Title page illustration for an 1864 edition of Tales of a Wayside Inn

John Estaugh (1676—1742) was an American Quaker minister in colonial New Jersey.

Biography

John Estaugh was born in Kelvedon, England on April 23, 1676.[1] He was a minister[2] who first met Elizabeth Haddon in England. He came to America to preach and later settled in Haddonfield, New Jersey.

Haddon met up with John and proposed to him and they were married in 1702.[3] Their love story is immortalized in the work of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn.

Later years

John went on a religious trip to Tortola in the West Indies in 1742. He died from a fever on December 6, and was buried there in a brick tomb.[1][4]

References

  1. 1 2 Prowell, George R., ed. (1886). The History of Camden County, New Jersey. L. J. Richards & Co. pp. 646–647. Retrieved June 30, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ↑ "Elizabeth Haddon Estaugh". A Hopkins Family History. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  3. ↑ Estaugh, John; Haddon, Eliz (1909). "Marriage Certificate of John Estaugh and Elizabeth Haddon, 1702". Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia. Johns Hopkins University. 3 (2): 71–72. doi:10.1353/qkh.1909.a399268. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  4. ↑ Jenkins, Charles F. (1923). Tortola: A Quaker Experiment of Long Ago in the Tropics. London: Friends' Bookshop. pp. 21–22. Retrieved June 30, 2023 – via Google Books.
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