Many
publications have mentioned hubby’s[i]
fourth great grandfather, Solomon Stratton.
Most highlight his purported military service and involvement with the
founding of Prestonsburg, Kentucky.
Most, in print and online, do not give proper citations. But no matter how many times hubby and I day
trip US 23 to Prestonsburg and Betsy Layne our thoughts and admiration linger
on him and other pioneer families that led us down a trail that now includes
five beautiful grandchildren. Hopefully
some day they will hand down the stories, as well.
Solomon
Stratton was born about 1745. Assuming he was born in the area where he reaches
adulthood, he was born in Albemarle, British America. According to DNA evidence he was either ½
brother or cousin to both Isaac (1754-1831) and Seriah Stratton (1740-1821/23).
When
Solomon was thirteen, Amherst County, British America was formed from a portion
of Albemarle. It is estimated that
Solomon was about 21 when he married wife Jane.[ii] Their first child, Esther was born about 1766[iii]
probably in Amherst County.
The
first mention this compiler has of Solomon Stratton in the Piedmont region, Amherst,
is in the publication on the Layne family[iv]
by Benjamin Floyd Layne stating in 1767 William Laine Jr. lived near Minos
Wright, Solomon Stratton, John Stratton and others. This is a newer publication and does not give
a citation. The first recorded county
document this compiler has located for Solomon, is the next year, May 1768 when
a Court Order involves “William Lain vs James Shannon” for one pound ten shillings. Solomon, now about age 23, along with William
Lain and a Thomas Largen were paid fifty pounds of tobacco for two days
attendance at court[v].
On
February 6, 1769 Solomon Strutton[vi]
along with William Lain, Henry Strutton, John Strutton, Menos Wright and James
Mobley are listed as the road gang to work on the survey of William Spencer
leading from the Tye River to Higginbotham’s. Another portion of the road is
described as Rucker’s Run Bridge to Higginbotham’s. While this is two years later than Layne
quipped, it is most likely one of the sources he utilized. Solomon’s 2nd daughter Elizabeth[vii]
is estimated as born this same year.
Solomon
and Jane have four sons born between 1774 and 1778: Harry, Henry, Tandy and
Richard.
Solomon
Stratton’s military appearance is in the Virginia Militia for Montgomery
County, Virginia. Montgomery included
present day Wythe and part of Tazewell.
His service was under Captain James Moore for 1778.[viii].
He may have made the rank of Sergeant as indicated in one publication.[ix]
1783 Militia
showing Capt. James Moore, Solomon Stratton, Sergt, Low Brown, James
Shannon, Robert Lasley (under 18) & others of Montgomery County
It is at this point that narrated accounts state Solomon was at the Battle of Alamance and with George Roger's Clark expedition to Illinois in 1779.
The review of a pension record of Joseph Davidson[x],from Tazewell County, who also served under Captain James Moore in the Montgomery Militia shows that Davidson was at Davidson Fort, on the Bluestone, under command of Captain Moore in the Spring of 1779. Captain James Moore was also at the first Battle of Alamance in 1771. Moore was commander of Davidson Fort on the Bluestone in 1777. He does not appear to be the Clark that went on the Clark expedition as he was murdered by Indians in 1782 near Davidson Fort. Rolls for the Clark expedition include a different James Moore who was not appointed Captain until he was in Illinois where Moore later resided and died. Did Solomon volunteer to join another unit, leaving Moore?
None
of the available lists for the George Rogers Clark Expedition are complete,
making positive identifications frustrating.
The
earliest published reference of Solomon Stratton in Clark’s Expedition is in History
of the Settlement and Indian Wars of Tazewell County by George Bickley in
1852. This repeated in the 1920 publication of History of Tazewell County
and Southwest Virginia stating that the following accompanied Clark to
Illinois: William Peery, Low Brown, John Lasly and Solomon Stratton. The
Annals of Tazewell followed in 1923. Bickley and subsequent publications gave
no reference/citation.
History
of Southwest Virginia Washington County 1777-1870 was written in 1903
and states “while the company, as a whole, refused to go upon the
expedition, a few of the men joined other companies and took part…Low Brown,
John Lasly, Solomon Stratton, Nealy McGuire, William Peery. Supplies were purchased upon the Holston…17
March 1779…” This would indicate
Stratton did join another company, but what company? Where is a roster?
Low
Brown’s pension[xi] states he enlisted in the Illinois regiment
in 1779…at the time he was a resident of Montgomery County…that previous he was
a citizen of Montgomery and enlisted under Lt. John Draper. “That sometime
between the two terms of enlistment …was by order of Colonel Preston to Captain
James Moore, appointed by said Captain Moore as an Indian Spy.” This places
Brown in the same Montgomery county militia as Solomon Stratton.
The
McGuire quoted is most likely one of the McGuire’s that went by “Neely.” Rev. Cornelius McGuire who went by “Neely” and
who later will marry Solomon Stratton’s oldest child, Esther, 29 December 1787,
in Montgomery County, would have only been 11 years old at the time of the
George Rogers Clark Expedition. It is
most likely Cornelius aka “Neely” born about 1725 who’s brother John McGuire
does appear on pay lists for the Clark Expedition.
William
Peery[xii]
was a volunteer in the Expedition as well as at the Battle of Alamance, North
Carolina. He migrated from Augusta
county to present Tazewell. His
affidavit includes a statement from Low Brown. His pension clarifies that he and Brown were
in a company commanded by captain Jesse Evans[xiii]
and marched to Illinois. John Lesley
(Lasley in publication) made oath for the affidavits of William Peery and Low
Brown.
The
Pension of John Lasley[xiv]
taken in August 1833 in Lawrence County, Kentucky, on the East Fork of Little
Sandy states that he enlisted September 1778 with Captain Jesse Evans and
served under Clark and that he “rendezvoused …on the Holston River March 1779
and marched to the mouth of the Kaskaskia River. Low Brown made oath that h
also had enlisted under Captain Jesse Evans in the county of Montgomery.
None
of these men mention Solomon Stratton, who by the time of the pension
statements was deceased.
The
payroll for Jesse Evans[xv]
includes himself, William Perry, Low Brown, John Lasley but does not include
Solomon Stratton or a Neely McGuire. Jesse Evans does appear as 1st
Lieutenant in Montgomery County in the order books in March 1778. George Rogers Clark and His Men Military
Records 1778-1784 contains other militia payrolls as well as Evans but again
does not include Corneilius “Neely” McGuire nor Solomon Stratton.
In
March 1781 a battle less frequently called “Battle of Alamance,[xvi]”
occurred in North Carolina, involving militia called “Botetourt Riflemen” under
Colonel William Preston[xvii]
who was commander of the Montgomery Militia and led by Captain David McNeely. This
militia crossed and held Alamance Creek.
William Peery states that he was present at that battle. Preston was
under duty of General Pickens and engaged Tarleton’s soldiers on March 2 near a
plantation on the Alamance River. Preston then repositioned at Wetzell’s Mill. Preston's militiamen complained that the
"burthen, and heat, of the Day was entirely thrown upon them, and that
they were to be made a sacrifice by the Regular Officers to screen their own
Troops.”[xviii]
This compiler finds no pay dockets or militia rolls that can confirm Solomon
Stratton was at Alamance nor later with Clark.
This
compiler can prove that Solomon Strutton/Stratton received a certificate for a
public claim for equipment and supplies in Montgomery County, May 1780[xix]. 1781tax roles was not available to this
compiler. But the Virginia General
Assembly had enacted several statutes involving counties that were delinquent
“owing to frequent calls of the militia.[xx]” This is also the estimated year that Solomon
and Jane give birth to daughter Mary Stratton[xxi]
(child #7). Solomon is shown paying
personal property tax in Montgomery County in 1782 along with John, James,
Robert, Samuel and Thomas Shannon.
Twelve
May 1783 Solomon Stratton received a survey of 245 acres on the Bluestone with
one bearing being along Shannon’s line[xxii]. Four years later, Esther married Cornelius
McGuire in 1787 in Montgomery County. She is the eldest daughter of Solomon and
Jane. Solomon and Jane had a total of ten children while still residing in
Montgomery County. Between 1785 and 1787
three more sons are born, in Montgomery County, to Solomon and Jane: Cornelius,
Hiram and John.
In
1790 Solomon is taxed in Montgomery County next door to James Shannon. This is
the Shannon that Solomon’s 245 acres lines with. January 15, 1793 the 245 acres
on Bluestone, which had been surveyed 10 years prior, is granted officially to
Solomon Stratton described again as Bluestone Creek on the waters of New River
adjoining Shannon’s line.[xxiii]
Wythe
County was created in December 1789 from Montgomery County. By January 1793
Solomon is paying personal property tax in Wythe County, Virginia along with
James and William Shannon. In October he signed a petition in Wythe County to
form Tazewell County.[xxiv]
Indian
raids on the Upper Clinch and Bluestone are recorded in 1792 and 1793. With Wayne’s victory involving the Indian
Tribes in Ohio occurring in 1794 land speculators and surveyors became more active[xxv].
Solomon
was pilot on a survey for Nicholas Wilson for 300,000 acres on the Clinch River
in late March 1794. A field survey was
made by the principal surveyor or his deputy in the presence of the surveying
team which included two chainmen, a marker to blaze trees used as corners and a
pilot sometimes called director or by the name housekeeper. Further review of Sims Index shows that the
land was granted at Roark’s Gap. In
early 1789 a band of Shawnee had attacked and killed James Roark’s family. They lived at the gap between the waters of
Clinch and Sandy River. Today the incident is marked at Route 631 and 637 in
today’s Tazewell County.
By
1796 Solomon’s sons Richard and Tandy Stratton appear along with Solomon
Stratton on personal property tax in Wythe County. William and James Shannon appear on the same
list[xxvi].
This
same year (1796) is published on a Kentucky Road Side Historical Marker as well
as in publications that Solomon is said to have migrated from Tazewell County
to Stratton Settlement on Mare’s Creek in Floyd County, Kentucky. The fact is Tazewell is not officially formed
until December 1799 and Mare’s Creek and all of what would later be Floyd
County was still part of Mason County, Kentucky.
Maybe
as a compiler I “am splitting hairs” but I find continued court activity for
Solomon in Wythe County.
Solomon
did appear on a 2nd petition for the creation of Tazewell County in
November 1796[xxvii]
in Wythe County. Six months later,
according to a plat of Prestonsburg, Kentucky, originally surveyed 3 May 1797,
a town was laid out on the north side of the Sandy River opposite the mouth of
Middle Creek to be known as Prestonsburg. The survey was under direction of
Major Andrew Hood, Matthias Harmon and Solomon Stratton under John Preston’s
grant. Records burnt in a fire in Floyd
County in April 1808 and this document was redrawn and refiled until 1810 (Floyd
deed book A page 66).
The
following month, June 1797, Solomon and Jane Stratton made an indenture in
Wythe County to son-in-law Cornelius McGuire for 73 acres being part of the 245-acre
grant which was on both sides of Bluestone Creek in line with James
Shannon. Witness to the deed included
Henry Harman Sr., John Peery and others. The deed was filed 11 July. At the same time Solomon and Jane sold 122
acres of the 245 tract to John Tollot. Neither
Solomon or Jane are at court to acknowledge the sales and while two witness
gave oaths the filing was continued until, a year later, 12 December 1798, when
Samuel Walker gave his oath[xxviii].
There is indication that Solomon was in Wythe in December 1797 when he once
again signed a petition that the Upper end of Russell and part of Wythe north
of the Clinch to become a new county named Tazewell.
There
is no doubt that Solomon Stratton was surveying. John Preston kept an account book and worked
out an agreement with Hood, Harmon and Stratton for surveying and calling them
adventurers.[xxix]
Once
again, due to loss of records in Floyd County, the dates are a bit muddied but
orders in Floyd Circuit Court, in session in 1817, cite Preston’s grant along
with John Smith of Montgomery County, Virginia.
Dated February 7, 1787 and entering into a contact with Daniel Harman and
Charles Skaggs with Mathias Harman and Henry Skaggs, principals. By the terms
of this contract the latter were bound to ‘find, discover and shew land of good
quality to the amount of 100,000 acres in the Big Sandy Valley.' the land was
entered in accordance with the terms of the contract, March 9, 1787. Later,
John Graham of Augusta County began and completed the surveying of this very
large boundary[xxx]. These were depositions taken involving
Preston land disputes. “Here follows the agreement ……between John
Preston and John Smith of the county of Montgomery and Daniel Harman, Charles
Skaggs on behalf of Mathias Harman and Henry Skaggs …Preston and Smith doth
agree and bind themselves to procure land office treasury warrants to the
amount of one hundred thousand acres. Preston and Smith were to pay the expense
of surveying. William Harman accepted 250 acres as claim and assigned his part
to Richard Damron, Robert Haws, Harry
Stratton, Solomon Strutton (as spelled) and Tandy Stratton, dated 8 September
1808. A deposition of Richard Ratliff taken in October 1819 states he saw
Mathias Harman, Charles Skaggs, Daniel Harman and Henry Skaggs start from
Virginia in company with a surveyor to locate lands on the waters
of Sandy. Solomon, Richard, Harry and
Tandy became defendants in the land disputes[xxxi].
Solomon’s son Henry Stratton was
appointed as one of the first Justice of Peace for Floyd County in December
1799.
One treasured document located for
Solomon Stratton places him in Floyd County in 1801. Found in the trunk of Winnie Fitzpatrick
Johns, who lived in Prestonsburg and appears to have collected circuit
documents. According to an article in the 1930’s and 40s she would go to the
Floyd Courthouse, browse through files of the circuit court and take-home
records that particularly interested her[xxxii]
(ouch). One document was a twelve-month note from Richard W. Evans to Thomas C.
Brown[xxxiii],
Solomon Stratton, Caleb Litton and Thomas Pinson dated July 21, 1801 for the
amount of sixty-eight pounds and one penny.
This was the price Evans was obligated to pay for lots 6, 8, 10, 13 and
14 in Prestonsburg.
After the formation of Tazewell, which
included the Bluestone, Solomon Stratton and son Thomas were asked to give
evidence back there in Mathias Harman vs John Graham in 1803.[xxxiv] In another Tazewell case[xxxv],
Samuel Lusk vs William McBroom, July 1805, John Graham was directed to take
depositions of William and Cornelius McGuire and Solomon and Tandy Stratton in
Floyd County.
In June 1808 Henry Crum was asked to
survey a road from Prestonsburg to the mouth of Ivy by information of Solomon
Stratton and Ruell Priest.[xxxvi]
Solomon Stratton appears on the 1810[xxxvii]
census next to son Hiram in Floyd County. He has one slave and no females which
is an indication that Jane is then deceased. He is taxed in Floyd County the same year, now
65 years old. At the age of 67 he marries for a 2nd time in Floyd
County. A bond was filed 13 September and he and Sarah “Sally” Walker were
married 17th of September by Simeon
Justice, a minister of the Gospel.
The Floyd Court Orders show he “paid
down a fine on the clerk’s table” 27 October 1812.[xxxviii] Unfortunately the order does not say why he
was fined.
On 22 April 1816 a deed[xxxix] from
John Graham to Solomon was made for 80+ acres described as on a branch by an
old school house dividing line between Stratton and Harry Stratton…along the
road on a clift of the river…crossing Mare Creek thence running down the
river... The deeds in this book are
typed flagging researchers that they are not the original and were recopied.
Solomon Stratton finally received a
patent for 68 acres with the survey
dated 28 September 1816 and citing two land warrants #19078 and #19079 entered
March 9, 1787 for land described as Floyd County on the Sandy River near the
mouth of Mare Creek and bounded by a corner of John Preston survey #4 and a
corner of Preston’s survey of 46 acres on Mare Creek…thence crossing Mare Creek
and running down to a corner of James Lain’s survey formerly John
Preston’s. Harry Stratton and Ben Miller
witnessed the transaction. It was also
signed by John Graham and Robert Walker as “survair” which is as spelled in the
document[xl].
Now age of 73, Solomon bound himself
for $200.00 to Benjamin Lewis[xli]. The
condition of the obligation was that within 12 months from the date a title
would be made for a tract on Mare Creek beginning at the lower end of James
Laynes upper bottom where the old mill stood outside of said Laynes line and taking
in different branches. Solomon Stratton
died before he could meet that obligation.
At the August 17, 1818 Floyd County
Court Sally Stratton, widow of Solomon Stratton, and Harry Stratton were
appointed administrators of the estate of Solomon Stratton. Heirs listed were
Harry Stratton, John Stratton, Tandy Stratton, Esther Stratton McGuire, Richard
Stratton, Elizabeth Stratton, James McBrayer and John Laird[xlii].
A deed [xliii]written
about September 1821settled the note made with Benjamin Lewis. The deed was between
Henry Stratton for himself, for John Stratton, John Lord, James McBrayer, Tandy
Stratton, Richard S Stratton and Esther McGuire heirs at law of Solomon
Stratton, deceased, and
John Graham, Wm J Mayo and Robert Walker commissioners appointed by Floyd County
Court (January term 1820). The heirs of Solomon Stratton to Benjamin Lewis of
Floyd County on the other part 50 acres beginning at lower end of James Loins
(as sp) upper bottom...filed 29 Sep 1821.
An affidavit in 1967 by descendent
Edward Stratton stated that he grew up in the vicinity of the mouth of Mare
Creek at Stanville, Kentucky and remembered the pioneer cemetery and that some
of the pioneer graves were marked with grave stones, one being Solomon
Stratton. The stones were later removed and the land was plowed over. Mares Creek is just north of Stanville off of
US 23 today.
The distance between Ivy Creek and
Mare Creek is 7.8 miles. The Kentucky Road Side marker #690 was placed at the
Junction of US 23 and Mare Creek Road in 1964 and is now missing and
unaccounted for. The sign read: “Stratton
Settlement Founded, 1796, by Solomon Stratton, veteran of
George Rogers Clark's expedition to Illinois, 1778. In Virginia militia, 1783.
In 1788 he and son explored this region. Eight years later, he and kinsmen from
Virginia settled here. In 1797, he, Matthias Harman, Andrew Hood, laid out
Prestonsburg for Col.
John Preston. Stratton died 1819; unmarked grave, 500 feet east.”
In paragraph #2 of this article I stated that
DNA now indicates that Solomon Stratton is related to both Isaac Stratton and
Seriah Stratton. Hubby has DNA along
with descendants of all three of these Stratton’s the centimorgan’s for both
Isaac and Seriah submitters are 16cm over a segment. This is relatively low but an important flag
for further research. Utilizing DNA Painter,
it gives a 60% probability as half 5th great uncles i.e. ½ brothers
to Solomon with the submitters being in the 6th cousin range.
Isaac Stratton states in his Revolutionary
pension[xliv]
that he was born 22 June 1754 (age 65 the 22nd day June last 1822)
in Amherst County. Among papers of Col.
James Higginbotham are payments referencing Abraham Stratton, Henry Stratton
and Isaac Stratton circa 1777.[xlv] Isaac said that he enlisted in Amherst
County, Virginia. He stated he had no property
save a lot of wild hogs, a sickly wife age 65-70 and three daughters living
with him all upwards of 21 years and acting for themselves. He signed his pension by mark.
Isaac is 9 years older than Solomon. Henry, in the Higginbotham notation, is the
same Henry Strutton/Stratton that appears with Solomon on the road gang in
Amherst in 1769. Isaac Stratton is a
witness when Henry Stratton’s daughter marries Thomas Laine Jr. in February
1780[xlvi].While
Solomon does not name any of his children Isaac, he does name a son Henry. Isaac’s
revolutionary pension is mentioned in the George Rogers Clark Papers of the
Draper Manuscripts. The Virginia Pension roll of 1835 shows that Isaac died in
Tazewell County, Virginia 16 January 1831. The bluestone fell within Tazewell
once created.
While the interaction and location of Isaac and
Solomon fit nicely, the same does not appear with Seriah Stratton. According to DAR applications, if they are
correct, Seriah was born 7 July 1740 in Simsbury Hartford, Connecticut. Thus, he is a contemporary to Solomon b 1740
and Isaac born about 1754. Since it does
seem illogical that a father bounced back and forth from New England, I would
assume he is a cousin and not a ½ brother.
Remember assumptions can be dangerous.
Seriah first appears as an arbitrator in Augusta County records in 1773
at the age of 33. He enlisted in the
Twelfth Regiment of Virginia March 1777.[xlvii] He is cited in a Pendleton County Chancery court
record in 1777 involving Skidmore’s[xlviii]
and by 1780 is in Rockingham County with a public claim.[xlix] A militia voucher shows him with 5 horses and
Martin Stratton with 1 horse in 1788 in Rockingham[l]. By 1800 he appears in Mason County, Kentucky. Greenup County, Kentucky is formed from
Greenup in 1803 and Seriah Stratton appears on the 1806 Greenup Tax lists. He has property in Greenup County where he
dies between 13 July 1821 and 13 January 1823 at the age of 81. While this compiler is giving the reader a
brief account, I thus far see no interaction with Solomon in the over 40
entries I have for him.
It is imperative that researchers keep an open
mind. Once a researcher sees the many
trees and theories spewed on the internet, it can be hard to shake their nasty
presentations. Solomon appears with John
Strutton/Stratton and Henry as well as the Lain/Layne family in Amherst
County. Many unproven trees link John
to Bermuda Hundred and state he is born in 1720 making him the parent. If he is born in 1720, he is still paying tax
in Amherst when he is 70 years old[li]. At least one publication states that John was
in the French and Indian War.[lii] There is a Land bounty application for 1760
under Col. Wm. Byrd.[liii]
Internet trees state that John Stratton married
Mary Shannon giving the date of 19 June 1771.
There is no recorded marriage in Amherst county for same. In fact, on that date John Stratton received
a horse, cows, pewter, iron pots and household furniture from a Mary Shannon.[liv] It is a BILL OF SALE and not a marriage. The
deed does not clarify if this Mary Shannon is single, married or widowed. It was witnessed by Ambrim (Abraham) Stratton
and James Shannon. The deed states “do
bargain sell and deliver” but gives no amount and later “assign to him their
proper use.” One can read many things
into this bill of sale but it is not the marriage record. John, if born 1720ish as tossed around online
would be about 51 years old. If this
ended in a marriage, if John Stratton is the father, she is still not
the mother of Solomon. The last record
this compiler has for John is dated 1800 in Amherst County where he is “John
Stratton Sr. and sells to James Garland horses, furniture and all household
goods in lieu of 100 pounds due David and James Garland from Stratton.[lv] If utilizing those horrid trees John Sr. is
80 years old.
I leave my readers with a plea for anyone to
provide this compiler with proof that Solomon Stratton was on the
Illinois Expedition. I also leave you
with things to ponder and hope each of you will clear your minds, pick up the
continued research and follow the documentation.
[i]
James David Klaiber
[ii]
Readers should review an article by Walter V Ball “Samuel Cecil Never Had a
Sister”
iii Esther m. Cornelius “Neely McGuire 29 Dec 1787 in
Montgomery County.
[iv] Floyd
Benjamin Layne, Layne - Lain - Lane Genealogy: being a compilation of names
and historical information of male descendants of sixteen branches of the
Layne-Lain- Lane family in the United States gathered from legal rec of Virginia,
Amherst, Court Orders, film 008151599 1766-...page 325rds and other
available sources (Los Angeles, CA: Bookman Press, 1962)
[v] Virginia,
Amherst, Court Orders, film 008151599 1766-...page 325.
[vi] In many records the name appears
as Strutton while other court records show it as Stratton.
[vii] Elizabeth Stratton married John
Laird
[viii] Kegley, MILITIA OF
MONTGOMERY CO, VA, 1777-1790, p 28
[ix] Ruth Cleveland Leslie, A
Supplement of Lesley/Leslie , 1975, Page 1895
[x] R2690
[xi] S5299
[xii] VAS895
[xiii] Jesse Evans, of Montgomery County
served as Lt in counties militia commissioned Dec 29, 1778 Capt in Clarks
Regiment. First page of payroll (Document 28, APA 208,
Microfilm Miscellaneous Reel 1384, Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts, Library
of Virginia)
[xiv] S30687
[xv] Document
28 in the Illinois papers: 1779-1784, Muster rolls and payrolls of
Kentucky militia, APA 208, Microfilm Miscellaneous Reel 1384, Virginia
Auditor of Public Accounts, Library of Virginia.
[xvi] The first Battle of Alamance took
place in NC in May 1771. The 2nd battle in 1781 took place at
Alamance Creek.
[xvii] Wm Preston b 1729 s/o John Preston
d 1783. S/o John Preston . John Preston
had a 100,000-acre grant and Prestonsburg named for him.
[xviii] 78Charles Magill to Thomas
Jefferson, 10 March 1781, Jefferson Papers, 5:115
[xix] Library of Virginia.
Archives, Auditor of Public Accounts Indexes and lists 1776-1928.
[xx] John Sinks, Harold Ford, Tilghman
McCabe Jr. Virginia Revolutionary Tax Lists from the Records of the Auditor of
Public Accounts., SAR Committee. 2014
[xxi] Mary Stratton b about 1781 m
Ichabod McBrayer and after his death married Edward Branham 1840 in Pike Co.,
KY. She is thought to be buried in Boyd County, KY on Four Mile.
[xxii] Virginia, Montgomery,
Record of plotts (plats) FHL 7897246, Book B 82
[xxiii] Library of Virginia
(LVA), "Land Office Patents and Grants," database,. 1793-0125
[xxiv] Nettie Schreiner-Yantis,
Archives of the pioneers of Tazewell County, Virginia ( Springfield,
Virginia, 1973), Page 288.
[xxv] David Johnston A History of Middle
New River Settlements and Contiguous…p 53
[xxvi] Virginia, Wythe, Tax,
1796 fhl 007856355.
[xxvii] Nettie Schreiner-Yantis,
Archives of the pioneers of Tazewell County, Virginia (Springfield,
Virginia, 1973), Page 292.
[xxviii] Virginia, Wythe, Court
Orders, fhl 007896889 page 86 1797.
[xxix] Scalf, Kentucky’s Last Frontier p
166
[xxx] KY, Floyd Circuit A p 244
[xxxi] Williams, James Alan Circuit Court
Records 1808-1823 Floyd County, KY
[xxxii]“ The Long Lost Trunk of Winnie
Fitzpatrick Johns”, trunk in possession of Betty Ratliff Stallard, Coeburn, VA
donated to the Floyd Co. Historical and Genealogical Society.
https://www.oocities.org/rlperry.geo/LongLostTrunk.html
[xxxiii] Thos. C. Brown a pensioner fr
Hampshire Co Va ironically Solomon Stratton, gs/o Solomon was presiding clerk
when he applied for a land warrant in 1855
[xxxiv] Tazewell County,
Virginia, County Court Orders Volume 1 page 98, Harman vs Graham, 1803; , .
[xxxv] Nettie Schreiner-Yantis,
Archives of the pioneers of Tazewell County, Virginia (Springfield,
Virginia, 1973), page 55.
[xxxvi] Floyd County, Kentucky,
Circuit Court Books June 1808, page 8; Courthouse, .
[xxxvii] 1810;
Census Place: Floyd, Floyd, Kentucky; Roll: 6;
Page: 102; Image: 00116; Family History Library
Film: 0181351
[xxxviii] : Floyd County,
Kentucky, Circuit Court Books Book C, 1812; Courthouse,
[xxxix] Kentucky Floyd, deed book A page
305
[xl] Old Kentucky Survey and Grants
#7195 indexed as Solomon Stratton and Heirs
[xli] KY, Floyd dbk B p 105
[xlii] Floyd county, Kentucky,
Court Orders Book 3, 1818; Courthouse, .
[xliii] KY, Floyd, dbk B p 271
[xliv] S38396
[xlv] Elizabeth Petty Bentley,
Virginia Military Records From The Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography, The Wm & Mary College Qterly and Tyler's Qtrly (1983), p 22
Amherst County.
[xlvi] Amherst Co Va Register of M p 12
[xlvii] Fold3.com, Rev War Pay
docket & rolls page 41.
[xlviii] "Skidmore and
Scudamore Family History," database, A Suit In Chancery: Phares vs.
Veneman, 1777
(http://www.skidmorefamilyhistory.com/OP09%20Phares%20v%20Veneman.pdf ), Seriah
Stratton mention
[xlix] Military
Resources," database, The Library of Virginia [LVA], The Library of
Virginia (http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/...: accessed ), Library of Virginia.
Archives.; Virginia. Auditor of Public Accounts (1776-1928)..
[l] John W Wayland, Virginia
Valley Records Genealogical and Historical Materials of Rockingham County,
Virginia and Related Regions (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co.,
Inc, 1985), p 104-5.
[li] Virginia, Amherst, Tax,
fhl 007846299 1790.
[lii] Catherine Hawes Coleman
Seaman, Tuckahoes and Cohees: The Settlers and cultures of Amherst and
Nelson Counties 1607-1807 (Sweet briar College Printing Press, 1992),
[liii] Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck,
Virginia's Colonial Soldiers (1988), page 243.
[liv] Amherst County,
Virginia, Deeds, book C page 233
[lv] Amherst County,
Virginia, Deeds, Bk I p 112, Stratton to garland, 1800
