When Benjamin Eaton was born on 25 September 1668, in Wardington, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Eden, was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth Owberry, was 21. He married Mary Coombs in 1688, in Wardington, Oxfordshire, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 31 December 1744, in his hometown, at the age of 76.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Eaton or Eton, such as Eaton Socon (Bedfordshire), Eaton (Cheshire), or Eton (Buckinghamshire), named from either Old English ēa ‘river’ or ēg ‘island, low-lying land’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
History: Nathaneal Eaton, born in Coventry, England, c. 1609, came to MA in 1637 and was the first head of Harvard College, in 1638–39.
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