Rebecca (Ashton) Stout (1672 - 1725)

Born 1672 in Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey

Ancestors

Wife of David Stout — married 1688 (to 1725) in Freehold, Monmouth County, Province of East Jersey

Descendants

Died 1725 at about age 53 in Amwell, Hunterdon, New Jersey

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Biography

Rebecca was born about 1672. Died 1725 in Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA. Buried in Stout-Manners Cemetery, Ringoes, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA^[1]

Rebecca Ashton, daughter of James Ashton, married David Stout, son of Richard I and Penelope Kent Van Princin Stout, 1688.^{[2] [3]}Rebecca Ashton Stout died after 1714 when she participated with her husband in a land transaction.^[4] .

They lived in Middletown, NJ until their son, James and Rebecca, their daughter, had married. They gave each of them one hundred acres in Upper Freehold, NJ. In 1725 David Stout moved to Amwell, NJ where he died and was buried on the farm.^{[5] [6]} She passed away about 1725.

They were the parents of:

1. Rebecca b 1691 m John Manners I
2. Freegift b 1693
3. James born about 1694 m Catherine Simpson
4. David b 1695/1669
5. Joseph b 1698
6. Benjamin
7. Deliverance m Francis Labaw
8. Sarah never married

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #5816188
2. ↑ Genealogical and Family History of Western New York, William Richard Cutter, The Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1912,Vol III, page 1107 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=kO4pAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA1107
3. ↑ American Marriages Before 1699 Accessed on ancestry.com, March 2024.
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4. ↑ Historical and genealogical miscellany, John E Stillwell, Hopewell, NJ, 1916, Vol IV page 347 http://archive.org/stream/historicalgeneal04stil#page/347/mode/1up
5. ↑ John E Stillwell, 1916 Vol IV page 347-348 http://archive.org/stream/historicalgeneal04stil#page/347/mode/1up
6. ↑ History of the Stout Family, Nathan Stout, 1823, page 18. Transcript accessed at https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/58243-the-history-of-the-stout-family-first-settling-in-middletown-monmouth-county-new-jersey-in-1666

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