Haddon, John & Elizabeth (letters), 1810s

-8 mo. 15. Written one year after the return of John and Elizabeth Estaugh from their first visit to London. Addressed "Most Dear Children." 1713.

-6 mo. 12th - Addressed to "Most Endeared Children." Contains considerable business, and much affection and family details. 1714.

-7 mo. 17th - "Most Entirely Beloved Children" - Much business in this letter, and with it an account of goods sent over at that time in the ship Mary Hope, John Anniss, Master. (Among the things noted is a chest of drawers, now in the possession of Rebecca N. Taylor. It is a fine piece of the William and Mary period.) 1714.

-2 mo. 23rd "Most Dear Children" - This letter was written before the second visit of the Estaughs to London, which occurred in the same year, in the Eighth Month. 1715.

-12 mo. 27th - In Fifth Month, 1716, Elizabeth Estaugh returned from her second visit to her parents and brought with her Sarah Hopkins, her niece, who may have been about five years old. This was two years before the birth of Ebenezer. 1716/17

-5 mo. 17th. Business and tender affection; references to the grandchildren, and the following sentence: "Since it is soe that you must come home, have Patience to gett the Company's Bussiness done, and by that time the Pirrats will be subdued, to make your Embarkation safe." 1717.

-3 mo. 8th - Profits were beginning to come in to the Land Company. John Haddon writes: "I have paid a dividend of twenty five Shillings Per Share and the Proprietors are mightyly Pleased with it in hopes of continuing the same." 1718

-4 mo. 9th - Refers to the service of John Estaugh at Barbadoes; business affairs. 1718

-5 mo. 5 - Sending congratulations on John Estaugh's return from Barbadoes. He announces the birth of Ebenezer Hopkins as follows: "Wee are verry Glad to heare Sarrah is soe well, to whom give our Loves to the Litle travellier, her mother is delivered of another Sonn, I thinke the Name for him is not yet agreed on, She is in a hopefull way for her condition and the Children are now pretty well." 1718

-11 mo. 4th - Refers to the death of Benjamin Hopkins, aged four years; business affairs. 1719