Family of Samuel * EATON and Elizabeth

Husband:	Samuel * EATON (1620-1684)
Wife:	Elizabeth (c. 1620- )

Husband: Samuel * EATON

Wife: Elizabeth

Name:	Elizabeth
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	1620 (est)

Note on Husband: Samuel * EATON

MAYFLOWER! Samuel Eaton was the only child of Sarah and Francis Eaton, a carpenter from Bristol. He was an infant when he and his parents arrived in Plymouth in 1620 on the Mayflower.

Samuel's mother, Sarah, died the first winter of 1621. Francis remarried (his second wife's last name is unknown, her first name was Dorothy; she is believed to be the unnamed Carver maidservant listed as a Mayflower passenger by Bradford). Dorothy also died. Francis' third wife was Christian Penn who had arrived in Plymouth on the Anne in 1623. Christian and Francis had 3 children - Samuel's half brothers and sisters.

Samuel's father, Francis, died in 1633. Samuel was then 13 years old.

After Francis Eaton died, Samuel's stepmother Christian Penn Eaton married Mayflower passenger Francis Billington. Samuel continued to live with his stepmother Christian and her new husband Francis Billington. Christian and Francis had 9 children of their own including a daughter named Martha who was born around 1638.

In 1636, at age 16, Samuel Eaton was apprenticed to John Cooke, another Mayflower child grown to adulthood, for a term of seven years. At about age 26, Samuel married a woman named Elizabeth (last name unknown) and moved to Duxbury (1646). They had two children (their names are also unknown, but in his estate there was mention of the children of the first wife to have the sum of twenty shillings each and if they be dead, then the sum tp be paid to their children.) Elizabeth died before 1661; Samuel remarried on January 10, 1660/1. His second wife was Martha Billington, daughter of his stepmother Christian by her Mayflower husband Francis Billington. Samuel and Martha had four children: Sarah,

Samuel, Mercy and Bethiah.

At some point during the 1660s, Samuel moved from Duxbury to Middleboro. Samuel was a freeman 29 May 1670. He died there in 1684.

Samuel Eaton died without a will, but we do have the inventory of his estate at the time of his death.

 

An inventory of his estate was given to the Court on October 29, 1684

 

The inventory of the goods of Samuel Eaton, deceased 1684Samuel Eaton died intestate*

 

*leaving no will

 

Note: inventories are valued in pounds (L), shillings (s) and pence (d). There were 12 pence (or pennies) to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound.

 

" An inventory of the estate of Samuell Eaton of Middlbery Late Deceased exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the 29th of October 1684.

 

Item 3 Cowes060000 Itema two yeer old heiffer011000 Itema yeer old heiffer010000 Itema yeer old heiffer010000 Item2 Colts010000 Itema Mare010000 Itema Mare020000 Itema horse011000 Itemswine0220 00Itema parte in a Grindstone00 300 Itema Cart and wheels and a yoke010000 Itemplow takeling axes & hoes a spade 2 sickles010000 Itemwheat and rye and fflax and Tobacco020300 ItemIndian Corn upon the Ground050000 Itema Cannoo000500 ItemCotton woole and sheeps woole010400 ItemClothes and Armes031100 Itembeding03 0000Item bookes000800 Itempotts & tramell and tonges a bridle & a saddle000200 Itemold lumber001000 Itemhouse and land Graunted by the Towne of Middlbery prised att070000

 

the whole is

 

371100

 

prised by us

John Allin

Nathaniel Warren

 

 

L sd The debts Due from the estate to marchant lake of Boston040000 for worke of his sonnes021000 smale Debts021000 for the settleing of the estate of Samuell Eaton of Middlebery Deceased this Courts orders that the eldest shall have the house and Land that was Graunted to the said Eaton by the Town of Middleberry after his Mothers Decease; the Daughter provided for by her Grand father; and to have ten shillings at Marriage or when she is of age the which first happens; and the Children of the first wife to have the sume of twenty shillings a peece & such of them as are Dead the sume to be payed amonge theire Children and twenty shillings for the two youngest Children each to have their prte att age or Marriage which shall first happen; and the widdow to have the remaindr for her releiffe"Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 2, p. 172-173. www.pilgrimhall.org