FOURTEENTH GENERATION
"FLETCHER, (9222[1]a) JOHN, Wethersfield, m. bef. 1641, (9222[1]a[1]) Mary, d. of wid. Joyce Ward, whose h. prob. came not to N. E. and by the old lady's will, 15 Nov. 1640, pro. 4 Mar. foll. naming s. Edward, left in Eng. Anthony, William, Robert, and John here, I presume this was her only d.
"She writes, that Mr. Wollerslove of Clipsham, Co. Rutland, was her atty. to receive money, and makes F. her s.-in-law, excor. See Trumbull, Coll. Rec. I. 431.
"He rem. to Milford, and had after liv. there two yrs. join. the ch. 1641, in wh. yr. his d. Sarah was bapt. Hannah, 1643, Elizabeth 1645; Samuel, 1649, d. young; Abigail, 1652, so that Mary and (9222[1]a1) Rebecca, we may be sure, were earlier of the six ds. by this w. He was deac. and d. 18 Apr. 1662.
"His wid. m. John Clark of Milford, wh. d. 1674, and when she made her will at Farmington 1679, in it are ment. these ds. Mary Stevens, Rebecca, w. of the sec. (9222[1]a1[1]) Andrew Warner, Hannah, w. of John Chittenden of Guilford, Sarah, w. of John Stanley, Abigail F. unm. and Elizabeth wh. was w. of Elnathan Botsford, wh. was d. leav. d. Elizabeth."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
It is convenient and plausible to assign the above three wives to Robert Fletcher of Concord; but I have seen nothing convincing yet, to substantiate the connection. In reality, there were probably at two Robert Fletchers -- one married to a Rose and the other to a Margaret or a Sarah; although the latter has a mythical quality about her: She presumably was borne in Essex, but married in Yorkshire, and nobody has any original source information on her. Margaret Hailstone, shown by most as the wife, was married to Robert's son Samuel. Of ourse, there may have been another Margaret Hailstone -- an aunt, who married Samuel's father -- implying a 1st cousin marriage. This would certainly be a rarity among Puritan immigrants; and without supporting primary sources, I will discard the notion.
9223. poss. Margaret unknown (NOT Margaret Hailstone)
"FLETCHER ...WILLIAM, Concord, eldest s. prob. of Robert, b. in Eng. freem. 10 May 1643, m. 17 Sept. 1645, Lydia Bates, had John; Joshua, b. 30 Mar. 1648; Lydia; Samuel; rem. to Chelmsford 1654, was one of the first selectmen, there had Paul; and William, b. 21 Feb. 1637, wh. was freem. 1690, and other ch. and d. 6 Nov. 1677. His farm contin. est. of a descend. of 6 or 7 generat."
-- James Savage op cit
"FLETCHER ...FRANCIS, Concord, s. of Robert, b. in Eng. m. 1 Oct. 1656, Elizabeth d. of George Wheeler, had Samuel, b. 6 Oct. 1657; Joseph, 15 Apr. 1661; Elizabeth 1663; John, 1665; Samuel, 1668; Hannah, 1671; and Benjamin, 1674, wh. d. 1703; was freem. 1677."
-- James Savage op cit
"FLETCHER ...LUKE, Concord, br. of Francis, d. May 1666, leav. small est. prob. no ch."
-- James Savage op cit
"FOSTER... SAMUEL, Wenham, freem. 1650, rem. to Chelmsford in 1655; by w. Esther had there Edward, b. 29 Apr. 1657; Esther, 1 Nov. 1659; and Hannah, a. 1649; Samuel, a. 1650; and Eli, a. 1653; all bef. rem.; was deac. rep. 1679, d. 10 July 1702, aged 82. Allen, Hist. 117."
-- James Savage op cit
"FLETCHER ...SAMUEL, Chelmsford, a of Robert, m. 14 Oct. 1659, Margaret, I d. of William Hailstone, freem. 1690."
-- James Savage op cit
"FLETCHER... ROBERT, Concord 1635, constable 1637, d. 3 Apr. 1677, aged 84; had Luke, Francis, Samuel, and William, part, no doubt, b. in Eng."
The maiden name of (4611) Grissell was not noted by Savage; (neither did he mention Mary as a child of Robert). I don't know of any birth record for Grissel, nor marriage record of her with (4610) Thomas Jewell, which might have cleared up the issue. [LAST REVISED 15 Feb. 2006] Haplogroup DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS R1b1 14 24 14 11 11 14 12 12 11 14 13 30 17 9 9 11 11 25 15 19 28 15 15 17 17
-- James Savage op cit
The following is the yDNA analysis for this Fletcher line, as per http://www.genealogy.fletcher.net/
393
390
19
391
385a
385b
426
388
439
389-1
392
389-2
458
459a
459b
455
454
447
437
448
449
464a
464b
464c
464d
"STONE, ...(9318[1]a1) SAMUEL, Hartford, was, it is said, b. at [[vol. 4, p. 208]] Hertford in Co. Herts (a. 20 ms. from London), usually sound. Hartford... perhaps younger br. of (9319v) Gregory, and of (9288) Simon, certain. bred at Emanuel, where he was matric. 1620, and took his degrees 1623 and 7, came in 1633, with Cotton, Hooker, and other men of note, passen. embark. at the Downs, in the Griffin, arr. 4 Sept. at Boston, went with Hooker to Cambridge, where 11 Oct. next he was made teacher and H. pastor of the ch. and adm. freem. 14 May foll. in 1636 rem. with Hooker, and they found. the ch. of H. there with univers. accept. they fulfill. the same duties as bef. at C. and in the Pequot war, 1637, he was chapl. to the troops under Capt. Mason. Aft. the d. of our judicious Hooker, he had a sad controversy with some of his people, equally bitter and unintelligib. of wh. Mather thot. the origin undiscov.
"But aft. many yrs. of fruitless attemps at reconcil. Gov. Webster and many frinds of influence rem. up the riv. beyond the rancor, and S. d. 20 July 1663. He had sec. w. m. 1641, (4938[3]) Elizabeth Allen at Boston, by her had Samuel and Elizabeth and three ch. were of former one, Rebecca, (5029ix[1]) Mary, and Sarah. The whole five are ment. in his will. More than one fifth of his inv. was in books.
"It ought to be told, that the town rec. has other ch. Joseph, bapt. 18 Oct. 1646; Lydia, 22 Jan. or Feb. 1648; a s. bapt. 29 Apr. 1649, w. may be the Samuel of the will; and Abigail, b. 9 Sept. 1650; but prob. all exc. Samuel, and Elizabeth wh. must be the same as Lydia, or Abigail of the town rec. d. early. His wid. m. (4938) Mr. George Gardner, of Salem, outliv. him, and d. late in 1681. Her will of 6 June pro. 4 Jan. foll. names her own two ch. Samuel, and Elizabeth wh. had been w. of William Sedgwick, was aft. many yrs. of neglect, divorc. from him, m. John Roberts, had s. John, wh. in this will was provid. for by his gr.mo. She names her ds.-in-law, the ch. of his first w. Rebecca, w. of Timothy Nash of Hadley; Mary, w. of (5029ix) Joseph Fitch of Windsor; and Sarah, w. of Thomas Butler of Hartford."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
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