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Lily James

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Jonathan Stratton

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Lily James — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 674 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Stratton 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Allen   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Jun 1716 
  • Birth Location:
  • Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 24 Jan 1794 to 2 Nov 1802 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Weston, Middlesex. Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Dinah Bemis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Nov 1738 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Beulah Stratton (Ahnentafel No:337 )

  • Notes: 

  • This Jonathan Stratton should not be confused with the man of the same name who was the son of Joseph and Sarah (Howe) Stratton.

    It was not Jonathan Stratton, but Jonas Stratton, son of Joseph Stratton, who was killed by a falling tree near Concord, Massachusetts, in 1774.

• Sources for Jonathan Stratton

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Weston, Vol. 1, p. 58, Birth record for daughter Beulah Stratton.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Baptism record for daughter Beulah Stratten.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Waltham, Vol. 1, p. 115, Marriage record for Jonathan Stratton and Dinah Bemis.
  • ⁴ Cutter, William Richard, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex Co., Mass., Vol. 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 1486.
  • ⁵ Draper, Col. Thomas Waln-Morgan, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, in Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of . . ., San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Co., Printers (1900), 66-68, gives incorrect parents for Jonathan.
  • ⁶ Stratton, Harriet Russell, A Book of Strattons: Being a Collection of Stratton Records from England and Scotland, and a Genealogical . . ., Vol. 1, New York: The Grafton Press, Genealogical Publishers (1908), Part II, pp. 171-172, 200-207.
  • ⁷ Stratton, Harriet Russell, A Book of Strattons: Being a Collection of Stratton Records from England and Scotland, and a Genealogical . . ., Vol. 2, New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, Genealogical Publisher (1918), Part IV, pp. 21-22.

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