Person:Mercy Eaton (5)

Name^[2]	Mercy Eaton
Gender	Female
Christening^[1]	26 Apr 1685	Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	26 Jun 1699	Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto John Cleaves
Death`^?`	Bef 1723	Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United StatesHusband remarried

References

↑ Upham, William P; Augustus A Galloupe; and Nellie Preston Lutes. Records of the First Church in Beverly, Massachusetts, 1667-1772. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1905)
p. 100.

"26. 2. 1685. ... Joseph & Mercy chilldren of Joseph Eaton [by his wife Sarah Grover, both of Reading] baptized."
[Note: the name of the mother, inserted by the compiler, William P. Upham, is an error, one of many erroneous identifications he made. See the discussion on the parents page.]
↑ See the father's probate (abstracted on the father's page, Essex case 8528). John Cleeves of Beverly Taylor with Marcy Eaton alias Cleeves Wife of s'd Cleeves and Daughter of Joseph Eaton Late of Beverly Dec'd, accept a small payment and a tract of land in "Redding" belonging to "said ffather Joseph Eaton" on 20 Dec 1703.