Marriage and Family
Francis Eaton married:
(1) Sarah _____ in England. She died of “general sickness” in the first winter.
(2) Dorothy _____ - generally thought to have been a maidservant of Mayflower passenger, John Carver. She married Francis Eaton sometime after the deaths of John Carver and his wife Katherine in early 1621. Dorothy died within a year or two after her marriage. They had no children.
(3) about 1626 - Christian Penn. She had arrived in Plymouth in the summer of 1623, either on the ship ‘Anne’ or ‘Little James’. They had three children. Christian Penn later married (2) Francis Billington, son of John Billington. They had nine children. She died in Middleborough about 1684.
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