She had an intersting background, but not much luck in love, havingthe d istinction of marrying 3 successive rectors of Hungar’sparish, 2 of wh om abandoned her.
Ann and her sister, Verlinda, were daughters of Capt. Thomas Graves,on e of the original adventurers of the Jamestown Colony, and bothborn in A ccomack county, Va. Verlinda was married to the Governor ofMaryland.
Ann married, before July 10, 1637, the Rev. William Cotton, who, ontha t date patented land in right of his wife Ann Graves. Rev. Cotton,whos e mother resided at Bunbury, Cheshire, England was the firstminister o f Hungars parish, the first formally organized church onthe Eastern Sh ore of the Chesapeake Bay. He left a will of August1640, naming "Breth rin-n law Capt. William Stone" and another asoverseers of his estate.
Ann then married, by 1642, the Rev. Nathaniel Eaton, who came toVirgin ia from Massachusetts, where, in 1638, he had become the firstmaster o f the school that later became Harvard University. He hadbeen born En gland in 1609, and came to Massachusetts in 1638. Hisfather had been a c lergyman in England, and his brother was therespected first Governor o f the New Haven Colony. Governor Winthropof New York mentions in his j ournal that Eaton, after he went toVirginia, was a "drunken preacher." I n 1642, he assigned land atHungars Creek due him by right of intermarr iage with the ""widdoweand relict of William Cotton, Clerke", (often a m isspelling for theword cleric). By 1646 Eaton had left the colony, de serting his wife,and returned to England, where he lived privately unt il therestoration of King Charles II. Conforming to the ceremonies of t heChurch of England, he was fixed at Biddlefield, where he became a bitter persecutor of the Dissenters, and died in prison for debt. InJune o f 1657 Ann married the Reverend Doughty, Her father was one ofthe orig inal adventurers of Jamestown, VA.
