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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gay, Julius. A record of the descendants of John Clark of Farmington, Conn: the male branches brought down to 1882 : the female branches one generation after the Clark name is lost in marriage. (Hartford, Conn.: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1882)
11. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 John Fletcher, in Abbott, Susan Woodruff, and Jacquelyn Ladd Ricker. Families of Early Milford, Connecticut. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1979)
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John Fletcher died 18 April 1662 (Milford Vital Records). He married before 1641 Mary Ward who died Farmington, Conn. 22 January 1678 (church record, First Congregational Society, Milford) dau of Richard and Joyce. She married/2 John Clark of Saybrook and Milford, Conn. He was a freeplanter in Milford having lot #12, 2 acres 3 rods and 30 poles, West River near present school. He came from Wethersfield, Conn, and admitted to the church in Milford 14 November 1641. He was a Deputy to the New Haven Legislature May 1659 and May 1661.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Unknown. Ward and Allied Families: A Genealogical Study with Biographical Notes. (New York: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1930)
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John Fletcher, sometime of Wethersfield, later of Milford, Connecticut. He deposed October 16, 1551, aged 59.
- ↑ John Stanley, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
VI:455.
- Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
2:173.
"JOHN, Wethersfield, m. bef. 1641, Mary, d. of wid. Joyce Ward, whose h. prob. came not to N. E. and by the old lady's will, 15 Nov. 1640, pro. 4 Mar. foll. naming s. Edward, left in Eng. Anthony, William, Robert, and John here, I presume this was her only d. She writes, that Mr. Wollerslove of Clipsham, Co. Rutland, was her atty. to receive money, and makes F. her s.-in-law, excor. See Trumbull, Coll. Rec. I. 431. He rem. to Milford, and had after liv. there two yrs. join. the ch. 1641, in wh. yr. his d. Sarah was bapt. Hannah, 1643, Elizabeth 1645; Samuel, 1649, d. young; Abigail, 1652, so that Mary and Rebecca, we may be sure, were earlier of the six ds. by this w. He was deac. and d. 18 Apr. 1662. His wid. m. John Clark of Milford, wh. d. 1674, and when she made her will at Farmington 1679, in it are ment. these ds. Mary Stevens, Rebecca, w. of the sec. Andrew Warner, Hannah, w. of John Chittenden of Guilford, Sarah, w. of John Stanley, Abigail F. unm. and Elizabeth wh. was w. of Elnathan Botsford, wh. was d. leav. d. Elizabeth"
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