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From: "Robert L. Ward" <>
Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] More on John Fletcher family
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 11:05:51 -0500
In-Reply-To: <000901c05f82$58bc5a60$13bac0d8@enduser>


At 07:43 AM 12/6/00 -0500, Jeanne Muse wrote:
>WRG: I forgot to add on my earlier message ... (from various internet
>searches)
>
>The Abigail Fletcher under review (dau. of John and Mary (?) Fletcher,
>b. 2 July 1720, Concord, Mass.) had a sister, MARTHA FLETCHER, b. 16 May
>1716 in Concord.
>
>Could she be the Martha Fletcher who m. Solomon WHITNEY 1732 in Weston?
>If so, this would tie 2 mysterious Fletcher women together -- both in or
>around Weston.
>
>Jeanne

Since Martha (FLETCHER) WHITNEY named children Abigail and Elisha
Fletcher, and Abigail (FLETCHER) WHITNEY named children Martha and
Elisha, I think that this identification is very likely. The sisters
you mention had a brother named Elisha FLETCHER.

Weighing against this identification is the fact that neither WHITNEY
wife named a son John, after the father, and only one of them named a
daughter Mary, after the mother. The other FLETCHER children seem also
not to have been remembered in the names of the children of the two
WHITNEY families.

Regards,

Robert

Robert L. Ward

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