Mabel (Harlakenden) Eaton (bef. 1614 - abt. 1655)

Born before 27 Dec 1614 in Earls Colne, Essex, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of John Haynes Esq. — married about 1636 in Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Wife of Samuel Eaton — married 17 Nov 1654 in New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died about Jul 1655 after about age 40 in Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Mabel Harlakenden was a daughter of Richard Harlakenden, Esq., of Staple Inn, London and Earls Colne, Essex, and Margaret Huberd.^[1][2][3][4] She was baptized on 27 December 1614^[3] at Earls Colne, Essex.^[2][4]

Mabel was mentioned in the 1631 will of her father, Richard Harlakenden. She emigrated to New England with her brother Roger in 1635^[3] aboard the Defense, at age 21.^[4][5][6]

Mabel married first John Haynes,^[3] Esq., of Old Holt, Essex, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut,^[1] about 1636.^[2][5] Mabel was John's second wife, his first wife, Mary Thornton^[2][4] was buried at Hingham, Norfolk on 18 June 1627.^[2] John was the son and heir of John Haynes, Esq. and Mary Mitchell and arrived in America in 1633,^[4] aboard the Griffin, first settling at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and becoming the Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635.^[2]

Mabel and John had three sons and two daughters:

• John,^[2] born about 1638, returned to England where he married and had issue^[4]
• Roger,^[2] born about 1640, returned to England and died soon after, perhaps on the voyage^[4]
• Rev. Joseph,^[2] born 1642, married Sarah Lord by 1669^[4]
• Ruth, wife of Samuel Willis;^[2] she was born about 1636 and married before March 1653/4^[4]
• Mabel, wife of James Russell^[2] of Charlestown by 1665, Mabel was born in Hartford 19 March 1645/6^[4]

The Haynes family removed to Hartford, Connecticut in 1637, and John was elected the first Governor of Connecticut in April 1639. He re-elected to serve a Governor in 1641, 1643, 1645, 1647, 1649, 1651 and 1653 and, when he was not Governor, he served in other positions in the Connecticut Colony government.^[2] John Haynes died in Hartford, Connecticut before 9 January 1653/4,^[2] when letters to John Winthrop Jr. described John Haynes recent death. A tombstone erected at Hartford gives an erroneous date of death of 1 March 1653/4.^[4]

Mabel married second Samuel Eaton^[1] at New Haven, Connecticut, on 17 November 1654.^[2][4][5][7]

The following year, she and her second husband were among a large number who succumbed to an epidemic of smallpox.^[4] Mabel died at the beginning of July 1655.^[2]

Research Notes

The will of John Haynes mentions "wife Mabell; John eldest son by wife Mabell; Roger, second son; Joseph, youngest son; my Sonn, M' Nathaniel Eldred; daughters Ruth and Mabel".^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011), vol. II, page 355 HARLAKENDEN #14.ii.
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14} Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Ed., vol. II, pages 384-385 HAYNES 17, Mary Thornton.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Sir Anthony Wagner. "A New Harlakenden Line" in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1966). Online at AmericanAncestors.org (with subsc.), vol. 120, page 246.
4. ↑ ^{4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12} Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 1995). Online with subscr. at AmericanAncestors.org. vol. II, page 894-897: John Haynes.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H. (Boston: NEHGS, 2003). Online with subscr. at AmericanAncestors.org, page 221-225: Roger Harlakenden.
6. ↑ John Camden Hotten. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality. (London: Hotten, 1874). Online at Archive.org, page 100.
7. ↑ "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997", database, (FamilySearch: 11 January 2020), Sam: Eaton, 1654.
8. ↑ The Founders of Hartford: Hon, John Haynes, article on archived web page of the Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford.

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011). See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry and volume III, page 274 HAYNES 20 (same info in MCA).

See also:

• FoundersofHartford.org: John Haynes.
• Lewis, Marlyn. Mabel Harlakenden entry in Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins website, accessed 1 May 2020.
• Darling, Charles William. Memorial To My Honored Kindred. (Utica, NY: Fierstine & Gifford, 1888). Online at Archive.org, page 45: John Haynes. Mabel's birth is given as 27 Sep 1614.
• Dickerman, George Sherwood. The Old Mount Carmel Parish. (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1925). Online at Archive.org, page 31
• Find A Grave: Memorial #15099441: unsourced

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Mabel (Harlakenden) Eaton is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry (vol. I, pages xxiii-xxix) as a Gateway Ancestor and is in a Richardson-documented trail to Magna Carta Surety Barons Hugh le Bigod and Roger Bigod (vol. II, pages 353-355 HARLAKENDEN). The trail was badged for the Magna Carta Project in May 2021. The profiles in it can be seen in the Magna Carta Trails section on her mother's profile.

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