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John Fuller Born 1695 Married Deborah Ring before 1729 |
Mercy Eaton Born about 1660 Married Samuel Fuller III before 1695 |
Martha Billington Born about 1635 in Plymouth Colony Married Samuel Eaton January 10, 1661 in Plymouth Colony |
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Francis Billington Born about 1606 in England Married Christian Penn Eaton in July, 1634 in Plymouth Colony |
| Francis was an active and troublesome youth. He nearly caused a disaster onboard the Mayflower shortly after arrival, when he shot off his father's musket inside the Mayflower's cabin and sent sparks raining down near an open barrel of gunpowder. After he got to shore, he climbed up a tree and spotted a "great sea," which turned out to be a lake that even today is still known as "Billington's Sea". He and one of the Mayflower's crewmembers went to explore the sea, but became alarmed when they saw some abandoned Indian houses (they were alone with only a single gun). Francis' father was hanged for murder in September 1630, and his brother John had died not to long before. In July 1634, Francis married Christian Eaton, the widow of Francis Eaton who had died the previous autumn. Christian brought three of her own children, and one step-child from her deceased husband's previous marriage, all under the age of 14. With Francis Billington, she had nine more children. They raised their family at Plymouth, and moved in their later years to Middleboro, where they both died in 1684. Information courtesy of www.mayflowerhistory.com |
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John Billington Born about 1582 in England Married Eleanor (?) before 1604 in England |
| John Billington, his wife Eleanor (or Ellen), and their two sons John and Francis, traveled to Plymouth on the Mayflower. The Billingtons were not part of the Pilgrim Separatist community, and John was a troublesome man. His name appears in court records on several occasions, and he was found guilty of the murder of settler John Newcomen in 1630 and hanged. Information courtesy of www.pilgrimhall.org | |
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