John Estaugh

John_Estaugh (c. 1676—1742) was an American Quaker minister in colonial New Jersey.

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

He was a minister[1] 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.[2] 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 there, and is presumed to be buried there as well.

References
  1. "Elizabeth Haddon Estaugh". A Hopkins Family History. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  2. "Marriage Certificate of John Estaugh and Elizabeth Haddon, 1702". Project MUSE. Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
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