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NUMBER FIVE

SOME

ALLIED FAMILIES

OF

KENT COUNTY, DELAWARE

[No. 5]
THE STOUT FAMILY
OF
DELAWARE: WITH
The Story of Penelope Stout.

Compiled and Published
by
THOMAS HALE STREETS

PHILADELPHIA, PA.
• 1915

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PREFACE.
"The Stobt of Penelope Stout" is a fit intro
duction to any history of the Stout family; in fact,
it would not be complete without it. This story was
published privately several years ago as a brochure,
when I first began the study of the Stout Family of
Delaware, and became interested in its antecedents.
It is republished here A^dth additions and alterations.
I have been at considerable pains in verifying the
legend by official contemporary documents and by
local history, and find that it agrees more Avith facts
than is usually the case with family traditions.
The Stout Family of Delaware is properly one of
the series of "Allied Families," inasmuch as most of
those in Delaware, of recent years, were descendants
of Mary Grifiin.
Thomas Hale Streets,
Medical Director, U. S. Navy, Retired.
Wyncote, Pa., 14th Mat, 1915.

THE STORY OF PENELOPE STOUT.
The story of Penelope Stout — one of those thrilling
stories of capture by and of rescue from the Indians,
which were so often associated with the early settle
ments of our country — has been preserved in the mem
ory of her numerous ojEfspring, wherever found, for more
than two hundred and fifty years. It reads more
like romance than reality. The marriage of Penelope
Stout serves as a date for the beginning of Dutch and
Enghsh history in East Jersey, and no account of the
first settlement of Monmouth county would be com
plete with her story left out. I propose to show that
much of the legend is capable of verification by the
undisputed events of history and by the records of
the county courts.
Probably the earliest historian to refer to the story
was Samuel Smith, in his "History of the Colony of
Nova Csesaria, or New Jersey," published in 1765.
Another version, said to have been written about
1790, is given in Benedict's "History of the Baptists."
There is a third accouni; by Nathan Stout, entitled,
"A Small Genealogical Account of the Family called
Stout." At the conclusion of his narrative the Avriter
says: "I now close this history, which I began in the
seventy-third year of my age. I have ended it in the
severity-fifth, and my name is Nathan Stout, the fifth
son of John Stout, who was the first son of James
Stout, who was the first son of David Stout, who was
(5)

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the seventh son of Richard." The history was begun
in 1821, and was completed in 1823. Nathan Stout
states that he was born in 1748. He died in 1826.^
Of the more modern writers, Ellis, in his "History
of Monmouth County," and later Salter, in bis "His
tory of Monmouth and Ocean Counties," give the
story more or less prominence. The former char
acterizes it— to the great indignation of the Stout
descendants— as a romance. It is, however, too well
authenticated by the truths of history to be viewed
altogether in such a light. Mellick incorporated it
in his "Story of an Old Farm," and it forms one of
Frank Stockton's "Stories of New Jersey."
Smith begins his narrative in the following manner:
"While New York was in possession of the Dutch,
about the time of the Indian war in New England,
a Dutch ship, coming from Amsterdam, was stranded
on Sandy Hook." Now the only Indian war which
occurred in New England while the Dutch were in
possession of New York, was the Pequod war, which
began in 1636 and ended in 1637, and resulted in the
almost complete destruction of that tribe. So severe
was the lesson taught the Indians by that war that
peace continued between them and the white settlers
for nearly forty years, or until King Philip's war in
1671. The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to
the English in 1664. The date of the stranding of the
' Nathan Stout was commissioned captain in the Second
Regiment, Hunterdon County Militia, 1 May, 1776. (See
Records of the Adjutant General's Office, Trenton, N. J.; also,
Roster of Captain Nathan Stout's Company.)

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vessel therefore, according to Smith, seems fixed to
the time of the Pequod war, or about 1640.
Benedict's account says that Penelope Stout "was
born at Amsterdam, about the year 1602; her father's
name was Vanprincis; she and her first husband
(whose name is not known) sailed for New York (then
New Amsterdam) about 1620; the vessel was stranded
at Sandy Hook." There is an error in these dates of
about twenty years, as I shall try to prove later.
The story from this source goes on to relate that
all the shipAvrecked people were safely landed from
the stranded ship. But Penelope's husband, who
had been sick for most of the voyage, was taken so ill
after getting on shore that he could not travel with
the rest. He was hurt in the wreck and could not
march. The others were so afraid of the Indians
that they would not stay with him until he recovered,
but hastened away to New Amsterdam, promising
to send relief to him as soon as they should arrive.
The Avife alone remained behind with her husband.
Nathan Stout says: "The passengers from the ship
were all butchered by the Indians after they had
gotten ashore, all save Penelope Princes." The couple
were left on the beach (Benedict says : " They tarried
in the woods"), and the others "had not been long
gone, before a company of Indians coming doAvn to
the water side, discovered them [Penelope and her
husband], . . . and hastening to the spot, soon killed
the man, and cut and mangled the woman in such a
manner that they left her for dead" (Smith), and
afterwards stripped them of their clothing. The Avife's

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"skull was fractured, and her left shoulder so hacked,
that she could never use that arm like the other; she
was also cut across the abdomen, so that the bowels
protruded; these she kept in with her hands.
After the Indians were gone, the wife revived and
crawled into a hollow tree, or log, where she remained
for several days (one account says she remained there
for shelter seven days), subsisting on whatever she could
find to eat. The Indians had left some fire on the
beach, and this she kept burning for warmth. At
length two Indians, an old man and a young one,
came to the shore and saw her. Nathan Stout says
an Indian who was passing that way Avdth a dog dis
covered her. In the words of Benedict: "She saw a
deer passing by with some arrows sticking in it, and
soon after two Indians appeared, whom she was glad
to see, in hope they would put her out of her misery."
The Indians, as she afterwards learned, disputed what
should be done with her. The old man Avished to
keep hel- alive; whilst the younger wanted to kill
her. The former had his way, and, taking her on his
back, carried her to a place near where MiddletoAvn
now stands, and dressed her wounds and soon healed
them. After this, Benedict says, he conveyed her to New
Amsterdam and made a present of her to her country
men. Nathan Stout says he sold her to the Dutch
at New Amsterdam. But another account, which is
more in keeping Avith the character of the Indians, as
we know it, says the Dutch at New Amsterdam, hear
ing of a white woman being among the Indians, con-

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eluded who she must be, and some of them went to
her relief. They did not have occasion to rescue her
by force, as the old Indian gave her the choice of
going or staying, and of course she went.
Thus far I have quoted the different versions of the
legend. As confirmatory evidence of the time when
these events were happening, I will cite from White
head's "East Jersey under the Proprietors." He says:
"In East Jersey the greatest harmony prevailed [be
tween the Dutch and the Indians] until, by misconduct
of the colonist, the anger of the natives was aroused.
In 1640, an expedition fitted out against those on the
Raritan caused the maltreatment of some of the lead
ing chiefs and led the following year to retaliatory
measures upon the settlers of Staten Island, who were
killed, and their plantations broken up." Peace was
not restored until 1644. The troubles then existing
between the Dutch and Indians would account, there
fore, for the sudden and murderous attack on the
shipAvrecked people on Sandy Hook. The facts of
history, thus far, seem to agree very well with the
story. It is said that in New Amsterdam, whither she had
gone after her rescue, Penelope Van Princes became
acquainted with Richard Stout and soon afterwards
married him. "She was now in her twenty-second
year and he in his fortieth." If the date of her birth,
as given in Benedict's history, is correct, her marriage
took place in 1624. As Richard Stout was then in his
fortieth year, he would have been born in 1584. But
as his Avill, which is recorded in Trenton, is dated 9 June,

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1703, and was probated 23 October, 1705, this age is
probably Avrong, as well as the date of his marriage in
1624. If it be assumed, however — as in the stranding
of the vessel on Sandy Hook — ^that there is a same error
of about twenty years in the date of their marriage, it
would have taken place about 1644. We shall have
corroboration of this in the time when the two oldest
children came of age. In fact, there seems to run
through the whole story an error of antedating of
about twenty years.
After their marriage the career of this couple was
associated more or less intimately with the settlement
of Monmouth county. New Jersey. Smith tells us
that a while after marrying they lived together at
MiddletoAvn, among other Dutch families. On the
authority of Nathan Stout we learn that, "immedi
ately after her marriage A\dth Richard Stout, they
crossed the Bay and settled MiddletoAvn, and this
was in 1648. There were then but six white families,
including the Stouts, in the settlement." This state
ment of Nathan Stout has caused some dissension as
to the actual time when MiddletoAvn was first settled.
Richard Stout's name is found among the patentees
to whom Governor Kieft issued, 19 December, 1645,
the patent for the settlement at Gravesend, Long
Island. ("New York Genealogical and Historical
Record," 1885, volume 16, page 102.) Thompson, in
his "History of Long Island," gives a list of the in
habitants and "probable freeholders" of Gravesend in
1656, and among them is the name of Richard Stout.
Salter says that "in 1657 Richard Stout seems to have

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 11
been one of the largest land owners in Gravesend"
(page 356).
On 25 January, 1664, the year of the surrender of
New Amsterdam to the British, Richard Stout and
others purchased land at Navesink of the Indian
sachem Popomora, and in April, 1666, Colonel Nicolls,
the "Governor under his royal highness, the Duke of
York, of all the territories in America," confirmed
this purchase, and granted a patent of the whole of
Monmouth and a great part of Middlesex counties
unto Richard Stout and associates, who were "some
of the Inhabitants of Gravesend upon Long Island."
("New Jersey Archives," volume 1, page 44.) It has
been said that the first local government to be estab
lished in East Jersey was organized under this grant of
Governor Nicolls. (Joel Parker in "Proceedings of
the New Jersfey Historical Society," second series,
volume 3, page 19.) Smith expresses some doubt as
to there being English and Dutch settlers in those parts
at an earlier date than 1669. A discrepancy of twenty
years is also to be noted here between the legend and
the records.
In regard to an earlier settlement than that which
took place in Monmouth county under the patent
granted by Governor Nicolls, it has been claimed that
Penelope Stout induced her husband to sail across the
bay to visit her preserver and other Indian friends,
and it is presumed that on such occasions they were
accompanied by some of their white friends, and that
about 1648, he and four or five other heads of families
settled where MiddletoAvn now is. It is supposed they

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remained there only four or five years, being forced to
leave by the breaking out of hostilities between the
Dutch and Indians. "This corresponds very nearly
to the time of the fearful Indian uprising in New York
in 1655." (Salter's "History of Monmouth and
Ocean Counties.") Smith says the settlers were not
forced to abandon their homes, but that their stay
there was permanent. He states: "The old Indian
[Penelope's preserver] used frequently to visit her;
at one of his visits she observed him to be more pensive
than common, and sitting down he gave three heavy
sighs; after the last she thought herself at hberty to
ask him what was the matter? He told her he had
something to tell her in friendship, though at the risk
of his OAvn life, which was, that the Indians were that
night to kill all the whites, and adAdsed her to go off
to New Amsterdam; she asked him how she could get
off? He told her he had provided a canoe at a place —
which he named. Being gone from her, she sent for her
husband out of the field, and discovered the matter
to him, who, not believing it, she told him the old man
never deceived her, and that she with the children would
go; accordingly going to the place appointed, they
found the canoe and paddled off. When they were
gone, the husband began to consider the thing, and
sending for five or six of his neighbors, they set upon
their guard. About midnight they heard the dismal
warwhoop; presently came up a company of Indians;
they first expostulated, and then told them if they
persisted in their bloody designs, they would sell their
lives very dear. Arguments prevailed, the Indians

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desisted, and entered into a league of peace, which was
kept without violation."
In this uncertainty my effort shall be to show at
what time the settlers moved across the Bay into East
Jersey. In the office of the Surveyor-General at Perth
Amboy are preserved the warrants for the land ob
tained under the Monmouth Patent. The date of
record is 1675. Richard Stout's name heads the list
of claimants. It reads as follows:
"Here begins the Rights of Land due according to
Concessions :
" Richard Stout, of MiddletoA^rn, brings for his rights
for himself, his wife, and two sons, John and Richard,
120 acres each, 480 acres. Item. For his sons and
daughters that are to come of age since the year 1667,
viz.: James, Peter, Mary, Alice, and Sarah, each 60
acres, 300 acres. Total, 780 acres."
It Avill be observed from the above that John and
Richard were the only children that had come of age
in the year 1667, and that Jonathan, David and Ben
jamin are not even mentioned.^ After reading this
record why should there be any doubt that the settle
ment of Middletown was begun in 1667? I had none
until I received a letter from Dr. William H. Mitchell,
2 In Richard Stout's will the sons are named first, followed
by the daughters, in the same order in which they are given
in the Concession, with this difference: Peter is not mentioned
in the wiU, for the reason that he predeceased his father by a
short interval of time; and Jonathan, DaArid and Benjamin
are not mentioned in the Concession, from which it may be
inferred they were unborn at that date.

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of Bayonne, N. J., dated 14 May, 1913, telling me that
he had found in the original toAvn-books of Gravesend,
Long Island, that Pennellopey Prince [thus he Avrote
it] was a Avitness in a suit for slander between Ambrose
London and Thomas Aplegate, September 12, 1648;
and that it was the only time her name is mentioned
in the toA\ni-books. If this is Penelope Vanprincis, as
seems probable, she must have married before this
date to have had sons of age in 1667.
In the allotment of town lots in Middletown, recorded
30 December, 1667, John Stout was among those who
received them. His name is included in the list of
first settlers, and he is put doAvn as coming from Long
Island. All accounts agree that he was the oldest
child. Salter states that he was married 12 January,
1671. The probable date of his birth was in the year
1643 or 1644, which agrees Avith the conclusion arrived
at from the other events.'
LeaAdng out of consideration the confusing dates of
the Gravesend toAvn-books, the sequence of events
here narrated follows, Avith sufficient accuracy, con
temporaneous history and the official records to make
the folloAving recapitulation seem probable: The
vessel was stranded on Sandy Hook about 1640, or near
' Dr. Mitchell further states in his letter to me that the
town records of Gravesend records the marriage of Mary Stout
and James Bowne at Gravesend, 26 December, 1665, at which
date she was sixteen years old, coming of age (eighteen) in 1667,
having been born in 1649. He would also have her the oldest
child of her parents; in which he is evidently in error. The
Concession says she came of age after 1667.

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the close of the Pequod war in New England, at which
time the Indians were hostile in the Dutch colony;
they were married in either New Amsterdam or Graves
end (probably the latter) between 1640 and 1644;
lived at Gravesend, Long Island,^ where Richard Stout
was a prominent land-owTier as late as 1657; in 1667
they moved across the Lower Bay into Monmouth
county, New Jersey, at which time two of their children
were of age and three were yet unborn.
We are informed that Penelope Stout had ten chil
dren — seven sons and three daughters — that she lived
to be 110 years old, and that before dying "she saw
her offspring multiplied into 502 in 88 years." The date
of her death is given in the year 1712. The "88 years"
of her offspring are reckoned from 1624, the year of her
supposed marriage, and the years of her life from the
year of her supposed birth in 1602. Counting from the
latter date, she would have been sixty-seven years
old when her son David was born in 1669. She would
have been truly a wonderful woman to have borne
children for a period of forty-five years after her mar
riage. No medical man, it is safe to say, ever knew of
such a case. Let twenty years, however, be deducted
from her supposed age, and she would have been forty-
' It is recorded that on "October 13th, 1643, Richard Aestin,
Ambrose Love and Richard Stout made declaration that the
crew of the Seven Stars and of the privateer, landed at the farm
of Anthony Jansen, of Salee, in the Bay, and took off 200 pum-
kins, and would have carried away a lot of hogs from Coney
Island had they not learned that they belonged to Lady Moody."
(Calendar of New York Historical Manuscript.)

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seven years old when David was bom, and ninety
when she died; in which case her remarkable achieve
ment in child-bearing would no longer be a cause for
wonderment. Richard Stout was the son of John Stout, of Notting
hamshire, England. It is related of him that he left
home because of parental interference in an affair of
love with a young woman who was considered below
him in the social scale. He enlisted on a man-of-v.ar,
where he served seven years, receiAdng his dische "ge
at New Amsterdam, where his vessel happened tc be
when his term of enlistment expired.
On the authority of Salter (than whom it is clai' jed
no man was better informed in the local history of
Monmouth county), Richard Stout was the most promi
nent of the founders of the new colony at Middletown.
In the winter of 1667 he was appointed to assist in lay
ing out the lots; in 1669 he was one of the so-called
overseers. He took an active interest in the public
affairs of the new settlement, and his name is fre
quently mentioned in the annals of Freehold. Such
mental and physical activity would hardly have
existed in a man who was born in 1584. Even if he
were married in 1644, when in his fortieth year, he would
have been 100 years old between 1703 and 1705, dates
of signing and probating of his will. But no claim
has been made in any account of him that he attained
great longevity. It may therefore be conceded that
the figures relating to his age are as unreliable as are
those relating to the age of his A^ife. There is always
a tendency to exaggerate the age of old persons.

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This completes the Story of Penelope Stout.
I shall now have to do only Avith the descendants of
Benjamin, the son of Richard and Penelope, who
moved southward into Delaware and became the
progenitor of the Stouts of that State. ^
" Besides the above-mentioned Benjamin and his descendants,
the records disclose that there were others of the family name
ar ong the early settlers of Delaware, who may have left de-
sc&dants of the name.
'The first in time is John Stout, who bought land 18 May,
li 18. The deed recites that he was "of the township of Free-
ht id, county of Monmouth, and province of East New Jersey."
The land which he bought was on the north side of "Dragon
Swamp," in Red Lion hundred. New Castle county. He
sold this tract in 1726. He bought and sold other lands; but
aftsr the year 1726, he disappears from the records of New
Castle county, leaving no trace of family or connection. He
signed the Confession of Faith of the Welsh Tract Baptist
Church of Pencader hundred in 1719.
Another was Samuel Stout, who purchased land near Dragon
Run in 1720 and sold it in 1721. His wife's name was Margaret.
"EUzabeth Stoute" signed the marriage certificate of WiUiam
ffarson and Rachel Veal, at Duck Creek Friends' Meeting,
25-4^1719.

BENJAMIN, SON OF RICHARD.
Benjamin Stout (Richard), bom probably about
1671; died in 1732; married, (1), Mary  , (2),
Agnes  .
In determining the order of birth of Benjamin
among the sons of Richard and Penelope Stout, I have
not been guided by Nathan Stout, but have preferred
to follow the order given in the concessions of land
at MiddletoAva and in the will of Richard Stout as re
corded at Trenton. These documents agree and are
at variance Avith the narrative of Nathan Stout.
The order according to the concessions is: John,
Richard, James, Peter, Mary, Alice and Sarah; and
according to the Asdll: John, Richard, James, Jona
than, David, Benjamin, Mary, Alse (Afice) and Sarah.
Peter, having died in 1704, is not mentioned in the
will. It should be imderstood that the sons and
daughters are named each in their separate order of
birth. The order of birth and names given by Nathan
Stout are: John, Richard, Jonathan, Peter, James,
Benjamin, David, Deliverance, Sarah and Penelope.
Deliverance and Penelope were not names of daughters
of the first Richard. Nathan Stout also gives these
as names of daughters of the second Richard. Mary
has been called the first-born, but on what authority
I do not know. (18)

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It Avill be conceded, I think, that if Jonathan, David
and Benjamin, or any one of them, had been living at
the time of the concession at MiddletoAVTi, 30 Decem
ber, 1667, their names would have been put doAvn to
swell the aggregate of acres; consequently, it may be
assumed that none of them was born at that time. And
as they were all born subsequent to that date, Jona
than could not have preceded James and Peter in the
order of birth, as Nathan Stout gives it. If 1669 be
accepted as the year when David was born — and it is
given on the good authority of Nathan Stout, whose
descendant he was — Benjamin, the youngest child, was
probably born about 1671.
Nathan Stout says of him: "I now introduce Ben
jamin, the sixth son" (the seventh, according to the
will). "He moved to Pennsylvania, and it was said
from there to the state of Delaware, and from there to
Maryland. It is agreed on all the information I have
been able to obtain that he married and raised a large
family of children, and that he followed the seas a
great part of his life, as also did a son. But I have no
personal knowledge of any of his family."
I am convinced from my investigations into the
history of the Delaware family that Nathan Stout
has confused Benjamin with Joseph, the son of James,
the son of Richard. Concerning the latter he says:
"He moved to Pennsylvania, and soon after to Phila
delphia, where he raised a considerable family. He
followed the sea, and lived in good reputation. The
last knowledge I had of his family was in the year 1779.
He then had a son Joseph who was a Captain of a

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vessel, and in good circumstances and well reputed
as a man and officer."
An examination of the "Ship Registers for the Port
of Philadelphia, 1726-1775" (" Pennsylvania Magazine
of History and Biography," 1901), discloses that the
only Stout visiting that port between the dates men
tioned, either as master or OAvner of a vessel, Avas one
bearing the name of Joseph, as vnll be seen in the
foUoAving quotations:
"1750, Oct. 1, Brig Delby, Joseph Stout, master.
Henry Elves, Joseph Stout, John Parrat, all of Phila.,
OAvners. Built in Phila. Tons 40."
" 1754, July 25. Ship John and Mary, Joseph Stout,
master. James Child, of Phila., OAvner. Built in
Phila. Tons 150."
"1765, Dec. 13. Brig't Lucia pacquet, Joseph
Stout, master. OAvners (merchants of the island of
Jamaica and Philadelphia). Tons 100."'
1 Joseph Stout, junior, "a Captain of a vessel and in good
circumstances and well reputed as a man and officer," married
Mary Keen, and a daughter of this marriage, Margaret Stout,
born in 1764, died 25 December, 1795, married Wilham Mac-
pherson (his first wife), of the Revolutionary army, and later
of the " Macph'erson's Blues." General Macpherson called
his coimtry seat, near Philadelphia, "Stouton," afterwards
known as Macpherson's Park. William Macpherson was the
yovmger brother of John Macpherson, junior, who was killed
with Montgomery in the assault on Quebec. William was
an officer in the British army until the Revolution, when he
resigned his commission and espoused the cause of the Colonies.
They were sons of John MacPherson (the name is spelled with
a capital P), a Scotchman, who appears on the ship registers
of Philadelphia as master of a vessel at the same time as Joseph
Stout, senior, was sailing in and out of that port before the

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There is no evidence that either Benjamin Stout or
any of his sons ever "followed the seas."
In 1690, Richard Stout and Avife, Penelope, of Mon
mouth County, New Jersey, conveyed to son Ben
jamin — after their death — all the tract and plantation
whereon they then lived,^ on Hop river. (Salter's
Revolution. It is probable that it was this community of in
terests that brought the families together. John MacPherson
was a privateersman, and, it is said, brought back great wealth
from the wars with France and Spain. In 1762, he built the
house known as Mount Pleasant (later the residence of Benedict
Arnold) in East Fairmount Park, near the Columbia Avenue
entrance. He sold it to Arnold in 1779.
The first Stout whose name is carried on the Navy List of
the United States is Joseph Stout, Lieutenant, 3 July, 1798,
discharged 6 July, 1801, under the Peace EstabUshment Act.
He was probably the father of Margaret Macpherson; and is
probably identical with the person referred to in the "Penn
sylvania Magazine of History and Biography," volume 23,
page 52, as Lieutenant Joseph Stout, R. N.; also with the fol
lowing "Joseph Stout, a sea Captain in the merchant service,
afterwards a Ueutenant in the British service." (Frank Willing
Leach, in Philadelphia North American, 30 August, 1908, "Keen
Family"; and 23 August, 1908, "Macpherson Family.")
^ It was a custom much observed among the early Welsh
settlers for the youngest son to inherit the "dwelling planta
tion." It was opposed to the law of primogeniture; but would
seem to be a natural course for things to take. The elder sons
were portioned off and separated from the parent stem as they
came of age; the youngest stayed at home to look after the
parents in their old age. The same custom prevailed among
the Mongols. Says Jeremiah Curtin, writing of the sons and
descendants of the great Mongol Kublai Kahn, "the older-
sons received portions as they came to maturity; his father's
house and all that belonged to it fell to the youngest always."
("History of the Mongols," page 142.)

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"History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties.") 1690,
Aug. 30. Richard Stout, sr., of Middletovm to his
son Benjamin Stout, "for the Joynture of my LoAdng
wife, Penelope," for a lot at Romanis, or Hop River,
Monmouth co. s. w. said river; n. w. David Stout; n. e.
John Wilson; s. e. Peter Stout; also 6^ a. of a meadow
at Conesconk, adjoining Peter Stout. 1690, Aug. 30.
Deed. Richard Stout, senior, and Avife, Penelope, to
their son Benjamin Stout, all of Middletown, for a
plantation at Romanis, or Hop River, s. w. said river;
n. w. DaAdd Stout; n. e. Wilson's; s. e. Peter Stout's
land; also 6^ a. of meadow at Conesconk. (New
Jersey Archives. 1st series, vol. XXI.) Richard
Stout also bequeathed to his son Benjamin one mare
and colt "for keeping my cattle last year" (1702).
In 1710 Benjamin Stout was High Sheriff of Mon
mouth county. After this date he seems to have
dropped out of Monmouth county records. (Salter's
and Beekman's "Old Times in Old Monmouth.")
That he left New Jersey about this time and went to
Peimsylvania and afterwards to Delaware there is no
dispute. The earliest date associated Anth his name in
Delaware — discoverable in the imperfect records of
New Castle county — is 1715.
7 Febmary, 1727, Benjamin Stout, of New Castle
county, conveyed land, situated northeast of George's
creek, purchased by him from Abel Dod, 17 January,
1715 (H-1-248). This deed is signed by Benjamin
Stout and Agnes Stout. The conveyance of 1715 from
Abel Dod has not been discovered, nor any deed older
than this one, where he was probably of Monmouth

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 23
county, New Jersey. Thus there is an interval of five
years in this period of his life unaccounted for. It
has already been shoAvn that there was a John Stout,
formerly of Monmouth county, New Jersey, who
bought land in 1708, and lived in that portion of Dela
ware where Benjamin Stout afterwards settled.
On 6 September, 1721, Benjamin Stout, senior, of
George's creek, and county of New Castle upon Dela
ware, yeoman, in consideration of fatherly love, good
will and affection, conveyed to his "son and heir"
Charles Stout and to his son Benjamin Stout, junior,
of the same place, to each, 140 acres of land on the
"Maryland Road that goes to Bohemia." ((j-1-246
and 248.) He signed these deeds alone. In another
conveyance these properties are further located at the
intersection of the "Maryland Road "' Avith the " King's
Road." (1-1-415.)
It is said that he was tAvice married, "the first time
probably in New Jersey before he went to Pennsyl
vania." The Delaware records seem to confirm this
statement, as he was apparently not married in 1721 and
had a A\dfe (Agnes) in 1727. In my opinion the deed
ing of the properties to his groAvn-up sons was a pre
lude to his second marriage. He first lived on George's
creek, but whether in St. George's or Red Lion hundred
the records do not show.* His land was apparently
'This is the oldest road in St. George's hundred, and ran
from Bohemia Manor to Appoquinimink. It was laid out in
1660. It is long since closed. (Conrad.)
* George's creek forms the boundary between Red Lion and
St. George's hundreds, and its waters were utilized in the con
struction of the Delaware and Chesapeake canal.

24 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
in both hundreds. It Avill be recollected that John
Stout, of Freehold, also lived in Red Lion hundred.
When Benjamin Stout moved doAvn into Appo
quinimink hundred the records do not disclose. But
on 16 February, 1735, Agnes Stout, Avidow and relict
of Benjamin Stout, late of Appoquinimink hundred,
deceased, and executrix of said Benjamin Stout, and
Jacob Stout, son and executor, petitioned the Orphans'
Court, held' 18 November, 1735, for authority to sell
the dwelling plantation of Benjamin Stout, deceased,
containing 185 acres, and situate in Appoquinimink
hundred, on Blackbird creek. (K-1-453.) The
petition recites that the said Benjamin Stout being
seized of a tract on Blackbird creek, in Appoquinimink
hundred, made a Avill bearing date 25 April, 1732[4],
wherein he gave to the aforesaid Jacob Stout, his son,
all his estate, real and personal. As Benjamin Stout
at the time of his death did not leave sufficient per
sonal property to pay his debts, the order was granted
and the property sold at pubhc vendue for 110 pounds
and 10 shillings, to Elias Naudain, mariner, of St.
George's hundred. The conveyance was signed by
Agnes Stout and Jacob Stout.
Will of Benjamin Stout.
April the 25, 1734. This being my last Avill and
testiment I being in a low condition butt in parfat
knowlge of, I desire that I bee desently burryed and
for my worldly goods I give and bequave to my son
Jacob Stout all I have riell and passral and it is my
desier that my loving wife should have her hAong in

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 25
the astat during her natural fife and this being my last
will and tistment and dissanolle all other wills be for
this and that my wife may administer with my son
as witness my hand and seell.
Benj'' Stout
Witness: Benjamin Stout
Johannes Jaquett
his
Francis Shears
mark
Probated 10 June, 1734. Jurat Johannes Jaquet
and Francis Shears.

CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN STOUT AND MARY -
(2) I. Charles Stout, born  ; died  .

22 November, 1728, Charles Stout, of
St. George's hundred, farmer, sold to John
Goforth, 140 acres of land on the Mary
land Road that led to Bohemia, the land
that had been conveyed to him by his
father by deed of gift, 6 September, 1721.
(1-1-20.) The county records convey no
information of him after this date.
(3) II. Benjamin Stout, born  ; died in 1740;
married Elizabeth LeAns.
CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN STOUT AND AGNES  :

(4) III. Jacob Stout, born  ; died in 1795; mar
ried  .

SECOND GENERATION.
(3) Benjamin Stout (Benjamin, 1, Richard),
born  ; died in 1740; married Elizabeth Lewis,
born 25th 11th month, 1696, died  ; daughter of
John Lewis and Sarah Price (daughter of Philip Price),
and granddaughter of John and Elizabeth Lewis, of
Chester (now Delaware) county, Pennsylvania.^
Our knowledge of Benjamin Stout is very frag
mentary. Until the death of his father he usually
signed his name "Benjamin Stout, junior." In 1731,
he was of Red Lion hundred and was styled "yeoman."
At that date he sold a portion of the tract conveyed
to him by his father in 1721, on the Maryland Road
' John Lewis, of Haverford, and Sarah Price, of Marion,
were married 11th 1st month, 1696. Their children were:
Elizabeth, born as above, Philip, born 27th 7ber, 1698, Stephen,
bom 4th 3rd month, 1700, Josiah, bom 8th 4th month, 1704.
(Radnor Records.)
Will of PhiUp Price, of Marion, signed 11 December, 1719,
probated 22 November, 1720, mentions among his granddaugh
ters, "children of John Lewis, of New Castle, Delaware county,"
EUzabeth Stout.
Josiah Lewis, of Red Lion hundred. New Castle county,
Delaware, left one-haK of his movable property — after the
death of his brother Philip — ^to his "cousin Peter Stout." In
the event of his brother dying, Peter Stout is made joint ex
ecutor with his wife Mary Lewis. A legacy of ten pounds is
left to "cousin Immanuel Stout." The will is signed 2 April,
1761. It was a common usage in those times to call nephews
and nieces "cousins." (26)

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 27
"that goes to Bohemia." This tract was bounded
on one side by the King's Highway (1-1-415). In
1734, he dropped the "junior" from his signature.
He was still of Red Lion hundred when he and Eliza
beth, his wife, sold, at that date (1734), the remainder
of the 140 acres on the Maryland Road to John Go-
forth, of the same hundred, tanner, for one hundred
and fifty pounds (K-1-246).
It is probable that he moved doAvn into Appoquini
mink hundred shortly after his father's death. 15
May, 1735, Daniel Reynold conveyed to him a tract
of land in Kent county. He is then called of that
county. 16 March, 1740, letters of administration
upon his estate in Kent county were granted to Eliza
beth Stout (S-1-31). In a deed, dated 11 August,
1743, between several parties on one part and Eliza
beth Stout on the other, administratrix of the estate
of Benjamin Stout, late of Kent county, it is stated
that said Benjamin died after 7 March, 1740.
children op benjamin stout and ELIZABETH
lewis:
(5) I. Peter Stout, born  ; died in 1764; married
Rebecca  .
(6) II. Emanuel Stout, born  ; died in 1781;
married, (1), Luraney Owen, (2), Mary
Griffin.

(4) Jacob Stout (Benjamin, 1, Richard), born
died in 1795; married  , probably dead in

1795, as no mention is made of her in his will.

28 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
Some confusion has arisen in the history of this
Jacob Stout — who was knoAvn to his contemporaries
as Jacob Stout, senior — in consequence of there being
another of the same name contemporaneous Avith him,
namely, Jacob Stout, son of Emanuel, who was des
ignated Jacob Stout, junior. This is illustrated by
the folloAving excerpt from Scharf's "History of Dela
ware": "The title to the land on which the State-
House stands was vested, March 29, 1775, in Caesar
Rodney, Charles Ridgely, Samuel Chew, William
Killen and Jacob Stout, and their survivors and heirs,
and that at the time of this act the survivor of them
all being Jacob Stout, , who died in 1855, and who
was the son of Jacob, the original trustee," etc. (Vol
ume II, page 1034.) Now there can be no question
that the Jacob Stout who died in 1855 was the son of
Emanuel, and he could not have been one of those
in whom the title to the land was vested in 1775,
because at that date he was only eleven years old;
while the elder Jacob Stout was a man active in the
affairs of that period.
The same Avriter is the authority for the statement
that the ancestors of the family settled at Leipsic
before 1700. In describing that tovm he says: "In
the old records there is a conveyance of a tract of land
called the 'Weald,' by Edward Boesll to James and
George Gano and Jacob Stout, April 30, 1723." This
conveyance should read Edward Bounnell and Ruth,
his wife, to James and George Gano and Jacob Stout,
April 30, 1743.
In 1742, Jacob Stout was of Appoquinimink hun-

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 29
dred, for in that year (29 December) he purchased of
Alexander Dean and Hester, his wife, 156 acres of
land on the northwest branch of Duck creek, and he
is so called in the deed (N-1-481). But the family
had been gradually working its way down the state
from George's creek. Its progress southward was
finally stayed at Dover; its landed interest was finally
centered in the coimtry about Leipsic, in Little Creek
hundred. Jacob Stout was an ardent partisan of the Colonies
during the Revolutionary struggle. He was one of
a committee of thirteen appointed by the freeholders
and other inhabitants of Kent county, assembled at
Dover, 20 July, 1774, to consider sundry acts of the
British parliament, imposing duties and taxes on the
Colonies, and closing the port of Boston. This meet
ing declared that George Third was their lawful
sovereign; that the closing of the port of Boston was
unconstitutional; recommended a congress of the
Colonies to obtain a redress of grievances; raised
money for the rehef of the poor of Boston; and agreed
to have no trade intercourse with others that refused
to agree to the same, until the act of parliament was
repealed in respect to the Province of Massachusetts
Bay. At an election held in the several hundreds, 14 July,
1775, he was made a member of the Committee of
Inspection for Kent county. He was a member of
the state constitutional convention which met at New
Castle in August and September, 1776, for the purpose
of "ordaining and declaring the future form of govern-

30 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
ment of that State." There was draAvn up at that
time a "Declaration of Rights." In 1777 and 1778
he was a member of the House of Assembly. On
29 October, 1777, he signed the report and resolution
to raise and arm 600 militia for the protection and
defence of the State. He was chosen a member from
Kent county to the State House of Representatives,
at an election held 22 October, 1784. This shows a
varied and active interest in the political life of the
times. The Avill of Jacob Stout, senior, of Little Creek
hundred, yeoman, is dated 2 March 1795; probated
30 April, 1795. He deAased all his property to his
son Benjamin, who is the only child mentioned in the
will. children of JACOB STOUT AND  :

(7) I. Benjamin Stout, born  ; died in 1806;
married, (1), Margaret Hamm, (2), Re
becca  .

THIRD GENERATION.
(5) Peter Stout (Benjamin, 3, Benjamin, Richard),
born  ; died in 1764; married Rebecca  ; she
married, secondly, Jabez Jenkins.
Peter Stout Avitnessed the will of George Griffin,
of Duck Creek, 10 September, 1751, and he signed
the marriage certificate of Fenwick Fisher and Mary
HoUiday, 19th 8th month, 1756. Letters of admin
istration upon the estate of Peter Stout were granted
to Rebecca, his widow, 10 March, 1764, he dying
intestate (K-1-341).
At the Little Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends,
held 28th 12th month, 1771, "Rebeckah (wife of
Jabez Jenkins) appeared here with the concurrence
of Murtherkill Preparative Meeting and requests for
herself and two children (to Avitt), Ruth and Rebeckah
Stout, to be taken vmder the care and notice of Friends;
wherefore, this Meeting appoints Ezekiel Cowgill
and John Cowgill to accompany the women Friends
in a Aasit to them and report their sense and satisfaction
concerning the request and report thereof to our next
meeting." This evidently refers to the admission
of the Avidow (now the Avife of Jabez Jenkins, a Quaker)
and children as members into the Society of Friends.
Rebecca Jenkins, Avidow, of Kent county, manumitted
her slaves, 4th 7th month, 1776. Ruth Register was
a witness to the manumission. (31)

32 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
CHILDREN OF PETER STOUT AND REBECCA — : —
(8) I. Ruth Stout, born  ; died  ; married,
(1), Robert Register, (2), Thomas Corse.
(9) II. Rebecca Stout, born  ; died  ; married,
(1),  Corse, (2), James Millis.

(6) Emanuel Stout (Benjamin, 3, Benjamin, Rich
ard), bom  ; died m 1781; married, (1), 9 Novem
ber, 1747 (date of marriage hcense) Luraney Owen,
(2), Mary Griffin, born  , died in 1806, daughter
of WiUiam Griffin and Eleanor  . For the descent
of Mary Griffin see the genealogy of the Griffin
Family. 18 June, 1750, Emanuel Stout and Lurana, his
Avife (who was Lurana Owen), LeAvis Owen, John
Owen, Stephen Owen, and Peter Brynberg,^ of Kent
county, sold to Charles Hudson, 237 acres of land in
Thoroughfare Neck, a part of a tract granted to John
Taylor, 2d 10th month, 1684, by James Claypoole
and Robert Turner, commissioners, being to the north
and west of the northwest branch of Duck creek. Her
signature was "Luranny Stout" (S-1-153).
19 February, 1752, Peter Stout and Immanuel
Stout, both of Kent county, bought of John Anderson
and Ann, his wife,";land in Appoquinimink hundred,
adjoming Duck Creek Mill (Q-1-587). In May, 1750,
Emanuel Stout first bought land in Kent county.
Concerning his marriage Avith Mary Griffin, of
' Peter Brynberg was one of the owners of the Ddaware
Gazette in 1791.

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 33
Appoquinimink hundred, Efizabeth Stout (Griffin)
Rees, writing to her son, says: "Emanuel Stout, my
great-grandfather . . . married my grandfather
[DaArid] Griffin's sister [Mary], and David Griffin
married Emanuel Stout's daughter [Hannah]." Of
Jacob Stout (son of Emanuel Stout and Mary Griffin)
she says that he was her father's [Jacob Stout Griffin's]
"first cousin and half uncle" — her father being the
son of DaAdd Griffin and Hannah Stout. In another
letter she again writes of this relationship, the occasion
being the death of "Aunt Ann Denny, my grand
mother's sister [half-sister] . . . the youngest daughter
[an error] of Emanuel Stout . . . who married Mary
Griffin, daughter of William Griffin; and DaAdd
Griffin [her grandfather] married Emanuel Stout's
daughter Hannah, who was my grandmother, this
making her [Ann Denny] first cousin and half aunt
to my father." I have quoted freely from this cor
respondence because of the statement I have seen
that Hannah Stout was Emanuel Stout's sister, as
well as to explain the relationship, which is somewhat
involved and which I have tried to make plainer by
the use of brackets.
In 1756, Emanuel conveyed a part of a tract called
"The Range" to LeAvis Gano. It is probable that
the Stouts were at that time permanently settled in
their future home at Leipsic. He was a member of
the Committee of Inspection and Observation for
Kent county in 1775, of which his uncle Jacob Stout
was a member. His first Avife was dead in 1756, as he
signed the above deed alone.

34 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
He died intestate, and letters of administration
upon his estate were granted to Mary, his Avidow,
25 April, 1781 (L-1-228), at which time all his children
by his last marriage were minors, as, on 26 February,
1783, they were committed by the Orphans' Court
to the guardianship of their mother, at which time
Rebecca, Martha, Peter, Nancy and Lydia were under
fourteen years of age.
Letters of administration upon the estate of Mary
Stout, who died intestate, were granted to Peter
Stout, who gave bond with" Jacob Stout, 3 December,
1806 (0-1-139).
children of EMANUEL STOUT AND LURANEY OWEN:
(10) I. Hannah Stout, bom  ; died m 1799;
married DaAdd Griflon.
(11) II. Elizabeth Stout, bom  ; died  ;
married Samuel Freeman.
CHILDBBN OF EMANUEL STOUT AND MARY GRIFFIN:
(12) III. Jacob Stout, bom in 1764; died 28 Novem
ber, 1855; married Angelica Killen.
(13) IV, Sarah Stout, bom 6 January, 1767; died
30 December, 1852; married, (1), Jacob
Emerson, (2), Daniel Cowgill.
(14) V. Rebecca Stout, bom  ; died  ; mar
ried William Ruth.
(15) VI. Martha Stout, bom 22 April, 1771; died
21 September, 1845; married John Cow-
gUl.

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 35
(16) VII. Peter Stout, born 30 June, 1775; died in
1811; married Frances Middleton.
(17) VIII. Ann Stout, bom 1 January, 1778; died 5
January, 1882; married William Denny.
(18) IX. Lydia Stout, born 30 May, 1780; died
2 February, 1868; married Robert Regis
ter.
This is the first of the births and deaths I have been
able to obtain from family records, and some of them
show great longevity, even exceeding that of their
famous ancestress, Penelope Stout.

(7) Benjamin Stout (Jacob, 4, Benjamin, Richard),
born  ; died in 1806; married, (1), Margaret
Hamm, daughter of John and Susanna Hamm;^ (2),
Rebecca  .
2 Susanna Hamm, widow of John Hamm, executed a wiU
9 February, 1801, probated 25 February, 1801. She mentions
children: Charles, John, Ann, Alexander, Susanna, Benjamin,
Mary and Lurania; also a daughter Margaret Stout, wife of
Benjamin Stout, and their daughter Susanna Stout. Dr.
John Hamm and Charles Hamm were appointed executors.
Witnesses: Elizabeth Freeman and Ben. Stout.
In the "Biographical and Genealogical History of Delaware,"
volume 1, page 742, it is stated that John Hamm married Susanna
Stout, and that their children were: John, Charles, Alexander,
Benjamin F., Susanna, Lorena, Margaret and Mary.
Mrs. Francis Shunk Brown (nee Lizzie Hamm) writes me
that the records of the Hamm family were destroyed many
years ago in a fire, and that aU the information she has was
derived from an elder sister, since dead. She says: "My great-

36 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN STOUT AND MARGARET
HAMM AND REBECCA  :
(19) I. Susanna Stout, born  ; died  .

(20) II. Sarah Stout, bom  ; died  ; married
 Steel.
(21) III. Thomas Stout, born  ; died  .

(22) IV. James Stout, born  ; died in 1815.
Letters of administration on the estate
of James Stout were granted to William
Hukill, 29 March, 1815.
Benjamin Stout's Avill, dated 6 October, 1806, pro
bated 27 November, 1806, divides his dwelling plan
tation of 310 acres, on the north side of Wilson's
Branch, in Little Creek hundred, into three equal
parts, one each going to his Addow Rebecca, daughter
Susan and daughter Sarah Steel, sons Thomas and
James are mentioned as then being in New York City,
apprenticed. Cousin Peter Stout and Avife Rebecca
are appointed executors. His signature of "Ben
Stout" was Avitnessed by James Harper and Jacob
Stout. No further information of this family has
been found.

grandfather was John Hamm, who married Susannah Stout.
Their son Dr. Benjamin F. Hamm married Ann Pleasanton,
who were my grandparents." This is the source probably
whence the information was obtained for the publication men
tioned above. I am unable to say whose daughter was Susanna
Stout of the family tradition, and whether or not she was the
Susanna Hamm, of the Anil.

FOURTH GENERATION.
(8) Ruth Stout (Peter, 5, Benjamin, Benjamin,
Richard), born  ; died prior to 1792'; married
(1), 1st 3rd month, 1775, Robert Register, born  ,
died in 1784; (2), 27th 3rd month, 1788, Thomas
Corse, of Queen Anne county, Maryland, son of
WiUiam and Rebecca Corse.
The marriage of Ruth Stout and the births of her
children by her first husband were obtained from the
records of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Duck
Creek. It is recorded at the meeting held, 28th 1st
month, 1775, that, "Robert Register, from Third
Haven, and Ruth Stout appeared here and declared
their intentions of marriage Avith each other, this
being the first time." On 25th 2nd month, 1775,
they appeared before the meeting again, held at Little
Creek, and declared their intentions the second time.
At the meeting held at Duck Creek 25th 3rd month,
1775, it was recorded that "one of the Friends appointed
to oversee the marriage of Robert Register and Re
beckah Stout [this is a palpable error] reports they
were there . . . and has brought the certificate to
be recorded." Robert Register, of Little Creek hun-
iRuth Stout, daughter of Peter Stout, deceased, who inter
married Avith Robert Register, both now dead (15 June, 1792).
(Proceedings in Orphans' Court, at Dover.)
(37)

38 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
dred, manumitted his slaves, 11th 6th month, 1776,
and Rebecca Stout was a witness to the proceeding.
Jacob Stout, jr., Beth. Stout and Ann Stout signed
the marriage certificate of Ruth Register, vsddow of
Robert Register (who died in 1784), and Thomas
Corse. Soon after this second marriage Ruth Corse
removed from Delaware. At a Monthly Meeting
held at Little Creek, 24th 5th month, 1788, it is
recorded that, "Women Friends inform that Ruth
Corse requests our Certificate for herself and Chil
dren, Adz., Rebecca and Sarah Register, to join them
in Cecil Monthly Meeting."
children of ruth stout AND ROBERT REGISTER
(it is not knoA\Ti that there were any children
by the second marriage) :
(23) I. Peter Register, born 7th 5th month, 1776.
(24) II. Rebecca Register, born 10th 6th month,
1779; died  ; married WilUam LeAdck.
(25) III. Sarah Register, born 30th 3rd month, 1782.

(9) Rebecca Stout (Peter, 5, Benjamin, Benjamin,
Richard), born  ; died  ; married, (1), 
Corse, (2), James Millis.
It is recorded in the minutes of the Monthly Meet
ing of Friends, held at Little Creek, 28th 2nd month,
1780, that: "Women Friends also desire our assist
ance in treating with Rebecca Corse (late Stoutt)

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 39
and Elizabeth Enloe (late Crispin) for outgoing in
marriage with men not of our Society by the assistance
of Priests." It is learned from proceedings in Orphans'
Court, at Dover, that "Peter Stout, of Little Creek
hundred, died, leaving two children, namely, Rebecca,
now wife of James MilUs, and Ruth, who intermarried
Avith Robert Register, both now dead (15 June, 1792).
It would appear from these that Rebecca Stout was
tA\dce married. What children she may have had
is unknown.

(10) Hannah Stout (Emanuel, 6, Benjamin, Benja
min, Richard), born  ; died in 1799; married
David Griffin, born  , died in 1786, son of Wil
Uam and Eleanor Griffin, of Appoquinimink hundred,
New Castle county.
children of HANNAH STOUT AND DAVID GRIFFIN:
(26) I. Martha Griffin, born  .
(27) II. Jacob Stout Griffin, bom 30 November,
1776; died 20 February, 1851; married,
(1), Rebecca Bracken, (2), Priscilla Rees.
(28) III. Sarah Griffin, born  ; died in 1802.
(29) IV. Eleanor Griffin, bom  ; died in 1846;
married Benjamin Blackiston (his second
A\dfe).
For the continuation of this Griffin family see the
Griffin Genealogy.

40 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
(11) Elizabeth Stout (Emanuel, 6, Benjamin,
Benjamin, Richard), born  ; died  ; married
Samuel Freeman.
Sarah Griffin (28), of Appoquinunink hundred, in
her wiU, dated 7 AprU, 1802, probated 14 May, 1802,
left a sum of money in trast for her Aunt EUzabeth
Freeman. As her father had no sisters who married
Freeman, this aunt must have been the mother's
sister. The records disclose an Elizabeth Freeman
at that time, the wile of Samuel Freeman, of Kent
county. 7 May, 1784, Samuel Freeman and EUzabeth,
his Avife, conveyed to Mary Stout, Avidow, of Kent
covmty, a tract of land, one of the bounds of which
extended "to a corner of Hannah Griffin's." This
appears to have been made in the settlement of the
estate of Emanuel Stout.
12 March, 1805, letters of administration were
granted on the estate of Samuel Freeman to EUza
beth Freeman, widow and proper administratrix.
Elizabeth Freeman, Avidow, signed her Avill 10 January,
1854, probated 14 February, 1854, leaving all her
property to Margaret Sherwood, Avife of John Sher
wood. If this is Elizabeth Stout, wife of Samuel
Freeman, and daughter of Emanuel Stout and Lurany
Owen — as it seems probable — she must have Uved to
be more than one hundred years old, older probably
than her half-sister, Ann Denny, who died aged 104
years. She CAddently left no children to inherit her
property. Her mother, Lurany Stout, married in
1747, died between 1750 and 1756.

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 41
(12) Jacob Stout (Emanuel, 6, Benjamin, Benjamin,
Richard), born in 1764, near Leipsic, Little Creek
hundred; died 28 November, 1855; married Angelica
Killen, born in 1765 (?), died 17 February, 1827,
in the sixty-third year of her age. She was the daugh
ter of WilUam KiUen, chanceUor of Delaware.
13th 6th mo., 1793, Mary Stoute, Jacob Stout, Jr.,
Nancy Stout and Lydia Stout signed the marriage
certificate of Sarah Emerson, widow. In the Delaware
Gazette and Eastern Shore Advertiser, of 7 June, 1794,
is published a roster of the Delaware State Militia,
and Jacob Stout was captain of 7th Company, 4th
Regiment. The same year a notice appears in the
paper that Jacob Stout would receive subscriptions
for it at "Fast Landing, " which was the name formerly
applied to Leipsic, implying that the land there was
above the reach of high tide, and not subject to overflow.
Jacob Stout was elected a member of the State
house of representatives from Kent county in 1812
and 1813, and a State senator from the same county
in 1816 and 1819. At the session of the General
Assembly in 1818, he was chosen Speaker of the Senate.
At the election held in November, 1819, Henry
MoUeston was elected Governor, but died before
January of the folloAving year, when he would liave
taken the oath of office. In his stead, Jacob Stout,
by Adrtue of his office as Speaker of the Senate, became
the twenty-first Governor of Delaware. He per
formed the duties of this office from January, 1820,
till January, 1821.

42 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
In 1822, he was appointed by Governor Collins a
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, to fiU a vacancy
made by the death of Judge Warner. He served the
court for several years. Nor did he escape the en
venomed shafts of his political enemies. We are
ever prone to believe that the past was better than
the present, that the press was then conducted on a
higher moral level; but when we get doAvn to facts
the modem newspapers have not displayed more
bitter animosity and painful personalities than were
leveled at Jacob Stout by an opposition paper on the
occasion of his appointment to this judgeship. He
was accused of being "utterly destitute of poUtical
principles," and his appointment was characterized
as "an outrage against the common voice of the people."
There is nothing in the Ufe of Jacob Stout to justify
this brutal attack on him in the editorial columns of
the Delaware Gazette, of January 25, 1822.
He was a leading business man in the community,
and for many years was a director of the Commercial
Bank of Delaware, at Smyrna, and from 1844 till
1847, he was the president (the second to hold the
office) of the bank. He was a very energetic man
when in the prime of his Ufe, and an exceedingly suc
cessful, enterprising and progressive farmer, taking
the greatest pride in the improvement of the many
farms which he OAvned. His constant endeavor was
to bring them to a high state of cultivation. "It is
said that he would always reside on the poorest farm
he had in order that he might be the better able to
improve it. He believed in planting trees, and it is

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 43
said that there are trees now standing in Leipsic that
were set out by his OAvn hands. Perhaps the greatest
enterprise he ever attempted was that in which he and
Thomas Clajrton were jointly and equally interested,
and which had for its object the reclaiming of a large
tract of marsh land knoAvn as ' Kent Island.' They had
such faith in the success of the undertaking that they
erected immense banks, dykes and gates as barriers
against the sea, and expended each a very large amount
of money in the work; but all their efforts came to
naught, for a great storm soon followed, and swept
away the works they had constructed at such enormous
cost, and their money and labor were entirely lost."^
Scharf relates (see "History of Delaware") that on
the 2 February, 1818, "Judge Jacob Stout and Chief
Justice Thomas Cla3d;on obtained an act from the
General Assembly granting them Kent Island, in
Little Creek hundred, upon condition that they would
reclaim it. Dykes were erected and canals cut, and
after five years of labor and expenditures of 40,000
dollars, the land was in excellent condition for tiUage;
but in 1830 a strong easterly storm swept every thing
before it and reduced the island to its original con
dition of marsh land." (Page 1116.)
In 1816, Jacob Stout is recorded as one of the largest
land-OAvners in Little Creek hundred, being in pos
session of 935 acres. He operated a large tannery
2 "Governors from Kent County." By James Pennewill.
(Addresses deUvered at the formal Presentation of the Portraits
of the Governors of Delaware to the State, Thursday, May
26, 1898, State Capitol, Dover, Delaware.)

44 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
at Dover, in 1818, whilst he was Governor, situated
on the north side of North street. He cut Leipsic,
or Little Duck, creek through to the Delaware bay,
across Bombey Hook island, thus reducing the distance
materially to deep water — Little Duck creek formerly
emptying into Duck creek. He was active in road-
building. In 1830 he planned and built a road from
Smyrna to Bombey Hook Light House, and in 1824, in
conjunction Avith Thomas Clayton he laid out the road
from Leipsic to Severson's Methodist Episcopal Church.
The house in which he lived was on the tract called
"White HaU," and was built in 1756, by Thomas
McElroy. On the grave-stone in the Presbyterian
church-yard, at Dover, where Governor Stout was
buried, is the foUoAsdng legend: "Jacob Stout died
November, 1855, aged 91 years. Governor of the
State, 1820. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas,
1822. Wife, AngeUca, daughter of Chancellor Killen."
children of JACOB STOUT AND ANGELICA KILLEN:
(30) I. WiUiam Stout, born  ; died young.
(31) II. Sarah Ann Stout, born in 1796; died

married Caleb H. Sipple, son of Moses
Sipple. In 1837 he was Secretary of the
Farmers' Bank of Dover. No issue.'
' On the Sth of January, 1848, Caleb H. Sipple, of Dover,
Delaware, to Sally Ann, daughter of Judge J. Stout, of Ray
mond's Neck, Kent County, Del. (From The Ddaware Gazette.)
An earlier marriage notice appeared in the Delaware Gazette and
American AdveHiser of the 24th of March, 1832, which, but for
the different middle initia,! letter, would seem to indicate an
earUer marriage: "15 March, 1832, George Y. Fisher to SaUy
S. Stout, both of Dover, Delaware."

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 45
(32) III. Henry Stout, born in 1800; died in 1865;
married Sophia J. von Flectenstein.
(33) IV. Mary Stout, bom  ; died  ; married
John Reed.

(13) Sarah Stout (Emanuel, 6, Benjamin, Ben
jamin, Richard), born 6 January, 1767; died 30 De
cember, 1852; married, (1), in 1785, Jacob Emerson,
born 2 June, 1751 (o.s.), died 1 July, 1789, son of
Govey and Sarah Emerson; (2), 13th 6th month,
1793, at Little Creek Meeting of Friends, Daniel
Cowgill, born 13th 5th month, 1754, died in 1818,
son of Ezekiel and Mary Cowgill.
Sarah Cowgill was a noted preacher of the Society
of Friends, and an active abolitionist. She endowed
the White Oak school for colored children, and charged
the cost of its maintenance on the farm now owned
by Peter Lowber. (Scharf's "History of Delaware,"
page 1120.) She left no issue by either husband.
"Memorial of Camden Monthly Meeting of Friends,
concerning Sarah CowgiU." (Read at Camden
Monthly Meeting of Friends held at Little Creek, the
13th of Second Month, 1854.)
"She was the daughter of Emanuel and Mary Stout,
and was born at Fast Landing, now the village of
Leipsic, Kent Co., Delaware, the sixth day of the first
month, in the year 1764.* Her parents were exemplary
* This date is plainly an error, as it is the year of birth of her
brother Jacob Stout. It is also seen to be a mistake by referring
to the foUowing obituary notices. (From The Delaware Gazette,

46 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
members of the Presbyterian Society. At an early age
her mind became impressed Avith a feeling of reUgious
obUgation, and as she yielded to the manifestations of
Ught, her spiritual strength was increased almost A\dth-
out knoAving by what name to call the sacred influences
that had led her on step by step.
"She was much beloved and her company sought
after by her youthful companions.
"About her eighteenth year she was married to
Jacob Emerson, a member of the Society of Friends.
She continued her connection with the Presbyterians;
enjoyed her reUgious meetings and seemed fully satis
fied with the faith and ceremonies of that people,
while her husband continued to attend the meetings
of Friends. They Uved together in great harmony,
but in a few years he was removed from her by death.
After this event, the remembrance that she had never
been to meeting Avith her husband caused much serious
reflections, and she wondered why it had been so. He
11 January, 1853.) "In Little Creek, on Thursday last
[6 January], Mrs. Sarah Cowgill, in the 89th year of her age.
She has been a pubhc friend for some 50 years." A few lines
lower down in the same issue appears a second, and evidently
a corrected, notice: "At her residence, near Dover, Del., on
the 30th of December, last, Mrs. Sarah Cowgill, in the 86th
year of her age." (From The Delaware Republican, 13 January,
1853.) "At her residence, near Dover, Del., on the 30th day
of December, 1852, Sarah Cowgill, in the 86th year of her age.
She was long a member of the Society of Friends, and was
distinguished by her holy life, her countless charities and sweet
amenity of manner in pubhc and social intercourse. Her life
of great usefulness on earth has met its reward in Heaven."

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 47
had made but little profession of religion, and she felt
there must have been some great inducement for his
going to a small meeting where there was neither sing
ing, vocal prayer nor preaching. She, therefore,
resolved to go to their meeting, at least for once.
"Soon after taking her seat, she found the undis
turbed stiUness of the place had a salutary effect upon
her feeUngs, and acknowledged it was good for her to
be there. This experience prompted her to go again,
and in doing so she was solemnly impressed Avith the
beUef that it was the right place for her.
"Her Presbyterian friends manifested much con
cern for her spiritual welfare in her thus absenting
herself from their meetings, and departing, as they
considered, from the true Christian faith. During
the various interviews they had on this interesting
subject, the kindliest feelings were maintained and their
social intercourse remained imbroken.
"Her first Avidowhood continued for several years.
She supported herself principally by the labor of her
OAvn hands, was constant in attendance of Friends'
meeting and was received into membership A\dth them
in the year 1790. In 1793 she married Daniel CowgUl,
a member of Little Creek Meeting. Their marriage
was productive of much happiness. Their means
were sufficient to have procured for them many indul
gences considered desirable by the world; yet from
conscientious motives they often practised self-denial,
by which they were enabled to exercise the gifts of
benevolence and charity. Their amiable dispositions,
added to their social virtues, made their pleasant home

48 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
the centre of attraction for a large circle of friends.
It was a place to which the love of God and the neighbor
was felt to abound; the door being open to the rich
and poor, the Avise and simple; many of whom availed
themselves of the boimtiful supply of good things,
both spiritual and temporal, that were judiciously
and freely offered.
"She was appointed to the station of an elder in
1797, and holding fast the profession of her faith with
out varying, became in 1804 an approved minister.
She possessed an active mind, a retentive memory,
quick perception and abiUty for close reasoning. Not
Avithstanding these qualifications, her reUgious com
munications were generally brief and addressed to the
hearts rather than to the heads of her auditors. She
travelled in the cause of truth in various directions. . . .
"She kept on the first day of the week an afternoon
school for colored children."
The remainder of this long memorial may be sum
marized as foUows: — She always manifested a deep
interest in the welfare of the colored race, and exerted
herself in their behalf. Her second husband died in
the year 1818, after a marriage Ufe of more than a
quarter of a century. An eloquent prayer was found
among her papers after her death, which she had com
posed and Avritten a short time after her second Avidow
hood. Her health greatly decUned during the last few
years of her Ufe, but she would not seek medical adAdce,
leaAdng it, as she said, in the hands of the Lord. She
continued to go to meeting, and preached acceptably.
In 1852 she attended meeting for the last time. Al-

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though groAvn extremely feeble, she refused all stimu
lants during her illness, on account of her temperance
principles. She died 30th of Twelfth month, 1852, in
the 89th [86th] year of her age, and was buried at
Little Creek. 5
In her early youth she became interested in the evils
of slavery, and having inherited a small negro from a
"near relative" [from William Griffin, her grand
father, who bequeathed to his "grand daughter Sarah
Stout a Negro Boy called Hack"], she determined to
make his condition as easy as possible, and to give
him his freedom as soon as she was able. She taught
him to read the Bible, and to knit stockings for his
bare feet. (From T^fS Friends' Intelligencer, 1855.)

(14) Rebecca Stout (Emanuel, 6, Benjamin, Ben
jamin, Richard), bom  ; died  ; married, prior
to 27 March, 1788, William Ruth, born  , died
in 1822.
The Avi-ll of William Ruth, of Little Creek hundred,
signed 20 January, 1822, probated 13 May, 1822,
mentions wife and children (as given below), brother-
in-law, Jacob Stout and nephew Ezekiel CowgiU. He
divided a large estate among his six children, and set
apart a plot of ground for a permanent family burying-
' "A tract of four acres, now owned by T. K. Taylor, near
Leipsic, was sold, 19 Nov., 1757, to Jonathan Osborne. Forty
square feet of this was reserved as a grave-yard, where Em
manuel Stout's daughter [Sarah] is buried." (Scharf's "His
tory of Delaware," volume 2, page 1118.)

60 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
place. He was one of the large land-owners of Little
Creek hundred in 1816. He was commissioned Justice
of the Peace 2 January, 1811, and again 6 January, 1816.
CHILDREN OF REBECCA STOUT AND WILLIAM RUTH:
(34) I. Lydia Maria Ruth, born  ; died  ;
married David Fleetwood.
(35) II. James Ruth, born  .
(36) III. WilUam Ruth, born  .
(37) IV. Samuel Ruth, born  .
(38) V. Peter Stout Ruth, born

(39) VI. Rebecca Stout Ruth, born ¦

(15) Martha Stout (Emani][el, 6, Benjamin, Ben
jamin, Richard), bom 22nd 4th month, 1771; died
21st 8th month, 1845; married, 11 November, 1791,
John Cowgill, born 25th 6th month, 1768, died 7
February, 1833, son of John CowgiU and Mary WorreU.
The marriage license of John Cowgill and Martha
Stout is on file at Wilmington, Delaware, and is dated
10 November, 1791. John Cogal (probably John Cow
gill, son of Henry, knoAvn as John Cowgill, junior, of
Little Creek) and WilUam Ruth signed his marriage
bond; and Mary Stout was Avitness, who could have
been no other than Martha Stout's mother.
In the Minutes of the Monthly Meeting of Friends
of Duck Creek, under date of 6th 10th month, 1792, a
complaint is made against John Cowgill for "marrying
out." In the minutes of the same meeting, held 8th
12th month, 1798, appears the foUoAving: "Martha

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Cowgill, Avife of John CowgiU, Avith three children. Adz. :
Ezekiel, Jacob and Daniel, requests to be received
into membership." John CowgiU evidently had made
his peace with the meeting before this date.
CHILDREN OF MARTHA STOUT AND JOHN COWGILL;
(40) I. Ezekiel Cowgill, born 12 September, 1792;
died February, 1881; married Sarah
Gordon MiUechops.
(41) II. Jacob CowgiU, born 15 August, 1794; died
15 September, 1800.
(42) III. Henry CowgiU, born 18 August, 1796; died
21 September, 1797.
(43) IV. Daniel CoASjgiU, bom 18 May, 1798; died
20 Noveiilber, 1799.
(44) V. Char,les Cowgill, born 27 April, 1800; died
3 August, 1854; married, (1), Ann Lea
Cowgill, (2), Mary Clymer Palmer.
(45) VI. James CowgiU, bom 9 March, 1802; died
17 February, 1879; married Effie South-
worth Walworth.
(46) VII. Sarah CowgiU, born 22 March, 1804; died
11 April, 1804.
(47) VIII. Mary CowgiU, born 10 February, 1806;
died 15 February, 1868; married, 1834,
Warren Walworth.
(48) IX. William CowgiU, born 7 March, 1808;
died l^ovember, 1875; married Hannah
Pleasanton.
(49) X. Daniel CowgiU, born 4 March, 1810; died
15 February, 1811.

52 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
(50) XI. AngeUca Stout CowgiU, born 22 December,
1811; died 20 April, 1897; married
Henry Cowgill.
(51) XII. EUzabeth Cowgill, bom 4 September, 1814;
died 1 November, 1814.

(16) Peter Stout (Emanuel, 6, Benjamin, Ben-
jamm, Richard), born 30 June, 1775, at Fast Landing
(now Leipsic), Kent county, Delaware; died in Janu
ary, 1811; married, 2 October, 1795, Frances Middle-
ton, bom 17 June, 1778, daughter of Thomas Middle-
ton (died 11 September, 1785), PhUadelphia, Pa.
The AviU of Peter Stout, signed 10th, 1st mo., 1811,
probated 29 January, 1811, narkes son Thomas; sisters,
Mary Clark, Martha CowgiU, Rebecca Ruth, Ann
Denny and Lydia Stout; brother Jacob Stout and
WilUam Denny, executors. Witnesses: — Daniel Cow
giU, Sarah CowgiU and WiUiam Denny. (Will Book
0, pp. 228 and 234.)
Peter Stout was a tanner, as is seen in an agreement
between Peter Stout, tanner, and Frances, his wife,
and Jacob Stout, farmer, 10 August, 1797. In a con
veyance made 7 December, 1803, a tract is located in
Murderkill hundred, Kent county, on the road to
Dover from St. Jones' bridge, north of Peter Stout's
brick tan-house.
children of peter stout and FRANCES MIDDLETON:
(52) I. Joseph Cannon Stout, born 8 February, 1797;
died 8 October, 1797.

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(53) II. Thomas Middleton Stout, bom 7 January,
1799; died 30 June, 1829; married EUza
M. Hayes.
(54) III. JuUana Stout, born 27 October, 1801; died
6 November, 1802.
(55) IV. Peter Stout, born 6 September, 1803; died
25 July, 1804.

(17) Ann Stout (Emanuel, 6, Benjamin, Benjamin,
Richard), born at Leipsic, Kent county, 1 January,
1778; died 5 January, 1882; married, 10 October,
1797, William Denny, born 28 February, 1760, died
17 February, 1816, son of Christopher and Hester
Denny, and grandson of Philip Denny.* This was his
^ The authority for the statement that he was the grandson
of PhiUp Denny is Scharf's "History of Delaware," which,
however, is not always a good authority. It is there stated
(page 1094, vol. 2) that PhiUp Denny conveyed by deed of
gift, dated 12 August, 1741, a tract of land caUed "Pearman's
Choice," to his sons John and Christopher, who on 8 May,
1765, made a division of the property. It is furthermore stated
there that a portion of this tract afterwards came into the posses
sion of George W. Cummins, who married the granddaughter of
PhiUp Denny; which is a mistake, as she was the granddaughter
of Christopher Denny and great-granddaughter of PhiUp Denny.
This statement of Scharf's receives corroboration from WiUiam
Denny's wiU, inasmuch as an "uncle John Denny" is there
mentioned. Evan Jones in his wiU signed 21 March, 1721, bequeathed
his dweUing and plantation, part of a tract caUed "Benefield,"
to George Martin and PhiUp Denny for thirty years, in partner
ship, and to their heirs for a further period of ninety years.
George Martin died, leaving a son George, who with PhiUp

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second marriage, his first wife being EUzabeth ColUns,
daughter of Thomas Collins, one time govemor of Dela
ware, who built and lived at Behnont HaU, near
Smyrna. He had the distinction of being the Colonel
of the Delaware MiUtia which Washmgton ordered to
report to him at Morristown for immediate service.
When they reached headquarters their term of enUst-
ment had already expired, and they marched home
again. (See the Griffin Genealogy, page 76.)'
Denny, son of PhUip, Sr., possessed the land. George Martin
died \rithout heirs, and PhUip Denny left seven children, of
whom Francis and PhiUp were administrators of his estate.
It may be inferred from this that George Martin and PhiUp
Denny married daughters of Evan Jones. This land after
wards was in possession of WiUiam Denny, of Dover, probably
son of Francis.
Christopher Denny was born November, 1718, and died
9 March, 1783. He had children, besides WilUam (above),
Christopher, born 14 Febmary, 1762, died 11 AprU, 1784;
Hester, who married  Deaton; and Nancy, who married
 Walker. Christopher Denny in his wiU, signed 26 Febru
ary, 1783, and probated at Dover, 26 AprU, 1783, mentions
children of his daughters, but calls only one by name; namely,
Elizabeth Deaton.
' The children of WiUiam Denny and Elizabeth ColUns were:
1. Mary Denny, born 6 August, 1786; married  MoDoweU.
2. Sarah CoUins Denny, bom 16 May, 1788; died 25 May, 1792.
3. George Denny, bom 16 August, 1790; died 15 September, 1792.
4. Henry Denny, born 28 July, 1793; died 30 October, 1796.
5. CoUins Denny, bom 28 August, 1795; married 17th 7th mo.,
1817, Ann Sinclair, daughter of Samuel Sinclair and Ann
Kennett, of Kennett Town. The Friends' records contain
the births of two children of this marriage, namely, Mary
Sinclair Denny and Elizabeth CoUins Denny.
WiUiam Denny and EUzabeth CoUins were married 25 August,
1785, and she died 26 October, 1796.

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 55
WiUiam Denny was a prominent farmer of Kent
county, Delaware, and was living at the time of his
death in Pennsylvania, whither he had removed about
1814. He signed his wiU as "of New Garden Town
ship,^ Chester Co., Pa.," and it was probated at West
chester, Pa., 26 February, 1816. He devised his lands
in New Garden toAvnship to his children by his first
wife, namely, Collins Denny and Mary McDowel; and
his lands in Duck Creek hundred, where his holdings
were greater, to his children by his second wife. He
mentions land bought there from the children of his
uncle John Denny. He was buried at his former resi
dence in Kent county, near Smyrna.
The foUoAving incident in the Ufe of Ann Denny is
related by Marion Harland in her "More Colonial
Homesteads." It is there stated "that she and many
other children gathered in Wilmington to greet General
Washington, as he passed through to his first inaugura
tion [at New York] as President of the United States.
When the great man came opposite to her, attracted
by that sweetness of expression which was always hers,
he stooped, took her in his arms, and kissed her." A
portrait of her in Quaker apparel is in Miss Harland's
book. Although born to a Presbyterian family, she,
and some of her sisters, came under the influence of
their Quaker neighbors, and became members of the
Society of Friends.
After the death of her husband, Ann Denny moved
from New Garden township to Wilmington, Del., for
8 A township along the Delaware boundary, in the south
eastern corner of the county.

56 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
the purpose of educating her children. After a resi
dence there of four years she went to her home in Kent
county, Del., where she built the house at " WoodlaAvn,"
the name of her home near Smyrna. She lived there
with her unmarried daughter Sarah until 1851, when
she moved again to Wilmington, where she remained,
this time, only a few years, moving to Philadelphia,
vidth her daughter Sarah, where they lived until Sarah's
death in 1864. After this event Ann Denny went to
live Avith her son-in-law George W. Cummins at " Wood-
laAvn," and lived there until her death. Her wander
ings may be traced in the records of the Wilmington
Monthly Meeting of Friends, where she was received
and dismissed to other meetings on certificates. It is
recorded there in 1851 that Samuel Denny is "unheard
of for many years and supposed to be dead," which,
however, was not the case. EveUna Maria and WilUam
Denny were "disoAvned" {i. e., dropped from member
ship), presumably for "marrying out," that is, to one
not a Quaker.
The following account of her death is taken from
The Daily Gazette, of Wilmington, Delaware, of Satur
day, 7 of January, 1882: —
"Mrs. Denny, of late years, had enjoyed unusual
good health, despite her advanced age, and was able
to read without glasses and to talk intelligently upon
the events of the past. Her memory was remarkable,
and up to the time of her death she could recaU occur
rences of her far-distant girlhood Avith unvarying cor
rectness. She was born on New Year's Day, 1778
right in the midst of the American revolution, and there-

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 57
fore was an eye-witness of all the stirring events that
have marked the history of the Federal Government.
For the past twenty years her birthday has been the
occasion of a family reunion, when all her descendants
would gather under the family roof [" WoodlaAvn," the
home of her daughter EveUna Maria Cummins, Avith
whom she lived], while the people of Smyrna and Kent
county joined in great numbers in Avishing 'Aunty'
Denny many happy returns of the day. In fact her
birthday was always a 'red letter' day in the neighbor
hood. The reunion was held on Sunday last [1 Janu
ary, 1882], as usual, at which time the old lady was in
her usual good health, serene and happy, and con
versed, with her usual vivacity, Avith the many rela
tives and friends who called. The next day, in some
unforeseen manner, she contracted a cold, which despite
the best attention of loving friends and the most skilful
medical attention, turned to pneumonia and proved
fatal." Many of the facts preceding this account taken from
the Gazette, as well as much of what follows, is con
densed from an article written by the Rev. W. B.
Gordon, of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, of Smyrna,
dated 10 January, 1882, and pubUshed in the Smyrna
Times. Ann Denny was a most remarkable woman in every
sense of the word — remarkable for her physical consti
tution, which enabled her to attain such great age Avith
strength but little diminished; more remarkable for
the vigor of her mind, which she retained unimpaired to
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clear as to events of each successive year that had
rolled over her; and most remarkable of all for her
sweetness of disposition and lovely Christian character.
None of the family at "WoodlaAvn" — children, grand-
chUdren, or servants — ever received from her a harsh
word, or an unkind look, and her love for the Master
was as pure and trustful as that of a little child for its
mother. She said to her daughter a short time before
her death: "I am trjdng to wait patiently for the
summons, only afraid I may become impatient." The
"impatience" never came, and when the "summons"
did, all felt sure she was "ready."
The principal factor in longCAdty is believed to be
inheritance. The extreme old age of Ann Denny may
therefore be attributed to her long-lived Dutch an
cestress Penelope Stout. Something, however, may
have been inherited through the Griffin blood, for an
uncle of that blood— Charles Griffin, brother of Mary
Stout — reached the age of ninety-seven years and eight
months in Western Pennsylvania, whither he removed
from Delaware. Dates are wanting for the preceding
generations, but this generation showed a remarkable
tendency to longeAdty, as a reference to their ages Avill
show. Jacob, died in his 90th year.
Sarah, died in her 86th year.
Rebecca (date of birth and death unknown).
Martha, died in her 75th year.
Peter, died in his 46th year.
Ann, died aged 104 years.
Lydia, died in her 88th year.

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children of ANN STOUT AND WILLIAM DENNY:
(56) I. Edward Denny, bom 10 July, 1798; died
24 June, 1799.
(57) II. Daniel CowgUl Denny, born 22 December,
1799; died 19 October, 1810.
(58) III. EUzabeth Denny, bom 30 October, 1802;
died 23 May, 1872; married Richard R.
Thompson.
(59) IV. Charles Griffin Denny, born 29 August,
1804; died 23 December, 1887; married
Sarah Maria Jaques.
(60) V. Sarah Denny, bom 8 March, 1806; died
5 February, 1864; unmarried.
(61) VI. EveUna Maria Denny, born 30 AprU, 1808;
died 14 June, 1896; married George
W. Cummins.
(62) VII. WUliam S. Denny, bom 22 AprU, 1810;
died 2 September, 1879, at Los Angeles,
CaUfomia. There is no middle letter in
his birth record; but his death record
contains an S.
(63) VIII. Samuel Denny, bom 17 April, 1813; died
2 November, 1885. In the records of the
Wilmington Friends' Meeting, there is a
memorandum, made 6 mo. 15th, 1876,
"of some long-absent members." He is
there said to be absent over 30 years, and
when last heard from was residing in an
interior county of IlUnois. He lived in
Missouri.
(64) IX. Daniel CowgiU Denny, born 15 February,
1815; died 15 April, 1857.

60 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
(18) Lydia Stout (Emanuel, 6, Benjamin, Ben
jamin, Richard), bom 30 May, 1780; died 2 February,
1868; married, 17 August, 1815, Robert Register
(his second wile), of Little Creek hundred, bom in 1777,
died 22 September, 1827, son of John and Esther
Register, of Talbot county, Maryland.
Lydia Register died in Philadelphia, at the home of
her daughter MaMna R. Martin, where she was living,
and, on the authority of her grandson. Judge J. Willis
Martin, of Philadelphia, she "enjoyed excellent health
to the day of her death."
children op lydia stout and ROBERT REGISTER:
(65) I. Robert Register, born 21 March, 1817.
(66) II. Malvma Register, born 18 November, 1818;
died 7 June, 1896; married Jonathan
WiUis Martin.
(67) III. Sarah Register, born 31 January, 1820; died
5 November, 1825.
(68) IV. Samuel Register, born 15 May, 1822.

The Cowgill Connection.
As there have been several marriage connections
between the Stouts and the Cowgills, and as the Cow
giU descendants of Martha Stout are numerous, I shall
here give a brief account of the CowgiU family.
Among those arriving in Pennsylvania on the "Wel
come" in 1682, were "Ellin CougiU, Aviddow and her
children"; at least, this is claimed, and it is probable

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that the claim is a good one. It is said that the number
of those who came over with William Penn on the "Wel
come" were about one hundred, but no authentic Ust
of them has been preserved. This is the expressed
opinion of members of the Pennsylvania Historical
Society who have investigated the subject.
On the 7th of the 4th month, 1682, the Settle Monthly
Meeting signed a certificate of removal for the foUoAving
persons, members of the Society of Friends at that
place ¦?
"Cuthbert Hayhurst [afterwards written Hearst]
Avife and family, Nicholas Waine, Avife and three chil
dren, Thom: Wriglesworth and Alice, his Avife, Thom:
Wahnsly, Elizabeth his Avife, and Tho: Croasdill,
Agnes his wife and six children, Tho: Stackhouse,
his Avife, Ellin CougiU, Aviddow and her children, and
Will™ Hayhurst." It is claimed that all these were pas
sengers on the "Welcome." If they were, they probably
formed one-third, or more of the entire number. Al
though the number of children accompanying Cuth
bert Hayhurst and Ellen Cowgill are not given, it is
knoAvn, approximately, how many the latter had
after her arrival. They all settled in Bucks county,
on the Neshaminy creek, at MiddletoAvn. In fact,
traces of almost all of them are found in the early
Bucks county Avills. It is there learned that WilUam
Hayhurst [Hearst] was the son of Cuthbert and Mary
[Hearst] Hayhurst. EUen Cowgill's chUdren, as
» Settle is in the extreme western part of Yorkshire, situated
on the Ribble, not far from the border of Lancashire. It is in
a very picturesque country.

62 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
identified from the records of the Middletown (Nesha
miny) Meeting, and from the "Minutes of the Board
of Property" — from lands granted to them — were
Jane, John, Ralph, Edmund and Jennet. Thus the
honor of descending from ancestors who came over
with the Proprietor, faUs to the lot of comparatively
few families, and of some of them it is difficult to prove.
John CowgiU, the progenitor of the Delaware branch,
married, (1), 8th month, 19th, 1693, Bridget CrosdeU,
both of "Neshamina," in Middletown, Bucks county.
Their children were, Elizabeth, born 24th 6th month,
1694; Thomas, born 21st, 4th month, 1696; John,
born Sth 5th month, 1698; Ellin, born 14th 10th
month, 1700. Bridget Cowgill, Avife, died 26th 2nd
month, 1701, and John CowgiU married, (2), 1703^,
Rachel Baker, the Avidow of Job Bunting. The Bimt-
ings were of Darby, Chester (now Delaware) county.
Pa. The children by the second marriage were, Rachel,
born 3rd 3rd month, 1706; Mary, born 23rd 11th
month, 1707; Ebenezer, born 19th 10th month, 1709;
Eleazer,!" bom 21st 1st month, 1710. No record has
been found in Delaware of any child by the second
marriage, nor of ElUn, by the first wife — she married
Thomas Brown of Nottingham.
" On the 24th of 4th month, 1761, Little Britain Prepara
tive Meeting "informs that EUsha CowgiU, son of Eleazer, an
apprentice lad, with his master, had been at work at the Fort
at Pittsburg, in the king's service." He was disowned in
consequence. (Bi-centennial Memorial of "Brick-Meeting
House.")

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A warrant, dated 26th 3rd month, 1715, was signed
to John Cowgill, of the county of New Castle, for
the resurvey of a tract of land in a fork of Appoquini
mink Creek; and on 1st 5th month, 1715-16, John
Cowgill desired the grant of about 100 acres of vacant
land, near his other tract in New Castle county, where
he had planted a tan-yard. On the 10th, 3rd month,
1718, John CowgUl, having erected a tan-yard on a
branch of "Black Bird's Creek," in New Castle county,
desired another 100 acres on rent.
It appears from these extracts from the land records
that John Cowgill removed to Delaware, to the lower
portion of New Castle county, probably about 1713
or 1714. The records of Duck Creek Monthly Meet
ing show the marriage of Elizabeth Cowgill, daughter
of John Cowgill, of Duck Creek in New Castle, and
William BroAvn, son of William BroAvn, of Nottingham,
county Chester, upon Delaware, married 1st 10th
month, 1715. It is knoAvn that the two sons, Thomas
and John accompanied the father to Delaware. These
married sisters, daughters of Joshua Clayton, of Little
Creek hundred, who was a son of Joshua Clayton, the
first settler of that name in Delaware.
The children of Thomas CowgiU and Sarah Clayton
were Thomas, Ezekiel and Jane. Ezekiel married
Mary, . . . and had EUzabeth and Daniel. The
last named, born 13th 5th month, 1754, died 1818,
married, 13th 6th mo. 1793, Sarah Stout (Avidow
Emerson). See No. 13.
At the time of the marriage of John CowgiU and
Lydia Clayton in 1720, he was caUed "of Kent county."

64 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
The sons of John Cowgill and Lydia Clayton are
given as John, Clayton and Henry." The following
are recorded in the records of the Duck Creek Monthly
Meeting as the daughters of John CowgiU, of Kent
county: Sarah CowgiU, married, 23rd 12th month,
1742, John Regester, son of Robert, of Talbot county,
Maryland; Elizabeth CowgUl, married, 18th 3rd month,
1743, Francis Neail, jr. Joshua Clayton, in his AviU,
mentions three other granddaughters, namely, Jean
Smith — daughter of Thomas and Sarah CowgUl, and
wife of Daniel Smith — Lydia Durborough and Eunice
Osbourne, Avife of Jonathan Osbourne. No further
consideration wiU be given to any of the children of
John and Lydia Cowgill, except to John who married
Mary WorreU, daughter of Joseph Worrell and Mary
Barratt. Their children were Lydia, born 20th 7th
mo., 1759, died young; Mary, born 13th 5th mo., 1761,
married William Corbit; EUzabeth, born 11th 10th mo.,
1763, died young; Clayton, born 13th 2nd mo., 1767,
died young; John, born 25th 6th mo., 1768, married
Martha Stout; Sarah, born 21st 1st mo., 1771; Joseph,
born 8th 11th mo., 1773; Worrell, born in 1777,
married Elizabeth Wilson.

The Martyrdom of John Cowgill.
There was Avithout doubt much disaffection and
lukewarmness to the cause of the colonies in the
" CowgiU's Corners, near Little Creek Landing, took its
name from Henry CowgiU, who married Elizabeth Osbourne.
(Scharf's "History of Delaware.")

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middle and lower portions of Delaware during the
Revolutionary War. This might be predicated from
the peaceful character of a large class of its settlers,
namely, Quakers. EAddence of this disaffection has
been given in the second number of this series.
John Cowgill obtained from his neighbors the title
of the "Quaker Martyr of Little Creek," and I am
able to give the full particulars how it came to be
bestowed upon him, in consequence of his refusal to
accept continental money in payment of debt.
I have extracted the following from the "American
Archives," 4th series, vol. 4, page 564:
"In Committee, Dover,
"January 4, 1776,
"Resolved, That the keeping up the credit of the
Continental currency is essential to support the United
Colonies in their Adrtuous opposition to ministerial
oppression, and that the refusing to take the said
currency, in payment of debts, &c., will tend to de
preciate the value of the same.
"Resolved, That it appears to this Committee, by
the confession of John Cowgill, a residenter of Little
Creek Hundred, in this County, that he has refused,
and, from conscience, shall refuse, to take said Con
tinental money in discharge of debts, or for other
purposes, when tendered to him.
"Therefore unanimously Resolved, That it is the
opinion of this Committee, that the aforesaid John
CowgiU is, by such his conduct, an enemy to his coun-

66 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
try, and ought to be treated as such by every friend
of American Uberty; and that they ought to have no
further deaUngs with him.
"Signed by order of the Committee of Inspection
and Observation for Kent Coimty on Delaware."
"Thomas Rodney,
Chmrman."

Those composing the Committee of Inspection
and Observation for Kent County in 1775 were, Caesar
Rodney, WilUam Meredith, John DiU, James Moor,
James Tilton, John Banning, WilUam Killen, Vincent
Loockerman, Benedict Brice, Benjamin Coombe, Na
thaniel Luff, John Clark, John Davis, Rynear Wil-
Uams, Elijah Morris, BeUtha Laws, Benjamin Clark,
WilUam CuUen, WilUam Cahoon, Edward Rees,
Isaac Carty, Thomas SkilUngton, Silas Snow, Ezekiel
Needham, WilUam Jordan, James SterUng, James
Wells, Jacob Stout, John Bell, Emanuel Stout, Risden
Bishop, Joshua Gordon, John Gordon, Vincent Loocker
man, Jun., Jonathan Caldwell, Thomas Rodney.
("American Archives," 1775, 4th series, volume 3,
page 132.)
At a meeting held at Duck Creek, 6th mo., 27th,
1778, "an account of the sufferings of John CowgUl
for refusing Continental Currency was given, read,
approved and sent to the Quarterly Meeting Com
mittee." The folloAving correspondence gives the family
accoimt of the affair:

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"Smyrna, 7-11-1824.
"Esteemed Friend
"Samuel R. Fisher: —
"As thee requested me some time past to give thee
an account of the sufferings of my father during the
Revolutionary War, I reflected on the subject and
found I could not give a satisfactory statement, being
very young at the time, therefore I addressed a letter
to my sister Mary Corbit (who is considerably older
than myself) informing her of thy request and desired
her to Avrite to me and give me a statement of the
particulars as far as she could recollect them. She
has done so, and the foUoAving is a true copy of her
letter." "Thy friend,
John Cowgill."
(who married Martha Stout)

"My dear Brother: — t
"I hope thee will excuse me for not haAdng before
now complied Avith thy request to give thee an account
of the particulars, so far as my memory serves me,
of the sufferings our dear father underwent during
the Revolutionary War.
"I will now endeavor to state the leading facts as
they occur to me. Many interesting particulars are
lost in the great lapse of time, which might have been
preserved had they been taken doAvn years back and
handed doAvn, as they ought to have been, entire,
as a bright example not only to our children, but to

68 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
others. The cause of his persecution was, as thee
knows, the faithful testimony which he considered
it was his duty to bear against war in all its branches,
and his consequent refusal to accept or deal in con
tinental money, which he beUeved to be a war measure.
This became pubUcally knoAvn, it is probable, on his
requesting one of his tenants to pay his rent in specie.
Soon after this he was arrested and taken before the
Assembly at Dover, and charged Avith traitorous
conduct in refusing to deal in continental money, as
on its free circulation depended in great measure the
successful prosecution of the war, and that for such
an offense he was threatened Avith a heavy fine, which
if he submitted to and paid, he should receive protec
tion, or otherAvise he would be declared a traitor and
left to the mercy of an exasperated people, many of
whom were then assembled in Dover. On his de
clining to take part at all to encourage war in any
case, he was dismissed, and on his coming out was
not molested by the mob, but suffered quietly to walk
doAvn the street.
"His horse which had been taken was returned him,
and he afterward expressed, that he never had his mind
more favored than at this tune, Avith a fuU confirma
tion that he was in the strict Une of his duty, thus in
bearing testimony against war, even at the risk of his
Ufe and property.
"For some time after this he remained at home
undisturbed, except that his cattle, sheep and grain
were occasionaUy taken off, but no personal violence
offered, tiU going to Meeting on a fifth day, mother

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and I being in the chaise, and my father on horseback
Avith one of my little brothers behind him, we were
met by a man in regimentals who turned and rode
on Avith him about half a mile, where they were met
by a party of armed men. When mother and myself
came up, my father was surrounded and a prisoner.
The child was taken from behind him, and he was
ordered to dismount and get into a cart which they
had brought to carry him to Dover. By this time a
number of Friends had come up on their way to Meet
ing. The officer commanded the music to play and
the party to march forward. We followed on behind
as far as the Meeting House, when my father caUed
out and bid us farewell, and they continued on towards
Dover. A paper was pinned to his back, on which
something was written in large letters, which I have
now forgotten.
"The calm and composed frame of mind in which
he was under all these dangerous circumstances led
the Captain to suppose he was insensible of his situa
tion, for ordering the cart to stop just before entering
the toAvn he addressed my father in these words:
'Mr. Cowgill you are not aware of the danger you are
in!' To which my father replied: 'I fear not them
that can kiU the body, and after that have no more
power that they can do; but I fear Him who after
he hath kUled the body, hath aU power.'
"After driving thro' the principal streets in Dover,
foUowed by the mob, they arrived at what was caUed
the 'Liberty Pole,' where it was pubUcally proclauned
that there was no protection for him, that aU persons

70 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
were forewarned at their peril to have no dealings
Avith him. Even the miller was threatened Avith the
destmction of his miU if he ground for his family,
and the school-master forbid receiving his children
at school. After this he was allowed to depart, and
many Friends returned Avith him to his home. When
we went to bed at night we did not know what would
be the issue before morning, and in this way we Uved
for several years, but through mercy were favored
Avith protection from a Superior Power.
"I Avill mention a circumstance as related to a friend
of ours long after the war, by one of the party that
took my father, and which furnishes a striking proof
even from the mouths of his enemies, of the power a
good man often has over his persecutors amidst the
greatest dangers.
"The roads at the time were wet and muddy, and
my father seeing this person walking near the cart,
in the most kind manner observed: 'Thee had better
get up and sit Avith me, as the walking is wet and I
am fearful thee will take cold.'
"The unaffected anxiety Avith which it was spoken,
the time and occasion, all conspired to make a lasting
impression on his mind, and as he stated, he never
had regretted any act of his life more than being con
cerned in this affair against one of the best of men,
and that no power on earth could ever induce him to
do the like again."

FIFTH GENERATION.
(24) Rebecca Register (Ruth, 8, Peter, Benjamin,
Benjamin, Richard), born 10th 6th mo., 1779; died
 ; married, 16 January, 1800, William Levick
(his first Avife), bom 5 November, 1778, died  ,
son of William Levick and Susanna Manlove, daugh
ter of Mark Manlove.
In the minute-book of the Duck Creek Monthly
Meeting, under date of the 7th 4th month, 1792, it
is recorded: "Women Friends handed in a Certificate
for Rebecca Regester, a minor, from Cecil Monthly
Meeting, dated 3rd month, 17th, 1792, recommending
her to our care, which was read and received." And
also the foUoAving, under the date of 7th 12th month,
1799: "William Levick, Jr., and Rebecca Register
(by the approbation of Little Creek Preparative Meet
ing) appeared here and declared their intention of
marriage ... to which the young man is directed
to procure the consent of his father, his mother being
present and consenting."
Susanna M. Griffin, bom in 1800, daughter of Jabez
Griffin and Sarah Levick, writing 18th 6th month,
1882, says: "I have a sampler worked by Lydia Stout
in 1773. She married a Register, and was grandmother
to uncle WilUam LcAdck's first Avife." This is quoted
to illustrate how unreUable family tradition is when
handed down by oral testimony. The facts are prob-
(71)

72 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
ably as foUows: Lydia Stout, who married Robert
Register, was not born until 1780, she therefore could
not have worked the sampler in 1773. It was prob
ably Ruth Stout, who married a Robert Register
in 1775, and who was the mother (not grandmother)
of "uncle WilUam Levick's first Avife," who worked
the sampler.
I have no record of any chUdren born of this mar
riage.

(32) Henry Stout (Jacob, 12, Emanuel, Benjamin,
Benjamin, Richard), born in 1800; died 25 February,
1865; married Sophia J. von Flectenstein, born
in 1813, in Wurzburg, Bavaria, died 17 November,
1900, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Henry Stout was graduated at Princeton in 1823
and was awarded an honorary oration for scholarship,
which was deUvered at the annual commencement.
(See "Academic Honors in Princeton University,
1748-1902.") He was admitted to the bar of Dover in 1826, and
removed to Baltimore, Maryland, where he practiced
successfully for a number of years. He afterwards
returned to Dover, and died there of apoplexy, on
the "Redman" farm, near Leipsic, aged 65 years.
While Uving in Baltimore he assisted in a codifica
tion of the laws of Maryland, and was made an asso
ciate judge there by a special enactment of the state
legislature. His cotemporaries at the bar speak of
him as possessed of a remarkable legal memory. His

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 73
mind was a storehouse of decisions of the courts,
and it is said of him, that he could readily, when
questioned upon a legal point, refer from memory
to numerous decisions, giAdng the reports in which
they could be found, and, in many instances, giving
the page itself. Legal papers draAvn by him were
models of ingenuity and skUl. His opinion in law
was seldom ever questioned, and was always held in
the highest estimation by his brethren of the bar.
(J. Thomas Scharf's "History of Delaware, 1609-
1888." 2 vol. PhUadelphia, Pa. See page 579, vol
ume I, "The Bench and Bar.")
The folloAving account of his wife is from an obitu
ary notice of her death in The Delawarean, Dover,
21 November, 1900:—
"She was the daughter of a royal official, who
occupied a situation of importance under King Max
of Bavaria, and belonged to an old aristocratic family
who date their ancestry back to the 12th century,
as set forth in a Latin extract taken from the Royal
Archives of Munich, whose genuine character is
guaranteed by the seal of the American consul, Frank-
Un Webster, at Munich, in the year 1862. The barons
of Flectenstein were well-known in Germany, Alsace
and Lorraine, and have furnished many illustrious
additions to the army and church."
She was a woman of great mental endowments,
and was possessed of remarkable energy. She spoke,
besides her mother tongue, French and EngUsh fluently,
and had a fair knowledge of ItaUan. She had traveled
extensively in Europe and in this country, and, al-

74 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
though haAdng spent nearly fifty years of her Ufe in
America, she still sighed for the customs and mode
of Uving of her native land.
children of henry stout and SOPHIA J. VON
flectenstein:
(69) I. Henry W. Stout, born  ; died  ;
married Emma Roeder.
(70) II. Emanuel Jacob Stout, born  ; married
Laura M. Bauman.

(33) Mary Stout (Jacob, 12, Emanuel, Benjamin,
Benjamin, Richard), born  ; died  ; married
John Reed. Their marriage license is dated 19 Febru
ary, 1823. John Reed was dead 2 August, 1848, when
his daughter Angelica married. She was then called
daughter of the "late John Reed, of Dover."
Scharf calls John Reed "one of the most thrifty
and energetic merchants of Dover." He was a native
of Mispillion hundred, and was descended from John
Reed who settled in the county about 1700. John
Reed, merchant, came to Dover in 1825. In 1831
he erected a large brick store, now occupied by the
First National Bank. The same year he built the
Capitol Hotel. He purchased the hotel property in
1829. A tavern had been kept on that site from
early times. He soon became the first merchant in
Dover, arid ovmed vessels that saUed from Leipsic.
He was also a large land-owner in different parts of
the county. (Scharf.)

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children of MARY STOUT AND JOHN REED:
(71) I. AngeUca KiUen Reed, bom  ; died -
married John A. Nicholson.

(72) II. EUzabeth Baynard Reed, born  ; died
 ; married Daniel Cowgill (No. 73).

(40) Ezekiel Cowgill (Martha, 15, Emanuel,
Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), bom 12 September,
1792; died Febmary, 1881; married, 1823, Sarah
Gordon Millechops, born about 1800, died Septem
ber, 1886, daughter of James MiUechops' and Leah
Pettigrew of Milford, Delaware, and granddaughter
of John Pettigrew and Ann McNeall, of Virginia.
John Pettigrew was an emigrant from Scotland, and
a soldier in the Revolutionary Army.
children of ezekiel cowgill and sarah gordon
millechops:
(73) I. Daniel CowgiU, born  ; died  ;

married Elizabeth Baynard Reed (No. 72).
(74) II. LaAdnia CowgiU, born  ; died  ;
married Everton Eager.
(75) III. John CowgiU, born  .
(76) IV. Virginia CowgiU, born 19 May, 1835; mar
ried John Kemp Bartlett.
'Properly Millechamps. The early French names acquired
curious phonetic spelling in Delaware. As an example of this
I wiU quote one from the Friends' records, namely. Chicken,
the French, Chiquen, being placed after it, in brackets, in the
records.

76 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
(44) Charles Cowgill (Martha, 15, Emanuel,
Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), bom 27 April, 1800,
in Duck Creek, Kent county, Delaware; died there
3 August, 1854; married, (1), 18 January, 1827, at
Little Creek, Delaware, Ann Lea Cowgill, bom in
Kent county, 6 August, 1809, died at Duck Creek,
18 January, 1831, daughter of John CowgiU and Mary
Ann Corbit; (2), 18th 4th mo., 1833, Mary Clymer
Palmer, born in 1808, died 6 July, 1874, daughter
of Levick Palmer, of Dover hundred, and EUzabeth
Clymer. Charles Cowgill and Ann Lea Cowgill
were second cousins.
children of charles cowgill and ann lea
cowgill:
(77) I. John Lea CowgiU, born 18 July, 1829;
died at Titusville, Pa., 11 May, 1885;
married Lydia P. WUson.
CHILDREN OF CHAELES COWGILL AND MARY C. PALMER:
(78) II. Levick Pahner CowgiU, born  , of Cam
den, Delaware.
(79) III. EUzabeth CowgiU, born  ; married Rob
ert Nickerson.
(80) IV. WiUiam CowgiU, born  , of Washing
ton, D. C.
(81) V. Jacob Stout CowgiU, born 17 April, 1840;
married Martha Stout CowgiU (No. 94).
(82) VI. Effie Anna CowgiU, born 14 October, 1842;
died 9 January, 1895.

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(83) VII. Charles Orvilla CowgiU, born 12 April, 1845;
died 17 February, 1847.^

(45) James Cowgill (Martha, 15, Emanuel, Benja
min, Benjamin, Richard), born 9 March, 1802; died
at Dover, 17 February, 1879; married, 1825, Effie
SouTHWORTH Walworth, bom at Rome, New York,
in 1804.
CHILDREN OF JAMES COWGILL AND EFFIE S. WAL
WORTH :
(84) I. Albert CowgiU, born  .
(85) II. Mary Cowgill, bom -

(86) III. Effie Ann CowgiU, born  .
(87) IV. Clara CowgiU, born in 1834; died 9 July,
1855 (at which time she was the only
daughter of James and Effie Cowgill).
James Cowgill and son were merchants in Dover,
and dealt in drugs, hardware and wall-paper.

(48) WiLLLiM Cowgill (Martha, 15, Emanuel,
Benjamm, Benjamin, Richard), born 7 March, 1808;
died November, 1875; married, 30 AprU, 1833,
Hannah Pleasanton, both of Kent county, Delaware.
2 The children of Charles CowgiU are from "The Ancestry
and Posterity of John Lea, 1503-1906." By James Henry Lea
and George Henry Lea. PhUadelphia, Pa., 1906.

78 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
children of william cowgill and hannah
pleasanton:

(88) I. John CowgiU, born  .
(89) II. Daniel CowgiU, bom  ; died young.
(90) III. Louisa CowgiU, born  .
(91) IV. Daniel, born 

(50) Angelica Stout Cowgill (Martha, 15, Eman
uel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), bom 22 Decem
ber, 1811, at Duck Creek; died 20 AprU, 1897, near
Dover; married at Smyrna, Delaware, 22 May, 1833,
Henry Cowgill, born 4 April, 1812, in Chester, Pa.,
died 27 October, 1881, at Willow Grove (Woodside),
son of John Cowgill and Mary Ann Corbit.
The same relationship existed here as in the mar
riage between Charles Cowgill and Ann Lea CowgiU.
John Cowgill, the father, moved from Pennsylvania
into Delaware in 1815. He was a son of Henry Cow
gill, and to distinguish him from his uncle, the "Quaker
Martyr," he was called "John Cowgill, junior," and
to differentiate him from his first cousin John Cowgill
("Duck Creek John"), the husband of Martha Stout,
he was knoAvn as "Little Creek John."
CHILDREN OF ANGELICA STOUT COWGILL AND
HENRY cowgill:
(92) I. John Henry Clayton CowgiU, bom 1 Janu
ary, 1834; died 27 October, 1868, without
issue.

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 79
(93) II. Charles CowgiU, born 22 July, 1836; died
 ; married Lucretia M. Phillips.
(94) III. Martha Stout Cowgill, bom 18 June, 1838;
died  ; married Jacob Stout Cowgill
(No. 81), which see.
(95) IV. Edward DaAds CowgiU, born 31 August,
1840; died 23 July, 1866, without issue.
He was a soldier in the Sixth Regiment,
Delaware militia, during the Civil War.
(96) V. Ezekiel CowgiU, born 21 November, 1842;
married Sarah E. Caulk.
(97) VI. George Fox CowgiU, born 24 September,
1845; died 21 August, 1847.
(98) VII. Florence CowgiU, born 6 November, 1852;
died 9 September, 1854.

(53) Thomas Middleton Stout (Peter, 16, Eman
uel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), born 7 January,
1799; died 30 June, 1829; married, 14 December,
1819, at Little Creek, by the Rev. John Durborough,
Eliza M. Hayes, born 19 February, 1803, daughter
of Manlove Hayes' and Mary Laws.
' Manlove Hayes, born 10 May, 1769, died 9 July, 1849, was
son of Richard Hayes (died in 1796), who married, 29 March,
1766, PrisciUa PoUi, born 15 November, 1742, daughter of
Charles Polk (born 14 March, 1703, died 18 August, 1784),
who married, 8 July, 1736, Patience Manlove (born 24 Septem
ber, 1711, died 13 September, 1776).
Richard (above) was son of Nathaniel Hayes (died in 1786)
and Elizabeth Carhsle, and grandson of Richard Hayes (died
in 1773) and Dolly Manlove.
Manlove Hayes married three times. His first wife was
Zipporah Laws (born in 1774, married in 1792 and died 8 July,

80 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
Thomas M. Stout was graduated from the Medical
Department of the University of Pennsylvania in
1822. The same year he was elected a member of
the Delaware Medical Society. At a meeting of the
society, held 10 May, 1825, he was treasurer. {Dela
ware Gazette, 13 May, 1825.) In the same year he
was elected to the state legislature on the Democratic
ticket as a representative from Kent county. Letters
of administration were granted on his estate in Phila
delphia, 9 July, 1829, to EUza M. Stout. The sureties
were Gouverneur Emerson, physician, and Daniel
Laws, druggist.
The Avidow married, secondly, 26 March, 1835,
William F. Boone (Judge Boone), of PhUadelphia, Pa.
1800); his second wife was Mary Laws (died 15 July, 1803,
married 24 March, 1801), sister of Zipporah Laws, and both
daughters of BeUtha and Sarah Laws; his third wife was Ann,
widow of Jonathan Emerson (she born 23 September, 1772,
married 14 May, 1814).
ChUdren by first wife:
Alexander L. Hayes (Judge Hayes, of Lancaster, Pa.), born
7 March, 1793, died 13 July, 1876.
Mary Hayes, bom 8 March, 1795, died Febmary, 1818, married
WiUiam Kirkley Lockwood, son of John Lockwood and
Ann Kirkley, and grandson of Richard Lockwood, member
of Delaware CouncU and Financial Agent of Delaware.
John Manlove Hayes, born 14 September, 1797, died 7 AprU, 1798.
Sarah Ann Hayes, bom 6 September, 1799.
ChUdren by second wife:
EUza M. Hayes, married Thomas M. Stout (above).
ChUdren by third wife:
Harriet Hayes, bom 17 March, 1815.
Manlove Hayes, bom 5 May, 1817.
Charles Hayes, bom 28 March, 1820.

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 81
children of THOMAS M. STOUT AND ELIZA M. HAYES I
(99) I. Alexander Stout, born 27 October, 1820;
m Philadelphia; died 13 September, 1822,
at Troy Farm, near Dover.
(100) II. Anna Maria Stout, born 20 December,
1822, at Dover; died 29 May, 1823, at
Troy Farm.
(101) III. Peter Francis Stout, born 9 October, 1826;
died September, 1874; married EUza
beth Musgrave.

(58) Elizabeth Denny (Ann, 17, Emanuel, Benja
min, Benjamin, Richard), born 30 October, 1802;
died 23 May, 1872; married, 13 December, 1826,
Richard R. Thompson,* of Philadelphia, son of
Richard Thompson, and Hannah, his Avife, of Rawden,
county York, England, born in 1800, died 10-2-1856.
* 13 December, 1826, at Friends' Meeting House, Smyrna,
Richard R. Thompson, of PhUadelphia, to EUzabeth R. Denny,
daughter of the late WiUiam Denny, of Smyrna. (From a
Delaware paper.)
The marriage is recorded in the Friends' records as foUows:
Richard R. Thompson, of PhUadelphia, son of Richard Thomp
son, of Rauden, county York, England, and Hannah, his wife,
and Ehzabeth S. Denny, daughter of WiUiam Denny, of Smyrna,
deceased, and Ann, his wife, married at Sm3Tna Meeting 13th
12th mo., 1826. Witnesses: — ^Ann Deimy, Sarah Cowgill,
Sarah Denny, Evelina Maria Denny, Charles Denny, William
S. Denny, and SaUy Ann Stout.
In both of these notices Elizabeth Denny is given a middle
letter in her name, which is not in the famUy record.

82 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
CHILDREN OF ELIZABETH DENNY AND RICHARD R.
THOMPSON:
(102) I. Helen Denny Thompson, born  ; died
 ; married, (1),  Johnson, (2),
Albert Conro.
(103) II. Mary Thompson, bom  ; died  .
(104) III. Horace Thompson, bom in 1829; died in
1859.
(105) IV. EmUy Thompson, born  ; died —
married Rev.  Carpenter (his second
Avife).
(106) V. Louisa Thompson, bom  ; died —
married  Smith.
(107) VI. Harry Thompson, bom  ; died —

This family resided for a whUe in Wilmington,
Delaware, and in the Northern District of Philadel
phia. Horace was transferred by certificate to the
Philadelphia Monthly Meetmg, 3-10-1853. The
girls aU forfeited their membership in the Friends'
Society; Helen, 12-5-1850; EmUy, 9-9-1852; and
Mary and Louisa, 5-10-1855. (Records of the WU-
mington Monthly Meeting of Friends.)

(59) Charles Griffin Denny (Ann, 17, Emanuel,
Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), born 29 August,
1804; died 23 December, 1887; married Sarah Maria
Jaques. Among the long-absent members of the Wihning-
ton Monthly Meeting was Charles G. Denny, "absent

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 83
over 30 years. Resided in Milwaukee. Now (1877)
in Texas." children of CHARLES G. DENNY AND SARAH
MARIA JAQUES.
(108) I. Edward Denny, bom 29 March, 1829;
died 5 AprU, 1882.
(109) II. Gideon Jaques Denny, born 15 July,
1830; died 7 October, 1886; unmarried.
(110) III. Martha Ann Denny, born 17 September,
1832; died 13 October, 1832.
(Ill) IV. Henry Denny, bom 20 November, 1833;
died 19 October, 1899; married Harriet
Smith.
(112) V. Martha Ann Denny, bom 22 August, 1836;
died 1 July, 1914; married D. B.
Smith.
(113) VI. Alfred Denny, born 16 March, 1839; died
26 June, 1912; unmarried.
(114) VII. Oswald Denny, bom 17 September, 1841;
died 12 January, 1851.
(115) VIII. Galena Denny, born 29 July, 1844; mar
ried William Pennell.
(116) IX. Lizzie Denny, bom 17 May, 1847; died
10 January, 1856.
(117) X. Clara Denny, bom 29 AprU, 1853; died 2
December, 1906; unmarried.

(61) Evelina Maria Denny (Ann, 17, Emanuel,
Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), born 30 April, 1808;
died 14 June, 1896; married, 8 June, 1837, George

84 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
Wilson Cummins,^ bom 18 January, 1809, died 23
January, 1891, son of John Cummins and Susan WUson.
The origin of the Cummins family is traced to John
Cummins, Lord of Badenoch, Regent of Scotland,
about the time of Edward I, of England. The emi
grant was Timothy Cummins, born in Scotland about
1689, who came to Maryland in the early part of the
18th century, under Lord Baltimore's patent, and
settled on the Eastern Shore, at Oxford, in Talbot
county, at the mouth of tbe Tred Avon river. His
son Daniel moved to Delaware. He was a signer from
Kent county of the ratification of the Federal Con
stitution. The emigrant and his descendants were members
of the EstabUshed Church of England, and later of
the Protestant Episcopal Church of this country. It
is said that Daniel Cummins was the chief founder
of St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Smyrna. This
first stood near the old settlement on Duck Creek,
but was later removed to Smyrna, as the trade shifted
to that place, about a mile distant southward on the
State Road, where that road was intersected by an
other road coming from Maryland to the Landing
on Duck Creek, at the head of naAdgation. The place
was knoAvn as Duck Creek Cross Roads before it took
the name of Smyrna.
John Cummins, son of Daniel and Frances Cum-
'8 June, 1837, in Christ Church, Philadelpliia, by Bishop
Onderdonk, George W. Cummins to Evelina M. Denny, daugh
ter of WiUiam Denny, deceased. (From a Delaware newspaper.)

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 85
mins, born 7 AprU, 1777, died 29 July, 1833, married,
17 June, 1806, Susan Wilson,* was the leading merchant
of Smyrna.
George W. Cummins, at the close of his educational
career — ^which was obtained in Smyrna and Wilming
ton — began his business education as a clerk in the
mercantile house of his father. He was later taken
into partnership, and at the death of his father as
sumed sole charge of the business. He afterwards
associated Avith him as partner his brother DaAdd
James Cummins. Besides doing an extensive local
trade, they bought largely of grain and other products
of the country and shipped in their own vessels to
the northern markets.
About 1859 he retired from business, and thence
forth lived on his country estate of "Woodlavra,"
about one mile south of Smyrna, and devoted his
energies to farming and raising of fruits. In 1856
and 1857 he represented the county in the state legis
lature, haAdng been elected thereto on the Democratic
ticket; and he was chosen by his colleagues Speaker
of the House of Representatives. But most of the
offices which he held were of a business character.
In 1868 he was made president of the Kent County
Mutual Insurance Company, an office which he held
untU 1886. He was a director of the Bank of Smyrna,
and for many years a director of the Farmers' Bank,
at Dover.
« Susan Wilson, of Kent county, Maryland, was descended
from Anthony Morris, the second mayor of Philadelphia.
See "The Morris Family," by Robert C. Moon.

86 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
children of evelina m. denny and george w.
cummins:
(118) I. George W. Cummins, born 1 May, 1838;
died 14 July, 1894; married, 28 January,
1868, Annie Coombe Clements, bom 4
July, 1844, died 15 December, 1912,
daughter of James Roe Clements and
Catherine Beaton Coombe, his wife, of
Sm3Tna. No issue.
(119) II. Sarah Ann Cummins, born 3 July, 1839;
died 10 April, 1905; unmarried.
(120) III. Louisa A. Cummins, born 20 December,
1840; died 24 January, 1909; un
married.
(121) IV. John WUson Cummins, bom 22 March,
1842; died 10 November, 1846.
(122) V. Charles Cummins, born 17 July, 1844; died
26 October, 1846.
(123) VI. Walter Cummins, born 30 October, 1846;
married, 29 April, 1908, in St. James
Cathedral, Toronto, Ontario, by the
Rector Canon Welch, Susanna May
Daniels (Avidow Smith), daughter of
James Daniels and Eliza Ramesbottom,
his Avife, both of London, Ontario.
(124) VII. Florence Cummins, born 26 January, 1849;
died 22 June, 1851.

(66) Malvina Register (Lydia, 18, Emanuel,
Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), born 18 November,

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 87
1818; died 7 June, 1896; married, 23 November,
1848, Jonathan Willis Martin.'
children of malvina register and JONATHAN
WILLIS martin:
(125) I. James Martin, born  ; married Mary
Stout CowgiU (No. 131).
(126) II. Jonathan WUUs Martin, born 29 May,
1856; married EUzabeth Cornelius Price.
(127) III. Edward Martin, born in 1860; married
Anna Rebecca Withers.
' PhUadelphia, Pa., 23 November, 1848, at Friends' Meeting
House on Green Street, J. WUUs Martin, of PhUadelphia, to
Malvina, daughter of Robert Register, deceased, late of Dela
ware. (Delaware newspaper.)

SIXTH GENERATION.
(69) Henry W. Stout (Henry, 32, Jacob, Emanuel,
Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), born  -; died  ;
married Emma Roeder, of Baltimore, Maryland.
children of henry W. stout and EMMA ROEDER:
(128) I. Harry K. Stout, bom  .
(129) II. Herbert C. Stout, born  .

(70) Emanuel Jacob Stout (Henry, 32, Jacob,
Emanuel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), bom in
1856; married 10 September, 1912, Laura M.
Bauman.' Dr. Stout graduated from the New York University
(Medical Department, University Medical College),
New York City, in 1878. This was afterwards the
University and Bellevne Hospital Medical CoUege. He
has been for a number of years lecturer on skin diseases
at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.
i"Dr. Emanuel J. Stout, a lecturer at Jefferson CoUege,
and Miss Laura M. Bauman were married last night at the
physician's home, 1401 Oxford Street, by the Rev. F. M.
Gray, of Mount Carmel Methodist Episcopal Church. Doctor
Stout was formerly a resident of Delaware, and his wife lived
in Mahanoy City." (Philadelphia newspaper.)
(88)

' STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 89
(71) Angelica Killen Reed (Mary, 33, Jacob,
Emanuel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), born  ;
died  ; married, 2 August, 1848, John A. Nichol
son, born 17 November, 1827, in Laurel, Delaware,
died  , son of Jacob Cannon Nicholson and Susan
Fauntleroy Quarles, of Virginia.
John A. Nicholson entered as a student of Dickinson
CoUege, Carlisle, Pa., in 1843, and after completing
the collegiate course there took up the study of law
under Martin W. Bates, of Dover, in 1847, and was
admitted to the bar in 1850. In the same year he was
appointed by Governor Ross superintendent of the
pubUc schools of Kent county. He was elected on the
Democratic ticket a representative to Congress from
Delaware in the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses.
During his first term he served on the Committee of
Public Expenditures, and on the Special Committee on
the Death of President Lincoln, and during his second
term on the Committee of Appropriations. (Lanman's
"Biographical Annals.") In the notice of his marriage,
published in the Delaware Gazette, he is called "of
Baltimore, Maryland."
children of angelica reed and JOHN A. NICHOLSON:
(130) I. John Reed Nicholson, bom 19 May, 1849;
married IsabeUa Hayes Hager.

(72) Elizabeth Baynard Reed (Mary, 33, Jacob,
Emanuel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), bom  ;
died  ; married Daniel Cowgill (No. 73), son of
Ezekiel CowgiU and Sarah Gordon MUlechops.

90 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
children of elizabeth b. reed and daniel
cowgill:
(131) I. Mary Stout CowgiU, born  ; married
James Martin (No. 125).

(73) Daniel Cowgill (Ezekiel, 40, Martha,
Emanuel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), bom  ;
married Elizabeth Baynard Reed (No. 72, above,
which see).

(76) Virginia Cowgill (Ezekiel, 40, Martha,
Emanuel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), 19 May,
1835, near Dover; married 12 October, 1858, in
Philadelphia, Pa., John Kemp Bartlett, born 5 May,
1832, in New York, N. Y., died 15 July, 1899, in
Baltimore, Md., son of John Bartlett (born 28 March,
1805) and Sarah PascheU Kemp (born 2 March, 1806),
both of Easton, Maryland.
After his marriage in 1858, John K. Bartlett moved
to Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1863 he returned to
Philadelphia, and in 1876 he settled in Baltimore. He
was an oil producer.
children OF VIRGINIA COWGILL AND JOHN K.
bartlett:
(132) I. John Bartlett, born 15 March, 1861; died
27 October, 1862.

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 91
(133) II. John Kemp Bartlett, born 9 August, 1863;
married Mary Garrett Dixon.
(134) III. Horace Bartiett, bom 19 March, 1865;
died 8 September, 1868.
(135) IV. Helen ConkUng Bartlett, born 21 October,
1866.
(136) V. Howard Bartlett, born 4 July, 1869.

(77) John Lea Cowgill (Charles, 44, Martha,
Emanuel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), bom 18 July,
1829; died at TitusviUe, Pa., 11 May, 1885; married,
at Hockessin, Delaware, 4 April, 1855, Lydia P.
Wilson, born at Hockessin, 15 August, 1828, daughter
of David Wilson and Sarah Hadley.
CHILDREN OF JOHN LEA COWGILL AND LYDIA P.
WILSON:
(137) I. Clara Lea CowgiU, born at Wihnington, Del.,
22 June, 1857; unmarried.
(138) II. Anna Lea CowgiU, born at Wihnington, Del.,
29 March, 1859; died at West Chester,
Pa., 7 AprU, 1862.

(81) Jacob Stout Cowgill (Charies, 44, Martha,
Emanuel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), born 14
April, 1840, at Duck Creek, Del.; died 6 September,
1912; married in Philadelphia, Pa., 10 December,
1871, Martha Stout Cowgill (No. 94), bom 18 June,
1838, daughter of Henry Cowgill and AngeUca Stout
CowgiU (No. 50).

92 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
This branch of the CowgUl family shows an, unusual
tendency to consanguineous marriages. Here it is a
marriage of first cousins, who were themselves the off
spring of second cousins. Jacob Stout Cowgill received
a business education at Fairbank's Business CoUege,
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a farmer, and resided on
his estate caUed "Byfield," near Dover. In the
obituary notice of his death it is stated that he was of
a very retiring disposition, but very much liked by his
acquaintances. He was buried in the Friends' burying
ground. Little Creek.
children of JACOB STOUT COWGILL AND MARTHA
STOUT cowgill:
(139) I. AngfeUca Stout CowgiU, born 6 June, 1874,
at "Byfield;" unmarried.

(93) Charles Cowgill (AngeUca Stout, 50, Martha,
Emanuel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), born 22
June, 1836, at Willow Grove, Delaware; died  ;
married 27 August, 1863, in Philadelphia, Pa.,
Lucretia M. Phillips, born 14 August, 1842, in New
Castle, Del., daughter of Calvin PhiUips and Jane
Johnson. Charles CowgiU was a soldier in the CivU War,
serving four years in the Twentieth Massachusetts
Regunent. He was wounded at BaU's Bluff, Antietam
and Gettysburg. At the close of the war he had
reached the grade of captain by promotion in the
lower grades.

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 93
CHILDREN OF CHARLES COWGILL AND LUCRETIA
M. PHILLIPS:
(140) I. Calvin PhiUips CowgiU, bom 16 July, 1874,
at Franklin, Pa.; married, 6 June, 1901,
at Dover, Del., EUzabeth Hasbrouck
Eager, born, 25 October, 1878, in Brown
county, New York, daughter of Everton
Eager and Lavinia Cowgill (No. 74).

(96) Ezekiel Cowgill (AngeUca Stout, 50, Martha,
Emanuel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), born 21
November, 1842; married, 24 January, 1865, Sarah
Elizabeth Caulk, bom 20 October, 1847, in Sussex
county, Delaware, daughter of John S. Caulk and
Mary Berry.
Ezekiel Cowgill is a farmer, liAdng in Kent county,
Del. He grows and ships large quantities of fruits.
He was a soldier in the Sixth Regiment of the Delaware
State Militia, which was employed in guarding bridges
during Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania.
He served for nine months.
children of ezekiel cowgill and sarah e.
caulk:
(141) I. AngeUca CowgiU, born  ; died young.
(142) II. John Cowgill, born in 1869; died young.
(143) III. Mary Berry CowgiU, born in 1873; mar
ried John Arnold Bernard.

94 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
(101) Peter Francis Stout (Thomas Middletou,
53, Peter, Emanuel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard),
bom 9 October, 1826, near Dover; died September,
1874; married Elizabeth Musgraate.
Peter Francis Stout was matriculated at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, in the Department of Arts
and Sciences, in 1841, and left in the first freshman
year. He was a musician and a composer, and some of
the popular melodies of his day were of his composition.
He was Adce-consul of Nicaragua, under his step
father, WilUam F. Boone, and after his return home,
he pubUshed a book, of which the foUoAving is the title
page: / Nicaragua: / Past, Present and Future; / a De
scription of / Its Inhabitants, Customs, Mines, Min
erals, Early / History, Modem FilUbusterism, Pro
posed / Inter-Oceanic Canal and / Manifest Destiny. /
By Peter F. Stout, Esq. / Late Vice Consul. / BeUa
Nicaragua! ElParaiso de las Indias. / PhUadelphia: /
John E. Potter, 617 Sansom Street. / 1859. /
Peter F. Stout was found droAvned in the SchuylkiU
river, after haAdng been absent from his home for sev
eral days. The day of his death is unknoAvn. He
was interred in the Monument Cemetery, PhUadel
phia, on the 17 September, 1874.
children of peter FRANCIS STOUT AND ELIZA
BETH musgraate:
(144) I. Thomas Sartori Stout, born 4 April, 1854;
died 22 March, 1905; married Adelaide
Viola MeUick.

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 95
(145) II. William Boone Stout, born  ; died  ;
unmarried.
(146) III. Maud Stout, born  ; married Albert
S. ElweU, of Bridgeton, N. J.

(116) Galena Denny (Charles Griffin, 59, Ann,
Emanuel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), born 29
July, 1844; married William Pennell, born 29 May,
1840; died 22 October, 1909.
children of galena DENNY AND WILLIAM
PENNELL :
(147) I. Sarah D. PenneU, married, in 1888, Charles
C. SouthweU.
(148) II. Elizabeth J. PenneU, married Charies W.
Kruger.
(149) III. Martha Eyre PenneU, married Frank D.
Rock.
(150) IV. Clara Lee PenneU, married, in 1903, Charles
D. ColUns.
(151) V. Galena Pennell, married Louis Strothman.

(125) James Martin (Malvina, 66, Lydia, Emanuel,
Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), born  ; married
Mary Stout Cowgill (No. 124), daughter of Daniel
Cowgill (No. 73) and EUzabeth Baynard Reed (No. 72).
James Martin was graduated from the PhUadelphia
Dental CoUege m 1875. He first practised his pro
fession m Philadelphia, and afterwards removed to
Dover, Delaware.

96 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
children of james martin and mary stout
cowgill:
(152) I. Mary Stout Martin, born  .

(126) Jonathan Willis Martin (Malvina, 66,
Lydia, Emanuel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), born
29 May, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa.; married in Janu
ary, 1886, Elizabeth Cornelius Price, born 
daughter of John Sergeant Price and SalUe A.

Baker, and granddaughter of EU Kirk Price and Anne
Embree, all of Philadelphia.
J. Willis Martin was graduated in law at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania in 1879, and afterwards studied
in the law office of J. Sergeant Price, with whom he
became associated in the practise of his profession.
After the death of J. Sergeant Price, the law business
was carried on Avith his brother-in-law, EU K. Price.
This partnership continued untU Judge Martin was
elevated to the bench in 1901, as president judge of
the No. 5 Court of Common Pleas. He was elected
November, 1901, for the term expiring 1912, and
was re-elected as a Republican nominee at the ensuing
election. CHILDREN OF JONATHAN WILLIS MARTIN AND ELIZA
BETH c. price:
(153) I. Sergeant Price Martin, born 
(154) II. Marion Willis Martin, born  ; married
Edward P. Rivinus, of Chestnut Hill.
(155) III. EUzabeth Gwen Martin, born — — .

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE 97
(127) Edward Martin (MaMna, 66, Lydia, Eman
uel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard), born in 1860;
married, 1887, Anne Rebecca Withers, born  ,
daughter of Hanson L. Withers and Rebecca E. Price,
and granddaughter of Eli Kirk Price and Anne Embree.
Edward Martin was graduated at Swarthmore
College in 1878, and received his A.M. degree from
the same in 1882. He received the degree of M.D.
from the Medical Department of the University of
Pennsylvania in 1883. He was made clinical pro
fessor of surgery at the Woman's Medical College,
Philadelphia, in 1902, and held the same position at
the University of Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1910.
While instructor in cUnical surgery he pubUshed his
work on "Surgical Diagnosis." In 1903 he was ap
pointed Director of PubUc Health and Charities of
Philadelphia, which office he resigned during Mayor
Weaver's administration in 1906. In 1910 he was
given the John Rea Barton professorship of surgery
in the medical faculty of the University of Pennsyl
vania. A portrait of him was painted for the Univer
sity Medical School by Henry R. Rittenberg.

SEVENTH GENERATION.
(130) John Reed Nicholson (Angelica Killen,
71, Mary, Jacob, Emanuel, Benjamin, Benjamm,
Richard), born 19 May, 1849, m Dover, Delaware;
married, June, 1884, Isabella Hayes Hager, born
 , granddaughter of Judge Alexander L. Hayes,
of Lancaster, Pa. (See page 80.)
John R. Nicholson is a graduate of Yale CoUege,
in the class of 1870. He was graduated at the Columbia
CoUege Law School in 1873, and was admitted to the
New York bar the same year. He practised law in
New York untU 1876, when he returned to Delaware
and began the exercise of his profession in Dover.
In 1892 he was appointed attorney-general of the
state, which office he held until 1895, when he resigned
to accept the highest judicial position Avithin the
gift of the state, namely, the office of ChanceUor.
CHILDREN OF JOHN R. NICHOLSON AND ISABELLA
H. hager:
(156) I. EUen Hayes Nicholson, born  .

(133) John Kemp Bartlett (Virginia, 76, Ezekiel,
Martha, Emanuel, Benjamin, Benjamin, Richard),
bom 9 August, 1863, ui Leavenworth, Kan.; married,
4 April, 1888, at Baltimore, Md., Mary Garrett

STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE

99

DixoN, bom 20 March, 1864, in Talbot county, Md.,
daughter of Robert Bartlett Dixon (bom 22 August,
1834, near Easton, Md.) and Sarah Amanda Amoss
(bom 3 September, 1836, in Harford county, Md.).
John Kemp Bartlett is a laAvyer, graduated in law
at the University of Maryland. Residence: 2100
Mt. Royal Terrace, Baltimore, Maryland.
children of JOHN KEMP BARTLETT AND MARY
GARRETT DIXON:
(157) I. Robert Dixon Bartlett, born 19 February,
1889.
(158) II. John Kemp Bartlett, born 2 November,
1890.
(159) III. Virginia Bartlett, born 27 March, 1892.
(160) IV. Mary Garrett Bartlett, born 29 May, 1893.
(161) V. Francis Gilpin Bartlett, bom 9 October,
1898.
(162) VI. James Dixon Bartlett, born 11 January,
1904.

(143) Mary Berry Cowgill (Ezekiel, 96, AngeUca
Stout, Martha, Emanuel, Benjamin, Benjamin,
Richard), born 9 August, 1873, at Woodside, Del.;
married, 18 October, 1893, John Arnold Barnard,
born 26 September, 1872, at Magnolia, Del., son
of Daniel P. Barnard and Anna MatUda Cross.
Residence: Woodside, Kent county, Del.

100 STOUT FAMILY OF DELAWARE
CHILDREN OF MARY BERRY COWGILL AND JOHN A.
BARNARD :
(163) I. Ezekiel Cowgill Barnard, born 27 De
cember, 1895.
(164) II. John Arnold Barnard, born 4 January, 1899.

(144) Thomas Sartori Stout (Peter Francis, 101,
Thomas Middleton, Peter, Emanuel, Benjamin, Ben
jamin, Richard), born 4 AprU, 1854; died 22 March,
1905; married Adelaide Viola Mellick.
Thomas S. Stout was born in Philadelphia, and died
at Mohawk, Lake coimty, Florida, whither he had
gone in search of health. He was suffering from
kidney disease. At the time of his death he was
chief clerk in the office of the City SoUcitor. He had
been connected Avith the city government for nineteen
years, and was an authority on the municipal laws.
He was Avidely and well known in Masonic and Re-
pubUcan circles. In 1885 he was elected secretary
of the Republican Campaign Committee, and served
three years in that capacity. He was a thirty-second
degree Mason of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite,
and was prominently identffied Avith Masonic lodges.
(From Philadelphia papers of 23 March, 1905.)
children of THOMAS S. STOUT AND ADELAIDE V.
mellick:
(165) I. Edna Fisher Stout, born  ; married
Arthur Chase Staples.

INDEX TO NAMES.

Aestin, Richard  15
Amoss, Sarah Amanda  99
Anderson, Ann  32
Anderson, John  32
Aplegate, Thomas  14
Arnold, Benedict  21
Baker, Rachel  62
Baker, SaUie A  96
Banning, John  66
Barnard, Daniel P  99
Barnard, Ezekiel CowgiU  100
Barnard, John Arnold. . 93, 99, 100
Barratt, Mary  64
Bartlett, Francis GUpin  99
Bartlett, Helen Conkling  91
Bartlett, Horace  91
Bartlett, Howard  91
Bartlett, James Dixon  99
Bartlett, John  90
Bartlett, John Kemp, 75, 90, 91, 98
Bartlett, Mary Garrett  99
Bartlett, Robert Dixon  99
Bartlett, Virginia  99
Bates, Martin W  89
Bauman, Laura M  74, 88
Beekman,   22
BeU, John  66
Benedict  5, 6, 7, 9
Berry, Mary  93
Bishop, Risden  66
Blackiston, Benjamin  39
BoesU, Edward  28
Boone, WUUam F  80, 94
BounneU, Edward  28
BounnelL Ruth  28
Bowne, James  14
Bracken, Rebecca  39
Brice, Benedict  66
Brown, Francis Shunk  35
Brown, Thomas  62
Brown, William  63

Brynberg, Peter  32
Bunting, Job  62
Gaboon, WilUam  66
Caldwell, Jonathan  66
Carlisle, Elizabeth  79
Carpenter, Rev.   82
Carty, Isaac  66
CauUi, John S  93
CauUi, Sarah EUzabeth  79, 93
Chew, Samuel  28
ChUd, James  20
Clark, Benjamin  66
Clark, John  66
Clark, Mary  52
Claypoole, James  32
Clayton, Joshua  63, 64
Clayton, Lydia  63, 64
Clayton, Sarah  63
Clayton, Thomas  43, 44
Clements, Annie Coombe  86
Clements, James Roe  86
Clymer, EUzabeth  76
Cogal, John  50
CoUins, Charles D  95
CoUins, EUzabeth  54
CoUins, Thomas  54
Conro, Albert   82
Coombe, Benjamin  66
Coombe, Catherine Beaton. ... 86
Corbit, Mary  67
Corbit, Mary Ann  76, 78
Corbit, WUUam  64
Corse, Rebecca  32, 37, 38
Corse, Ruth  38
Corse, Thomas  32, 37, 38
Corse, William  37
CougUl, EUin  60, 61
CowgiU, Albert  77
CowgiU, AngeUca  93
CowgiU, Angelica Stout, 52,78,91,92

(101)

102

INDEX TO NAMES.

PAGE
CowgiU, Ann Lea... 51, 76, 78, 91
CowgUl, Bridget  62
CowgiU, Calvin PhUlips  93
CowgiU, Charles, 51, 76, 78, 79, 92, 93
CowgiU, Charles OrvUla  77
CowgiU, Clara  77
CowgiU, Clara Lea  91
Cow¬giU, Clayton  64
CowMU, Daniel,
% 45, 47, 51, 52, 63, 75,
78,89,90  96
Cowgill, Ebenezer  62
Cowgill, Edmund.  62
CowgUl, EdAv^d Davis  79
CowgUl, Effie  77
CowgiU, Effie Anna  76, 77
CowgiU, Eleazer  62
CowgUl, EUsha  62
CowgUl, EUzabeth, 52, 62, 63, 64, 76
CowgiU, EUin  61, 62
CowgiU, Ezekiel,
31, 45, 49, 51, 63, 75, 79,
89  93
CowgiU, Florence  79
CowgiU, Greorge Fox  79
CowgiU, Henry, 50, 61, 52, 64, 78, 91
CowgiU, Jacob  51
CowgiU, Jacob Stout, 76, 79, 91, 92
CowgiU, James  51, 77
CowgiU, Jane  62, 63
CowgiU, Jennet  62
CowgiU, John,
CowgUl, John, 31, 34, 50, 51,
62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 75,
76,78,  93
CowgiU, John Henry Clayton. . 78
CowgiU, John Lea  76, 91
CowgUl, Joseph  64
CowgiU, Lavinia  76, 93
CowgiU, Levick Palmer  76
Cowgill, Louisa  78
CowgiU, Lydia  64
CowgiU, Martha  50, 52
CowgUl, Martha Stout, 76, 79, 91, 92

FAOET
CowgiU, Mary, 45, 51, 62, 63, 64, 77
CowgiU, Mary Berry  93, 99
CowgUl, Mary Stout  87, 90, 95
CowgUl, Rachel  62
CowgiU, Ralph  62
CowgUl, Sarah, 45, 46, 51, 52, 64, 81
CowgiU, Thomas  62, 63, 64
CowgiU, Virginia  75, 90
CowgiU, WUUam  51, 76, 77, 78
CowgiU, WorreU  64
Crispin^ Elizabeth  39
Croasddl, Agnes  1  61
CroasdUl, Thomas  61
CrosdeU, Bridget  62
Cross, Anna. MatUda  99
CuUen, WaUam  66
Cummins, Charles  86
Cummins, Daniel  84
Cummins, David James  85
Cummins, Evelina Maria  57
Cummins, Frances  84
Cummins, Florence  86
Cummins, George Wilson,
63, 66, 69, 84, 85, 86
Cummins, John  84
Cummins, John Wilson  86
Cummins, Louisa A  86
Cummins, Sarah Ann  86
Cummins, Timothy  84
Cummins, Walter  86
Curtin, Jeremiah  21
DaAfis, John  66
Daniels, James  86
Daniels, Susanna May  86
Dean, Alexander  29
Dean, Hester  29
Deaton, Elizabeth  54
Deaton, Hester  54
Denny, AHred  83
Denny, Ann, 33,40,62,55,66,57,58,81
Denny, Charles  81
Denny, Charles Griffin. ... 59, 82, 83
Denny, Christopher  53, 64
Denny, Clara  83
Denny, ColUns  54, 56

INDEX TO NAMES.

103

PAGE
Denny, Daniel Cowgill  69
Denny, Edward  59, 83
Denny, EUzabeth  69, 81, 82
Denny, EUzabeth CoUins  54
Denny, EUzabeth R  81
Denny, EUzabeth S  81
Denny, Evelioa Maria,
66, 69, 81, 83, 84, 86
Denny, Francis  54
Denny, Galena  83, 95
Denny, George  64
Denny, Gideon Jaques  83
Denny, Henry  83
Denny, Hester  53, 54
Denny, John  63, 54
Denny, Lizzie  83
Denny, Martha Ann  83
Denny, Mary  64
Denny, Mary Sinclair  54
Denny, Nancy  54
Denny, Oswald  83
Denny, PhUip  53
Denny, Samuel  56, 59
Denny, Sarah  56, 59, 81
Denny, Sarah CoUins  54
Denny, WiUiam, 35, 62, 53, 54, 55, 66, 81, 84
Denny, WUUam S  59, 81
Dm, John  66
Dixon, Mary Garrett  91, 98
Dixon, Robert Bartlett  99
Dod, Abel  22
Duke of York  11
Durborough, John  79
Durborough, Lydia  64
Eager, Elizabeth Hasbrouck ... 93
Eager, Everton  75, 93
EUis  6
Elves, Henry  20
ElweU, Albert S  95
Embree, Anne  96
Emerson, Ann  80
Emerson, Gouverneur  80
Emerson, Govey  46
Emerson, Jacob  34, 45
Emerson, Jonathan  80

PAGE
Emerson, Sarah  41, 45, 63
Enloe, Elizabeth  39
ffarson, WiUiam  17
Fisher, Fenwick  31
Fisher, George Y  44
Fisher, Samuel R  67
Fleetwood, David  50
Freeman, Elizabeth  35, 40
Freeman, Samuel  34, 40
Gano, George  28
Gano, James  28
Gano, Lewis  33
Goforth, John  25, 27
Gordon, John  66
Gordon, Joshua  66
Gordon, W.B  67
Gray, F. M  88
GriffioQ, Charles  58
Griffin, David  33, 34,39
Griffin, Eleanor  32, 39
Griffin, Elizabeth Stout  33
Griffin, George  31
Griffin, Hannah  40
Griffin, Jabez  71
Griffin, Jacob Stout  33, 39
Griffin, Martha  39
Griffin, Mary  27, 32, 33, 34
Griffin, Sarah  39,40
Griffin, Susanna M  71
Griffin, WiUiam  32, 33, 39, 49
Hadley, Sarah  91
Hager, IsabeUa Hayes  89, 98
Hamm, Alexander  35
Hamm, Ann —  35
Hamm, Benjamin  35
Hamm, Benjamin F  35, 36
Hamm, Charles  36
Hamm, John  35, 36
Hamm, Lizzie  35
Hamm, Lorena  35
Hamm, Lurania  35
Hamm, Mary  35
Hamm, Margaret  30, 35, 36
Hamm, Susanna  35, 36
Harland, Marion  65
Harper, James  36

104

INDEX TO NAMES.

PAGE
Hayes, Alexander L  80, 98
Hayes, Charles  80
Hayes, EUza M  53, 79, 80, 81
Hayes, Harriet  80
Hayes, John Manlove  80
Hayes, Manlove  79, 80
Hayes, Mary  80
Hayes, Nathaniel  79
Hayes, Richard  79
Hayes, Sarah Ann  80
Hiiyhurst, Cuthbert  61
Hayhurst, Mary  61
Hayhurst, WiUiam  61
Hearst. See Hayhurst.
HoUiday, Mary  31
Hudson, Charles  32
Hukffl, WUliam  36
Jansen, Anthony  15
Jaques, Sarah Maria  59, 82, 83
Jaquett, Johannes  25
Jenkins, Jabez  31
Jenkins, Rebecca  31
Johnson,   82
Johnson, Jane  92
Jones, Evan  53, 54
Jordan, WiUiam  66
Keen, Mary  20
Kemp, Sarah PascheU  90
Kennett, Ann  54
Baeft, Governor  10
KiUen, AngeUca  34, 41, 44
KUlen, WiUiam  28, 41, 44, 66
Kirkley, Ann  80
Kruger, Charles W  96
Laws, BeUtha.  66, 80
Laws, Daniel  80
Laws, Mary  79, 80
Laws, Sarah  80
Laws, Zipporah  79, 80
Lea, George Henry  77
Lea, James Henry  77
Lea, John  77
Leach, Frank WiUing  21
Levick, Sarah  71
Levick, WiUiam  38, 71, 72
Lewis, Elizabeth  25, 26, 27

PAGE
Lewis, John  26
Lewis, Josiah  26
LcAvis, Mary  28
Lewis, Phihp  28
Lewis, Stephen  28
Lockwood, John  80
Lockwood, Richard  89
Lockwood, WilUam Kirkley. . . 80
London, Ambrose  14
Loockerman, Vincent  68
Love, Ambrose  IS
Lowber, Peter  45
Luff, Nathaniel  66
Macpherson, John  20
Macpherson, Margaret  21
Macpherson, WUUam  20
MacPherson, John  20, 21
Manlove, DoUy  79
Manlove, Mark  71
Manlove, Patience  79
Manlove, Susanna  71
Martin, Edward  87, 97
Martin, Elizabeth Gwen  96
Martin, George  53
Martin, James  87, 90, 95
Martin, Jonathan WiUis. . 60, 87, 96
Martin, Malvina R  60
Martin, Marion Willis  96
Martin, Mary Stout  96
Martin, Sergeant Price  96
McDoweU, Mary  64, 55
McElroy, Thomas  44
McNeall, Ann  75
MeUick,   6
MeUick, Adelaide Viola. ... 94, 100
Meredith, WiUiam  66
Middleton, Frances  35, 62
Middleton, Thomas  52
MUlechops, James  75
MiUechops, Sarah Gordon, 61, 75, 89
Mfflis, James  32, 38, 39
MiUis, Rebecca  ".  39
MitcheU, Wm. H  13, 14
MoUeston, Henry  41
Moody, Lady  15
Moon, Robert C  85

INDEX TO NAMES.

105

PAGE
Moor, James  66
Morris, Anthony  85
Morris, EUjah  66
Musgrave, Elizabeth  81, 94
Naudain, EUas  24
NeaU, Francis, Jr  64
Needham, Ezeldel  66
Nicholson, Ellen Hayes  98
Nicholson, Jacob Cannon  89
Nicholson, John A  75, 89
Nicholson, John Reed  89, 98
Nickerson, Robert  76
Nicolls, Colonel  11
OnderdonkjBishop  84
Osbourne, Elizabeth  64
Osbourne, Eunice  64
Osbourne, Jonathan  49, 64
Owen, John  32
Owen, Lewis  32
Owen, Luraney  27, 32, 34, 40
Owen, Stephen  32
Palmer, LeAdck  76
Palmer, Mary Clymer  51, 76
Parker, Joel  11
Parrat, John  20
Penn, WiUiam  61
PenneU, wmiam  83, 95
PenneU, Sarah D  95
PenneU, EUzabeth J  95
PenneU, Martha Eyre  96
PenneU, Clara Lee  95
PennewiU, James  43
Pettigrew, John  75
Pettigrew, Leah  75
PhiUips, Calvin  92
PhUUps, Lucretia M  79, 92, 93
Pleasanton, Ann  36
Pleasanton, Hannah  61, 77, 78
PoBs, Charles  79
PoUc, PriscUla  79
Popomora  11
Potter, John E  94
Price, EU Kirk  96
Price, EUzabeth CorneUus. . . 87, 96
Price, John Sergeant  96
Price, PhiUp  26

Price, Rebecca E  97
Price, Sarah.  26
Prince, PenneUopey  14
Princes, Penelope  7
Quarles, Susan Fauntleroy  89
Ramesbottom, EUza  86
Reed, AngeUca KJUen  76, 89
Reed, EUzabeth Baynard, 75, 89, 90, 95
Reed, John  45, 74
Rees, Edward  66
Rees, Elizabeth Stout  33
Rees, PriscUla  39
Regester. See Register.
Register, Esther  60
Register, John  60, 64
Register, Lydia  60
Register, Malvina  60, 86, 87
Register, Peter  38
Register, Rebecca  38, 71
Register, Robert,
35,37,38,60,64,71,72,87
Register, Ruth  31, 32, 38, 39
Register, Samuel  60
Register, Sarah  38, 60
Reynolds, Daniel  27
Ridgely, Charles  28
Rittenberg-, Henry R  97
Rivinus, Edward P  96
Rock, Frank D  95
Rodney, Caesar  28, 66
Rodney, Thomas  66
Ross, Governor  89
Roeder, Emma  74, 88
Ruth, James  50
Ruth, Lydia Maria  50
Ruth, Peter Stout  50
Ruth, Rebecca  52
Ruth, Rebecca Stout  60
Ruth, Samuel  50
Ruth, WUUam  34, 49, 50
Salter  6,10,12,14,16,21
Shears, Francis  25
Sherwood, John  40
Sherwood, Margaret  40
Sinclair, Ann  54

106

INDEX TO NAMES.

Sinclair, Samuel  54
Sipple, Caleb H  44
Sipple, Moses  44
SkilUngton, Thomas  66
Smith,   82, 86
Smith, D.B  83
Smith, Daniel  64
Smith, Harriet  83
Smith, Jean  64
Smith, Samuel. ... 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12
Smith, Susanna May  86
Snow, SUas  66
SouthweU, Charles C  95
Stackhouse, Thomas  61
Staples, Arthur Chase  100
Steel, Sarah  36
Sterhng, James  66
Stockton, Frank  6
Stout, Agnes  18, 22, 23, 24, 25
Stout, Alexander  81
Stout, AUce  13, 18
Stout, Alse  18
Stout, Ann  35, 38, 63, 58
Stout, Anna Maria  81
Stout, Benjamin, 13, 17, 18, 19,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27,
30,36  36
Stout, Beth  38
Stout, Charles  23, 25
Stout, DaAdd, 5, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 22
Stout, DeUverance  18
Stout, Edna Fisher  100
Stout, EUza M  80
Stout, EUzabeth  26, 27, 34, 40
Stout, Emanuel,
27, 28, 32 33, 34, 40, 45, 49, 66
Stout, Emanuel Jacob  74, 88
Stout, Frances  52
Stout, Hannah  33, 34, 39
Stout, Harry K  88
Stout, Henry  45, 72, 74
Stout, Henry W  74, 88
Stout, Herbert C  88
Stout, Immanuel  26, 32

Stout, Jacob, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29,
30, 33, 34, 36, 38, 41, 42,
43,44,45,49,62,58  66
Stout, James  5, 13, 18, 19, 36
Stout, John, 6, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24
Stout, Jonathan  13, 18, 19
Stout, Joseph  19, 20, 21
Stout, Joseph Cannon  52
Stout, JuUana  53
Stout, Luranny  32, 40
Stout, Lydia, 34, 35, 41, 62, 58, 60, 71, 72
Stout, Margaret  17, 20, 35
Stout, Martha, 34, 60, 51, 58, 60, 64, 67, 78
Stout, Mary, 13, 14, 18, 25, 34,
40 41,45,50,58  74
Stout, Maud  95
Stout, Nancy  34, 41
Stout, Nathan. 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 18, 19
Stout, Penelope, 6, 7, 11, 15, 17,
18,21,22,35  58
Stout, Peter, 13, 18, 19, 22, 26,
27, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37,
52,53  58
Stout, Peter Francis  81, 94
Stout, Rebecca, 27, 30, 31, 32,
34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 49,
50  58
Stout, Richard, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13,
15,16,17,18,21  22
Stout, Ruth  31, 32, 37, 38, 72
Stout, SaUy S  44
Stout, Samuel  17
Stout, Sarah, 13, 18, 34, 36, 45, 49, 58, 63
Stout, Sarah Ann  44, 81
Stout, Susanna  35, 36
Stout, Thomas  36, 52
Stout, Thomas Middleton, 53,79,80,81
Stout, Thomas Sartori  94, 100
Stout, WUUam  44
Stout, WiUiam Boone  95

INDEX TO NAMES.

107

PAGE
Stoute, Elizabeth  17
Strothman. Louis  95
Taylor, John  32
Taylor, T.K  49
Thompson,   10
Thompson, Emily  82
Thompson, Hannah  81
Thompson, Harry  82
Thompson, Helen Denny  82
Thompson, Horace  82
Thompson, Louisa  82
Thompson, Mary  82
Thompson, Richard  81
Thompson, Richard R.... 59,81,82
TUton, James  66
Tumerj Robert  32
Van Prmcis, Penelope  7, 9, 14
Veal, Rachel  17
Von Flectenstein, Sophia J., 46, 72, 74
Walker, Nancy  54
Wahnsley, Elizabeth  61

PAGE
Walmsley, Thomas  61
Waine, Nicholas  61
Walworth, Effie Southworth, 61, 77
Walworth, Warren  51
Warner, Judge  42
Webster, Franklin  73
Welch, Canon  86
Wells, James  66
Whitehead,   9
WiUiams, RjTieer  66
WUson, David  91
WUson, EUzabeth  64
Wilson, John  22
Wilson, Lydia P  76, 91
Wilson, Susan  84, 86
Withers, Anna. Rebecca  87, 97
Withers, Hanson L  97
WorreU, Joseph  64
WorreU, Mary  50, 64
Wriglesworth, Alice  61
Wriglesworth, Thomas  61

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