Person:Enoch Stratton (1)

According to "A Book of Strattons"^S1, Enoch Stratton was born in Concord, Massachusetts on 24 Nov 1700. He was with the Continental Army, under Captain Penhollow at Georgetown (now Bath), Maine from 19 Jul to 14 Nov 1722. In 1725 he was living in Weston, Massachusetts with his wife Rebecca. The following year he returned to Concord, and lived there for several years, and then removed to Glastonbury, Connecticut, where he bought land 18 APR 1743 for £100 and 6 Jun 1743 for £50. In these deeds he is called blacksmith. He was in the French and Indian War, serving in Colonel Eleazer Goodrich's 2nd Regt. Connecticut Militia, April 13 to October 29, 1755, and in 3rd Co., 3rd Regt., under Major John Paterson, March 31 to October 25, 1756. He died in Glastonbury and his will is recorded in Hartford. His widow Rebecca died 13 FEB 1794, aged 95 years.

Will

WILL OF ENOCH STRATTON^S1
1755

In the name of God amen I Enoch Stratton Blacksmith of the town of Glastonbury in the County of Hartford and in the Colony of Connecticut in New England in America this 24th day of May Anno Domi 1755 and in the 28th year of the Reign of our Sovereign George the Second King of Great Britain &c being in usual health of body and of perfect mind and memory, Thanks be to God therefore yet now seriously calling to mind the mortality of my body believing that it is appointed for all men once to die I do make and ordain this my last will and testament Viz Principly and first of all I give and recommend my soul to God who gave it and my body to be buried with a decent burial nothing doubting but at the great and general Resurrection, I shall receive the same again by the great and Almighty power of God and in addition to my worldly Estate which it has hath pleased God to bless me with in this life I give demise and despose of in the following manner and form imprimis I give and bequeath to my faithful and well beloved wife Rebeccah one third part of all my Real Estate to her use and benefit as long as she continues my Widow or in Lieu and stead thereof a good and comfortable maintenance to be allowed her by my three sons if it should be her Choice and desire that they should support her while she remains my Widow I likewise give and bequeath to my said beloved wife all and every my household movable Estate goods to her own proper use and behoof and dispose forever I also give and bequeath to my well beloved son John one third part of all my Real Estate in Lands Buildings fruit trees and woods in the Township of Glastonbury together with all the appurtenances and privileges thereunto belonging in fee simple forever to himself heirs and assigns. I likewise give and bequeath to my said beloved son John one third part of my cattle farming tools and implements and one third part of my Smith tools and of all my out door Estate and movables whatever to him his heirs and assigns to their own proper use and benefit forever It is likewise my will that he pay to his Sisters Mary Nickals and Rebeccah Gustin Ten pounds each in current bills of the old tenor equal to Exchange of Spanish dollar at three pounds twelve shillings per dollar within the time of one year after my decease.

I likewise give and bequeath to my beloved son Samuel one third part of the farm I now live upon in the township of Glastonbury together with one third part of the buildings thereon standing and of all the trees thereon growing and of all the appurtenances and privilages thereunto belonging and one third part of all my lands and Real Estate in Glastonbury to himself his heirs and assigns as a good Estate in fee simple forever. I likewise give my said Son Samuel the one third part of all my out door movables and cattles and of my Smith tools and farming tools and of all the other movables excipting what movables I have given to my wife to him his heirs and assigns to their proper use and benefit forever and it is my will that my said son Samuel take that part of my Estate I now live upon which Contains all of the buildings if it be his choice so to do when he and his brothers come to devide he allowing to them the Quantity and Quality in other lands or Estate as they and he shall agree or as shall be determined by men mutually chosen by them to apprise and make the division between him and them in case they do not agree on the division themselves. I likewise will and order my said son Samuel to pay to each of his Sisters aforenamed ten pounds appeace in current bills as afore expressed within a year after my death.

It is my will that my three sons divide my real and personal Estate between them equally in quantity and quality and that they be equal in maintaining my wife and in paying my debts. I likewise give to my well beloved son Isaac his heirs and assigns forever as a good indefeasible Estate one third part of all my Real Estate in lands and of my personal Estate and movable Estate as afore expressed to his brother John and it is my will he pay to his two sisters fore named Twenty pounds old tenor &c within one year of my Decease. It is my will my three sons pay all my just debts and that they equally receive all debts due me. I likewise give my beloved Daughter Mary Nickals thirty pounds current money of the old tenor to be paid her by her brothers within one year after my death. I likewise give and bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Rebeccah Gustin thirty pounds old tenor to be paid as fore expressed to her sister Mary. I will that my apprentice Timothy Gosler live with my son John after my death until he be fifteen years of age and from the age of fifteen until he is one and twenty it is my will that he live with and sirve my son Samuel and that said Samuel teach said Timothy Gosler my apprentice his art or trade of a blacksmith perform the indenture. I do Constitute and ordain Mr Samuel Kimberly and Mr John Kimberly both of Glastonbury executors of this my will and testament and I do hereby revoke and disanul all and every other former testaments wills Legacies and bequests and Executors by me in any ways before named and made willed and bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. In witness and confirmation hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above mentioned.

Enoch Stratton.

Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declared by Enoch Stratton as his last will and testament in the presence of us the subscribers

Isaac Chalker, Stephen Strickland, Joanna Chalker

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.178-79.
2. ↑ Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1891)
   49.

   Enoch Stratton ye son of Sam'll Stratton & Ruth his wife was Borne novemb'r ye 24th 1700.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Old Eastbury Cemetery, Glastonbury, CT, in Find A Grave
   Enock Stratton.

   Here lies Interr
   the Body of
   M^r Enock
   Str^atton who
   died Jenuary
   the 11^th A:D 1758
   in the 58^th year
   of his Age