EATON, WILLIAM
\ˈiːtən], \ˈiːtən], \ˈiː_t_ə_n]\
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(1764-1811), born in Connecticut, served in the Revolutionary War from 1780 to 1783, and was Clerk of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1791 to 1797. He was Consul at Tunis, where he conducted important negotiations from 1799 to 1803, and was U. S. Naval Agent to the Barbary States from 1804 to 1805. In 1805 he conducted the celebrated Derne expedition. (See Derne.)
By John Franklin Jameson
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