Samuel Stratton

  General Notes:

BIRTH: NOTE:ABT. 1592 IN GRAVESEND, KENT, ENGLAND.
PER: JAMES STRATTON{JNKSTRATTON@YAHOO.COM}


BIOGRAPHY: SAMUEL AND ALICE MARRIED IN ENGLAND, CAME OVER FROM CONCORD,COUNTY OF KENT, ENGLAND TO MASSACHUSSETTS SOMETIME BEFORE 1647 ANDSETTLED IN WATERTOWN WITH 3 SONS. A FOURTH SON "JOSEPH" IS MENTIONED,WHO MAY HAVE STAYED IN ENGLAND.

BIOGRAPHY: THE SHIP THEY TRAVELED ON WAS CALLED THE "GODSPEED".

BIOGRAPHY: SAMUEL'S WILL WAS PROVED IN WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSSETTS.

BIOGRAPHY: LAND:WATERTOWN/CONCORD. SAMUEL OWNED REAL ESTATE IN BOTHAREAS. SEVERAL LOTS, WITH MANSION, BARN, ORCHARD, ETC....


GENERAL: WILL OF SAMUEL STRATTON
1672

In the name and by the help of ye Lord JesusChrist I Samuel StrattonSenior, being in sound memory and understanding, But near my Death I makemy last will and testament. I give my Body to ye Earth from whence I hadit to be decently buried, and my soule i give to God y{t} gave it me inshure and certaine hope of ressurection to life through ye merrittsofChrist Jesus, and concerning by good y{t} God hath left me to wit--myhouse and land at home and abroad my cattell chattlles what ever belongsto me in New England I will y{t} after my decease they be apprised, andmy Debts being paid Iwill y{t} it be delivered into the hand of my sonnJohn after my Decease to bedisposed of as followeth. i Will y{t} myloving wife have out of my state a comfortable maintenance, and after herdeath I will y{t} all ye movables in my house be equally divided betweenSamuell my sonn and my sonn John, the land and gouse and barnes andmeaddowes nearer my house or more remote T will y{t} sonn John shallfully and peacably injoy without any molestation or disturbance, onely Iwill y{t} my grand son Samuell ye sonn of my deceased son Richard when heis of age shall have ye house and land adjoining to it y{t} my sonn Johndwelt in to ye time y{t} he entered into ye farme he now is in beingformerly ye landof old Felch, Mis. Allen and old Folger, willing y{t} yeland In Concord formerly being mine but now in my sonn Samuells hand y{t}it be his forever as his full due and portion.
And I appoint my sonn John my sole executour of this my last will andtestament revoking all other wills heretofore made, wittness my hand thisp{r}sent 19 of December 1672.
My will is y{t} servant Thomas Cooper have a cow after my decease.

his
Samuel X Stratton {SEAL}
Mark
Sealed & delivered in presence of
Richard Norcross

Mr. Richard Norcross being sworne dosay that he was prsent when SamuelStratton above named deces'd, Signed & Published this instrument as hislast will & testament, and that according to his best understanding hewas of sound judgement & memory when he so did.
Justinian Holden aged abt 60 years being sworne do say that he waspresent with the above named Samuel Stratton deces'd abt ye time he madethis his last will as he apprehends it was ye same day and he ye sdSamuel declared to him that he had anintent to alter one y{t} he hadformerly made and that he would make his last will to be accord to thecontents of this above written instrument, for the substance thereof, andaccording to his best understanding he did judge him at y{t} time to beof sound Judgement & memory.
Before Capt. Daniel Gookin
& ThomasDanforth, Recorder

This will was made when he was "near his death."-- whichprobably accountsfor its not bearing his autograph.

INVENTORY OF ESTATE OFSAMUEL STRATTON
1672
This is An Inventory of the houses and Lands and moveables of SamuelStratton Senior deceast apprised by us who have here subscribed this 3dof Janu. 1672.
L--S--D
Impr: Wearing cloaths both linnen and woollen......001.15.00

In ye Roome called ye parler: One fether bed and fether
bolster three fether pillowes 2 pillow beers and a straw
bed, one paire of sheets, one blanket one rugg with ye
bedstead and curtains an valants...................008.00.00

A cubbard and cubbard cloath and a

Samuel married in 1617 in England.

Samuel next married on 27 Jun 1657 in Boston, Massachussetts.