9th Great Grandfather Francis Eaton (b. Abt. 1595, d. 1633)
The Ship Mayflower
Francis Eaton (son of John Eaton and Dorothy Smith) was born Abt. 1595 in England, and died 1633 in Plymouth, Mass. He married Christian Penn on Abt. 1625 in Plympton, Mass.
Notes for Francis Eaton: Immigration: 1620, came to America on the Mayflower.
Francis Eaton took up the profession of a house carpenter. He married his first wife, Sarah, probably around 1619, and they had their first child Samuel about 1620. Francis, Sarah and child Samuel 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 1623. John Carver had died in April 1621, and his wife Katherine died a few weeks later, 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 shortly 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, apparently suffering the same fate as his siblings in childhood, dying of a disease that spread through Plymouth that autumn. Francis Eaton's estate included on cow and a calf, two hogs, fifty bushels of corn, a black suit, a white hat, and a black hat, boots, saws, hammers, an adze, square, augers, a chisel, boards, fishing lead, and some kitchen items.
More About Francis Eaton: Baptism: 11 Sep 1596, St. Thomas, Bristol, Gloucester, England. Immigration: 1620, To America on Mayflower Ship.
More About Francis Eaton and Christian Penn: Marriage: Abt. 1625, Plympton, Mass.
9th Great Grandfather Francis Eaton (b. Abt. 1595, d. 1633)
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