Person:Richard Brackett (2)

Name^[1]	Deacon Richard Brackett
Gender	Male
Christening^[1]	16 Sep 1610	Sudbury, Suffolk, EnglandSt. Gregory
Religion`^?`	27 Aug 1630	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesFirst Church in Boston
Residence`^?`	Bet 1632 and 1641	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	6 Jan 1633/34	City of London, Greater London, EnglandSaint Katherine By The Tower to Alice Blower
Property`^?`	21 Apr 1636	Granted home lot in Boston
Occupation`^?`	1637	Prison keeper. Known as "Grim" Richard Brackett
Residence`^?`	1641	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
Religion`^?`	5 Dec 1641	Dismissed to church of Braintree, Massachussetts
Ordination`^?`	21 Jul 1642	Ordained deacon Braintree Church
Military`^?`		Captain in King Phillip's war
Death^[1]	3 Mar 1690	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial^[3]		Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Probate`^?`	19 Dec 1690	Will proved
Ancestral File Number		AFN: 9JL7-X2

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Associations

Richard is part of a large kinship network of Great Migration immigrants through his mother and wife:

Brother Peter Brackett, came to Braintree about 1636
Step-father Martin Saunders, his step-siblings, sister Rachel (Brackett) Newcomb, her husband Francis, and their children sailed on the Planter in 1635.
His wife Alice Blower's two brothers probably came to New England
His father-in-law Thomas Blower came in 1635.
His wife's aunt Thomasine Frost m. Edmund Rice, immigrant to Sudbury.
His wife's aunt Elizabeth Frost m. Philemon Whale, also immigrant to Sudbury.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
vol1 p205.

Migration: 1632; First Residence: Boston; Occupation: Husbandman. Boston jailkeeper.
Birth: Baptized at St. Gregory, Sudbury, Suffolk, 16 Sept 1610, son of Peter Brackett [and his wife Rachel] [TAG 52:73]
Death: Braintree 3 Mar 1690, aged 80 [BrVR 658]
Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
1:229.

RICHARD, Boston 1632, prob. br. of first Peter, freem. 25 May 1636, ar. co. 1639, dism. with w. Alice to Braintree ch. 5 Dec. 1641, deac. ord. 21 July 1642, town clk. many yrs. third capt. of the town, d. 5 Mar. 1691, aged 80 yrs. says the gr.stone. By his w. Alice, wh. d. 1690, aged 76, he had Hannah, bapt. 4 Jan. 1635; Peter, and John, perhaps tw. both bapt. 7 May 1637; Rachel, 3 Nov. 1639; Mary, b. 1 Feb. 1642; James; Josiah, 8 July 1652; and Sarah. Of the ds. Hannah m. Samuel Kingsley of Billerica; Rachel m. 15 July 1659, Simon Crosby; Mary m. 24 July 1662, Joseph Thompson; and Sarah m. 1675, Joseph Crosby of Braintree.
↑ "Richard Brackett & Alice Blowers", in Threlfall, John B. Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & their Origins. (Madison, Wisconsin: J.B. Threlfall, 1990)
63ff.

he is buried in the old North precinct of Braintree, now the city of Quincy.