Description:
Framed crewel embroidery done in wool embroidery on a linen ground made up of three sections of an embroidered petticoat border or band, which came from descendants of the Theophilus Eaton family, New Haven. Theophilus Eaton (1590-1658) was a merchant, farmer, and Puritan colonial leader who was the co-founder and first governor of New Haven Colony, Connecticut. Born in England, Eaton was an agent for King Charles I to the Danish Court for several years, and then a merchant in London. He was also a Puritan interested in colonial development, and was one of the original patent holders and president of the Massachusetts Bay Company. Eaton emigrated to New England with other Puritans in the ship "Hector," arriving in Boston on June 26, 1637; his group left there in the spring of 1738 to establish an independent colony at the site they called New Haven. Eaton was elected as the first governor of the colony on June 4, 1639 and reelected each year until his death on January 7, 1657/8. Eaton married Grace Hiller in 1622, and at least had a daughter (Mary), and a son (Samuel) before her death (some authorities think that he also had a son by the name of James); in 1625, he remarried a widow, Anne Yale, who was the daughter of George Lloyd, the Bishop of Chester (some authorities say Anne Morton, the daughter of Bishop Thomas Morton of Chester). The couple had three children (Theophilus, Hannah, and Elizabeth), but the household raised eight children. Besides their three, and Mary and Samuel, it included Anne, David, and Thomas Yale from Anne's first marriage to Thomas Yale.
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