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Thomas Eaton & Lydia Gay
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Information is an extraction from the book History and Genealogical and Biographical of the Eaton Families Compiled by Nellie Zada Rice Molyneux 1911. From Thomas
Larned’s History Windham, Conn, i. 235 THOMAS EATON, of Dedham, 3rd son of John Eaton (2) who was son of the immigrant was b 23 July, 1675; m LYDIA, dau of Nathaniel and Lydia (Starr) GAY (b Aug. 12, 1679) of Dedham 0ct- 5 - 1697 – She was cousin to Mary and Lydia Starr, who married the younger brother of THOMAS EATON. He lived at Dedham until his marriage in 1697, when he removed to Roxbury for a year or two. By 1702-3 he was living in Woodstock, Conn., where he purchased the original share of land and the rights belonging to Nathaniel Gay. In 1772 he went to Ashford, Conn. THOMAS EATON, was a man of considerable wealth. He was a blacksmith, and a farmer a man of much influence in the town where he lived and died. He d at Ashford, Conn. Aug. 14, 1748. His wife d Aug. 20, 1748.
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