Freelove Whitaker

Freelove Stratton was a great aunt of Governor Stratton of New Jersey; she was a daughter of Benjamin Stratton and Abigail Preston. Benjamin was the grandson of Richard Stratton of Southampton, Long Island 1643 and his wife Elizabeth Edwards. daughter of William and Ann Edwards of Lynn 1641 and East Hampton 1650. Abigail Preston's ancestry included Roger Preston of Ipswich Mass 1639, John Russell known as the Anabaptist founder of the first Baptist Church of Boston and Henry Brooks of Concord Mass 1639 and of Woburn 1650.