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See also: English colonial governor in See also: America, was See also: born at Stony Stratford, See also: Buckingham-See also: shire, about 1590
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He was educated in See also: Coventry, became a successful See also: merchant, travelled widely throughout See also: Europe, and for several years was the See also: financial See also: agent of See also: Charles I. in
See also: Denmark
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He subsequently settled in See also: London, where he joined the Puritan See also: congregation of the Rev
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See also: John Davenport, whom he had known since boyhood
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The pressure upon the Puritans increasing,
See also: Eaton, who had been one of the See also: original patentees of the Massachusetts See also: Bay colony in 1629, determined to use his influence and See also: fortune to establish an See also: independent colony of which his pastor should be the See also: head
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In 1637 he emigrated with Davenport to Massachusetts, and in the following See also: year (See also: March 1638) he and Davenport founded New Haven
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In
See also: October 1639 a See also: form of See also: government was adopted, based on the Mosiac See also: Law, and Eaton was elected governor, a See also: post which he continued to hold by See also: annual re-election, first over New Haven alone, and after 1643 over the New Haven Colony or Jurisdiction, until his See also: death at New Haven on the 7th of See also: January 1658
.
His administration was embar' rassed by constantly recurring disputes with the neighbouring Dutch settlements,especially after See also: Stamford(See also: Conn.) and See also: Southold (Long See also: Island) had entered the New Haven Jurisdiction, but his prudence and See also: diplomacy prevented an actual outbreak of hostilities
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He was prominent in the affairs of the New See also: England Confederation, of which he was one of the founders (1643)
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In 1655 he and Davenport See also: drew up the See also: code of See also: laws, popularly known as' the " See also: Connecticut Blue Laws," which were published
in London in 1656 under the title New Haven's Settling in New England and some Lawes for Government published for the Use of that Colony
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A sketch of his See also: life appears in See also: Cotton Mather's Magnalia (London, 1702) ; see also J
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B
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See also: Moore's " Memoir of See also: Theophilus Eaton " in the Collections of the New See also: York See also: Historical Society, second series, vol. ii
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(New York, 1849)
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