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Hazen Family Tree - The Billington Family, Mayflower Passengers

The Billington Family - John, Eleanor, John Jr., and Francis

Family Connection - John Billington is Edward Elihu Hazen Jr.'s 9th great-grandfather. Eleanor is his 9th great-grandmother. 


John Billington was born around 1580 in Lincolnshire, England. In about 1604, he married Eleanor, family name unknown. She was born in 1585. They had two sons, John Jr. and Francis. John Jr. was born in 1604, and Francis in 1606. 

The Billingtons were passengers on the Mayflower, arriving first at Provincetown on Cape Cod Harbor, then at Plymouth.

Original Sketch  of Land Plots - In William Bradford's Handwriting
John Billington's plot is shown. 


The Billington family were considered troublemakers. On the Mayflower, son Francis, about 16 years old, fired a gun inside the ship, narrowly missing a barrel of gunpowder. At their first landing at Provincetown, John Jr., about 14 years old, ran off and got lost in the woods. When found, he was with a band of Nauset Native Americans. 

John Billington often quarreled with the leadership of the colony. He challenged the leadership of Miles Standish and was implicated in a 1624 revolt against the church. William Bradford wrote in a letter to Robert Cushman that Billington was a "knave".  His wife Eleanor was sentenced to time in the stocks for slandering a colonist named John Doane. 

In 1630, John Billington shot and killed a man named John Newcomen. John was tried, sentenced to hang, and executed in September or October 1630. 

John Billington Jr. died sometime between 1627 and 1630. Eleanor Billington married Gregory Armstrong in 1638. She died in 1643. 

Francis Billington married Christian Penn, widow of Francis Eaton, in 1634. They had nine children:
        Elizabeth    b. July 10, 1635       d. 1709
        Joseph        b. 1635                     d. 1685
        Martha       b. 1638                     d. 1704
        Mary          b. 1640                     d. 1717
        Isaac           b. 1644                     d. 1709
        unnamed     b. before 1650         d. at birth or soon after 
        Rebecca      b. 1647                    d. young
        Dorcas        b. 1650                    d. 1711    
        Mercy         b. 1651                    d. 1718 

Francis Billington died on December 3, 1684. His wife Christian Penn Eaton Billington died on July 13, 1684 in Middleboro. 

No burial site is known for any of the people in today's post. 

John Billington > Francis Billington > Martha Billington > Mercy Eaton > Seth Fuller, Jr. > Archippus Fuller > Seth Fuller > Deborah Fuller  > Norman Hazen > John Vose Hazen > Edward Elihu Hazen > 
Edward Elihu Hazen, Jr. 


John and Elinor Billington are in the outer ring, green section, of the top chart. Seth Fuller, the center person of the top chart, is in the second ring from the outside, green section, third from the edge of the bottom chart. 





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