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- Married Ann Graves Cotton by 7 Oct 1642. On that date Nathaniel Eaton, Clerke, (Cleric also a Rector of Hungar's Parish], assigned 350 a. of the lands formerly owned by William Cotton, Clarke" (Cleric) . . . to John Holloway (Surgeon, and (1) husband of Elizabeth (Bacon)-Holloway, who m. (2) John Nuthall). [Nugent, op. cit., p. 135.]
Nathaniel Eaton was a rogue and a scoundrel, who'd been previously married (see his reference to his wife in Governor Winthrop's Journal, Vol. 1, p. 186 . . . and p. 187, where his age in 1639 is given as "about 30 years of age and upwards"), and had come to Virginia in 1639 "in Nole's barque", from Massachusetts. (NOTE: On June 11, 1635, Mr. Jeremiah Clement claimed land for the transportation into Virginia of one Nathaniel Eaton - Nugent, op. cit., p. 28; and in 1652, John Phillips also claimed land for having transported Nathaniel Eaton - Ibid., p. 269.] While living in Mass., he had served as the first principal of Harvard [Va. Mag., vol. 5, p. 130]. He'd got himself in trouble, there, and had run away, leaving behind him considerable debts and much ill feeling. In Gov. Winthrop's Journal, vol. II (1826, James Savage, edition), p. 342, Gov. Winthrop, after confusing Ann's father with another Thomas Graves, called Nathaniel Eaton "that apostate . . . who having spent all she (Ann) had, fled away, and left her miserable, 1646".
It appears that the Eaton's had removed from the Eastern Shore to Warwick Co. (now Newport News), Va., for it was from the latter place that Nathaniel Eaton is said to have "slipped" away "deserting Ann and their children" [Wm. & Mary, op. cit., vol. XIX, p. 37 - also, his land in Warwick Co., is mentioned in a patent of Francis Rice, dated 1646 - Nugent, op. cit., p. 174 - and, in a patent of William Parry, who earlier assumed Admn. of the Estates of John and Thomas Graves, "Mr. Eaton's house", is mentioned - Ibid., p. 175.] Incidentally, speaking of William Parry . . . that gentleman patented 550 acs. Northumberland Co., 11 Nov. 1657, p. 349, Abutting upon Potomek Riv., & Wly upon land of George Fauster, Gent. Trans. of 11 pers: Thomas Graves, Katherine his wife, John Graves, Thomas Edge, Thomas Graves, Junr., Henry Singleton, Robert Phillips, Ailce Grinder, John Peck, Francis White, William Onesby (or, Onesly). [Ibid., p. 222.] Obviously, there was a great deal of pure fraud going on, where claims for land were concerned!
Nathaniel Eaton died in England, in 1674 (while in prison for debt), but Ann clearly thought him dead long before this, for on June 8, 1657, she entered into a marriage contract with the then Rector of Hungar's Parish, the Rev. Francis Doughty [Northampton Co. Records, No. 7, p. 48], who then became her (3) and last husband.
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Abt 1600 - 1674 (~ 74 years)
