High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Theophilus Eaton (1590 ? January 7, 1658) was a merchant, farmer, and Puritan colonial leader who was the co-founder and first governor of New Haven Colony, Connecticut.He was born at Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England in 1590, to the Vicar of Great Budworth, Chester ? Richard Eaton (1569-1616) and his wife, Elizabeth Shepheard (1569-1630). He was married to a 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, this time to 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 marriageto Thomas Yale.