Solomon Stratton

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Solomon Stratton (1745-1818) was an American soldier and explorer. He fought in the Battle of Alamance in 1771, and was a member of the Virginia militia, veteran of the Revolutionary War and George Rogers Clark's 1778 expedition to Illinois in which Fort Kaskaskia was captured from the British. In 1788, Solomon, along his sons, explored the Southern Appalachian region and established one of the first settlements in what is now Eastern Kentucky. In 1797 helped to establish the city of Prestonsburg, Kentucky.

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