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lubroUru 2Jtur of irsrrnt frmn IKtug lEgbrrt strange disappearance of the boy witli the stranger appearance of the man. To weld these Hnks in the chain still more firmly it is well to finally con- sider the narrative chronologically from its approximate dates. In 1620, when William Tracy promoted the Virginia adventure his son was a mere child. It has been shown that if he had been far advanced in boyhood his father would have given him the male's precedence over his sister. It is not probable that he was more than ten years of age, and it is more probcible that he was younger. To find a working basis for this chronological test an approximate may be placed at eight years of age. It required from five to seven years' apprenticeship to learn the trade of ship carpentry, and it generally began as soon as the boy could prepare lumber and understand the construction of sea-faring vessels. If the eight-yearold missing Virginia boy was apprenticed to the trade he would have begun at about sixteen or seventeen years of age, and when he completed his time would have been about twenty-four years old. In 1636, Thomas Tracy, the ship carpenter at Salem, was an unmarried youth and must have been about twenty-four years of age, which is proven by the complete records of his later years. In 1637, when, according to the records, he was unmarried, he would have been twenty-five years of age. In 1639 (twenty-seven years of age), he was living in Saybrook. Connecticut, was married, and shared in the division of land. In 1660 (fortyeight years of age), he was in Norwich, Connecticut, and had seven children. He served twenty-seven terms in the General Assembly (there were two sessions per year), and died at seventy-three years of age in 1685. If Thomas Tracy, the missing Vir- ginia boy and scion of a gentle family, was eight years of age when his father promoted Virginia in 1620, he would have been just seventy-three years of age in 1683, the recorded date and the approximate age of Lieutenant Thomas Tracy, the ship carpenter of Massachusetts and legislator of Connecti- cut, at the time of his death. Choose your own approximate dates, based on the facts, and make vour own computations from any conclusions you may find in the evidence, and the result is equally convincing. I apply this chronological test to ascertain whether or not it will agree with the established facts. It proves them so mathematically accurate that all possibility of coincidence is removed. The genealogical link is welded. The chain from the Saxon Kings through William Tracy, governor of Virginia, and his son, Thomas Tracy of Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, is complete, and the descendants of Thomas Tracy in America are the progeny of the Saxon kings. The lineage is supported by proof more tangible than that of many accepted assumptions of science. It has a greater preponderance of docun'entary evidence and relies less on faith and suppositions than much which we are required to accept from therapeutics, astronomy, dynamics, and even theology. I believe that in the days to come genealogy will become an established study in the science of heredity, but it cannot demand more formidable proof than the established sciences on which life it- self depends. With the lineage of Lieutenant Thomas Tracy, who died at Norwich, Connecticut, in 1685, established, and the mystery of his early life cleared, it is apropos in way of recapitulation to recall some of the near kinsfolk : His Grandparents: Sir John Tracy. Knight, Lord of Toddington and Hayles Abbey; Anna Throckmorton, danghter of Sir Thomas Throckmorton. His Parents: William Tracy. Esqnire, of Hayles Abbey. Conncillor of State for Virginia and Governor of Berkeley Hnndred ; Anne Conway, danghter of Sir
©I|f Prngûij of B'axon iUouarrI|B in Amrrtra John Conway and sister of Lord Viscount Conway. His Uncles: The Right Honourable, John Tracy. First Baron of Rathcoole; Sir Thomas Tracy, Grand Usher to the Queen ; The Right Honourable, Edward Conway, First Lord Viscount of Conway Castle, "Lord President of His Majesty's JNIost Honourable Privy Council;" Sir Edward Bray; Sir William Hobby. His First Cousins: The Right Honourable, Robert Tracy, Second Baron of Rathcole, M. P. ; The Right Honourable. Edward Conway. Second Baron of Conway Castle. M. P. ; Sir Thomas Conway, Lieutenant Colonel in the Army: Frances Conway, married Sir William Pelham, Knight: Brilliana Conway, married Sir Robert Harley, Knight; Heligawarth Conway, married Sir William Smith, Knight. He had no Brotlicrs; his only sister; Joyce Tracy, married in Virginia, Captain Nathaniel Powell, "a man of culture who kept an account of the occurrences in the Colony which were freely used by Captain Smith in his History of Virginia." The royal lines from the Tracys, Conways and the Bridges shoot out into so many directions that the blood is found in many of the first families of Great Britain and America. It is a blood that has produced men in all lines of the world's activity, that has been the maker of kings of an empire and conscientious citizens of a republic. In using the term "Tracys in America" I refer of course to those who are descended from the first immigration. Other branches from immigrations later than those of William Tracy of Virginia in 1620 are not necessarily included in my discussion. For instance, there was one, Stephen Tracy, who came to Plymouth, ^lassachusetts, in the ship "Ann" in 1623, who lias distinguished descendants through America, among tliem being General Benjamin Franklin Tracy, former Secretary of the Navy of the United States. It may be possible that there is a relationshio, but my investigations have not yet allowed me to definitely settle this matter. I inscribe these words to all those who are "looking forward to posterity witli a knowledge gained in looking backward to ancestry," with the admonition of the great Edmund Burke who once remarked : "Those who do not treasure up the memory of their ancestors do not deserve to be remembered by posterity." VJfj'^- ONLY SPECIMEN OF LIEUTENANT THOMAS TRACY'S HANDWRITINc; E.XTANT
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