Samuel Stratton
Weaver
Born: March 5, 1660 Concord, Massachusetts
Married:November 28, 1683 Concord,
Massachuestts
Died: November 30, 1717 Concord, Massachusetts
Father: Samuel Stratton b.1625
Mother: Mary Frye b.c.1630
Wife: Elizabeth Fletcher b.1663
Children
Samuel Stratton b.1684
Hezekiah Stratton b.1688
John Stratton b.1690
Elizabeth Stratton b.1692
Joseph Stratton b.1695
Mary Stratton b.1698
Benjamin Stratton b.1701
Anna Stratton b.1704
Notes:
-Inherited the Stratton homestead in Concord. He was a weaver.
-His death is in the concord registers with a note to the cause:
"[Febr]uary ye 20th 1717/18
Whereas ye hand of God [hath]
come forth against ye Inh[abitants of]
Concord in a very awfull [manner]
sending a very malignnt [& fatal]
distemper amongst us wh[ereby there]
hath been a conciderable n[umber of]
p'sons, of men women [& children]
of all Qualities Sexes & ages [that]
hath been removd from am[ong us]
by death, most of wh has ben [very]
suden & unexpected so that from [the]
last day of novembr last past until
ye day of ye date above written hath
ben removd not less than 27 prson
Whereupon Thomas Brown senr of ye
aforesd Town thought meet to record
a cattalogue of ye names of ye p'sons
as near in order as I can wch are as
followeth,
Imprimis Samll Stratton who deceast november ye 30th 1717...
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Sources:
-Birth Source: "A Book of Strattons". Concord Vital Records: "Samewell
Sone of Samewell Stratton and mary his wife borne 5h march 1660"
-Marriage Source: Concord marriages: Sam: Stratton & Elizabeth
ffletcher 28. 9. 83
-Death Source: Gravestone: "Here lyes ye Body of Samuel Stratton Decd
Novbr. 30 1717 in ye 58 Year of his Age
