Stephen Tracy (bef. 1596 - aft. 1655)

Born before 28 Dec 1596 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England

Ancestors

Husband of Tryphosa (Lee) Tracy — married 3 Jan 1621 in Leiden, Holland

Descendants

Died after 20 Mar 1655 after age 58 in England [uncertain]

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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

Biography

Stephen Tracy was born in Norfolk, England.

Stephen Tracy immigrated to New England between 1621 and 1640 and later departed for England

Stephen Tracy, son of Stephen and Agnes (Erdley) Tracy, was baptized at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, 28 December 1596.^[1][2]

Early Life and Marriage

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]

1. Sarah Tracy b. at Leyden, Holland, about January 1622. She m. George Partridge.
2. Rebecca Tracy b. between 1624 and 1627, say 1625, She m. at Eastham, William Merrick (or Myrick).
3. Ruth Tracy b. say 1628; living, unmarried, in 1655--mentioned by name in her father's power of attorney
4. 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.)
5. 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

1. ↑ "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.
2. ↑ Norfolk : Great Yarmouth : St Nicholas : Parish Register : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5818f629e93790ec8b80b967 : viewed 11 Dec 2022) baptism Stephen Trace 28 Dec 1596
3. ↑ “Say Weaver/Sayworker” in Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 > Dictionary L-Z
4. ↑ 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.
5. ↑ 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.
6. ↑ "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.
7. ↑ 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.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ 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."
10. ↑ 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.
11. ↑ Likely a place in Leiden, not the "Zevenhuizen [that] is a village in the ... province of South Holland," Wikipedia'.
12. ↑ 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.
13. ↑ William Bradford (1590-1657) and Charles Deane (1813-1899), History of Plymouth Plantation (Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1856), 149; digital image, Hathi Trust.
14. ↑ 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.
15. ↑ David Pulsifer, ed., ‘’Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England’’, 12 vols. in 10, 12:5-6; digital images, Hathi Trust.
16. ↑ 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.
17. ↑ 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.
18. ↑ 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.
19. ↑ William Bradford (1590-1657), Governor William Bradford's Letter Book (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1906), p. 24-26; digital images, Hathi Trust.
20. ↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 2:177; digital images, Hathi Trust.
21. ↑ Roland G Usher, The Pilgrims and their History (New York: MacMillan Co, 1918), 95, 152-3, "July 1627 Undertakers"; digital images, InternetArchive.
22. ↑ Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691 (Salt Lake City:Ancestry Publishing 1986), Appendix F, p. 419.
23. ↑ Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691 (Salt Lake City:Ancestry Publishing 1986), Appendix F, p. 419.
24. ↑ David Pulsifer, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 12:12; digital images, Hathi Trust.
25. ↑ 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.
26. ↑ 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.
27. ↑ 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).
28. ↑ 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.
29. ↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:14; digital images, Hathi Trust.
30. ↑ 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.
31. ↑ 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.
32. ↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:31; digital images, Hathi Trust.
33. ↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:33; digital images, Hathi Trust
34. ↑ 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.
35. ↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:39; digital images, Hathi Trust.
36. ↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:41; digital images, Hathi Trust.
37. ↑ 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.
38. ↑ 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 .
39. ↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:116; digital images, Hathi Trust
40. ↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1:125; digital images, Hathi Trust
41. ↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 1: 165; digital images, Hathi Trust.
42. ↑ 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.
43. ↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10, 2:44; digital images, Hathi Trust.
44. ↑ 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.
45. ↑ 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.
46. ↑ 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.
47. ↑ 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.
48. ↑ 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.
49. ↑ 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.
50. ↑ 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.
51. ↑ 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.
52. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, 'The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1633, Vol 3, P-W (1995), p 1832-1833; digital image by subscription, AmericanAncestors.org.
53. ↑ 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.
54. ↑ 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."
55. ↑ 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.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #34162655
• The_Anne_and_the_Little_James (Wikipedia).
• Passengers of the Anne (Wikiwand).