Residential borough of southern New Jersey, a suburb southeast of Camden. It was named after Elizabeth Haddon, young Quaker maiden, who settled the site for her father in the 17th century. The story of her marriage proposal to the Quaker missionary John Estaugh is told by Hendry Wadsworth Longfellow in his Tales of a Wayside Inn. Indian King Tavern (1750) was the site of the first meeting of the legislature in 1777, at which New Jersey was declared a state and the state seal was adopted.
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