Samuel Eaton

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Samuel Eaton rode on the Mayflower with his family when he was just a suckling child (he was less than one year old). He was not a Pilgrim and came to the New World for other reasons besides religion. His mother, Sarah Eaton, died the first winter in the New World of 1620-1621. His father, Francis Eaton, remarried twice after that, and Samuel had one stepsister named Rachel, one stepbrother named Benjamin and another step-sibling. He apprenticed for seven years in husbandry. He then married and had a farm in Duxbury, then later in Middleboro. He remarried and had six children all together with both wives, only four of the names of which are known: Sarah, Samuel, Mercy, and Bethiah. He died in 1684 at the age of 64.