Eaton Reunion, 1926
Hamilton Spectator
July 15, 1926
Came on Mayflower
Francis Eaton landed in Plymouth, Mass., in 1620, one of
the passengers of the historic Mayflower. Many distinguished Americans
to-day trace their lineage to so illustrious a forebear. One of his four
sons, John, with his wife Ann, and their six children, in 1640 settled
in Haverhill. It was his great-great-grandson, David Eaton, ancestor of
the Nova Scotia Eatons, who left Connecticut in 1761, for Cornwallis,
N.S., on the invitation of the government, following the expulsion of
the French from Acadia. Large tracts of fertile land cultivated for 100
years had become unoccupied. On these the Eatons and others established
themselves.
Related in some way, exactly how is not yet on record, to this David
Eaton, was John Eaton, who was born in 1773, in Nova Scotia. With his
wife, in 1796, he came to Upper Canada, and settled on 200 acres of land
in the township of Burford, near Brantford, receiving his crown .... recorded
in the Brant county registry office.
John Eaton, soldier, farmer, preacher, has left his influence on the
life of Waterloo and Brant counties. In Ingersoll, Woodstock, Princeton,
Eatonia, Saltfleet, his great grandchildren form a great percentage of
the population. In East Flamboro, in an area of 24 square miles, there
is hardly a person who is not related, either directly or by marriage,
to this famous old Canadian.
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