Stephen Tracy migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 3, p. 1832) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm
As a young man, he is presumed the “sayworker” (weaver of fine texture cloth)[3] who became a Puritan and joined with those gathered at Leyden, Holland. There on 3 January 1621 NS (24 December 1620 OS),[4] “Steven Traes,” bachelor from England accompanied by Anthony Clements [sic],[5] was married to “Tryfoce Le,”[6] spinster from England accompanied by [Rose] Jennings.[7] The marriage was before Jan Orlers and Cornelis Henricxz van Goten, bailiffs.[8]
In the Leiden (Holland) census of 1622,[9] as indexed by the Regionaal Archief Lieden (RAL),[10] "Steven Truer" [Stephen Tracy] and his wife "Truy Voosta [Thryphosa Lee]" were enumerated at Pieterskerkhof district of Zevenhuizen[11] in a large, multifamily household headed by Thomas Brouwer [Thomas Brewer], Enges edelman [English nobleman], and his wife, Machieu Brouwer [Machieu Brewer], together with "brother" Tomas Willigs [Thomas Willett] and "sister" Hester Willigs [Hester Willett]. As indexed by RAL, four "Tracy" children were also reported--Daniel Tracy, son; Rebecca Tracy, daughter; John Tracy, son; Daniel Tracy, son, but these are surely otherwise Daniel [Fairfield], his wife, Rebecca [(Willet) Fairfield], and their sons, Daniel and John [Fairfield]
Immigration and Life at Plymouth Colony
Stephen Tracy immigrated to Plymouth aboard the Anne.[12] Prior to its departure, on 9 April 1623 William Bradford described the planned voyage, writing, “We have agreed with 2. marchants for a ship of 140 tunes caled ye Anne, which is to be ready ye last of this month to bring 60 passengers & 60. tune of goods, &c.”[13] The Anne arrived Plymouth Colony in July 1623.[14]
In 1623, those who had arrived at Plymouth were included in a division of land for “garden plotes.” Among those “which came over in the shipe called the Anne,” Stephen was allotted three acres on the “South side ... [toward the eele-riuer].” Those so allotted further “promise[d] to remoue their fam[ilies] to liue in the towne in the winter time that they [may] the better repair to the worship of God.”[15]
When and how his wife and daughter Sarah arrived is not known. They appear recognized at Plymouth by the allocation to Stephen Tracy in the 1623 division of land[16] (above), however an English record implies they were in England on 1 May 1624, and it grants permission for them to travel from there to Holland--“Trifoza Trace,” said “27 years, wife of Steephen Trace resident in Laiden, to the same, also her daughter Sara Trace, 15 months old.”[17] Robert Wakefield surmised Tryphosa and Sarah must have arrived on the Jacob, 1625.[18]
The settlement at Plymouth had been financed by a group of merchants called the "Adventurers." In say 1626, Steeven Tracy was one of only 53 Plymouth planters who, together with five London men, agreed to acquire the interests of the Adventurers in a particular payment scheme.[19] As a group, the planters and London men (so, 58 names) are referred to as the "Purchasers."[20] (Give or take a year later, a smaller group of twelve persons--referred to as the "Undertakers"--replaced the interests of the Purchasers.)[21][22] In 1986, Eugene Aubrey Stratton wrote, "the list of Purchasers continued to be an important one for, in general, these people were privileged above others in future land grants in the colony."[23]
In the “tenth lot” of the 1627 Plymouth cattle division, appear the names “Stephen Tracie, Triphosa Tracie, Sarah Tracie, Rebecka Tracie” (listed as nos. five through eight).[24] “To this lott ffell an heyfer of the last yeare colled the white belyd heyfer [&] two shee goats.”
Stephen Tracy is among the “Freemen of the Incorporacon of Plymouth in New England, An: 1633,”[25] and also on the list dated 7 March 1636/7.[26] His name appears on the Duxbury list of 1639, although a line is struck through the entry, apparently indicating he left the colony at some point later.[27]
He was included in the colony tax lists of both 1633 and 1634--Stephen Tracy was taxed 18s on both 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634.[28]
In “Orders about mowing of Grasse for the prnt Yeare, 1633” (1 July 1633) Stephen Tracy was to mow “wthin his owne ground.” The mowing orders for another mention a boundary “at the Iland Creeke abutting upon Stephen Tracies ground …”[29] At a meeting concerning the “Hey Grownd for Plymouth & Duxburrough” on 14 March 1635/6, Stephen Tracy and “Liuentent Holmes” were assigned the “grownd at the end of the … liuetents lott.”[30] In the following year, with “Mr. Collyer, Jonathan Brewster, and The Messenger,” Stephen Tracy was assigned to “view the hey ground[s] from the Iland Creeke to the Riuer beyond Phillip Delanoys,” so that “each man may be assigned a [“convenyent’] porcon.” In the assignments so devised, Lt. Holmes and Stephen Tracy were allocated the “hey ground they had the last yeare;” Joseph Biddle was to “haue hey wth them for one cow.”[31]
While at the colony, Stephen participated in various other colony affairs. On 1 October 1634, several townsmen were “Apoynted for laying out the highwayes”--“Steeven Trace” with “Capt Miles Standish, Mr. William Colier, Jonathan Brewster, [and] Wiliam Palmer” were on the committee for the “Duxbery side”; the “high wayes [were] to be layed out” before 15 of November “next.”[32] On 3 March 1634/5 he was added to the committee formed to access taxes;[33] and served similarly the following year.[34] He was on the coroner's jury regarding the death of John Deacon. The jury met in Frebruary and its verdict was entered into the record 2 March 1635/6 as follows, “Having searched the dead body, we finde not any blowes or wound[s], or any other bodily hurt. We finde that bodily weakness, caused by long fasting & wearines, by going to & fro, wth the extream cold of the season, were the causes of his death.”[35]
On 14 March 1635/6, Stephen Tracy and others for the “Duxburrow side” and Capt. Standish and others, for the [Plymouth] side, were to view and assess both “Jones his river” and “Morton’s Hole” and to render judgement as to “the fittest place” for “neerer uniting of Plymouth” and “Duxborrough” [churches, etc.]. On the 21st of that month, the parties met with “seven of the nine [appointed townsmen] holding Jones River to be the fittest place for the uniting … into a neerer society, & there to build a meeting howse & towne.” The record continues, saying the Governor and council then convened all and “after long debating of the thing, it was at length referred to the two churches … to agree … & end the same.”[36]
In about 1637, Stephen Tracy was listed as a beneficiary in the will of "William Palmer, Nayler." Palmer appointed Mr Bradford, Mr. Winslow, and Mr. Pense as executors. Proved 4 December 1637, inventory of "November" totalled £111 12s 4d. Will mentions his marriage to a "young woman" who is dear to him, is to have not less than one-third of his estate. Mentions Rebecca, grandchild, and "Moyses Rowly, whom I love." Also, to my son Henry, and daughter Bridget, 40 shillings. As well, "to give something to Stephen Tracy, something to the Plymouth Church …"[37]
He served on grand juries 7 March 1636/7, 2 June 1640, and 7 June 1642[38] and was elected Duxbury constable on 5 March 1638/9.[39] He was elected to that post again on 4 June 1639.[40]
On 2 November 1640, Stephen Tracy was one of the “seuall psons” granted land at the North River; he was allotted “fourscore [80] acres wth some meddow to yt.”[41] In that year, the boundary between Duxbury and Plymouth ran "from a little brooke, running from Stephen Tracy's, to another little brooke, falling into Blackwater from the commons left to Duxborrow, and the neighborhood thereabouts." Not long after, "the town was ordered to appoint men to define the bounds [between Duxbury and] … Marshfield."[42]
In a difference “betwixt Mr. Willm Hanbury and Abraham Perse, about the luging and killing [of] Mr. Hanburies swine,” arbitration teams were established on 7 September 1642 to resolve the matter--Mr. Wllm Paddy and John Howland for Hambury’s side and Stephen Tracy and “John Cooke the yeongr” for Perse.[43]
Return to England
Stephen Tracy returned to England, however the earliest date of his return/permanent return is not known. Pointing out that his name does not appear on the 1643 lists of men able to bear arms, Anderson writes that Stephen "may have returned to England in late 1642 or early 1643 ... [certainly by 1654]."[44]
Two years after the 1643 able to bear arms lists, in 1645, land previously granted to Stephen and "George P----" (document damaged) was re-granted by the town of Marshfield to Mr William Weatherill. [45] (Date of the original grant is not given.)
Aprill the 10th 1645
"...the ffreemen aforesaid hath granted to mr William
weatherill a sirtaine tract of land lying upon the North River be /damage/
the Land form[er]ly Granted to Steephen Trasie & George P /damage/
being a bout Thirty akers more or les to him & his heirs fr ev[er]
also the meddow lying to the same"
Yet another seven years later, during which period there are no documented appearances of Stephen at New England, on 29 November 1652, William Bradford, Myles Standish, Thomas Southworth, John Winslow, John Cooke, "and their associates" acquired from Massasoit Ousamequin and Wamsutta the land that would become known as Dartmouth.[46] The name "Stephen Tracye" (also as "Steven Tracye one whole share") appears on the full list of purchasers in a related deed dated 7 March 1652, which refers to "a generall meeting of the Purchasers att Plymouth."[47] The language in the deed indicates the list of "originall list" of names "Could not bee found in some yeares ; so it was Judged lost."
In London on 20 March 1654/5, Stephen Tracy, “at present of Great Yarmouth in old England,” granted John Winslow power of attorney for the disposal of Tracy's estate at New England; which Winslow did. Stephen calls out "my five children liveing in New England," and names three as John Tracye, Ruth Tracey and Mary ("maryes two Cowes"). Winslow recorded the power of attorney in 1656.[48] A transcription of the item follows, as published in 1908:[49]
1656 Bradford, Govr.:
A Writing appointed to bee Recorded
Bee it Knowne unto all men whom it may Concern that
I Stephen Tracye att p’sent of great yarmouth in old England
have given and doe heerby give power unto my loving ffrind
Mr John Winslow of Plymouth in New England to Dispose of
all of my estate I have in land and Cattle in Duxburrow in New
England according as followeth. That Is to my sonne John
Tracye what lands and houses I have there in Duxburrow alsoe
one yoake of oxen and one horse; And to my Daughter Ruth
Tracye one Cow and one two year old mare and what Cattle
I have more (maryes two Cowes being Cast in amongst them)
to be equally Devided among my five children liveing in New
England; or if god soe Despose that if any Die before this bee
Donn then theire pte shall goe to theire Children And if any
of the unmarried Die before this bee Donn then their pte shall
Remaine att my Desposing till further order; but if all Survive
the performance of what is above written then what is written is
my will and my Deed in witness whwreof I hereunto sett my
Hand ;
Dated Att London this --------------(mark} me Stephen Tracye
20th of March 1654/5
-----I John Winslow Doe Testify That this is the Act of Stephen
Tracye and that according to his will heerin I have since his
estate Devided among his Children to all theire likeing.
----------------------------------------------(mark) me John Winslow
Family
He married Tryphosa Lee 2 Jan 1620/1 in Leyden, Holland.[50] Five children were born to the couple, [51] the first presumably at Leyden; the rest, in Massachusetts.[52]
Sarah Tracy b. at Leyden, Holland, about January 1622. She m. George Partridge.
Rebecca Tracy b. between 1624 and 1627, say 1625, She m. at Eastham, William Merrick (or Myrick).
Ruth Tracy b. say 1628; living, unmarried, in 1655--mentioned by name in her father's power of attorney
Mary Tracy b. say 1630; living in 1655, perhaps unmarried--mentioned by name her father's power of attorney. (She was not the wife of Francis Griswold or William Bradford Jr.)
John Tracy b say 1632. John was mentioned by name in his father's power of attorney. He m. Mary Prence, daughter of Thomas Prence.
A previous version of this profile included a son, Thomas Tracy for whom there is no evidence; he has been detached.
A previous version of this profile included a daughter, Jane Tracy, whose name was found in a 1624 record. This was found to be a mistaken for the name "Sarah."
Other
Adrian Marsden, Ph.D. an expert in 17th century coins, published claims that a Stephen Tracey/Tracy who produced tokens as a merchant in Great Yarmouth is the same man who immigrated earlier to Plymouth Colony.[53] The token maker is presumed to have died at Great Yarmouth in 1672/3. His nuncupative will, dated 25 February 1672[/3]; proved 11 March 1672/3, mentions only wife Anne. The witnesses were "James Reynolds of Yarmouth ... and Cicely Drane, the wife of William Drane."[54] Marsden located the will in the Norfolk Records Office (ANW will register, folio 283 – Microfilm MF 304). The author argues that Stephen Tracy, who immigrated to Plymouth Colony, returned to England about 1653 and started a business that lasted until his death. Since his article was published, Dr. Marsden has located records showing the burial of Stephen Tracey on 27 February 1672/3 at St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth. He notes also that an Anne Tracey appears on the Hearth Tax Returns for Norwich in December 1672.[55]
Sources
↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Stephen Trace in entry for Stephen Trace, citing index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,526,327; database, FamilySearch.
↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1633, Vol 3, P-W (1995), p 1832-1833 for Stephen Tracy; digital images by subscription AmericanAncestors.org.
↑ See entry for Anthony Clement, "The Pilgrim Company in Leyden," Henry Martyn Dexter and Morton Dexter, The England and Holland of the Pilgrims (London: A. Constable, 1906), p. 610 (Appendix); digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ "The Pilgrim Company in Leyden," Henry Martyn Dexter and Morton Dexter, The England and Holland of the Pilgrims (London: A. Constable, 1906), p. 623 (Appendix) and 623n for "This is usually taken as Le---, but is quite likely to be Lee ... Sam. Lee's name is recorded so at least once"; digital images, Hathi Trust Note: Lee entries continue on p. 624.
↑ See entry for Rose (Lisle) Jennings in "The Pilgrim Company in Leyden," Henry Martyn Dexter and Morton Dexter, The England and Holland of the Pilgrims (London: A. Constable, 1906), p. 618 (Appendix); digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Citing “Gemeentearchief Leiden [Archives Lleyden], Raadhuisechtboek [Betrothalbook] B., fol. 112 recto.” in Leyden documents relating to the Pilgrim fathers (Leyden [Netherlands]: E. J. Brill, Ltd., 1920), p. XLII; reports banns published 1st, December 19, 1620; 2nd, December 2, 1620; 3rd, January 1, 1621; couple married … “this IInd of January 1621”; digital images, Hathi Trust (image of original item appears on the prior page); brief entry published earlier, citing unnamed article by Hon. Henry C. Murphy (Minister at the Hague) in "the Historical Magazine," republished as "Items from the city records at Leyden," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 15 (1861):30, for item 14, "Stephen Tracy" and "Trifisa Le-----," married 2 Jan 1621; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Dating this as 15 October 1622, Henry Martyn Dexter and Morton Dexter, The England and Holland of the Pilgrims (London: A. Constable, 1906), p. 636 (Appendix, "The Pilgrim Company in Leyden") for entries, Stephen Tracy, Tryphosa (Le) Tracy; digital images, Hathi Trust. Note A John Tracy, "Ribbon-weaver"also appears in this listing, "Gau. by John Natalis and Rog. White Sept. 6, 1624."
↑ 1622 Leiden (Holland) census, as indexed by the Regionaal Archief Lieden (RAL), household of "Thomas Brouwer [Thomas Brewer]," Enges edelman [English nobleman], and his wife, "Machieu Brouwer [Machieu Brewer], "Pilgrim Documents Online," Erfgoed Leiden En Omstreken, [Regionaal Archief Lieden (RAL)], "Record group 0501A, Call no. 4021, Page 37[-38]" [NL-LdnRAL_PA_AR_501A_4021_37] and [NL-LdnRAL_PA_AR_501A_4021_38]; digital images, Erfgoed Leiden En Omstreken.
↑ Likely a place in Leiden, not the "Zevenhuizen [that] is a village in the ... province of South Holland," Wikipedia'.
↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1633, Vol 3, P-W (1995), p 1832-1833 for Stephen Tracy; digital images by subscription AmericanAncestors.org.
↑ William Bradford (1590-1657) and Charles Deane (1813-1899), History of Plymouth Plantation (Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1856), 149; digital image, Hathi Trust.
↑ The Anne and the Little James arrived “In the latter end of July and the beginning of August,” Alexander Young, Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of The Colony of Plymouth from 1602 to 1625 (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1841), p. 351-52; digital images, Hathi Trust; date as “About 14. Days after came in this ship, caled ye ‘’Anne’’ … and aboute a weeke or 10. Days after came in ye pinass which in foule weather they lost at sea,” in William Bradford (1590-1657) and Charles Deane, History of Plymouth Plantation (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1856), p. 142; digital images, Hathi Trust; “Bradford gives the following … About 14 days after, (i.e. July 10, 1632”)” and about a week or 10 days later came in the pinass,” Charles Edward Banks, The English ancestry and homes of the Pilgrim Fathers who came to Plymouth on the ‘Mayflower’ in 1620, the ‘Fortune’ in 1621, and the ‘Anne’ and the ‘Little James’ in 1623 (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1962), p. 135; digital images Hathi Trust.
↑ David Pulsifer, ed., ‘’Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England’’, 12 vols. in 10, 12:5-6; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Robert S. Wakefield, "The 1623 Plymouth Land Division," The Mayflower Quarterly, 40 (May 1974): 58-51 for "The Ships Anne and Little James"; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.org.
↑ Referencing Mr. Alan W. Rolfe, F.S.S., of London, who “examined the original [1624 entry] in “Records of the Exchequer (E 157/13),” in Robert Wakefield, “Further on Tryphosa Tracy,” The American Genealogist 51 (1975): 242; digital image by subscription, AmericanAncestors.org. Wakefield just earlier had published an alternate, inferior, transcription of the entry (date as 3 May 1624, Trifosa as age 28, daughter named as “Jane”) in Robert Wakefield, “The Adventurous Tryphosa (Lee) Tracy,” The American Genealogist 51 (1975): 71, citing “The Genealogist, London, new series, 24 (1908) 275,” for the seemingly erroneous transcription, as published, see further, Gerald Fothergill, "Licences to Pass from England Beyond the Seas," The Genealogist, series 2, v 24 (1908), p. 275; digital image, Hathi Trust.
↑ Citing “TAG 51:71-72, 242,” Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1620-1633, Vol 3, P-W (1995), p 1832-1833 for Stephen Tracy; digital images by subscription AmericanAncestors.org, reference is to Robert Wakefield, “The Adventurous Tryphosa (Lee) Tracy,” The American Genealogist 51 (1975): 71-72; and, by the same author, “Further on Tryphosa Tracy.” The American Genealogist 51 (1975): 242; for both, digital image by subscription, AmericanAncestors.org.
↑ William Bradford (1590-1657), Governor William Bradford's Letter Book (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1906), p. 24-26; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 2:177; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Roland G Usher, The Pilgrims and their History (New York: MacMillan Co, 1918), 95, 152-3, "July 1627 Undertakers"; digital images, InternetArchive.
↑ Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691 (Salt Lake City:Ancestry Publishing 1986), Appendix F, p. 419.
↑ Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691 (Salt Lake City:Ancestry Publishing 1986), Appendix F, p. 419.
↑ David Pulsifer, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 12:12; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:3-4; digital images, Hathi Trust; noting, “before those admitted on 1 January 1632/3,” Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1633, Vol 3, P-W (1995), p 1832-1833; digital images by subscription AmericanAncestors.org.
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:52-53; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10 8:174-175, for Duxborrow names; digital images,
Hathi Trust; for editors’ marks and contractions, see p. v (Hathi Trust), and for editors’ comment preceding the records, “[These] lists contain the names of those who were admitted to the freedom of the colony of New Plymouth, together with those who took the oath of fidelity, and those who were able to bear arms, in the year 1643 … As persons died or removed from the colony, their names were cancelled in the lists,” see p. 173 (Hathi Trust).
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:9-11, 26-29; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:14; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:30-40; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:55-56 for record of 20 March 1636/7; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:31; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:33; digital images, Hathi Trust
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:38 for the meeting of 2 March 1635/6; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:39; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:41; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Justin Winsor, "Abstract of the First Wills in the Probate Office, Plymouth," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4 (1850): 35; digital images, Hathi Trust. Note: No family relationship between Stephen Tracy and William Palmer has been discovered.
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:54, 155, 2:41; digital images, ‘’Hathi Trust’’; also Hathi Trust and Hathi Trust .
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:116; digital images, Hathi Trust
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:125; digital images, Hathi Trust
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1: 165; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Justin Winsor, History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts … (Boston: Crosby Nichols, 1849), p. 13 noting, that Marshfield was incorporated 2 March 1640, "though it's bounds were not fixed until 1642. It was first called Rexham and Green Harbor, and afterwards, … Marshfield"; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 2:44; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1633, Vol 3, P-W (1995), p 1832-1833 for Stephen Tracy; digital images by subscription AmericanAncestors.org; see various town lists, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 8:187-196; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Jeremy D. Bangs, “The Seventeenth Century Town Records of Marshfield,” The Mayflower Descendant 61 (2012), 27-28 (introduction) and 62 (2013), 32; digital image by subscription, AmericanAncestors.org.
↑ Jeremy D. Bangs, "Dartmouth Town Records for the Period of Plymouth Colony through 1691,” The Mayflower Descendant 63 (2014) 27-38, in particular p 27; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.org. Banks also writes, "Not all shareholders intended to move to this area, but those who did were granted permission on 8 June 1664 to form a township.
↑ Citing "Plymouth Colony Deeds, Vol. II, Pt 1, pp. 106, 107," George Ernest Bowman, "The Purchasers of Dartmouth." The Mayflower Descendant 4:185-88; digital images, (a) by subscription, AmericanAncestors.org; (b) otherwise online, InternetArchive.
↑ Citing "Plymouth Deeds, Vol. II, Part 1, p. 176," Sherman Weld Tracy, The Tracy Genealogy… (Rutland, VT: Tuttle Publishing Co., c1926), between p. 22 and 23 for "Facsimile of Will of Stephen^1 Tracy"; transcription at p. 23; digital images Hathi Trust.
↑ George Ernest Bowman, “Plymouth Colony Deeds,” The Mayflower Descendant 10 (1908): 143-44, “Stephen Tracy’s Power of Attorney” and citing “p. 179”; digital images, Hathi Trust.
↑ Citing “Gemeentearchief Leiden [Archives Lleyden], Raadhuisechtboek [Betrothalbook] B, fol. 112 recto.” in Leyden documents relating to the Pilgrim fathers (Leyden [Netherlands]: E. J. Brill, Ltd., 1920), p. p. XLII, reports banns published 1st, December 19, 1620; 2nd, December 2, 1620; 3rd, January 1, 1621; couple married … “this IInd of January 1621”; digital images, Hathi Trust; image of original item appears on the prior page.
↑ Among others, Weid, Sherwin. Tracy Genealogy of Plymouth 1623 (VT : Sherwin Weid Tracy Publication, 1936), pp. 21-25, and Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1633, Vol 3, P-W (1995), p 1832-1833 digital image by subscription, AmericanAncestors.org.
↑ Robert Charles Anderson, 'The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1633, Vol 3, P-W (1995), p 1832-1833; digital image by subscription, AmericanAncestors.org.
↑ Dr. Adrian Marsden, "Tracing Stephen Tracey -- A Pilgrim Father from Great Yarmouth," Token Corresponding Society Bulletin, December 2016 (Vol. 12, no. 1); digital images available for download (2021) at academia.edu.
↑ William and Cicely Drane seem the couple who had son Lionell Drane chr. 1 November 1657 at Yarmouth (see "English Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"; Cicely's husband is quite probably the William Drane chr. 12 January 1633 [probably 1632/3] at Great Yarmouth, see "English Births and Christenings."
↑ Email from Dr. Marsden of 17 May 2021, citing "Seaman, P. 2001, Norfolk Hearth Tax Exemption Certificates 1670-4" and attaching image of St. Nicholas burial log for February 1672/3.
See also:
William Bradford (1590-1657), History of Plymouth Plantation (Boston: for Massachusetts Historical Society, 1912, I 316, 349, II 30-1, 285; digital images, Hathi Trust.
N. Grier Parke II, Donald Lines Jacobus, The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth (Woodstock, Vt: The Elm Tree Press, 1960), pp. 37-38; digital images, Hathi Trust.
Donald Lines Jacobus, Edgar Francis Waterman, The Waterman Family, New Haven, Conn.: E.F. Waterman, 1939-1954), 3 vols, 1 (1939):688-89; digital images, Hathi Trust.
Charles Edward Banks and Elijah Ellsworth Brownell, Topographical dictionary of 2885 English emigrants to New England, 1620-1650 (Philadelphia: [The Bertram press], 1937), p. 123, citing “Mayfl. Desc. 10/143”; digital images, Hathi Trust.
Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, 2 vols. (1943, 1931), 2:798-802; digital images, Hathi Trust.
Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691 (Salt Lake City:Ancestry Publishing 1986) p. pp. 363-364.
Charles Edward Banks, The English ancestry and homes of the Pilgrim Fathers who came to Plymouth on the "Mayflower" in 1620, the "Fortune" in 1621, and the "Anne" and the "Little James" in 1623 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1962); 164 (Stephen Tracy), 123 (William Palmer); digital images, Hathi Trust. Note: p. 123 is “William Palmer” … “died in 1637, mentions Stephen Tracy of Leyden in his will and a grandchild Rebecca …”
Joseph Banks, Banks Genealogical Collection; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, Washington DC, 1931+. Note: Manuscript materials from the Library of Charles E. Banks, dating from 1931 that are now located in the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Robert S. Wakefield, "The Adventurous Tryphosa (Lee) Tracy," The American Genealogist (1975), 51:71-73; and p. 242, which establishes that Tryphosa's daughter "Jane" was actually Sarah; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.org.
Evert E. Tracy, Tracy Genealogy, Ancestors & Descendants of Lt. Thomas Tracy of Norwich, CT, 1660, Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1898; pp.239-240. Being older, has some inconsistencies.
Hi all, I'm working with the BBC on a feature on Stephen Tracy and his interesting career. If any blood descendants of Stephen want to be involved in this then please get in touch with me at [email address removed] and I'll put you in touch with Katy at the BBC. It looks like being a good feature but I'm afraid to say that the BBC really want actual descendants. All the best, Adrian
As just posted in response to Gene's earlier comments. This short essay seeks to provide a definite link between Stephen Tracy the Pilgrim Father and the merchant who died in Great Yarmouth, Old England in 1672/3. Regards, A.
That Dr. Marsden here - but please call me Adrian!
Good that the subject of Stephen Trac[e]y is being discussed. I've read Gene's critiques of what I wrote several years ago and tried to post a reply but it was over the word limit. I'll upload it to my academia site and then post a link so you can all see my extended reasoning in a day or two.
I would add that Tracy's nuncupative will was just that - a few words uttered by a dying man on his deathbed - of course it is pretty 'casual'. It was concerned with his second wife Anne and not the long dead Tryphosa. And that is the reason that his children by Tryphosa don't get a mention in that will - because he had settled all his property in New England on them nearly twenty years before. He had moved back to Old England by 1654/5. They were out of the picture - Stephen Trac[e]y had done good by his first wife's children and had moved back home. The English Commonwealth with its strongly Puritan character was probably even more to his liking than New England. No Maypoles. No Christmas. Ideal for a hardline Puritan and a Pilgrim Father!
Anyway, I'll post the link soon - I don't think you can easily shrug off the disappearance of someone from the New England records when they pop up straight afterwards in the Old England records...
All the best,
Adrian
It is good to know this remains a topic of interest to you.
Have you been able to locate anything that would narrow the some 18 year gap between the last record known to have been about the immigrant (20 March 1654/5), and the 25 February 1672[/3] nuncupative will?
Again, good to see that your interest in the pilgrim has not waned.--Gene
Sorry for the late reply - been slaughtered by Covid the last few days. This is the state of play at the moment. When I get some time - a lifetime given their size - I will look at the Yarmouth Town Books for mention of Tracy from c.1652-72. But in the meantime here are my arguments. There is no 'silver bullet' but I would contest that they are good enough evidence to have convinced many others in this field...
Dr. Marsden's theories are found in the section "Other."
I've corresponded with Marsden about what seems an obvious conflict in the nuncupative will he attributes to the Pilgrim--it makes no mention of his children, even for the purpose of excluding them.
To this point, the bequest is almost casual, "... said Stephen Tracy being then moved by Anne his wife to make his will and settle what of late he had, answered her in these words or to the like effect - viz - What need is there for me so to do seeing that my mind is to leave it all freely to thyself ..."
I'm not questioning that Marsden believes it was the coin-maker who left the will and a widow Anne, only that it has not been proven by modern genealogical methods to be that of Stephen Tracy, the man known of "Leyden" and Plymouth.
Hopefully this comment explains why we noted Marsden's work and claims, but did not attribute the re-marriage, will, death or burial to the Pilgrim. Other information about Stephen, the token maker, and Anne, his wife, might help (say a reference to his age or some other relation, etc).
What are your thoughts on this? --Gene
Edited to add: See also the profile comment, here. In this case, the probabilities are also being weighed against an almost 20 year gap in records known to be about the immigrant.
Perhaps if his entire first family were now deceased or remained in New England, he felt he had no need to include them? If I recall correctly, did he not give all his lands and goods in New England to his children when he returned to England? I realize it was customary to name all the kids and say they had already received their portions, but if there was no longer any contact, he might not have.
Do we know why he left and returned to England? He had property and children. Was there a rift in the family? Seems unlikely, since he gave them everything he had accumulated.
I'm not aware of any rift. Anderson found he might have returned to England "in late 1642 or early 1643 ... [certainly by 1654]."
Whether he could have or might have, etc. is surely part of developing the probabilities. We don't always have enough historical information to conclude that one man is the same as another of the same name.
From his life at New England, we have the picture of a man who was somewhat serious and involved in his community. His children there seem of means. As earlier, if he intended to provide for this widow, I would have expected our man to have included some language to protect her inheritance from claims other heirs might have made.
Hopefully one day, other records about the token maker will be discovered. Those might call out business relations or other associations.
I did do some research into the witnesses to the will. If I find that information, will post back here. --Gene
Comments: Robert S. Wakefield discusses some important records relating to the Tracy family at Leiden, and to the date of arrival of Stephen's wife Tryphosa, and eldest daughter Sarah, and concludes that they came in 1625 on the Jacob [TAG 51:71-73, 242].
I agree that Robert S. Wakefield's work is important. See the references now numbered 16 and 17. Reference 17 includes some details and Wakefield's source of the source,
Referencing Mr. Alan W. Rolfe, F.S.S., of London, who “examined the original [1624 entry] in “Records of the Exchequer (E 157/13),” in Robert Wakefield, “Further on Tryphosa Tracy,” The American Genealogist 51 (1975): 242; digital image by subscription, AmericanAncestors.org. Wakefield just earlier had published an alternate, inferior, transcription of the entry (date as 3 May 1624, Trifosa as age 28, daughter named as “Jane”) in Robert Wakefield, “The Adventurous Tryphosa (Lee) Tracy,” The American Genealogist 51 (1975): 71, citing “The Genealogist, London, new series, 24 (1908) 275,” for the seemingly erroneous transcription, as published, see further, Gerald Fothergill, "Licences to Pass from England Beyond the Seas," The Genealogist, series 2, v 24 (1908), p. 275; digital image, Hathi Trust.
Wakefield's finding about the Jacob is made in the section, "Immigration and Life at Plymouth Colony." Citing Anderson, who cites the TAG article, see the passage, "Robert Wakefield surmised Tryphosa and Sarah must have arrived on the Jacob, 1625."
Do you feel we have adequately addressed Wakefield's work? --Gene
Edited to add: See also the comment thread that begins here. Wakefield's 1975 articles are considered protected by copyright, as is Anderson's 1995 article about the immigrant.
It looks like you have been very thorough. I am learning more every day. Just yesterday I got a subscription to NEGHS so I can access more records and find primary sources. Thank you for your excellent work!
c2018, the marriage of Stephen Tracy's dau. Mary (Tracy-271) to Francis Griswold was disconnected. Dialog of some length about this is given in Mary's biography.
c2020, a second profile, Mary Tracy (Tracy-3141) was created, linked as both the wife of "Francis Griswold 12th" and daughter of Stephen Tracy. For these associations, Ancestry Family Trees is given as a source.
Setting the two Mary's as "unmerged matches"; have also both posted message on Tracy-3141 and written to the profile manager.
Currently, Stephen Tracy’s death is given as “about 25 Feb 1673 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England,” for which the source seems an article by Adrian Marsden, “Tracing Stephen Tracey--A Pilgrim Father from Great Yarmouth, ‘’Token Corresponding Society Bulletin,’’ December 2016 (Vol. 12, no. 1).
This article claims that a token maker of Great Yarmouth is (1) a man whose death, said 26 February "[1672]," is memorialized by a nuncupative will cited as "ANW will register, folio 283 (Microfilm MF 304)," proved 11 March 1672/3 for which a transcription appears in the article; and further that he is also (2) the same person who much, much earlier was baptized Great Yarmouth, then known of Holland and who immigrated on the Anne 1623 to New England.
Marsden writes, "There is little doubt that the token issuer was the same man [early of Plymouth Colony]. For this claim (that the man died in "1672" is the same man who imm 1623 to Plymouth), Marsden refers to mostly negative search results in Yarmouth and related record groups, noting that the records for some relevant time period are not extant or incomplete. By observation, his search work seemed narrow in scope.
Of the token maker, presumably the same man whose will was proven 11 March 1672/3, Marsden shows no evidence of his age and, importantly, no record of a marriage to Anne, the woman who became the widow. Marsden shows no association for the token maker to any other family member, be that brother, child, nephew, etc.
While Marsden’s work on the tokens is interesting, it isn’t apparent that the work shows the token maker to be the same person who was our PGM Pilgrim.
The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995).
https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/1833/23896192
Althought Anderson doesn't mention her, Robert Wakefield in The American Genealogist 51 (1975): 71 did mention her as his daughter. When she was 15 months old, May 3, 1624, she and her mother were granted license to pass from England beyond the seas. Wakefield cites The Genealogist, issue 24 (1908), page 275. I'll add the citation to both profiles.
I could not find a record of Jane's death information in Plymouth, though.
Robert Wakefield published a brief note/update to his TAG 51:71-73 article as "Further on Tryphosa Tracy," TAG 51:252. Is is THIS update that Anderson cites for Sarah's birth in the article about Stephen Tracy, The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635, Vol 3, P-W, p 1832-1833.
From Wakefield's update, in part
"Mr. Alan W. Rolfe, F.G.S., of London, has examined the original [of item dated 1624] in Records of the Exchequer (E 157/13). [He indicates the record] actually says ... '1 May 1624 Trifoza Trace, 27 years, wife of Steephen Trace resident in Laiden, to the same, also her daughter Sara Trace, 15 months old.'" Waterman adds, "Mr. Rolfe states the name Sara is exceptionally clear."
Separately, I have set profiles of Stephen's "children" Sarah and Jane as unmerged match. Ditto for the daughter attached as "Susanna Tracy" WikiTree Tracy-269.
P.S. Working now on the biography of Stephen Tracy. Having reviewed most of the sources mentioned within the existing bio, would seem many/most of the passages posted were lifted from published materials. Will correct as part of the update.
I've found a manifest for Anne that lists Tryphosa with Stephen. The ref given is "Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England 1620 - 1650" by Charles Edwards Banks, Edited and Indexed by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell, Southern Book Company, Baltimore, 1957 (Lady Anne's Library), pg 123"
Adrian Marsden, Ph.D. recently wrote an article on tokens produced by Stephen Tracy, Jr. as a merchant in Great Yarmouth 1653-1655. An expert in 17th century coins, Marsden makes clear that this is the same Stephen Tracy, Jr. who was a pilgrim in Massachusetts. He makes a convincing argument that Tracy returned to England about 1653 and started a business that lasted until his death in 1672. Marsden explains that the "Power of Attorney" Tracy prepared 20 March 1654 is not the same as a will. Indeed, Marsden located Stephen Tracy, Jr.'s will in the Norfolk Records Office (ANW will register, folio 283 Microfilm MF 304). The will was proved 11 March 1672-3. He re-married a woman whose given name was Anne. The article reference is: Adrian Marsden, "Tracing Stephen Tracey (sic) - A Pilgrim Father from Great Yarmouth," Token Corresponding Society Bulletin, 12, No. 1 (December 2016), 24-32.
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https://www.academia.edu/101074093/RETRACING_STEPHEN_TRACY_SOME_FURTHER_THOUGHTS
That Dr. Marsden here - but please call me Adrian! Good that the subject of Stephen Trac[e]y is being discussed. I've read Gene's critiques of what I wrote several years ago and tried to post a reply but it was over the word limit. I'll upload it to my academia site and then post a link so you can all see my extended reasoning in a day or two. I would add that Tracy's nuncupative will was just that - a few words uttered by a dying man on his deathbed - of course it is pretty 'casual'. It was concerned with his second wife Anne and not the long dead Tryphosa. And that is the reason that his children by Tryphosa don't get a mention in that will - because he had settled all his property in New England on them nearly twenty years before. He had moved back to Old England by 1654/5. They were out of the picture - Stephen Trac[e]y had done good by his first wife's children and had moved back home. The English Commonwealth with its strongly Puritan character was probably even more to his liking than New England. No Maypoles. No Christmas. Ideal for a hardline Puritan and a Pilgrim Father! Anyway, I'll post the link soon - I don't think you can easily shrug off the disappearance of someone from the New England records when they pop up straight afterwards in the Old England records... All the best, Adrian
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It is good to know this remains a topic of interest to you.
Have you been able to locate anything that would narrow the some 18 year gap between the last record known to have been about the immigrant (20 March 1654/5), and the 25 February 1672[/3] nuncupative will?
Again, good to see that your interest in the pilgrim has not waned.--Gene
Sorry for the late reply - been slaughtered by Covid the last few days. This is the state of play at the moment. When I get some time - a lifetime given their size - I will look at the Yarmouth Town Books for mention of Tracy from c.1652-72. But in the meantime here are my arguments. There is no 'silver bullet' but I would contest that they are good enough evidence to have convinced many others in this field...
https://www.academia.edu/101074093/RETRACING_STEPHEN_TRACY_SOME_FURTHER_THOUGHTS
Thank you, and yes, there are many in the field. --Gene
https://www.academia.edu/30716352/TRACING_STEPHEN_TRACEY_A_PILGRIM_FATHER_FROM_GREAT_YARMOUTH (Requires free login) PDF article can be downloaded.
Dr. Marsden's theories are found in the section "Other."
I've corresponded with Marsden about what seems an obvious conflict in the nuncupative will he attributes to the Pilgrim--it makes no mention of his children, even for the purpose of excluding them.
To this point, the bequest is almost casual, "... said Stephen Tracy being then moved by Anne his wife to make his will and settle what of late he had, answered her in these words or to the like effect - viz - What need is there for me so to do seeing that my mind is to leave it all freely to thyself ..."
I'm not questioning that Marsden believes it was the coin-maker who left the will and a widow Anne, only that it has not been proven by modern genealogical methods to be that of Stephen Tracy, the man known of "Leyden" and Plymouth.
Hopefully this comment explains why we noted Marsden's work and claims, but did not attribute the re-marriage, will, death or burial to the Pilgrim. Other information about Stephen, the token maker, and Anne, his wife, might help (say a reference to his age or some other relation, etc).
What are your thoughts on this? --Gene
Edited to add: See also the profile comment, here. In this case, the probabilities are also being weighed against an almost 20 year gap in records known to be about the immigrant.
edited by GeneJ X
Do we know why he left and returned to England? He had property and children. Was there a rift in the family? Seems unlikely, since he gave them everything he had accumulated.
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Whether he could have or might have, etc. is surely part of developing the probabilities. We don't always have enough historical information to conclude that one man is the same as another of the same name.
From his life at New England, we have the picture of a man who was somewhat serious and involved in his community. His children there seem of means. As earlier, if he intended to provide for this widow, I would have expected our man to have included some language to protect her inheritance from claims other heirs might have made.
Hopefully one day, other records about the token maker will be discovered. Those might call out business relations or other associations.
I did do some research into the witnesses to the will. If I find that information, will post back here. --Gene
edited by GeneJ X
Comments: Robert S. Wakefield discusses some important records relating to the Tracy family at Leiden, and to the date of arrival of Stephen's wife Tryphosa, and eldest daughter Sarah, and concludes that they came in 1625 on the Jacob [TAG 51:71-73, 242].
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I agree that Robert S. Wakefield's work is important. See the references now numbered 16 and 17. Reference 17 includes some details and Wakefield's source of the source,
Wakefield's finding about the Jacob is made in the section, "Immigration and Life at Plymouth Colony." Citing Anderson, who cites the TAG article, see the passage, "Robert Wakefield surmised Tryphosa and Sarah must have arrived on the Jacob, 1625."
Do you feel we have adequately addressed Wakefield's work? --Gene
Edited to add: See also the comment thread that begins here. Wakefield's 1975 articles are considered protected by copyright, as is Anderson's 1995 article about the immigrant.
edited by GeneJ X
It looks like you have been very thorough. I am learning more every day. Just yesterday I got a subscription to NEGHS so I can access more records and find primary sources. Thank you for your excellent work!
I hope you thoroughly enjoy your NEGHS membership.
Again, thank you for supporting WikiTree.--Gene
c2020, a second profile, Mary Tracy (Tracy-3141) was created, linked as both the wife of "Francis Griswold 12th" and daughter of Stephen Tracy. For these associations, Ancestry Family Trees is given as a source.
Setting the two Mary's as "unmerged matches"; have also both posted message on Tracy-3141 and written to the profile manager.
I have downloaded and reviewed Dr. Marsden's article; it is available at https://www.academia.edu/30716352/TRACING_STEPHEN_TRACEY_A_PILGRIM_FATHER_FROM_GREAT_YARMOUTH
This article claims that a token maker of Great Yarmouth is (1) a man whose death, said 26 February "[1672]," is memorialized by a nuncupative will cited as "ANW will register, folio 283 (Microfilm MF 304)," proved 11 March 1672/3 for which a transcription appears in the article; and further that he is also (2) the same person who much, much earlier was baptized Great Yarmouth, then known of Holland and who immigrated on the Anne 1623 to New England.
Marsden writes, "There is little doubt that the token issuer was the same man [early of Plymouth Colony]. For this claim (that the man died in "1672" is the same man who imm 1623 to Plymouth), Marsden refers to mostly negative search results in Yarmouth and related record groups, noting that the records for some relevant time period are not extant or incomplete. By observation, his search work seemed narrow in scope.
Of the token maker, presumably the same man whose will was proven 11 March 1672/3, Marsden shows no evidence of his age and, importantly, no record of a marriage to Anne, the woman who became the widow. Marsden shows no association for the token maker to any other family member, be that brother, child, nephew, etc.
While Marsden’s work on the tokens is interesting, it isn’t apparent that the work shows the token maker to be the same person who was our PGM Pilgrim.
The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/1833/23896192
I could not find a record of Jane's death information in Plymouth, though.
From Wakefield's update, in part
"Mr. Alan W. Rolfe, F.G.S., of London, has examined the original [of item dated 1624] in Records of the Exchequer (E 157/13). [He indicates the record] actually says ... '1 May 1624 Trifoza Trace, 27 years, wife of Steephen Trace resident in Laiden, to the same, also her daughter Sara Trace, 15 months old.'" Waterman adds, "Mr. Rolfe states the name Sara is exceptionally clear."
Separately, I have set profiles of Stephen's "children" Sarah and Jane as unmerged match. Ditto for the daughter attached as "Susanna Tracy" WikiTree Tracy-269.
P.S. Working now on the biography of Stephen Tracy. Having reviewed most of the sources mentioned within the existing bio, would seem many/most of the passages posted were lifted from published materials. Will correct as part of the update.
edited by GeneJ X