Historical address before the fourth annual reunion of - Tracey/Tracy ...

12 THE TRACY FAMILY.
"and is to have five acres of land." He lefi the \k\\ fcv the
colony on the ("onnecticut River, about 1640. and setiied in
Weather.stield, where he married the widovv' of Ixhvard M.iN,,n
in 1 64 1. A ffw years later lit- removed to Sa\-tirooii.\
were extra se>sions. October. 1666. he was chosen ensign of
tlie tirst train Ijainl organi/:cd in Nurwieh, a;':u in Av _.'.
1673. lieutenant of the Xew London. Conn.. DragO'^ns. enlisted
to tight against the Dutch and LKl'an^. In 167S. he
was appointed commissioner or justice of tlie jx-nce. Me v, as
lieutenant under Capt, James .Vvei\-. Later Lieut. T:;o:r:as
was appointed mastei or inspector of arms and annnunition.
In July. 167;. Lieut, 'bhomas v.as ordered to attend Ca!:t,
Wait W'ir.tlirr.p. with men. to jtop the Xarragarisett Ir.dians
from joining King Philip'^ War. l\\ 1 'm^ j. 'i'homas i'racv.
v.itli tv.u others, was chusen by the t','V. n to trv all cases to the
value of forty shillings.
Thomas Tracy's sec(.>nd wife was >Lutha, relict of Jnhn
Bradford, whom he married in 1676. In the course of a fe'v
years he \\as again a v, idower, and married in iGS^. Mary,
daughter of Xathaniel h^-i't. Lieut. Thomas Tracy, died Xov.
7, 1GS5. ll[< estaies V. ere \ cilucd at £yoz. He had .:i o' —
tribution no ir.ention of a widow is made.
,Late researches into the history of the fami'y of 'I'iiomas
Tracy furnisli the evidence that he was of honorable descenr,
and that his iivim'ediate aiiCe>to'-s for tl.ree generati'V.:.-, bi.;d
been dislinguiihed for tidelity to the Reformed vor Protestant*
religion.
Ki(h.ird Tracy cf Stairway. England, pei-lished a booh,
deeply inibued with the spirit of Protestantism, on acc'iuu or
A hich iie suiVered much fr>jni ; er^^ecuticMi in the da-'s