From "Fletcher Family History, P. 278, pub. 1881, Boston, MA
FLETCHER GENEALOGY - - BRANCH XVII
The following is from Hall's "History of Eastern Vermont": Among the earlier inhabitants of Townshend, no person occupied a higher position or enjoyed a larger share of public confidence than Samuel Fletcher....At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the French war and continued one year; on his return he learned the trade of a blacksmit, which he followed four years, when he m. Mehitable, dau. of Col. John Hazeltine and rem. to Townshend, Vt. At the commencement of the Revolution he joined the American army as orderly sergeant, and was at the battle of Bunker Hill. He returned to Townshend, Jan., 1776, and was made captain of a militia company, and raised to a quartermaster in February of the same year. He commanded a company of minute men, and went to the relief of Ticonderoga, and was at the battle of Bennington, 1777. On the expedition he attacked a company of forty British, killed one, and took seven prisoners, without loss to himself. He was colonel of a regiment at the close of the Revolution, and afterwards major-general of militia. He was twelve years a member of the executive council (now senate) of Vermont, and eighteen years high sheriff of Windham Co. He was five feet ten inches in height, straight and finely proportioned; his eyes, which were blue, corresponded well with a light complexion; kindness, generousness, and hospitality were prominent traits. He d. Sept. 16, 1811, in Townshend, Vt., where his children were born.
"Fletcher Family History", pub. 1881, Randy, Avery & Co., Boston, MA
FLETCHER GENEALOGY----BRANCH XVII
JAMES-5 (4199), b. Jan., 1747; m. Margaret, dau. of Ezra Wood, of Upton, Mass., in 1772; rem. to Northbridge, Mass., to what is now the village of Whitinsville, and engaged in the manufacture of iron and in agricultural pursuits; he was appointed lieutenat of a company of militia, 1775, and was in the Revolutionary army in several campaigns; he was at Cambridge, in the Rhode Island campaign, at the battle of bennington, and the surrender of Burgoyne; after the war he was appointed colonel of the militia. He commenced in 1810 the manufacture of cotton goods, and continued until his death, Dec 23, 1834. He was a man of unblemished reputation. His name appears with that of his brother Samuel and that of Squire H. (4207) among the original proprietors of the town of Fletcher, Vt., to which they gave their name.