Surname Saturday - LNU (England to colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1173 who is Rachel LNU (1624-1645) [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through one generation of this LNU family line is:

1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

18.  Edward Hildreth (1831-1899)
19.  Sophia Newton (1834-1923)

36.  Zavhariah Hildreth (1783-1857)
37.  Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857)

72.  Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1828)
73.  Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793)

146.  Jonathan Keyes (1722-1781)
147.  Elizabeth Fletcher (1720-1761)

292.  Joseph Keyes (1698-1744)
293.  Elizabeth Fletcher (1698-1775)

586.  Joshua Fletcher (1644-1713)
587.  Sarah Woolley (1650-????)

1172.  William Fletcher, born about 1618 in England; died 06 November 1677 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 2344. Robert Fletcher and 2345. Sarah.  He married (1) before 1644 in probably Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
1173.  Rachel, born about 1624 in England; died before November 1645 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Child of William Fletcher and Rachel is:

i. Joshua Fletcher, born 10 March 1644 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 21 November 1713 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; married (1) Grissel Jewell 04 May 1668 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; married (2) Sarah Woolley 18 July 1682 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

William Fletcher married (2) Lydia (1622-1704) on 7 Novermber 1645 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, and they had 7 children.

Information about this Fletcher family was obtained from:

 *  Winifred Lovering Holman, Robert Fletcher of Concord, Mass. Bay, 1637, 1930, accessed on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,015,506 Item 11.


*  Edward H. Fletcher, The Descendants of Robert Fletcher of Concord, Mass. (Boston, Mass. : Rand, Avery & Co., 1881)

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