Person:Esther Fletcher (5)

Name^[2]	Esther Fletcher
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	Abt 1685	Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	5 Feb 1707	Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Stephen Pierce
Death^[1]	20 Sep 1767	Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Burial^[1]	21 Sep 1767	Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number`^?`		Q96199336^?

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1914)
p. 425.

PEIRCE, Esther, wid. [Dea. PR4], bur. Sept. 21, 1767, a. 82 y. CR1 [d. Sept. 20. PR4]
[Birth about 1685. PR4=Diary of Rev. Ebenezer Bridge]
↑ Fletcher, Edward H. (Edward Hatch). Fletcher family history : the descendants of Robert Fletcher of Concord, Mass. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1946)
p. 30.

Children of William Fletcher and Sarah Richardson: Esther, m. 5 Jan 1707 Stephen Pierce.
Without explanation, Source:Snow, Nora Emma. Snow-Estes Ancestry says (Vol. 1, p. 267): Esther, b. Chelmsford, Mass., 1681, d. Chelmsford 1767, ae. 82. Now, the death date comes from VRs, includes the age at death, and calculates to a birth about 1685. No birth is recorded so it remains baffling why a birth in 1681 is asserted. Given a marriage in 1707 [birth 1681=age 26, 1685=age 22], and 10 children born from 1708 [age 27/age 23] to 1726 [age 45/age 41], one would think the later date is more likely.