Person:Benjamin Eaton (2)

m. Jul 1625
  1. Rachel EatonAbt 1625 - Bet 1656 & 1661
  2. Benjamin Eaton1627/28 - 1711/12
  3. "Ideote" EatonAft 1627 - Aft 1651
  • HBenjamin Eaton1627/28 - 1711/12
  • WSarah Hoskins1637 - Aft 1690
m. 4 Dec 1660
  1. William Eaton
  2. Benjamin Eaton1664 -
  3. Experience Eaton
  4. Ebenezer Eaton1674 -
  5. Rebecca Eaton1675 -
  6. Sarah Eaton
Facts and Events
Name[3] Benjamin Eaton
Gender Male
Birth[1][3] Mar 1627/28 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 4 Dec 1660 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesto Sarah Hoskins
Death[2][3] 16 Jan 1711/12 Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620. (New England - United States: General Society of Mayflower Descendants., Various)
    Vol. I Addendum.

    p. 3: "BENJAMIN EATON was apparently born in March 1627/8, (ref.: "Records of the Town of Plymouth," 1:12)

  2. General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620. (New England - United States: General Society of Mayflower Descendants., Various)
    Vol. I.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620. (New England - United States: General Society of Mayflower Descendants., Various)
    Vol. 9.

    - "...And he [Francis Eaton] married the 3rd [Christian Penn] and had by her 3 children. One of them [Rachel Eaton] is married and hath a child; the other are living but one of them is an ideote. [Benjamin Eaton and "Ideote" Eaton]" Pg. 1

    - "...And he [Francis Eaton] married the third wife [Christian Penn] and had by her 3 children; one of them [Rachel Eaton] is married and hath a child; the other are living, but one of them is an idiot. [Benjamin Eaton and "Ideote" Eaton]" Pg. 3

    - "On 11 Feb. 1635 Benjamin Eaton, son of Francis Eaton, dec., with his mother's consent, was put to Bridgit Fuller, widow, for 14 years. She was to keep him at school for 2 years." Pg. 3

    - "On 14 Jan. 1642 Benjamin Eaton was placed with John Winslow. The record says he would be 15 years next March." Pg. 3

    - "iii [child of Francis Eaton, 2nd of Christian Penn] Benjamin b. Plymouth March 1627/8." Pg. 3

    - "Benjamin Eaton" was "b. Plymouth March 1627/8; d. Plympton 16 Jan. 1711/2." Pg. 7

    - "He [Benjamin Eaton] m. Plymouth 4 Dec. 1660 Sarah Hoskins... Living their [Plymouth] in July 1690 (son William's will); dau. of William and Sarah (Cushman) Hoskins." Pg. 7

    - "On 6 Feb. 1668 Benjamin Eaton and wife Sarah [Hoskins] sold their rights in the Major's Purchase to Zachariah Eddy. On 29 Oct. 1685 Benjamin Eaton and wife Sarah [Hoskins] of Plymouth and son Benjamin Eaton sold land in Dartmouth given them by Samuel Eaton [brother] to John Hathaway. On 25 June 1711 Benjamin Eaton Sr. of Plympton, yeoman, sold a tract of land in Plymouth to Joseph Silvester. On 15 Oct. 1711 Eleazer Rickard of Plimton sold to Jeduthan Robbins one share of the undivided lands in Plimton and Plymouth which he bought of 'my Honoured Father Benjamin Eaton Senr of Plimton.'." Pg. 7

    - "No Plymouth Co. PR [probate record] for Benjamin Eaton." Pg. 7

  4.   Francis Eaton, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

    Children... with third wife [Christian Penn]... iii. Benjamin, b. Plymouth about 1628; apprenticed 11 Feb 1635/6 to Bridget Fuller for fourteen years [PCR 1:36-37]; m. Plymouth 4 Dec 1660 Sarah Hoskins [PCR 8:22]

  5.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    2:95.

    EATON, BENJAMIN, Duxbury 1648, Plymouth 1650, s. of Francis, m. 4 Dec. 1660, Sarah Hoskins, prob. d. of William, had William, wh. d. bef. 1691.