One of the twelve patentees named in the Monmouth Patent of April 8, 1665, by which deputy governor Richard Nicolls granted a triangular tract running from Sandy Hook west to the mouth of the Raritan, up the river about twenty-five miles, and southeast to Barnegat Bay. The patentees were mostly Long Island Quakers and Baptists, mostly out of Gravesend. Third of the twelve in the order the record lists them. He was married to Penelope Stout, the central figure in the most durable legend attached to Sandy Hook; few contemporaneous sources document her life.
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