Jeremiah Eaton (abt. 1749 - abt. 1801)

Born about 1749 in York, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Died about 8 Oct 1801 at about age 52 in Hancock, Maine, United States

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Jeremiah Eaton was the first settler upon the farm adjoining that of Mr. Hardy upon the southwest. He was the son of Major William Eaton, and his wife was a daughter of Captain Mark and a sister of Ignatius Haskell, Esq. She survived him, and her second marriage was with Mr. John Howard, who will b§^ noticed. She had no children, and Mr. Eaton adopted two brothers, the children of Eleanor Bray, afterward the wife of Mr. Perry and the mother of the present Mr. Eli Perry. The children took his name, and were known as Mr. Asa B. Eaton and Edward Eaton. He bequeathed his property after his wife's decease to them, but they did not receive it. It became the property of Ignatius Haskell, Esq., and afterward that of Thomas Adams, Esq., of Castine, by whom it was sold to the late Captain Amos Howard, and it is now occupied by his widow. Asa B. Eaton, one of the adopted sons, married Miss Mercy Raynes, daughter of William and sister of the late Captain Johnson Raynes. Three of their children only lived to grow up. One, the present Captain William R. Eaton, who resided for many years here, and in 1867 removed to Wakefield, Massachu- setts, and now resides in Newburyport. He has been for many years an enterprising master-mariner. Another brother was the late Mr. Nathan H. Eaton, and a sister now dead was the wife of a Mr. Dexter, in Boston. Mr. Eaton died at sea in 185 1, and his wife survived him not many years. The other brother, Mr. Edward Eaton, married a daughter of Mr. Chase Pressey, by whom he had one son, Hiram Eaton, who went from here about forty years ago, and two daughters, one of whom married in Boston, and both are now dead. Both Edward Eaton and his wife died more than fifty years ago.

died at sea

Source

History of Deer Isle Maine by Goerge L Hosmer page 65

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