The Indian King Tavern, built in 1750, played a significant role in the American Revolutionary War. The town was named for John Haddon, though he never came to America. Shortly after her arrival, she made a marriage proposal to John Estaugh, a Quaker minister, and they were married in 1702.
Elizabeth set sail alone from Southwark, England to the New World in 1701. Haddonfield was further developed by Elizabeth Haddon (1680–1762), whose Quaker father, John Haddon, bought a 500 acres (2.0 km 2) tract of land in the English colony of West Jersey to escape religious persecution. Collins soon built a house, "Mountwell," on a tract of 400 acres.
On October 23, 1682, Francis Collins, an English Quaker and a bricklayer by trade, became the first settler within the boundaries of what today is Haddonfield. A deep pit or ravine is straight ahead about 10 yards At right, toy dinosaurs have been left by visitors. Plaques at the Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site showing National Historic Landmark status (left) and a plaque from Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences. Arrowheads and pottery shards have been found by residents by the banks of the Cooper River, hinting that there was a Native American settlement in Haddonfield at one point in time. The Lenape disappeared from the local area when settlers arrived. The Haddonfield area was occupied by Lenni Lenape Native Americans. The borough was named for Elizabeth Haddon, an early settler of the area. The borough became an independent municipality in 1894. Haddonfield was incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 6, 1875, within portions of Haddon Township following a referendum on the same day. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 12,550, an increase of 957 (+8.3%) from the 2010 census count of 11,593, which in turn reflected a decline of 66 (−0.6%) from the 11,659 counted in the 2000 census
Haddonfield is a borough located in Camden County, in the U.S.
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