Re: Attn. Ann: Re: Thomas Eaton(1777-1859)
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Re: Attn. Ann: Re: Thomas Eaton(1777-1859)
Valerie Williams 8/23/03
I am just back to the computer after a long absence.
I hesitate to post the following, very, very rough draft of my pedigree. There is a moch better, more detailed and accurate gedcom at the Eaton Families Association web site, work done by Joe Cochoit.
However, to the degree that this can help, I am offering it with an alert that there are very likely and some apparent inaccuracies in this and definitely some citations that we cannot prove yet.
With all that said, I am rushing this to you, knowing full well that, somewhere in my files, I have even better information that has not yet been assembled in a single document.
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5.Robert de Eaton or de Eyton), son of William Fitz Alan.There's now a
small village named Eaton in Shropshire and this is the era when place names
were given to children.Born circa 1118, died circa 1175.Holds Eyton on
Wealdmoors, Briton and Horton as heir of Warin the bald (?) de Metz (?) under Baron William Pantulf, Buttery, Half-Lawley and Sutton in Shropshire, and Cresswell in Staffordshire,Gave Buttery to Shrewsbury Abbey circa 1170-75.
6.Sir Peter de Eaton, son of Robert de Eaton, b. 1140.
7.Sir Peter de Eaton, son of Peter de Eaton (possibly same as no. 6).
8.William de Eaton, b. 1163, son of Sir Peter Eaton, b. 1163.Was seated
at Eaton upon Tern (name spelled Eton or Eton).
9.Sir Peter de Eaton, son of William de Eaton, b. 1163 in Shropshire, d.
circa 1240.
(possibly a name mix-up with no. 8).There is a William de Eyton, b. 1185,
Shropshire, d. 1255.In 1240 he holds one fee in Eyton and one on Cresswell
in Staffordshire under the Barony of Wem.Married Matilda, b. 1187, Dover,
Kent, England in 1240.
10.Peter de Eaton, son of Sir Peter de Eaton.
11. John de Eaton, son of Peter de Eaton.
12. Peter de Eaton, son of John de Eaton.(All this Peter - John stuff
starts to get a little boring here and is possibly inaccurate.)There is a
Peter de Eyton, b. 1218 in Dover, Kent, England. Died before 1311.Infant
at time of father's death and although called Lord of Eyton, was ward to
Peter Peverel by gift of Ralph le Butiler, then Baron of Wem.
13.Sir Humphrey ("Humphrius") Eaton, son of Peter de Eaton. he was Lord of
Eynton (also located in Shropshire).
14. Sir Georgius, son of Humphrey Eaton.
15.Sir Nicholas Eaton, son of Georgius, married Katerina (Catherine)
Talbott (Talbot), daughter of Earl of Shrewsbury. In the Herald's
Visitations of 1423 Nicholaswas Lord of Eyton and "Sir Nicholas Eyton of Wigmore, a knight."He was Sheriff of the County of Salop and representative in Parliament in 1449, 1450.
16.Louis, son of Nicholas, married Anna Savage (And daughter of Thomas Blount?).
17.Henry, son of Louis Eaton, married Jane Cressent –Cressett, more probably.
18.William, son of Henry Eaton.
19.William, son of Henry Eaton, married Jane Hussey.Jane was buried at
St. James, Dover, England.William died before 1584.Sons were John,
Peter, William and Nicholas.
20.Nicholas, son of William, b. 1573,Church warden of St. Mary's in
Dover in 1603.
Died 1636 or 1637 and buried in St. Mary the Virgin Church on March 21,
1637. Was listed as a Mayor of Dover and Jurate in the Herald's Visitation
of Kent in 1619. He had a considerable estate (900 pounds and shares of
vessels).He was first married to Katherine Master and secondly to Joan
Gibbs, a widow.The 7 children by his first wife were John, William,
Elizabeth, Jane, John (2d), Nicholas and Thomas.The lst John must have
died before the birth of the 2nd John.Nicholas became Capt. Nicholas Eaton
and married Elizabeth Gibbon. His heir, through his son, Sir Peter Eaton,
include Catherine, secondly married to Sir John Thompson, Lord Mayor of
London in the 1700's. Sir Peter had no male issue.
21.John Eaton (Eton), baptized Aug. 21, 1611.In 1630, married Abigail
Doman (Daman, Dammant) at St. James of the Apostle in Dover,It was a
second marriage for her and she had one child by her Henry Daman, her first
husband, named Jane.Children of the second marriage:Mary and John.
Imbarked on the Elizabeth and Ann, bound for New England, on April 27,
1635 -- just 17 days after the signing of his stepmother, Joan Gibbs Eaton's will.
22.John Eaton (2d), son of John, b. 1636, d. circa 1694), Dedham, MA.By
his wife Alice, whose family name is not known, he had seven sons and one
daughter. Four sons lived to maturity.
23.Thomas Eaton, in 1675, marriedLydia Gay and settled in Woodstock, CT,
but moved to Ashford, CT in 1722.He was a blacksmith and farmer.His
children were Thomas, Lydia, Hannah, Nathanael, David, Joshua, Anne,
Ebenezer and Ephraim.
26.Nathaniel Eaton, b. 1704, marriedEsther Parry, daughter of Capt. John
Parry, and lived in Ashford, CT. They had eight sons and seven daughters.
His son, Nathaneil, was the father of the famous General William Eaton,
consul to Tripoli and victor against the Bey at Derna.
27.Abel Eaton, born Oct. 19, 1756.Died Oct. 15,1812.He married Azuba
(Azubah) Hurd, oldest child of Amos Hurd and Dorcas Judson, born in Roxbury,
CT on Nov. 23, 1758, and died Feb. 22, 1811.The connection to the Hinman
and Judson families are through the Hurd family. Abel was a farmer in
Chatham, Columbia County, New York.
28.Amos Eaton, born Chatham, NY May 17, 1776 and died in Chatham, NY on
May 6, 1842. Married Sally Cady on Sept. 16, 1803.She was born in Chatham
on February 18, 1785 and died in New Haven, CT on July 13, 1816. He was the
geological surveyor of the Erie Canal and Senior Lecturer (effectively
President) of Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute at its founding .He
remarried several times after Sally's death.
29.Amos Beebe Eaton, born Catskill, NY on May 12, 1806 and died in New
Haven, CT on Feb. 21, 1877.Graduated West Point, 1826. Married in
Rochester, NY on April 21, 1831 to Elizabeth Selden, widow of
Joseph.Spencer.She was born in Lyme, CT on April 18, 1796 and died in
Washington, DC on May 8, 1868. She had a daughter by her first marriage,
Elizabeth Spencer, who married Samuel Colt of Colt Firearms.He was
breveted Major General by President Lincoln and Secretary of War Stanton and
was Commissary General of the United States Army.The Selden family
connectionto Lyme, CT includes the Ely (of Lyme and New Haven), Rodgers
(of Norwich and North Lyme), Dudley (of Saybrook), Pratt (of Hartford and
Saybrook), Jones (of Guilford), Selden (of Hadley, MA, North Lyme and Lyme,
CT) and Beebe families. Elizabeth Selden was also related to the Stanton
family (through marriage) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, famous to the women's
rights cause.
28.Daniel Cady Eaton, born at Ft. Gratiot, St. Clair County, MI on Sept.
12, 1834. He died June 29, 1895.He was the founder of the Botany Dept. at
Yale University and lived at Sachem St., corner of Prospect St. (now the
home of the Yale University Political Science Dept.).He married Caroline
Ketcham, daughter of Tredwell (Treadwell)Ketcham and Mary Van Winkle, on
Feb. 13, 1866. She was born on Nov. 22,in New York City and died in 1929.
Her children were Henry (who died in a gun accident in South Lyme),
Elizabeth Selden (died in her 30's unmarried) and George Francis Eaton.
Caroline was a watercolor artist and attended the School of Art at Yale.
Her many paintings of the boulders at Edge Lea (originally called "Sheffield
Beach, a part of Sheffield Farm) led to their name:"Grandmother's Rocks."
Her father was an investment banker in NYC in the firm of Cheatham, Kissam
and Ketcham (also known as catch 'em, kiss 'em and cheat 'em) and, at
different times, had controlling interest in the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Company. Caroline died before the stock market crash of
1929, leading to a very high estate valuation of stocks that were worth a
fraction of the value when estate taxes had to be paid.She bequeathed her
homes (hers and her son, George Francis' home next door) to Yale University
for the founding of Berkeley Divinity School.
29.George Francis Eaton, born May 30, 1872 in New Haven, CT. and died Nov.
6, 1949 in Ledyard, CT, at the home of his son, Richard Laurence Eaton,
"Watersmeet."
He was a Captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve in WWI and curator at Peabody
Museum in New Haven.He was a professor of Osteology and Invertebrate
Paleontology at Yale.He also was an M.D.In his later years, he was the
Secretary of the ConnecticutAcademy of Science.During his years at Yale,
he was the scientific leader of the Yale University and National Geographic
Society Expedition to Macchu Picchu, Peru-- a search for the "Lost City of
the Incas."Hiram Bingham was the historical leader of the expedition.He
married Julia Henrietta Hammer, daughter of Thorvald Frederik and Delphina
(Lundsteen) of Branford, CT.The Danish Hammer family owned the Branford
Malleable Iron Fittings Company and lived on an estate named "Elverhoi,"
meaning Elves House. Frederik Selden Eaton was born in Branford at the home
of her uncle, Dr. John Tenney. Julia died in 1920 from cancer when her two
sons were young (Frederik, age 20, and Richard, age 14).
30.Frederik Selden Eaton born July 15, 1900 in Branford, CT and died at
Yale-New Haven Hospital on August 5, 1981.Married to Mary Martindale
Beckwith Bean, ex of Jonathan Hart, on Feb. 19, 1940.She had two children
from her previous marriage, Jonathan Thomas Hart aka Eaton and Peter
Francisco Eaton. Their children were Richard Selden Eaton, Ariana van der
Heyden Eaton and Elizabeth Randolph Eaton."Frick" or "Pop," as we knew
him, was a geologist, botanist and gentleman farmer. They lived in
Northford, CT until 1950 at which time they moved to the Theophilus Jones
House on Jones Rd. in Wallingford, CT. Jones was the grandson of New Haven Colony governor Theophilus Eaton.Frederik taught at Cornell University as a
graduate assistant and taught Pharmacognacy at the school of pharmacy in New
Haven (which became part of the University of Connecticut).He was also
City Forester of the City of New Haven until the early 1940's and Director
of the Research and Design Institute of America until retirement. He was a
Yale graduate and interrupted his studies in WWI to serve as a lieutenant in
a mounted artillery unit from Yale University. Mary Eaton was born in
Hoosick Falls, NY on Jan. 19, 1915, the daughter of George Edward McCormick
Bean (originally of Virginia) and Adelaide Bostelmann (originally of New York; mother = Glover).Mary was a well-known realtor with Beazley Co.
She died Oct. 1, 2001.
31.Richard Selden Eaton, born July 14, 1943 at Grace-New Haven Hospital in
New Haven, CT.Married Sharon Noble of Bridgeport and Stratford, CT on July
30, 1965.They had one son, Richard Selden Eaton, Jr.,
who died in the Iraq War, August 12, 2003.