Dea. John Fletcher, of Wethersfield & Milford

John Fletcher removed to Milford about 1639 and was Deacon there; and one of the first and a leading citizensof that place. He was admitted to the Milford Church, Oct. 14, 1641 and his wife, Mary, Dec. 19 of that year. He was originally from Watertown, Mass., and is supposed to have come to Wethersfield about 1635, where he had a homestead recorded to him, March 16, 1640. [Ernest Flagg, Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England, Clearfield Company, Hartford, CT, 1926]

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From Savage:

John Fletcher, Wethersfield, married before 1641, Mary, daughter of widow Joyce Ward, whose husband probably came not to NE and by the old lady's will, 15 Nov. 1640, pro. 4 March following naming sons Edward, (left in England), Anthony, William, Robert and John 9here); I presume this was her only daughter. She writes that Mr. Wollerslove of Clipsham, Co. Rutland, was her atty. to receive money, and make F. her s-in-law, excor. [See Trumbull, Coll. Rec. I. 431.] He removed to Milford and had, after living there two years, joined the church in 1641, in which year his daughter Sarah was baptized; Hannah, 1643; Eliz., 1645; Samuel, 1649, d. young; Abigail, 1652; so that Mary and Rebecca, we may be sure, were earlier of the six daughters by this w.

He was deacon and d. 18 Apr. 1662. His widow married John Clark of Milford, who died in 1674, and when she made her will at Farmington in1679, in it are mentioned these daughters: Mary Stevens; Rebecca, w. of the sec. Andrew Warner; Hannah, wife of John Chittenden of Guilford; Sarah, wife of John Stanley; Abigail F. unmarried and Eliz., who was the wife of Elnathan Botsford, wh. was d. leave d. Eliz. [James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Vol. 2]

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