Notes:

RACHEL, eldesr known child of Francis Eaton by his 3rd wife, was born at Plymouth about 1625. She married at Plymouth 2 March 1645/6 Joseph Ramsden (or Ramsdell).
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Begins

Find A Grave contributor Julie Evans adds:
Rachel Eaton:
b. Abt 1625, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA.
m. 2 Mar 1645/6, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, Joseph Ramsden/Ramsdell.
d. Bef Oct 1661.
Burial: Unknown
Mayflower Births & Deaths, Vol. 1:
Francis EATON1, d. pre 8 Nov. 1633, Plymouth (inv.)
Sarah ( ) EATON, d. 1621, Plymouth
CHILD OF Francis EATON1 & 1st Sarah ( ):
Samuel EATON2, b. 1620, England
CHILDREN OF Francis EATON1 & 3rd Christian ( ): (3)
Rachel EATON2, b. c1625; d. pre Oct. 1661* Benjamin EATON2, b. aft. 1 June 1627 ; d. 16 Jan. 1711/2, Plympton, "aged" Child, b. ( ), d. aft. 1650, unm."
Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Twenty One, John Billington, General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1620 Plymouth 1857, p. 6-7:
"SECOND GENERATION
2 FRANCIS 2 BILLINGTON (John 1)
b. England, prob. Lincolnshire, about 1606 to 1609; d. Middleboro 3 Dec. 1684 "aged 80."
He m. Plymouth July 1634 CHRISTIAN (PENN) EATON, b. England ca. 1607; d. Middleboro ca. 1684. She m. (1) Plymouth 1624 or 1625 Pilgrim Francis Eaton, b. England; d. Plymouth between 25 Oct. and 8 Nov. 1633; by whom she had three children: Rachel, Benjamin and another, living in 1651, whose name is unknown.
Francis Billington lived at Plymouth until 1669 when he moved to Middleboro and occupied land granted to him as one of the "First Comers." He lived htere until his death, except for a few years during King Philip's War when he fled to Plymouth for safety. On 18 April 1642 his daughter Elizabeth was apprenticed; and 14 January 1642/3 he bound out son Joseph, "aged vi or vii" and two daughters, probably Martha and Mary, one five years old and the other even younger. Bradford stated in 1651 that Francis Billington had eight children.
On 2 March 1642 Francis Billington of New Plymouth, planter, sold to Mr. John Atwood of Plymouth, land in Plymouth.
In 1674 Francis Billington deposed that he was aged 68.
In his old age Francis Billington was dependent on his son Isaac for support and died intestate. No probate record appears, although son Isaac petitioned the probate court in 1703/4 for title to all his father's Middleboro lands, stating he had had sole care of his parents in their old age. A Plymouth County Court Case of Sept. 1722, brought by Isaac's daughter Desire 4 (Billington) Bonney and her husband, James, shows that Francis Billington died intestate leaving issue two sons and five daughters, viz: son Joseph (eldest, who inherited a double portion) and Isaac; daughters Elizabeth, Mary, Dorcad, Mercy and Martha, with a total of eight shares in the estate. A 3 Dec. 1719 quiclaim deed from Francis's father Francis and grandfather (unnamed) Billington (Family #12), reading "my father Francis and grandfather (unnamed) Billington" seems to imply a son Francis, Jr. But in the absence of any mention of such a son in contemporaneous Plymouth records, coupled with the fact that Francis's 4 deed evidently transferred the shares of Joseph Billington, we conclude that the deed contains a clerical error. The original must have read "my father Joseph [underlined] and grandfather Francis [underlined] Billington." Indications are that the seven children named in the Bonney suit and their progeny were the only survivors of Francis 2 Billington. A more detailed account has been published.
Children (BILLINGTON) all b. probably Plymouth:
3 i ELIZABETH 3 b. 10 July 1635
4 ii JOSEPH b. 1636 (bef. 2 Feb. 1636/7)
5 iii MARTHA b. ca. 1638
6 iv MARY b. ca. 1640
7 v ISAAC b. ca. 1644 (based on age at d.)
vi child d. y.
vii REBECCA b. 8 June 1648; dvidently d.y.
8 viii DORCAS b. ca. 1650
9 ix MERCY prob. unnamed dau. b. 25 Feb. 1651/2"

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55404645/rachel-ramsdell

Rachel married Joseph Ramsdell 2 Mar 1645, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. Joseph was born 1620, West Yorkshire, England; died 25 May 1674, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA; was buried , Burial Hill Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA . [Group Sheet]

1. Daniel Ramsdell was born 14 Sep 1649, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA; died 12 Mar 1722, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.

Notes:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13267434/francis-eaton

'Mayflower' passenger and 9th signer of the Mayflower Compact.

Son of John Eaton and Dorothy Smith. Born in Bristol, Avon, England. Baptised on 11 SEP 1596 in St. Thomas, Bristol, Avon, England.

Husband of Christina Penn. Father of Rachel, Samuel and Benjamin Eaton.


NOTE: FRANCIS EATON DOES NOT HAVE A TOMBSTONE - BURIAL LOCATION SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Eaton_(Mayflower_passenger)

Birth: September 11, 1596
Bristol, England
Death: November 18, 1633
Plymouth
Plymouth County
Massachusetts
Francis Eaton was baptized on 11 September 1596 at St. Thomas Church in Bristol, England.[3][4]
Francis was a son of John Eaton and his wife Dorothy (Smith). He had younger siblings who were born after him ? including Jane in 1598/9, Samuel in 1600 and Welthian in 1602, but all siblings died of a possible devastating illness in March 1603 which may have spread through the whole family. He was the only child of this family known to survive until adulthood. [3][5]
Eaton had become a house carpenter in Bristol by about age nineteen (c.1615) and was living in a tenement in the parish of St. Phillips, Bristol. Bristol records subsequent to 1615 do not list Francis Eaton, who may have left England for Holland, as Bradford lists him on the Mayflower passenger list section for Leiden congregation members.[3]
Probably about 1618 or 1619 in England, Francis Eaton married a woman named Sarah (last name unknown). There is no record in Bristol of his first marriage or of the birth of his son Samuel there, indicating the family may have lived elsewhere in England prior to boarding the Mayflower.[3][5]
Francis Eaton, his wife Sarah, with newborn son Samuel came on the Mayflower with William Bradford writing that Samuel ?came over a sucking child.?[1][2][4]
Bradford noted this family at that time: ?Francis Eaton, and Sarah, his wife, and Samuell, their sone, a yong child.?[6]
Francis Eaton was a carpenter by trade and Banks believes that he was the Mayflower ship?s carpenter, being in the employ of the Merchant Adventurers, financial supporters of the Mayflower venture.[4][7]
Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1899
The Mayflower departed Plymouth, England on 6/16 September 1620. The small, 100-foot ship had 102 passengers and a crew of about 30-40 in extremely cramped conditions. By the second month out, the ship was being buffeted by strong westerly gales, causing the ship?s timbers to be badly shaken with caulking failing to keep out sea water, and with passengers, even in their berths, lying wet and ill. This, combined with a lack of proper rations and unsanitary conditions for several months, attributed to what would be fatal for many, especially the majority of women and children. On the way there were two deaths, a crew member and a passenger, but the worst was yet to come after arriving at their destination when, in the space of several months, almost half the passengers perished in cold, harsh, unfamiliar New England winter.[8]
On 9/19 November 1620, after about 3 months at sea, including a month of delays in England, they spotted land, which was the Cape Cod Hook, now called Provincetown Harbor. And after several days of trying to get south to their planned destination of the Colony of Virginia, strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at Cape Cod hook, where they anchored on 11/21 November.[8]
After arrival at Cape Cod, Francis Eaton was one of the men who signed the Mayflower Compact
William Bradford?s observation on this family in his later years: ?his first wife dyed in the general sickness, and he maried againe, and his 2 wife dyed, and he maried the 3 and had by her 3 children. One of them is maried and hath a child; the other are living, but one of them is an ideote. He dyed about 16 years agoe. His son Samuell, who came over a sucking child, is also maried, and hath a child.?[11][12]
In the 1623 Division of Land, Francis received four acres of land ? one acre for himself, one for his deceased first wife Sarah, one for his son Samuel and one for his second wife Dorothy.[13][14]
In 1626 Francis Eaton was one of twenty-seven Purchasers involved with the colony joint-stock company which afterwards was turned over to the control of senior colony members. That group was called Undertakers, and was made up of such as William Bradford, Myles Standish and Isaac Allerton initially who were later joined by Edward Winslow, William Brewster, John Howland, John Alden, Thomas Prence and others from London, former Merchant Adventurers. His name appears as ?Franc Eaton? on the agreement dated 26 October 1626.[15]
In the 1627 Division of Cattle, Francis and Christian Eaton, with children Samuel and Rachel, received several animals ? a cow and two goats. The family had the tenth lot and were listed as ?ffancis Eaton, wife Christian Eaton, Samuell Eaton, Rahell Eaton.?[14][16]
In 1631, apparently due to some severe financial problems, Eaton began selling off much of his landholdings ? selling four acres of land north of town ?between the land of Capt. Myles Standish on the south side and one acre due unto Henry Sampson on the north side.? On 25 June 1631 records state he sold a cow calf to Edward Winslow and noted terms of interest on the sale. On 30 December 1631 Francis Eaton sold twenty acres of land to William Brewster and then sold another ten acre parcel to Brewster in the same area. About a week later, on 8 January 1631/2, he sold his home to Winslow relatives of Edward Winslow ? Kenelm, a brother, and Josiah, possibly his son.[4][14]
On the tax rolls of 1633, Francis Eaton was taxed at the lowest tax rate, indicating a very low personal income. On that list, his name appears as ?France Eaton.?[14][17]
Francis Eaton married:
Sarah _____ married in England ca. 1618-1619. She died the first winter in the ?general sickness.? Burial place unknown. Memorialized as ?Sarah, first wife of Francis Eaton? on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb, Coles Hill, Plymouth.
Dorothy _____ believed to have been the maidservant of Governor John Carver. They married about 1621-1622. She died a year or two after the marriage - ca. 1624. Bradford wrote of her: ?married, and dyed a year or two after, here in this place.? They had no children. Burial place unknown.[18]
Christian Penn, who arrived in Plymouth in the summer of 1623 on the Anne. They married about 1625 or early 1626 and had three children. She married 2nd Francis Billington and had nine children by him. She died in Middleboro about 1684, burial place is unknown.[1][2][5]
Son of Francis and Sarah Eaton:
Samuel Eaton, born ca. early 1620, came as, per Bradford, ?a sucking child? on the Mayflower. He was apprenticed at age sixteen to John Cooke, who himself was a Mayflower passenger at age twelve, with his term of service to begin in October 1636. After his marriage, he moved north to Duxbury sometime in 1646 and moved to Middleboro about 1670, where he died about 1684.
He married:
Elizabeth ______, married before 10 March 1646. She died sometime between 1652 and 1661. They had two children.
Martha Billington, married on 10 January 1660/1. She was his step-sister, being a daughter of his step-mother Christian, by her subsequent marriage to Francis Billington. They had four children.
Children of Francis and Christian Eaton:
Rachel Eaton, born perhaps late 1626 and died in Plymouth between June 1656 and October 1661. She married Joseph Ramsdell (or Ramsden) in 1645 and had at least one son.
Benjamin Eaton, born in March 1628 and died in Plympton on 16 January 1711/12. He married Sarah Hoskins on 4 December 1660 and had at least four children.
A third child was of unknown name or gender, and was listed by Bradford as just ?an idiot? and was still alive in 1651.[1][2][5]
Francis Eaton died in the autumn of 1633, possibly as the result of an epidemic that spread through the colony that year and also claimed the lives of fellow Mayflower passengers Peter Browne and Samuel Fuller. By the time of his death his was a freeman.[5][14][19]
On 26 November 1633, the Plymouth Court proclaimed ??Francis Eaton, carpenter, late of Plymouth, deceased, died indebted far more than the estate?? Thomas Prence and John Doane were involved in the estate process with the probate inventory being drawn up the same day by James Hurst, Francis Cooke and Phineas Pratt, revealing how meager his estate was due to Eaton?s dire financial situation.[20]
Prior to his death, due apparently to his shortage of finances, Eaton had sold off all his lands and house. At his death what was left of his estate was only his livestock, household goods and carpentry tools, the total of which only made up 1/3 of the value of his total debts. But Christina, his widow, apparently was not held liable for his debts by the Court which proclaimed that ?? the widow be freed and acquitted from any claim or demand of all or any his creditors whatsoever.?[20]
Francis Eaton was buried on Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony.[21]
The burial place of his first wife Sarah is unknown, but most likely her burial was in an unmarked grave on Coles Hill, the first Pilgrim burial location, as with so many others who died the first winter of 1621. The reason for the unmarked graves was so that the native Americans would not know how decimated their numbers were, with so many deaths. She is memorialized on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb (Sarcophagus) on Coles Hill in Plymouth with: ?Sarah, first wife of Francis Eaton.?
The burial places of his second and third wives, Dorothy and Christian, are unknown.[21]

Francis married Christian Penn 1620, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. Christian was born , England; died 25 Oct 1684, Middleborough, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; was buried , Middleborough, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34795930/christian-billington

Pilgrim Francis Eaton married 3rd, about 1624. CHRISTIAN PENN , a passenger on the Anne; she married 2nd, in July 1634, Francis Billington, son of JOHN BILLINGTON.
Francis & Christian had 3 children: Rachel Ramsden, Benjamin, & a child who was deemed an idiot and not named in any record, though he/she lived at least to the age of 21.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project.

Find A Grave contributor Julie Evans adds:
Christian Penn:
b. Abt 1607, England.
m. (1) Bet 1625 - 1634, MA, Francis Eaton.
m. (2) Jul 1634, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, USA, Francis Billington.
d. Jul 1684, Middleboro, Plymouth Co., MA.
Burial: Unknown
Christian PENN #18970, (daughter of George PENN #18982 and Elizabeth _______ #18983)
Born: Abt 1607 in England.
While she did not come to America on the Mayflower, she arrived shortly thereafter, between 1621 - 1632.
m. (1) Marriage: Francis Eaton between 1625 - 1634. Maybe before 1632 and probably before 1627. Three children.
m. (2) Marriage: Francis Billington to Christian Penn (Eaton), July 1634, Plymouth. Nine children. m. Jul 1634, in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, to Francis Billington,
In July 1634, Francis married Christian Eaton, the widow of Mayflower passenger Francis Eaton who had died the previous year 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.
The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers, p. 156:
"CHRISTIAN PENN
THIS passenger is assumed to be a female but no connection with any other passenger is known. She received one share in the 1627 division. As the second wife of Francis Eaton (q. v.) of the Mayflower bears this rare baptismal name it seems probable that she married him between 1627 and 1633."
The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers, Additions and Corrections p. vii:
"Page 156: CHRISTIAN PENN. She received one share in the 1623 division. As Christian Eaton she received one share in the 1627 division, so she married Francis Eaton before 1627. As they had a daughter, Rachell in 1627 they probably married around 1625."
Mayflower Births & Deaths, Vol. 1, page 448, <1>:
"<1> p. 438, The name of Francis' [Eaton] 2nd wife is not known. It is believed that she might be the unnamed maid servant who came with the Carver family on the Mayflower. Gov. Bradford said she had "married and died a year or two after". The files do not identify his 3rd wife, she was Christian Penn who married 2nd Francis Billington2."
Mayflower Births & Deaths, Vol. 1:
Francis EATON1, d. pre 8 Nov. 1633, Plymouth (inv.)
Sarah ( ) EATON, d. 1621, Plymouth
CHILD OF Francis EATON1 & 1st Sarah ( ): <1>
Samuel EATON2, b. 1620, England
CHILDREN OF Francis EATON1 & 3rd Christian ( ): (3) <1>
Rachel EATON2, b. c1625; d. pre Oct. 1661* Benjamin EATON2, b. aft. 1 June 1627 ; d. 16 Jan. 1711/2, Plympton, "aged" <2> Child, b. ( ), d. aft. 1650, unm."
Mayflower Births & Deaths, Vol. I:
Children of Francis Billington & Christian (Penn) Eaton:
Elizabeth
Joseph
Martha
Mary
Isaac
Child, b. pre 1651, d.y.
Rebecca
Dorcas, b. c1650; d. aft. 1711; m. Edward May, d. 10 Aug. 1691, Plymouth Mercy
[NOTE: Is unnamed child Francis, Jr? Is Dorcas who I have as Desire?].
Mayflower Births & Deaths, Vol. 1, p. 106-111:
"JOHN BILLINGTON
MICRO #1 OF 2
John BILLINGTON1, d. 1630, Plymouth <1>
CHILDREN OF John BILLINGTON1 & Elinor ( ): (2)
John BILLINGTON2, d. pre 1630 <1>
Francis BILLINGTON2, b. c1604-06 ; d. 3 Dec 1684 <1>
Thomas BILLINGTON, d. pre 1 May 1662, Taunton (inv.)
Mrs. Abraham BILLINGTON, d. 1825
CHILDREN of Samuel BILLINGTON & Eliza Nickerson (dau of David); (4)
Levi BILLINGTON, b. ( )
Eliza BILLINGTON, b. ( )
Samuel BILLINGTON, b. ( )
Mary BILLINGTON, b. ( )
FRANCIS BILLINGTON2 (John1)
CHILDREN OF Francis BILLINGTON2 & Christian (PENN) Eaton: (9) <2>
Elisabeth BILLINGTON3, b. 10 July 1635; d. aft. 22 Mar. 1709/10, Providence RI
Joseph BILLINGTON3, b. pre Feb. 1736/37; d. betw. 7 Jan 1684/5 - 1692, prob. Block Island RI
Martha BILLINGTON3, b. c1638; d. aft 9 Jun 1704, Plainfield CT
Mary BILLINGTON3, b. c1640; d. aft. 28 Jun 1717
Isaac BILLINGTON3, b. c1644, d. 11 Dec. 1909, ae 66, Middleboro
Child, b. pre 1650, d.y.
Rebecca BILLINGTON3, b. 8 June 1647; poss. d. y.
Dorcas BILLINGTON3, b. c1650; d. aft 1711
Mercy BILLINGTON3, b. 25 Feb. 1651/2; d. 28 Sept. 1718, Rehoboth
Edward MAY, d. 10 Aug. 1691, Plymouth <3>
CHILDREN OF EDWARD MAY & Dorcas BILLINGTON3: <4>
CHILDREN OF Richard Bullock & Elizabeth BILLINGTON3: (4) <5>
...."
[p. 109]
"CHILDREN OF John MARTIN & Mercy BILLINGTON3: (4)
John MARTIN4, 10 Jun 1682
Robert Martin4, b. 9 Sept. 1683
Desire MARTIN4, b. 20 Mar. 1684/5
Francis MARTIN4, b. 7 May 1686
Desire CARPENTER5 (Desire Martin4), b. 3 June 1716; d. 28 May 1800, Stevens Corner Cem., Rehoboth
Hezekiah HIX, b. c1715, d. 5 Feb. 1788*, ae 73, Stevens Corner Cem,, Rehoboth
CHILDREN OF Hezekiah HIX & Desire Carpenter5: (8)
Hannah HIX6, b. 17 May 1740
James HIX6, b. 21 Apr. 1742
Mary HIX6, b. 17 Mar. 1746/7
Desire HIX6, b. 27 Dec. 1750
Gideon HIX6, b. 26 May 1752
Jotham HIX6, b. 26 May 1752 (twin)
Nathan HIX6, b. c1761*
Renew CARPENTER5 (Desire Martin4), b. 6 Jun 1714, d. 9 Feb. 1787, Stevens Corner Cem., Rehoboth
Jabez Round, b. c1708, d. 14 Mar. 1790, Stevens Corner Cem., Rehoboth <28>
CHILDREN OF Jabez ROUND & Renew CARPENTER5: (11)
Isaac ROUND6, B. 23 Jan. 1733/4
Jabez ROUND6, b. 8 Jan. 1735/6; d. 20 May 1806*"
[p. 110]
"110 BILLINGTON
Abigail ROUND6, b. Jan. 1740
Isaiah ROUND6, b. 30 Jan. 1741
Rebecca ROUND6, b. 21 Mar. 1742
Sibbel ROUND6, b. 10 Sept. 1744
Oliver ROUND6, b. 1 Apr 1747
Rhoda ROUND6, b. 26 Jan. 1750
Esther ROUND6, b. 8 Oct 1752
Simeon ROUND6, b. 4 Feb. 1755
************
FOOTNOTES
<1> p. 106, John Billington, b. c1580, poss. Lincolnshire, Eng. , d. in Sept. 1630 when he was executed for murder. His wife Elinor (not Helen or Ellen), maiden name unknown, and was living 2 Mar. 1642/3, the wife of Gregory Armstrong.
John Billington2 was living at the time of the May 1627 Cattle Division but deceased at the time of his father's death in Sept. 1630.
Francis Billington2's year of birth is uncertain due to conflicting records. He was thought to be "aged forty years or thereabouts" in 1649 (b. c1909) ; age 68 in 1674 (b. c1606) ; and age 80 when he died in 1684 (b. c1604) .
<2> p. 106, There is no file sheet listing all the children of Francis & Christian so they have been added for easier reference.
Christian (Penn) Eaton is said to have died c1684 (Stoddard:115 says July 1684). The petition of her son, Isaac Billington, (1 Mar. 1703/4), implies she died the same year as her husband Francis..."They were near 80 years old when they dyed: & it is now 18 years since." Unfortunately, the time span he mentions does not prove Christian died in 1684 but rather 1686. His referral to "18 years since" could refer not to the death of his parents but to the death of his last surviving parent, Christian, in 1686.
<3> p. 106, "Bowman gives his date of death as 20 Aug. although in checking the reference given (MD 16:62) it clearly says 10 [underlined] Aug.
<4> p. 106, Four unnamed children...."
Mayflower Births & Deaths, Vol. I: p. 111:
"Footnotes for John Billington:
REFERENCE LIST:
GENEALOGICAL ARTICLES PERTAINING TO BILLINGTON FAMILY RESEARCH
Mayflower Descendant (MD) (1899-1937)
15:247-253 - Washburn Notes: Will of John Washburn
Mayflower Quarterly (MQ) (1975-1990)
46:14-15 - Presidential Mayflower Connections (correction - MQ 46:197)
48:67-71 - Esther (Carpenter)(Bardeen) Bowen, An Elusive Billington Descendant
49:170-179 - The Martins of Swansea & The Martins of Rehoboth
50:21-30 - Judah Fuller6, The Bloomer's Daughter
50:71-76 - The Additional Children of Joseph & Mercy (Canedy) Williams & Their Migrations to
Western MA & Groton NY
50:180-187 - There were Three Hezekiahs, Not One, In the Round Family
51:196-198 - The Family of Jabez & Renew (Carpenter) Round, A John Billington Line
52:137-143 - Desire Billington and Her Grandfather Francis Billington's Estate
Miscellaneous
Mayflower Families In Progress: John Billington of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Five Generations (MFIP), pub. by General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1988.
NEHGR 124:116 - Francis Billington of Lincolnshire
TG 3:228-248 - Some Descendants of Francis Billington of the Mayflower
* * * * * * * * * * *
**Now available: Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: John Billington of the Mayflower
(MF5G), pub. by General Society of Mayflower Descendants. 1991."
Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Twenty One, John Billington, General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1620 Plymouth 1857,
p. 6-7:
"SECOND GENERATION
2 FRANCIS 2 BILLINGTON (John 1)
b. England, prob. Lincolnshire, about 1606 to 1609; d. Middleboro 3 Dec. 1684 "aged 80."
He m. Plymouth July 1634 CHRISTIAN (PENN) EATON, b. England ca. 1607; d. Middleboro ca. 1684. She m. (1) Plymouth 1624 or 1625 Pilgrim Francis Eaton, b. England; d. Plymouth between 25 Oct. and 8 Nov. 1633; by whom she had three children: Rachel, Benjamin and another, living in 1651, whose name is unknown.
Francis Billington lived at Plymouth until 1669 when he moved to Middleboro and occupied land granted to him as one of the "First Comers." He lived htere until his death, except for a few years during King Philip's War when he fled to Plymouth for safety. On 18 April 1642 his daughter Elizabeth was apprenticed; and 14 January 1642/3 he bound out son Joseph, "aged vi or vii" and two daughters, probably Martha and Mary, one five years old and the other even younger. Bradford stated in 1651 that Francis Billington had eight children.
On 2 March 1642 Francis Billington of New Plymouth, planter, sold to Mr. John Atwood of Plymouth, land in Plymouth.
In 1674 Francis Billington deposed that he was aged 68.
In his old age Francis Billington was dependent on his son Isaac for support and died intestate. No probate record appears, although son Isaac petitioned the probate court in 1703/4 for title to all his father's Middleboro lands, stating he had had sole care of his parents in their old age. A Plymouth County Court Case of Sept. 1722, brought by Isaac's daughter Desire 4 (Billington) Bonney and her husband, James, shows that Francis Billington died intestate leaving issue two sons and five daughters, viz: son Joseph (eldest, who inherited a double portion) and Isaac; daughters Elizabeth, Mary, Dorcad, Mercy and Martha, with a total of eight shares in the estate. A 3 Dec. 1719 quiclaim deed from Francis's father Francis and grandfather (unnamed) Billington (Family #12), reading "my father Francis and grandfather (unnamed) Billington" seems to imply a son Francis, Jr. But in the absence of any mention of such a son in contemporaneous Plymouth records, coupled with the fact that Francis's 4 deed evidently transferred the shares of Joseph Billington, we conclude that the deed contains a clerical error. The original must have read "my father Joseph [underlined] and grandfather Francis [underlined] Billington." Indications are that the seven children named in the Bonney suit and their progeny were the only survivors of Francis 2 Billington. A more detailed account has been published.
Children (BILLINGTON) all b. probably Plymouth:
3 i ELIZABETH 3 b. 10 July 1635
4 ii JOSEPH b. 1636 (bef. 2 Feb. 1636/7)
5 iii MARTHA b. ca. 1638
6 iv MARY b. ca. 1640
7 v ISAAC b. ca. 1644 (based on age at d.)
vi child d. y.
vii REBECCA b. 8 June 1648; dvidently d.y.
8 viii DORCAS b. ca. 1650
9 ix MERCY prob. unnamed dau. b. 25 Feb. 1651/2"
Mayflower Deeds & Probates:
Francis BILLINGTON to William CROW.
...30 July 1666, Francis & Christian BILLINGTON deed land to William CROW."
Mayflower Dees & Probates - Petition:
"Francis Billington2 (John1)
Petitioner of Issac BILLINGTON. ,Plymouth Co. PR #2001>
...1 Mar. 1703/4...A true Narrative or Relation or A Bill of Changes drawn up by Isaac BILLINGTON and his wife Hannah...concerning the great expence & charge they were at, in keeping their aged parents, Francis & Christian BILLINGTON, late of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth in New England, deceased; for the space of 7 years, even to their Death & Burail. They were near 80 years old when they dyed; & it is now 18 years since. Soon after ye former, never to be forgotten, improverishing indian Warrs, my aged Father, Francis BILLINGTON, came to me and told me he must return again to Middleborugh for he could no longer subsist at Plymouthy, & urged me with ye greatest importunity to goe with hi8m, alledging that he should perish if I did not, for there his lands & livings were; whereupon (tho then I lived comfortably at Marshfield) I removed with my family to Middleborough to take care off & provide for my aged Parents, according to their request. And did for near ye space of 7 years provide both house, food and apparal for them & kept them both in sickness & health; & at death was at ye charge of ye funerall; Ant Lieut. TOMPSON then Selectman of ye Town promised me that if I would take care of them & not suffer them to want, I should have all ye estate that my father left at his decease & whatever divisions & allotments of lands might fall to him & his heirs, should be mine; And if I did not take care of them all must be sold by ye Selectmen for their relief. And indeed what my Parents left at their decease was but a small recompence, for ye great charge and trouble that I was at, for near seaven years together; which if I should reckon by six shillings pr week would amount to above ten times ye value of all the lands. Now mmy humble request to ye honoured Court is, that (seeing I can have no other recompence by ye lands) it may be settled upon me & mine; That none of ye rest of ye relation, seing that never did any thing towards releiving them in their wants, may trouble me or mine in our peaceable & quiet possession of those late divisions of lands, falling to my deceased father, which I have purchased at so dear a rate...Signed by Issac & Hannah BILLINGTON."
Mayflower Deeds & Probates 61 (Washburn), Fn: Re Francis Billington: Issac Billington & Joseph Billington:
<1> .58, Since there has arisen some question as to the accuracy of the clerk's copy of this deed, I have left out the name in question so as not to compound the error and confuse the family researcher. While the clerk's copoy says "my Honoured Father Francis BILLINGTON" and does not name the Grandfather, it should probably be the other way around - "my Honoured Father" and "my Honoured Grandfather Francis BILLINGTON". The grandfather in question, Francis2 had only two sons, Isaac & Joseph, he did not have a son Francis. See MF5G 5:50 and MQ 52:133."
Mayflower Births & Deaths, Vol I, page 110, Footnote:
"Christian (Penn) Eaton is said to have died c 1684 (Stoddard:115 says July 1684).
The petition of her son, Isaac Billington, (1 Mar. 1703/4), implies she died the same year as her husband Francis..."They were near 80 years old when they dyed; & it is now 18 years since." Unfortunately, the time span he mentions does not prove Christian died in 1684 but rather 1686. His referral to "18 years since" could refer not to the death of his parents but to the death of his last surviving parent, Christian, in 1686. "
d. July 1684 in Middleboro, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
d. Abt. 1684, Middleboro, Plymouth Co, MA.