Francis FLETCHER

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He remained with his father in Concord, and became, like his two older brothers, who settled in the adjoining town, a great land-owner. He was reported "in full communion with ye church at Concord" in 1677, and adm. freeman the same year. In 1666, when the records of deeds was revised, he owned lot No, 17, in the "east quarter" of Concord, containing 437 acres. A petition to license a man to sell wine is signed by him Dec. 14, 1661.

Francis married Elizabeth WHEELER on 1 Oct 1656. Elizabeth (daughter of George WHEELER and Katharine ?) died on 14 Jun 1704. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Corp. Samuel FLETCHER was born on 6 Aug 1657; died on 23 Oct 1744.
2. Joseph FLETCHER was born on 15 Apr 1661.

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Robert Fletcher, the immigrant ancestor from whom are reckoned the generations recorded in the following pages, was born in 1592, as appears from the record of his death found upon the town records of Concord, Mass. The part of England whence he came has not been certainly ascertained. One circumstance has indicated Shropshire. The family tradition makes it Yorkshire, one of the northern counties of England. The name has been, and still is, common there. Re. Elijah Fletcher of Hopkinton, N.H. (b. 1747, d. 1786), the first, so far as we know, who made genealogical collections of the family, believed that our great ancestor came from Yorkshire; and that account was gathered when Robert's great-grandchildren were living. He settled at Concord, Mass., in 1630; in which year seventeen ships arrived in Massachusetts Bay and at Plymouth, swelling the number of settlers to 21,000. He was then thirty-eight years of age, and had two sons, Luke and William, and it may be supposed a wife, and his daughter, Cary. It was said by Gardner Fletcher, that the tradition in his branch was that Robert had a brother William, who came at the same time. The only traces found of a William who could have bee brother of Robert are two; one from the records of Middletown, Conn.: "Reb. Samuel Stow, m. Hope, dau. of William Fletcher, Esq., of Chelmsford, 1649;" and the other relates to William of Saco, Me.. It was five years later that Concord was organized, the twentieth town incorporated within what are now the limits of Massachusetts, and his name appears in the earliest records of that town. In the court files of Middlesex county his name frequently occurs as petitioner for bridges, as juryman, &c. He was a wealthy and influential man, and died at Concord, April 3, 1677, age 85.

Robert married ? UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]