John Eaton, Sr., of Salisbury & Haverhill

Pennsylvanianseaton.org/Eaton/histories/i00417.htm debunking Anne's last name being Crossman

John Eaton, Sen., of Salisbury & Haverhill "cooper." Moved to Haverhill in 1646. Son of Thomas and Helen of Beausall in the parish of Hatton, Warwickshire,(Thomas, Thomas, John)

He was christened on 26 December 1590 in Hatton, Warwickshire, England. He is *not* the John East who married Ann Crossman and obtained a marriage license on 26 December 1621 at Great Paull's Wharf, London, Middlesex, England. That is a long way from his home and his name is common. Genealogists do not accept this. His first wife Ann's maiden name is unknown. Anne died at Haverhill 5 February 1660/61. He married secondly, 20 November 1661 at Haverhill, Phebe (unknown) Dow, widow of Thomas Dow of Haverhill. She died about March 1673 and administration on her estate was granted in April following. John Eaton Died at Haverhill 29 October 1668. He was a cooper as well as a farmer.

Children

John Eaton all by his first wife Ann Unknown:

1. JOHN, b about 1619; on 6 Oct. 1659 he deposed ae 40; m about 1644, Martha Rowlandson, dau. of Thomas of Ipswich; 11 ch.; he died 1 Nov. 1682
2. CHILD, perhaps, born about 1621, but no record of it ANNE, bapt. 14 Sept. 1623, "dau. of John;" m 25 June 1645. Lt.
3. George Brown, prob. son of Christian; no ch.; she d 16 Dec. 1683; he m 2, 1683/4, widow Hannah Hazen; he d 30 Oct. 1699 ae 78 - g.s.
4. THOMAS, bapt. 19 Feb. 1625/6, "son of John;" m 1, 14 Aug. 1656, Martha Kent, prob. dau. of Stephen; 1 dau; she d 9 March 1657/8 in childbed; he m 2, 6 Jan. 1658/9 at Andover, Eunice Singletary, dau. of Richard & Susan (Cook) Singletary of Salisbury, b 7 Jan. 1641/2; . 9 ch.; he d 15 Dec. 1708; she d 5 Oct. 1715 at Salisbury
5. RICHARD, bapt. 12 Oct. 1628, "son of John;" buried 27 March 1630
6. ELIZABETH, bapt. "last day of Jan." 1629/30, "dau. of John;" m 1 Dec. 1648, James Davis, son of James; 9 ch.; d 21 Jan. 1683/4; he m 2, Mary ; he d 18 July 1694
7. SARAH, born about 1631-2; buried 4 Aug. 1633, "dau. of John "
8. DANIEL, bapt. 8 Dec. 1633, "son of John;" d.y.
9. DANIEL, bapt. 26 Feb. 1634/5, "son of John" ; buried 13 Aug. 1635
10. RUTH, bapt. 12 Feb. 1636/7, "dau. of John & Anne;" m 9 Dec. 1656 Samuel Ingalls, son of Edmund & Ann Ingalls; 9 ch.; she d before 1716, the date of his will
11. HESTER, bapt. 6 May 1638, "dau. of John & Anne;" probably d.\.
12. JOB, bapt. 29 Sept. 1639, "son of John & Anne;" he apparently d.y. as no further record of him.

Caution

Merge Caution: There were several John Eaton's in early colonial Massachusetts; care must be taken to distinguish them. This John Eaton is usually referred to as John Eaton of Haverhill. Specifically, he is not the same as John Eaton of Dedham who arrived in 1635, settled at Watertown and then moved to Dedham, where he spent the rest of his life. That John Eaton came from Dover, married Abigail Bachelor, widow Damon, and had children Mary, John, Thomas, John, Abigail and Jacob. He is also not the same as John Eaton of Reading (son of William Eaton of Reading). He is also not the same as John Eaton of Reading (son of Jonas Eaton of Reading).

Sources

1. John Brooks Threlfall, Twenty-Six Great Migration Colonists To New England & Their Origins (Madison, Wisconsin, 1993) 63 download a copy here
2. Richardson, Douglas. The English Origin of John1 Eaton (1590-1668) of Salisbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jan 1993), 68:52.
3. Parish Registers;
4. The Pillsbury Ancestry, by Holman; V.R.
5. Pope's Pioneers of Mass. The
6. Probate Records of Essex County, Vol. II https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Eaton-271

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"Planter" of Salisbury and Haverhill. He was a cooper in Salisbury. He rec'd land in 1640, 1643 and 1646. He moved to Haverhill in 1646. He became a selectman in 1648. He married first Ann, and second, Pheobe Dow, widow of Thomas Dow. Stephen Dow administered his estate.

JOHN AND ANNE EATON settled in Salisbury, Mass., prior to the winter of 1639, when his name first appears on the Proprietor’s Books. There were several grants of real estate made by the “Freeman of Salisbury unto John Eaton1 from 1640-46.” On one of these “containing pr estimation six acres lying upon ye great neck” it is supposed that he lived. The homestead has never passed out of the Eaton Family, and is now known as “Brookside Farm.” In the year 1646 he moved to Haverhill, Mass., where the last twenty-two years of his life were spent. His first wife Anne, died in 1660, and he married Phoebe Dow, Widow of Thomas Dow of Newbury, the following year. He died in Haverhill, Oct. 29th, 1668, aged seventy-three years.

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