Jonathan Stout

Jonathan Stout

• Birth: 1660 - Gravesend, Kings County, New York
• Death: 11-24-1722- Hopewell -Hunterdon County, New Jersey
• Son of Richard Stout, of Monmouth and Penelope van Princis
• Husband of Anna Bollen

The first white man in Hopewell was Jonathan Stout, who in 1685 explored the wilderness from his parent's home in Middletown, lived several years at Wissamonson with the Indians, then returned home.

“The History of the Stout Family, First Settling in Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey.” By Nathan Stout, 1823 . Second printing by H.G. McCarter, "Herald" Office, Hopewell, N.J., 1878 with
additions by Mrs. Sarah Weart, Third printing in 1906 by Joab B. Stout, with additions and corrections. Fourth printing in 1929 by George A. Chandler, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. < link >

I shall now introduce Jonathan Stout, the third son of Richard the first. He married a woman of the name of Bullen, and moved to Hopewell, in Hunterdon County, by whom he had six sons and three daughters, viz:

1. Joseph, born in the year 1686; Husband of Ruth (Brinson)
2. Jonathan, born in 1701; Husband of Mary (Leigh)
3. Zebulon, born 1699; Husband of Charity (Burrows)
4. Benjamin, born 1696; Husband of Hannah (Bonham)
5. Samuel, born 1709; Husband of Catherine (Simpson), Husband of Neeltjen de Wit
6. David, born 1706; Husband of Elizabeth (Larrison)
7. Sarah, Wife of Andrew Smith Jr.
8. Hannah, Wife of Jediah Higgins Jr.
9. Anne, (Anna), Wife of Nehemiah Bonham

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Joseph, Sarah, Benjamin, Hannah, David and Zebulon Stout are said to have been taken to Pennsylvania for baptism, while Samuel, Jonathan and Ann Stout were baptized in Hopewell, but their names are not in the church baptism registers.[5]

Jonathan Stout of Hopewell, Hunterdon County, yeoman, made his will November 24 1722. It was proved March 25 1723. According to published abstracts of his will, he mentioned his nine children, but apparently not his wife. In addition to extensive real estate, he left personal estate valued at £362.2.10-3/4. The inventory of his personal estate included a clock, two negro girls, and one negro man.[6][7][8]

Jonathan was the Captain of the "Melitia". He organized the Baptist Church at Columbia Village. He lived in New Jersey and was a slaveholder. When he died in 1722, he left an estate of $2,500. (Monmouth, New Jersey Wills).

The children of Jonathan and Anna Stout: Joseph, Sarah, Benjamin, Zebulon, Jonathan, Anne, David, Samuel.

He died at age 60.,

Information from Roy Dodge.

Jonathan sometimes referred to as "Capt".

The marriage of Jonathan Stout and Anna Bollen and the births of their first four children are recorded in the First Town Book of Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey (p. 71):

August ye 27 1685

Jonathan Stout and annah bollen were lawfully marryed in middletowne

Jonathan Stouts childrens agees

Joseph Stout was born the 25 of October 1686

Sarah Stout was born September ye 10 1689

beniamen Stout was born desember ye 14 1691

hanna Stout was born march 29 1694

The deaths of Sarah (Stout) Smith (d. July 12, 1761) and her husband Andrew Smith (d. March 21, 1767 – appears in record as 1762, but based on the probate of his will, 1767 was intended), as well as Joseph Stout (d.. October 19, 1766), are recorded in the bible of their younger brother Samuel Stout (b. March 9, 1708/9). An abstract of this bible is published in “Bible Records, Hopewell, New Jersey, 1945” (pp. 95-97). Copies of the bible can be obtained from the Hopewell Museum, Hopewell, New Jersey.

When the Baptist Church in Columbia Village, Hopewell Township, NJ was organized in 1715, Jonathan and his family accounted for 13 of the 15 members. The church was held at Jonathan's home and then at other Stout homes for about 41 years. From first to last, half the members were Stouts - 200 of that name being added in those 41 years - besides all the Stout family members with other surnames. The two deacons and four elders in the first church building were Stouts . Zebulon and David (grandsons of Richard Stout through Jonathan Stout) were two of it's main pillars. David lived to see 117 offspring.

Jonathan Stout, the Hopewell pioneer, died in 1723, and in his will proved March 25, 1723, he bequeathed to his two youngest sons, Samuel and David, (who were at that time aged 14 and 17 respectively) the tract on which Jonathan resided at the time of his death. This was the tract lying south of the Col. Joseph Stout farm, now George E. Weart's, and extended south about one mile along the Province line, and west to the mountain road. This tract now includes the farms of P. W. Sheppard, Harry Van Dyke, David Moore, Miss Sarah Stout, Peter O. Voorhees, and the northern half at least of the David Stout and Amos Bond farms. The will states that these two sons were left "one full equal undivided sixteenth part of a proprietary," and one standing on the hill near Mr. George E. Weart's dwelling and viewing this whole tract spread out like a panorama at his feet can but exclaim in admiration, "What a magnificent inheritance was theirs!"

Son of Richard Stout and Penelope Van Princes (Van Prince, Prince). Husband of Anna Bollen.

One of their sons, Jonathan Stout (1660 - 1722), moved westward and helped establish the town of Hopewell, in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey. Several generations of Stouts followed in the Hopewell area, some of whom founded and were associated with the Hopewell Baptist Church and meeting place. The church building, established in 1715 and rebuilt in 1822, still stands as a historical site in Hopewell. (wdgordon.com, Stout Family History,)

Jonathan and Anna lived on a farm at Hopewell, south of Amwell township. Together with Nathan Drake, John Hart, and the Bowne Family, Jonathan helped establish the Baptist Church of Hopewell. For forty-one years the meetings were held at the home of Jonathan or at that of one of his children, before a meetinghouse was built in the early 1700's.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30650618

GEDCOM Note

Biography

Jonathan's father Richard Stout was an early English settler under Dutch rule in Gravesend, Brooklyn, Kings, western Long Island, ~1645-1657. Gravesend is now a neighborhood in south-central Brooklyn, along the shoreof Gravesend Bay and ConeyIsland. In 1609 Henry Hudson landed his ship the Half Moon thereat the island known by the natives as Narrioch (Coney Island). In1643 Gravesend then became one of the original towns founded in the Dutch colony of New Netherland when Governor Willem Kieft granted a land patent to the Anabaptist Lady Deborah Moody, as a site where that English sect could settle free from religious persecution. Clashes with the natives delayed the town for two more years, until December 19, 1645.

Jonathan Stout, son of Richard I and Penelope Kent Van Princin Stout, born 1665 in Gravesend, NJ and died November 24 1722. He married AnneBollen, daughter of James Bollen, Secretary of the Province, on August 27, 1685. Historical and genealogical miscellany : data relating to the settlement and settlers of New York and New Jersey, Stillwell, John Edwin, 1916 page 331 < Archive.Org >

They made their home at Hopewell, south of Amwell Township. Jonathan was one of the founders of the first Baptist Church in Hopewell. The meetings took place in the Stout home until the meetinghouse was builtin the early 1700's. <ref>Historical and genealogical miscellany : data relating to the settlement and settlers of New York and New Jersey,Stillwell, John Edwin, 1916 page 332 < Archive.Org >

Jonathan Stout made his will November 24 1722 and it was proved March 25 1723. In it he names the following children and the image on this profile identifies the birth order of the first four children:

1. Joseph b ot 25 1686
2. Sarah b Sep 10 1689
3. Benjamin b Dec 14 1691
4. Hannah b Mar 29 1694
5. Zebulon
6. Jonathan
7. Ann
8. David
9. Samuel.

Sources

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stout-1166
• "Calendar of New Jersey Wills", William Nelson, 1901, VolI (1670-1730), page 445 https://archive.org/stream/calendarofnewjer00newj#page/445/mode/1up...
• Pioneers of Old Hopewell: With Sketches of Her Revolutionary Heroes. Ralph Ege - January1, 1908 page 262 https://archive.org/stream/pioneersoldhope00egegoog#page/n271/mode/...
• Historical and genealogical miscellany : data relating to the settlement and settlers of New York and New Jersey,Stillwell, John Edwin, 1916 page 332 http://archive.org/stream/historicalgeneal04stil#page/332/mode/1up
• NJGS. "Stout: Jonathan Stout" njgsbc.org. Accessed 23 Jan 2017. http://njgsbc.org/indexes/bergen-county-families/
• Chester, Chris. "The Brouwer Genealogy Database." freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata. Accessed May 23, 2016. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/index... Jonathan Stout
• A General History of he Baptist Denomination in America, and other parts of the World Vol. 1; Benedict, David; 1813,page 571

Son of Richard Stout and Penelope Van Princes (Van Prince, Prince). Husband of Anna Bollen.

One of their sons, Jonathan Stout (1660 - 1722), moved westward and helped establish the town of Hopewell, in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey. Several generations of Stouts followed in the Hopewell area, some of whom founded and were associated with the Hopewell Baptist Church and meeting place. The church building, established in 1715 and rebuilt in 1822, still stands as a historical site in Hopewell. (wdgordon.com, Stout Family History,)

Jonathan and Anna lived on a farm at Hopewell, south of Amwell township. Together with Nathan Drake, John Hart, and the Bowne Family, Jonathan helped establish the Baptist Church of Hopewell. For forty-one years the meetings were held at the home of Jonathan or at that of one of his children, before a meetinghouse was built in the early 1700's.

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