Robert Fletcher
Robert Fletcher was at Concord, Massachusetts, by 1635, the year the town was founded. It was the first inland town of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His son William had come over with him as a boy of about eight.
He was constable of Concord in 1637. A constable collected rates, kept the peace and carried out the orders of the courts. In 1639 he was formally discharged from the office, "in the language of the record 'not being found faulty'."
On 14 May 1645 he was one of twelve townsmen who petitioned the General Court against Concord's taxes. The town was poor, they wrote, "by the povertie and meaness of the soil, and the badness and wetness of the meadows." His son William moved to the new town of Chelmsford on the Merrimack in 1653.
His daughter Grissell, probably born in England about 1618, married five times between about 1640 and 1667 and lived at Braintree, Dorchester and finally Chelmsford. Her daughter, Grisell Jewell, married his grandson Joshua Fletcher, William's son, in 1668, after the two were brought before the court.
By June 1669 Robert was blind. His wife, whose name is not known, was "little less then bereaved in the same kind". That month he petitioned the magistrates at Charlestown to ease the twenty-pound fine laid on Joshua. Three weeks later his daughter Grissell died at Chelmsford.
He "lived on to the ripe old age of eighty-five, and died on the 3d of April, 1677." His son William died seven months after him. His English origin is not established.
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Cite: Heirology, "Robert Fletcher (1592-1677)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/robert-fletcher-1592-1677-f2b316.