Brief Life History of Ezra
When Ezra Stratton was born on 26 April 1781, in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Stephen Stratton, was 38 and his mother, Martha Graves, was 36. He married Abigail Smith about 1806, in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Champlain, Champlain, Clinton, New York, United States in 1860 and Champlain, Essex, Virginia, United States in 1860.
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- Ezra Stratten, "United States Census, 1850"
- Ezra Stratton, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Find A Grave
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1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
1788
Established in 1788.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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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