Esther Roberts

Esther Hunt was a woman of good natural abilities, devoted to the interests of the Religious Society of Friends, of which she was a member, several times attended the Yearly Meeting in Baltimore, to which she belonged, a journey of three hundred and twenty-four miles, always performed on horseback She was very serviceable in the establishment of meetings in Oho, and though necessarily frequently absent from home, maintained a steady, firm control over her family, and gave her children the best education possible in that new country. These through necessity learned economy an d self-reliance, lessons that had much to do in shaping three careers in after-life.

A year after her son's marriage, Esther married John Collins of Moorestown and returned to New Jersey, where she resided till her death in February 1820. She with her beloved friend, Ann Edward, of Moorestown, a minister, were drowned while attempting to cross the Delaware on the ice in a carriage.

From 'History of Burlington County', published 1883, reprinted 1990 by Burlington County Historical Society.