Friday, February 23, 2018

52 Ancestors - Week 215: #294 Samuel Fletcher (1684-1749) of Chelmsford and Westford, Massachusetts

Samuel  Fletcher (1684-1749) is #294 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandfather, who married #295 Hannah --?-- (1689-1759) in about 1712 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.


I am descended through:

*  their daughter #147 Elizabeth Fletcher (1720-1761) who married #146 Jonathan Keyes (1722-1781) in 1746.
*  their daughter #73 Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793) who married  #72 Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1829) in 1777.
*  their son, #36 Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857) who married #37 Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) in 1810.
*  their son, #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) who married #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) in 1852.
*  their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920)  who married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.
*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Name:                        Samuel Fletcher[1]    
*  Alternate Name:        Samuel Flecher [2]    
*  Alternate Name:        Samuel Flatcher[3-4]

*  Sex:                           Male    

*  Father:                      Samuel Fletcher (1652-1723)    
*  Mother:                    Hannah Wheeler (1649-1697)  
 
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Birth:                       5 September 1684, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1–3]    
*  Death:                     6 September 1749 (age 65), Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3-4]    

*  Burial:                    after 6 September 1749 (after age 65), Fairview Cemetery, Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]    

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Spouse 1:                Hannah  --?-- (1689-1759)    
*  Marriage 1:             about 1712 (about age 28), Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States    
*  Child 1:                  Samuel Fletcher (1713-1716)    
*  Child 2:                  Jacob Fletcher (1715-1716)    
*  Child 3:                  David Fletcher (1717-1804)    
*  Child 4:                  Hannah Fletcher (1718-1788)    
*  Child 5:                  Elizabeth Fletcher (1719-1761)    
*  Child 6:                  Samuel Fletcher (1722-1730)    
*  Child 7:                  Susanna Fletcher (1723-1730)    
*  Child 8:                  Jacob Fletcher (1725-    )    
*  Child 9:                  Joanna Fletcher (1729-1730)  

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    

Samuel Fletcher was born 5 September 1684 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, the 5th of ten children of Samuel and Hannah (Wheeler) Fletcher of Chelmsford[1-3].

He married Hannah --?-- in about 1712, probably in Chelmsford.  They had eight children born and recorded in Chelmsford between 1713 and 1725, and one in Westford in 1729.  

Samuel's father, Samuel Fletcher, wrote his will in 1713 and stated that his son Samuel was to be given several parcels of land in Chelmsford near Stony Brook, but not the homestead, and that the son Samuel was to pay money to his step-mother and three of his sisters as their portion.  After the father Samuel died in 1723, the court refused to prove the will.  It is unclear if the son Samuel received any inherited land.

The town of Westford was set off from the town of Chelmsford in the 1729 time frame, and Samuel Fletcher Jr. was recorded in the town tax records in 1721.

Samuel Fletcher died on 6 September 1749 in Westford[4].  He is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Westford[3].  The gravestone inscription says:

Memento Mori

Here lies the body of 
Mr. Samuel Flatcher
who departed this Life
September the 6^th 1749
Aged 66 Years

There are no probate records for Samuel Fletcher in the Middlesex County Probate Court records.
 
5)  SOURCES


1. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Chelmsford Births, Marriages and Deaths, Samuel Fletcher birth entry, image 359 of 1719.

2. Town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1914), Births, page 61, Samuell Flecher entry, son of Samuell and Hannah.

3. Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Fairview Cemetery (Westford, Mass.), Samuel Flatcher memorial #35570366.

4. Vital Records of Westford, Massachusetts to the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1915), Deaths, page 277, Samuel Flatcher entry (age 66).

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 
 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2018 to 260 Ancestors in 260 Weeks.


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