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20 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION prominent Friends' families from Pennsylvania and New Jersey have a bond of association with it, as the last resting place of the earthly form of some of their ancestors. Bibliography of Little Egg Harbor Meeting Blackman, Leah. History of Little Egg Harbor Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. (In Assn. of Practical Surveyors of West New Jersey. Camden. 1880.) Friend, The (Phila.), 62(1889) :236; 72(1899) :337. Heston, Alfred M. South Jersey, a Hutory. 5 vols. 1924.—See 1 :141—143 et passim. Almost nothing is given in the general histories of New Jersey, even in the one by Samuel Smith. The basic source for a detailed study is in the original manuscript records preserved at 304 Arch Street, Philadelphia. These are as follows: Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, Tuckerton, New Jersey: Men's Minutes, 1715-1762; 1784-1901 Women's Minutes, 1715-1762; 1765-1787; 1817-1876 Births and Deaths, 1779-1886, fragmentary Marriages, 1786-1872, fragmentary Little Egg Harbor Preparative Meeting Men's Minutes, 1805-1880 Women's Minutes, 1817-1853 EBENEZER HOPKINS, 1718-1757 By Rebecca Nicholson Taylor In 1701, John Haddon, Quaker, of London, entrusted to his young daughter , Elizabeth, the care of his large properties in the new Province of West Jersey. Her courageous acceptance of the trust, her long voyage, her establishment in the humble house already on her father's property, and her marriage to John Estaugh, the young Quaker preacher, is a story familiar to many. The Haddon properties increased rapidly in value. Surveys were made, fields cleared and cultivated, and roads improved. In 1713 John and Elizabeth Estaugh built a large brick house, superior to all buildings in the neighborhood at that time. It remained standing until 1842, when it was destroyed by fire. The site chosen for this new house was on higher ground than their former home, more central to their property, and nearer to the King's Highway and to the meeting house. This part of their estate now became known as New Haddonfield, and the present town of Haddonfield began gradually to spring up along the King's Highway. In 1714 John Haddon sent some furniture and other items for the new house to his daughter by the ship Mary Hope, John Annis, Master. Among EBENEZER HOPKINS21 the list of goods we note the following : thirteen chairs, two looking glasses, one desk, one chest of drawers, certain tinwares, sewing silk, etc. The desk is probably the one which now belongs to the Woodbury Historical Society: The chest is in the possession of the writer. This consignment had a long and eventful voyage, and a narrow escape from the bottom of the sea. In a letter dated Second Month 23rd, 1715, John Haddon wrote to his " Most entirely beloved children," telling of the troubles of poor John Annis who had a hard time getting to Philadelphia. " Beating it off your coast for five weeks or more," and finally " forced to bear away to Nevis where he wrote the account thereof to John Ascue, in the Twelfth month, and sayes in a weeks' time he should be ready to sail again for Philadelphia, and hope he is with you before this date." When we remember that these voyages were made before the invention of the sextant and the chronometer, so indispensable to modern navigation, that there were no lighthouses before 1754 to guide vessels entering the Delaware, and that pirates were roving the high seas, we realize what a long and dangerous voyage lay between England and West Jersey. That John and Elizabeth Estaugh crossed the Atlantic Ocean seven times illustrates their energy and determination. Their second visit to England was from Eighth month, 1715, to Fifth month, 1716. On this occasion there was one subject which was of growing importance, and it probably was carefully considered by the Haddon family group. John and Elizabeth had by this time given up hope of a child of their own, and the question of an heir to the Haddon acres was a serious one. John Haddon's elder daughter, Sarah, was married to Benjamin Hopkins and, naturally, one of her children was selected. There were...

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