Freegift Stout, Sr

AKA Staught

Freegift Stout - was born in 1693 in Clover Hill, Hunterdon Co, NJ. Parents: David Stout and Rebecca Ashton. Freegift married Mary Higgins.

Six sons and four daughters, vix: Jediah, Freegift, James, Joshua, Obediah, Isaac, Sarah, Mary Rebecca and Rachel. Freegift (Jr.) married Elziabeth Stout, the daughter of David Stout, son of Jonathan (Stout).

Freegift Jr. was named trustee for his sister Mary, in his Mother Mary's will in 1770

iRachel Stout was born on 28 Sep 1738 in Clover Hill, Hunterdon Co, NJ and died on 29 Mar 1845 in Amwell, Hunterdon Co, NJ. m. Richard Rounseval.

Weblinks:

http://www.renderplus.com/hartgen/htm/stout.htm#name7565

Note: A Freegift Stout was on the Expedition with Zebulon Pike in 1806. Zebulon was Freegift's Aunt Sarah's great-great-grandson, but we have not found any information linking the Freegift Stout on Zebulon Pike's expedition to the Freegift Stout, or his son, Freegift Stout, Jr.

email from Ginger Bish Sep 2007

Freegift Stout, Sr. married Mary Higgins: Daughter Rebecca Stout Rebecca Stout married Edward Taylor: Son Freegift Taylor Freegift Taylor married Sarah Pierce: Daughter Rebecca Taylor Rebecca Taylor married Samuel Sooy: Son Jonathan Sooy Jonathan Sooy married Rachel Wood: Son Abel Sooy Abel Sooy married Viola Everheart: Son Ray Sooy Ray Sooy married Myrtle Jeffers: Son Arthur Sooy Arthur Sooy married Greta Cram: Daughter Ginger Sooy

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Birth: 1693
Death: Jun. 29, 1769

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Parents:

 David Stout (1667 - 1732)

 Rebecca Ashton Stout (1672 - 1725)

Spouse:

 Mary Higgins Stout (1698 - 1773)*

Children:

 Sarah Higgins Stout Oliphant (1725 - 1768)*

 Mary Stout Chamberlain (1726 - ____)*

 Isaac Stout (1740 - 1823)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Stout-Manners Cemetery Ringoes Hunterdon County New Jersey, USA

Created by: Carrie Johnson Record added: Apr 12, 2003 Find A Grave Memorial# 7350252

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Freegift Stout Sr
Born 1693 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jerseymap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of David Stout and Rebecca (Ashton) Stout
Brother of Sarah Stout, Rebecca (Stout) Manners, James Stout I, David Stout, Joseph Stout Sr, Deliverance (Stout) Labaw and Benjamin Stout
Husband of Mary (Higgins) Stout — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Jediah Stout, Rebecca (Stout) Taylor, Freegift Stout Jr., Sarah Higgins (Stout) Oliphant, Mary (Stout) Chamberlain, James Stout, Joshua Stout, Obadiah Stout Sr, Rachel (Stout) Godown and Isaac Stout
Died before 2 Aug 1769 before age 76 in Amwell, Hunterdon, New Jerseymap
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Biography

Freegift Stout, son of David and Rebecca Ashton Stout, was born 1693, died before August 2 1769 and is buried in the Stout-Manners Cemetery.[1]The will was written June 9 1763, two codicils added dated (1) May 18 1766, (2) July 10 1768 and proved August 2 1769.[2] He married Mary Higgins, daughter of Jediah and Mary Newbold Higgins, born January 24 1698 and died April 11, 1773, and they lived in Clover Hill, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.[3]

They were the parents of as named in his will (cited above):[4]

Jediah m Philena Chamberlain
Freegift II m Elizabeth Stout, daughter of David and Elizabeth Larrison Stout
James b 1764, m (1) daughter of Jacob Mattison (2) Rachel Higgins
Joshua m Miss Haines
Obadiah m Mary McBride
Isaac bapt 1740, m Mary Quimby
Sarah b 1869 m Ephriam Oliphant
Mary m Richard Chamberlain
Rebecca m Edward Taylor
Rachel m Richard Rounsavell.[5]
They lived in Clover Hill, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. About 1734 Freegift Stout purchased part of John Bacon's property in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.[6]

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Find A Grave: Memorial #7350252 Headstone photo by Tony Kaney
↑ Created by: Carrie Johnson; Record added: Apr 12, 2003; Find A Grave Memorial# 7350252 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7350252/freegift-stout
↑ Honeyman, A. Van Doren. Calendar of New Jersey wills, administrations, etc. Vol IV 1761-1770. Somerville, N. J. The Unionist-Gazette Association, Printers:1928. page 413 https://archive.org/stream/calendarofnewjer03newj#page/413/mode/1up
↑ Stillwell, John E. Historical and genealogical miscellany (New York, 1903) Vol. IV, page 348 ff. http://archive.org/stream/historicalgeneal04stil#page/348/mode/1up
↑ Mrs Katherine Chapin Higgins. Richard Higgins. Worcester, Mass. K. C. Higgins:1918, Page 61. https://archive.org/stream/richardhigginsre00higg#page/61/mode/1up
↑ Stout, Nathan The History of the Stout Family: First Settling in Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey n.p., 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.) Page 25. Transcript accessed at https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/58243-the-h...
↑ New Netherland Connections. Dorothy A. Koenig, Editor. 2009, Vol. 15, No.1, p.20.