| Name |
Serajah Stratton |
| Birth |
7 Mar 1706/07, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut |
| Death |
30 Jul 1758 |
| Father |
William Stratton (1680-1709) |
| Mother |
Abigail Moore (1682-1709) |
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| Marriage |
12 Dec 1728, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Spouse |
Eunice Case |
| Birth |
8 Jul 1703-1704, Simsbury, Hartford, CT |
| Father |
Samuel Case (1667-1725) |
| Mother |
Mary Westover (~1674-1713) |
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| Children |
| 1 M |
Martin Stratton |
| Birth |
13 Jan 1730, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut |
| Death |
aft 1786, Grandley, Hartford, CT |
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| Spouse |
Hannah Griffin |
| Marriage |
1 Oct 1767, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| 2 F |
Eunice Stratton |
| Birth |
27 Jul 1733, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Spouse |
Nathaniel Messenger |
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| 3 M |
Serajah Stratton |
| Birth |
7 Jul 1740, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Notes for Serajah Stratton |
--Source of information: Kate Mildred (STRATTON) STEGALL (my Great Grandmother's notes); On 1 May 1758, Serajah enlisted for service in the French and Indian War. In July of the same year he died in the service of the country as his Father did 49 years before. He was clerk of the company organized by Capt. Holcomb under Col. Phineas Lyman.
--Source of information: "A Book of STRATTONS" (Vol 1, page 231); Records of him are found both in Winsor and in Simsbury,--the adjoining town on the west. He probably lived very near the line between the two towns. 12 December 1728, he married Eunice CASE, daughter of Elizabeth and Samuel Case. She was born in Simsbury, 8 July 1704. The Case family lived in that part of the town which later became Broomfield. A deed is found showing that Serajah Stratton and Eunice, his wife, sold land in Simsbury in 1735. This was not the land upon which their house was situated. 1 May 1758, Serajah enlisted for service in the French and Indian War. He was clerk of the company organized by Captain Nathaniel Holcomb, under Colonel Pheneas Lyman. On 30 July of the same year Serajah died in the service of his country, --as did his father forty-nine years before. Administration on his estate was granted his widow Eunice. The inventory of estate includes, besides the farm and house, livestock, farming implements and carpenter's tools, household furniture and clothing; also, a "Beak-horn" and books,--including "an old family Bible" (would we could find it to-day!) and a book called Pleasant Companion. 4 |
| Notes for Martin (Child 1) |
| --Source of information: "A Book of STRATTONS" (Vol 1, page 233); When the town was divided, in 1786, their home was in that part from which the new town of Granby was formed. About five miles from Simsbury is a small village still bearing the name "Stratton-Brook". Martin was a farmer and lived on the homestead which, as eldest son, he had inherited from his father. The latest record which the writer has been able to find of him in Hartford County was in 1786. Some time before 1691the family moved to Bradford County, Pennsylvania. No record of Martin's death, nor of Hannah's has been found. Many of his descendants have been traced to the present day. Among them are men occupying positions of trust and honor. See Rev. Charles Carroll STRATTON, D.D., in Who's Who in America. |
| Notes for Eunice (Child 2) |
| --Source of information: "A Book of STRATTONS" (Vol 1); Her first husband was Dudley HIGLEY and second ws Nathaniel MESSENGER. |
| Notes for Serajah (Child 3) |
| --Source of information: "A Book of STRATTONS" (Vol 1, page 232); He obeyed the "alarm call" in 1757,--then only seventeen years old--and marched to the relief of Fort Edward and parts adjacent, under Captain Trumble of Winsor. 21 April 1758, he enlisted in the French and Indian War in the same company in which his father served; wsa discharged 28 October 1758. His name does not again occur at Simsbury. (Further information concerning him is much desired.) 4 |
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