 1596 - 1633 (37 years)
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| Name |
Francis Eaton [1, 2] |
| Birth |
11 Sep 1596 |
St. Thomas Parish, Bristol, England  |
| Christening |
11 Sep 1596 |
St. Thomas Parish, Bristol, Gloucester, England |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
18 Nov 1633 |
Plymouth, MA |
| Person ID |
I54698 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
21 Jul 2005 |
| Family 2 |
Christian Penn, b. Abt 1606, England d. Jul 1684, Middleborough, Plymouth, MA (Age 78 years) |
| Marriage |
1624-1625 |
Plymouth, MA |
| Children |
| | 1. Benjamin Eaton, Sr., b. 1 Jun 1627, Plymouth, MA d. 16 Jan 1712, Plymouth, MA (Age 84 years) |
| | 2. Racheal Eaton, b. 1625, Plymouth, MA d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Family ID |
F22892 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
22 Feb 2009 |
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| Notes |
Mayflower Passenger
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Signature from Mayflower Compact
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Francis Eaton was one of the Mayflower Company and a carpenter. The following copyrighted information was found at: http://members.aol.com/calebj/eaton.html Frances Eaton
| ANCESTRAL SUMMARY: |
The English ancestry of Francis Eaton was only recently discovered. In 1929, Charles E. Banks in his English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers brought to light a Bristol apprenticeship document dated 4 December 1626, in which John Morgan son of Edward Morgan was apprenticed to Francis Eaton, carpenter, and his wife Dorothy. In the margin the document it says "The Mr at New England", and on the reverse it states John Morgan would receive 25 acres of land in New England and 15 bushels of wheat.In Mayflower Families for Five Generations: Francis Eaton (volume 1, updated in volume 9) and Plymouth Colony: Its History and Its People, this record was rejected as relating to Francis Eaton of the Mayflower because by 1626 Francis' wife was Christiana Penn, not somebody named Dorothy, and further the record says Eaton was "at New England" and "of Bristol", instead of being listed as "of Plymouth". The rejection of this record was challenged by myself on this web page in September 1995, and was again challenged by David Greene, editor of The American Genealogist in his review of Mayflower Families: Eaton (The American Genealogist, April 1996, p. 125-6). The reasons for our objection was that the Francis Eaton listed in the Bristol records is called a carpenter, as was the Francis Eaton of the Mayflower. And further, there are no records of any Francis Eaton in America by 1626, except for the Francis Eaton of the Mayflower. The slow travel of news could easily be the cause for the delayed information about the death of Francis Eaton's wife. In response, David Greene requested Neil D. Thompson, FASG, to search the parish registers of Bristol for information on the Francis Eaton in the apprentice record, to see if he was the Mayflower passenger. The results of the successful search were published in The American Genealogist, 72:301-309. The baptismal record of Francis Eaton of the Mayflower was discovered in the parish of St. Thomas, Bristol, on 11 September 1596, son of John Eaton. Two years earlier, the marriage of his parents were discovered: John Eaton and Dorothy Smith were married on 14 October 1594. Francis had other siblings as well: John (bp. 26 July 1595), Jane (bp. 20 January 1598/9), Samuel (bp. 8 November 1600), and Welthian (buried 20 March 1603/4). Francis' brother John died within three days of his baptism; and Jane, Samuel, and Welthian all died in March 1603/4 suggesting an illness wiped out the young children. The only brother Francis would remember would be Samuel--a significant find, since Francis Eaton of the Mayflower named his first son Samuel. Another record shows that in the 1615 will of Christopher Cary of Bristol, he gives to his eldest son "a garden ground, with a lodge in the same, in the parish of St. Phillip's, now in the occupation of Frances sic Eaton, house carpenter." |
| Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families - pg 100 |
FRANCIS came in the Mayflower 1620, with wife Sarah, and son Samuel. He had a 2d wife by whom he had Rachel, m. Joseph Ramsden; and a 3d, Christian Penn, before 1627, by whom he had BENJAMIN, 1627. |
| Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 5 p.607 |
FRANCIS EATON. Died at Plymouth, Mass., between 4 and 18 November, 1633. He married, first, Sarah, who died at Plymouth, Mass., early in 1621, but after 11 Jan. His second wife, whom he married at Plymouth, Mass., was probably Governor Carver's maid servant. He married, third, at Plymouth, Mass., in 1624, or 1625, Christian Penn, who died at Middleborough, Mass., about 1684. She had married, second, Francis2 Billington. |
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| For more information see the Our Folk - Hart family Web Site |
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| Sources |
- [S913] Davis, William T., Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, (Boston, MA: Damrell & Upham, 1899).
- [S759] Mackenzie, George Norbury, Colonial Families of the United States of America, (New York: 1907), v5 pg 607 (Reliability: 3).
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