His grave is marked with a field stone
Source: Fletcher Cemetery Pamphlet:
Upon the death of Jacob Flotzer, Sr. sixteen year old Jacob, Jr., was apprenticed to a local tailor, Peter Gasha. Gasha and his young charge worked their way southwest of York to the Littlestown area near the Maryland line. In the mid 1760"s Jacob married Maria Magelena Hess of York, and set up shop in Taneytown, in what is now Carrol Country, Maryland. Their first child, Philip, was born in 1768. In the next twenty years,Jacob and Maria had nine more children. Also during this period, the family surname, pronounced roughly "Fletzer", became increasingly rendered as Fletcher, the nearest sounding English surname Legal documents reflect the various spellings.
During the Revolutionary War, Jacob enlisted in Taneytown for what became the 33rd Battalion of Maryland Militia, serving as a lieutenant.
Jacob acquired from Joseph Sparks a land warrant for 200 acres of land just west of what is now the "Five Forks" intersection on PA State Route 26, Monroe Twp., Bedford Co.
In 1793, Jacob Fletcher, Jr., tailor, father, and Revolutionary War veteran moved his wife and ten children - Philip, Jacob, John, Baltzer, Michael, David, Daniel, Elizabeth, Mary, and Barbara - to their new home in Bedford Co., Pa.
Source: Fletcher Cemetery Pamphlet:
Upon the death of Jacob Flotzer, Sr. sixteen year old Jacob, Jr., was apprenticed to a local tailor, Peter Gasha. Gasha and his young charge worked their way southwest of York to the Littlestown area near the Maryland line. In the mid 1760"s Jacob married Maria Magelena Hess of York, and set up shop in Taneytown, in what is now Carrol Country, Maryland. Their first child, Philip, was born in 1768. In the next twenty years,Jacob and Maria had nine more children. Also during this period, the family surname, pronounced roughly "Fletzer", became increasingly rendered as Fletcher, the nearest sounding English surname Legal documents reflect the various spellings.
During the Revolutionary War, Jacob enlisted in Taneytown for what became the 33rd Battalion of Maryland Militia, serving as a lieutenant.
Jacob acquired from Joseph Sparks a land warrant for 200 acres of land just west of what is now the "Five Forks" intersection on PA State Route 26, Monroe Twp., Bedford Co.
In 1793, Jacob Fletcher, Jr., tailor, father, and Revolutionary War veteran moved his wife and ten children - Philip, Jacob, John, Baltzer, Michael, David, Daniel, Elizabeth, Mary, and Barbara - to their new home in Bedford Co., Pa.
His grave is marked with a field stone
Source: Fletcher Cemetery Pamphlet:
Upon the death of Jacob Flotzer, Sr. sixteen year old Jacob, Jr., was apprenticed to a local tailor, Peter Gasha. Gasha and his young charge worked their way southwest of York to the Littlestown area near the Maryland line. In the mid 1760"s Jacob married Maria Magelena Hess of York, and set up shop in Taneytown, in what is now Carrol Country, Maryland. Their first child, Philip, was born in 1768. In the next twenty years,Jacob and Maria had nine more children. Also during this period, the family surname, pronounced roughly "Fletzer", became increasingly rendered as Fletcher, the nearest sounding English surname Legal documents reflect the various spellings.
During the Revolutionary War, Jacob enlisted in Taneytown for what became the 33rd Battalion of Maryland Militia, serving as a lieutenant.
Jacob acquired from Joseph Sparks a land warrant for 200 acres of land just west of what is now the "Five Forks" intersection on PA State Route 26, Monroe Twp., Bedford Co.
In 1793, Jacob Fletcher, Jr., tailor, father, and Revolutionary War veteran moved his wife and ten children - Philip, Jacob, John, Baltzer, Michael, David, Daniel, Elizabeth, Mary, and Barbara - to their new home in Bedford Co., Pa.
Source: Fletcher Cemetery Pamphlet:
Upon the death of Jacob Flotzer, Sr. sixteen year old Jacob, Jr., was apprenticed to a local tailor, Peter Gasha. Gasha and his young charge worked their way southwest of York to the Littlestown area near the Maryland line. In the mid 1760"s Jacob married Maria Magelena Hess of York, and set up shop in Taneytown, in what is now Carrol Country, Maryland. Their first child, Philip, was born in 1768. In the next twenty years,Jacob and Maria had nine more children. Also during this period, the family surname, pronounced roughly "Fletzer", became increasingly rendered as Fletcher, the nearest sounding English surname Legal documents reflect the various spellings.
During the Revolutionary War, Jacob enlisted in Taneytown for what became the 33rd Battalion of Maryland Militia, serving as a lieutenant.
Jacob acquired from Joseph Sparks a land warrant for 200 acres of land just west of what is now the "Five Forks" intersection on PA State Route 26, Monroe Twp., Bedford Co.
In 1793, Jacob Fletcher, Jr., tailor, father, and Revolutionary War veteran moved his wife and ten children - Philip, Jacob, John, Baltzer, Michael, David, Daniel, Elizabeth, Mary, and Barbara - to their new home in Bedford Co., Pa.
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