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| | Fletcher, Vermont, New England, USA |
 | | After some years he married a young lady who, according to one of his biographers, "had an ample fortune for that day." After his marriage, Fletcher "laid aside the sledge and removed to Townshend, Vermont, there to wield the axe among the trees of the forest." That was about 1772. |
 | | He was in every engagement that involved Vermonters: Ticonderoga, Hubbardton, Bennington and all the rest. |
 | | By 1780, when Jamaica was chartered to him and his associates, Fletcher had been a member of every Vermont constitutional convention, had represented Townshend at each meeting of the legislature, was a long-standing member of the Governor and Council, and of the Board of War. |
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