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I hope the following material will answer some of your questions. Most is from The Great Migration Begins, sketches of the Eddy brothers and John Doggett, with some snippets from other places.
First, John1 Eddy of Taunton and John Eddy of Martha's Vineyard (son of Samuel) are definitely two discrete individuals, living roughly at the same time, each married different wives over their lifetimes (John of Taunton md twice) and each having large families.
The evidence that John2 Eddy, son of Samuel, is Samuel's son comes from the agreement between the children of Sam as to how to handle his estate, because he died intestate. This agreement is in the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds, Book 7, p. 177, and proves that John of Martha's Vineyard is the son of Samuel. I don't know where you are getting that he moved to Bristol Co. He lived and died in Martha's Vineyard, having gone there from his father's home in Plymouth. He is buried in the West Tisbury Cemetery on Martha's Vineyard. (Most of this material from The Ancestors and Descendants of F. A. Marsh & Ivy Crites, by William Marsh. M. D. 1990).
John1 Eddy of Taunton is shown as an ancestor of President Fillmore by Gary Boyd Roberts in Ancestors of American Presidents, 1995, with unknown parents.
John2 Eddy's wife, (Sam's son, of Martha's vineyard), Hepzibah Daggett or Doggett, is identified from her father's will. She is identified as a daughter by name in that will. He selected "my loving friends Isaac Robinson and Jon Edy, my son-in-law" overseers. John Eddy signed quitclaim deeds re their rights in land near the Neck to Joseph Dagget (apparently his wife's interest in her dad's property to his brother-in-law).
John1 Eddy's (of Taunton) marriages are solid marriages, were recorded in vital records, and are in Torrey. His date of birth is not known, but is estimated to be 1640, simply based on the time-line of a father of the children attributed to him. (I've seen kids attributed to him from 1667-1696.)
John2 Eddy of Watertown was likely an incompetent and never married (TGMB). His brother, Samuel2 Eddy (son of Eddy1 of Watertown), provided in his 1702 will that directed his sons "to take the full care to provide and maintain my brother John Eddi during his natural life." NOTE: The John Eddy of Taunton died in 1695 and therefore could NOT have been this John. There simply is no evidence to give proof to the assertion that John Eddy of Taunton is this John, though it is tempting to jump to that conclusion as they were contemporaries. The 1702 provision for the John2 (son of John) by his brother rules out that John as being the same as the John Eddy of Taunton, who died in 1695.
The ancestral lines of John Eddy of Watertown and Samuel, of Plymouth and Swansea, back to England, as well as descendants forward, are as clear as about any set of immigrants we have. John Eddy of Taunton is a mystery man, and may likely stay that way, unless some English research uncovers an answer.
If he is a son of the equally mysterious Zacharias Eddy, baptized Mar, 1610, to William and Mary, brother of John of Watertown and Samuel, we may never know, as most American resources for research have been exhausted. I don't know if English research has followed this man from the "cradle to the grave" to know if he had a son named John, or if a "cradle to grave" accounting for such a possible son of Zachariah has been done. He simply may just be a stray Eddy that came floating into the New World from another part of England and have no relationship to the Eddy brothers.
I would suggest you include in your book that facts as we know them, as given by this phrase from The Great Migration Begins:
"[The] Relation to John Eddy of Taunton [is] unknown [Eddy Gen 879], but this John Eddy married Susannah Padduck, sister of the Alice Padduck who married Zachariah, son of Samuel Eddy."
Norris
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