Elizabeth Haddon

Overview

Elizabeth Haddon Estaugh born Southwark, London, England May 25, 1680 (d. 1762). Only American woman to found a frontier town, Haddonfield, NJ, 1701; Quaker who befriended local Lenape tribe with nonviolence.

Quotations

"I have received from the Lord a charge to love thee, John Estaugh." (Longfellow's "Theologian's Tale")