John Scarborough

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1 Mar 1639, London, England
• Alternate death: 21 May 1706, London, England

Notes:

Blacksmith and coachmaker. Member of the Peel Monthly Meeting in London. Emigrated October 1682 aboard Penn's ship the Welcome. Returned to England intending to come back with his wife, but she refused.

From Proud's History of Pennsylvania (1797):

During his residence in Pennsylvania, provisions being sometimes scarce in that part, where he resided, especially in the first year, he is said to have occasion to remark to the province of God, to him and those near him, when they were under great difficulty.

The wild pigeons came in such great numbers, that the air was sometimes darkened by their flight, flying low, they were frequently knocked down, as they flew, in great quantities, by those who had no other means to take them; whereby they supplied themselves and having salted those which they could not immediately use, they preserved them both for bread and meat.

Thus they were supplied several times, during the first two or three years, till they raised, by their own industry, food sufficient out of the ground; for tilling of which they used hoes, having neither horses or plows. The Indians were remarkable kind, and were very assistant to them in that respect, frequently supplying them with provisions, as they could spare.

He gave strict charge when it should be in his power to be kind to the poor Indians for the favors he had received from them, which his son John faithfully observed and complied with; and he is said to have been a worthy man, and of good character.

John married Sarah Ashby on 23 Feb 1663 in St. Brides, Fleet Street, London, England. Sarah (daughter of William Ashby) was born in 1646 in London, England; died after 25 Aug 1680 in London, England; was buried in Bunhill Fields Burying Ground, Islington, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emigrated, with his father, in 1682. His father returned to England; he stayed.

According to various sources he ran away from his family and lived with the Indians for a time, and later served as an interpreter for William Penn and others.

John married Mary PiersonSolesbury, Bucks, Pennsylvania. Mary (daughter of Robert Pierson and Mary Janney) was born on 20 Jan 1664 in London, England; died on 23 Jan 1751 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 4 Apr 1694, Buckingham, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Sarah married George Haworth on 28 Nov 1710 in Buckingham, Bucks, Pennsylvania. George (son of James Haworth and Isabel) was born in 1680 in Rochdale, Lancashire, England; died on 28 Nov 1724 in Buckingham, Bucks, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Nov 1717, Buckingham, Bucks, Pennsylvania
• Alternate death: 19 Nov 1776, Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Notes:

John Haworth (1717-1776) = Mary Garner (1729-?)
Rachel Haworth (1766-1836) = Aaron Toole (?-1837)
Ann Toole (1790-1872) = Henry Wasley (1793-1864)
Mary Wasley (1818-1903) = Theodore Minthorn (1817-1866)
Huldah Randall Minthorn (1849-1884) = Jesse Clark Hoover (1849-1880)
Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964), 31st President of the United States

["Notes, Queries and Corrections," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 11:194, 1932.]

John married Mary Garner in 1749 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Mary (daughter of Hans Garner) was born about 1729 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania; died in Haverford, Chester, Pennsylvania; was buried in Springfield Friends Burying Ground, Springfield, Delaware, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]