4. Historical Notes
1. Francis Eaton died November 18, 1633 in Plymouth Colony from the disease that was going around that year and left no will.
2. Christiana then married Francis Billington who came to America on the Mayflower with his parents when he was fourteen years old. Christiana and Francis Billington had ten children.
3. A posting on the “First Family Blog” on Yahoogroups.com, on Sunday July 1, 2007 9:00 pm states: Francis BILLINGTON b. 1606 Spaulding, Lincolnshire, England, d. 03 Dec 1684. He nearly caused the Mayflower to be destroyed by fire when he fired a few shots from his father's gun near open gunpowder kegs. Fire was extinguished & no harm done.
He married July 1634 in Plymouth, MA, Christian PENN b. 02 Sep 1606, d. Jul 1684 in Middleborough, Plymouth, MA. They had several of their children taken by the Court to repay debts. Christian was put in stocks for slandering the Governor.
4. Christiana’s brother Admiral Sir William Penn is the father of the William Penn who is the founder of Pennsylvania. William Penn Jr. was born on October 28, 1644 and is a famous Quaker because of his Great Treaty with Delaware. Thomas Jefferson called Penn “the greatest law-giver the world has produced.” In 1681 King Charles II, out of “regard to the memory and merits of his late father,” gave the younger Penn a huge tract of land in North America and named it, in honor of the Admiral, “Pennsylvania or Penn's Woods”. From 1681, when William received the King's charter at the age of thirty-seven, to 1718, when he died, Pennsylvania was one of his chief preoccupations. The growth and well-being of his colony was based on a tradition of religious toleration and freedom under law, fundamental principles of American civil life
5. There is a town named Christiana, Pennsylvania.
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