My family tree

BIRTH:  About 1606, probably in or around Spaulding or Cowbit, co. Lincoln, England, the son of John and Eleanor Billin gton.
MARRIAGE:  Christian (Penn) Eaton, widow of Francis Eaton, in July 1634 at Plymouth.
CHILDREN: Elizabeth, Joseph , Martha, Mary, Isaac, an unnamed child who died young, Rebecca, Dorcas, and Mercy.
DEATH: 3 December 1684 in Middlebor o. Francis Billington was named as one of the heirs of Francis Longland of Cowbit, co. Lincolnshire, England.  A manoria l survey taken in 1650 indicated that Francis Billington was then living in New England and was about 40 years old.  Fr ancis himself gavehis age as 68 in a deposition from 1674, making him about fourteen when he came on the Mayflower wit h his parents John and Eleanor Billington. Francis was an active, rambunctious youth.  He nearly caused a disaster onboard the Mayflower shortly after arrival i n Plymouth Harbor, when he shot off his father's gun inside a cabin, sending sparks towards an open barrel of gunpowder .  After he came ashore, he climbed up a tree and claimed to have spotted a "great sea" in the distance: a small pond t hat still carries the name "Billington's Sea" even today. Following his brother's death shortly after 1627, and his father's execution for murder in 1630, he married Christian ( Penn) Eaton, the widow and third wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Eaton.  The couple had nine children, raised thei r family in Plymouth, and moved in their later years to the town of Middleboro, where they both died in 1684.