Abraham Stout (1754 - 1821)

Ancestors Descendants

Contents 1 Biography 2 Research Note 3 Sources 4 Acknowledgements

Biography

Abraham Stout, son of Samuel Jr and Ann Van Dyke Stout, was born 1755 and married Jane Pettit May 10 1777 in Monmouth, New Jersey. Ralph Ege states there was no trace of his family and that they may have moved to Ohio to live on a large tract of land his father had purchased earlier.^[1][2]He is named in Samuel Stout, Jr, his grandfather's will proved February 7 1812 and to be included in the distribution of Patent 2600 acres in Ohio Co., State of Virginia.^[3]

Research Note

Keep in mind the Ohio Co., State of Virginia was a county in Virginia the Patent for the 2600 acres when it was made. The will was written after Ohio became a state in February 19 1803.

Sources

1. ↑ Pioneers of Old Hopewell, Ralph Ege, 1908, pages 264, 268 https://archive.org/stream/pioneersoldhope00egegoog#page/n277/mode/1up/search/samuel+stout+jr
2. ↑ New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VKMZ-219
3. ↑ Hutchinson, Elmer. Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc. Vol X. 1801-1805. Trenton, N. J. MacCrellish & Quigley Co Printers.:1946. Page 430. https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/609692-documents-relating-to-the-colonial-history-of-the-state-of-new-jersey-v-39?viewer=1&offset=0#page=430&viewer=picture&o=search&n=0&q=samuel%20stout

Acknowledgements

WikiTree profile Stout-1278 created through the import of McAllister-Jones-10:2012.ged on Nov 1, 2012 by Joseph McAllister. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Joseph and others. # 959-960

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"Josiah Wilkins Stout As chancellor of the sixth chancery division of Tennessee, with jurisdiction over ten counties, Judge Stout of Clarksville, has one of the highest positions in the state judiciary. During ten years in the office his course has been marked by an unwavering fidelity to the best ethics of the bench, and his systematic industry has set a record for the transaction of business in a court which the world over is known for the slow process of litigation.

Judge Stout, whose family is one of the oldest in Tennessee, was born in the capital city of Nashville. As a boy he attended the public schools of that city and a private school in Dover, after which he began reading law under Judge Scarborough. After his admission to the bar in December,1878, he opened an office in Dover, where he soon gained distinction as a lawyer of solid ability and integrity. It was these qualities that made him a reputation among the people, and his first important public office was that of state senator, his term beginning in 1889. In the senate he was a member of the judiciary committee and chairman of the committee on enrolled bills. he continued in practice at Dover until his election as chancellor in 1902, and in 1910 he was re-elected without opposition.

As long as Tennessee has been a state there have been members of the Stout family among its citizens. Great-Grandfather Abraham Stout gained the rank of captain during his service in the war for American independence, and was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati. About the time of the Revolution or somewhat later he established his home on the west slope of the Alleghenies at Redstone Old, where Brownsville, Pennsylvania, now stands, and there his son Samuel Van Dyke Stout, the grandfather of the judge, was born. The grandfather followed in the tide of emigration into the Kentucky region, and later became one of the early settlers of Nashville, where he established the first carriage factory and made it an important industry in the early history of the city.

Judge Stout's parents were Ira A and Sarah (Graham) Stout, both of whom were natives of Nashville, the father born here on March 6, 1817, and the mother on June 22, 1823. He learned his trade in his father's factory and continued as a carriage manufacturer until the beginning of the Civil war. His military record was a notable one. During the thirties he was a private in Captain Grundy's Company in the Seminole war. During the Mexican war, in the quartermaster's department, he was stationed at New Orleans. though beond the military age, he gave his help during the Civil war and was with the quartermaster's department throughout the war. He was a Democrat, a Mason, and a member of the Presbyterian church, while his wife was a Methodist. He died in September, 1899, and his wife in 1862. Her father, Andrew Graham was a native of Scotland, where he was a successful merchant, and after retiring from business came to America and spent the rest of his days in Nashville. Ira A Stout and wife were the parents of six children, and the three now living are: Irene, the wife of Dr. E A Harbert of California; Josiah W; and Samuel Seay Stout, who became one of the early settlers in the Salt River valley of Arizona, and has had a very successful career in ranching and farming there. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

AFFIDAVIT OF S.H. STOUT M.D. CISCO,TX OCT.10,1892 ABOUT LT. ABRAHAM STOUT IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY N.JERSEY LINE AND OF JOSIAH TANNEHILL CAPTAIN IN THE SAME ARMY OF THE VIRGINIA LINE. MRS. MARGARET WILKINS BARRY (NEE HILL) OF SAN ANTONIO TX, IS THE DAUGHTER OF DR. SAMUEL VAN DYKE HILL WHO WAS THE SON OF DR. DANIEL BROWN HILL AND MRS. MARGARET JANE HILL.THE LAST NAMED WAS THE DAUGHTER OF SAMUEL VAN DYKE STOUT AND CATHERINE STOUT (NEE TANNEHILL). SAMUEL VAN DYKE STOUT WAS THE OLDEST SON OF LT. ABRAHAM STOUT OF THE N.J. LINE OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. LT. ABRAHAM STOUT WAS THE SON OF SAMUEL STOUT AND ANN VAN DYKE STOUT, WAS BORN IN HOPEWELL, N.J. MAY 14,1754, AND DIED IN KY JULY,11,1821 PRIOR TO THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND, LT. STOUT WAS STATIONED WITH A SQUAD OF MEN AT A SMALL BRIDGE TO GUARD IT TILL A SIGNAL AGREED UPON WAS GIVEN TO RETREAT.THE SIGNAL WAS NEVER GIVEN AND LT. STOUT MADE FIGHT TO PROTECT THE BRIDGE. HE WAS WOUNDED IN THE SHOULDER, HIS SQUAD OVER POWERED WERE ALL TAKEN PRISONERS. LT. STOUT WAS CONFINED ON A PRISON SHIP IN THE HARBOR OF NY UNTIL THE CLOSE OF THE WAR.HIS HEALTH WAS HEREBY PERMANENTLY IMPAIRED AND HIS WOUND NEVER HEALED. LT. ABRAHAM STOUT WAS A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI.HIS DIPLOMA AS SUCH SIGNED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS FRAMED AND HUNG IN MY FATHER'S PARLOR FROM MY EARLIEST RECOLLECTION UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1850. AS MEMBERSHIP IN THAT SOCIETY DESCENDS TO THE OLDEST SON.IT IS NOW IN THE POSSESSION OF IRA ABRAHAM STOUT OLDEST SON OF S.V.D. STOUT (I.A.STOUT'S P.O. IS DOVER TENN.) THE ABOVE FACTS I LEARNED FROM SAMUEL VAN DYKE STOUT AND FROM RECORDS ORIGINALLY MADE BY HIM, AND COPIES IN HIS HANDWRITING OF RECORDS IN THE FAMILY BIBLES OF HIS FATHER LT. ABRAHAM STOUT AND HIS GRANDFATHER SAMUEL STOUT.MRS. MARGARET JANE HILL GRANDMOTHER OF MRS. MARGARET WILKINS BARRY AND THE UNDERSIGNED WERE CHILDREN OF SAMUEL VAN DYKE STOUT AND CATHERINE (TANNEHILL) STOUT. CATHERINE (TANNEHILL) STOUT GREAT GRANDMOTHER OF MRS. MARGARET WILKINS BARRY WAS THE DAUGHTER OF CAPTAIN JOSIAH TANNEHILL OF THE VIRGINIA LINE OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY.HE WAS WITH WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORGE, TRENTON, PRINCETON, AND MONOUTH. THESE FACTS I LEARNED FROM MY GRANDMOTHER, WIFE OF CAPT. JOSIAH TANNEHILL, WHO SURVIVED HIM MANY YEARS.SHE WAS BORN MARGARET WILKINS. THE FAMILY OF WILKINS SETTLED IN PITTSBURG, PA. BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, I HAVE NEVER HEARD THAT ANY ONE OF THEM WAS IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY.THEY MAY HAVE BEEN BUT I NEVER HEARD MY GRANDMOTHER SPEAK OF THEIR MILITARY SERVICES.SOME OF THEM HAVE ACHIEVED CIVIC HONORS, THE MOST NOTABLE OF WHOM, WAS JUDGE WILLIAM WILKINS, WHO WAS IN TYLER'S CABINET.WILLIAM WILKINS WAS A BROTHER -IN-LAW OF GEO.M.DALLAS (WHOSE SISTER HE MARRIED. HE WAS THE YOUNGEST OF THE GENERATION OF THE WILKINS FAMILY TO WHICH MY GRANDMOTHER MRS. MARGARET TANNEHILL BELONGED AND ITS LAST SURVIVOR. (SGD.) S.H. STOUT, A.M.,M.D.,L.L.D.

STATE OF TEXAS EASTLAND COUNTY.

SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED BEFORE ME THIS 10th DAY OF OCTOBER 1892 SEAL L.E. PRANNIN NOTARY PUBLIC EASTLAND CO. TEXAS

I HAVE THIS AFFIDAVIT DATED OCT.10,1892 Transcribed by Janet Dearth http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/stout/2383/

Brevet Captain Abraham Stout

born July 14, 1754; Sergeant, Third Battalion, first Establishment, New Jersey Continental Line, February 7, 1776; Ensign, October 29, 1777; Second Lieutenant Second Battalion, Second Establishment, November 29, 1776; First Lieutenant, January 1, 1778; taken prisoner April 5, 1778; exchanged December 3, 1780; Captain by brevet; died July 11, 1821.

Ira Abraham Stout - grandson

born March 6, 1817 in Nashville, Tennessee; admitted February 22, 1895; served as a volunteer in the Seminole War; Assistant Commissary of Tennessee during Mexican War

The Society of the Cincinnati is a hereditary society with branches in the United States and France, founded in 1783, to preserve the ideals and fellowship of officers of the Continental Army who served in the Revolutionary War. Now in its third century, the Society promotes the public interest in the revolution through its library and museum collections, publications, and other activities. It is the oldest hereditary society in the United States. The Society does not allow women to join, though there is a partnership society called Daughters of the Cincinnati which permits all female descendants of Continental officers.

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Confederate Hospitals on the Move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of TennesseeBy Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein pg 24 Chapter 1 One of the Best Medical Educations Available bio on Samuel Hollinsworth Stout, published in the Southern Practitioner in 1902

"After the Revolution, Abraham Stout married, moved to Pennsylvania, and had three sons. The oldest born April 13, 1786 was named Samuel for Abraham's father, and given his grandmother's maiden name, Van Dyke, as a middle name. Although he was born in Pennsylvania, Samuel Van Dyke Stout may have lived in Kentucky before he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, about 1811. S V D Stout established a carriage factory on Clark Street and about 1812, built a large house on the corner of the public square facing First Avenue. On October 12, 1813 at the home of Wilkins Tannehill, brother of the bride, twenty-seven-year-old S V D Stout married Catherine Tannehill."

Abraham Stout (1754-1821) served as sergeant, 1776 was lieutenant when taken prisoner 1778 and was exchanged in 1780. He was an original member of the Cincinnati. He was born in Hopewell, NJ and died in Kentucky. North American Family Histories DAR Lineage Book Application #16312 Miss Virginia Harbert Nashville, TN

Requested his Pension be sent to KY Office 4 May 1821 • Claremont County, Ohio Lt Abraham Stout appeared before the Pension Agency in Claremont, Ohio with Letter dated 4 May 1821 in Pension file asking that his pension be sent from PA Agency to the KY Agency Located in Pension file

Death 11 Jul 1821 • Mays Lick, Mason, Kentucky, USA 11 Jul 1821 KY date and place on Sons of American Revolution Applications of great grandson Samuel Seay Stout. date on Pension payment card looks like 11 Jul 1821. Society of Cincinnati records same date.

Son Samuel Van Dyke Stout's bio says he himself moved to TN in 1811 does not match movement of his father, Abraham. No record of Abraham being in TN. Abraham asked to transfer his pension from PA to KY in 1821 as he was moving. Samuel Van Dyke Stout was already in TN 10 yrs then. Children Samuel Van Dyke Stout b 1786 & Ira Stout b 1790 are both buried in same section 28.51 in the Nashville City Cemetery.

Abraham Craig Stout is a Name given as a son of Abraham Stout & Jane Pettit found in the Surname files of Samuel Van Dyke Stout at the Tennessee State Archives and Library recorded by me 28 Sep 2018 Angela Jones Harlan

One SAR application of Charles Jones Whitten son of William Henry Whitten and Ellen Melissa Jones, Grandson of John Furman Jones and Mary Stout Great grandson of Abraham Stout and Elizabeth Hyers/Heirs lists the Patriot as Abraham Stout b 1754 d 1821. This doesn't match the findagrave site for the Abraham Stout who they claim married Elizabeth Heirs dates do not match so one of them is in error!