Clans & Kinfolk :Information about John Stratton
John Stratton (b. 14 Aug 1621, d. Abt. 1685)
Notes for John Stratton:
John Stratton moved to East Hampton, his name being in the list of the first of the nice settlers of that town.It is possible that he came to Southhampton with his brother Richard as early as 1644.
His name stands 5th on the list of founders of the town and from the first he was a prominent man among the settlers. IN 1652 the bounderiesof his hom lot are given in the town record that follows:
~ "November 19,1644. The petition that was presented to John Stratton and Thomas Junion, for the quiet and peaceable injoyment of the lott betwixt them which formerly was graunted unto widow, Bandcroft was graunted and consented unto by the Generall Court prouided that they shall keep, improue and possesse the sayd lott in theire handes three yeares after the tyme yt was by thesayd widdow, Bancroft, giuen unto them"
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In the list of property holders and land in East Hampton, Long Island June 10, 1652;
"John Stratton ffouer ackers vppon the litel plaine be it more or lesse bounded with the hie way South and Thomas Talmage unior West and on the North parte agt Luck Lillie and part agt Richard and the hie way East.
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From 1649 for more than a hundred years the name of John Stratton appears continually on church and town records of Easthampton, and many times it is impossible to tell which John Stratton the record refers.
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Records of Long Island:
1666, May 2, William Mulford, John Stratton, Jeremiah Conkling, Thomas Thomson, ; Overseers; John Osborn, Constable; Richard Stratton, Thomas Baker, Thomas Osborne Jr, Robert Bond and Stephen Hedges, Overseers 1673 John Stretton Sr, Richard Stretton, Magestrates
Children of John Stratton and Sarah Bancroft are:
- John Stratton Stratton, b. Abt. 1645, d. date unknown.
- Joseph Stratton, b. Abt. 1648, d. date unknown.
- Hannah Stratton, b. Abt. 1649, d. date unknown.
- Abigaile Stratton, b. Abt. 1651, d. date unknown.
- +Rebecca Stratton, b. 1652, East Hampton, Long Island, Ny3262, d. 14 May 1703, Saybrook, New Haven, Ct3262.
- Cornelius Stratton, b. Abt. 1653, d. date unknown.
- +Sarah Stratton, b. 1647, East Hampton Ny, d. 1660.