 Annexed to the Royalist Sir Thomas Aston's "Remonstrance against Presbytery", 4to, 1641, are ‘Certain Positions preached at St. John's Church in Chester, by Mr. Samuel Eaton, a minister lately returned from New England, upon Sunday, being the third day of January 1640,’ as well as ‘Certyn other Positions preached by the same man at Knuttesford, a great Market Toune in the same County.’ Aston bears unwilling testimony to Eaton's powers as a preacher in asserting that by his ‘doctrines many of the common people are brought into that odium of the Book of Common Prayer, that divers of them will not come into the church during the time of divine service.’ In August 1641 ‘the New England Mr. Eaton’ is reported as having delivered at Barrow, Cheshire, a violent tirade ‘against the bishops and their government'.He became an assistant to the parliamentary commissioners of Cheshire.He was afterwards chosen teacher of a congregational church at Dukinfield in Cheshire, whence he removed to the neighbouring borough of Stockport, where he preached in the free school.