Janet "Jane" Warford

Abt 1725 - 1765  (~ 40 years)

• Name	Janet "Jane" Warford
  Birth	Abt 1725
  Gender	Female
  Death	Jan 1765	Loudoun Co, Virginia
  Person ID	I86148	Roots
  Last Modified	4 Oct 2015

  
  

  Father	John Warford, Jr.,   b. Between 1683 or 1689, Eastchester, New York d. 1769, Kingwood, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey (Age ~ 80 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Stout,   b. 9 Jun 1691, Middletown, Monmouth Co, New Jersey d. Aft 1769, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	1708	Middleton, Monmouth Co, New Jersey
  	"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
  Family ID	F28332	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Allen, (immigrant),   b. 2 Feb 1711, Larne, Antrim Co, Ireland d. 8 Jun 1810, Gum Spirits, Virginia (Age 99 years)
  Marriage	1740	Hunterdon Co, New Jersey
  Children	+ 1. David Allen,   b. 1745, Amwell, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey d. 18 Jul 1830, Bourbon Co, Kentucky (Age 85 years)   2. John Allen,   b. Abt 1746, Amwell, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey d. Abt 1780, Loudoun Co, Virginia (Age ~ 34 years)   3. William Allen,   b. Abt 1748, Amwell, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey d. 1777, Revolutionary War (Age ~ 29 years)   4. Thomas Allen,   b. Abt 1750, Amwell, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey d. Abt 1778, Revolutionary War (Age ~ 28 years) + 5. Else (or Alse) Allen,   b. Abt 1752, Amwell, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey d. Abt 1784, Kentucky (Age ~ 32 years)   6. Ann Allen,   b. 1756, Amwell, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey d. Aft 1830, PIckaway Co, Ohio (Age 75 years) + 7. Elizabeth Allen,   b. Between 1758 and 1761, Amwell, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey d. Abt 1825, Bourbon Co, Kentucky (Age ~ 67 years)   8. Joseph Allen,   b. Apr 1764, New Jersey or Virginia d. 1 Mar 1843, Clark Co, Kentucky (Age ~ 78 years)
  Family ID	F28334	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2015