Early Life At Moorestown
Born Esther Roberts, she was the youngest of five children of Enoch Roberts (1717 – 1782) and Rachel Coles (c. 1715 – 1758). The Roberts family lived at Evesham Township, New Jersey. Esther's mother died when she was about seven years old. She and Joshua Hunt were married on November 19, 1778, in the Friends Meetinghouse at Moorestown Township, New Jersey. He was a teacher in the Moorestown Friends School. While living there Esther and Joshua had six children.
In September 1790, Esther and Joshua and their five children, "with two wagons, seven horses, one cow, and provisions", began a three-week journey to Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania. Their destination was a small, but growing, community located on the east bank of the Monongahela River in close proximity to Fort Burd. In those days it was called Redstone Old Fort, or simply Redstone. Later, the name was changed to Brownsville.
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