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Note: This is the known beginning of our EASTON line.
This is Ambrose Easton's great-grandfather and therefore, my ggg-grandfather.
In addition to looking for more information on John Easton I (1790-1840), I'm looking for his parents names' and information on them.
Visit my website at http://www.geocities.com/eastonhistory ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some records say John Easton I (1790-1840) was born in Pennsylvania and other records say Canada(Eng) : -Death record of his son John Easton II (1822-1911) say his father was born in PA -Death record of his daughter Mary Jane Easton Goodpaster (1827-1899) say her father was born in Canada. -1880 Census record for his son John Easton II (1822-1911) list his father's birthplace as "PA" -1900 Census record for his son John Easton II (1822-1911) list his father's birthplace as "Canada (Eng)" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you would like a 'genealogy report' of this family, please feel free to email me at eastonhistory@@fuse.net
I do not have a date of birth on John Easton I but comparing the columns on 1820, 1830 and 1840 census, it looks like he was born About 1790.
Because of the "Cotton's Keepsake' book, it is believed that John Easton and Joseph Peters were of 'some kin' to each other. So therefore, maybe John Easton came from Washington County, Pennsylvania to Dearborn County, Indiana before 1813 with the Peters family???
(The first record found of John Easton being in Dearborn County, Indiana is on May 8, 1813 when John Easton I (1790-1840) enlisted in the Indiana Militia).
> From the History of Dearborn County, Indiana > "Stephen Peters (father of the Joseph Peters that killed John Easton and was suppose to be some kin to John Easton?), John Buffington, and James Walker are said to have entered into Dearborn County, Indiana in 1811 from Pennsylvania.
From "Indiana War of 1812 Soldiers Militia" - Copyright 1984 - By: Charles M. Franklin. Page 13 - Dearborn County - Capt Charles Campbell's Co. - Indiana Militia - Enlisted: 8 May 1813 Discharged: 17 June 1813 John Easton - Private and Simon Peters - Private > are both listed here (Chris McHenry at the Lawrenceburg Indiana Library said in an email > "As far as I know, those lists of militiamen are the only ones available. What it means is that his only service was in a local group that patrolled the county looking for Indians, and not in the troops who fought in other places. Chris"
There was a fire at the Dearborn County Courthouse in 1826 and all records at that time and before were lost in the fire. So there are no marriage records, etc. before 1826. So I have not found if John Easton and Mary Wallace married in Indiana or if they married in Kentucky (since her birthplace was KY). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As told by John Steuver (a close acquaintance of Jesse Easton), Jesse Easton use to say that his grandfather (John Easton I 1790-1840) was tall and weighed 204 lbs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Census Notes for JOHN EASTON 1 (with my notes in parenthesis) :
NOTE: Laughery Township ceased to exist on the 1st of June 1852 and was split into the Townships of Hogan and Washington. (History of Dearborn County, Indiana)
1820 U.S. Federal Census Page 75-Indiana-Dearborn County-Laughery Township Name of Head of Family > John Easton Free white Males under 10 years old > 1 (should be 2? son David born abt.1813 - son Robert born 19 Dec 1819?) Free white Males of 26 under 45 > 1 (John Easton - head of family) Free white Females under 10 years old> 1 (a girl born between 1810-1820 ?) (Free white Females of 16 & under 26 > 1 (John Easton's wife - Mary) Number of persons engage in Agriculture > 1 Slaves - Females of 14 and under 26 > 1
1830 U.S. Federal Census Page 245-Indiana-Dearborn County-Laughery Township Name of Head of Family > John Easton Males of 5 and under 10 years old > 2 (1 of these is son John II born 22 Sept 1822 and the other son Robert born 19 Dec 1819) Males of 15 and under 20 years old > 1 (son David born about 1813) Males of 30 and under 40 years old > 1 (John Easton - head of family) Females under 5 years of age > 2 (daughter Mary Jane born 1 Aug 1827 and 1 other girl born between 1825-1830 ?) Females of 30 and under 40 > 1 (John Easton's wife - Mary)
1840 U.S. Federal Census Page 158-Indiana-Dearborn County-Laughery Township Name of Head of Family > John Easton Males of 5 and under 10 years old > 1 (son James born 17 Feb 1834) Males of 15 and under 20 years old > 1 (son John II born 22 Sept 1822) Males of 50 and under 60 years old > 1 (John Easton - head of family) Females of 5 and under 10 years old > 1 (daughter Louisa born about 1832) Females of 10 and under 15 years old > 1 (daughter Mary Jane 1 Aug 1827) Females of 15 and under 20 years old > 1 (name of the oldest girl ??? born between 1820-1825) Females of 30 and under 40 years old > 1 (John Easton's wife - Mary) Total members of household > 7 Number of person in each family employed in Agriculture > 1 Number of persons engaged in 'Navigation of canals, lakes, rivers' > 1 (The Ohio River was right there next to Dearborn County)
NOTE > The Township of Laughery ceased to exist on the 1st of June 1852 and now embraces the Townships of Hogan and Washington." .
JOHN EASTON I was killed Christmas Day, December 25, 1840 at the home of Joseph Peters on Lower Dillsboro Road, Aurora, Dearborn County, Indiana at a family gathering.
Another researcher found a document copy from the Lawrenceburg Public Library in Lawrenceburg, Indiana and mailed me a copy of it : Genealogical Data from Dearborn County, Indiana Commissioners' Records I - IV * Page 112 ; Jan 1841 : Allowed to David Kerr, inquest on body of John Easton $5.00. * Page 126 ; Mar 1841 : Allowed to David C. Hope, coffin for John Easton, pauper $4.00
From the book "Cotton's Keepsake" 1858 - page 398 - by Rev. Judge Aylett J. Cotton, Philom. " Wilmington - Formerly the county seat, is located on a very high ridge, some two and a half miles northwest from Aurora. In this jail, here, Dodd hung himself, and a stranger cut his throat; and right in the jail, I once married a happy couple - a novelty. Here George Goulding hung himself in a mill; here Joseph Peters killed John Eastman (should be EASTON) in an affray, was tried and acquitted, as a justifiable homicide. They were half-brothers or brothers-in-law - what a pity! Peters has an interesting family, who are often pained at the bare mention of the sad occurrence. Not at all, children; if it be your misfortune, it is not your fault, surely."
*********************************************************************************************** The below was transcribed from the CIRCUIT COURT *COMPLETE RECORD* BOOK - APRIL 1841 TERM - found in the basement of the Dearborn County Courthouse, Lawrenceburg, Indiana : >>>>>> On Pages 288 through 290 : Pleas began and held at Wilmington in and for Dearborn County and State of Indiana before the Honerable Miles C. Egleston President Judge of the third Judicial Circuit of said State and John Livingston and Alford J. Cotton Esquire associate Judges of the Dearborn Circuit Court at the Term of April in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and forty One. THE STATE OF INDIANA vs. JOSEPH PETERS > Indictment Manslaughter Be it remembered that at a Dearborn Circuit Court began and held at Wilmington in and for the County aforesaid and State of Indiana, twenty sixth day of April being the Monday of April in the year One thousand Eight hundred and forty One before the Honerable Judges aforesaid by the Oaths of John Gray, Jonathan Lewis, John Dawson, Ebenezer Roberts, John B. Clark, William S. Puto, Mahlon Brown, William Hutchen, William J. McCrary, John Ligg, Robert Fowler, Zachariah Barker, James Isaac Clark, Zedehiah A. Bouham, Elisha Bodure, and Israel Noyes, Seventeen good and lawful men discreet householders of Dearborn County who bring empaneled and sworn as Grand Jurors to enquire of and concerning all offenses committed within the body of said County, presented the following Bill of Indictment To wit; The State of Indiana, Dearborn County; In the Dearborn Circuit Court of the term of April in the year of our Lord One thousand, Eight hundred and forty One; Dearborn County; The Grand Jurors for the State of Indiana empannelled and sworn in the Dearborn Circuit Court to enquire in and for the body of the County of Dearborn in the name and by the authority of the State of Indiana upon their oaths present Joseph Peters on the twenty fifth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and forty at the County of Dearborn aforesaid and upon JOHN EASTON in the peace of the State of Indiana then and there being feloniously and wilfully did make an assault and that he the said Joseph Peters then and there with a chair which he the said Joseph Peters in both his hands Then and there had and held the said JOHN EASTON in and upon the head of him the said JOHN EASTON then and there feloniously and wilfully did strike giving unto him the said JOHN EASTON then and there with the said chair by the stroke aforesaid in manner aforesaid upon the head of him the said JOHN EASTON one mortal wound of the length of three inches and the breadth of one inch of which said mortal wound, he the said JOHN EASTON then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say the the said Joseph Peters hit the said John Easton then and there in manner and form aforesaid feloniously and wilfully did kill and slay contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and again the peace and dignity of the state of Indiana... John Dumont, Pros. Attorney
And whereas afterwards To wit....at the Term of April in the year 1841. To wit, the thirtieth day of April being the fifth Juridical day of said April term; Joseph Peters > Recognizance.. Murder > Comes John Dumont the attorney who presents the pleas of the State, and on his motion, it is order by the court that said recognizance be discharged."
And whereas afterwards to wit, at another day during the April Term aforesaid to wit the twelfth day of May being the fifteenth Juridical day of said of said Term comes James W. Gazlay Esq. who was specially sworn to prosecute the Pleas of the State of Indiana in this behalf and the said defendant also comes in his own proper person, and being arraigned on Said Indictment and it being demanded of him whether he is guilty or not guilty as he stands charged therein, for plea thereto; he saith he is not guilty, and for his trial he puts himself upon the Country and the Said Prosecutor doth so likewise. therefore let a jury come. whereupon the Sheriff brought before the court the following Jury To wit: Saban Bramble, Masten Dashiele, William Garrison, John Fence, John M. Cloud, Isaac Oathoudt, Abram Hyter, Servetus Tufts, David Springer, Obediah, William Dils and Benjamin Nelson; twelve good and lawful men discreet householders of the County of Dearborn, elected, tried and sworn the truth to speak upon the issue formed after hearing the evidence adduced in this behalf and argument of counsel, and a charge retire to their room to deliberate upon their verdict under the charge of a sworn Bailiff of this court. and afterwards returned into court the following verdict To wit. "We the Jury find the defendant not guilty as charged in this Indictment." Therefore it is considered by the Court that the said defendant as to the Indictment aforesaid go hence and be discharged. ************************************************************************************************* The below was transcribed from the CIRCUIT COURT *ORDER BOOK - VOLUME 11* - APR 1841 - OCT 1845 in the basement of the Dearborn County Courthouse : Joseph PETERS - INDICTMENT - MANSLAUGHTER OF JOHN I EASTON - State of Indiana VS Joseph Peters (Joseph Peters was Tried and Acquitted May 12th, 1841) ---------On Page 85 > The State of Indiana VS Joseph Peters > Recognizance.. Murder ; "Comes John Dumont the attorney who presents the pleas of the State, and on his motion, it is order by the court that said recognizance be discharged." ---------On Page 185 > "APRIL TERM , A.D. 1841, The State of Indiana VS Joseph Peters > Indictment Manslaughter > Now comes James W. Gazlay Esq. who was specially sworn to presente the Pleas of the State of Indiana in this behalf and the said defendant also comes in his own proper person, and being arraigned on Said Indictment and it being demanded of him whether he is guilty or not guilty as he stands charged therein, for pleas thereto; he saith he is not guilty, and for his Trial he puts himself upon the Country and the Said Prosecutor doth so likewise. Therefore, a jury comes, whereupon the Sheriff now brought before the Court the following Jury Court: Saban Bramble, Masten Dashiele, William Garrison, John Fence, John M. Cloud, Isaac Oathoudt, Abram Hyter, Servetus Tufts, David Springer, Obediah B. Priest, William Dils and Benjamin Milam; twelve good & lawful men, discreet householders of the County of Dearborn, elected, tried and sworn the truth to speak upon the issue formed. After hearing the evidence adduced in this behalf and argument of counsel, and a charge from the Court, retired to their Room to deliberate upon their verdict under the charge of a Sworn Bailiff of this Court. And afterwards returned into Court the following verdict towit. "We the Jury find the defendant not guilty as charged in this Indictment." Therefore it is considered by the Court that the said defendant as to the Indictment aforesaid "go hence and be discharged." --And the court now adjourned until 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. Signed, May 12, 1841 M.C. Egglefton A.J. Cotton"
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