THE TWELVE PATENTEES.
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It would naturally be supposed that the twelve men named in the Monmouth patent would be among the actual settlers, but the fact is, only four of them settled here, viz: Richard Stout, James Grover, John Bowne and Richard Gibbons. Many years after, it is supposed, James Hubbard came in his old age. William Goulding, Samuel Spicer, Sr., and John Tilton remained at Gravesend Nathaniel Sylvester remained at his home at Shelter Island, at east end of Long Island. Obadiah Holmes and Walter Clarke remained in Rhode Island. Nicholas Davis, of Newport, R. I., was drowned about 1672. William Reape, an active, energetic promoter of the settlement, was a young Quaker merchant of Newport, who died 1670; his widow. Sarah Reape, came to Monmouth and her only son, William, lived with her, but was insane from early manhood. Members of the families of most of the patentees, however, came here, and of course, all are entitled to honor for efforts to aid in establishing the settlement of the county.