Person:Samuel Stratton (8)

According to "A Book of Strattons"^S1, Samuel was born in Watertown, Massachusetts 8 Apr 1658. His father died when he was but three months old, and two and a half years later his mother married again. By his grandfather's will in 1672 he was to have a house and land in Watertown when he became of age. He was then fourteen. We know nothing more of him until 1689, when we find him with wife Ruth, living in Concord, Massachusetts. Here his seven children were born, and here he died 11 Oct 1726.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Stratton, Harriet Russell. A Book of Strattons : Being a Collection of Stratton Records from England and Scotland, and a Genealogical History of the Early Colonial Strattons in America, with Five Generations of Their Descendants. (New York, New York: Grafton Press, 1908, 1918)
   V.1, p.170-71.
2. ↑ Historical Society of Watertown (Massachusetts). Watertown Records. (Watertown, Mass.: Press of Fred Barker, 1894-1939)
   1:20.

   [42] 1658.
   Samuel Straton sonn of Richard and Susan Straton borne the 8 of Aprill.

3. ↑ Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1891)
   110.

   Samuel Stratton Husband to Ruth his wife died october ye 11 : 1726.