Rash's Surname Index
Notes for John Jr. SCARBOROUGH
John Scarborough, Jr., son of John Scarborough, Sr., was born in England, and came when a youth to this country with his father. It is said he ran away and resided several years with the Indians, learned their language, and later officiated at Indian treaties as interpreter. He is said to have at one time averted an Indian war. He is known to have been a great friend of the Indians, and to have visited them on religious missions. He married Mary, and although an active member of the Middletown meeting the maiden name of his wife has never been found. In pursuance of the power of attorney, he sold the Middletown land and obtained a warrant of survey for five hundred and ten acres in Solebury, on which he settled about 1700.
A sketch published on p. 244 of Vol. 29 of the Friend indicates that he was the first white man to settle in Buckingham, Solebury Valley. The quarterly meeting records mention him as a minister and also in a list of founders eminent for their piety and virtue. He died on his Solebury plantation, 1 mo. 29, 1727, devising it and the Liberty Lot at Fifth and Spruce streets, Philadelphia, patented to him in 1705 in right of his father's purchase of two hundred and fifty acres to his sons: William, John, and Robert. Vid. Book of Wills No. 1, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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