52 Ancestors - Week 454: #724 John Tracy (1663-1701) of Duxbury, Massachusetts

John Tracy (a1663-a1701) is #724 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #725 Deborah --?-- (a1662-????) in 1682 in Duxbury, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

* their son, #362 John Tracy (1695-1751), who married #363 Mary Hawkins (171-1761 in 1728.

* their daughter, #181 Deborah Tracy (1731-a1800) who married #180 Simon Wade (1731-a1800), who in about 1763.

*  their son, #90 Simon Wade (1767-1857), who married #91 Phebe Horton (1772-a1820) in about 1790.

*  their daughter #45 Miranda Wade (1804-1850), who married #44 Jonathan White (1803-1850) in 1824.

*  their son #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) who married #23 Amy Oatley (1826-1864) in 1844.

*  their daughter #11 Julia E. White (1848-1913) who married #10 Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in 1868.

*  their daughter #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) who married #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.

*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.

*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Name:                            John Tracy[1-2]

* Sex:                                 Male

*  Father:                           John Tracy 1633-1718

*  Mother:                         Mary Prence 1639-1711

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                              about 1663, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States[1]

*  Death:                            before 15 July 1701 (before about age 38), wife Deborah Tracy named as a widow; Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States[1]

 

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:                        Deborah  1662-????

*  Marriage 1:                    about 1682 (about age 19), Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States[1-2]

*  Child 1:                          Susanna Tracy 1683-1766

*  Child 2:                          Sarah Tracy 1686-1731

*  Child 3:                          Thomas Tracy 1688-1755

*  Child 4:                          Mary Tracy 1690-1731

*  Child 5:                          Deborah Tracy 1692-    

*  Child 6:                          John Tracy 1695-1751

*  Child 7:                          Tryphosa Tracy 1699-1758

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    

Information about the Tracy family of Massachusetts and Rhode Island was published in the book: Cuyler Reynolds, Genealogical and Family history of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley: a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation, Volume 3, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1914.

There are other resources for the John Tracy family, but they are not as detailed.  For the John and Deborah (--?--) Tracy family, the book has:

"(III) John (2) Tracy, son of John (1) and Mary (Prince) Tracy, was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts in about 1663, died there, 1701. He held many offices in Duxbury. He married Deborah --?-- in about 1682, probably in Duxbury.. The town records of Duxbury say: 'July 15, 1701. The town at this meeting granted to Widow Deborah Tracy twenty acres of land.'"

John and Deborah (--?--) Tracy had 7 children, all born in Duxbury, but there are no records for their births:

* Susannah Tracy (1636-1766), married 1715 John Simmons (1670-1739).
* Sarah Tracy (1686-1731).
* Thomas Tracy (1688-1755), married (1) 1723 Lusanna Snow (1683-1732); married (2) 1733 Lydia Randall (1690-1753).
* Mary Tracy (1790-1731), married 1712 Henry Gullifer (1684-1724).
* Deborah Tracy (1692-????), married 1714 Thomas Bourne (1693-1721).
* John Tracy (1695-1751), married 1728 Mary Hawkins (1710-1767).
* Tryphosa Tracy (1699-1758), married 1736 Obadiah Ford (1700-1758).

John Tracy died before 15 July 1701, when his widow Deborah Tracy was granted 20 acres of land in Duxbury[1]. There is no known burial site for John Tracy, although it is likely in Duxbury.

There are no probate records for John Tracy in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

5.  SOURCES

1. Cuyler Reynolds, Genealogical and Family history of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley: a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation, Volume 3, (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1914), page 1416, (III) John Tracy sketch.

2. "New England Marriages to 1700," online database with digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008, page 751, John Tracy and Deborah --?-- marriage entry, 1682.

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog in 2014.  I have extended this theme in 2022 to 468 Ancestors in 468 Weeks.

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