Samuel STRATTON^[1]

Abt 1592 - 1672  (~ 80 years)

• Name	Samuel STRATTON  [2]
  Birth	Abt 1592  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 Dec 1672	Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   [4]
  	or 25 Dec 1672
  Notes	SAMUEL STRATTON was born in England about 1592, and settled in Watertown, Mass., with wife Alice, as early as 1647. Before 1657 Alice died. The date of her death is not known. The last mention that has been found of her is November 9, 1649. "June 27, 1657, Samuel married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Bowlins, and widow of William Parker of Scituate and Boston. They were married in Boston by Governor John Endicott. Margaret died, a widow, in Watertown, December 7, 1676, aged 81 years. Samuel Stratton owned real estate in Watertown and Concord,--several lots, with mansion, barn, orchard, etc. His descendants are found to-day in almost every State in the Union. More than two thousand of them have been traced. In almost every case they are among the substantial citizens of the towns in which they dwell,--many occupy positions of trust and honor. "WILL OF SAMUEL STRATTON - 1672 "In the name and by the help of ye Lord Jesus Christ I Samuel Stratton Senior, being in Sound memory and understanding, But near my Death I make my last will and testament I give my Body to ye Earth from whence I had it to be decently buried, and my soule I give to God yt gave it me in shure and certaine hope of ressurection to life through ye merritts of Christ Jesus, and concerning my good yt God hath left me to wit--my house and land at home and abroad my cattell chattlles what ever belongs to mee in New England I will yt after my decease they be apprised, and my Debts being paid I will yt it be delivered into the hand of my sonn John after my Decease to be disposed of as followeth. I Will yt my loving wife have out of my state a comfortable maintenance, and after her death I will yt all ye movables in my house be equally divided between Samuell my sonn and my sonn John, the land and house and barnes and meddowes nearer my house or more remote I will yt sonn John shall fully and peacably injoy without any molestation or disturbance, onely I will yt my grand son Samuell ye sonn of my deceased son Richard when he is of age shall have ye house and land adjoining to it yt my sonn John dwelt in to ye time yt he entered into ye farme he now is in being formerly ye land of old Felch, Mis. Allen and old Folger, willing yt ye land In Concord formerly being mine but now in my sonn Samuells hand yt it be his forever as his full due and portion. "And I appoint my sonn Johnmy sole executour of this my last will & testament revoking all other wills heretofore made, wittness my hand this prsent 19 of December 1672. "My will is yt servant Thomas Cooper have a cow after my decease. his SAMUEL X STRATTON, [SEAL] mark Sealed & delivered in prence of Richard Norcross. Cambr. 31, 1mo 1673 "Mr. Richard Norcross being sworne do say that he was prsent when Samuel Stratton above named deces'd, Signed, Sealed & Published this instrument as his last will & testament, and that according to his best understanding he was of sound judgement & memory when he so did. "Justinian Holden aged abt 60 years being sworne do say that he was present with the above named Samuel Stratton deces'd abt ye time he made this his last will as he apprehends it was ye same day and he ye sd Samuel declared to him that he had an intent to alter one yt he had formerly made and that he would make his last will to be accord to the contents of this above written instrument, for the substance thereof, and according to his best understanding he did judge him at yt time to be of sound Judgment & memory. Before Capt. Daniel Gookin & Thomas Danforth, Recorder "This will was made when he was "near his death,"--which probably accounts for its not bearing his autograph. He died December 25, 1672, aged 80 years. "INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF SAMUEL STRATTON - 1672 "This is An Inventory of the houses and Lands and moveables of Samuel Stratton senior deceast apprised by us who have here subscribed this 3d of Janu. 1672. £--s--d Impr: Wearing cloaths both linnen and woollen 001.15.00 "In ye Roome called ye parler: One fether bed and fether bolster three fether pillowes 2 pillow beers and a straw bed, one paire of sheets, one blanket one rugg with ye bedstead and curtains and valants 008.00.00 ""A cubbard and cubbard cloath and a deske 001.00.00 A table 2 forms six qushons 3 Chairs one stoole 001.10.00 A warming pan: a paire of tongs and a paire of small cobirons 000.10.00 "In ye roome called ye kitchen: three kitles 2 skillets of brass and a brass ladle 001.10.00 seven pewter platters 2 little plates of pewter, 2 pewter cups a pint botle one salt one pewter pott, and a dram cup, six spoones 01.04.00 "one Iron morter one friing pan a pair of tongs a tramell a peele one Iron candle stick: an old gridiron an iron pot with pot hooks a chafindish a little morter and pestell a fier shovell and a spit 2 smoothing irons and a brand a churne five cheese fatts a sive 001.00.00 "a kneeding trough 3 pailes a tray 4 wooden dishes 2 earthen pans one earthen pott a paire of small skales and weights 8 trenchers 001.00.00 "Ammunition; 2 muskits a fowling peece, a rest, a cutlass a paire of bandeleeves, worme and scowrer-bullets 001.10.00 "In ye roome called ye butry: a tabll, a box, a Keeler, a linnen wheele 2 woolen wheels a reaell with other lumber 001.00.00 "In ye Chamber over ye parler: A small flock bed, one fether pillow, a small boltster 2 sheets 001.00.00 "and some old lumber in the same chamber 00.10.00 "In ye Chamber over ye Kitchen: 4 hoops, and 4 boxes for cart wheeles, one oxnaile with other old Iron and 3 plow shars one coulter 001.10.00 " a cross cut saw, a handsaw, a hamer a perser stock, a wry bit, 3 axes, 2 wedges, a paire of beetle rings one aguer one breaking up how, with old Iron 000.16.00 " In ye room called ye Ciller: 6 barrells, a small quantity of meet and tallow, 3 old Keelers 001.00.00 A parcell of small cheeses 000.16.00 A grindstone and iron wrench 00.06.00 "Utensils for husbandrie: one old cart and wheeles and irons belonging to them, and one tumbrill with wheeles to it, one plow, two yoaks, 2 chains, a cart rope about 4 bushels of Indian corne in the ears 00.10.00 pease and wheate in ye barne and small quantity of hay 02.00.00 seaven hors kind young and old 015.00.00 eleven neat cattle young and old 22.00.00 2 sheepe and two swine 01.10.00 A dwelling house and out houses with ye land about ye od houses ye Land containing about 65 acres with one acre of marsh 100.00.00 10 acres of meadow in Cambridge bounds neare Justinian Houldings 020.00.00 A lott called divident land of thirty five acres 009.00.00 A parcell of land called township land of ten acres 007.00.00 A parcell of land called a farme 008.00.00 A panall 000.04.00 A fowleing peece, a case of pistolles and holsters and a hemp comb an Iron crow and a spade 001.13.00 An other dwelling house and barne with nineteene acres of land to it 030.00.00 A frow and a paire of hooks for a yoake three roods of upland 001.10.00 "The estate of Samuel Stratton afors'd was apprised ye day and yeare afforsaid by us. RICHARD BEERES. HENRIE BRIGHT. WILLIAM BOND. "Children:--Born in England. +2 Samuel,2 d. 1707, in Concord. +3 John,2 d. 1720, in Watertown. +4 Richard,2 b. 1629; d. 1658, in Watertown. "Although there is nothing in Samuel Stratton's will to indicate that he had other children than these three sons, it is not at all improbable that there were others who remained in England. A more thorough study of the Strattons of County Kent, Eng., might discover the baptismal records of his children, and establish his line there, --and might account for other Strattons of New England." SOURCE: Book of Strattons =========================== "Samuel Stratton (1), the immigrant ancestor of Melville O. Stratton, formerly of Grafton, Massachusetts, was born in England in 1592. He was according to deposition made by him in 1672 then eighty years old, and his son John was thirty-nine years old. He was surveyor of town lots in Watertown in 1647. He was admitted freeman May 18, 1653. After the death of his wife, who came with him from England, he married again in Boston, August 27, 1657, Margaret Parker, widow. She died December 7, 1676, aged eighty-one years. His will, made the day of his death, December 18, 1672, provided for his widow and the children named below. His homestall was in what is now Cambridge, on the north side of Mount Auburn street, adjoining the former estate of James Russell Lowell. His children: Samuel; John, see forward; Richard, died before his father, leaving a son Samuel, who settled at Easthampton, Long Island, where his father and Uncle John located for a time." SOURCE: Worchester County 2
  Person ID	I3380	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2011

  
  

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  F5113

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• Sources

  [S22] Stratton, Harriet Russell, Book of Strattons, (New York, Grafton Press, 1908), p. 157-161 (Reliability: 3). [S20] Crane, Ellery Bicknell, Worchester County, (New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1907), pp. 193-194 (Reliability: 3). [S6] Bond, Henry, Bond -- Watertown, (Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860 Edition: Second edition), p. 592 (Reliability: 3). [S6] Bond, Henry, Bond -- Watertown, (Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860 Edition: Second edition), p. 592-593 (Reliability: 3).