Christian (Penn) Eaton
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1606 - Plymouth, Massachusetts
Christening:
Death: Jul 1684 - Middleborough, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
AFN #:
Parents
Father: George Penn (1583- )
Mother: Elizabeth ( - )
Spouses and Children
1. *Francis Billington (1606-1609 - 13 Dec 1684)
Marriage: 16 Jul 1634 - Plymouth, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Mary Billington (1640-1699)
2. Elizabeth Billington (1635- )
3. Joseph Billington (1636-After 1684)
4. Martha Billington (Abt 1638- )
5. Isaac Billington (Abt 1744-1709)
6. Rebecca Billington (1648- )
7. Dorcas Billington (Abt 1650-After 1707)
8. Mercy Billington (1652- )
2. Francis Eaton ( - )
Marriage: 1624-1625 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Rachel Eaton ( - )
2. Benjamin Eaton ( - )
3. Samuel Eaton ( -Bef 1684)
Notes
General:
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.