About John Estaugh
Lived 1675 – 1742 (aged 66–67). John Estaugh was a cleric.
John Estaugh (16761742) was an American Quaker minister in colonial New Jersey.
Biography John Estaugh was born in Kelvedon, England on April 23, 1676. He was a minister 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. 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.
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Who was John Estaugh?
English-American Quaker minister (1676–1742)
When was John Estaugh born?
John Estaugh was born in 1675 in Kelvedon.
When did John Estaugh die?
John Estaugh died in 1742 in Tortola.
What was John Estaugh's occupation?
John Estaugh was a cleric.
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