Individual Details
* Christopher Strait
(4 Jul 1739 - 14 Jan 1816)
Events
| Birth | 4 Jul 1739 | Somerset, New Jersey, British America |  | ||
| Marriage | Abt 1762 | Baskingridge, Somerset, New Jersey, British America - poss dau Mary Huddleston | | ||
| Move | Abt 1772 | Fishing Creek, Chester County, British America | | ||
| Property | 3 Mar 1772 | 45 acres on the west side of the south fork of Fishing Creek - Craven, South Carolina, British America | | ||
| Property | 2 Mar 1773 | 200 acres on the west of the south fork of Fishing Creek - Craven, South Carolina, British America | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 16 Jan 1775 | Chester County, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Military | Abt 1778 | DAR - Chester, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Census | 1790 | Chester County, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Marriage | Abt 1794 | Chester, South Carolina, United States - Rosanna Gray "Rose" Wylie | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 14 May 1799 | Chester County, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1802 | dismissed with Rose from Fishing Creek - Chester County, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Census | 1810 | Chester, Chester, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Death | 14 Jan 1816 | Chester, Chester, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Burial | Aft 14 Jan 1816 | Fishing Creek Presbyterian Cemetery, Chester, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Marriage | South Carolina - Margaret Patton | | |||
| Occupation | blacksmith and planter | |
Families
| Spouse | poss dau Mary Huddleston (1736 - 1784) |
| Child | Margaret Manesse Strait (1763 - 1808) |
| Child | George Strait (1764 - 1843) |
| Child | John Strait (1766 - 1816) |
| Child | Mary Strait (1769 - ) |
| Child | James Strait (1771 - 1831) |
| Child | * Leonard Strait (1773 - 1825) |
| Child | Sarah Lynn Strait (1773 - 1844) |
| Child | Elizabeth Strait (1777 - 1831) |
| Child | Christopher Strait jr (1779 - ) |
| Spouse | Margaret Patton (1754 - 1788) |
| Child | Christopher Strait (1788 - 1813) |
| Spouse | Rosanna Gray "Rose" Wylie (1766 - 1812) |
| Father | Johann Leonhardt Strait (1720 - 1780) |
| Mother | poss mom Elizabeth Mannesse (1723 - 1813) |
| Sibling | Strait ( - 1759) |
Endnotes
1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , "Pedigree Resource File," database, ancestry.com (http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/7810991/family?cfpid=1608006861 : accessed 18 March 2013), Rosa Baskin Strait Guess; submitted by .
2. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 19 June 2022), memorial page for Christopher Strait, Find A Grave Memorial # 20894642, citing Fishing Creek Presbyterian Cemetery (Chester, Chester, South Carolina), memorial created by Wes Phinney, photograph by John Sullivan.
3. William B White, Jr, "A Genealogical Sketch of the Strait Family of Chester and York COunties," (2000); binder: "Strait," William Boyce White, Jr Papers; Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections, Rock Hill, SC.
4. Gerald Strait Birum, The Strait Line (Indiana: Windmill Publications Inc, n.d.), 15.
5. "New Jersey, Marriages, 1670-1980," database, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org: accessed 1 December 2020), no marriage record found.
6. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 19 June 2022), memorial page for Christopher Strait, Find A Grave Memorial # 20894642, citing Fishing Creek Presbyterian Cemetery (Chester, Chester, South Carolina), memorial created by Wes Phinney, photograph by John Sullivan.
7. William B White, Jr, "A Genealogical Sketch of the Strait Family of Chester and York Counties," (2000); binder: "Strait," William Boyce White, Jr Papers; Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections, Rock Hill, SC.
8. Gerald Strait Birum, The Strait Line (Indiana: Windmill Publications Inc, n.d.), 15.
9. "Database Search," database, South Carolina Department of Archives & History (http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/Search.aspx?br=1: accessed 15 November 2017), Christopher Straight, 3 Mar 1772, land grant on Fishing Creek.
10. "Database Search," database, South Carolina Department of Archives & History (http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/Search.aspx?br=1: accessed 15 November 2017), Christopher Straight, 2 Mar 1773, land grant on Fishing Creek for 200 acres.
11. Brent H Holcomb, Early Records of Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church: Chester County, South Carolina 1799-1859 (N.p.: Heritage Books, Inc, 1991), 131.
12. , several, A111060, Christopher Strait; Daughters of the American Revolution DAR, DAR.org, .
13. 1790 U.S. census, Chester Co., SC, population schedule, , p. 177, col 2, line 18, Cristopher Streight household; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : downloaded 16 December 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication M637, roll 11.
14. Mrs. Catherine Evans Hinton, Wylie Record: Peter Wylie and Annie Hawthorn rom County Antrim Ireland (found at Familysearch.org: Self published, unknown), image 49.
15. William B White, Jr, "A Genealogical Sketch of the Strait Family of Chester and York COunties," (2000); binder: "Strait," William Boyce White, Jr Papers; Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections, Rock Hill, SC.
16. Brent H Holcomb, Early Records of Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church: Chester County, South Carolina 1799-1859 (N.p.: Heritage Books, Inc, 1991), 5.
17. Brent H Holcomb, Early Records of Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church: Chester County, South Carolina 1799-1859 (N.p.: Heritage Books, Inc, 1991), 23.
18. 1810 U.S. census, Chester, South Carolina, population schedule, Chester, p. 503, line 4, Christ Strait; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : downloaded 16 December 2015); citing FHL microfilm 181,419, roll 60.
19. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , "Pedigree Resource File," database, ancestry.com (http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/7810991/family?cfpid=1608006861 : accessed 18 March 2013), Rosa Baskin Strait Guess; submitted by .
20. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 19 June 2022), memorial page for Christopher Strait, Find A Grave Memorial # 20894642, citing Fishing Creek Presbyterian Cemetery (Chester, Chester, South Carolina), memorial created by Wes Phinney, photograph by John Sullivan.
21. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 19 June 2022), memorial page for Christopher Strait, Find A Grave Memorial # 20894642, citing Fishing Creek Presbyterian Cemetery (Chester, Chester, South Carolina), memorial created by Wes Phinney, photograph by John Sullivan.
22. Gerald Strait Birum, The Strait Line (Indiana: Windmill Publications Inc, n.d.), 15.
23. William B White, Jr, "A Genealogical Sketch of the Strait Family of Chester and York COunties," (2000); binder: "Strait," William Boyce White, Jr Papers; Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections, Rock Hill, SC.