THE DESCENDANTS OF EZEKIEL MAINE OF STONINGTON, CONN, compiled byAlgernon Aikin Aspinwall, Washington, DC, 1905, DAR Library. page 143.

1870 CENSUS, NORTH STONINGTON, NEW LONDON CO., CT., Dwelling #271, Family#289
ECCLESTON,
Charles, 4 years old, male.

NO. STONINGTON VITAL RECORDS, 1880-1905, page 12.
ECCLESTON, ECCLESTONE, EGGLESTON.
S. Curtis, & Nellie M. Miner, both of No. Stonington, m. No.Stonington, July 16, 1893.

1900 CENSUS, Hopkinton, Washington Co., RI, Dwelling #196, Family 221.
EGGLESTON, Curtis, Head of Household, white male, 32 years of age.Born: Oct 1867 Married 6 years. He is a merchant and rents a house. Hecan read and write. He was born in CT, Father born CT, Mother born CT.
Nellie M., wife to head of household, white female, 24 years of age.Born: May 1876. She has had one child and she is still living. She is ahousekeeper. She can read and write. She was born in CT, Father was bornin CT, Mother was born in CT.
Gladys M., daughter, white female, 2 years old. Born Sept. 1897 andis single. She was born in RI. Father born RI, Mother born RI. (The aboveclearly states the father & mother's place of birth was CT.)

OCT. 2, 1910, VOL. 15, PAGE 481.
Ida L. Randall, his sister, to S. Curtis Eggleston, dated Oct. 2,1910, Vol. 15, page 481, 640 acres
No. 1 -- Easterly by the public highway known as the Mystic andJewett City Road; southerly by land of Daniel S. Guile, westerly by landof Thomas Main and a brook flowing into Main's Lake, so-called, andwesterly and northerly by land of Otto Anderson and Main's Lake.
No. 2 -- Bounded northerly by the Pendleton Hill Road, easterly byWilliam Eccleston's land, southerly by said William Eccleston's l;and andwesterly by said Mystic and Jewett City road.
No. 3 -- Bounded northerly by said Pendleton Hill Road, westerly andsoutherly by lands of William Eccleston, southerly by lands of GeorgeWilkinson and lands of the estate of George P. Stewart, easterly by landof the heirs of Denson Barber.
No. 4 -- Bounded southerly by said Pendleton Hill Road, easterly byland of the heirs of Jefferson Keeney, northerly by land of LuciusKenney, Billings Pond, so-called, and sland of the heris of Gardner Greenand land of Freeman Pierce Estate and land of Ida L. Randall, thisreleasor, westerly by said Mystic and Jewett City road, and northerly andeasterly by a lot of land situated at the corner of two highwaysmentioned herein, said lot being bounded by said William Eccleston
Being all the land contained in the home farm of my father, StilesP. Eccleston, late of North Stonington, deceased, 640 acres.
The first tract above described includes the lands of the AshwillettSchool which said lands were conveyed by said Stiles P. Eccleston, dec.,for school, church and cemetery purpose, with right of reversion to theestate when lands are no longer used for such purpose.

"The Main Tree" by Nancy Childress, 1989

1. 2. Gladys May EGGLESTON