Brief Life History of Nathan Taylor
When Nathan Taylor Stratton was born on 17 March 1813, in Pilesgrove Township, Salem, New Jersey, United States, his father, Jacob Stratton, was 41 and his mother, Mary Riley, was 36. He married Sarah M. Sherwin on 11 February 1836, in Woodbury, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Woolwich Township, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States in 1840 and Harrison Township, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States for about 20 years. He died on 9 March 1887, in Mullica Hill, Harrison Township, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Mullica Hill, Harrison Township, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States.
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- Nathan T Stratton, "United States Census, 1840"
- Nathan T Stratton, "New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956"
- Nathan T. Stratton, "New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820
On January 28, 1820, the New Jersey Legislature incorporated the City of Jersey from parts of the Bergen Township. The city would be reincorporated two more times (January 23, 1829 and February 22, 1838) before receiving its official name. Jersey City became part of the new Hudson County in February of 1840.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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