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    Sherwood Edward Stratton

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    • Father of Tom Thumb — 2nd Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1811 
    • Birth Location:
    • Connecticut 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Death Date:
    • 29 Dec 1855 
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    • Burial Location:
    • Mountain Grove Cemetery and Mausoleum, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 26 May 1833 
    • Marriage Location:
    • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 

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  • Sources for Sherwood Edward Stratton

    • 1 Federal Census, CT, Fairfield County, 1850, Bridgeport, Image 30 of 31.
    • 3 Louisiana, New Orleans Passenger Lists, 1820-1945, Immigration record for Sherwood E Stratton.
    • 5 NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1988, Vol. 5, p. 21.
    • 7 New Haven, CT: Vital Records, 1649-1850, Vol. 1, p. 556, Marriage record for Sherman [sic] Stratten and Cynthia Thompson.
    • 8 United States Marriages, Connecticut Marriages, Marriage record for Sherman [sic] Stratten and Cynthia Thompson.
    • 9 Holt, Nellie Beardsley and Charles Eleazer Holt, Beardsley Genealogy: The Family of William Beardsley, One of the First Settlers of Connecticut, West Hartford, Connecticut: n. p. (1951), 28.
    • 11 Sharpe, W. C., History of Seymour, Connecticut, with Biographies and Genealogies, Seymour, Connecticut: Record Print (1879), 208-209.
    • 12 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), 315, 319.