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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1680|05|25}}
| birth_place = [[Southwark]], London, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1762|03|30|1680|05|25}}
| death_place = [[Haddonfield, New Jersey]], [[British America]]
| burial_place = Haddonfield Religious Society of Friends Cemetery
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| spouse = {{marriage|John Estaugh|1702}}
| mother = Elizabeth Haddon (née Clarke)
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'''Elizabeth Estaugh, née Haddon''' (May 25, 1680 – March 30, 1762) was an [[American pioneer]]. She was the founder of [[Haddon Township, New Jersey|Haddon Township]] and [[Haddonfield, New Jersey]].

==Early life==
Elizabeth Haddon was born in [[Southwark]], [[London, England]], May 25, 1680.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Ingham |first1=John N. |title=Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders, Volume 1 |date=1983 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=9780313239076 |page=351 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DFwZ0AEACAAJ |access-date=13 September 2023}}</ref> She was the third child of John Haddon, a blacksmith, and Elizabeth, née Clarke. Her father was a [[Quakers|Quaker]] who faced religious persecution and was convinced by [[William Penn]] to move abroad.<ref name=":2">{{Cite ODNB|title=Estaugh [née Haddon], Elizabeth (1680–1762), Quaker leader and colonial landowner|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-68161|access-date=2021-07-05|year=2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/68161|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8}}</ref> In 1702, he bought a 500-acre (2 km<sup>2</sup>) tract of land in [[Gloucester County, New Jersey|Gloucester County]] in the English colony of [[West Jersey]].<ref name=":1" /> However, he was appointed as an officer of the Pennsylvania Land Company and the [[London Lead Company]], so he did not leave England.<ref name=":2" />

==Career==
[[File:Tales of a Wayside Inn.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Title page illustration for an 1864 edition of ''[[Tales of a Wayside Inn]]'']]
Haddon, a single woman, set sail from Southwark to the New World in 1701 without her family at the age of twenty or twenty-one. Her father had a house built for her at Cooper's Creek, Newtown Township. With the help of a widowed friend and two [[Domestic worker|manservants]], she developed the Haddonfield plantation.<ref name=":2" />

She had met [[John Estaugh]] (1676–1742), a Quaker minister, at [[Bermondsey]] years before. Their courtship was described, fancifully, by [[Lydia Maria Child]] in ''The Youthful Emigrant. A True Story of the Early Settlement of New Jersey'', first published on May 21, 1845, in the ''[[New-York Tribune|New-York Daily Tribune]].'' [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] drew on Child's account in writing ''Elizabeth'', a poem in the third volume of his ''[[Tales of a Wayside Inn]]''.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Laurie |editor1-first=Maxine N. |editor2-last=Mappen |editor2-first=Marc |title=Encyclopedia of New Jersey |date=2004 |publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]] |isbn=9780813533254 |page=342 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_r9Ni6_u0JEC |access-date=13 September 2023}}</ref> They were married on the banks of the Cooper's Creek on December 1, 1702.<ref>{{cite magazine |date= |title=The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I4MLzQEACAAJ |access-date=13 September 2023 |magazine=The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey |publisher=Genealogical Society of New Jersey |language=en |publication-date=July 1927 |volume=III |issue=1}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite book |last1=Burstyn |first1=Joan N. |title=Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women |date=May 1997 |publisher=[[Syracuse University Press]] |isbn=9780815604181 |pages=21–22 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h-6WCBQPZdoC&dq=0-8156-0418-1&pg=PA21 |access-date=13 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Marriage Certificate of John Estaugh and Elizabeth Haddon, 1702 |journal=Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia |date=June 1909 |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=71–72 |doi=10.1353/qkh.1909.a399268 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/399268/summary |access-date=13 September 2023 |last1=Estaugh |first1=John |last2=Haddon |first2=Eliz |url-access=subscription }}{{subscription required}}</ref>

At first, the couple were engaged in establishing themselves and run the land owned by Elizabeth’s father. This would, however, change as time passed on. Haddon and John had no children, but they brought her sister's son, Ebenezer Hopkins, to America from Southwark when he was about five, and raised him as their son and heir. Ebenezer was the son of Benjamin and Sarah (Haddon) Hopkins,<ref>FHL #0811790 Southwark MM Births 1648–1776, p. 225, (Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT).</ref> and the grandson of William and Katheryn Hopkins. Ebenezer was the progenitor of the Hopkins family of [[Haddonfield, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite web |author1=Arthur David Hopkins |title=A Hopkins Family History |url=http://home.comcast.net/~adhopkins/myself.htm |website=Myself and My Family |access-date=13 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704052825/http://home.comcast.net/~adhopkins/index.htm |archive-date=4 July 2008 |date=23 May 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1713, John and Elizabeth built a three-story brick mansion called New Haddonfield Plantation, where Haddon managed the family property and her husband tended to his missionary journeys; the Brew House she built in 1713 still stands in the backyard.<ref>{{cite web |title=Colonial Women {{!}} Elizabeth Haddon|date=4 August 2008|url=https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2008/08/elizabeth-haddon-estaugh.html |website=Women in History |access-date=13 September 2023 |format=blog}}</ref> Although the first recorded commercial female brewer in the Colonies was Mary Lisle, who inherited her father's Philadelphia brewpub in 1734, there is reason to believe that across the river in South Jersey, Haddon was running a more-than-average homebrew operation.<ref>{{Cite web|date=25 March 2019|title=Was Elizabeth Haddon New Jersey's First Female Brewer?|url=https://njmonthly.com/articles/eat-drink/table-hopping/elizabeth-haddon-nj-first-female-brewer-haddonfield-founder/|access-date=21 September 2020|website=[[New Jersey Monthly]]}}</ref>

She and her husband were active in the Quaker community. She was very close with Elizabeth Woolman, the sister of [[John Woolman]].<ref name=":2"/> Elizabeth died at her Haddonfield home at the age of 82 on March 30, 1762. She was buried in an unmarked grave in the Burial Ground of the Haddonfield Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).<ref name=":0" />

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book | last=Burstyn | first=Joan N. | author2=Women's Project of New Jersey | title=Past and promise : lives of New Jersey women | publisher=Syracuse University Press | publication-place=Syracuse, N.Y. | date=1997 | isbn=0-8156-0418-1 | oclc=35222993 | page=21}}
* {{cite book | last1=Dorwart | first1=Jeffery M. | last2=Lyons | first2=Elizabeth A. | title=Elizabeth Haddon Estaugh, 1680-1762 : building the Quaker community of Haddonfield, New Jersey, 1701-1762 | publisher=Historical Society of Haddonfield | publication-place=Haddonfield, N.J. | date=2013 | isbn=978-0-9723949-1-8 | oclc=874020405}}

==External links==
*[http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/repositories/5/resources/397 Collection: Haddon-Estaugh-Hopkins papers]. ''[http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/ TriCollege Libraries: Archives and Manuscripts]'', Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore.

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