Ancestry of
Benjamin Pierce

(1726–1764)

William Fletcher

View famous kin of William Fletcher

• • Great-grandfather of Benjamin Pierce — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12 
  • Father:
  • Robert Fletcher 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1619 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Nov 1677 
  • Death Location:
  • Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Forefathers Burial Ground, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Oct 1645 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Joshua Fletcher

  Samuel Fletcher

  William Fletcher (Ahnentafel No:6 )

• Additional marriages for William Fletcher

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  • Spouse:
  • Rachel - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1644

• Sources for William Fletcher

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/19/2014).
  • ² Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, FHL 4934228, Image 98, Marriage of son Samuel Fletcher and Hannah Whealer.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Chelmsford, Vol. 1, p. 307, Marriage record for son William Fletcher and Sarah Richardson.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Concord, Vol. 1, p. 6, Marriage record for William Fletcher and Lidia Bats.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1868, Vol. 22, pp. 389-390.
  • ⁶ The American Genealogist, 1979, Vol. 55, p. 143.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 132.
  • ⁸ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 420-421.
  • ⁹ Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 3, The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett, 1832-1892, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2004), 447.
  • ¹⁰ Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 4, The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers 1839-1879, Boston: New England Historica Genealogical Society (2000), 276-277.
  • ¹¹ Wight, William Ward, The Wights: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield and of his Descendants 1635-1890, Milwaukee: Swain and Tate, Printers (1890), 98 [note 3].