My mother used to be mighty 'shamed when she heard we were called the 'Fighting Fitches.
"The Comings of Cousin Ann"
Emma Speed Sampson
"Well, the Fitches took Amelia an' her husband of course an' Mrs. Brown is goin' over to Meadville to-morrow.
"Susan Clegg and a Man in the House"
Anne Warner
Such opposition has always been an incident of progress; and even in this new country, receptive as it was to new ideas, the Washingtons, the Fitches, the Fultons, the Coopers, and the Whitneys, who saw visions and dreamed dreams, all had to face scepticism and hostility from those whom they would serve.
"The Paths of Inland Commerce A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway, Volume 21 in The Chronicles of America Series"
Archer B. Hulbert