I have been recently working on the profile of [[Rhoads-1304|Comfort Rhoads]], widow of [[Tilton-1594|John Tilton]] who died in 1748. She was granted administration of John's estate on 29 November, and in the abstract given in the Calendar of Kent County Delaware probate records [
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/25765/images/dvm_LocHist010772-00067-0?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&rc=436%2C1786%2C614%2C1841%3B613%2C1786%2C813%2C1842&pId=128&clickref=1011lirg4SL2%2C1011lirg4SL2&adref=&o_xid=01011l4xx5&o_lid=01011l4xx5&o_sch=Affiliate%2BExternal] I found: "Note: Arch. vol. A 50, pp. 147-148 show Comfort, the widow, later married Jacob Stout;"
I then found the records of the Lewes and Coolspring Presbyterian Church with Comfort's burial record as "Mrs Stout", listing her previous names: Wright, F Edward. Vital records of Kent and Sussex Counties, Delaware, 1686-1800. p. 118. Silver Spring MD: 1987. [
https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofke00wrig/page/118/mode/2up Mrs Stout]
The only likely candidate for the Jacob Stout who married Comfort would be [[Stout-3522|Jacob Stout]], as being in the right place of the right age. Jacob is shown by sources to have had a son Benjamin, with no mother identified. He owned land in the Duck Creek area of Kent County, where the Tiltons of Delaware also lived.
On the basis of the probate record, and the confirming evidence of the burial record, I attached Comfort as a spouse to Jacob Stout-3522. There is no reliable record to show that this Jacob Stout did not marry Comfort Rhoads about 1750 or that Comfort married some other Jacob Stout - any of whom would have been too young for the role.
This decision has met with disagreement, which I find both tedious and unseemly.
I recall seeing a parsing of our Honor Code which states that no one owns or possesses a profile, that we all collaborate on the basis of sources. My family relationship to Jacob Stout should have no bearing on such issues as his connections - only the source.
