Francis Eaton and Christian (Penn) Eaton

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Husband Francis Eaton

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       Marriage: 1624-1625 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Wife Christian (Penn) Eaton

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           Born: 1606 - Plymouth, Massachusetts
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           Died: Jul 1684 - Middleborough, Massachusetts
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         Father: George Penn (1583-      )
         Mother: Elizabeth (      -      )

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   Other Spouse: Francis Billington (1606-1684) - 16 Jul 1634 - Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Children

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1 F Rachel Eaton

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2 M Benjamin Eaton

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3 M Samuel Eaton

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           Died: Bef 1684 - Middleboro, Massachusetts
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         Spouse: Martha Billington (Abt 1638-      )
           Marr: 10 Jan 1661 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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General Notes (Husband)

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He is called Pilgrim Francis Eaton, and his first wife, Sarah, b England, died in Plymouth early in 1621, and he married again before marrying Christian in 1624/5.

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General Notes (Wife)

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Son Francis married Christian Penn Eaton in 1634, widow of Pilgrim Francis Eaton. She brought to the marriage three children Rachel, Benjamin and another of unknown name. Together they had an additional nine children.

She came on the ship Anne in 1623.


Servitude & Apprenticeship
Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, FASG. Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691.

Although many families entered the colony in servitude, another important source of servants was the practice of some families of "putting out" one or more children. Samuel Eddy, for example, although the son of an English minister and university graduate, did not seem to prosper in Plymouth, and he and his wife, "by reason of many wants lying on them," were forced to put out several children as servants.

So, too, Samuel Eaton and Benjamin Eaton, after the death of their father, Mayflower passenger Francis Eaton, were placed out by their stepmother and were apprenticed respectively to Widow Bridget Fuller and John Cooke, Jr.

Opinion seems evenly divided on whether the placing out of the children was her decision, that of her and Francis jointly, or done at the initiative of the court.

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