Brief Life History of Ichabod
When Ichabod Stratton Jr was born on 11 January 1722, in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Ichabod Stratton Sr., was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Hildreth, was 34. He married Abigail Church on 8 October 1743, in Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1722 and Rutland Town, Rutland, Vermont, United States in 1790. He died after June 1791, in Rutland, Rutland, Republic of Vermont.
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- Ichabod Stratton, "United States Census, 1791"
- Ichabod Stratton, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Ichabod Stratton, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""
1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
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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