When Samuel Stratton was born in 1699, in Huntington, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Cornelius Stratton, was 47 and his mother, Martha Hull, was 39. He married Ruth Platt on 2 April 1728, in New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 10 March 1791, in Fairfield, Herkimer, New York, United States, at the age of 92.
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Historical Boundaries: 1791: Herkimer, New York, United States
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’.
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