Rebecca STOUT

1730 - 1794  (64 years)

• Name	Rebecca STOUT
  Birth	1726-1730	Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey
  Gender	Female
  _UID	D2320E53D500418EAC1A0F9A9DD4DF6D351A
  Death	13-15 Jun 1794	Humphreyville, Chester, Pennsylvania
  Burial	Hepzibah Church Cemetery, Humphreyville, Chester, Pennsylvania
  Person ID	I13681	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	5 Jan 2006

  
  

  Father	David STOUT,   b. 1695, Clover Hill, Hunterdon, New Jersey d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Ann (Anne) MERRILL,   b. 1707, Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey d. 7 Jun 1801 (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	1726	Hunterdon County, New Jersey
  	NOTE MARRIED
  Family ID	F7139	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	John MITCHELL   d. 1794, Humphreyville, Chester, Pennsylvania
  Family ID	F7040	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Rev. Isaac EATON,   b. 1725-1726, Montgomery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania d. 2-4 Jul 1772, Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	1742-1748
  Children	1. Daniel EATON,   b. Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey d. Yes, date unknown   2. Urla EATON,   b. 1748-1749, Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey d. Yes, date unknown   3. Dr. Joseph EATON,   b. 1750, Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey d. 1775-1776 (Age 26 years)   4. Pamelia EATON,   b. 4 Nov 1755, Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey d. 4 Nov 1794, Fallowfield Twp., Chester, Pennsylvania (Age 39 years)   5. Amy EATON,   b. 1758, Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey d. Yes, date unknown   6. Isaac EATON,   b. 1760, Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey d. Yes, date unknown   7. Dr. David EATON,   b. 21 Oct 1762, Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey d. 13 Aug 1813, London Tract, Chester, Pennsylvania (Age 50 years)
  Family ID	F7032	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  BIRTH: Conflicting information: Birth place, Amwell Twp, Hunterdon New Jersey. AFN:W4VK-1D DEATH: Conflict: Place Amwell Twp,Hunterdon,New Jersey. AFN:W4VK-1D Biography: From "Stout and Allied Families". Lived in Hopewell,Hunderdon,NJ, 1748. Husband, Isaac Eaton was a minister and practised physic at Hopewell: founded ministerial seminary and buried at pulpit of Hopewell Baptist Church. Will proved 20 Aug 1772: Lib. 15, p.467, New Jersey Will. Names issue: "David a minor". Colonel Joseph Stout Chapter of D.A.R. has an etching of the church: "The first Old School Baptist Church, Organized in America April 23, 1715. A brochure of "The Hopewell Museum" states:: "Jonathon Stout (8th child of Ancestor, Richard Stout) was the first settler in the immediate vicinity of Hopewell Borough. He moved here in 1708 after the purchase of a large tract of land described as one-sixteenth part of West Jersey. He had first visited the area to hunt with friendly Indians. Descendants still live in the community and take an active interest in the Museum. Also in the same brochure it says: "Hopewell early established schools. In 1756 Isaac Eaton opened an outstanding Academy in the lovely old Holcome house on West Broad Street. The New Jersey Legislature would not give him a charter to expand his school inot a college so he moved to lRhode Island where he received more encouragement. His school eventually became Brown Universit y." Rebecca Stout lived with her daughter Pamelia (Eaton) Humphrey in Humphreyville, PA in later years when she was widowed. She joined the Hepzibah Baptist Church there. She was buried in the Hepzibah cemetery, plot to the right of the church toward the front.