JOHN AND SARAH CRANMER'S CERTIFICATE.

Ar a Monthly Meeting at Nathaniel flitz Randolph's in Wooudbridge y 19th Day of y° 4th Month, 1707.

At this Meeting John Cranmer gave in a Writing to ye Same which the Meeting Orders to be read-which was don and is as followeth :

The first day of y' third Month, 1707.

Whereas, John Cranmer and Sarah his wife late of little Egg harbour have been convinced of y Truth amongst us whose names are under written and have constantly frequented Meetings and have behaved themselves soberly amongst us and under a Sense of Truth in their hearts tho they are but week and our desire is that they be helped by friends where they come so yt which is good in them may be nourished and yt weak strengthened yt they may grow strong to ye glory of God.

By friends at Egg harbour.

Edward Andrews,

Mordicai Andrews,

Richard Willits,

Gervis Pharo,

Thomas Ridgeway,

William Cranmer,

Mary Jacobs,
Elizabeth Willits,

Jane Osborne,

Sarah Andrews.

[Extracted from the Minutes of the Woodbridge Monthly

Meeting.]

PENELOPE STOUT'S ADVENTURES WITH THE INDIANS.

WHILE New York was in possession of the Dutch, about the time of the Indian War in New England, a Dutch ship coming from Amsterdam was stranded on Sandy Hook, but the passengers got on shore. Among them was a young Dutchman who had been sick most of the voyage. He was taken so bad after landing that he could not travel; and the other passengers being afraid of the Indians, would not stay till he recovered, but made what haste they could to New Amsterdam. His wife however would not leave him; the rest promised to send as soon as they arrived: They had not been long gone before a company of Indians, coming down to the water side, discovered them on the beach, and hastening to the spot, soon killed the man, and cut and mangled the woman in such a manner that they left her for dead. She had strength enough to crawl up to some old logs not far distant, and getting into a hollow one, lived mostly in it for several days, subsisting in part by eating the excrescences that grew from it. The Indians had left some fire on the shore, which she kept together for warmth: having remained in this manner for some time, an old Indian and a young one coming down to the beach found her; they were soon in high words, which she afterwards understood was a dispute; the former being for keeping her alive, the other for dispatching: After they had debated the point a while, the first hastily took her up, and tossing her upon his shoulder, carried her to a place near where Middletown now stands, where he dressed her wounds and soon cured her: After some time the Dutch at New Amsterdam, hearing of a white woman among the Indians, concluded who it must be, and soure of them came to her relief. The old man her preserver gave her the choice either to go or stay; she chose the first! A while after marrying to one Stout, they lived together at Middletown among other Dutch inhabitants. The old Indian who saved her life used frequently to visite her; at one of his visits she observed him to be more pensive than common, and sitting down he gave three heavy sighs; after the last she thought herself at liberty to ask him what was the

matter? Ho told her he had something to tell her in friendship, tho' at the risk of his own life, which was, that the Indians were that night to kill all the whites, and advised her to go off for New Amsterdam. She asked him how she could get off? He told her he had provided a canoe at a place which he named : Being gone from her, she sent for her husband out of the field, and discovered the matter to him, who not believing it, she told him the old man never deceived her, and that she with her children would go; accordingly going to the place appointed they found the canoe and paddled off. When they were gone, the husband began to consider the thing, and sending for five or six of his neighbors, they set upon their guard. About midnight they heard the dismal war-whoop; presently camo up a company of Indians; they first expostulated, and then told them, if they persisted in their bloody design, they would sell their lives very dear: Their argument prevailed, the Indians desisted, and entered into a league of peace, which was kept without violation. From this woman, thus remarkably saved, with her scars visible through a long life, is descended a numerous posterity of the name of Stout, now (1765) inhabiting New Jersey.

[Samuel Smith's History of New Jersey, pp. 65-6-7.]