Editing Nathaniel Eaton (section)

==Early life and education==
The fifth or sixth son of the Reverend Richard Eaton (1565–1616),<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Swanson|first1=Scott G.|title=Waggon Loads of Eatons|journal=[[The American Genealogist]]|year=2016|volume=88|issue=1–4|url=http://americangenealogist.com/contents/recent-issues/|access-date=30 June 2017}}</ref> and Elizabeth [Okell].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Swanson|first1=Scott G.|title=Waggon Loads of Eatons|journal=The American Genealogist|date=April 2016|volume=88|issue=2|page=103}}</ref> Nathaniel was baptised in [[St Mary and All Saints' Church, Great Budworth]], Cheshire, where his father was [[Vicar (Anglicanism)|vicar]], on 17 September 1609.<ref>{{cite web|title=England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538–2000|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F3LD-T58|website=FamilySearch|publisher=Christening; citing item 1, Great Budworth, Cheshire, England, Record Office, Chester; FHL microfilm 2,262,979|access-date=18 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Swanson|first1=Scott G.|title=Waggon Loads of Eatons|journal=The American Genealogist|date=July 2016|volume=88|issue=3|page=229}}</ref>

Eaton was educated at [[Westminster School]], London.<ref>{{cite web |last1=G Barker, and Alan Herbert Stenning |title=The Record of Old Westminsters : A Biographical List of All Those Who Are Known to Have Been Educated at Westminster School from the Earliest Times to 1927. |url=https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7402/7402-Volume1-0311/311?backurl=&ssrc=&backlabel=Return&rc=889,472,1044,513;132,2614,226,2649;136,2658,230,2693;248,2661,400,2695;796,2657,893,2690 |website=Ancestry.com – membership required |publisher=London: Printed at the Chiswick Press. 1928. |access-date=21 September 2018}}</ref> He attended [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]] at the [[University of Cambridge]],<ref name="Acad">{{acad|ETN629N|name=Nathaniel Eaton}}</ref> where he was a contemporary and friend of [[John Harvard (clergyman)|John Harvard]], a student at [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Emmanuel College]] at the University of Cambridge.<ref>Devine, Mary Elizabeth (1998), [https://books.google.com/books?id=tntEAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22john+harvard%22%22nathaniel+eaton%22+friend&pg=PA185 International Dictionary of University Histories], Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago and London, p. 185</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=John Harvard|url=http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/about/history/famous/?id=4|website=Emmanuel College Cambridge|access-date=20 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=John Harvard (HRVT627J)|url=http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2017c.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=HRVT627J&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50|website=A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge|access-date=28 July 2017}}</ref>

He then attended the [[University of Franeker]], where he studied under Rev. [[William Ames]].<ref>Francis J. Bremer, Tom Webster, ''Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia'' (2006), p. 83.</ref>  Eaton later obtained a [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]] and [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] from the [[University of Padua]], in [[Veneto|Venetia]].<ref name="Acad"/>