William and Winifred Fletcher, Sr. and Their Family's Timeline

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c. 1750 = William Fletcher was born in Virginia, USA.

c. 1753 = Winifred (Garrett) Fletcher was born in Virginia to Robert & Ruth (Alexander) Garrett. 

1771 = May 8. Mary (Fletcher) Elkin (1771-1830), William and Winnie's daughter, was born in Virginia. 

1776 = John was born in Virginia. 

c.1778 = Elizabeth "Betsy" (Fletcher) Bartlett was born next. 

1780 = A group of about 200 people, seeking religious freedom and economic opportunity, immigrated from Rev. Lewis Craig's church in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, gathering about 400 other settlers along the way to Kentucky, District of Virginia, guided by Capt. Wm. Ellis.  

1780 = 21 Jun. William served in the Revolutionary War under Gen. George Rogers Clark. (Roll 12; 18849-12-30-31- June 21, 1780)

1780 = Dec. The Traveling Church received advice by a runner from Capt. Billy Bush, who was then at the fort at Boonesborough, warning them not to proceed further on account of the Indians. 

At this point they met Rev. Robert Elkin, a regularly ordained Baptist minister "from the older parts of Virginia," who was also on his way to Kentucky, with his family. 

They remained at Holston, Washington County, Virginia until 1783 raising 3 crops.

(We aren't sure if William and Winnie traveled with Lewis Craig's church group or if they traveled with the Elkin's or came with a separate group altogether from Virginia, however, William does show up in Elkin's Providence church minutes as a member later.) 

c. 1780s = next child, Sally "Sarah" (Fletcher) Moberly, was born. 

c. 1780s = then James. He married Rhoda Ann (Griffin), daughter of Richard and Mary (Brown) Griffin, Sr. of Montgomery Co, KY. Their oldest daughter of ten known children, Kiturah Ann (Fletcher) married a Primitive Baptist minister, Eld. Martin White, who was elected an Illinois State Representative in 1840, serving with Abraham Lincoln.

c. 1780s = next Robert.  

1781 = 28 Sep. William was a founding member of Rev. Robert Elkin's Providence (Separatist) Baptist Church, constituted in Holston, Virginia. Once they arrived in Madison/Clark County, KY, they may have  worshipped in people's homes and in the log church, but not the old Stone Church on Lower Howard's Creek as it was built after William's death in 1800. 

1783 = The Traveling Church body remained at Holston until this year.

c. 1789 =31 Aug. finally William, Jr. 

1789 = Residence: Madison County, Kentucky. First Census of Kentucky. 

1790 = 12 May. William's will was written on this date and witnessed by William Calk, James French, and Will Orear in Madison County, KY. It was probated on 7 Aug 1792. 

1791 = 11 Jun. Bond Date. Mary married Zachariah Elkin (1767-1846), son of Rev. Robert Elkin of Clark County, KY. Their bondsman was Samuel Burton.

bef. 1792 = 7 Aug. William died before this date as his will was probated this year. His will states that Winifred retained their home in Boonesborough, Madison County, Kentucky upon his death.

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1792 = Mary and Zechariah's son, William Fletcher Elkin was born this year. William eventually moved to Illinois and became one of the famous "Long Nine" club with Abraham Lincoln. William's granddaughter, Eliza F. (Pickrell) married (1874) the first governor of the Colorado territory, John Long Routt (1826-1907). 

1796 = Betsy Fletcher, daughter of Winney Fletcher, widow, who gave her consent, married Joshua Bartlett. Witnesses were John Bartlett, John Summers, and surety was Ebenezer Chorn. 

1798 = 13 Sept. Bond Date: John Fletcher married Dulcina (Dully) Elkin (1783-1849), daughter of Robert and Sally Elkin who gave their consent for her to marry John in Clark County, KY. He was 22 yrs. old. Their surety was Joshua Bartlett and it was witnessed by Joshua Williams. 

1802 = John and Dully (Elkin) Fletcher's daughter, Lucy (Fletcher) Barrow was born in Clark County, Kentucky. Lucy married David Gilliam Barrow, a son of Eld. David Barrow, abolitionist pastor of Lulbegrud Primitive Baptist church, Montgomery Co, Kentucky. Lucy's daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Barrow married Isaiah Boone. 

1815 = John Fletcher, Jr., son of John and Dully (Elkin) Fletcher was born this year. 

1816 = Elmaza (Fletcher) Boone, daughter of John and Dully (Elkin) Fletcher was born this year.  She died on 16 May 1854 in Kentucky. Her husband, Samuel remarried a Kate Lander and they moved to Jackson County, Missouri with Elmaza and Samuel's six boys. 

1822 = 21 July. William had given his four sons, John, James, Robert and William, Jr. deeds to land in Montgomery County, Kentucky. Perhaps they received them after Winnie passed?

1829 = Both James Fletcher and his son-in-law, Martin White and their families moved to Sangamon/Christian Co, Illinois from Montgomery County, KY in 1829-30 (Winter of the Deep Snow). They purchased land on the eastern side of Mosquito Creek, a branch of the Sangamon River near present-day Osbernville. 

1830 = 18 Aug. Mary (Fletcher) Elkin died and was buried in the Elkin Cemetery in Clark County, Kentucky. 

1838 = Bond Date: Mary, daughter of Betsy (Fletcher) Bartlett, who gave her consent, married John S. Harmon in Clark County, Kentucky. Their bond was witnessed by George W. Thomson and their surety was her brother, Louis Bartlett (1810-1855). 

1850 = John Fletcher lived in District 1, Montgomery County, Kentucky this year. He was listed as head of household in the 1850 Census. Also living with him was John, Jr. who was disabled, Jr.'s wife, Elizabeth and their son Wallen, a young man of sixteen. 

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Bibliography:

* 1789 Census for Madison Co, KY.

* 1800 Kentucky Tax List

* 1804 Montgomery County, KY Tax List
* 1810 Montgomery Co, KY Census (Page 381, Line 44)
* 1825 Montgomery Co., KY Land Records

* 1829 Land Deeds.

* 1840 Christian County, IL Census

* 1850 Montgomery County, Kentucky Federal Census.
* Abstracts of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories, Author, J. Estelle Stewart King.

* Bartlett Marriages in Clark County, Kentucky 

* The Boone Family. By Hazel Atterbury Spraker. Tuttle Co, Rutland, VT, 1922. p. 169-170. No. 913. 

* Eld. David Barrow's Letter to Thomas Jefferson. Mt. Sterling, Montgomery Co., KY, 20 Mar 1815. 

* Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Eld. David Barrow of Kentucky. Monticello, 1 May 1815.

* Findagrave #144294592 and 156420614 

* First Kentucky Court and Other Records' by Ardery, Book A 1785-1806.
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* Index to the George Rogers Clark Papers. By Richard E. Wilson & Donald E. Gradeless, PhD. Society of Colonial Wars, Chicago, IL, 1998. Microfilm #12, Frame # 30, Date: 6/21/1780. 

* "John W. Fletcher" Past and Present of Decatur and Macon County, pub. 1903, pg. 881-882.

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* Map of Virginia counties - The Traveling Church began at Spotsylvania County, VA (NE), stopping at Holston, Washington County, VA (SW) for three years.
* "Providence Church Minutes" Captain Billy Bush and the Bush Settlement, Clark County, Kentucky, A Family ... By Harry G. Enoch, p. 70-71, 305. 

* Genealogical Memoranda of the Quisenberry Family and other families, including the names of Chenault, Cameron, Mullins, Burris, Tandy, Bush, Broomhall, Finkle, Rigg and others. By Anderson Chenault Quisenberry. Hartman & Cadick, Washington, D.C., 1897. p. 92.

* Samuel Boone's Timeline. By Dolores J. Rush. 4 Oct 2018. Rush Family News Blog. 

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* Will: Bk. A, Pages 101-102; Signed May 12, 1790; Proved 7 August 1792, by William Calk, James French, and William Orear.

Compiled by: Dolores J. Rush, updated: 11/17/2021.