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Francis was baptized in 1596 in Bristol. When he was about 7, nearly all of his siblings died in some sort of sickness. He and brother Samuel survived. Francis became a carpenter and married his first wife, Sarah, probably around 1619. Their son Samuel was a "sucking" child when the three came on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620. Sarah died the first winter at Plymouth, and Francis then remarried to Dorothy, the maidservant of John Carver, sometime before the 1623 land division. John Carver and his wife Katherine had died in the spring of 1621, so perhaps the marriage occurred not long thereafter. In the 1623 Division of Land at Plymouth, Francis Eaton received four shares: one for himself, one for his deceased first wife Sarah, one for Samuel, and one for his current wife Dorothy, all of whom came on the Mayflower. Dorothy died sometime not long thereafter: no children are known to have been born from their marriage. Francis then married, about 1626, to Christiana Penn, and they had three children together: Rachel, Benjamin, and a child that was called "an ideote" that was still living in 1651, but whose name has not survived. Francis Eaton himself died in 1633 of a disease that spread through Plymouth that autumn. [1]
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