Eaton John b. 17 SEP 1671 d. 28 OCT 1694

1671 - 1694

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Birth 17 Sep 1671 [1, 2]

Gender Male

_UPD 17 AUG 2009 18:31:15 GMT-5

Died 28 Oct 1694 [1, 2]

Buried Dedham Cemetery, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts [3]

Person ID I4814 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Father Eaton John, b. 1636

Mother Alice, d. 08 May 1694

Family ID F1992 Group Sheet

Family Whiting Anna or Ann, b. 25 Jan 1672/73, d. 09 Mar 1749, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA

Married Abt 1694 [1, 2]

Children

1. Eaton John, b. 04 Apr 1695, d. 23 Feb 1770

Family ID F1991 Group Sheet

Notes	3. JOHN3 Eaton, born 17 Sept. 1671, son of John2 and Alice Eaton, married Ann Whiting and lived in Dedham, probably at his father's homestead on Dedham Island. He died 28 Oct. 1694 at the age of 23, only a few months after their marriage. His widow married, 2dly, 4 April 1700, John Lewis, and sdly, n Aug. 1725, James Herring. She died 9 March 1749. (Dedham Hist. Reg. Jany. 1895.) Child :— 7. John*, b. 4 April 1694; m. 23 April 1729, Elizabeth Lovering, and died 23 Feb. 1770. This was the John Eaton who bought the farm on Purgatory Plain. When did John2 Eaton die ? He was living in 1694 at the time when his oldest son died; and in volume five of the Dedham town records we can trace him still further. His name appears regularly in the tax lists from the date of his father's death until the year 1701. From 1700 to 1704 it is listed in combination with that of a son, viz:— John & Willi Eaton. After the year 1704, John Eaton's name disappears entirely from the lists, and that of William takes its place; so that it is probable that John2 gave up the care of the farms to his son; and his descendants may believe that the closing years of the old man's life were calm and peaceful after the sickness and misfortunes that he had experienced. Whether he had learned, as have his descendants and successors, the charm of standing on the Great Rock and enjoying the extensive view of the Charles River meadows with Roxbury and Newton hills not far distant; or, sheltered from northerly winds in one of the depressions of its southerly face, he looked across the river flowing in front, and contemplated the settlement, which had grown in his day from a small hamlet to what must have seemed to him a respectable town, with its meetinghouse and school house and tavern; or whether, as appreciation of natural scenery is a modern cultivated taste, he contented himself with sitting in the sunshine at his home, the Rock must have been an object of his daily vision. The next occurrence of his name on record, is on a deed made in 1706, selling a farm to his son. Judging from the tax lists William3 had doubtless been in charge of the estate for some years, and nowa portion is sold to him. A reason for not examining this deed before and recognizing its importance as bearing on the problems that we are trying to solve, was that, though dated in 1706, it was notrecorded until 1740, and being indexed 1740, it was not suspected of being a deed of John,2 but thought to be merely a casual purchase and sale by some later John. Date 1706,23 March, ackd March 25, 1706, Entered Oct. 9, 1740. I, John Eaton of Dedham, yeoman, for £ 30. in hand and secured to be paid by my son William Eaton of Dedham, sell to him one parcell of land meadow and swamp in Dedham upon the Great Island planting field, being 30 acres more or less . . . bounded . . upon land of Michael Metcalf towards the west, the meadow of Samuel & Ephraim Ware towards the north, Charles River and the Pond towards the east and land of Sam1 Ware towards the south .... said land is my own proper estate .... (Suffolk Deeds, Lib. LXI., p. 3.) The above farm was in the neighborhood of what is now called Motley's Pond, and it is evident that John2 Eaton continued to hold the homestead estate containing the Rock. This homestead also came afterwards into possession of William3 by inheritance, as will be shown by inventory of his estate. Another deed of John2 is found and is dated in 1710:— Date 27 March 1710. Entered Oct. 3, 1717. I, John Eaton of Dedham, husbandman, for good pay by John Gill sell to him Eight acres not far distant from Magus Hill. (Suffolk Deeds, Lib. XXXII., p. 75.)

Sources

[S239] Dedham historical register, Dedham Historical Society (Mass.), (Name: Dedham Historical Society, 1894;), 41 (Reliability: 3).
[S242] Eaton family of Dedham and the Powder house rock, John Eaton Alden, Daniel Cady Eaton, (Name: Higginson Book Company, 1900;), 25 (Reliability: 3).
[S239] Dedham historical register, Dedham Historical Society (Mass.), (Name: Dedham Historical Society, 1894;), 42 (Reliability: 3).