[10878] This person is presumed living.
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William m. (2) 26 June 1782 at York, ME Olive Lord (- "VR of York, ME," p. 362). He is son of John (III) and Martha Sweet; John (III) is son of John (II) and Mary Bradbury; John (II) is son of John (I) and Martha Rowlandson; Martha Sweet is dau. of Joseph Sweet and Hannah Ward; Mary Bradbury is dau. of Thomas Bradbury; Joseph Sweet is son of Benjamin Swett [sic] and Hester Weare; Hannah Ward is dau. of Thomas Ward and Margaret Shaw. [- from database of Sylvia Conner Wardwell, 8/98, not verified] "Deer Isle, Maine: From Pre-History to the Present." Edith Spofford-Watts (Penobscot Press, 1997), pp. 22-23, gives the ancestry and family of William. This source reports his wife is Ruth or Meribah Wardwell, and gives his approximate birth year. William Eaton was the first white man to make a permanent settlement on Deer Isle, settling there in 1762. He and his family settled on what came to be known as the Scott Farm. This was near the Steamboat landing. After residing on Deer Isle for several years, he sold his possession there to Nathaniel Scott of Ward (Auburn) Mass. He and his family moved to Little Deer Isle where they occupied the farm which after his death passed into the possession of Benjamin Weed, his son-in-law. This was later owned by Peter Hardy Jr.( by 1839). William served as a private in Captain Nathaniel Fales' company, August 3, 1779. He was discharged August 15, 1779. This company marched on an expedition to Majorbagaduce by order of Gen. Lovell. http://www.eatongenealogy.com/blackeaton4.html offers: "From Old Hancock County Families by William Macbeth Pierce, Hancock County Publishing Company, Ellworth, 1933, pp. 59-62 and Supplemental, pp. 132-133: William Eaton, son of John (b. c. 1687) and Esther (Swett) (b. June 9, 1690, daughter of James Swett of Hampton Falls, NH), was born about 1720. He married (published in York, ME, November 20, 1742) Ruth/Meribah Wardwell of York, ME. (She was known as 'Ruth' but the records of York, ME give her name as 'Meribah,' and she is so named in the will of Eliakim Wardwell). Ruth 'Meribah' was the daughter of Mrs. Eliakim Wardwell and, as tradition has it, an Indian chief by whom Mrs. Eliakim Wardwell was held captive, being forced to become his wife. William Eaton was the first white man to make a permanent settlement on Deer Isle, and he settled there in 1762. He and his family settled on what in recent years [c. 1933] was the Scott farm, near the steamboat landing. After residing on Deer Isle for several years, William Eaton sold his possession there to Nathaniel Scott of Ward (Auburn) Mass., and he and his family moved to Little Deer Isle where they occupied the farm which, after the death of William Eaton, passed into the possession of Benjamin Weed, his son-in-law, and which was owned by Peter Hardy, Jr. at the time of his death in 1859. William Eaton served in the Revolutionary War, being commissioned first major of Col. Jonathan Buck's (5th Lincoln County) regiment of Massachusetts militia, February 8, 1776, his name being written in place of that of Edmund Moor; also, 'official record of a ballot by the House of Representatives dated May 1, 1776, said Eaton chosen 1st Major, 5th Lincoln Company regiment in the room of Edmund Moor, who declined to serve; appointment concurred in by council May 2, 1776.' On March 22, 1786, William Eaton, Jeremiah Eaton, his son, Theophilus and Jonathan Eaton, his cousins, and others, with their heirs and assigns, were conditionally granted one hundred acres each, as a compensation for having settled and made separate improvements on Deer Isle before January 1, 1784. This land was to be held in severally; and it was to be laid out so as to give to each settler his respective improvements. 'And be it further Resolved, That, the remainder of said Deer-Island, with all the privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging, be, and is hereby granted and confirmed to' those mentioned above." Also see "An Historical Sketch of the Town of Deer Isle, Maine," George L. Hosmer (Sunset, ME: Deer Isle-Stonington Historical Society, 1886), pp. 39-40.
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[S11]
"Revolutionary War Graves Register," (Louisville: NSSAR, 1993)
[24824] Louisa is daughter of Henry Huber.
[28643]
[S2]
LDS IGI - not verified
[24347] This person is presumed living.
[27397] This person is presumed living.
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