
Gravesend was founded in 1645 by Lady Deborah Moody who led a group of religious dissenters fleeing persecution, in the Dutch colony of New Netherland. The people from Gravesend were granted religious freedom, which was unusual for that period. Lady Moody was the only woman to found a colonial settlement in early North America. She was the first female landowner in the New World. Lady Deborah h...
The purpose of this group is to trace and document the descendants of Richard E. Stout, Sr. and Penelope Van Princis Stout, The Mother of Middletown, New Jersey, through shared genealogy research.