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References
- ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Reading, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1912)
p. 326.
EATON, John and Dorcas ---, Nov. 26, 1674.
- ↑ This family, by record, appears to have had an extremely high frequency of births. Still two children appear unrecorded based on the children named in the father's probate. Barring the possibility that the recorded deaths of Joseph and Benjamin are errors, it is assumed there was another Joseph and another Benjamin whose births are not found in the records. Since there are many stretches of a birth every year, it is easy to fit these extra births in, and it is simply guessing to pick a birth year, except that the father's probate names Joseph before Benjamin. Since the first Joseph died almost three years before the first Benjamin was born, it is assumed they reused the name Joseph in the interval, before switching to Benjamin. The second Benjamin is assumed to fit in the gap following the first Benjamin. Further research may find an age at death or a deposition that further narrows these estimates.
Note also that Reading records show a Thomas born in this family whose recorded birth date is impossible even with their remarkable birth rate. So that Thomas is presumed to belong to the other John Eaton of Reading, who had tried twice previously to name a son Thomas only to have both die as infants, and hence, might be expected to reuse the name yet again.
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