Seth Fletcher, son of the Rev. William Fletcher; teacher at Hampton, N.H., 1652-54; sett. Durham, N.H., 1656-57; Wells, Me., 1657-1660; Saco, Me., 1661-1675; sett. Southampton, L.I., N.Y., 1677-79; sett. Elizabeth, N.J., 1680-82; Cong.; d. Elizabeth, N.J., before 18 Sept 1682 (adm. gr.).

Source: Colonial Clergy of the Middle Colonies: New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, 1628-1776 Frederick Lewis Weis Genealogical Publishing Com, 1978

His sister married Samuel Stowe in Chelmsford, MA. I assume the family lived in Massachusetts after arriving from England.

Rev. Seth Fletcher, born 1630; died August 1682 in Elizabeth NJ. He was not the son of William Fletcher of Concord and Rachel (unknown surname). He married Mary Pendleton before 1655, possibly in Long Island, Cumberland, ME. She died circa 1671. He married Mary Pearson (previously married) May 30, 1681 in Maine. He died either August or 18 Sep 1682 Elizabeth, Union, New Jersey.

Mary Pendleton, born 1635; died circa 1671 in Saco Maine. She was the daughter of Major Brian Pendleton and Eleanor Price.

Children of Rev. Fletcher and Mary Pendleton:

1. Lieut Pendleton Fletcher, died 1700 in Canada; married Sarah Hill

NOTE: REV SEITH FLETCHER IS NOT THE HUSBAND OF MARY ANN (COOPER) BURNETT, BUT WAS MARRIED TO MARY PENDLTON

biography

See page 205 of History of Elizabeth, New Jersey By Edwin Hatfield

notes

From http://e-booksgen.com/N0168.html

SOURCES: Amherst, Maine Her Settlement and People 1790-1975 by Constance Hanscom Jellison

Hills Beach History - History of Biddeford

NOTE: Rev. Seth Fletcher (Puritan clergyman) settled in the Saco, Maine area in 1661. He is the first minister of Biddeford of whose record is preserved. The town employed him from 1666, and he appears to have continued there until the settlement was destroyed in 1675. As early as 1655 the Rev. Fletcher became the minister at Wells, Maine, but owing to certain unorthodox views of his, was dismissed in October 1660. From this time until the outbreak of the Indian war in 1675 he resided in Saco supplying the pulpit except for short intervals from year to year. Reverend Seth Fletcher, the first of the numerous Fletcher family existing today, and from whom Fletcher's Neck at Biddeford derived its name. He was a minister until 1675 and he hated Episcopalians

supporting data

From page 49 of Patents and Deeds and Other Early Records of New Jersey, 1664-1703 edited by William Nelson

1681 May 30. Marriage contract between Seth Fletcher of Elizabethtown and Mrs. Mary Pearson of Southampton. L.I. She has three children.
1682 Sept 18. Letters of Administration on the estate of Seth Fletcher, of Elizabethtown, minister of the Gospel, deceased, granted to his widow Mary.

Sources

• The History of Saco and Biddeford Maine by George Folsom (Printed 1830) Chapter 10 page 92, 130-131 Letters he wrote as minister pages 133-136
• http://upperlevelgen.blogspot.com/2010/04/reverend-seth-fletcher-16...
• http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/WETMORE/2000-06/09619...
• page 449 of Fletcher Family History: The Descendants of Robert Fletcher of ..., Part 1 By Edward Hatch Fletcher. "Unconnected Fletchers.". William of Saco d 1668. "it is not unlikely he was the father of Rev Seth Fletcher."
• page 208 of History of Elizabeth, New Jersey By Edwin Hatfield. "May 30, 1681: Covenant / Contract and Agreement between Seth Fletcher and Mrs Mary Pearson."
• Colonial Clergy of the Middle Colonies: New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, 1628-1776 Frederick Lewis Weis Genealogical Publishing Com, 1978