Family:Thomas Bracy and Mary Osborne (1)

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Parents: Thomas Bracy and Phebe Bisby
Thomas Bracy
b. Est 1638
 
Parents: James Osborne and Joyce Smith
Mary Osborne
b. 16 Mar 1648/49 Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States
 
m. 20 Mar 1672/73 Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States
Facts and Events
Marriage[1][2] 20 Mar 1672/73 Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United StatesAlso recorded at Hatfield.
Children
BirthDeath
1.
Mary Bracy
20 Oct 1677 Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
Bet 11 Jun 1745 and 12 Jun 1745 Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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References
  1. ↑ Bracy, in Davis, Walter Goodwin, Compiler, and Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts. Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants). (Baltimore, Maryland, United States: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996)
    1:205.

    "Thomas (Bracy) … in 1672 James Osburn sent the following letter to Gov. John Winthrop, Jr.:

    'From hattfield ye 14: 9: 72 [November 14, 1672]

    Right worshipfull: after humble service to you with dew respects to yours, these may sertyfy you that I have given leave to Thomas bracy to speak with my dafter Mary: he having a desire to make afinity with her by marriage, these are therefore to desire you to grant him liberty of spech with her: as also if you Can Conveniently spare her I have given him an order to bring her up to Springfield with him but rather then you should be put upon inconveniances I doe desire that she should tary with you longer; ither wile you be otherwise provided or providence so ordering it she have a more nesesary Cale away

    Thus beging your praiers for us

    I rest yours in all humble service

    James Ozburn'

    The marriage took place and Mary Bracy was one of her father's heirs in 1676; Bracy lived at Hatfield and in 1694 the town authorities took his children and placed them in other families 'to prevent their growing up in idleness.'"

  2. ↑ Book 1, Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1638-1728; Hampshire Records, in Stott, Clifford L. Vital Records of Springfield, Massachusetts to 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002)
    1:22; 2:1682.

    "Thomas Bracy of Hatfeild & Mary Osborne were joyned in marriage March the 20th 1672/3"
    "Thomas Bracy of Hatfeild & Mary Osborn joyned in Mariage. March. 20th 1673."

  3.   Corbin, Walter E. Corbin Collection. Volume 1: Records of Hampshire County, Massachusetts: Hatfield Vital Records. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003)
    21.

    "|171] Bracy, Thomas & Mary Osband m. Mar. 20 1672"

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