Chelmsford birth record
Chelmford birth record
"A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England;" by John Farmer lists Robert: " ROBERT, Concord 1635, a constable in 1637, d. 3 April,1677, (age) 85."
"November 2, 1637, Robert Fletcher was chosen constable of Concord." Shattuck, Lemuel, History of the Town of Concord; Middlesex County, Massachusetts, From Its Earliest Settlement to 1832, (1835) p. 18. "The family name of Fletcher, or Fledger as it was originally spelled, has been long known in New England, as the first immigrant, Robert Fletcher, came over with Sir Richard Saltonsall and Governor Winthrop in 1630. He emigrated from Yorkshire, England, bringing with him three sons, Luke, William, and Samuel, and settled in Concord, Mass., where he subsequently lived until his death on April 5, 1677, at the age of eighty-five years." New England Historical Publishing Company, American Series of Popular Biographies, New Hampshire Edition, (1902) p. 395.
Chelmsford birth record