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 rlward1@erols.com <http://users.erols.com/rlward1/> 12236 Shadetree Lane, Laurel, MD 20708-2832 301-776-1659