Samuel STRATTON^[1]

1660 - 1717  (57 years)

• Name	Samuel STRATTON
  Birth	5 Mar 1659/60	Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	weaver
  Death	30 Nov 1717	Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   [4]
  Notes	"SAMUEL STRATTON3 (Samuel,2 Samuel1) was born March 5, 1660. As eldest son he inherited the homestead at Concord. On the town records he is spoken of as "a weaver." November 28, 1688, he married Elizabeth Fletcher. daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Wheeler) Fletcher. She was born in Concord August 24, 1663. His death is thus recorded on the original records at Concord: "Samuel Stratton, the husband of Elizabeth his wife Dyed november ye 30 day 1717 (in his 58th yr. g. s.)." His widow lived many years later, dying April 18, 1762, "in the hundredth year of her age." Children:--Born in Concord. +24 Samuel,4 b. 1684; settled in Rutland. +25 Hezekiah,4 b. 1688; settled in Northfield. +26 John,4 b. 1690; d. 1722. -27 Elizabeth,4 b. Feb. 16, 1692; m. Jan. 26, 1713, Jonathan Minott. +28 Joseph,4 b. 1695. -29 Mary,4 b. Mar. 5, 1698; m. Oct. 16, 1718, James Dawson of Boston. -30 Benjamin,4 b. Dec. 1, 1701; d. unm. in Concord, Nov. 29, 1779. "Non compos" for many years. (C. R.) -31 Anna,4 b. Nov. 26, 1704; m. (???) Billing. WILL OF SAMUEL STRATTON3 1717 "In the Name of God Amen I Samuel Stratton Senr of the Town of Concord in the County of Middx ss in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New england Yeoman Being of sound good and Perfect memory--Praise be Given to god for the same yit knowing the Uncertanty of this Life on Earth and Being Desirous to Settle things in order Do make and ordaine this to be my Last Will and Testament Hereby Revoking all fformer Wills by me made & signed to be void and of none effect "In Primas My soule I give into the Hands of Allmighty god that gave it in suer and Certaine Hopes of eternall Life through our Lord Jesuss Christ And my Body to the Earth from whence it Came to be Decently Interred at the Discretion of my Executors hereafter Mentioned and after my funerall expencies and Debts Satisfied and paid What Worldly Goods it hath pleased god to Endow me with all I Do give and Bequeath in Manner ffollowing-- "Item I give and bequeath to my Well-beloved Wife Eliseabeth Stratton and her Heirs forever: all my moveable goods Whatsoever: "My Will is that my two sons Hezekiah Stratton and Benjamin Stratton shall have so much either of them as shall make thier Parts equall With What John and Joseph Straton have Received by Deeds of Gif from me allread: Allso my Will is that my two Daughters Mary Stratton and Anna Stratton shall have so much of my estate as shall make their Parts equall with their sister eliseabeth Minott: and Further my Will is that my Wife eliseabeth Straton shall have the whole Improvement of all my Reall estate so Long as shee shall Remaine a Widow in my Name and shee shall have Liberty to sell any part of it for her subsistance if need shall Require to be don with the advice of my Son Samll Stratton and What Land shall Remain after my Wives marraige or Decease my sons shall Devide it equally amongst them all and they to pay to thier sisters so much apeie as one of their shaers in the Land that shall be Remaining after my Wives marraige or Decease shall be Apprised by Indeferant men: Hereby Authorizing and ffully Impowering My Beloved Wife Eliseabeth Stratton and my son Samuel Stratton to be Executrs of this My Last Will and Testamentt "In Witness Whereof I the sd Samuel Stratton have hereunto Set my hand and seal the twentieth and fifth Day of Aprill Anno 1717 and in the 3d year of his Majesties Reign over England & C his SAMUEL V STRATTON [Seal]. mark "Signed sealed & Published in the Presence of us to be the Last will and testament of Samuel Stratton "Mary Davis, Joseph Meriam, John Meriam Junr " SOURCE: Book of Strattons
  Person ID	I3373	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2010

  
  

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• Sources

  [S22] Stratton, Harriet Russell, Book of Strattons, (New York, Grafton Press, 1908), p. 166-168 (Reliability: 3). [S6] Bond, Henry, Bond -- Watertown, (Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860 Edition: Second edition), p. 593 (Reliability: 3). [S10] Concord VR, (Printed by the Town, 1895, Beacon Press, Thomas Todd Printer, 7-A Beacon Street, Boston), p. 9, R929.3 Concord. (Reliability: 3). [S22] Stratton, Harriet Russell, Book of Strattons, (New York, Grafton Press, 1908), p. 166 (Reliability: 3).