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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2] |
Sergeant John Tracy |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
Est 1642 |
Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably) |
| Marriage |
10 Jun 1670 |
Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United StatesAlso recorded at Norwich.
to Mary Winslow |
| Alt Marriage |
17 Jun 1670 |
Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Winslow |
| Will[1] |
15 Jun 1702 |
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| Death[1][2][3] |
16 Aug 1702 |
Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States |
| Estate Inventory[1] |
14 Sep 1702 |
Inventory sworn. |
| Probate[1] |
29 Oct 1702 |
Will proved. |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 The Tracy Family, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edward Francis Waterman. The Waterman Family. (New Haven, Conn. (I and II); Hartford, Conn. (III): E.F. Waterman (I and II); The Connecticut Historical Society (III), 1939, 1942, 1954)
I:695-696.
2. John2 Tracy, born [say 1642], died at Norwich, Conn., 16 Aug. 1702; … married (recorded at Norwich), 17 June 1670, Mary Winslow, born at Marshfield, Mass., in 1646, died at Norwich, 31 July 1721, daughter of Josiah and Margaret (Bourne) Winslow. His wife was niece of his stepmother, Martha (Bourne) Bradford, the second wife of Lieut. Thomas Tracy, and a first cousin of Thomas2 Waterman of Norwich, husband of his only sister Miriam Tracy.
He was Deputy for Norwich to the Conn. General Assembly, Oct. 1694, Oct. 1697 May and Oct. 1698, May 1699, and Oct. 1701. He was a Justice for New London County, 1698, 1701, and 1702. He was called Sergeant in 1698. [Col. Rec. Conn. 4-130, 221, 244, 261, 265, 283, 343, 347, 359, 378.]
The will of John Tracy seanr, dated 15 June 1702, proved 29 Oct. 1702, gave his wife a third of his personal estate, use of the room we live in, etc., during widowhood, she to have the labor of my two younger sons and the benefit of their estate until they come of age, and my sons John and Joseph to allow their mother 14 or 15 bushels of grain, provide her with a good cow, etc.; Winslow to he put out to learn a trade, and reading and writing; son John to have double portion of real estate in Norwich, and to be 'kind to his mother & to his brothers & sister'; daughter Elizabeth, a single portion equal with Joseph and Winslow; wife and son John, Executors. Witnesses: John Barnard and Solomon Tracy. The inventory, not totaled, was sworn to by widow Mrs. Mary Tracy, 14 Sept. 1702; 'mr John Tracy of norwich who decesed August th 16 1702. [New London Probate District, File No. 5348.]"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 John Tracy, in Caulkins, Frances Manwaring, and Connecticut Society of the Founders of Norwich. History of Norwich, Connecticut: from its possession by the Indians, to the year 1866. (Chester, Connecticut: Published for the Society of Founders of Norwich, Connecticut by the Pequot Press, 1976)
204.
"Mr. John Tracy died Aug. 16, 1702. … Mr. Tracy’s inventory specifies the homestead, valued at £130, and seventeen other parcels of land, comprising between three and four thousand acres. He had land at Yantick, at Bradford’s brook, Beaver brook, Lebanon, Little Lebanon, Wawecos hill, Potapaug, at Wenungatuck, (on the west side of the Quinebaug, above Plainfield,) at Tadmuck hill, (east of the Quinebaug.) and at Mashamagwatuck, in the Nipmuck country. The land at Wenungatuck was part of a large tract purchased of Owaneco, sachem of Mohegan. In the division of the estate it fell to Nathaniel Backus."
- ↑ Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. (Hartford, Conn.: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1913)
1:7.
'Mr John Tracy Deceased August 16th 1702'
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