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THE EATON FAMILY OF NOVA SCOTIA 176.0-1929 By Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton Doctor of Civil Law PRIVATELY PRINTED THE MURRAY PRINTING COMPANY CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Dear Valued Customer, Please note that the images in the original volume of this book are of poor quality, and reproduced herein as best as possible. While KnowYourRoots.Net is dedicated to make available products of the highest quality, some circumstances are beyond our control. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you for your support and we look forward to serving you again with all your history and genealogy needs Best Regards Rodriguez Maindron, http://www.KnowYourRoots.Net Your # 1 source for rare e-books on genealogy and history (800) 319-8434 file:///F|/Documents and Settings/Owner/My Documents/My Web Pages/disclaimer.htm [12/11/2006 10:46:52 AM] WITH DEEP AFFECTION I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO JOSEPH WILFRED EATON GRADUATE OF HARVARD, COMMUNICANT OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, WHOSE PROMISING YOUNG LIFE HERE CAME TO AN END IN SWITZERLAND ON NEW YEAR'S DAY 1929 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. EATON FAMILIES OF ENGLAND AND NEW ENGLAND . 3 II. JOHN EATON OF WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND, AND MAssACHUSETis BAY . 10 III. DAVID EATON OF HAVERHILL; AND CORNWALLIS, NovA ScoTIA • • 26 IV. SIXTH GENERATION 37 V. SEVENTH GENERATION 46 VI. EIGHTH GENERATION 78 VII. NINTH GENERATION . 130 VIII. TENTH GENERATION • . 180 IX. SOME FAMILIES INTERMARRIED WITH THE NovA ScoTIA EATONS • • . 194 X. EATON UNIVERSITY GRADUATES . 210 ADDITIONS • • • . 214 PURITAN PLANTERS • . 223 PORTRAITS ARTHUR WENTWORTH HAMILTON EATON, D.C.L. Frontispiece JOHN EDGAR EATON, LL.B. Facing Page 32 CYRUS STEPHEN EATON, B.A•. 68 JOSEPH WILFRED EATON, B.A. 82 WILLIAM EATON, ESQUIRE. 124 JosEPH HowE EATON, EsQUIRE . 132 HoN. CHARLES AuBREY EATON, LL.D. 136 ARTHUR WATSON EATON, ESQUIRE . 146 FRANK HERBERT EATON, D.C.L. 172 JOHN NICHOLSON EATON, ESQUIRE . 178 HoN. WILLIAM RoBB EATON, LL.B. 186 "The man who feels no sentiment of veneration for the memory of his forefathers is himself unworthy of kindred regard or remembrance." DANIEL WEBSTER. "A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombs of its illustrious dead, repairs its great structures, and fosters national pride and love of country by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past." JosEPH HowE. .. • .. THE EA TON FAMILY OF NOV A SCOTIA CHAPTER I EATON FAMILIES OF ENGLAND AND NEW ENGLAND HE surname Eaton, Eton, Eyton, borne by many T families in England, not unknown in Ireland and Wales,· and in the first spelling widely distributed throughout the North American continent, is derived from the Old English roots ea, river, stream, and tun, "the commonest of all English place-name suffixes," meaning primarily an inclosed piece of ground, from which it came to mean "inclosed land with dwellings on it, estate, manor, vill, village." Thus Eaton as a place­ name designated an estate, manor, or village near a stream or river, and as a surname was given the owner of such an estate and his family when surnames were invented in addition to Christian names to identify families. One authority for this derivation of the name Eaton is Allen Mawer, editor of a volume entitled "The Chief Elements used in English Place-Names. Being the Second Part of the Introduction to the Survey of English Place-Names," published by the Cambridge University Press in 1924. Other conspicuous authori­ ties give the same derivation for the name. Important families bearing the Eaton name under one spelling or 3 4 THE EATON FAMILY OF NOVA SCOTIA another are or have been known in many counties of England, as Chester, Essex, Leicester, Northampton, Nottingham, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Wilts, and Worcester, as also in Limerick, Ireland, and Den­ bigh and Flint in Wales. Names of places in England in which the name Eaton appears, either alone or in combination with other names, are many. In Burke's General Armory are recorded no less than twenty separate arms borne by Eaton families in Great Britain and Ireland, in the case of some of which there is such similarity that we are led to believe that the families bearing them are more or less closely related, while others give no such indication whatever. While so far as I know no critical study has been made of the origins of the several conspicuous English families of Eaton, Eton, or Eyton, the probability seems to be that families bearing these names sprang from many different sources owing to settlement by their found­ ers in early times in close proximity to rivers or small streams or lakes or the sea. Of armigerous Eaton fami­ lies, Burke mentions half a dozen in Cheshire, one in Essex, one in Lancashire, one in Leicestershire, one in London, one in Nottinghamshire, three in Shropshire, one in Somersetshire, one in Warwickshire, one in Wilt­ shire, and one in York, besides which he gives three in Ireland, and a number that we cannot precisely locate. The only Eaton in the British peerage today is Francis Ormond Henry Eaton, Baron Cheylesmore of Cheylesmore, Coventry, County Warwick, D.S.O., fourth baron, whose grandfather, Henry William Eaton, was raised to the peerage July 9, 1887, and died in 1891. His immediate successor was his son, Hon. THE EATON FAJ.\1ILY OF NOVA SCOTIA 5 William Meriton Eaton,. who died unmarried in 1902, and his successor, his brother, Hon. Major General Herbert Francis Eaton, who married Elizabeth Rich­ ardson French of New York, their son, Hon. Francis Ormond Henry Eaton, becoming in time fourth baron. The arms of this family are, Erminois a fret azure, two flaunches of the last, each charged with a wing erect argent. Crest, a lion's head erased argent devouring a tun, gorged with a double chain gold, suspended therefrom an escutcheon azure charged with a cross couped, also or. (These arms have supporters.) Motto, Pincit omnia veritas. Baron Cheylesmore's clubs are Guards and Whites. (In Toronto, Canada, lives Florence, Lady Eaton, widow of Sir John Craig Eaton, Knight, president of the T. Eaton Company, Ltd., who died March 30, 1922.) In the history of one of the greatest families in Britain the Eaton name has a conspicuous place: the Duke of Westminster's family name is Grosvenor and the founder of the Grosvenor family of Chester, Eng­ land, which he represents, was Ralfe de Grosvenor, living in the time of Henry VI, who married Joan, only daughter and heiress of John Eton of Eton (now Eaton), who bore him three sons. The first of these sons Burke records as "Robert of Eaton," from whom the noble Westminster family descends. In 1761 Sir Richard Grosvenor of Eaton, Baronet, was elevated to the peerage as a baron; in 1784 he was made earl, in 1831 marquess, and in 1874Duke of Westminster. .P.,..s is well known, the historic seat of this Westminster family is Eaton Hall, near Chester. The Duke also owns Halkin 6 THE EATON FAMILY OF NOVA SCOTIA Castle, in Flintshire, Wales. His town house is Bour­ don House, 2 Davies Street, W. I., London. · To Massachusetts, in New England, in the great Puritan migration in the seventeenth century, came no less than five founders of Eaton families on these shores, one of these, Francis Eaton of the Mayflower, and four others, all with their wives and some chil­ dren, two possibly nearly related, the others having no known relationship to each other at all. Of these five Eaton founders of American families in New England there are multitudes of living descendants scattered throughout the United States and Canada, and in man­ uscript at least there is more or less record to be found of them, although unhappily far too little of consecu­ tive genealogical information concerning them has to the present moment come into print. In addition to the founders of the five New England families I have mentioned are the three Eaton brothers of New Eng­ land's early days, Governor Theophilus Eaton of the New Haven Colony and Nathaniel and Samuel, about whom much has in one way or another been written, but none of whom so far as is known has any descendants, certainly in the Eaton name, in America today. For a few years in •the latter part of the nineteenth century there existed in New England an "Eaton Family Association," in which each of the five New England families of Eatons of the present day were represented, but the Association at length dissolved, for one after another its most active early promoters died and none arose to take their places. In each of the five families there was, for the years the Association lasted, an active, intelligent genealogist, who at his death left THE EATON FAMILY OF NOVA SCOTIA 7 a considerable genealogical manuscript which he had enthusiastically spent a great deal of time in compiling and which, if it could have been published, would have been of untold value to people today of the Eaton name and to a vast number of genealogical workers on other New England families. The leading genealogists of Eaton families were: of the Francis Eaton of the May- flower family, the late Rev. Dr. Silvanus Hayward of Globe Village, Massachusetts; of the family of John Eaton of Dedham, Massachusetts, the late Prof. Daniel C. Eaton of Yale University; of the family of John Eaton of Salisbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts, the late Rev. Dr. William Hadley Eaton; of the family of Jonas Eaton of Reading, the late Mr. William L. Eaton of Concord, Massachusetts; and of that of William Eaton of Reading, the late Mr.

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