Editing Nathaniel Eaton (section)

== Sources ==
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* James Kendall Hosmer, editor, ''Winthrop's Journal 'The History of New England' 1630–1649'' (1908 edition) vol. I, p.&nbsp;314 — Appeal by the Church of Cambridge and the seizing of Nathaniel Eaton's estate. See also: James Savage's footnotes in his edited version of the same above ''Winthrop's Journal 'The History of New England' 1630–1649'' (1825–26 edition)
* Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, M.D., editor, ''Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England'' (1853, vol. I) [1628–1641] by page...
:p. 210 – [Eaton] left out of tax rate for 1637 on 20 November 1637 – {{cite book|author=Nathaniel Bradstreet|title=Records of the governor and company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. Printed by order of the legislature, Vol. 1|date=1853|publisher=W. White|location=Boston|page=210|url=https://archive.org/stream/recordsofgoverno01mass#page/210/mode/1up|access-date=20 June 2017}}
:p. 262 – 500 acres [2 km²] of land granted on 6 June 1639 vis-à-vis: "If hee continew his employment wth vs for his life".
:p. 275 – Removed from employment on 9 September 1639
:p. 275 – Judgements henceforth, after the Eaton Trial, to "bee recorded in a booke, to bee kept to posterity".
::(Same day as above: 9 September 1639, and written in after the above "deposition" event. It's probable that the "deposition" was a "first order of business", and not just something anticipated long before "recordation of facts" had even been conceived.)
:p. 277 – His estate attached on 5 November 1639
:p. 372 – Nathaniell Heaten made free on 25 May 1636 (this is an example of the incorrect conflagration of two distinctly separate individuals, Nathaniel (H)Eaton and Nathaniel Eaton) The Nathaniel Eaton of this article had not yet arrive in the Massachusetts Bay. He arrived on the Hector on 26 June 1637, as detailed above.
:p. 374 – Nathaniel Eaton Made a Freeman on 9 June 1638
* Thomas Lechford, ''Note Book Kept by Thomas Lechford Lawyer, 1638–1641'' (1885) p.&nbsp;236
:"I payd Nathaniel Heaton for full of writings &amp; cutting wood. 31 November 1639. 5s". (This is another example incorrectly citing Nathaniel Heaton!)
* Cotton Mather, ''Magnalia Christi Americana (The Ecclesiastical History of New England)'' (1702) [7 books; 2 volumes in modern versions]
* John Warren Barber, ''Connecticut Historical Collections'' (1837 edition) pp 134–185
* [[Benjamin Trumbull]], [[D.D.]], ''A Complete History of Connecticut'' (1818) [Also, 2 volumes]
* ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register'' (1855, vol. 9) pp 269–271, article entitled "The First President of Harvard College"
* James D. & Georgiana W. Kornwolf, ''Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America'' (2002) vol 2, pp.&nbsp;981–986 [Harvard College]
:(all preceding dates are in their original [[Julian Calendar]] format)

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