D. Webster Norcross' daughter, Clara Gertrude (b. 1858, Boston); niece of Hon. Otis Norcross; and a gifted amateur oilpainter married (1883) Melville Oscar Stratton; son of Oscar Stratton and Ellen Amelia [Estabrook of Sterling, MA and later Denver, CO.; resided in Denver, Colorado, pioneers of the Westward Expansion, were of the Stratton family, also original settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, whose progenitor Samuel Stratton (b. 1592) and his first wife Alice arrived on the "Arbella" (30 July 1630, Massachusetts Bay Colony) and whose pedigree widely extends throughout the early American colonies; this line stemming from Gravesend, Kent, England, includes the original Stratton settlers of East Hampton, Long Island, Suffolk, Co., New York and James City, Jamestown, Virginia; including Winfield Scott Stratton, "the Gold King of Colorado", of the Windsor Stratton line.