Martha Eaton

1648 - 1734  (85 years)

• Name	Martha Eaton
  Birth	12 Aug 1648	Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11]
  History	17 Oct 1691 (43 years)	Plymouth Colony merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony forming the Province of Massachusetts Bay
  Religion	9 Feb 1698/99 (50 years)	Salisbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [2, 4]
  On 19 February 1698/99 she was admitted to the Salisbury Church by the Rev. Caleb Cushing.
  Death	19 Apr 1734	Salisbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [2, 5, 8, 9, 11]
  Burial	Aft 19 Apr 1734	Salisbury Colonial Burying Ground, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Salisbury Colonial Burying Ground,  Salisbury, Massachusetts Also known as First Cemetery, Old Burying Ground, Old Corner Burying Ground   [11]
  Siblings	5 brothers and 5 sisters
  > 1. John Eaton,   b. Abt 1646, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 17 Jan 1717/18, Salisbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 72 years) ▻ Mary ______,  m. 1685 > 2. Thomas Eaton,   b. 17 Jan 1646/47, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 9 Jul 1699, Boston, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 52 years) ▻ Hannah Hubbard,  m. 14 Nov 1679 + 3. Martha Eaton,   b. 12 Aug 1648, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 19 Apr 1734, Salisbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 85 years) ▻ Benjamin Collins,  m. 5 Nov 1668 ;   Philip Flanders,  m. 4 Nov 1686   4. Esther Eaton,   b. say 1649, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 1649, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony  (Age 0 years) > 5. Elizabeth Eaton,   b. 12 Dec 1650, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony ▻ John Groth,  m. 7 Jan 1673 ;   William Hutchins,  m. 30 Apr 1685   6. Ann Eaton,   b. 17 Dec 1652, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 12 Jun 1658, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony  (Age 5 years) > 7. Sarah Eaton,   b. 28 Dec 1654, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 13 Sep 1726, Salisbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 71 years) ▻ Robert Downer,  m. 6 May 1675   8. Mary Eaton,   b. 9 Dec 1656, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 02 Feb 1656/57, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony  (Age 0 years)   9. Samuel Eaton,   b. 14 Feb 1659, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony > 10. Captain Joseph Eaton,   b. 6 Mar 1660/61, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 13 Jan 1742/43, Salisbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 81 years) ▻ Mary French,  m. 14 Dec 1683 ;   Mary Cheney,  m. 8 Dec 1726 > 11. Ephraim Eaton,   b. 12 Apr 1663, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 8 Jun 1723, Salisbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 60 years) ▻ Mary True,  m. 5 Feb 1689
  Patriarch & Matriarch	John Eaton   (3 x Great Grandfather)  Bridget Bradstreet   d. 14 Jun 1662, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts Bay Colony   (Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I892	Roy Line
  Last Modified	22 Jun 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Birth: Her birth date was recorded as 12 (6) 1648. [9] Marriage Date: Benjamin and Martha's marriage date was recorded as 5 (9) 1668. Prescott (1873) gives their marriage date as p July 9 1668. [1, 6, 9]

  
  

Father	John Eaton,   b. Abt 1619, Hatton, Warwickshire, England d. 1 Nov 1682, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 63 years)
Mother	Martha Rowlandson,   b. 12 Aug 1622, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 17 Jul 1712, Salisbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay (Age 89 years)
Family ID	F699	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart




Spouse / Partner 1	Benjamin Collins,   b. 29 Apr 1643, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 10 Dec 1683, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 40 years)
Marriage	5 Nov 1668	Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13]
Age at Marriage	She : 20 years and 3 months - He : 25 years and 7 months.
Children	4 sons and 2 daughters
1. Mary Collins,   b. 8 Jan 1669/70, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] >   2. John Collins,   b. 1673, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] ▻ Elizabeth     3. Samuel Collins,   b. 18 Jan 1676, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] +   4. Ann Collins,   b. 1 Apr 1679, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  [Father: Birth] ▻ John Hadlock  m. 1701;   John Greeley  m. 23 Nov 1708     5. Benjamin Collins,   b. 29 May 1681, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 4 Jun 1699, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 18 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]     6. Ephraim Collins,   b. 30 Sep 1683, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
Family ID	F818	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
Last Modified	22 Jun 2025




Spouse / Partner 2	Philip Flanders,   b. 14 Jul 1652, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 27 Aug 1712, Salisbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay (Age 60 years)
Marriage	4 Nov 1686	Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14]
Age at Marriage	She : 38 years and 3 months - He : 34 years and 4 months.
Children	They had no children.  [2, 8]
Family ID	F841	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
Last Modified	22 Jun 2025




• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Martha Eaton(1648 – 1734) 2John Eaton(Abt 1619 – 1682) 4John Eaton(1590 – 1668) 8Thomas Eaton(Abt 1565 – 1622) 16Thomas Eaton(1530 – ) 17Isabel Baker 9Helen ______ 18 19 5Anne( – 1660) 10 20 21 11 22 23 3Martha Rowlandson(1622 – 1712) 6Thomas Rowlandson( – 1657) 12 24 25 13 26 27 7Bridget Bradstreet( – 1662) 14 28 29 15 30 31

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 12 Aug 1648 - Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Marriage - 5 Nov 1668 - Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Marriage - 4 Nov 1686 - Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Religion - 9 Feb 1698/99 - Salisbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Death - 19 Apr 1734 - Salisbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Burial - Aft 19 Apr 1734 - Salisbury Colonial Burying Ground, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S845] Brown, Asa W., "Early Settlers of Salisbury, Mass., Arranged into Families" 1854, (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume VIII, 1854). [S422] Dunbar, Edith Flanders. The Flanders Family from Europe to America, (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, 1935). [S427] Flanders, Charles M. The Flanders Family: From Europe To America, 2nd ed Volume I, ( n.p.: Privately Published, 2000). [S621] Hoyt, David W., The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton volume I, (Providence, Rhode Island: Snow & Farnham, 1897). [S646] Hoyt, David W., The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton volume III, Reprint 1916, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982). [S420] Prescott, William. The Flanders Family, (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume XXVII, 1873). [S1027] Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register, volume II , (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860). [S421] Taylor, Ellery Kirke, Descendants of Stephen Flanders of Salisbury, Mass., 1646 being a Genealogy of the Flanders Family, (Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Company, 1932). [S846] Topsfield Historical Society. Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 , (Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Publishing Co., 1915). [S2578] Molyneux, Nellie Zara Rice, History, Genealogical and Biographical, of the Eaton Families, (New York: C. W. Bardeen, 1911), p 369. [S14] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current® http://findagrave.com, (Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Memorial ID 253665838 Martha Eaton Collins - Flanders . [S91] Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriage Prior to 1700, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985), p 172. [S2580] Mecham, Leonidas DeVon. Family Book of Remembrance and Genealogy, with Allied Lines, (Salt Lake City: unknown, 1952). [S91] Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriage Prior to 1700, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985), p 270.