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3. John, died January 17, 1742; his .only son John. 4. Judith, married Winthrop Sargent. 5. Abigail, married William Dolliver. 6. Re- becca, married Captain James Babson. 7. Lydia, married James Prentice. others. And four
(IV) Thomas Saunders, son of Captain Thomas Saunders, was born at Gloucester, August 14, 1729, married, 1752, Lucy Smith, daughter of Rev. Thomas Smith, of Falmouth, Maine. Mr. Saunders died in 1774. She mar- ried second. Rev. Eli Forbes and died June 5. 1780, aged forty-eight years. She is buried at the side of her first husband and the name of her second husband does not appear on the stone. Thomas Saunders fitted for college.
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under Rev. Moses Parsons, of Byfield, and was graduated from Harvard College in 1748. Though most graduates at that time became ministers and teachers, he chose a commer- cial life and became a prosperous merchant. He represented Gloucester in the general court from 1761 to 1770 inclusive. Afterward he was a councilor until June, 1773, when he re- signed. He built the large mansion house near the Unitarian meeting house and lived there a number of years. At the time of his death Rev. S. Chandler said "Exalted sentiments of generosity, humanity, piety, probity and public spirit animated his soul with many noble resolves and prompted him to vigorous exer- tions in public and private life. With an in- corruptible and truly patriotic spirit he served the town for several years as representative and for several years had a seat in the council board in which political sphere a laudable am- bition of being extensively useful engaged the liberal movements of his soul in assiduous ef- forts to be a guardian of the civil constitution for which he had a tender solicitude. Loyalty. virtue and public spirit bloomed in his mind and merited approbation, till the springs be- gan to fail, until infirmities brought on a reli- zation of nature and a languor of spirit which caused him to resign his public posts and re- tire. In the uneven traces of life, he exem- plified the grace of patience and preserved a calm and harmony within himself. Christian fortitude encircled his soul in variegated trials and he viewed the approach of death with Christian confidence and has doubtless gone to rest in an unchangeable state of everlast- ing bliss."
Of the twelve children of Hon. Thomas Saunders, eight were living in 1774, though but two of his five sons lived to marry. Chil- dren, born at Gloucester : I. Thomas. born March 26, 1759, mentioned below. 2. Joseph, naval officer ; lieutenant of the United States frigate "Constitution :" died July 13. 1804: lived at Edgartown, Massachusetts ; married, November 18, 1801, Eliza Allen, who married second, October 10, 1806, Joseph Kenrick, of Rochester. 3. Lucy, married Paul Dudley Sargent. 4. Judith, married Thomas Sanders, the schoolmaster. 5. Harriet, married Peter Dolliver. 6. Sarah, married Thomas Augus- tus Vernon, a merchant of St. Petersburg, Russia. 7. Mary, married Erasmus Babbitt, a lawyer, Sturbridge, Massachusetts ; her daugh- ter became the mother of Charlotte Cushman, the actress.
(\') Thomas Saunders, son of Hon.
Thomas Saunders, was born in Gloucester, March 26, 1759. He was sent to Byfield Academy to be fitted for college, but on the death of his father in 1774 he entered the counting room of Mr. Derby, of Salem, a dis- tinguished East India merchant. Saunders finally became a merchant himself at Glouces- ter and he accumulated a handsome fortune. He died at Gloucester, June 5. 1844. He mar- ried, 1782, Elizabeth Elkins, an author of note in her day, a woman of admirable qualities of heart and mind. She died February 19, 1851. in her eighty-ninth year. Children, born at Gloucester : I. Charles, born May 2, 1783. graduated at Harvard College ; died April 7, 1864, leaving no children; bequeathed in his will ten thousand dollars to the city of Cam- bridge and a like sum to Gloucester for the employment of a missionary in the cause of temperance in reforming old drunkards and preventing young drunkards and abolishing as far as possible the use of all intoxicating arti- cles. 2. George T., mentioned below. 3. Cath- erine, married Dudley L. Pickman. 4. Mary Elizabeth, married Hon. Leverett Saltonstall. 5. Caroline, married Nathaniel Saltonstall.
(VI) George T. Saunders, son of Thomas Saunders, born in Gloucester, married Sally Rowe, descendant of Thomas Rowe, of Bos- ton, of tea party fame, owner of Rowe's wharf in that city. Children: I. George, married Elizabeth Bartol. 2. Alfred, married first, Elizabeth Blaney ; second, Myra Gould : third, Theresa Galley ; he lives in Rockport. Massa- chusetts. 3. Edward Howard, mentioned be- low. 4. Charles, married Anne O'Brien ; lives at Rockport. 5. Rebecca, married Daniel Rowe; she resides in Boxford. 6. Sally, died when a young woman. 7. Adaline, married Charles Widger, who was a soldier in the civil war. 8. Clara, married Archibald Blatch- ford ; they live in Lanesville, Gloucester.
(VII) Captain Edward Howard Saunders, son of George T. Saunders, was born in Glou- cester. He was a master mariner. In politics he was a Democrat ; in religion a Unitarian. He married Mary J. Wilkins, daughter of Wil- liam and Ruth (Charleton) Wilkins. Their only child was Josie A., married at Rockport, 1880, John Lewis Dickinson, who was born at Ipswich, July 24. 1855. (See sketch ).
( I) Barnard Hutchin- HUTCHINSON son, of Cowlam, county York. England, was liv- ing in 1282 and is the earliest progenitor of the family in England. He married a daugh-
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ter of John Boyville, Esquire, and had John, mentioned below, Robert and Mary. The arms used by the English family are : Per pale gules and azure, semee of cross-crosslets or, a lion rampant argent. Crest out of a ducal coro- net or, a cockatrice with wings endorsed azure, beaked, combed and wattled gules.
(II) John Hutchinson, son of Barnard Hutchinson, married Edith, daughter of Wil- liam Wouldbie, and had James, mentioned be- low. Barbara, Julia and Margaret.
(III) James Hutchinson, son of John Hutchinson, married Ursula Gregory, and had William, mentioned below, John, Barbara, a daughter and Eleanor.
(IV) William Hutchinson, son of James Hutchinson, married Anna Bennett. and had Anthony, mentioned below, Oliver, Mary and Alice.
(V) Anthony Hutchinson, son of William Hutchinson, married (first) Judith Crosland ; (second) Isabel Harvie, and had William, Thomas. mentioned below, John Richard, Leonard. Edmond, Francis and Andrew.
(VI) Thomas Hutchinson, son of Anthony Hutchinson, married probably Drake. He was living October 9, 1550. He had Wil- liam, who died 1550, John, Lawrence, men- tioned below.
(VII) Lawrence Hutchinson, son of
Thomas Hutchinson, was of Owlthorpe. His will was proved October 9, 1577. He married Isabel -, and had Robert, Thomas, men- tioned below, Agnes, Richard and William.
(VIII) Thomas Hutchinson, son of Law- rence Hutchinson, resided at Newark and died in 1598. He had William, Thomas, mentioned below, and Joan.
(IX) Thomas Hutchinson, son of Thomas Hutchinson, was buried at Arnold, August 17, 1618. He married Alice - , and had chil- dren: 1. John, buried September 2, 1627. 2. Isabel. 3. Humphrey. 4. Elizabeth. 5. Rob- ert, baptized September 6, 1601. 6. Richard, mentioned below. 7. Thomas, baptized June 16, 1605.
(X) Richard Hutchinson, son of Thomas Hutchinson, was born in 1602 in England and was the immigrant ancestor. He came to America in 1634 with his wife Alice and four children, and settled in Salem Village, now Danvers, Massachusetts, in the vicinity of Whipple and Hathorne's Hill. In 1636 he re- ceived a grant of sixty acres of land, and more in the following spring. In 1648 he bought of Elias Stileman a farm of one hundred and fifty acres. He and his wife were members
of the First Church of Salem as early as 1636. His will was dated January 19, 1679, and proved September 28, 1682. He married (first), December 7, 1627, Alice Bosworth, of Holgrave, England, daughter of Joseph Bos- worth. He married (second), October, 1668, Susanna Archard, widow of Samuel Archard. He married (third) Sarah, widow of James Standish. She married for her third husband Thomas Roots, of Manchester, and was liv- ing as late as March, 1683-84. Children, by first wife: 1. Alice, baptized in England, Sep- tember 27, 1628, buried the same year. 2. Eliz- abeth, baptized in England, August 30, 1629, died June 24. 1688; married Nathaniel Put- nam. 3. Mary, baptized in England, Decem- ber 28, 1630, married May 26, 1657, Thomas Hale. 4. Rebecca, born in England, 1632, married, May, 1658, James Hadlock. 5. Joseph, born 1633, mentioned below. 6. Abi- gail, baptized in Salem, December 25, 1636, married Anthony Ashby. 7. Hannah, baptized in Salem, January 20, 1639, married, April 12, 1662. Daniel Boardman. 8. John, born 1643, died August 2, 1676; married, July, 1672, Sarah Putnam.
(XI) Joseph Hutchinson, son of Richard Hutchinson, was born at North Muskham, England, 1633, and came to New England with his parents. He lived on the homestead in Salem and acquired the property by deed of gift from his father in 1666. His homestead joined the site of the first meeting house in Salem Village, which had been a part of his own land, which he gave to the church to build upon. In 1700 the church was taken down. and a new one built on another site, and the land reverted to him again. He lived during the celebrated witchcraft trials, and was one of the complainants against Tituba, the Indian servant of Rev. Mr. Parris, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborn. In 1658 he was constable and on the jury in 1659. He dis- tributed his property among his children be- fore he died, and left no will. He died aged about eighty-three years. He married (first) probably a daughter of John Gedney. He married (second), February 28, 1677-78, Lydia, baptized April 27, 1669, daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth Buxton and widow of Joseph Small, who was her second husband. Children : I. Abigail, baptized September 26, 1666, died young. 2. Bethiah, baptized Sep- tember 26, 1666, died November, 1690. 3. Joseph, mentioned below. 4. John, baptized September 26, 1666, married (first), May 7, 1694, Mary Gould; (second), March 4, 1710,
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Hannah Howard. 5. Benjamin, married (first) Jane Phillips : (second). January 26, 1714-15, Abigail Foster. Children of second wife: 6. Abigail, born January 14. 1678-79, married Joseph Allen. 7. Richard, born May IO, 1681, married February 16, 1713-14. Rachel Bance. 8. Samuel, born October 9, 1682. 9. Ambrose, born June 4, 1684, mar- ried, June 24, 1709, Ruth Leach. 10. Lydia, born September 13, 1685, married George Nourse. 11. Robert, born November 13, 1687. married (first ). December 27, 1711, Elizabeth Putnam ; (second), June 6, 1717, Sarah Put- nam.
(XII) Joseph Hutchinson, son of Joseph Hutchinson, was born at Salem and baptized at the First Church, September 26, 1666. He was recorded as a member of the church at Salem Village, February 4, 1700, and was chosen October 31, 1732, a delegate to the church at Wenham to assist in the ordination of the Rev. John Warren. He settled on a part of the homestead, which he afterwards received by deed of gift, July 1. 1703. The inventory of his estate was filed July 20, 1751. His will was proved June 3, 1751. He mar- ried (first) Elizabeth -, born 1664, died December 21, 1700. He married (second), January 30, 1700-01, Rebecca Knight, of Tops- field. Children, all by first wife: 1. Joseph, born January 27, 1689, married (first) Bethia Gould: (second) Abigail Goodale, widow. 2. Ruth, born February 26, 1690-91, married February 19, 1712-13, Josiah Putnam. 3. Bethia, born December 24, 1693, died Decem- ber 9, 1726; married, June 9, 1715. Benjamin Putnam. 4. Ebenezer, born February 20, 1694, mentioned below. 5. Elizabeth, born February 22, 1695, died Feburary 18, 1702. 6. Son, born February 22, 1695 (twin), died young. 7. Elisha, born March 14, 1697, died March I, 1702. 8. Jasper, born January 31, 1698, died February 16, 1701. 9. Elisha. mar- ried Ginger Porter. One child by second wife.
(XIII) Ebenezer Hutchinson, son of Joseph Hutchinson, was born at Salem Village, February 20, 1694. He inherited most of his father's homestead, and was a man of consider- able property. He owned a valuable farm in Amherst, New Hampshire, which he bequeath- ed to his son Solomon, who had removed there. He was constable and assessor in 1725. He married (first). August 13, 1718, Hannah Gould, born February 20, 1698-99, daughter of Joseph and Bethiah (Raye) Gould. He married (second), April 5, 1727, Hannah ( Southwick) Shaw, born 1698, widow of Ebe-
nezer Shaw, and daughter of John and Han- nah (Follet) Southwick. Children of first wife: I. Solomon, born 1721, married Octo- ber 22, 1746, Hannah Putnam. 2. Ebenezer, baptized March 29, 1730, died young. 3. Ilan- nah, baptized March 29, 1730, died September 23. 1804, married July 7, 1737, Amos Hutch- inson. Children of second wife: 4. Bethiah, baptized March 29, 1730, married, Novem- ber 26, 1751, Joseph Brown. 5. Robert, bap- tized February 25, 1733, mentioned below. 6. Joseph, baptized May 18, 1735, married, Janu- ary 29, 1767, Ruth Pritchard. 7. Jeremy, born June 29, 1738, died April 7. 1805, married, April 11. 1760. Sarah Putnam.
( XIV) Robert Hutchinson, son of Ebe- nezer Hutchinson, baptized February 25, 1733. clied December, 1785. He inherited his father's homestead and owned land in An- dover and Middleton. He resided in Danvers, formerly called Salem Village. He married, June 16, 1767, Eunice Buxton, daughter of Amos Buxton. Children: I. Daniel, born May 22, 1768, died November 6, 1844; mar- ried. August 19, 1790, Ruth Whittridge. 2. Ada, born December 27, 1769, died November 19, 1841. married, May, 1796, Asa Putnam. 3. Joseph, born April 25, 1771, died young. 4. Job, born October 7, 1772, died August 23. 1856. 5. Abijah, born November 28, 1774, mentioned below. 6. Betsey, born June 24, 1778, died July 4, 1861. 7. Eunice, born Feb- ruary 10, 1780, died October 4, 1796. 8. Eben, born March 16, 1784, died July 1, 1844. 8. Robert, born June 4, 1785, died November 6, 1828.
(XV) Abijah Hutchinson, son of Robert Hutchinson, born Danvers, November 28. 1774, died January 3, 1861. He was a farmer and resided in Danvers. He married, March 18, 1800, Irene Badger, born Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, January 20, 1780, died March 30, 1864, daughter of Robert Badger. Children : 1. Eliza, born October 25, 1800-01, died November 6. 1845: married Archelaus Hutchinson. 2. Rebecca, born March 19, 1803. died May 6, 1846; married. December 24, 1834, George W. Priest. 3. Ruth, born July 26, 1805, died June 10, 1814. 4. Elias, born August 2, 1806. 5. Irene, born November 28, 1810, died September 22, 1832. 6. Eunice, born May 4, 1813. 7. Edith, born October 26, 1816, died November 24, 1868. 8. Ruth, born April 10. 1819. 9. Benjamin Franklin, born June 23, 1821, married, Sep- tember 30, 1858, Mary Jane DeMeritt. 10. Lucinda, born April 21, 1824, married, July
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23, 1854, Lewis Dickinson. (See sketch of Dickinson family herewith).
(I) William Moody, immigrant
MOODY ancestor of this family, was born in England and came from Ipswich, England, to Ispwich, New England, in 1634. According to family tradition, he was of Welch ancestry, however. He was a saddler by trade. He was admitted a freeman May 6, 1635, and removed from Ipswich to Newbury the same year. He was among the first settlers of the town of Newbury, and his descendants have been among the most promi- nent men of that town and vicinity to the pres- ent time. He had a ninety-two acre grant from the town. According to tradition he was the first to shoe oxen for walking on the ice. He died October 25, 1673. His widow Sarah died January 13, 1672-73. Children: 1. Samuel, mentioned below. 2. Rev. Joshua, born 1633. graduate of Harvard College in 1653: settled at Portsmouth in 1658 as minister; married (first) Collins ; (second) Ann
3. Caleb, born 1637, married, 1659, Sarah Pierce ; (second), 1665, Judith Bradbury ; deputy to the general court, 1677-78, and was thrown into prison by Governor Andros for criticising his administration.
(II) Samuel Moody, son of William Moody, was born in England about 1630. He settled at Newbury, Massachusetts, where he died April 4, 1675. He was a member of the Newbury church in 1670 ; was admitted a free- man in 1666 and must have belonged to the church before that date. His will was dated March 22, 1674-75, and proved April 21, 1675. He married, November 30, 1657, Mary Cut- ting, who was a member of the Newbury church in 1674. She married (second ), June 24, 1679, at Newbury, Daniel Lunt. Children, born at Newbury: 1. Sarah, born November, 1658, married Silvanus Plummer. 2. William, born July 22, 1661, mentioned below. 3. John, born April 1, 1663, married Hannah 4. Mary, born February 28, 1664-65, married Henry Somerby. 5. Lydia, born August 5, 1667. 6. Hannah, born January 4. 1669-70. 7. Samuel, born December 6, 1671, married Sarah Knight. 8. Cutting, born April 9, 1674, married, March 25, 1690, Judith Little.
(III) William Moody, son of Samuel Moody, born Newbury, July 22, 1661, died there in 1729. He took oath of fidelity and allegiance to England in 1678; was admitted a freeman in 1682-83 and to the Newbury
church in 1682. His will was dated August 8, 1729, and proved March 9, 1729-30. He married (first), November 15, 1684, Mehit- able Sewall; (second) Abigail Frost. Chil- dren, born at Newbury: 1. Mary, born Aug- ust 13, 1685, married Moses Hall. 2. Deacon Samuel, born March 21, 1689, mentioned be- low. 3. Mehitable, born February 15, 1690- 91, married Coffin. 4. Sarah, married a Dummer. 5. William, born February 23, 1699-1700, died 1760; deeded land to his brother Samuel September 28, 1727.
(IV) Deacon Samuel Moody, son of Wil- liam Moody, born Newbury, March 21, 1689, died there May 25, 1767. He received land by deed from his father, September 27, 1716, and from his brother, September 28, 1727, and September 26, 1733. He deeded to his grand- son, Samuel Moody, blacksmith, half his home- stead, July 28, 1755, and to Samuel, his son, March 20, 1764, and to son Paul in 1766. Children : I. Samuel, Jr., blacksmith. 2. Paul, mentioned below. Probably others.
(V) Paul Moody, son of Samuel Moody, was born about 1740. He received land by deed dated June 2, 1766, from his father. The deed states his residence as Newbury Falls. The heirs of Sarah Stanwood deeded land to Paul. He was a soldier in the revolution, sergeant in Captain Gerrish's company, Col- onel Timothy Pickering, Jr.'s regiment ; was ordered to Danbury, Connecticut, by way of Providence, December 24, 1776, and was, ac- cording to all accounts in the family, a soldier in the battle of White Plains. Children : I. Samuel. 2. Nathan, deeded an undivided sixth of the Byfield farm at Newbury to brother, Enoch Moody. 3. Enoch, mentioned below. 4. Sewall, married Judith (or daughter Judith married Sewall Wood). 5. Paul, settled in Lowell, Massachusetts. 6. William (deeded land to brother Enoch September 29, 1818). 7. David. 8. Mehitable Dummer. 9. Joseph, beneficiary of a deed of trust made by the father of sons Samuel, Nathan, Enoch, Paul, David, and daughter Mehitable Dum- mer, September 29, 1818.
(VI) Enoch Moody, son of Paul Moody, was born in Newbury or Byfield, Massachu- setts, about 1790. He lived at West Newbury ; married Eunice Balch, who survived him, and was appointed to administer his estate, March 13, 1838. He lived on the homestead, but sold it to his brother about 1835. Josiah Little was appointed guardian of Enoch's children in 1838. Children. born at West
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Newbury : I. Eunice B., born 1821. 2. Soph- ronia, born 1823. 3. Sarah, born 1827. 4. Horace John.
(VII) Horace John Moody, son of Enoch Moody, was born in West Newbury, March 7, 1831, on the present Moody homestead, known as Pipestave Hill. He was educated in the district schools of his native town. He was a clerk in Boston in marine insurance with Joseph Balch, an uncle, when a young man. He embarked in the marine insurance and average adjusting in New York City and built up an extensive business, continuing until shortly before his death, when he took the position of president of Pacific Mutual ( Ma- rine) Insurance Company. He was in part- nership in the marine insurance business for a number of years with Jacob R. Telfair, of New York City. He spent some time in the gold fields of California in 1851-53, represent- ing the New York board of marine under- writers. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church. He married Elizabeth Wil- liams Gantz, born in New York City, in 1830; died at Yonkers, New York, in 1888, daugh- ter of George W. and Elizabeth ( William ) Gantz. Children : I. Phronia, born July 31, 1855, died at Yonkers, April 3, 1882 ; married John J. Lancaster, of New York City, born in Virginia ; children : Agnes, Julia D. and Horace M. Lancaster. 2. Elizabeth, died in childhood. 3. Horace, born December 27, 1858, mentioned below. 4. Agnes, born No- vember 23, 1860, married William B. Bourn, of San Francisco; child, Maud Chase Bourn. 5. Infant son, deceased. 6. Louise, born Jan- vary 27, 1866, lives with brother Horace, at West Newbury.
(VII) Horace Moody, son of Horace John Moody, was born in New York City, Decem- ber 27, 1858. He received his education in various private schools at home and abroad. He began his business career as clerk in his father's office in New York City, remaining from 1876 to 1878. He spent a year in Et- rope. Upon his return he was associated with his father for about a year, and in 1880 en- barked in the marine and fire insurance busi- ness on his own account. After a very suc- cessful and arduous business career of twenty years in this line, he retired and made his home in West Newbury. He came into possession of half the Moody homestead, where he now lives, in 1877, and the other half in 1890. He has made great improvements in the estate, remodeling the old mansion house and bring- ing the farm to a high state of cultivation and
most attractive appearance. The farm is lo- cated on the Merrimac river two hundred and fifty feet above the surface of the water, hav- ing a charming view of the surrounding coun- try. One may see from the Moody house no less than fourteen villages, towns, hills and mountains in four different states, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, as well as the Old Bay State, and to the eastward the broad sweep of the Atlantic Ocean from the Isle of Shoals to Cape Ann. Mr. Moody was active in the New York state militia many years, rising through the various grades to the rank of cap- tain of Company K, Twelfth New York Na- tional Guard. In politics he is a Republican.
He married ( first) Zaidee F. Bourn, born in San Francisco, died October 16, 1898, daugh- ter of William B. Bourn. He married (sec- ond ). September 4, 1901, Martha Paull Walk- er, born at Connellsville, Fayette county, Penn- sylvania, September 27, 1861, daughter of Za- dock and Sarah (Boyd) Walker. Her father was an iron manufacturer all his life: served in the civil war throughout, captain of the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment ; returned to his business after the war; was a Republican in politics. He was born in Fay- ette county, Pennsylvania, and died at Wil- murding, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, son of William and Martha ( Paull) Walker, of Fayette, whose children were: i. George Paul Walker, died in Kentucky ; ii. Zadock Walker, mentioned above ; iii. James Paull Walker, lives at Seattle, Washington; iv. Mary Ellen, married Rev. W. G. Stewart; v. Thomas, buried in the family lot at Uniontown. The father of William and grandfather of Zadock Walker was also named Zadock Walker. Sarah ( Boyd) Walker was born near Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and died at New York City; is buried in Greenwood cemetery in that city. She was the mother of two children: Martha Paull, wife of Horace Moody, and John Boyd Walker, born April 8, 1863, died May 20, I903. Child of Horace and Martha Patill ( Walker) Moody : Horace Walker, born March 12, 1903.
For several generations members EATON of the Eaton family have borne their share in the development and progress of the communities in which they settled. The ancestors possessed in a marked degree the characteristics which make patriotic and public-spirited citizens, and these qualities have been perpetuated in their de- scendants, who are numbered among the rep-
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resentative and prominent citizens of this great country.
(I) William Eaton was born in England, about 1604. He was a husbandman in Sta- ples, county of Kent. He married Martha Jen- kins, and accompanied by his wife and chil- dren-William, Martha and John-sailed from Sandwich, June 9, 1637, and settled in Water- town, Massachusetts, of which he was a pro- prietor in 1642 and a freeman in 1653. He subsequently removed to Reading, and there died May 13, 1673. She died in 1680-81.
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