Richard Stratton was a son of Samuel Stratton. Samuel had arrived in Watertown, Massachusetts sometime before 1647. Samuel had settled in Watertown with his wife, Alice and two of his sons, Samuel and John. Richard Stratton arrived in Massachusetts in late spring or early summer of 1656, aboard the Speedwell.
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| 1656 A lyst of the passengers aboard the Speedwell of London Robert Lock Master bound for New England1 |
The next two documents pertaining to Richard appear in the records of Watertown, Massachusetts2. On April 8, 1658, a son named, Samuel, is born to Richard and Susannah Stratton in Watertown. A little less than four months later, Richard Stratton died.
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| Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 |
Richard's death gives rise to the last record, a Probate record, regarding Richard. According to A Book of Strattons3, Richard's estate left no land to his wife or son.
Richard's wife remarried a few years later and lived in Concord, Massachusetts. Richard's son, Samuel, was mentioned in his grandfather, Samuel's will and Samuel received land when he became of age.
Richard is most likely buried in the Old Burying Place in Watertown since it was the active cemetery at that time. The land that Samuel Stratton owned was in close proximity.
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| Standing near some Stratton graves at the Old Burying Place in Watertown |
2. Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010).
3. Stratton, Harriet Russell, A Book of Strattons; being a collection of Stratton records from England and Scotland, and a genealogical history of the early colonial Strattons in America, with five generations of their descendants Volume 1, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908
