Brief Life History of Mary Molly
When Mary Molly Stratton was born on 23 May 1765, in Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Cornelius Stratton, was 28 and her mother, Abigail Hull, was 23. She married Seth Wakeman on 4 April 1784, in Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Sherman, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1840. She died on 6 October 1845, at the age of 80, and was buried in Center Cemetery, Bethel, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
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- Mary Wakeman, "United States Census, 1840"
- Mary Stratton Wakeman, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary Wakeman, "United States Census, 1840"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1781 · British Forces Capture Fort Griswold
The capture of Fort Griswold was the final act of treason that Benedict Arnold committed. This would be a British victory. On the American side 85 were killed, 35 wounded and paroled, 28 taken prisoner, 13 escaped, and 1 twelve year old was captured and released.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of several places called Stratton or Stretton, almost all named with Old English strǣt ‘paved road, Roman road’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. Stratton in Cornwall, which may also be a partial source of the surname, probably has as its first element Cornish stras ‘valley’.
English: variant of Sturton, a habitational name from Sturton le Steeple (Nottinghamshire), Great Sturton (Lincolnshire), Sturton by Stow (Lincolnshire), or possibly Sturton (Northumberland), all of which placenames share the same etymology and early spellings as 1 above.
Scottish: habitational name from Straiton (Ayrshire), Straiton in Liberton (Midlothian), or South Straiton in Logie (Fife), all named with Old English strǣt ‘street, Roman road’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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