Family Group Record for Thomas Eaton Tanner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Husband Thomas Eaton Tanner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 25 May 1739 - Worchester, , Massachusetts Died: 25 Aug 1788 - Worchester, , Massachusetts Buried: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Father: Samuel Eaton ( - ) Mother: Ruth Russell (1699- ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Married: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wife Susannah Rice -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Abt 1744 - Worchester, , Massachusetts Died: 25 Apr 1786 - Worchester, , Massachusetts Buried: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Father: Adonijah Rice Cooper (1714-1802) Mother: Persis Gates (1719-1760) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Children -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 M Alpheus Eaton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 10 Oct 1764 - Worchester, , Massachusetts Died: Buried: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 M William Eaton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 10 Sep 1766 - Worchester, , Massachusetts Died: Buried: Spouse: Anna Gates ( - ) Spouse: Hannah Chadwick ( - ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 F Sally Eaton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 1 Jan 1769 - Worchester, , Massachusetts Died: Buried: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 F Polly Eaton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 28 May 1771 - Worchester, , Massachusetts Died: Buried: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 M Amherst Eaton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 10 Apr 1773 - Worchester, , Massachusetts Died: Buried: Spouse: Wise ( - ) Spouse: Mann ( - ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 M Thomas Eaton Jr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 21 Oct 1776 - Worchester, , Massachusetts Died: Buried: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 M Russell Eaton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 1 Mar 1779 - Worchester, , Massachusetts Died: Buried: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 M Nathaniel Eaton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 24 Dec 1781 - Worchester, , Massachusetts Died: 30 Jan 1833 - Worchester, , Massachusetts Buried: Spouse: Mary Duncan (1783-1872) Marr: 1 Sep 1805 - Worchester, , Massachusetts Spouse: Mary Foxcroft ( - ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Husband's General Notes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- !Settled first in Holden !Sealer of Leather !Came to Worchester from Sudbury. Check Sudbury records. sources: !DAR PATRIOTS INDEX--Served as a Private from Mass. Listed as married to Susan Rice !Hist. of Worchester Vol.4 p755 by NuttHist.of Arkansas Valley by Baskin COL. (1881) p454-455 !Richard C. Helyar-Church RecordsFirst Congregational Church of Brattleboro !Worchester Book of Vital Records (1894) !Worchester pp79-80by Franklin Rice (1884) !List of Soldiers of War of Revolutionby Mary Dodge (1902) !Reminiscences of Worchester pp258-382by Nathaniel Wall (1877)-p258 360-361 States that "Thomas Rice came to Worchester from Sudbury and married Susan, daughter of Adonijah Rice. He died Aug 25 1783, and his wife died Oct 25 1773." EATON FAMILIES by Nellie Zada Rice Molyneux (1911) p.162 She claims that Thomas was the son of Joshua Eaton and Anne Woodcock. p128. (There are many errors in this work.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wife's General Notes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- sources: For Rice family see: Rice Family by Andrew Henshaw Ward Boston 1858 Genealogical Register of Edmund Rice Descendants compiled by the Edmund Rice Association 1970. !Reminiscences of Worchester pp258-382by Nathaniel Wall (1877)-p258 360-361 An incorrect date of her death comes from here. If it is correct, who was the mother of the latter children including Nathaniel??????? However the Gen.Reg. of Edmund Rice (listed above) gives her death date as 25 Apr 1786 which would correct the mistake. FBouley@prodigy.net