| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Twelfth Generation3372. Richard STOUT was born in 1604 in Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire, London, England. He died circa 1704 at the age of 100 in Monmouth Co., NJ. Penelope VAN PRINCESS and Richard STOUT were married in 1644 in Gravesend, Kings Co., LI, NY. The following story is from "Past and Present of the City of Springfield and Sangamon County Illinois" By Joseph Wallace, M. A. of the Springfield Bar "PHILEMON STOUT. - The student of history can not carry his investigations far into the annals of Sangamon county without learning of the prominent part the Stout family has played in public affairs here and,moreover, the ancestors of our subject have taken an active and helpful part in the development of other sections of the country. Mr. Stout is descended from an early family of New Jersey and in the pioneer history of the family in America are found elements of pathos, tragedy and romance. During the seventeenth century a young couple were married in Holland and embarked on a vessel bound for the new world. The voyage proved a happy and safe one until they neared the port of New Amsterdam in New York, when a storm arose and the vessel was wrecked off the coast of New Jersey. Nearly all on board were drowned, but the young Hollander and his bride together with a small number of others succeeded in reaching the shore and there again had to face death. They were attacked by the Indians and the entire party were tomahawked and left for dead. The young wife, however, survived, although scalped and otherwise mangled. She had sufficient strength to crawl from the scene of the murder and secreted herself in a hollow log concealed by the underbrush. There she lay for a day or two, suffering untold mental and physical anguish. Realizing that she would die of hunger and thirst if she remained there much longer, and feeling that that death would be no better than death at the hands of the savages, she resolved to try to make an escape rather than face starvation, so dragged herself out to an open space. She saw three Indians on the trail. She felt thatthey were near because a deer had just passed with an arrow sticking in its body. Two of the red men rushed upon her with uplifted tomahawks, but the third, a chief, restrained them. He took Mrs. Stout to New Amsterdam, and she was then placed in the hands of friends who gave her proper surgical treatment and nursing. The name of her first husband was not known. Her maiden name,however, was Penelope Van Princess. After her recovery she became acquainted with and married an Englishman by the name of Richard Stout. They removed to New Jersey, where they established a home and reared their family, numbering eleven sons. Mrs. Penelope Stout reached the remarkable age of one hundred and eleven years and at the time of her death her posterity numbered four hundred and seven." 3373. Penelope VAN PRINCESS was born in 1622 in Noord, Amsterdam, Holland. She died in 1712 at the age of 90 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ. Penelope Kent Thomson Lent Von Printzen Prncis. Children were:
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