Copy 2 - Tracey/Tracy/Treacy Family
Copy 2 - Tracey/Tracy/Treacy Family
Copy 2 - Tracey/Tracy/Treacy Family
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AUTOGRAPH PROOF OK FINANCIAL EMBARRASSMENT OF WILLIAM TRACY IN VIRGINIA<br />
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Exhibit Q—John Bridges to John Smyth, September 23, 1620, in which he<br />
speaks of William <strong>Tracy</strong> of Hayles as his cousin and offers financial assistance—<br />
This letter also helps to identify Thomas <strong>Tracy</strong> of New England in 1636 as<br />
the lost son of William <strong>Tracy</strong> of Hayles and Virginia— Original in Lenox Library<br />
tidii of it is Iicrc presented in Exhiliit<br />
10:<br />
[After our very liarty comendac/ons : wee<br />
send herewith vnto yon, a Comission to<br />
discliarge the governemcH; and anthority.<br />
which last yeare was by vs and yourselfe<br />
conferred vpon Captayne Woodleefe wherto<br />
your ownee Iiand and seale is to be<br />
affixed, if you have cause to make vse<br />
therof, w/i;ch we leave to the wisdome of<br />
yourselfe and Mr <strong>Tracy</strong> we have conferred<br />
the whnll gont';'nemc;;( of all our people<br />
and affayres ioyntly by one other Comission<br />
vpon yourselfe and Mr <strong>Tracy</strong> accordinge<br />
to the tenor of the former to cap-<br />
tayne Woodleefe] makinge noe doubt of<br />
your prudent vsage therof, profitably also<br />
for yourselves and vs. . . . With our<br />
afTectionate comendaci'ons we bid you hartcly<br />
farewell and rest<br />
Yor assured loving frends<br />
Rich. Berkeley. John Smyth.<br />
Stoke Saturday<br />
10 Sept. 1620.<br />
The financial misfortnnes of William<br />
<strong>Tracy</strong> of Havles did not slialce<br />
the faitli of iiis colleagues, who held<br />
him in high esteem for his services to<br />
the first permanent English settlement<br />
in America when it was in dire need<br />
and about ready to abandon the continent<br />
and re.*urn home after vears of<br />
poverty, famine and massacre. This<br />
is shown by the agreement between<br />
Richard Berkeley, George Thorpe,<br />
William <strong>Tracy</strong> and John Smyth, in<br />
which Thorpe and <strong>Tracy</strong> are selected<br />
as governors of the colony on August<br />
28, 1620:<br />
It.'m it is further agreed that for the better<br />
augmentacon of the number of their<br />
said servants and collony already in Virginia<br />
That another ship called the supply<br />
shall in the month of September nowe next<br />
followinge be sent from the said port of<br />
Bristoll furnished at their like equall costs<br />
and charges in all things w/th .540. persons<br />
or therabouts, And that the authority and<br />
governemrii/ of the said men and all others<br />
eyther already in Virginia or hereafter to<br />
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