Reverend Isaac Eaton (1724 – July 4, 1772) was an American minister and educator from the Hopewell section of Hopewell Township, at the time part of Hunterdon County, now Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.
[1][2] In 1756, he founded the Hopewell Academy, the first Baptist Latin grammar school in the American colonies.
Graduate James Manning became the first president of Brown University.
His father, Reverend Joseph Eaton of the Montgomery Baptist Church, had emigrated from Wales in 1686.
[5] He died on July 4, 1772, and was buried inside the 1748 Hopewell Baptist Church building.