1692 Catherine Simpson was born in 1692.
Catherine Simpson married twice, to two men named Stout (not brothers). [1]:
Samuel Stout, youngest son of Jonathan the pioneer of northern Hopewell, was born in 1709, and in 1729 married Catharine Simpson, the widow of his first cousin, James Stout, of Amwell. They had one son, Samuel, born in 1730. (The published history of the family gives the date of his birth as 1732, but the inscription on his tomb in the old cemetery near the Baptist church gives the date of his death as September 24, 1803, and his age 73, which is undoubtedly correct.)
Catharine Simpson married James Stout, son of David, in 1712, in Monmouth County, and they soon after removed to Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, and settled on a tract of 700 acres near the present location of Wertsville, about five miles north of our Borough. By this marriage they had a family of six sons and one daughter, the oldest born in 1713, and the youngest in 1725. We are unable to give the date of the death of James Stout, but the "Stout History," written by his grandson, Captain Nathan, gives his age as thirty-six, and in all probability his death occurred about 1726.
Neither history nor tradition has left us any further account of Catharine Simpson who was thus bereaved and left with this interesting family to rear and educate, but judging her by the characteristic traits of her family, she was above the average in intelligence and ability, and was equal to the emergency. At all events the bewitching charms of this fascinating widow of Amwell, proved absolutely irresistible to the Hopewell Samuel, or he would not have volunteered at the age of twenty to take her brood of six Stout stalwart sons under his sheltering wing.
1712 Catherine Simpson and James Stout were married in 1712. They had children named Rebecca, Johnathan, James, John, and Jacob. [2] [3]
1727 James Stout dated his will on April 25 in Amwell Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Named wife Catherine and sons John, James, Joseph, David, Jacob and Jonathan. Uncle James Aston, uncle John Aston, and cousin Joseph Stout were named as potential executors. Proved April 26, 1731. Inventory by John Garrison. [4]
1727 James Stout Sr died in 1727 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. James Stout Sr was buried at Stout-Manners Cemetery, Ringoes, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He was born in 1694 in New Jersey. [5] [6]
1729 Catherine Simpson-Stout and Samuel Stout were married in 1729. [7]
1749 Catharine Stout died in 1749. Catharine Stout was buried at Stout-Manners Cemetery, Ringoes, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Catharine Stout was born in 1692. [8]
1781 Samuel Stout Sr died on October 31 in Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Samuel Stout Sr was buried at Hopewell Baptist Meeting House Cemetery, Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey. Samuel Stout Sr was born on March 9, 1709 in Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey. [9]
1749 Catherine Simpson Stout died on December 8, 1749, and was buried in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. [10]
AGBI records for Catherine Simpson. [11]
James Stout, son of David Stout and Rebecca Ashton, born Middletown, Monmouth Co., N.J., married. 1712, Catherine Simson (Simpson), and moved to Amwell in Hunterdon Co., N.J. [12]
Nathan Stout in his "History of the Stout Family" gives Rachel Cotter as wife of James Drake, son of Nathan Drake and Rebecca Stout. Rebecca was daughter of James Stout and Catherine Simpson, all of Hopewell, N.J. [13]
[1] Ralph Ege, Pioneers of Old Hopewell: With Sketches of Her Revolutionary Heroes (Hopewell, N.J., Race & Savidge, 1908), 63, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[2] C.W. ClemensLamb Family, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[3] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, [AncestryRecord].
[4] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 462, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[5] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[6] Find A Grave Memorial 5816192, [FindAGrave].
[7] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, [AncestryRecord].
[8] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[9] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[10] Find A Grave Memorial 5816201, [FindAGrave].
[11] American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), [AncestryRecord].
[12] AGBI Boston Transcript 21 Jan 1932, 2973, [URL].
[13] AGBI Boston Transcript 1 Jul 1932, 3816, [URL].