Hiram W. Stratton (1785 - 1816)

Born 1785 in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States

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Died 1816 at about age 31 in Floyd Co, KY

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Biography

Name

Name: Hiram W /Stratton/^[1][2]

Birth:

Date: 1774

Place: New River, Amherst, Virginia, United States^[3]

Death

Death:

Date: 1816

Place: Floyd Co, KY^[4]

Hiram Stratton was born in Fincastle, British Colony of Virginia about 1774 to Solomon Stratton and Jane Witten. He married Hannah Leslie. In the November 1811 court for Floyd County, Kentucky he presented his credentials of Ordination for the Methodist faith^[5]. Prvt. in War of 1812

On April 22, 1816, Hiram Stratton purchased from John Graham a 118-acre survey of land lying on Johns Creek of the Levisa Fork of the Sandy River in Floyd County, in exchange for $105. The survey began at a beech tree on the south side of Johns Creek corner to John Preston's Survey No. 7 on the creek, then with the upper line of the same southeasterly crossing Johns Creek and passing the next corner of a beech, then running up Johns Creek on the north side southwesterly to a beech, southwesterly to a sugar tree, southeasterly to a beech and white oak, southeasterly to 2 beeches, southeasterly to a beech, southwesterly crossing Johns Creek to a beech on the hillside, then running down Johns Creek on the south side, then north[east/west]erly (the W and E in the deed are superimposed) to an unspecified mark, then north to another unspecified mark, and finally northeasterly to the beginning. John Graham signed, sealed, and delivered the deed to William James Mayo, Clerk of the Floyd County Court, who recorded it the same day.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S00022 Page: Birth year: 1774; Birth city: ; Birth state: VA. Data: Text: Name: Hiram Stratton Birth: 1774 in VA Death: 1816 in Floyd Co, KY Note: #N00630
2. ↑ Source: #S00089 Page: Ancestry Family Trees Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=18911718&pid=6580
3. ↑ Source: #S00022 Page: Birth year: 1774; Birth city: ; Birth state: VA. Data: Text: Name: Hiram Stratton Birth: 1774 in VA Death: 1816 in Floyd Co, KY Note: #N00630
4. ↑ Source: #S00022 Page: Birth year: 1774; Birth city: ; Birth state: VA. Data: Text: Name: Hiram Stratton Birth: 1774 in VA Death: 1816 in Floyd Co, KY Note: #N00630
5. ↑ East
6. ↑ Floyd County, Kentucky Deed Book A, pp. 304-305.

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Notes

Note N00630http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=4798315&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

• East Kentuckian, v 5, issue 3, p. 3.
• US War of 1812...service Records, 1812-1815.
• 1810 US Census, Kentucky: Floyd, Floyd, KY; Bur Census, NARA. Roll: 6; Page: 102; Image: 109.00. Ancestry.com database.