" [H]er father's name was Vanprincis ; she and her first husband, (whose name is not known,) sailed for New York, (then New Amsterdam,) about the year 1620 ; the vessel was stranded at Sandy Hook ; the crew got ashore, and marched towards the said New York ; but Penelope's (for that was her name) husband being hurt in the wreck, could not march with them ; therefore, he and the wife tarried in the woods ; they had not been long in the place, before the Indians killed them both, (as they thought) and stripped them to the skin ; however, Penelope came to, though her skull was fractured, and her left shoulder so hacked, that she could never use that arm like the other ; she was also cut across the abdomen, so that her bowels appeared ; these she kept in with her hand ; she continued in this situation for seven days, taking shelter in a hollow tree, and eating the excrescence of it; the seventh day she saw a deer passing by with arrows sticking in it, and soon after two Indians appeared, whom she was glad to see, in hope they would put her out of her misery ; accordingly, one made towards her to knock her on the head ; but the other, who was an elderly man, prevented him ; and, throwing his matchcoat about her, carried her to his wigwam, and cured her of her wounds and bruises ; after that he took her to New York, and made a present of her to her countrymen, viz. an Indian present, expecting ten times the value in return. It was in New York, that one Richard Stout married her : he was a native of England, and of a good family ; she was now in her 22d year, and he in his 40th. She bore him seven sons and three daughters...[She] lived to the age of 110, and saw her offspring multiplied into 502, in about 88 years." {HF2.1}