- "On the surface, this is an improbable rags-to-riches story, but Elizabeth's circumstances were such that John's chances with her were much improved. For Elizabeth Stout had had a child out of wedlock in 1705 at age 14. The father of her child was James Hyde. The more specific recitation of the story comes from Stillwell's 'Historical Miscellany of New Jersey':
1705: The Grand Jury of Monmouth Co, N.J. present Elizabeth, daughter of James Stout, of Middleton, for a bastard child by James Hid, late of Middleton. She was fined 5lb and costs, or to be whipped ten lashes on her bare back. The fine was paid by her father, James Stout."
Elizabeth had left town during her pregnancy, for her child, Sarah, was born in Hopewell, a town of southern Hunterdon County near Trenton (now part of Mercer County). Elizabeth and her beau never marrid and this was the source of the civil penalty that was imposed after the child was born. It it is not clear what happened to Hyde as a result of this affair, though he probably went to Hunterdon County around the same time as Elizabeth and didn't return to take the punishment that the town would have dealth him. He lived in Hunterdon County until his death in 1775. Whether he ever married is unknown.
The stigma attached to Elizabeth took her out of the market for a "goo" husband and left the door open for such a low-born youth as John Warford. She and John married in Middleton in 1708 and their first child, Job, was born the next year. It certainly looks as if, even though Warford wasn't of the proper station to court respectable Stout women, he was fit enough to rescue young (and impetuous?) Elizabeth from the taint of her indiscretion. Whether daughter Sarah was raised by Elizabeth and John, by James Hyde, or by another family is also not known, but the child did all right in the end, marrying Aaron Runyan of Hunterdon County in 1734 and going on to raise a large family of her own in the Hopewell area.
The couple spent several years in Monmouth Cuonty, probably living with her parents, before John Warford purchased land in Freehold (probably a town lot) from his in-laws, James and Elizabeth Stout in 1714. He sold this in 1717 to Daniel Clayton. Where they lived after that is unclear, but the young couple went on to have a total of ten children: four boys and six girls. Daughter Jane, who was to marry William Allen, was born 1725. The family moved to Hunterdon County in 1729, joining a growing group of Baptist families heading westward from the Monmouth area.
pgs 165-166
"Reconstructing William Allen 1711-1799
including a social history of the Scots-Irish"
by Douglas Allen c2010
Warford and Stout Families
https://books.google.com/books?id=X59BAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA166&lpg=PA166&dq=james+hyde+elizabeth+stout&source=bl&ots=jQNNvezCDH&sig=-ppGMyc6tZvEyvQasEawX1HGjeY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBWoVChMIpeS_4vmcyAIVzZuICh1ANQ2n#v=onepage&q=james%20hyde%20elizabeth%20stout&f=false
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Abt 1723 - 1777 (~ 54 years)
d. 1769, Kingwood, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey 