"Benajah Tracy, son of Nathaniel Tracy … was born at Preston, Connecticut, July 21, 1710 [the preceding applies to this man's father; since his wife was a widow in 1742, the following, attributed to the father must refer to the son. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war in Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Coit’s company of Preston, in the Second Regiment under Colonel Nathan Whiting, serving from April 10 to November 30, 1758. (See Conn. Hist. Society French and Indian War Rolls, vol. II, p. 34)."
(XVII) Benajah (2) Tracy, son of Benajah (1) Tracy, was born about 1740 in Preston, Connecticut. He was a soldier in the revolution from Preston, in the Second Regiment Connecticut Line, from August 20, 1779, to January 15, 1780. In 1780 he was in the Seventh Connecticut Regiment from July 7 to December 3. … Benajah also served from August 2 to November 7, 1777, in Captain Richard Hewett's company, Colonel Jonathan Latimer's regiment and took part in the battle of Saratoga under General Gates. … (See Connecticut Revolutionary Rolls, pp. 167, 227 and 504). … Benajah Tracy settled in Washington, Vermont, after the Revolution. Benajah Tracy died before 1790, as shown by the census of 1790, when his son Elias is reported as head of a family. … Benajah Tracy married, at Preston, July 2, 1762, Lucy Herrick, born February 23, 1741, daughter of Robert and Abiah (Hill) Herrick."
