Copy 2 - Tracey/Tracy/Treacy Family

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of Lord Conwa_v, is proved to be a
direct descendant in unbroken line of
succession to Egbert the first Saxon
King of all England. Britton's chart
records William Tracy as dying without
issue. I have proven this erroneous
by William Tracy's own handwriting
and by the records of Virginia.
He had a son and his name
was Thomas as witnessed in Exhibit
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In this same Exhibit 7 it will be
found that John Smyth in his own
handwriting entered a record of William
Tracy's death on April 8. 1621, in
the midst of his financial misfortunes
in Virginia ; that his wife, Mary (Con-
way) Tracy, was "slayne and dead."
but these words are stricken out ; that
his daughter, Joyce, married Captain
Nath. Powell, and both were slain;
and finally that the son, Thomas
Tracy, "returned for England."
With this tragical ending of the
American speculations of a scion of
the House of Ethelred, tho Saxon
King, I rest this first part of my argu-
ment and turn to Lieutenant Thomas
Tracy of Massachusetts and Connecticut,
from whom a large part of the
Tracys in America descend, inasmuch
as it is proven that the Tracy expedition
to Virginia not only proved a
financial disaster, but ended in a
tragedy.
The words "slayne and dead" written
by John Smyth alongside of the
mother's name show conclusively that
she was not in Virginia and that her
whereabouts was unknown by her late
husband's associates. It is evident
that John Smyth, who was one of the
closest friends of her husband, had
heard that she was "sla\-ne and dead ;"
but the crossing out of the line signifies
that he later found that she was
living and therefore obliterated the
entry. If slie had been living in Virginia,
John Smyth would have known
it. It is a safe conjecture that she
had gone liack to England after her
husband's death, where in the usual
course of events she would have re-
turned to her kin at Arrow in Warwickshire.
Be this as it may, the record explicitly
states "Thomas Tracy their
Sonne returned for England." Exhaustive
searches in the ancient records
of England, in parish books,
courts of chancery, English graveyards,
and fugitive papers and letters
in antiquarian archives, have failed to
give one word that even mentions his
return to England. Eminent American
and British genealogists have
gleaned the country to find an entry
tliat would throw any light upon the
existence of Thomas Tracy in England
after he had departed from Virginia
and "returned for England."
In 1636, there entered the town of
Salem, Massachusetts, an Englishman
by the name of Thomas Tracy. He
had been in Watertown, Massachusetts,
and came to Salem with references
from citizens of Watertown. I
here present Exhibit 12, which is a
photograph of a portion of the book
of the Salem, Massachusetts, Records,
and contains this entry :
By the Towne represent, 2d of the first
mo. 1636-7. p 38.
Tho : Trace
Reed for Ihaliitant vpon
a Certificate from diners of water Towne.
And is to have 5 acres of Land, [which he
may haue laid ont wlien he hath a ticket
from me that he hath paid me.l In short
hand hy the Town Clerl