, aleyn, enfeoffe and confirm unto the said Adlord Bowde, for and to the only proper nise & behoofe of the eaid Daniel Coxe and his ileirs & Assigns forever, All that and those
W. H. Muito
Joseph Of Lilaturk
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP.
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tract and tracts of land beginning at a white oak markt on foner sides being on the Sonth South west side of Shabbicunck Creek by the road- side leading to New York three miles from the Delaware River or three miles from Ilugh Stannylands, from thence running north by the land of Thomas Budd to a white poplar and a Beeche tree upon the head of Shabbienneke creek on fouer -kles and from thence to a small hickory standing by a black oak markt by the line of Thomas Bndd aforesaid, from thence to a gomme tree standing by the side of Stony Brook by a lyne tree, from thence along the line of Thomas Budd aforesaid to a line of markt trees running west north west to one white and one black oake marked on foner sides a little above Menapenassou, and from theuce by a direct line west and by north to the month of a creek called Laocoton running into Dellaware River abont Atecokin's wigwam, and soe to run down the side of Dellaware river to a line of markt trees lying two miles above the falls mill, and from thence running East to the white oake ou the south west side of Shabbacuuke Creeke aforesaid. And also all and every the mines mineralls woods flishings hawkings hontings and fowl- ings. And all & every the Rivers, Rivuletts, Creekes, Isles. 1>lands, Lakes, Pouds, Marshes, Swamps. Meadows, ffeedings, Pasturings, profitts, com- modities & appurtenances whatsoever to the said granted tracts of land or any part thereof belonging or in any wise appertaining. And also all the estate, Right, tytle, Interest possession, pperty, claim and demand whatsoever of them the said Indian Sachimachers & owners or any of them in Lawe & Equity & either of them of in or into the said grauted prmises or any pte or psel thereof, and the reversion & reversions, Re- maindr and Remaind's of the same and every pte thereof. To have & to hold to the said Adlord Bowde his Ileirs & Assigns forever.
" And the said Indian Sachimachers and owners doe for themselves and every of them & for their and every of their Heires & successors, covenant promise and agree to and with the said Adlord Bowde his heirs & Assignees by these presents. That it shall & may be lawful to and for the said Daniel Coxe his heirs & Assigns forever hereafter peaceably & 1 quietly to have hold and enjoy the said granted & bargained tracts of - land & every pte & pcel thereof to & for the uses aforesaid without any . lawfull lett molestation or disturbance of them the said Indian Sachi- machers & owners or any of them or of their Heirs or successors or of from or by any other prson or prsons whatsoever clayming or which shall or may clayme any estate Right, title, Interest, Inheritance or pperty of in or out of the said granted & bargained premises or any pte or pcell thereof by from or under them or any of them or by or through their or any of their meanes, assent consent tytle, privity penrement.
"In witness whereof the said Indian Sachimachers and owners have hereunto sett their hands & affixed their seals (according to the English Anot), the Thirtieth day of the month called March in the year one thousand six hundred and Eighty Eight Annoque R. R. Jacobi Sedi Angt & Quarter.
"Signed, Sealed & delivered in ye prsence of
"Thomas Budd,
" Iloham,
"Henry Greenland,
"Teplaopamun,
" Thomas Bowman,
" Meroppe,
" Willm Biddle, Jon',
" Wewernoling,
" John Wills, Interpreter.
" Lommusecon,
" Pluze, .
200
John Coe.
40
Ezekel Oleno.
300
Charles Iluft
100
William Larason
160
John Titus
Efron Titus. 100
Ralph Hunt stone brock 100
John Hunt yoreng. 100
Elisha Bord 40
Elnathan Bouhler. 100
Thomas Reede.
John Hart
200
Frederick Debough
Samuel Hunt 200
John Ilunt. 200
Edward lait. ـرات
Isaac llerren 260
Thomas Merel 100
Peter Ringo .. 50
William Coruel
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" 9716 in Maidenhead,
within the branches of the Shabbakunk.
Col. Wm Ilallet of the 30,000 acres 1000 acres July last 1697.
Joseph Sacket 300 acres Do, near Samnel llunts.
Roger Parke 400 " Do. April 1607 at
Wissamenson, north side of Stony Brook.
Anne Parke 100 acres adjoining.
Andrew Smith for bis sou Thos. Smith, Ap. 1697.
100 acres above Roger Parkes.
Andrew Smith 200 acres more for his son Tho', Smith, Ap. 1697.
Jolin Parke 300 acres near Tho'. Twiggse. Feb. 27, 1696.
John Rue 200 " Feb. 17, 1699.
Johannes Lawrenson 1050 acres July 12, 1697.
Edward Burrows 200 acres Nov. 7, 1699.
Andrew Smith 200 acres May 20, 1688.
in which Deed the tract is called Hopewell.
Hopewell's Tax-Payers in 1722 .- Previous to cer- tain ejectment suits, and shortly after the settling of the boundary between Trenton and Hopewell, and when Hunterdon County embraced the five townships of Hanover, Amwell, Maidenhead, Trenton, and Hopewell, in 1722, we have a roll of one hundred and thirty-eight men subject to taxation, sixteen of whom were single men. There were, besides eleven slaves, seven hundred and eighty-seven sheep. There were two mills, that were owned by Philip Ringo, now Moor's mill, and the other owned by Cornelius Ander- son, in the southwestern corner of Hopewell.
The number of acres of land then in possession was sixteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-five. The tax-list is as follows :
Acres.
Acres.
1Ine Standland. 50
-
Samuel Fitch 200
Thomas Smith. 200
Jolin Everit. 100
Richard Arnal .. 50
Nicolas Ilagerle. 130
Samuel Furman. Jr ... ... 50
Joshaway Ward
Jonathan Furman ..
50
Eldad Davis 100
Johu Feald
200
Abraham Laru
50
Roger Parke, Sr. .....
James Laru. 300 50 : John Park
Peter Laru
50
John Reede ... 240
Thomas Woacer.
200
William Whited
Joseph Longlee.
Samuel Furman, Sr 100
Ely Allbado 200
John Capender
Joshna Ely 200
Frances Fonnoy ..
150
Richard Smith 100
Robert shaw
140)
Joses Lombard .....
Timothy Titus.
200
Joseph Stont .. 23:1
Thomas Roberds 40 Ilezekiah Bonel. 10 William Reede.
Joseph IIntf.
James Evanse .. 200
Robert Maclelean 100
Jolin Johnson 100
Roger Woolverton
Andrew Millburne,
Robard Black well 250
Enoch Armitage ... 250
Ralph Hunt 300
Thomas lluf.
Henere Hendrix 100
Jeremiah Hendrix.
Peter llendrix .....
Addon Bratten 50
Jonathan Stickler, Jr ... Joseph llart.
John Smith
166
William Merrel Juner.
130
Ilezekiah Bonham Jr.
150
Philip Ringo ... 50
Benjamin Drack 200
.Joshua Andrus June
: Aran funhuck 200
Tunus Huff 50
Andrew Routten hors. 110
Danel Deno ...
Samuel Runyonn. 50
Jemse Ilide .. 200
Danel Grano. 100 100
Jeise Terrel
Calap Carmanı ..
Andru Smith
500
Benjamin Merel ..
Nehemiah Bonham .... 150
Jabes Jarvis 100
Joseph Davis ..
...
William luif. 500)
William Briant Stone bruk. 300
Edward Butler.
Cornelis Andrus sun 134
Samuel Everit. 100
Joseph Reeder 200
....
John Allbado
Sanmel Bouldwin.
500
Frances Ilege.
600
Cornelius Allbado.
150
Isaak Asstall Thomas Combs 140
David Stout ... 250
Thomas Evans 100
Thomas Curtes. 150
William Brient, Sr. 100
Jonathan Sticklin Senor.
Ilenery Ieldren ...
John Bennett.
" Meheekissne,
" Copenakoniskon,
" Nehnoing,
" Neheekan,
" Shawsuna."
Purchases from the West Jersey Society .- Public records show that the following tracts of land were taken under the title of the West Jersey So- ciety, Thomas Revell, agent :
John Lee 250 of the 30,000 acres, Feb. 20, 1693-4.
Jolin Sinith 300 of Do. June 15, 1696.
Edward Hunt 12216 Do. May 21, 1606.
Steven Geano 50
Joseph Combs.
...
William Merel, Sener 300
John lickson.
William Larance.
200
Ilenery Oxly 214)
Ananies Olen .. 350
Barth Corvine. 100
Johannes flendrick 149
John Sharp ...
Thomas Runyon. 150
Viencien Runyon.
Robert Darck
Roger Parke, Jr 200
John Framton. 100
John MMurched.
...
Nathaniel Moore ..
Andru Foster
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HISTORY OF MERCER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.
Acres.
Acres.
William Miller. 120
William Lin. 200
Joseph Reed sener
Joseph Na-tet
Thomas Finne ..
Nicolas Roberds
Joseph Reede Jr.
James Me!ven ...
500 .
Thomas Burrus 297
SOME OF THE PIONEERS .- May 20, 1688, Corne- lius Empson, of Brandywine Creek, sold to Andrew Smithi two hundred acres, which tract, the deed says, he, the said Empson, "doth enfeoff and confirm unto the said Andrew Smith, heretofore laid forth in the county of Burlington aforesaid, and also settle upon, and by him the said Andrew Smith called and to be called Hopewell." This two-hundred-acre traet is probably the homestead uear Harbortown. Andrew Smith was a professional surveyor) as was also his son Timothy), and this would be reason sufficient for the adoption of a name suggested by him. He had three sons,-Andrew, Jonathan, and Timothy.
THOMAS BURROWES, son of Edward Burrowes, of Jamaiea, L. I., owned the three farms now oceupied by his descendant, Stephen B. Smith, the heirs of Aaron HI. Burroughs. and the Messrs. Craft, land bought on the 17th of November, 1699. He had five sous,-Edward, Thomas, Stephen, Eden, and John, -and two daughters, Hannah and Charity, the wife of Zebulon Stout. He died a short time previous to Dee. 15, 1764.
ELNATHAN BALDWIN, probably from Hempstead, L. I., married Keziah, daughter of the Rev. John Prudden, of Newark, sister of Mrs. Joanna Moore, lived below Pennington, near the turnpike gate. In his will, executed Dec. 6, 1738, he mentions five sons,-Stephen, Moses, Thomas, Joseph, and El- nathan, and daughter, Ruth Burt.
The farm of Edward Hart is that now owned by the Temple family, on the Hopewell and Ewing turn- pike. His son John was baptized in the church at Maidenhead by the Rev. Jedediah Andrews, of Phil- adelphia, on the 12th month, 21st day, 1713, old style, corresponding to Feb. 10, 1714, new style. This John became a representative of the Provincial Legislature of New Jersey, a member of the Com- mittee of Safety, a member of the Continental Con- gress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independ- ence. As his will was executed April 16, 1779, and approved May 26, 1779, the time of his death is nearly ascertained, which was probably in the sixty-sixth year of his age. He was originally buried in the private burying-ground of the Hunt family, but was `a few years since removed to the cemetery of the Hopewell Baptist Church. On the oceasion of dedi- cating the monument erected to his memory, on the 4th of July, 1864, Governor Joel Parker, of this State, delivered an oration before a large assembly. He spent the latter part of his life on his farm adjoining the Baptist Church, now the property of Moore Phil- lips. He gave the ground on which that meeting- house was built. John Hart's children were Jesse, Nathaniel, Edward, Sarah Wikoff, and Deborah.
Edward Hart had a daughter Sarah, who fir -! married Timothy Temple, and after his death became the second wife of Stephen Burrowes, Sr., and mother of Maj. Stephen Burrowes.
GEORGE WOOLSEY came from Jamaica. L. I .. about 1700, and settled " on the north side of the road lead- ing from Maidenhead to the Delaware River, over against Thomas Burrowes." His grandfather, George Woolsey, came to Manhattan Island in 1635, and lived among the Dutch, and removed thence to Jamaica. L. I., in 1665, and had three sons,-Capt. George. Thomas, and John. It was George, the son of Capt. George, who settled in Hopewell. His children were Daniel, Jeremiah, Henry, and Joseph and Jemima, wife of Ralph Hart, and mother of Dr. Noah Hart, and of his sisters, Jerusha, Hannah, and Elizabeth.
I. Dauiel had a son Benjamin, who lived in Tren- ton, and was the father of a son and daughter, -Henry and Naucy.
II. Henry lived in Peunington, south of the church- yard; married Martha, daughter of Ephraim Titu> : and granddaughter of Enoch Armitage, and had only one ehild, Martha, wife of Philip Vancleve, of Lawrence.
III. Joseph married a Montgomery and removed to Maryland.
IV. Jeremiah married Mary, daughter of Joseph Hart, Dec. 15, 1753, and had the following children : Hannah, born April 27, 1755 ; Ephraim, born March 6, 1757 ; Mary, wife of Louis Perrine, of Freehold. born July 27, 1759; Jemima, born Ang. 28, 1761; Susannah, born Dee. 4, 1763; aud Jeremiah, born June 16, 1769.
George Woolsey's will was proved Mareh 11, 1762, and the will of his son Jeremiah was proved May 2, 1801; he died April 14, 1801. Ephraim succeeded his father, Jeremiah, in the ownership of the home- stead ; married Ann Johnson, of Bucks County, Pa., and had the following children : George, the present owner of the old homestead; Ephraim. father of Capt. Henry Harrison Woolsey, who lost his life be- fore Petersburg, Va., in the late war; Hannah, wife of Deaeon Andrew Titus and mother of the ruling elder, William J. Titus; Mary, wife of Philemon Blackwell, and Eliza.
Dr. Jeremiah Woolsey, son of Jeremiah, graduated at the College of New Jersey, 1787, and married a Montgomery.
" Deacon" George Woolsey served three years as a member of the Legislative Council of New Jersey. Like the Woolseys, of Hopewell, President Theodore D. Woolsey, of Yale College, is a descendant of the first George Woolsey here mentioned.
NATHANIEL MOORE came from Newtown, L. I., and took up land about 170S. He married Joanna, daughter of the Rev. John Prudden, and lived where his lineal descendant, Mrs. Hannah Moore, recently dicd. He died Sept. 6, 1759, in the seventy- I second year of his age. His children were Jobn,
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Jorge Wolse ... 200
David Price
819
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP.
Joseph, Samuel, Benjamin, Abigail, wife of her cousin, Sackett Moore, and Sarah, wife of Abraham Temple. The descendants of these have been nu- merous and some of them prominent.
JOHN MUIRHEID was born in Glasgow, Scotland, married Rebekah Bailey, of Jamaica, L. I., Nov. 22, 1706, and settled here about that time on the farm now owned by Henry B. Perrine, one mile below Pennington. He died in January, 1725, and the widow died Dec. 25, 1759. Both are buried side by side in the Ewing churchyard. Their children were Jane, George, John, William, Andrew, Rebekah, Ruth, and Elizabeth.
Mr. Muirheid was the first high sheriff of the county of Hunterdon. The first jail of the county was built of logs, and stood not far from Mr. Muir- heid's dwelling. A descendant of Mr. Muirheid, of the fifth generation, bearing his name, John, was not long since sheriff of Mercer County. Jane, wife of Edward Burrowes, through the marriage of her daughter Catharine with Jesse Atchley, became the ancestor of all the Atchleys of this region. Andrew married Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Waters. Their children were: 1, John, born Oct. 18, 1750; 2, Deborah, born March 20, 1753; 3, Jonathan, born May 7, 1755; 4, William, born Oct. 18, 1757; 5, Re- bekah, born Feb. 8, 1759; 6, George, born June 25, 1760; 7, Andrew, born Dec. 7, 1764, who married Hannah, daughter of John Stevenson. Jonathan, . the son of Andrew, married Mary Lott and had chil- dren,-John, Andrew, William, Elizabeth, wife of William Beakes, Mary, wife of James Disborough, Ann, wife of George Schenck, and Rebecca, wife of George McDowell. Jonathan Muirheid died Nov. 2, 1837, and Mary, his wife, died July 30, 1817, in her fifty-seventh year. George Muirheid was married to Clrarity, daughter of the Rev. John Guild, June 9, 1788, and their children were: 1, John Guild, who by his wife, Elizabeth Howell, had eleven children,
five only of whom, Charles H., John Guild, William : Jonathan Stout, a son of Richard and Penelope, was Harrison, and two daughters, survive. The patriotic devotion of Charity, wife of John Ogden, and the gallant conduct of Gen. Henry P. Muirheid, of the Rush Lancers, in the late war are held in cherished remembrance by the people of this township. 2, Benjamin, who by his wife, Sarah Howell, had chil- dren, of whom two sons, John and William B., and two daughters survive. 3, Deborah, wife of Jesse M. Howell, and mother of Rev. Jesse L. Howell and sev- eral daughters. 4, William. 5, George. 6, Elizabeth, wife of George Woolsey, and mother of Theodore F. Woolsey and three daughters, now living.
Jan. 4, 1745, Andrew Muirheid bought of Joseph Furman the farm near Harborton, which has been the homestead of the Muirheid family one hundred and forty-two years.
ABRAHAM TEMPLE lived on the farm more recently owned by the late Isaac Primmer, and there lies buried. He married Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel
Moore, Sr., and had daughters Sarah and Joanna, and sons Benjamin and Timothy. Timothy married Sarah, sister of Hon. John Hart, and had John and Nathaniel. John married a daughter of his uncle Benjamin, and had Asher, Timothy, William, and Sarah, wife of Asher R. Hart. Nathaniel married twice, had a son John, a daughter who married her cousin, William Temple, and another daughter, wife of Benjamin Hendrickson. John, the son of Na- thaniel, lived and died in Trenton ; had a son, Wil- liam H .. who, by his marriage with Elizabeth Me- Clellan, became the father of the Rev. Asher Brown Temple, of Seneca, N. Y.
In 1790 some of the Stout family published a small pamphlet containing an interesting account of the family, from which the following extract is made :
" Penelope Vanprinces was born in Amsterdam about the year 1602. She and her first linshand, whose name is not known, sailed for New York (then New Amsterdam) about the year 1620. The vessel was stranded at Sandy Hook, and the crew got ashore and went towards New York, but the husband of Penelope being hurt in the wreck could not travel with them, and they both tarried in the woods. They had not been loug left before the Indians came upon them and killed them, as they thought, and stripped them of their garments. However, Pene- lope revived, although hier skull was fractured and her left shoulder so injured that she was never able to use it like the other; besides, she was so cut across the body that her bowels protruded, and she was obliged to keep her hand upou the wound. In this situation she con- tinned for seven days, taking shelter in a hollow tree and living on what she picked from off the trees. On the seventh day she saw a doer pass with arrows sticking in it, and soon after appeared two Indians, whom she was glad to see, hoping that they would put her out of her mirery. Accordingly, one made towards her to knock her in the head, but the other, who was an elderly man, prevented him, and throwing his watch- coat about her took her to his wigwam and cured her of her wounds. Afterwards he took her to New York and presented her to her country- men, expecting, no doubt, a present in return. It was in New York that Richard Stout married her, in her twenty-second year. He was an Englishiman, of a good family, and in his fortieth year. They had sev- eral children, and Mrs. Stout lived to the remarkable age of one hun- dred and ten years, and saw her offspring multiplied to five hundred and two in about eighty-eight years."
In 1704 three families of Stouts and others moved from Middletown to the northern part of Hopewell. the head of one of these families, and the founder of the Baptist Church in Hopewell, his family furnish- ing eight of its original fifteen members. Joseph Stout, a son of Jonathan, was one of the first mem- bers of the General Assembly from Hunterdon County.
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