Nicholas EASTON (Gov.)

Father: John EASTON
Mother: Elizabeth //

Family 1: Mary //

(1) New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins via Ancestry.com

  1. Peter EASTON
  2. John EASTON
  3. James EASTON
  4. Elizabeth EASTON
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Notes

Updated February 14, 2023. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Nicholas EASTON via Wikipedia

"Nicholas EASTON (c.1593–1675) was an early colonial President and Governor of Rhode Island. Born in Hampshire, England, he lived in the towns of Lymington and Romsey before immigrating to New England with his two sons in 1634. Once in the New World, he lived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony towns of Ipswich, Newbury, and Hampton. EASTON supported the dissident ministers John WHEELWRIGHT and Anne HUTCHINSON during the Antinomian Controversy, and was disarmed in 1637, and then banished from the Massachusetts colony the following year. Along with many other HUTCHINSON supporters, he settled in Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island, later a part of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was in Portsmouth for about a year when he and eight others signed an agreement to create a plantation elsewhere on the island, establishing the town of Newport... EASTON was a tanner by trade, and also a minister of sorts, being criticized by Massachusetts magistrate John WINTHROP for his theological opinions. He became a Quaker, and after a long life was buried in a Friends' Cemetery, the Coddington Cemetery in Newport next to his second of three wives. EASTON's Beach and EASTON's Point in Newport are named for him."

- President of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: 1650-1651; 1654
- Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: 1672-1674
- Deputy Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: 1666-1669; 1670-1671

(2) New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins via Ancestry.com

- "BIRTH: About 1593 (based on age at death), son of John and Elizabeth (___) EASTON [NEHGR 154:164]"
- "ORIGIN: Romsey, Hampshire"
- "MIGRATION: 1634 on the Mary & John"
- "FIRST RESIDENCE: Ipswich"
- "REMOVES: Newbury 1636, Portsmouth 1638, Newport 1639"
- "MARRIAGE: (1) By 1622 Mary ___. She was buried in Romsey, Hampshire, 10 January 1629[/30] [NEHGR 154:169]. (2) By 1637 Christian (___) (COOPER) BEECHER, widow of Thomas COOPER {1630, Charlestown} [GMB 1:145-46]. She died 20 February 1665 [RIVR 7:99]. (3) 2 March 1671 Ann CLAYTON [RIVR 7:15]. She married (2) 28 March 1677 Henry BULL {1635, Roxbury} [GM 2:1:465-69] of Newport [RIVR 7:15]. She died at Newport 30 January 1707/8 'aged 80 years' [RIVR 7:91]"
- "CHILDREN: With first wife... Peter... John... James... Elizabeth"
- "DEATH: Newport 15 August 1675, aged 83 years [RIVR 7:99]"

(3) Rhode Island, U.S., Vital Extracts via Ancestry.com

"EASTON Nicholas, one of the first planters, Newport, aged 83, Aug. 15, 1675, buried in the Coddington graveyard."

(4) Rhode Island, U.S., Historical Cemetery Commission Index via Ancestry.com

- Name: Nicholas, Gov. EASTON
- Birth Date: 1592
- Death Date: 15 Aug 1675
- Burial Place: Rhode Island, USA
- Cemetery: CODDINGTON BURIAL GROUND
- Cemetery Number: NT009
- Map: 00042
- Condition: good
- Stone Material: granite
- Notes: [Quaker records identify him as one of the first English planters in America] died: NEWPORT

(5) Find a Grave

- Name: Nicholas EASTON
- Birth: 1593; Lymington, New Forest District, Hampshire, England
- Death: 15 Aug 1675 (aged 81–82); Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
- Burial: Coddington Cemetery; Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
- Memorial ID: 12242785