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Presented hy the Author

GENEALOGY

OF THE FAMILY OF

Lt. Thomas Tracy,

OF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT.

COMPILED FROM THE GENKALOGICAL WORKS OF THE IIYDES
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AND OTHER reliable SOURCES.
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THE TRACY'S

The following, compiled from the celebrated works of the
Hyde's and Tracy's, by Chancellor Eeuben H. Wahvorth, proves
that Lieut. Thomas Tracy, of Norwich, Conn., was a direct
descendant of the Saxon Kings, of England.
The Princess Gode, youngest daughter of King Ethelred II,
his last wife was Emma, of Normandy, daughter of Eichard I,
Duke of Normandy, held lands in Gloucestershire in the reign of
her brother, King Edward the Confessor, (see 2, Ellis' Doomsday
book, 119), which lands remain in the hands of her descendants
at this time. She married for her first husband, Dreux, Count
of Vexin, called by English historians, "Walter de Mante, Count
of Mantes. He was great grand-son of Waleran who succeeded
Hugh, the great Duke of France, father of Hugh Capet, as count
of Vexin, in 956, and is said to be descended from Emperor Char
lemagne and Hildegarde of Swabia, his wife. He went on a pil
grimage to .lerusalem, and died in Bythinia, about the first of
July, 1035, and she died in 1054. They had four sons : fir.st,
Gauther, same name as Walter; second, Eudolph or Ealph ;
third, Toulgues ; fourth, Poutoise.
General Eudolph or Ealph de Mantes, their second son was
Lord of the Manor of Sudeley and of Toddington, which he in
herited from his mother. He was created Earl of Hereford by
his uncle, Edward the Confessor, of which earldom his son was
deprived in the reign of William the Conqueror. He married
Gethe, who held lands in her own right in Buckinghamshire, and
who, in Doomsday book, is called Gethe, wife of Earl Eudolph.

He died the 21st of Dec, 1057, and was buried at Petersborough.
Harold de Mantes, their only son, married Matilda, daughter
of Hugh Lupis, the first Earl of Chester, and Ermitrude his wife,
and had by her two sons, John de Sudeley and Eobert de Ewas.
John, the eldest son, inherited the lands of his father, in
Gloucestershire, and became John de Sudeley, Lord of Sudeley
and Toddington. He married Grace Tracy, daughter and heiress
of Henry de Tracy, Feudal Lord of Barnstable, in Devonshire.
They had two sons, Ealph the heir of the father, and William de
Sudeley, who inherited the lands of his mother, and assumed her
family name of Tracy.
Sir William Tracy, the second son, knight of Gloucestershire
held lands at Toddington to the extent of one knights fee, from
his brother Ealph de Sudely. He was one of the knights who, at
the command of Henry II, assassinated Thomas A. Becket. He
died in Devonshire and was hurried in the church of Marthoe,
(see Puller's church history, Polwheles history of Devonshire.)
Sir Oliver Tracy, his eldest son and heir, was one of the
knights of Gloucestershire in the time of King John, and as early
as 1695 he was in jjossession of the estates of Barnstable.
William Tracy, his son, of Toddington, was in arms against
King John in 1215, and his proi^erty Avas confiscated, but it was
restored to him by Henry III, about 1217. He married Hawis
de Born, and died about 1224.
Henry Tracy, his son and heir, of Toddington, died about
1246, and had two sons and one daughter.
Henry Tracy, of Toddington, his eldest son and heir, was
presented to the church of Marthoe, in Devonshire, in 1275.
Sir William Tracy, of Toddington, his son and heir, was one
of the kniglits of Gloucestershire in 1290, and had a command
in the Scottish war.
His son, William Tracy of Toddington, was a ward of Law
rence Tresham in 1300. He was one of the knights of Glouces
tershire, and was sheriff for five years, commencing in 1324. In

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1313 he was elected to Parliament as one of the knights of Glou
cestershire, and again in 1321. (The office of sheriff in those
days was a situation of great dignity and importance, very dif
ferent from now.)
William Tracy, of Toddington, his son and heir, had a man
date to raise troops for the King, in the seventh Edward III,
from the county of Gloucestershire.
Sir John Tracy, of Toddington, his son and heir, was in
Parliament as one of the knights of Gloucestershire in 1357, and
was sheriff in 1368-1369.
Sir John Tracy, his eldest son, of Toddington, was a mem
ber of Parliament, he was sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1378, and
died in 1.S79.
William Tracy, of Toddington, his son and heir, was sheriff
of Gloucestershire in 1395, and died in 1399.
William Tracy, of Toddington, his son and heir, was sherift'
of Gloucestershire in 1418, and in 1431 was called to the privy
council of King Henry YI. He married Alice, the widow of Wil
liam Gifford, and daughter and heiress of Guy de la Spine, Lord
of the manor of Coughton, in Warwickshire.
William Tracy, of Toddington, their eldest son and heir, was
sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1443-1444-1450. He married Mar
garet Pauncefort, daughter of Sir John Pauncefort and Margaret
Beauchami^, his first wife.
Henry Tracy, Esq., of Toddington, their eldest son and heir,
married Alice Baldington, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas
Baldington, Esq., of Alderly, and died about 1506.
Sir William Tracy, of Toddington, their eldest son and heir,
was sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1513. He married Margaret
Trockmorton, daughter of Sir Thomas Trockmorton of Ass Court,
and Margaret Ordney, his wife, and grand-daughter of Sir John
Trockmorton, who married Eleanor, daughter and co-heiress of
Sir Guy de la Spine, .Lord of the manor of Coughton in Warwick
shire, and died about 1531. He was one of the first who em
braced the reformed religion, in the time of King Henry VIII.

In his will, instead of leaving his soul to God through the inter
cession of the Virgin Mary and the rest of the Saints, according
to the then common form, he stated briefly his belief as a Chris
tian, and his hope of salvation by the grace and merit of the
Saviour, and then proceeds as follows : "As touching the wealth
of my soul, the faith that I have taken and rehearsed is sufScient
as I suppose without any other man's works or merits. My ground
and belief is that there is but one God and one mediator between
God and man, which is Jesus Christ. So that I accept none
other in heaven or earth to mediate between me and God, all
others to be but petitioners in receiving grace, and therefore will
I bestow no part of my goods for the intent that any man shall
say or do ought to help my soul. For therein I trust only to the
promises of Christ. He that believeth and is baptised shall be
saved, and he who believes not shall be damned." This will was
condemned as heretical, and the testator's body was raised and
burned in 1532. He left two sons : first, William, who was an
cestor of the Viscounts Tracy, of Eathcoole, in the peerage of
Ireland, and of Eobert Tracy, who was one of the English .judges
from 1700 to 1726 ; second, Eichard Tracy.
Eichard Tracy, Esq., of Stanway, the second son, was sher
iff of Gloucestershire in 1559. He obtained grants of lands from
the Crown at Stanway and at Beckford, in the county which had
belonged to the suppressed Abbey of Tewksbury, (see first Plow.,
Eep. 7145.) He was a man of good education, and prior to the
death of Edward VI, wrote several treaties in defence of his
fathers' faith, the most remarkable of which was entitled "Prep
arations for the Cross," written in 1550. He married Barbara
Lucy, pupil of Fox, the Martyrologist, she was daughter of Thom
as Lucy, of Chaiiecote, in Warwickshire, and it was her nephew
on whom Shakespeare took revenge, by writing in one of his
plays as Justice Shallow, as it was before Sir Thomas Lucy,
Shakespeare was arraigned for deer stealing. Eichard Tracy,
Esq., of Stanway, and Barbara Lucy had three sons and three
daughters. He was sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1560, Barbara

Lucy, his wife, was a descendant in the sixteenth generation
from Hugh de Mountfort, son of Gilbert de Gamet and Alice
Mountfort, and great grand- son of Baldwin V. Count of Flanders,
who married Alice, daughter of Eobert II, King of France.
Through her ancestress, Judith, wife of Baldwin, the first Count
cf Flanders, Barbara Lucy was descended from the Emperor
Charlemagne, and through his ancestors, Alfritha, wife of Bald
win II, Count of Flanders, she was descended from Alfred the
Great, and other Saxon kings of England.
Nathaniel Tracy, of Tewksbury, their second son received
lands from his father at that place.
Lieut. Thomas Tracy, son of Nathaniel Tracy, came from
Tewksbury, where he was born, in 1610, to New England. He
landed at Salem, whore he stayed until Feb. 23, 1637. He came
over in the interest of his friends. Lord Say and Lord Brooks.
He soon left the bay for the old colony on the Connecticut river
in 1640, and there married the widow Mason in 1641, at Weth-
ersfield, afterward moved to Saybrook, named after his friends.
'Tis an old, substantial, euphonious name, interesting from its
historical associations. Lord Say and Lord Brook with their as
sociates were the patentees of Connecticut. Their patent was
received from Eobert, Earl of Warwick, in 1632, and extended
along the New England coast, westward from the Narragansett
river 120 miles, and in latitude and breadth to the South Sea.
The Earl of Warwick was president of the Council of Plymouth,
incorporated by King James the First, for the settlement of New
England, and authorized to dispense grants and patents to others.
The patents were therefore valid and clear. The place of imme
diate importance in this patent, was the point at the mouth of
the Connecticut river. And here John Winthrop acting under
commission from the patentees, built a fort and commenced a
plantation in 1635 to 1636. The Pequot war followed soon after
the establishment, and threatened the annihilation of the infant
settlement. The fort was frequently surrounded by bloodthirsty
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Thomas Tracy had by his first wife, the widow Mason, seven
children : first, John, born 1642 ; second, Thomas, about 1644 ;
third, Jonathan, 1646 ; fourth, Miriam, about 1648 ; fifth, Solo
mon, 1651 ; sixth, Daniel, 1651 ; seventh, Samuel, 1654, who died
in 1693, unmarried. The first two children were born in Weth.
ersfield, the others in Saybrook, where he lived many years before
removing to Norwich, Conn., where he was one of the proprietors
of the nine mile grant.
John, Lieut. Thomas Tracy's first son, married Mary Wins
low, June 10, 1670, resided in Duxbury, Mass. The bride was a
daughter of Josiah Winslow, the elder, who -was a brother to Gov.
Edward Winslow, of Plymouth. It is a mistake about her being
the daughter of John Winslow and his wife, of the Mayflower,
(From Mrs. Calkin's celebrated bock on Norwich.)
Thomas Tracy, second son, born 1642, The name of his wife
is not recorded. He had eight children : Nathaniel, Sarah, Jer
emiah, Daniel, Thomas, Jediah, Deborah and Jerusha. His will
was dated April 6, 1721, but not proved until 1724.
Jonathan Tracy, third son of Lieut. Thomas, was born in
1648, and married Mary Griswold. July 11, 1672, Their children
were: Jonathan, Jr., Hannah, Christopher and Mary.
Miriam Tracy, only daughter, the fourth child of Lieut.
Thomas Tracy, was born in 1649. Married Thomas Waterman,
Nov. 1668. Their children were : Thomas, John, Elizabeth, Mi
riam, Martha, Lydia and Waterman. Thomas Waterman, her
husband, was one of the original proprietors of Norwich.
Thomas Waterman, her eldest son, married Elizabeth Allyn.
and John, her second son, first married Elizabeth Lathroi^, sec
ond, Judith Woodward, third, Elizabeth Bassett. He was the
father of William Waterman, A\ho married Margaret Tracy, and
of Hannah Waterman, mother of Benedict Arnold, the traitor.
Elizabeth Waterman, her eldest daughter, married Capt. John
Fitch, of Windham, and had four children. Martha Waterman,
her third daughter, married Deacon Eeynold Marvin, of Lyme.
Dr. Solomon Tracy, fourth son of Lieut. Thonins, was born

1651. He first married Sarah Huntington, Nov. 23, 1676 ; second
Sarah Bliss, widow of Thomas Sherman, April 8, 1686. Their
children by the first wife were Lydia and Simon, and by second
wife, Solomon Tracy. Simon died July 9, 1782.
Daniel Tracy, fifth son, born 1652, married Abigail Adgate,
Sept. 9, 1682, second wife, Hannah Bingham, widow of Thomas
Bingham, March 4, 1711. Their children by the first wife were
Daniel and Abigail ; by the second wife, Elizabeth and Samuel.
Daniel Tracy, Sen., died July 29, 1728.
Samuel Tracy, sixth son, died June 11, 1693, without issue.
The youngest son of Thomas Tracy, Avho was the son of
Lieut. Thomas Tracy, was Jedediah Tracy, of Preston, who died
June 8, 1779. His father, Thomas Tracy, son of Lieutenant,
died April 6, 1721.
Deacon Jedediah died at the age of 87 years. His death
was caused by being thrown from a horse, (gay old fellow to be
riding at that age) he had been deacon of his church fifty years.
He was Magistrate and Eepresentative of the town. He left
one hundred and thirty-seven direct d'escendents. Good for you
Jedediah. Lieut. Thomas Tracy was evidently a man of talent and ac
tivity, skillful in the management of various kinds of business.
He took great interest in ship-building, and did not think it a
degradation to use his hands as well as his mind. The confi
dence placed in him by his associates is manifested in the great
number of appointments which he received. His name is on the
roll of the Legislature as representative of Norwich, at twenty-
seven sessions. The elections were semi-annual, and Mr. Tracy
was chosen twenty-one times, beginning October 9, 1662, and
ending July 5, 1684. The others were extra sessions. In August
1673, he was lieutenant of the "New London County Dragoons,"
enlisting to fight the Dutch and Indians.
These six John Tracy's were in the line of primogeniture,
and natives of Norwich, except the first one.
John Tracy, the second son, was born in 1673. He married

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Elizabeth LeflSngwell, daughter of Thomas Lef&ngwell, the 2d,
of Norwich. He was born Aug. 27, 1649. The eldest son Lieut.
Thomas Lef&ngwell, was one of the original proprietors of Nor
wich. He was born at Croix Hall, England, and was one of the
first settlers of Saybrook.
Thomas Lefiingwell, the second son, came to Norwich in
1660, being then 11 years old. He married Mary Bushnell, who
was born Jan. 8, 1655, at Saybrook. The eldest daughter of
Eichard Bushnell and Mary Marvin, of Saybrook.
John Tracy, third son, born 1702, married Margaret Hyde.
John Tracy, fourth son, was born at Norwich, Conn., Feb.
11, 1726, was the eldest son of John Tracy and Margaret Hyde,
of Norwich. He married Oct. 13, 1747, his third cousin, Mar
garet Huntington, born Nov. 23, 1724, at Norwich, daughter of
Christopher Huntington and Abigail Abel-Lathrop. His children
by her were : John 5th, born at Norwich, married Lester Dridge-;.
Mary, born April, 1750, at Norwich, married Andrew Hyde ; \
Margaret, born May 29, 1753, at Norwich, married first, Zebe- '
diah Lathrop, second Benjamin Stoors ; Lydia, born 1775, died '
unmarried. *
John Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., Dec. 21, 1755, eldest'
son of John Tracy and Margaret Huntington. He married May ,
24, 1780, Esther Pride, of Lisbon. In 1806 they removed to Co-/
lumbus, N. Y., where he died June 14, 1821.
His first son John, was born Oct. 26, 1783, at Norwich, mar
ried Susannah Hyde. He was a lawyer, and they settled at Ox
ford. He was Lieutenant Governor of the state for six years.
They were living at Oxford in 18S2. They had three children,
born at Oxford. The first, John, born June 20, 1820. He was
the seventh John in descent from Lieut- Thomas Tracy. This
John died Dec. 24, 1820, living only a few months.
Lieut. Joshua Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn , Aug. 13, 1745.
The seventh son of John Tracy and Margaret Hyde, of Norwich,
was grand-son of John Hyde, of the third generation. He
married. May 2, 1771, Naoma Bingham, of Windham, born May

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13, 1744, daughter of Jonathan Bingham and Mary Abbey, of
Windham, grand- daughter of John Abbey, the first, of Wind
ham, Mass. He died March, 1777, at Norwich, Conn., of small
pox, and was hurried on the hill at Franklin, near Dr. Wood
wards. Their children were : Abel, born April 26, 1772, at Nor
wich ; Thomas, born May 23, 1774, at Norwich, was educated at
Yale, and died at Baltimore, unmarried ; Joshua, born Dec. 21,
1776, at Norwich, died Aug. 11, 1779.
Abel Tracy, son of Lieut. Joshua, was the grand-father of
the celebrated artist, Mr. John Martin Tracy. His home for a
few years has been Greenwich, Conn., where he moved from New
York, as his specialty is cattle painting, for which he is famous.
He left the Sophomore Class of the Northwestern University, of
Evanston, 111., to enlist in the army ; he served through the war,
reaching the grade of Lieutenant. After ths war he went on a
tour of the Eastern States, and forming the acquaintance of sev
eral artists, he decided to adopt the profession of painting. He
went at once to Paris, and soon entered the Ecole dis Beaux arts,
and atelier of Isidor Pils, intending to become a painter of bat
tles. After the death of his master, he went for some years un
der the instruction of Caroleas Daran, and he began an acciden
tal but most encouraging career as a portrait painter. During
the Franco-Prussian war, he was in America, and traveled for
two years in California and the far west generally, returning to
Paris in 1874. He married Melamia, daughter of August Guill-
man, the celebrated j^astel portrait painter. His wife's family,
on the father's side, have all been professional artists since a time
when there is no record to the contrary. The brother of his wife,
Emile Guillman, is to-day one of the most eminent of those sculp
tors who devote themselves to bronzes. Her mother is of the fam
ily of Chamfflewey, the novelist and writer on Ceramics, etc.
Deed of Norwich.
Know all men that Onkos, Owaneco, Attawanhood, Sachems
of Mohegan have Bargained, sold gnd passed over, and doe by

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these Presents sell and pass over unto the Towne and Inhabitants
of Norwich nine miles squar of land lying and being at the Mo-
heagen and the parts thereunto ajoyneing, with all ponds, rivers,
woods, quarries, mines, with all royalties, privileges, and appur
tenances thereunto belonging, to them the said inhabitants to
Norwich, theire heirs and successors forever — the said lands are
to be bounded as followeth, viz : to the , southward on the west
side of the Great Eiver, ye line to be begin at the brooke falling
into the head of Trading Cove, and soe to run -west norwest sev
en miles — from thence the line to run nor northeast nine miles,
and on the East side the afores'd river to the southward the line
is to joyne with New London bounds as it is now laid out-and soe
to run east two miles from the foresd river, and soe from thence
the line is to run nor noreast nine miles and from thence to run
nor norwest nine miles to meet with the western line.  In
consideration whereof the sd Onkos, Owaneco and Attawanhood
doe acknowledge to have received of the parties aforesd the full
and juste sum of one hundred and seventy pounds and doe prom
ise and engage ourselves, heirs and successors, to warrant the sd
bargain and sale to the aforesd parties, their heirs and successors
and them to defend from all claims and molestations from any
whatsoever. — In witness whereof we have hereunto set to our
hands this 6th of June, Anno 1659.

Unkos

Owaneco

Attawanhood

his marke

marke

marke

Witness hereunto
John Mason
Thomas Tracy

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This deed is recorded in the County Booke Agust 20, 1668 :
as atests John Allyn, Sec'y.
The bounds of this tract, as more particularly described in
the first volume of the Proprietors' Eecords, were as follows :
The line commenced at the mouth of Trading Cove, where
the brook falls into the cove ; thence W. N. W. seven miles to a
Great Pond, (now in the corner of Bozrah and Colchester,) the
limit in this direction being denoted by a black oak marked N,
that stood near the outlet of the "Great Brook that runs out of
the pond to Norwich river ;" thence N. N.E. nine miles to a black
oak standing on the south side of the river (Shetucket) "a little
above Waw-mi-ag-waug;" thence S. S. E. nine miles, crossing
the Shetucket and the Quinebaug, and passing through "a Seader
Swamp called Catantaquak," to a white oak tree marked N, thir
teen rods beyond a brook called Quo-qui-qua-soug, thespaeefrom
the Quinebaug to this tree being just one mile and fifty-eight
rods ; thence S. S. W. nine miles to a white oak marked N, near
the dwelling-houses of Eobert Allyn and Thomas Eose, where
Norwich and New London bounds join ; thence west on the New
London bounds, crossing the southern part of Mr. Brewster's
land, two miles to Mohegan river, opposite the mouth of Trading
Cove brook, where the first bounds began.
Such were the bounds, as reviewed and renewed in October,
1685, by an authorized committee, accompanied by two sachems
and some of the chief men of Mohegan. The former deed of
1659, with the boundaries thus described and explained, was
then ratified and confirmed by "Owaneco, sachem of Mohegan,
son and heire unto Owaneco," in a new deed, signed by them Oct.
5, 1685, witnessed by John Arnold and Stephen Gifford, and ac
knowledged before James Fitch, Assistant.
The southern boundary line, it will be observed, is nine miles
in length, two east of the river, and seven west, without counting
the breadth of the Thames, and the length of Trading Cove to
the mouth of the brook, which would make this line nearly ten
miles long. This is explained in the deed to be designed as a

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compensation for "the benefit and liberty of the waters and river
for fishing and other occasions," reserved to the Indians.
First House Lots, 1660.

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Extract from a half century sermon delivered in the First
Society of Lisbon, Dec. 6, 1854, by the Eev. Levi Nelson, pastor
of the First Congregational Church in that place.
The Tracy family, Lieut. Thomas Tracy, came from Eng
land, arrived at Salem. Mass., where he staid for a short time,
removed to Saybrook, Conn., then to Norwich. His son Thomas
settled in that part of Norwich which is now near Preston.
Thomas Jr's. son Jeremiah, became a land holder in Newent,
bordering on the Quinebaug river. He was one of the first set
tlers, and joined the church when it was organized in 1723. He
was the father of Deacon Andrew Tracy.
Andrew Tracy, of Lisbon, Conn., was born Feb. 16, 1722,
married Euth Smith, daughter of Capt. Elija Smith, of Barn
stable, Mass. She was born July 18, 1725. His first son was
Ebenezer Tracy, born April 20, 1744. He first married Mary
Freeman ; second. Thankful Ayres ; third, Anna Berry. Their
children were : Eliza, Ziporah, Mary, Sarah, Lydia, the last was
the mother of Mr. Henry Allen, of Norwich, Conn., Eebecca, Ebe
nezer, Jr. and Frederick, who died the same day he was born.
Jesse Tracy was born Dec. 20, 1745, married Faith Bing
ham. Their children were : Lucy, Jesse, Jr., Freeman, Hannah,
Jedediah, Andrew, Erastus, Anna and Felix.
Sarah Tracy married Jedediah Lathrop, had ten children.
The names and ages are on the City Eecords,
Andrew Tracy, Jr., married Anna Bingham, of Windham
Sept. 17, 1771. He died Dec. 28,1819, aged 69 years. His wife
Anna, died Sept. 8, 1827, aged 77 years. They had eight children
Lemuel Tracy, born July 29, 1763, died April 6, 1865, aged 82
Euth Tracy, born March 80, 1775, died Oc^. 17, 1856, aged 81
Lucy Tracy, born Nov. 4, 1777, died April 20, 1824, aged 47
Elias Tracy, born Jan. 22, 1780, died June 20, 1850, aged 70
Stephen Tracy, born July 2, 1782, died Oct. 23, 1866, aged 84
Anna Tracy, born Dec. 27, 1784, died March 1, 1829, aged 45
Andrew Tracy, Jr., born Jan. 25, 1789, died Jan. 8, 1861 ; Jesse

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Tracy, born March 31, 1792, died March 30, 1857, aged 65 ; Eli
jah Tracy died at the age of 11 years.
Euth Tracy married Israel Herrick, had seven children, and
died at LeEoy, N. Y., aged 85. Mary Tracy married Nathan
Taylor. They had eight children. Anna Tracy married Farwell
Coit, had two children. The son, who did not marry, was Eras
tus Coit. The daughter married a Mr. Eeynolds.
Mary Tracy, third daughter of Andrew Tracy, born Sept. 9,
1758, and Nathan Taylor, born Jan. 1752, were married April
24, 1783. Their children were : Nathan, born May 25, 1785, died
Jan. 1, 1865 ; Mary, born April 26, 1787, died May 8, 1872 ; Tra
cy, (twin to Mary) born April 26, 1787, died Feb. 23, 1832 ; John,
borfi Dec. 20, 1789, died June 20, 1877 ; George, born January 5,
1793, died August, 1834 ; William, born March 18, 1795, died June
8, 1881 ; Lydia, born Oct. 6, 1797, died Sept. 18, 1885 ; Ehas,
born Jan. 5, 18D0, died aged about 30.
Jeremiah Tracy was born at Lisbon, Conn., Saturday, April
11, 1761, married Martha Lascelle, May 19, 1785; Martha Las-
celle Tracy, born Monday, March 25, 1765 ; Olive Tracy, born
July 4, 1786 ; Jeremiah, born April 21, 1788; Susannah, born
Wednesday, June 9, 1793 ; Martha Tracy, born Monday, July 2,
1792 ; Jerusha Tracy, born Thursday, July 10, 1794, died Mon
day, May 2, 1796; Erastus Tracy, born April 12, 1797. Second
Jerusha Tracy, born Monday, Aug. 17, 1799 ; Maria Tracy, born
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1801 ; Calvin Tracy, born Saturday, Nov. 5,
1808 ; Luther Tracy, born Feb. 11, 1805 ; Joshua Tracy, born
1807, cannot give the month.
Elizabeth Tracy married GroverLe Hommedian. He had
two wives : by his first wife he had thirteen children, by Eliza
beth, his second wife, six, in all nineteen children. Nothing
small about his family.
David Tracy married Susannah Capron ; they had nine child
ren. Mrs. Henry Allen, the wife of Mr. Henry Allen, of Nor
wich, Conn., and one of the oldest and most respected citizens,
is the only one living of this large family. David died in Nor-

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wich. Conn. ; George died while descending the Mississippi river ;
the Eev. William Tracy, a man of great purity and worth, went
out to India, accompanied by his wife, who was in sympathy
with him in his missionary labor. They and their children deep
ly lamented, now sleep in that far off land.
The descendants of Andrew Tracy are very numerous, and
are to be found in many cities of the United States. Those of
his daughter, Mary Tracy, who married Nathan Taylor, many
are living in Philadelphia, Pa. Her son, Tracy Taylor, was the
first to leave his New England home ; where his brothers George
and William, soon followed him to Philadelphia. They were all
interested in the iron business. In' 1810 George and William
established an importing house at 308 Branch street, making a
specialty of tin plate. When they retired, their sons, Nathan
and George conducted the business with the same integrity and
energy that has always made the house of these honorable men
so popular'. Nathan and George arie both dead ; they were deep
ly lamented by relatives and friends. Mr. William Taylor has
recently retired. The firm now is Mr. Nathan Taylor, Mr. Hol-
lingshead and George Taylor, Jr. They now occupy stores 301-
303-305 Branch street, Philadelphia. Mr. Nathan Taylor, of the
present firm, married Miss Florence N. Supplee. Their children
axe Elizabeth H. Taylor, Florence 0. Taylor and Natalie Taylor.
Mr. Hollingshead W. Taylor married Miss Evaline Skillman ;
children are Aline Skillman Taylor and Hollingshead N. Taylor.
Tracy Taylor, grand-son of Andrew Tracy, was a man far
above ordinary in intelligence and worth. He retired from the
iron business, in which he was engaged for many years with his
brothers George and William Taylor, in Philadelphia, and was
an eminent jurist and a magistrate until his death in 1832. He
married Miss Ann Henry, her father, John Henry, was a mei*-
chant in Philadelphia in the early days of that city. Her moth
er was Miss Knouse, sister to Jacob Knouse, a man highly res
pected. He left a large property that was distributed among his
many descendants of Philadelphia and the Eising Sun, an ad
joining place. The childreri of Ann and Tracy Taylor were :

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Emily Ormond Taylor, married Mr. William Winberg, of Phila
delphia, she died of consumption, childless; Albert Augustus,
died young ; Matilda Ormond Taylor married Harvey Birchard,
of Milwaukee, who was an immediate descendant of John Birch
ard, one of the proprietors of Norwich, Conn. They have one
son, Mr. Harvey L. Birchard, now twenty-eight years of age.
Her second husband was Col. D. C. Abbey, now dead ; Charles
Hiram Taylor, second son of Ann and Tracy Taylor, was a phy
sician graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, married Miss
Mary Irick, daughter of Gen. Irick, of New Jersey. They had
two children, Charles Tracy, and Mary, who died. Charles
Tracy is a merchant in Philadelphia, married Miss Sophia Davis,
grand- daughter of Mr. Cramp, the well known ship-builder of
Philadelphia. Their children are Charles Keen Taylor, Harvey
Birchard Taylor, Emily Cramp Taylor. Almira died unmar
ried ; Alfred died, aged twenty-three, unmarried ; DeWitt was a
physician graduate at the Pennsylvania college, Philadelphia,
and died of pneumonia ; Tracy Watmough Taylor died in in
fancy, Mr. William Taylor, brother to Tracy Taylor, married Miss
Sarah Mollidor. Their only son, Nathan Taylor, was an ener
getic member of the firm of W. & G. Taylor, 808 Branch street,
Philadelphia. He married Miss Chariot Cooper, of Philadelphia.
Their sons were Nathan A. Taylor and Hollingshead Taylor.
George Taylor, brother to Nathan and Tracy Taylor, died in
Philapelphia. He married Miss Augustine. Their children were :
George E., married Miss Deal. George, his son, a membel- of
the firm of N. and G. Taylor, of which his father was so long an
honored and energetic member, is every way worthy of the high
respect and confidence in which he is held. Maria, sister of
George, E., married Henry Elder; Cornelia married Granville
Stokes ; Julia is unmarried ; William Y., married Miss McCul-
lough, they have one daughter, Ella. Mr. John Taylor, brother
to Tracy, George and Nathan Taylor, died in Philadelphia in
1876, unmarried,
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twin- sister to Tracy Taylor, they were the children of Nathan
and Mary Taylor, and grand-children of Andrew Tracy. Capt.
Israel Hollister died May 12, 1858, aged 97, his wife, Mary, died
May 8, 1872, aged 85. Their children were : Mary Maria Hollis
ter, born June 5, 1815 ; Francis Israel, born July 30, 1817 ; Eliza
Ann, born Feb. 20, 1820 ; Sarah, born, Nov. 22, 1823 ; William
Tracy, born April 6, 1825. The HoUister's have always made
their home in Connecticut. Mr. William T. Hollister and his
esteemable wife, who was a Miss Abbey, lived at East Hartford.
They have a son, Charles, and daughter, Miss Hattie Hollister.
Erastus Coit, born July 31, 1827 ; Cornelia Matilda, born March
31, 1831, are dead.
Mr. Henry L. Palmer, of Milwaukee, president of the life
insurance company, resides at 802 Juneau Avenue. He is the
grand-son of Jeremiah Tracy, son of Andrew Tracy, of Lisbon,
Conn. Mr. Palmer is one of the most respected men of the
Northwest, and a high mason, being Puisant Sovereign Supreme
Council, A. A., S. E., N. M., J., U. S. A. ; Past Grand Master
Knight Templer, U. S. ¦; Past Grand Commander; Past High
Priest : Past Grand Master Ancient Order of Scottish Eite, Jur
isdiction of the United States of America. Mr. Palmer's family
consists of a wife, children and sisters, all highly respected.'
Copied from the Milwaukee Telegraph of Feb. 19, 1888.
Two or three times a day if you are watching, you will see a
certain gentleman going from his handsome new residence on
Juneau Avenue, to the New Insurance Building, on Broadway.
His step never varies, his head bends a little to the right and he
stoops slightly when he walks. He looks like a man who thinks
a great deal, and who is capable of thinking deeply, and his looks
in this respect do not belie him. Do you want to know some
thing about this gentleman. Judge Henry Palmer. About forty
years ago he came to Milwaukee a young lawyer, and this city
has been his home ever since. He has been a Judge, a member
of Assembly, a State Senator, a candidate for Governor, several
times Grand Master of the Masons, Grand High Priest of the

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Chapter, Grand Commander of the Knight Templer, head of the
Wisconsin Consistory, and at the head of the 33 ¦=" Masons, in the
Northern Jurisdiction of North America. If I mistake not, he
participated in the organization of all the grand masonic lodges
in this state. There are men in Milwaukee upon whom he has
conferred all of the degrees as masons, from entered apprentice,
to the 33 ° . Without a doubt he has at his tongues end more of
masonic ceremonies than any other living man. He takes an
active part in conferring the degrees in the Wisconsin Consistoiy,
•every time there is a convocation. And the work of no man is
more keenly appreciated by all the old membere and those who
are receiving grades. He is a ready, able and pleasant public
speaker, has the confidence and respect of all classes, and a very
warm place-in the affections of the masons every where in North
America. Mr. Palmer is president of the North Western Mutual
Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee.
Nathan Taylur, first son of Mary Tracy and Nathan Taylor,
married Miss Sarah Hackstafi', Sept. 13, 1810. He died in Troy,
N. Y., June 2, 1865. She was born Oct. 13, 1793, died in New
Ybrk, June 1, 1862. They were both highly respected. Their
children were : Charles Taylor, born Nov. 11, 1811, who was
drowned : Herman Taylor, born Dec. 2, 1818, died at Peru, N.
Y., Nov. 10, 1814 ; Tracy Taylor, born in New York, Feb. 15,
1819, died at Troy in 1867. He was Teller of the Troy bank for
many years ; Sarah Ann, born at Peru, N. Y., Juno 2, 1821, died
Feb., 1887, in New York City; Mary I. Taylor married William
Ehodes, July 7, 1849; George H. Taylor, born June 28, married
Josephine Hicock. He was lost on the Ville du Havre. She left
New York on Nov. 15, 1873, with more than three hundred sOuls
aboard. She came in collission in mid-ocean with the ship Loch
Earn, bound from London to New York. Within twelve minutes
after the collission the Ville du Havre sank, carrying down two
hundred and twenty-six men, women and children ; eighty-seven
were saved ; Alfred Taylor is married aud has two children; and
lives at Orange, N. Y. Mr. Nathan Taylor was a man very much
respected and was connected with large lumber interests.

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"he /\llen family received the Crest and Shield at the
time of the Second Crusade,
Arms of the Alien's who have married into the Tracy family.
Henry Allen's mother was Lydia Tracy, who married Amos Allen,
THE SUDELEY'S.
From Burke's Peerage of 1886.
Sudeley, Baron, (Charles-Douglas- Eichard-Hanbury-Tracy)
of Toddington, county Gloucester, a lord in waiting to the Queen
in 1880 to 1885, born July 8, 1840, married May 9, 1868, Ida-
Maria- Catherine, daughter of the Hon. Frederick- James Tolla-
mache, (brother of the Earl of Dysart) and has issue : first, Eva-
Isabella-Henrietta, born Jan. 25, 1859 ; second, William- Charles,
Frederick, born April 19, 1870 ; third, Algernon-Henry-Charles,
born April 11, 1871 ; fourth, Florence-Emma-Louisa, born Feb.
11, 1878; fifth, Ida-Madeleine- Agnes, born Jan. 20, 1875; sixth,
Alice-Evelyn-Agatha, born Aug. 12, 1877; seventh, Ehona-Mar-
garet-Ida, born July 13, 1879 ; eighth, Felix-Charles-Hubert,
born July 27, 1882. His lordship, who succeeded as fourth baron
on the death of his brother, April 28, 1877, was formerly in the
Eoyal Navy, which he entered in 1854, became lieutenant in
1830, and resigned his commission in 1868, having received med
als for his services in the Baltic and China. He was subsequent
ly called to the bar in January, 1866, and was M. P. for Mont
gomery from 1863 until his succession to the peerage.
The ancient family of Tracy boast of descent from Saxon
Kings of England.
John de Sudeley, Lord of Sudeley and Toddington, A. D.
1140, married Grace, daughter and heir of Henry de Traci, feudal
lord of Barnstable, and had issue. Ealph de Sudeley, founder
of the priory of Erdbuiie ; William, who adopted his mothers'
name of De Traci.
The youngest son, William, assumed his mother's name of
De Traci, lived in the reign of Henry II, and held lands of his

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brother Ealph de Sudley, by one knights fee, which was proba
bly the manor of Toddington, for it appears byDoomesday book,
that it was held by the Lord Sudeley, of the manor of Sudeley;
and in the reign of Edward I, the Tracy's are expressly said to
be possessed of it; and this William in a deed to Otwell, Lord
of Sudeley, son and heir of the said Ealph, is called his uncle ;
this is, (almost beyond a doubt) the same Sir William Tracy^
who was concerned in the assassination of Thomas A. Becket.
Fuller, in his "Worthies," naming the assassin as Sir William
Tracy, of Toddington, describes him as " a man of high birth,
state and stomach, a favorite of the king's, and his daily atten
dants." In the 19th Henry II, he was created Steward of Nor
mandy, which he held only two years ; and he is again mentioned
in 2 John. During the troublous reign of that monarch, William.
de Traci appeared in arms with the other barons, and had his
lands confiscated ; but they were restored to him by 2 Henry HI,
as is shown by a Eoll, dated at Westwinster, Nov. 18, in that
year. He also founded and endowed a chapel to Thomas A.
Becket, in the conventual church at Tewksbury. He died aria,
1224. By Hawise de Born, his wife, (who married secondly,
Hugh Fitzwilliam, Lord of Hatten, county Warwick) he left,
with two daughters, the elder married to Sir Cervase Courtenay,
and the younger to William de Arden ; a son and successor.
Henry de Tracy, of Toddington, county Gloucester, who died
about the year 1246, leaving a daughter, Margery, wife of Mau
rice de Stanlinch' and two sons, Henry, his heir, and Thomas,
who became "jure uxous Isoldas de Cardinan," of Eestormel
Castle, Coonwall, Henry de Tracy's eldest son.
Henry de Tracy, of Toddington. appears in a charter, July
26, 1260, and was summoned to perform military service at Car
marthen, 11 Edward I. He died aria, 1296, and was succeeded
by his son.
Sir William Tracy, of Toddington, who is recorded among
the knights of the same county, in the 17th Edward I, and with

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Ealph de Sudeley, his kinsman, is stated to have had a command
in the Scottish war. He left a son and heir.
Sir William Tracy, of Toddington, who was in ward to Law
rence Tresham, 27 Edward I, at which time he is certified to hold
£40 in lands. In the beginning of the reign of Edward II, he
was at the tournament at Dunstable, as appears by an old draw
ing of a knight in armour, bearing a standard with the arms of
the family. In the 17th of Edward It, he was, jointly with John
Bermansel, high sheriff of Gloucesteighire, which office in those
times was of great authority. In a roll of the nobles of Eng
land, dated June 30,. 1315, at Berwick, appear the names of this
William Tracy, William de Sudeley, William le Boteler, of We-
nun, etc, ' Sir William left a daughter, Margery, wife *f John
Archer, of Umbesslade, and a son and heir,
William Tracy, Esq., of Toddington, to whom, in conjunc
tion with Thomas Berkeley, of Coberle, a mandate was issued, 7
Edward- III, to raise three hundred men from the forest of Dene,
and two hundred men from the county of Gloucester. His son
and heir,
Sir John Tracy, of Toddington, knight of the shire of Glou
cestershire, 82 Edward III, and sheriff for five years in succes
sion, commencing in 1358, died in 1363, leaving, with a daugh
ter, Margaret, Avife of Sir Thomas de Langley, Knt., two sons,
of whom the elder,
Sir John Tracy, of Toddington, M. P., and sheriff of Glou
cestershire ; died in 1379, leaving a daughter, Margaret, wife of
Eobert PitzElys, and a son and successor,
William Tracy, Esq., of Toddington, high sheriff in 1395 ;
died in 1399. His son and heir,
William Tracy, Esq., of Toddington, was called to the privy
council of Henry VI, as appears by private letters, still extant,
written by the king in the most flattering terms, and dated July
21, 1401, "from my manor of Sutton." He was high sheriff 5
Henry V, and "one of those persons of quality in the county of
Gloucester, who, bearing ancient arms from his ancestors, and

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holding by tenure, had summons in the 7 Henry V, to serve the
king in person in defence of the realm." William Tracy, the
privy councillor, married Alice, eldest daughter and co-heir of
Sir Guy de la Spine, Knt., Lord of Coughton, county Warwick,
and widow of William Gifford, (which Sir Guy de la Spine, was
great grand-son of William de la Spine, by Joan, his wife, daugh
ter and heir of Sir Simon Cocton, Knt.) and had issue, William
his heir ; John ; Alice, who married Hugh Culme, Esq., of Mo-
land, Devon. The elder son,
William Tracy, Esq., of Toddington, sheriff of Gloucester
shire, 22 and 23 Henry VI, who married Margery, daughter of
Sir John Pauncefort, Knt. ; and died in 1460, leaving a daughter
Margerji, wife of Thomas Mylle, Esq., of Horscombe, county
Salop, and two sons, Henry and Eichard, the elder,
Henry Tracy, Esq., of Toddington, married Alice, daughter
and co-heir of Thomas Baldington, Esq., of Alderly, county Oxon
and died about 1506, leaving issue, two daughters, Anne married
first, William Wye, second Thomas Mannington ; Elizabeth, mar
ried first, Mr. Langley, secong Sir Alexander Baynham ; and
three sons, viz: William, his heir; Eichard. who married and
had issue ; and Ealph, a monk. The eldest son.
Sir William Tracy, of Toddington, was sheriff of Gloucester
shire, in the 5 Henry VIII, amio, 1513. He was a gentleman of
excellent parts and sound learning, and is memorable for being
one of the first who embraced the reformed religion in England,
as appears by his last will, dated 22 Henry VIII, which was con
demned in the Bishop of London's Court after his decease, and
an order sent to Parker, Chancellor of Worcester, to raise his
body ; but he too officiously burning the corpse, the recorder only
warranting him to raise the body according to the law of the
church, he was afterwards fined £400, and turned out of the
chancellorship. Sir William's famous will is a curious docu
ment — most characteristic of the times. Sir William married
Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Throckmorton of Corse Court,
in Cloucestershire, and had issue : William, his heir ; Eichard,

who obtained from his father the manor of Stanway, in the coun-
¦ ty of Gloucester, part of the lands of the Abbey of Tewksbury,
which came to him by grant from the crown. "This Eichard,"
says an old writer, " was well educated and wrote learnedly of
his father's faith several treatises in the English tongue, and
that most remarkable one, entitled "Preparations for the Cross,"
written experimentally, having suffered much in his estate for
his fathers' reputed heretical will ; he also wrote prophetically,
of anno, 1550, (a few years before the beginning of Queen Mary)
another treatise, "To Teach one to Die," which is annexed to his
"Preparations for the Cross," which was printed, and falsely
ascribed by the editor to be composed by John Frith, being one
of the three that was found in the belly of a cod, brought into
the market to be sold at Cambridge, A. D. 1626, wrapped about
with canvass, very jjrobably what that voracious fish plundered
out of the pocket of some ship-wrecked seaman." In the 2nd
of Elizabeth, he was sheriff of Gloucestershire, and having mar
ried Barbara, daughter of Thomas Lucy, Esq., of Charlecote,
had three daughters and three sons, Paul, Nathaniel and Sam
uel. He was succeeded by the eldest,
Paul Tracy, Esq., of Stanway, in the county of Gloucester,
high sheriff in the 20th of Elii^abeth, who was created a baronet
by King James I, June 29, 1611. Sir Paul married Anne, daugh
ter of Ealph Shakerly, Esq., r.nd had ten sons and as many
daughters, of whom,
Eichard, (Sir) the eldest, succeeded his father ; Anne, mar
ried to Edward Hall, Esq., of the county of Worcester; Lucy,
married to Eay Aylworth, Esq., of Aylworth, in the county of
Gloucester ; Alice : Hester, married to Francis-, eldest son of
John Kyrle, Esq., of Much Marcle, in Herefordshire ; Elizabeth ;
Susan, married to William Price, Esq., of Winchester ; Barbara ;
Margaret. He died about 1626, and was succeeded by his eldest
son, Sir Eichard Ts^icy, whu had received the honor of knight
hood in the life-time of his father, and was sheriff of Glouces-

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tershire, in the 4th of Queen Mary. He married Anne, daughter
of Sir Thomas Coningsly, of Hampton, in the county of Here
ford, and had three sons, Humphrey, Eichard and John. He
died about the year 1637, and was succeeded by the eldest
Sir Humphrey Tracy, sheriff of Gloucestershire in the 15th
of Charles I, who suffered severely for his loyalty during the re
bellion, having had to pay to sequestrators £1600 for compensa
tion for his estate. He died without issue, and was succeeded
by his brother, in 1651,
Sir Eichard Tracy, who likewise died, (sine prole) without
issue, and was succeeded about 1666, by his only surviving
brother. Sir John Tracy, who died issueless in 1677, when the baron
etcy expired. 3 Eobert, died without issue, (sine prole.) 1 Mar
garet, married to Eichard Dyneley, Esq., of Charleton, county
of Worcester. 2 Alice, married to  Wogan, Esq. The
eldest son,
William Tracy, Esq., of Toddington, married Agnes, daugh
ter of Sir Simon Digby, of Coleshill, county Warwick, and had
(with two daughters, Margery, married to John Stratford, Esq.,
and Margaret, married to John Washbourne, Esq., of Wychyn-
ford) a son and successor,
Henry Tracy, Esq., of Toddington, who married Elizabeth,
daughter of John Bruges, first Lord Chandos, of Sudeley, and
died in 1557, (will dated Feb. 5, 1556, and proved in 1557) left
issue : John, his heir ; Giles, married Katherine Pickhurst, and
had issue ; Edward ; Francis ; Nicholas ; Eleanor, married to
Anthony Kingston, Esq. The eldest son,
Sir John Tracy, of Toddington, sheriff of and M. P. for
Gloucestershire, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1574. He
married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Throckmorton, of Corse
Court, and by her, (who died May 21, 1551) had, with other issue :
John, (Sir) his heir; William, who married Mary, daughter of
Sir John Conway, Knt. of Arrow ; Thomas, (Sir) grand usher to
the Queen, died without issue, (sine prole ;) Mary, married first.

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William Hoby, Esq., second, Horatio, Lord Vere, of Toddington,
the famous general. Sir John died in 1591, and was succeeded
by his son,
Sir John Tracy, of Toddington, who received knighthood
from King James I, in 1609, and was advanced by letters-patent,
dated Jan. 12, 1642, to the peerage of Ireland, as (Baron and
Viscount Tracy, of Eathcole.) He married Anne, daughter of
Sir Thomas Shirley, Knt. of Isfield, county Sussex, and was suc
ceeded at his decease, by his son,
Eobert Tracy, 2nd Viscount Tracy, was knighted by King
Charles I, and sat in parliament as member for Gloucestershire.
His lordship married first, Bridget, daughter of John Lyttleton,
Esq., of Frankley Court, county Worcester, by Meriel, his wife,
daughter of Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor, and by her,
(who died in 1632) had issue :
John, his heir ; Eobert, d. s. p. ; Thomas, d. s. p. ; William,
d. s. p. ;
Anne, who married William Somerville, Esq., of Edston,
county Warwick, and was grand-mother of the author of "The
Chase," and other poems ; Meriel, married Sir William Poole, of
Saperton ; Frances, married Dr. Hinckley ; Mary, died unmar
ried. His lordship married secondly, Dorothy, daughter cf Thom
as Cocks, Esq., of Castleditch, county Hereford, and had by her,
Eobert, of Coscomb, one of the judges of the Court of King's
Bench, and a commissioner of the Great Seal ; married Anne,
daughter of William Dowdeswell, Esq., of Pull Court, county
Worcester, and died Sept. 11, 1735, aged 80, having had issue :
Eichard, of Coscomb, who married Margaret, daughter of
Owen Salusbury, Esq., of Eug, county Merioneth ; and left at
his decease, in 1734, an only child, Eobert, of Coscomb, who died
(sine prole) without issue, in 1756 : Eobert, of the Middle Tem
ple, died .unmarried, 1732 ;
Dorothy, married John Pratt, Esq. ; Anne, married first,
Charles Dowdeswell, Esq., of Forthampton Court, county Glou
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Dorothy, married William Higford, Esq., of Dixton, county
Gloucester. The second viscount died in 1662, and was succeed
ed by his eldest son,
John Tracy, third viscount, who married Elizabeth, eldest
surviving daughter of Thomas, first Lord Leigh, of Stoneleigh,
and by her, (who died in 1688) had, with a daughter, the wife of
Sir John Every, three sons, viz : William, his heir ; Charles,
died unmarried. May 3, 1676 ; Perdinando, born in 1659, who
became possessed of Stanway by the will of Sir John Tracy, last
baronet of that branch. He married in 1680, Katherine, daugh
ter of Sir Anthony Keck, and died in 1682, leaving an only child.
John, of Stanway, who married Anne, only daughter of Sir
Eobert Atkyns, of Saperton, chief Baron of the Exchequer ; and
died in 1735, leaving issue :
Eobert, M. P., died without issue, (sine prole) ; Anthony,
who assumed the surname of Keck, he married Lady Susan
Hamilton, daughter of James, fourth Duke of Hamilton, and
died May 30, 1769, left two daughters, Henrietta Charlotte, mar
ried Edward, Viscount Hereford, and Susan, married in 1771,
Prancis, Lord Elcho, and was mother of the seventh Earl of
Wemyss ; Thomas, of Sandywell, M. P., died issueless ; John,
who assumed the surname of Atkyns, and was Cursitor Baron of
the Exchequer, died without issue ; Anne, married John Travell,
Esq. ; Frances, married Gustavus Guy Dickens, Esq., colonel of
the third regiment of Guards. His lordship was succeeded by
his eldest son,
William Tracy, fourth viscount, who married first, Frances,
daughter of Leicester Devereux, six viscount Hereford, by whom
he had an only daughter, Elizabeth, married first Eobert Bur-
det, Esq., secondly, Ealph Holden, Esq., of Aston, county Derby.
His lordship married secondly, Jane, third daughter of the Hon.
Sir Thomas Leigh, son of Thomas, second Lord Leigh^ and died
in 1712, leaving by her a daughter, Anne, married Sir William
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Thomas Charles Tracy, fifth viscount, who married first,
Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Keyt, Esq., son of Sir
William Keyt, Bart., of Edrington, and by her, (who died in
1719) had issue : William, died without issue, vita patris, 1752 ;
Thomas Charles, sixth viscount ; Jane, who married, Oct. 7,
1743, Capel Hanbury, Esq., of Pontypool Park. M. P. for Mon
mouthshire ; and died March 7, 1787, leaving issue. Lord Tracy
married secondly. Prances, eldest daughter of Sir John Paking-
ton, Bart., of Westwood, county Worcester, and by her, (who
died April 23, 1751) had issue : John, successor to his half-broth
er as seventh viscount ; Eobert Pakington died without issue,
(sine prole) at Bombay, in 1748 ; Henry, eighth viscount ; Fran
ces, bed-chamber woman to C^ueen Charlotte, died unmarried ;
Anne, married June 23, 1757, to John Smith, Esq., of Combhay,
county Somerset, who died in 1733 ; Dorothy, died young; Eliz
abeth, died young. The fifth viscount died June 4, 1756, and
was succeeded by his eldest son,
Thomas Charles Tracy, sixth viscount. D. C. L., born in
July, 1719, married Feb, 10, 1755, Harriet, daughter of Peter
Bathurst, Esq.. of Clarendon Park, Wilts, by the Lady Selina
Shirly, his wife, daughter of Eobert, Earl Ferrers, but died sine
prole, Aug. 10, 1792, and was succeeded by his half-brother,
John Tracy, seventh viscount, warden of All Souls College,
Oxford, at whose decease, unmarried in 1793, aged seventy-one,
the houses and estates passed to his brother,
Henry Tracy, eighth viscount, born Jan. 25, 1732, married
Pec. 12, 1787, Susannah, daughter of Anthony Weaver, Esq., of
Morvil, county Salop, son of A. Weaver, Esq., M. D., of Castle
House, Bridgenorth, who was brother of John Weaver, Esq., of
Morvil, M. P., and of Anne Weaver, wife of John Blayney, Esq.,
of Cregyunog, county Montgomery, and mother of the late Ar
thur Blayney, Esq., of Gregyunog, who died unmarried Octobei;,
1795. By Susannah, his wife, (who died in 1783,) Lord Tracy
left at his decease, April 27, 1797, an only surviving child and
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The Hon. Henrietta Susannah Tracy, born Nov. 80, 1776,
married Dec. 29, 1798, her cousin, Charles Hanbury, Esq., who
had assumed by royal license, Dec. 10, previously, the additional
surname and arms of Tracy, and who, having been raised to the
peerage in 1838, was the first Baron Sudeley, of Toddington.
Family of Hanbury.
This family and that of Lord Bateman, derive from the same
source, viz : the ancient house of Hanbury, of Hanbury, an old
Worcestershire stock, which had been there seated, from a very
remote period.
Henry de Hanbury, son of Geoffrey de Hanbury, of Hanbury,
and grand-son of Geoffrey do Planbury, living at Hanbury, temp.
John was lord chief justice of the common pleas, in Ireland,
temp. Edward II, and died about the year 1358. His son and
heir, Eeginald de Hanbury, M. P. for Worcestershire, 37 Edward
II [, was father of
Eoger de Hanbury, M. P. for Worcestershire, living at Han
bury, temp. Eichard II, whose son and successor,
John de Hanbury, of Hanbury, A. D. 1400, married and had
issue :
William, oi Hanbury Hall, father, by Margery, his wife, of
John Hanbury, Esq., of Hanbury Hall, county Worcester, an
cestor of the Hanbury's of that place ; John, of Beanhall, man
or of Pakenham, county Worcester, whose son, Edward Han
bury, Esq., of Beanhall, was ancestor of the Hanbury's of Kcl-
marsh, whose heir male and representative, is Lord Bateman ;
Eichard, of whose descendants we treat. The third son,
Eichard Hanbiiry, Esq., married, and was father of
Eichard Hanbury, Esq,, who married, first, Catherine Smyth
and secondly, Margery Tynter ; by the former he was father of
Eichard Hanbury, Esq., of Elmley Lovett, county Worces
ter, whose wife was a daughter of Basset, and whose son and
heir.

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John Hanbury, Esq., was of Elmly Lovett. He married
twice, and by his second wife, a daughter of Bradley, was the
father of
Eichard Hanbury, Esq., of Elmley Lovett, who married
Margery, daughter of Francis Bradley, Esq,, and left a son and
heir, John Hanbury, Esq., of Pakenham, county Worcester, M.
P. for the city of Gloucester in 1626, was a stanch parliamenta
rian, high in the confidence of Oliver Cromwell, by whom he was
appointed sheriff of Worcester in 1649-50. He married Anne
daughter of Christopher Capel, Esq., of Capel House, in Here
fordshire, Alderman and M. P. for Gloucester ; and died in 1659,
left several children, of whom the youngest son,
Capel Hanbury, Esq., of Gloucester and of Whorestine, in
Worcestershire, died in 1707, leaving by his first wife, (with a
daughter Mary, wife of Mr. Sergeant John Hoo) a son and suc
cessor, John Hanbury, Esq., of Pontypool Park, in Monmouthshire,
M. P. for that county, and a major in the army ; who married
in July, 1703, Bridget, eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir Edward
Ayscough, of Stallinborough, county Lincoln, and died June 13,
17.94, leaving, (with other children, who died without issue,)
Capel, of whom presently : Charles (Sir) K. B. of Coldbrook
Park, county Monmouth, born Dec. 8, 1709, M. P. for Monmouth,
married in July, l732. Prances, second daughter and co-heir of
Thomas, Earl of Coningsly, and had two daughters, his co-heirs :
Frances, married in 1754, to William, fourth Earl of Essex;
Charlotte, married in 1750, to Hon. Eobert Boyle. Sir Charles,
who assumed the surname of Williams, died Nov. 17, 1759;
George, of Coldbrook, born Sept. 23, 1715, who assumed the sur
name of Williams, at the decease of his brother, Sir Charles
Hanbury-Williams. He married Margaret, daughter of John
Chambre, Esq., of Llanfoist, county Monmouth, and died Dec.
11, 1764, leaving issue : Thomas, died in 1778, leaving issue.
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Capel Hanbury, Esq., of Pontypool Park, M. P. for Mon
mouthshire, born Dec. 9, 1707, married Oct. 7, 1743, Jane, who
died Aug. 13, 1744, daughter of Thomas Charles, fifth viscount
Tracy, and died Dec. 7, 1765, left, with two daughters, Henrietta
and Frances, (who both died unmarried) one son,
John Hanbury, Esq., of Pontypool Park, M. P. for the coun
ty Monmouth, born Aug. 1774, who rnarried Jane, daughter of
Morgan Lewis, Esq., of St. Pierre, in that shire, and by her,
(who married secondly, Thomas Stoughton, Esq., of Ballyhor-
gan, county Kerry) had issue :
John Capel, born Jan. 27, 1775, died unmarried, aged 21,
Dec. 1790 : Capel, of Pontypool Park, Lord Lieutenant, county
Monmouth, born Oct. 6, 1776, who assumed in 1797, the surname
and arms of Leigh. He married first, April, 1797, Molly Anne,
only daughter of Nathaniel Meyers, Esq., of Neath, Glamor
ganshire, and relict of Sir E. H. Mackworth, Bart., which lady
died without issue, June 27, 1843. Mr. Hanbury-Leigh married
secondly, Aug. 20, 1847, Emma Elizabeth, fourth daughter of
Thomas Bates-Eous, Esq., of Courtyrala, county Glamorgan
and died Sept. 28, 1831, leaving issue by her ; John Capel Han
bury, Esq., of Pontypool, born May 14, 1853, married Jan. 8,
1885, Louisa Charlotte, daughter of Col. Edward Eager ; Emma
and Prances Elizabeth, married Dec. 12, 1838, the Hon. A. L.
G. Ashley, and died Aug. 2, 1875 ; Charles, first Lord Sudeley.
Mr. Hanbury died April 4, 1784. His third son,
Charles Hanbury, Esq., of Toddington, county Gloucester,
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire, born Dec. 28, 1777, mar
ried Dec. 29, 1798, Henrietta Susanna, only child and heir of
Henry, eighth Viscount Tracy, and assumed in consequence the
surname and arms of Tracy. By her, (who died June 5) his
lordship had issue ; Thomas Charles, second baron ; Henry, born
April 11, 1802, married Jan. 19,1841, Miss Eosamond Anne Myr
tle-Shirley, daughter of the late Viscount Tamworth, and by
her, (who died April 2) had issue : Charles Henry Tamworth,
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Eosa Mary ; Henrietta Susanna ; John Capel, born Aug. 19,
1803, died May 4, 1852 ; Capel Arthur, in the E. I. Co's. civil
service, born Jan. 5, 1809, married Sept. 18, 1833, Eliza Anne,
daughter of Lieut. Col. John Tyler, E. A. ; and died without is
sue, July 28, 1834. His widow married Capt. Graham, and died
in 1837 ; William, late in the Madras civil service, born Jan. 18,
1810; Edward, (Eev.) born Feb. 6, 1812, chaplain to H. M's.
Embassy at Vienna, 1848-1856; Henrietta; Fiances died Dec.
23, 1867 ; Laura Susanna, died June 30, 1881. His lordship was
raised to the peerage as Baron Sudeley, of Toddington, July 12,
1838.' He died Feb. 10, 1858, and was succeeded by his eldest
son, Thomas Charles, 2nd baron, who was born Feb. 5, 1801, and
married Aug. 25, 1831, Emma Elizabeth Alicia, second daughter
of the late George Hay-Dawking-Pennant, Esq., of Penrhyn
Castle, county Carnarvon, by Sophia Mary, his wife, daughter of
the first Viscount Hawarden, and had issue : Sudeley-Charles-
George, third baron; Gharles-Douglas-Eichaid, present peer;
Algernon-Cornwallis-Henry, born Mardi 21, 1844, died Feb. 8,
1845; Alfred-Prancis-AlgeiTion, M. A. Eev., vicar of Dymock,
county Gloucester, born Oct. 13, 1843, married Apiil 11, 1868,
Agnes Jane, eldest daughter of Henry James Home, Esq., of
Morden Lodge, Surry, and has, Bertram-Henry-Algernon, born
July 21, 1875; Una-Theodora- Alicia, boin Jan. 12, 1870; and
Sybil-]\Iary-Alice, born June 22, 1873; Piedeiifk-Stephen-Arch-
ibald, M. P. for Montgomery, (116, Queen's Gate, S. W.) born
Sept. 15, 1848, married Sept. 8, 1870, Helena-Caroline, daughter
of Sir Thomas E. Winnington, Bart., a'nd lias issue : Eric-Thom.
as-Henry, born July 4, 1871 ; Claud-Sudeley-Prancis, born Nov.
3, 1873, died May 12, 1874 ; Edith-Julia-Helenn, born Sept. 2,
1872 ; Cyprienne-Emma-Madeline, born 0( t. 27, 1874 ; Violet-
Mary-Claudia, born Feb. 27, 1876 ; Hilda-Adelnide-Eleanor, born
.Tuly 16, 1877; Gwyneth-Eose-Goda, born Sept. 20, 1879; Hu-
bert-Gsorge-Edward, born Aug. 14, 1855 ; Juliana-Sophia-Eliz
abeth : Georgiana- Henrietta -Emma, married Oct. 6, 1859;

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Charles-Henry-Maude, Esq., captain Madras army, and has is
sue : Adelaid-Frances-Isabella, married May 28, 1859, to the
Eev. Frederick Peel, vicar of Malvern, Worcester, (see Peel,
Bart. ;) Alice- Augusta-Gertrude, married May 17, 1861, to Lieut.
Col. Charles E. Webber, C. B., royal engineers, and died Feb.
25, 1877, their only daughter, Evelyn-Emma-Frances, died April
7, 1877 ; Gertrude-Emely-Eosamond, died an infant, Jan. 24,
1812 ; Madelinc-Emily-Augusta, married Dec. 30, 1875, to the
Hon. and Eev. Maurice Ponsonby, second son of Lord de Man-
ley, and has issue. His lordship, who was lord-lieutenant of
Montgomeryshire, died at Pan, Feb. 19, 1868, and Avas succeeded
by his eldest son,
Sudeley-Charles-George, third baron, born April 9, 1837;
lieutenant of county Montgomery, and for some time in the
grenadier guards, in which corps he was appointed captain in
1857, and retired in 1863. His lordship died unmarried, April
28, 1877, and was succeeded by his next brother, Charles-Doug-
lisHichard, fourth and present Baron Sudeley.

Sudeley Arms— The field of the escutcheon is gold, and di
vided into four parts : the first and fourth have each in the chief
point an escallop shell, black, between two narrow red bands—

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all of which stand for Tracy. The shell denotes that an ances
tor went on a pilgrimage or crusade. The second and third parts
are divided by a plain green band, with engrailed edge, (um) and
narrow black border, for Hanbury.
Crests — On an ermine cap turned up, an escallop shell,
black, between two wings of gold, for Tracy. Out of a sable
mural crown, a golden demi-lion rampant, holding in the paws
a black battle-axe, with helve of gold, for Planbury.
Supporters — On either side a purple falcon, with wings ex
tended, and beaks and bills of gold.
Motto — Memoria pii setena — The memory of the good man
is immortal — The memory of the just is eternal.

Badge of the Lords Sudeley — Crests— On a chapeau, turned
up, ermine, an escallop, sa., between two wings, are for Tracy.
Out of a mural crown, sa., a demi-lion, rampant, or holding in
the paws a battle-axe, sa., helved gold, for Hanbury. Suppoiteis
—On either side a falcon, wings elevated, ppr., beaked and
belled. Motto— Memoria pii feterna.
Seats— Toddington Park, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, and
Gregyunog, Newtown, county Montgomery. Clubs— Brook's,
Traveler's Town-house— 7 Buckingham Gate, S. W.
Sudeley, Viscount, see Arran, Earl of.

THE TRACY'S.
copied from NORWICH TOWN RECORDS OP BIRTHS, MARRIAGES,
AND DEATHS.
John Tracy, born in 1642, married Mary Winslow, June 17,
1670. Their children were : Josiah Tracy, born Aug. 10, 1671,
died Jan. 27, 1672 ; John Tracy, Jr., born Jan. 19, 1672 ; Eliza
beth Tracy, born July 7, 1676 ; Joseph Tracy, born April 20,
1682 ; Winslow Tracy, born Feb. 9, 1688. Mr. John Tracy died
Aug. 16, 1702. Mrs. Mary Tracy died July 31, 1721.
Lieut. Thomas Tracy died Nov. 7, 1685.
Jonathan Tracy married Mary Griswold, July 11, 1672.
Their children were: Jonathan Tracy, Jr., born Feb. 21, 1674;
Hannah Tracy, born July 8, 1677 ; Christopher Tracy, born May
1, 1680 ; Mary T.j-acy, born Sept. 7, 1682.
Tl. Jeremiah Tracy married Mary Witter, Oct. 18, 1713. Their
children were : Mary Tracy, born Nov. 19, 1714 ; Ebenezer Tra
cy, born Oct. 29, 1716 ; Jeremiah Tracy, Jr., born April 19, 1719 ;
Andrew Tracy, born Feb. 5, 1721 ; Dorothy Tracy, born May 5,
1724 ; Abiah Tracy, born Aug. 15, 1726, died Aug. 31, 1727 ; sec
ond Abiah Tracy, born Dec. 31, 1728; Elizabeth Tracy, boi'il
.Jan.21, 1731. Vv..lajt^^. ^ U-.^"""^ Y
Winslow Tracy, born Feb. 9, 1688, married Eachel Eipley,
June 21, 1714. Their children were : Joshua Tracy, born June
19, 1715, died Dec. 13, 1715 ; Percy Tracy, born Nov. 13, 1716:
Josiah Tracy, born May 10, 1718 ; Elephlet Tracy, born Nov. 14,
1720 ; Nehemiah Tracy, born March 18, 1722 ; Samuel Tracy,
born Dec. 5, 1724 ; Solomon Tracy, born May 22, 1728.
Isaac Clark married Meriam Tracy, May 27, 1707, had eight
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John Tracy married Margaret Hyde. Their children were :
John, born Feb. 11, 1725, at Norwich, married Margaret Hunt
ington ; Eleazer, born March 16, 1728, at Norwich, supposed to
have been killed by the Indians in the French war ; Josiah, born
April 17, 1736 ; Hezekiah, born 1736, at Norwich ; Daniel, born
March 14, 1738, at Norwich ; Theophilus, born Sept. 14, 1742, at
Norwich; Joshua, born Aug. 13. 1745, at Norwich; Elizabeth,
born May 1, 1747 ; Margaret, born May 16, 1749 : Eachel, born
Sept. 27, 1750.
Solomon Tracy married Sarah Huntington, Nov. 23, 1676.
Their children were : Lydia Tracy, born Oct. 11, 1677 : Simon
Tracy, born Jan. 8, 1679. Mrs. Sarah Tracy, the wife of Solo
mon, died Aug. 31, 1683. Solomon Tracy married Sarah Solo
mon, relict of Thomas Solomon, April 8, 1688. Solomon Tracy
died July 9, 1732. Mrs. Sarah Tracy died Aug. 29, 1730.
Samuel Tracy died Jan. 11, 1693.
Daniel Tracy married Abigail Adgate, Sept. 19, 1688. Their
children were : Daniel Tracy, Jr,, born Dec. 7, 1682. Abigail
Tracy died Sept. 23, 1710. Daniel Tracy married Hannah Bing
ham, widow of Thomas Bingham, March 4, 1711. Elizabeth
Tracy, born Feb. 10, 1712, died April 16, 1715 : Samuel Tracy,
born March 12, 1714. Mr, Daniel Tracy died June 29, 1728.
Thomas Leffingwell married Lydia Tracy, March 11, 1698 ;
had seven children.
John Tracy married Elizabeth Leffingwell, May 10, 1697.
Their children were : Elizabeth Tracy, born April 16, 1698 ; John
Tracy, Jr., born June 27, 1700 : Hezekiah Tracy, born Aug. 30,
1702 ; Joshua Tracy, born Feb. 27, 1705, died April 28, 1705 ;
Isaac Tracy, born May 25, 1706 ; Anna Tracy, born Nov. 29,
1708 ; Euth Tracy, born Sept. 13, 1711. John Tracy, Sen., died
March 27, 1726. Mrs. Elizabeth Tracy died Oct. 25, 1737.
Elizabeth Leffingwell, wife of John Tracy, was the daughter of
Thomas Leffingwell and Mary Bushnell,
Joseph Tracy, born April 20, 1682, married Mary Abel, Dec.
31, 1705. Their children were : Joseph Tracy, Jr., born Oct. 17,

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1706 : Mary Tracy, born June 4, 1707 ; Margaret Tracy, born
Mf.y 11, 1710 ; Elisha Tracy, born May 17, 1712 ; Zerwich Tracy,
born Dec. 14, 1714; Lydia Tracy, born Dec. 10, 1716; Irene
Tracy, born Jan. 15, 1718; Phineas Tracy, born Jan. 1, 1720;
Jerusha Tracy, born May 23, 1723. Capt. Joseph Tracy died
April 10, 1765.
Simon Tracy, born Jan. 8, 1679, married Mary Leffingwefl,
Jan. 14, 1707. Their children were : Simon Tracy, born Nov.
24, 1709, died Feb. 20, 1710 ; second Simon Tracy, born Nov. 7,
1710 ; Civil Tracy, born Dec. 8, 1712 : Moses Tracy, born Oct. 4,
1714; Job Tracy, born Jan. 11, 1716, died Oct. 5, 1719; Lydia
Tracy, born June 12, 1719. Mrs, Mary Tracy died Sept. 23,
1770, aged 89 years. Mr. Simon Tracy died Sept. 14, 1775, aged
96 years. The names of Joseph Tracy's children are as follows : Joseph
Tracy, son of Joseph and Abigail, his wife, born April 22, 1725 ;
Anna Tracy, born Feb. 5, 1726 ; John Tracy, born Sept. 2, 1729;
Sarah Tracy, born Sept. 17, 1731 ; Asa Tracy, born Sept. 4, 1733 ;
Elijah Tracy, born June 25, 1785 ; Jesse Tracy, born June 14,
1739, died young ; second Jesse Tracy, born April 20, 1741.
Eichard Hyde married Anna Tracy, Nov. 12, 1730, daughter jj'
of John Tracy and Elizabeth Leffingwell. '
Daniel Tracy, Jr., married Abigail Leffingwell, March 14,
1710. Their children were : Abigail Tracy, born July 10, 1716,
died May 4, 1725 ; Daniel Tracy, born Jan. 8, 1718, died June 1,
1728 ; Samuel Tracy, born Sept 23, 1723 ; Hannah Tracy, born
Sept. 2, 1727; second Daniel Tracy, born Oct-. 24, 1730, died
Nov. 2, 1730. Mr. Daniel Tracy died Jan. 29, 1771. Mrs. Abi
gail Tracy died March 16, 1777.
Isaac Tracy married Elizabeth Bushnell April 9, 1730.
Their children were : Joseph Tracy, born May 17, 1731 ; Zer
wich Tracy, born Oct. 5, 1785 ; Elizabeth Tracy, born Nov. 14,
1737 ; Euth Tracy, born Oct. 10, 1739 ; Andrew Tracy, born Dec.
9, 1742 ; Zerwich Tracy, born Feb. 26, 1746, died Feb. 13, 1752 ;

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Eunice Tracy, born Dec. 18, 1748 ; Hannah Tracy, born Jan. 14,
1750. Civil Tracy married John Huntington, Nov. 5, 1735.
Ehenezer Tracy, son of Jeremiah Tracy and Mary his wife,
died April 16, 1738. Stephen Tracy, son of Jeremiah Tracy and
his wife, Mary, born Oct. 17, 1788. Abiah Tracy died Sept. 9,
1743. Stephen Tracy died Sept. 9. 1743. Dorothy Tracy died
Oct. 6, 1748.
Simeon Tracy, Jr-, married Elizabeth Hyde, daughter of
Jabez Hyde, Dec. 29, 1735. Their children were: Elizabeth
Tracy, born Sept., 1738 ; Jabez Tracy, born March 25, 1740 ;
Mary Tracy, born Aug, 19, 1741. Elizabeth, wife of Simeon
Tracy, Jr., died Aug. 23, 1741. Simeon Tracy, Jr., married Abi
gail Bushnell, his second wife, Nov. 28, 1734. Their children
were : Abigail Tracy, born Dec. 9, 1744, died. July 12, 1746 : sec
ond Abigail Tracy, born Sept. 10, 1746 ; Mendator Tracy, born
May 18, 1749 ; Simeon Tracy, born April 16, 1752, died Jan. 20,
1755. Abigail Tracy, wife of Simeon Tracy, Jr., died July 6,
1774. Daniel Tracy married Dorothy Safford, Nov. 22, 1738. Their
children were : Daniel Tracy, Jr., born July 1, 1784 ; John Tra
cy, born Oct. 8, 1736 ; Elisha Tracj', born Nov. 28, 1739 ; Minor
Tracy, born Oct. 4, 1742 ; Desire Tracy, born Aug. 4, 1745 ; Na
thaniel Tracy, born April 1, 1748 ; Olive Tracy, born July 27,
1751. Mr. Daniel Tracy died Nov. 8, 1760. This Daniel Tracy
was son of Thomas Tracy, Jr. Olive Tracy married Daniel Wit
ter in 1748. He died in 1781 and she died in 1814. They had
one son, William, born in 1769, who died in 1811.
Joseph Tracy married Mary Fuller Feb. 14, 1736. Their
children were : Mary Tracy, born Jan. 6, 1737, died Feb. 2, 1745 ;
Ziporah Tracy, born March 80, 1740 ; Joseph Tracy, Jr., born
June 1, 1741, died Aug. 7, 1746 ; Avery Tracy, born Feb. 24,
1742 ; Asher Tracy, born Aug. 14, 1744, died Sept. 13, 1744 ; Zer
viah Tracy, born April 5, 1746 ; second Joseph Tracy, born Oct.
7, 1747 ; Mary Tracy, born May 10, 1749, died July 24, 1751 ;

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Ebenezer Tracy, born Jan. 22, 1752 ; Lydia Tracy, born Aug.
25, 1752. Moses Tracy, married Sarah Leffingwell, May 25, 1737.
Their children were : David Tracy, born April 22, 1739 ; Zacha-
riah Tracy, born March 6, 1742; Nathan Tracy, born Sept. 24,
1745 ; Moses Tracy, Jr., born March 1, 1747 ; Leander Tracy,
born Jan. 2, 1750 ; Solomon Tracy, born March 5, 1756.
Joseph Tracy, Jr., married Anne Hinckley, of Lebanon,
March 5,1739. Their children were: Jarred Tracy, born Oct.
10, 1741 ; Euby Tracy, born May 14, 1746, died July 9, 1751 ;
Frederick Tracy, born Aug. 3, 1749 ; Anne Tracy, born Nov. 80,
1751 ; Uriah Tracy, born Aug. 9, 1753 ; Lois Tracy, born Aug.
19, 1755. Mr. Joseph Tracy died April 19, 1787.
Percy Tracy married Elizabeth Hyde, Aug. 7, 1740. Their
children were : Joshua Tracy, born June 7, 1741 ; Eichard Tra
cy, born Sept. 17, 1743 ; Elizabeth Tracy, born June 23, 1746 ;
William Tracy, born May 2, 1750; Benjamin Tracy, born Nov.
4, 1756. Josiah Tracy married Eachel Allen, Nov. 3, 1740. Their
children were : Irene Tracy, born Dec. 21, 1741 ; Nehemiah Tra
cy, born March 23, 1744 ; Daniel Tracy, born Nov. 8, 1746, died
Jan. 19, 1747 : Anne Tracy, born Dec. 22, 1748 ; Dorothy Tracy,
born Aug. 26, 1751 ; Calvin Tracy, born Sept. 14, 1753, died Jan.
1, 1765 ; second Daniel Tracy, born Oct. 23, 1756 ; second Cal
vin Tracy, born June 7, 1753. Eachel Allen died Aug. 8, 1761.
Josiah Tracy married Esther Pride, second wife, June 28; 1762.
Their children were : Eachel Tracy, born June 8, 1763, died
Dec. 20, 1777 ; Mehetible Tracy, born Oct. 28, 1765.
Andrew Tracy married Euth Smith, March SO, 1743. Their
children were : Ebenezer Tracy, born April 20, 1744 ; Jesse Tra
cy born Dec. 31, 1745 ; Sarah Tracy, born Jan. 25, 1747 ; Andrew
Tracy, Jr., born March 17, 1749 ; Elijah Tracy, born May 14,
1752, died Feb. 23, 1763 ; Euth Tracy, born Oct. 1, 1754 ; Mary
Tracy, born Sept. 9, 1756 ; Anne Tracy, born March 9, 1859 ;

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Jeremiah Tracy, born April 11, 1761 ; Elizabeth Tracy, born
Feb. 11, 17.34 ; David Tracy, born May 25, 1766.
Margaret Tracy married William Wateiman, Sept. 23, 17.S3,
and had five children.
Elephelet Tracy married Sarah Manning, Dec. 16, 1742
Their children were : ]• lisha Tracy, bom Feb. 23, 1743 ; Allatheu
Tracy, born Jan. 28, 1743; Lucy Tracy, born Sept. 26, 1749 ;
Uriah Tracy, born Feb. 3, 1755.
David Tracy, Jr., married Mrs. Eunice Elliot, April 18, 1714.
Their children were : Silas Tracy, born March 27, 1745 ; Eunice
Tracy, born April 28, 1752; Lemuel Tracy, born Un\ 12, 1754.
Mrs. Eunice Tracy died Oct. 4, 1756.
Elisha Tracy married Lucy Huntington, June 16, 1743.
Their children were: Lucy Tracy, born July 20, 1744; Alice
Tracy, born Oct. 11, 1745 ; Lucretia Tracy, born Sept. 5, 1747 ;
Lydia Tracy, horn Dec. 2), 1749 ; Philura Tracy, born Sept. 30,
1751. Mrs. Lucy Tracy, wife of Elisha Tracy, died in 1751.
Elisha Tracy married Elizabeth Dorr, second wife, April 16, 1754.
Phineas Tracy, born June 29, 1755 ; Philemon Tracy, born May
33, 1757 ; Elizabeth Tracy, horn June 29, 1760, died Oct. SO,
1773; Charlotte Tracy, born May 27, 1762; Mary Tracy, born
May 3, 17.^4; Elisha Tracy, Jr,, born May 27, 1766; Joseph
Winslow Tracy, born Aug. 11, 1769, died July 6, 1770 ; Deborah
Dorr-Tracy, born Nov. 9, 1770.
Isaac Tracy married Elizabeth Bushnell. Their children
were: Ebenezer Tracy, born April 19, 1754. Mrs. Elizabeth
Tracy, wife of Isaac Tracy, died May 12, 1764. Eunice Tracy,
daughter of Isaac Tracy, died April 18, 1767, (there is no record
of the birth of Eunice on the book,) Ebenezer Tracy, son of
Isaac Tracy, died May 23, 1769. Isaac Tracy died Jan. 25, 1779.
Jeremiah Tracy, Jr., married Abigail Storey, Feb, 6, 1746.
Their children were : Dorothy Tracy, born Feb. 12, 1746, died
March 6, 1747 ; Stephen Tracy, born Feb. 1, 1748 ; Abigail Tracy
born Oct. 14, 1750. Mrs. Abigail Tracy, wife of Jeremiah Tra-

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cy, Jr., died Dec. 14, 1760. Jeremiah Tracy, Jr., married Anne
Cleveland, Aug. 27, 1751 ; Jeremiah Tracy, Jr., born Aug. 6,
1764, died Jan. 31, 1766, Jeremiah Tracy, Jr., married Margaret
Huntington, May 17, 1756 ; Solomon Tracy, born May 1, 1756.
Jeremian Tracy died March 16, 1757.
John Tracy married Margaret Huntington, Oct. 13, 1747.
Their children were : Mary Tracy, born Ayril 1, 1750 ; Margaret
Tracy, born May 29, 1753; John Tracy, born Dec. 21, 1755.
Mrs. Margaret Tracy, wife of John, Jr., died Dec. 24, 1755.
John Tracy, Jr., married Bethia Johnson, Jan, 16, 1768 ; Elea
zer Tracy, born April 28, 1769, died July 7, 1759 ; second Eleazer
Tracy, born June 28, 1790. died Oct. 7, 1760 ; Bethia Tracy, born
April 14, 1764, died Sept. 8, 1764; Oliver Tracy, born Jan. 11,
1769 ; Erastus Tracy, born Feb. 14, 1771.
Samuel Tracy married Mrs. Sybel Lathrop, May 17, 1750.
Their children were : Daniel Tracy, born June 8, 1751, died
June 27, 1753 ; Sybel Tracy, born Aug. 2, 1763 ; second Daniel
Tracy, born March 27, 1758 ; Zebediah Tracy, born April 26,
1760 ; Ebenezer Tracy, born Nov. 11, 17|2 ; Abigail Tracy, born
Jan. 18, nCS ; Thomas Tracy, born Dec. 28, 1767. Mr. Daniel
Tracy, son of Samuel Tracy, married Lucretia Hubbord, Nov. 5,
1782. Daniel Tracy, son of Samuel, died Dec. 6, 1782.
Nathaniel Tracy died March 12, 1751.
Lemuel Tracy married Sarah Williams July 16, 1752. Their
children were : Mary Tracy, born Oct. 24, 1753 ; Sarah Tracy,
born Dec. 28, 1756. Mr. Lemuel Tracy died July 14, 1766.
David Tracy married Abigail Cleveland, Jan. 10, 1753.
Their children were : Elizabeth Tracy, born Sept. 29, 1753 ; Da
vid Tracy, Jr., born April 10, 1756.
Nehemiah Tracy married Meriam Waterman, Feb. 12, 1767.
Solomon Tracy married Mrs. Anne Edgerton, Sept. 1, 1755.
Their children were : Sybel Tracy, born Aug. 5, 1766 ; Samuel
Tracy, born March 4, 1758 ; Sarah Tracy, born June 8, 1761 ;
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1766 ; Winslow Tracy, born April 10, 1770 ; Clarissa Tracy, born
April 18, 1773,
Samuel Tracy, son of Moses Tracy and wife, Esther, born
June 3, 1758. Sybel Tracy, daughter of Moses Tracy and wife.
Ester, born Sept. 8, 1760.
Josiah Tracy, Jr., Married Margaret Sette, Dec. 15, 1757.
Their children were : Cynthia Tracy, born Sept. 6, 1758 ; Lucy
Tracy, born Oct. 7, 1760 : Margaret Tracy, born Dec. 14, 1762 ;
Eleazer Tracy, born March 21, 1763 ; Peter Tracy, born April
19, 1767; Bethia Tracy, born July 10, 1769; Josiah Tracy, Jr.,
born May 7, 1772 ; Lucretia Tracy, born Sept. 4, 1774 ; Eachel
Tracy, born March 6, 1777 ; Naoma Tracy, born March 17, 1780 ;
Zebediah Tracy, born July 18, 1782.
Hezekiah Tracy, Jr., married Elizabeth Pettis, Aug. 9, 1759,
Their children were : Dudley Tracy, born Sept. 28, 1759 ; Eliza
beth Tracy, born Dec. 1, 1762 ; Welthea Tracy, born Feb. 13,
1767; Joshua Tracy, born Oct. 16, 1768; Hezekieh Tracy, born
May 5, 1771. ^iiJo^Hl
Daniel Tracy, third, married Mary Johnson, of Norwich,
Sept. 16, 1762. Their children were : Uriah Tracy, born Feb. 8,
176: ; Hiel Tracy, born July 5, 1765 ; James Tracy, born May 3,
1770 ; Mary Tracy, born Sept. 22, 1772 ; Daniel Tracy, born Aug.
8, 1774. Alethea Tracy married Asahel Smith, Sept. 23, 1767, and
had six children.
Jabez Tracy married Ziporah Hebard, May 26, 1763. Their
children were: Jabez Tracy, Jr., born Oct. 21, 1764; Elizabeth
Tracy, born June 8, 1768. Mrs. Ziporah Tracy died Feb. 26,
1769. Jabez Tracy married Hannah Edgerton, June 26, 1776 ;
Simeon Tracy, born Feb. 10, 1777 ; Hannah Tracy, born Nov.
5, 1778. Daniel Tracy, fourth, married Anna Lamb, July 12, 1764.
Their children were : Lucinda Tracy, born June 20, 1765 ; Do-
rastus Tracy, born July 28, 1766 ; Lysanias Tracy, born Jan. 31,

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1768 ; Arza Tracy, born July 21, 1771 ; Philanca Tracy, born
June 18, 1775.
Andrew Tracy, Jr., married Mrs. Molly Clement, Nov. 27,
1765. Their children were: Peleg Tracy, bom Sept. 26, 1776;
Leonard Tracy, born Jan. 19, 1770 ; Molly Tracy, born Dec. 27,
1771 ; Zebediah Tracy, born Nov. 16, 1774 ; Eunice Tracy, born
July 22, 1776; Elizabeth Backus-Tracy, born March 21, 1779:
Sidney Tracy, born May 25, 1781 ; Harriet Tracy, born April 4,
1783. Jarred Tracy married Margaret Giant, Oct. 20, 1765. Their
children were : Sarah Tracy, born Feb. 10, 1768 ; William Gid-
ney-Tracy, born Nov. 15, 1768 ; Susannali Tracy, born Aug. 8,
1770 ; Joseph Winslow Tracy, born March 9, 1773 ; Gardner
Tracy, born Feb. 23, 1777 ; James Grant Tracy, born March
16, 1781; Margaret Tracy, born Dec. 19, 1783, died March 24,
1783. Theophilus Tracy married Sarah Gifford, Dec. 10, 1766.
Their children were: Theophilus Tracy, born Nov. 16, 1768;
Sarah Tracy, born Dec. 15, 1770 ; Experience Tracy, born Dec.
16, 1772 ; Eiel Tracy, born Dec. 6, 1774 ; Stephen Tracy, born
Nov. 4, 1776 ; Welthea Tracy, born Oct. 2, 1778 : Anna Tracy,
born Oct. 6, 1780 ; Hannah Tracy, born June 20, 1783 ; Euth
Tracy, born May 16, 1785.
Nehemiah Tracy married Miriam Waterman, February 12,
1737. Ebenezer Tracy married Mary Freeman, May 16, 1765.
Their children were: Elijah Tracy, born April 17, 1766; Zipo
rah Tracy, born July 21, 1769 ; Mary Tracy, born January 15,
1770. Jesse Tracy married Faith Bingham, Sept. 27, 1770. Their
children were : Lucy Tracy, born Aug. 2, 1771 ; Jesse Tracy,
born Oct. 4, 1773 ; Freeman Tracy, born March 5, 1776 ; Han
nah Tracy, born March 24, 1777 ; Jedediah Tracy, born June 12,
1779 ; Faith Tracy, born Aug. 6, 1781 : Andrew Tracy, born Nov.

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16, 1783 ; Erastus Tracy, born Nov. 17, 1785 : Felix Tracy and
Anna Tracy, not on the Town Eecords.
Elisha Tracy married Dorothy Wilson, Nov. 7, 1771. Their
children were : Gurcdon Tracy, born Sept. 12, 1772 ; Molly Tra
cy, born Dec. 10, 1775.
Andrew Tracy, Jr., married Anna Bingham, Sept. 17, 1773.
Their children were : Lemuel Tracy, born July 29, 1773 ; Euth
Tracy, born March 80, 1775 ; Lucy Tracy, born Nov. 4, 1777 ;
Elias Tracy, born Jan. 22, 1780; Stephen Tracy, born July 2,
1782. Mendator Tracy married CaroUne Bushnell, Oct. 28, 1773.
Their children were : Caroline Tracy, born Jan. 14, 1776, died
Dec. 1, 1781 ; Phebe Tracy, born Jan. 6, 1779 ; Simeon Tracy,
bom Sept. 14, 1781 : Jedediah Tracy, born Feb. 16, 1784. Mrs.
Caroline Tracy died Jan. 25, 1785. Mendator Tracy married
Nabby Lord, May 4, 1783.
Joshua Tracy married Naoma Bingham, May 22, 1771.
Their children were : Abel Tracy, born April 26, 1772 ; Thomas
Tracy, born May 23, 1774; Joshua Tracy, Jr., born Dec. 21,
1776, died May 11, 1779. Mr. Joshua Tracy died March 26, 1777.
Samuel Tracy, third, married Hannah Storey, July 3, 1780.
Their children were : Olford Tracy, bom Feb. 17, 1781 ; Samuel
Tracy, bom Dec. 25, 1782.
John Tracy, fourth, married Esther Pride, May 24, 1781.
Calvin Tracy married Elizabeth Huntington, Dec. 13, 1781.
Their cliildren were : Anna Huntington-Tracy, born Jan. 12,
1783 ; Calvin Tracy, Jr., born March 16, 1784.
Daniel Tracy, son of Josiah, maii-ied Lucy Tracy, Oct. 30,
1783. Their children were : Lucy Tracy, bora Sept. 13, 1784 ;
Nancy Tracy, born Aug. 18, 1786.
David Tracy married Susannah Capron, Dec. 8, 1789. Their
children were : David Tracy, Jr., born March 9, 1791 ; Susannah
Tracy, born Jan. 21, 1798 ; Betsey Tracy, born May 16, 1795 ;
Charles Tracy, born Nov. 14, 1796 ; Mary Tracy, born May 19,
1800 ; Mary Ann Tracy, born June 30, 1802 ; George Tracy, born

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Dec. 11, 1804 ; William Tracy, born June 2, 1807 ; Sarah Tracy.
born June 12, 1811.
Nathan Tracy married Hannah Kingsley, Oct. 1769. Their
children were : Civil Tracy, born May 21, 1772 ; Sally Tracy,
born July 15, 1774 ; Hannah Tracy, born Sept. 3, 1776 ; Nathan
Tracy, born Feb. 16, 1779 ; Clarissa Tracy, born April 1, 1781 :
Lucy Tracy, born March 21, 1788. Mrs. Hannah Tracy died
April 4, 1788, aged 44 years,
Uriah Tracy married Lydia Hullman, Feb. 9, 1794. Their
children were : William George Tracy, born Jan. 11, 1797.
Barton Tracy married Betsey Case, April 1, 1798. Their
children were : Lucy Tracy, born Oct. 29, 1798 ; Luther Tracy,
born June 12, 1800 ; Elisha Tracy, born April 19, 1802.
Benjamin Tracy married Hannah Johnson, of Bozrah, May
22, 1806. Joseph Winslow Tracy, married Wealthy Huntington, of
Bozrah, Sept. 21, 1807. Their children were : Jarred Winslow
Tracy, born May 29, 1812 ; James Joseph Tracy, born Dec. 3,
1814 ; Edward Huntington Tracy, born April 21, 1817 ; Sarah
Grant Tracy, born Aug. 21, 1819 ; Cornelia Margaretta Tracy,
born Oct. 15, 1822 ; Lydia Huntington Tracy, born July 3, 1825.
Dorastus Tracy married Loviee Sanford, Nov. 16, 1788.
Their children were : Charles Tracy, born Feb. 18, 1790, died
Sept. 18, 1806 ; Fanney Tracy, born Nov. 13, 1792 ; Elisha Tra
cy, born May 11, 1794 : Harvy Tracy, born July 17, 1796'; Lov
iee Tracy, born June 1, 1798 ; Almira Tracy, born May 28, 1800 ;
Jabez Tracy, born March 2, 1803, died May 3, 1804 ; Eliza Tra
cy, born Feb. 8, 1805 : William Sanford Tracy, born March 22,
1809 ; Sophrona Tracy, born Sept. 17, 1811 ; Mary Ann Tracy,
born Dec. 7, 1818.
Jedediah Tracy married Mercy M. Doan, Oct. 29, 1812.
Their children were : Caroline Abbey Tracy, born March 24, 1815.
Elisha Tracy married Lucy Coit Huntington, Oct. 31, 1796.
Their children were : William Swan Tracy, born Feb. 4, 1799 ;
Winslow Tracy, born Jan. 13, 1801 ; Elizabeth Dorr Tracy, born

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July 22, 1803 ; Lucy Huntington Tracy, born May 11, 1806 ;
Hannah Phelps Tracy, born April 1.3, 1808, died Feb. 13, 1810 ;
Elisha Dorr Tracy, born June 4, 1811 ; Stephen Decatur Tracy,
born July 14, 1813.
Nathaniel Tracy married Fanney Kelley, Nov. 15, 1807.
Their children were: Fanney Tracy, born June 17, 1808; Caro
line Tracy, born June 27, 1810 ; John Tracy, born Jan. 12, 1813 ;
Daniel Tracy, born Sept, 7, 1818; Lucy Tracy, born March 7,
1821- Joshua Tracy married Hannah H. Mansfield, March 28,
1810. Their children were : Juliet Tracy, born Dec. 80, 1810 ;
died Feb. 12, 1815 ; Augustus Converse Tracy, bom Feb. 13,
1812, died Dec. 19, 1814 ; James Lawrence Tracy, born July 2,
1813 ; Caroline Mansfield Tracy, born July 24, 1814 ; Joshua
Perkins Tracy, born March 81, 1816, died Nov. 18, 1816. Joshua
Tracy died Aug. 10, 1816.

The Tracy-Preston Eecord.
Jonathan Tracy and Mary Griswold were married July 11,
1672. Their children were : Jonathan Tracy, born Feb. 21, 1675 ;
Hannah Tracy, born July 8, 1677; Christopher Tracy, born
March 1, 1680 ; Mary Tracy born Sept. 7, 1682 ; Maryam Tracy,
born April 23, 1686 ; David Tracy, born Sept. 4, 1687 ; Frances
Tracy, born April 1, 1690 ; Sarah Tracy, born Aug. 2, 1692, died
Sept. 6, 1693 ; Samuel Tracy, born June 6, 1697 ; Jonathan Tra
cy, Jr., died Feb. 25, 1704. Mary Tracy, the wife of Jonathan
Tracy, Sen., died April 24, 1711, in the 55th year of her age.
Jonathan Tracy and Mary Eichard were married Aug. 21,
1711. Hannah Tracy and Thomas Davison were married Nov. 28,
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Jedediah Tracy and Margaret Eix were married Jan. 27,
1714. Their children were : Jedediah Tracy, born Dec. 17, 1714 ;
Charity Tracy, bom Dec. 23, 1716 ; Margaret Tracy, born Oct.
27, 1718 ; Sarah Tracy, born Sept. 23, 1720 ; Abigail Tracy, bom
March 23, 1722 ; Thomas Tracy, born Sept. 3, 1724 ; Mary
Tracy, born July 16, 1726. Margaret Tracy, wife of Jedediah
Tracy, died Aug. 1, 1727. The above named Jedediah Tracy was
married to Mary/Parke, April 15, 1728. Their children were :
Caswell Tracy, born Sept. 10, 1730; Benjamin Tracy, born Nov.
6, 1739. Jonathan Tracy and Anna Palmer were married Feb. 11,
1700. Their children were : Jonathan Tracy, born Nov. .SO, 1702 ;
Anna Tracy, born Oct. 29, 1703. Jonathan Tracy, Sen., died
Feb. 25, 1704.
Jeremiah Tracy and Mary Witter were married Oct. 13, 1713.
Prancis Tracy and Elizabeth Parrisli were man-ied Jan. 6,
1713. Their children were : Elizabeth Tracy, borii August 23,
1714 ; Isaac Tracy, born Nov. 9, 1716 ; Frances Tracy, born Feb.
23, 1717 ; Thankful Tracy, born Nov. 29, 1718 ; Menum Tracy,
born Oct. 12, 1720; Sheribiah Tracy, bom Jan. 5, 1722. The
above Francis Tracy, Sen., died Nov. 28, 1765.
Mary Tracy and Benjamin Parrish were married April 18,
1705. Jerusha Tracy and Thomas Eix were married June 26, 1718.
Christopher Tracy and Lydia Parrish were married May 20,
1705. Their children were : Lydia Tracy, born May 5, 1706 ;
Mary Tracy, born Jan. 14, 1708, died June 25, 1708; Hannah
Tracy, born April 27, 1709; Christopher Tracy, born June 1,
1711; Jonathan Tracy, born Dec. 16, 1718; Lidsay Tracy, born
Feb. 9, 1716 ; Bethia Tracy, bom July 19, 1718 ; Dorothy Tracy,
born Jan. 11, 1720; Esther Tracy, born Jan. 19, 1721 ; Deborah
Tracy, born April 20, 1722 ; Jerusha Tracy, bom May 4, 1723 ;
Solomon Tracy, born Aug. 8, 1724. The above named Christo
pher Tracy died Feb. 9, 1726.

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Abigail Tracy and Benjamin Freeman were married Jan. 2,
1775. Ziporah Tracy and Charles Freeman were married April 14,
1737. Deborah Tracy and Elisha Adams were married November
9, 1720. Jedediah Tracy's children were : Nathan Tracy, born Feb.
21, 1729 ; Benjamin Tracy died Sept, 8, 1731 ; Simon Tracy,
born May 17, 1732 ; Ezra Tracy, born Oct. 15, 1734 ; Temperence
Tracy, born Aug. 9, 1737.
David Tracy and Sarah Parrish were married Oct. 6, 1709.
Their children were : Sarah Tracy, born June 17, 1710 ; Mary
Tracy, born April 2, 1712, died March 81, 1715 ; Zerniah Tracy,
born Sept. 12, 1714 ; Ziporah Tracy, born Sept. 10, 1716 ; Mary
Tracy, born Nov. 25, 1718 ; David Tracy, born May 7, 1721 ;
Lemuel Tracy, born Nov, 25, 1722 ; Eachael Tracy, born Nov. 29,
1724; Irene Tracy, born Jan. 19, 1726. Sarah Tracy, wife of
the above David Tracy, died Jan. 10, 1729.
Nathaniel Tracy and Sarah Minor were married May 21,
1703. Their children were : Nathaniel Tracy, born March 15,
1707; Danieb Tracy, born Jan. 18,1709; Beniah Tracy, born
July 21, 1710 ; Joseph Tracy, bom April 2, 1712.
Thomas Tracy's children : Nathaniel Tracy, born Dec. 19,
1675 ; Sarah Tracy, born Dec. 17, 1677 ; Jeremiah Tracy, born
.Oct. 14, 1682 ; Daniel Tracy, bom March 3, 1685 ; Thomas Tra
cy, born June 16, 1687 ; Jedediah Tracy, born Sept, 24, 1692 ;
Deborah and Jerusha Tracy, born Sept. 24, 1697,
Daniel Tracy died March 2, 1704.
Jedediah Tracy, of Preston, and Jerusha Eichards of Nor
wich, were married March 29, 17S9. Their children were : Jed
ediah Tracy, born May 12, 1740 ; Asahel Tracy, born Aug. 11,
1744 ; Jerusha Tracy, born May 26, 1747 ; Eufus Tracy, born
May 30, 1749 ; Margaret Tracy, born Nov. 15, 1761.
Christopher Tracy and Elizabeth Tyler, both of Preston,
were married March 26, 1731. Their children were : Euth Tracy

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born May 18, 1734 ; Desire Tracy, born March 10, 1735 ; Chris
topher Tracy, born Dec. 8, 1737 ; Anne Tracy, born Nov. 16,
1739 ; Jonathan Tracy, born April 29, 1742. Christopher Tracy
died Nov. 16, 1743.
Samuel Tracy and Esther Eichmond were married Sept. 26,
1738. Their children were: Samuel Tracy, bom Oct. 12, 1784;
Esther Tracy, born Sept. 19, 1735, died Jan. fO, 1786; second
Esther Tracy, born Feb. 28, 1738 ; Prisilla Tracy, born May 29,
1749 ; Elizabeth Tracy, born April 28, 1743 ; Miriam Tracy, born
May 29, 1746 ; Stephen Tracy, born Nov. 12, 1748 : Lucretia
Tracy, born -Tan. 31, 1750.
Benajah Tracy, of Preston, and Hannah Safford, of Nor
wich, were married Dec. 25, 1735. Their children were : Sarah
Tracy, born Nov. 14, 1786 ; Benajah Tracy, born Nov. 18, I7c8,
died Aug. 10, 1741 ; Hannah Tracy, born March 17, 1742.
Eebeckah Tracy, daughter of Jonathan Tracy and Amee,
his wife, was born Sept. 13, 1726 ; Moses Tracy, born April 3,
1728; Samuel Tracy, born Feb. 28, 1781; Anna Tracy, born
April 1, 1788 ; Amee Tracy, born Nov. 13, 1735 ; Lois Tracy, born
Nov. 2, 1737, died May 23, 1739 ; Dorothy Tracy, born March 28,
1740, died April 6, 1740 ; Jonathan Tracy, born April 11, 1741 ;
Perez Tracy, born June 18, 1744. Amee, wife of said Jonathan
Tracy, died Oct. 13, 1744.
Lydia Tracy and Adam Parke were married May 18, 1732.
Enoch Tracy, son of Thomas Tracy and Abigail, his wife,
was born April 15, 1736 ; Phebe Tracy, born May Si, 1788, died
March 16, 1789; Deborah Tracy, born Jan. 20, 1740; Elijah
Tracy, born July 81, 1741 ; Sarah Tracy, born May 24, 1743. Mr.
Thomas Tracy died Feb. 2,3, 1755.
Francis Tracy and Esther Eude, both of Preston, were mar
ried July 31, 1740. Their children were: Saraii Tracy, born
April 16, 1741 ; John Tracy, born July 11, 1743 ; Seth Tracy,
born March 13, 1747, died Nov 15, 1748 ; Elisha Tracy, born
Aug. 24, 1749 ; Huldah Tracy, born'March 18, 1762 ; Lucy Tra
cy, born Abg. 7, 1764; Kezia Tracy, born July 26, 1757; Silas

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Tracy, born July 17, 1759. The above Kezia Tracy died March
17, 1761. Benjamin Tracy, son of Jedediah Tracy and Mercy, his wife,
was born in Preston, Aug. 2, 1742. Mrs. Mercy Tracy, the wife
of Deacon Jedediah Tracy, died May 24, 1775. Deacon Jede
diah Tracy died June 8, 1779, in the 87th year of his age.
Esther Tracy and Ebenezer Bennett, both of Preston, were
married Oct. 28, 1742.
Zerniah Tracy and Joseph Branch were married Jan. 27,
17S1. Sheribiah Tracy and Mr. Wenworth, both of Preston, were
married May 22, 1746.
Jonathan Tracy, of Preston, and Lucy Avery, of Norwich,
were married May 19^ 1747.
Children of Christopher Tracy and Elizabeth, his wife, were :
Elizabeth Tracy, born Jan. 14, 1744 ; Lydia Tracy, born Dec. 6,
1745; Solomon Tracy, born Feb. 1], 1748, died Sept. 12, 1750;
Ziporah 'Tracy, born 1.3, 1754. Elizabeth Tracy, the wife of
Christopher Tracy, died Sept. 11, 1757. Christopher Tracy and
Eose Tracy, both of Preston, were married March 28, 1758.
Eichmond Tracy, son of Samuel and Esther Tracy, was born
Sept. 9, 1753. Samuel Tracy, son of Samuel and Esther Tracy,
died at Fort Edward, Nov. 27, 1756.
Isaac Tracy and Mehetible Eude, both of Preston, were mar
ried July 13, 1742. Their children were : Isaac Tracy, bom
April 10, 1743 ; Mary Tracy, born Feb. 17, 1745 ; Ziporah Tracy
born Jan. 30, 1748 ; Zanan Tracy, born April 1, 1750 ; Bathsheba
Tracy, born April 27, 1752 ; Mehetible Tracy, born May 13, 1754 ;
Solomon Tracy, born June 1, 1756 ; Louise Tracy, born June 4,
1758 ; Zemrah Tracy, born Oct. 16, 1760 ; Keturah Tracy, born
at Delaware, Feb. 28, 1763 ; Thankful Tracy, born 'April 25,
1765 ; Betsey Tracy, born Jan. 26, 1768.
Benajah Tracy and Lucy Herrick, both of Preston, w-cre
married July 1, 1762. Their children were : Elias Tracy, born
April 6, 1763 ; Elisha Tracy, born Aug. 9, 1764 ; Eobert Tracy,

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born Oct. 23, 1765 ; Hannah Tracy, born Aug. 9, 1767 ; Saffold
Tracy, born Nov. 4, 1768; Barten Tracy, born June 12, 1773;
Elizabeth Tracy, born May 4, 1776 ; Lucy Tracy, born Oct. 28,
1778 ; Luther Tracy, born Oct. 21, 1780.
Levi Tracy, son of Jedediah and Jerusha Tracy, was born
June 5, 1754 ; Sabra Tracy, born June 30, 1753 ; Eunice Tracy,
born Aug. 30, 1758 ; Jedediah Tracy, born April 5, 1761. Mr.
Jedediah Tracj', Jr., departed this life Jan. 26, 1766.
Euth Tracy, daughter of Thomas Tracy and wife, was born
Feb. 14, 1757.
Moses Tracy and Esther Tracy, both of Preston, Avere mar
ried June 4, 1755. Their children were : Edward Tracy, born
July 7, 1756 ; Anna Tracy, born Sept. 25, 1762. Their son Sam
uel died March 5, 1764.
Euth Tracy and Samuel Eennals, both of Preston, were mar
ried Feb. 26, 1756.
Daniel Tracy, of Preston, and Mary Kennedy, of Norwich,
were married April 10, 1755. Their children were : Solomon
Tracy, born March 1, 1756 ; Lemuel Tracy, born March 16, 1768;
Eachel Tracy, born Aug. 5, 1769 ; second Lemuel Tracy, born
Aug. 12, 1761.
Samuel Tracy, Jr., and Anna Partridge, both of Preston,
were married May 15, 1755. Their children were : Elijah Tracy,
born April 26, 1766 ; Cyrus Tracy, born Aug. 6, 1757 ; Eunice
Tracy, born Dec. 2, 1758 ; Bela Tracy, born April 3, 1761 ; Diana
Tracy, horn Feb. 16, 1763; Jonathan Tracy, born Nov. 1, 1764;
Deborah Tracy, born Sept. 12, 1736; Samuel P. Tracy, born
March 21, 1769 ; Lucy Tracy, born Feb. 6, 1771 ; Amy Tracy,
born Sept. 11, 1774.
Prisilla Tracy and John Branch, Jr., both of Preston, were
married Jan. 5, 1768.
Simeon Tracy and Lois Branch, both of Preston, were mar
ried Sept. 13, 1758. Their children were : Seth Tracy, born Oct.
18, 1759 ; Elem Tracy, born Aug. 3, 1761 : Mercy Tracy, born
Sept. 6, 1763; Aseniah Tracy, born June SO, 1766.

John Tracy and Hannah Haskell, both of Norwich, were
married Jan. 28, 1753. Nathaniel Tracy, their son, was born
Sept. 12, 1757.
Ezra Tracy, of Preston, and Jemima Kimball, of Stoning-
ton, were married Jan. 24, 1760. Their children were : Gilbert
Tracy, born Jan. 7, 1761 ; Sanford Tracy, born July 20, 1762 :
Wealthy Tracy, born March 17, 1766 ; Elisha Tracy, born Sept.
30, 1768 ; Erastus Tracy, born Feb, 20, 1771 ; Anne Tracy, born
Feb. 22, 1773 ; Margret Tracy, born Aug. 13, 1775 : Appleton
Tracy, born Feb. 20, 1779 ; Jedediah Tracy, born Aug. 14, 1780.
Sarah Tracy, of Norwich, and John Cook, Jr., of Preston,
were married Nov. 11, 1755.
Thankful Tracy and Nathnn Eude, both of Preston, were
married April 30, 1741.
Hannah Tracy and Barton Cook, both of Preston, were mar
ried Oct. 14, 1762.
Temperance Tracy and Nathan Forbes, both of Preston, were
married May 5, 1763. Mrs. Temperj,.nco Forbes died Dec. 8,
1837, in the 70th year of her age.
Benjamin Tracy and Olive Killam, both of Preston, were
married Nov. 17, 1763. Their children were : Lucy Tracy, born
May 18, 1765 ; Avery Tracy, born June 26, 1767 ; John Tracy,
born Jan. 27, 1770; Shubael Tracy, born Feb. 12, 1773; l\Iercy
Tracy, born Sept. 16, 1775 ; Abigail Tracy, born Feb. 17, 1778 ;
Betsy Tracy, bom April 26, 1783.
Olive Tracy, of Norwich, and Daniel Witter, of Preston, were
married July 16, 1769.
Asahel Tracy and Olive Leonard, both of Preston, were mar
ried Feb. 13, 1789. Their children were : Eufus Tracy, born
Dec. 9, 1769; William Tracy, born Jan. 23, 1771, died Nov. 15,
1772 ; Eobert Tracy, born JMarch 27, 1773 ; Mary Tracy, born
March 27, 1775 ; William Tracy, bom Dec. 7, 1776 ; Clarissa
Tracy, born March 10, 1779 ; Sabra Tracy, born Oct. 22, 1780 :
Olive Tracy, born Jan. 22, 1781. Mr. Asahel Tracy, died Feb.
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Jabez Tracy, of Preston, and Prudence Fanning, of Groton,
were married April 26, 1770. Chester Tracy, their son, was born
Sept. 12, 1771,
Jerusha Tracy and Nathan Geer, both of Preston, were mar
ried May 1, 1766.
Eufus Tracy, of Preston, and Mary Eeed. of Norwich, were
married April 9, 1775.
Euth Tracy, of Norwich, and Israel Herrick, of Preston,
were married Jan. 5, 1775.

Of- John Tracy, the third, who married Margaret Hyde.
They settled at Norwich, West Farms, now Franklin, where he
died August, 1788. She died Feb. 6, 1789, at Franklin. Their
children were: John, born Feb. 11, 1726, at Norwich, married
first, Margaret Huntington, second, Bethia Johnson ; Eleazer,
bom March 16, 1728, at Norwich, who left his paternal heme
when young and unmarried, and was never afterwards heard of
by his relatives. Supposed to have been killed in the French
war ; Josiah, born April 17, 1730, at Norwich, married Margaret
Pettis ; Hezekiah, born in 1736, at Norwich, married first, Eliza-
b3th Pettis, second, Abigail Starr; Daniel, born March 14, 17S8,
at Norwich, married Mary Johnson ; Theophilus, born Sept. 14,
1742, at Norwich, married Saraii Gifford ; Joshua, born Aug. 18,
1745, at Norwich, married Naoma Bingham ; Elizabeth, born
May 1, 1732, at Norwich, married Zebulon Edgerton ; Margaret,
born May 16, 1734, at Norwich, married William Bentley ; Ea
chel, born Sept. 27, 1740, at Norwich, married Dec. 6, 1768, her
second cousin, Ezekiel Hyde, second son of Jabez Hyde, the
second, and Lydia Abel, of Norwich.
Esther Hyde, born at Norwich, Conn., Feb. 16, 1709, the
third daughter of John Hyde and Experience Abel, was a grand
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She married, Feb. 5, 1740, Thomas Williams. I suppose he was
of the Montville family, and that he was a son of Thomas Wil
liams, who died 1705. He died March 28, 1746, at Norwich, and
she died April 29, 1799, at Franklin. Their children were :
Thomas, born March 22, 1742, at Norwich, married Jerusha
Abel ; Esther, bom May 30, 1740, at Norwich, who I have not
been able to trace further ; Euth, bom Jan. 19, 1744, at Norwich
died Dec. 16, 1798, at Franklin, unmarried.
Lucy Hyde, born at Norwich, Conn., April 16, 1713, the
fourth daughter of John Hyde and Experience Abel, was a grand
daughter of Samuel Hyde, the first, and Jane Lee, of Norwich.
She married, Nov, 26, 1733, Asa Waterman, born Nov. 15, 1703,
at Norwich, the youngest son of Ensign Thomas Waterman, the
second, and Elizabeth Allyn, of Norwich. This Ensign Thomas
Waterman, was the eldest son of Ensign Thomas Waterman,
one of the original proprietors of Norwich, who was born in 1644
at Marshfield, son of Eobert Waterman and Elizabeth Bourn.
He married, Nov. 1668, Miriam Tracy, the only daughter of Lt.
Thomas Tracy, of Norwich, and died in 1708. He had by her
three sons and five daughters : Thomas, Avho married, June 29,
1691, Elizabeth Allyn ; John, who married first, Nov. 5, 1701,
Ehzabeth Lathrop, second, Sept. 27, 1709, Mrs. Judith Wood
ward, third, April 16, 1721, Elizabeth Bassett ; Joseph, who mar
ried Elizabeth Woodward ; Elizabeth, who married July 10,
1695, Capt- John Pitch, of Windham ; Miriam, who died Sept.
22, 1760, unmarried, Martha, who married June 80, 1709, and
was the second wife of "Lyme's Captain," Deacon Eeynold
Marvin, of Lyme; Lydia, who married Nov. 25, 1708, Eleazer
Burnam ; Anne, who married Nov. 4, 1713, Josiah de Wolf, of
Lyme. The children of Thomas Waterman, second, and Elizabeth
Allyn, were : Thomas, born 1692 ; John, born 1694 ; Elizabeth,
born 1698 ; Ebenezer, born 1699 ; Daniel, born 1701 ; EKsha,
born 1704 ; Asa, bom 1706 ; and probably Sarah and Nehemiah.
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children : Elizabeth, born 1702 ; Eleazer, born 1704 ; John, born
1706, died 1730, unmarried ; Hannah, bom 1708 ; William, born
1710 ; Samuel, born 1712 ; Ebenezer, born 1715 ; Peter, born
1717 ; Mary, born 1722 ; David B., bom 1725 ; Elizabeth, horn
1730. Joseph Waterman and Elizabeth Wcodwaid, had seven child
ren : Timothy, born 1717 ; Judith, born 1720 ; Ezra, born 1725 ;
Elizabeth, born 1724 ; Mehetible, born 1727 ; Anne, born 1730 ;
Joseph, born 1738, died 1758.
Asa Waterman and his wife, Lucy Hyde, settled at Norwich,
where he died Nov. 14, 1783. She survived him, and died there,
Nov. 18, 1790. Their children were: Thomas, born Aug. 12,
17f 4, at Norwich, married Eunice French, ; Asa, born May 1,
1743, at Norwich, married Anne Sterry ; Azariah, born Dec. 18,
1745, died Sept. 7, 1753 : Aruna, born April 24, 1749, at Norwich,
mairied Hannah Leffingwell ; , second Azariah, born Oct, 1, 1754,
di"d Sept. 6, 1769; Lucy, born Jan. 15, 17S7, at Norwich, mar
ried her second cousin. Judge Matthew Adgate, the fouith eon
of Hannah Hyde and Matthew Adgate ; Mary, born April 19,
1739, at Norwich, married her second cousin, Capt. Jedediah
Hyde, the eldest son of the Eev. Jedediah Hyde, by his first wife
Jerasha Perkins ; Deborah, torn May 8, 1741, died June 2,1765,
Lois Gifford, born at Norwich, Conn., Feb. 25, 1781, the
third daughter of Samuel Gifford and Experience Hyde, of Nor
wich, was a grand-daughter of John Hyde, of the third genera
tion. She married Jan. 3, 1753, Theophilus Huntington, born
Sept. 12, 1728, son of Christopher Huntington, of Noiwich, by
his first wife, Abigail Abel-Lathrop. They settled at Noiwich.
He was clerk of the Bozrah church from 1764 to 1778. In 1780
they removed to Lebanon, N. H., where he died in 1816. The
date of her death I have not ascertained. Their children were :
Theopilus, born Nov. 23, 1763, at Norwich, married, first, Euth
Tahott, second, Phebe Hall; Samuel, born July 29, 1758, at
Norwich, married Mary Bcnnet ; Hiram, born Aug. 24, 1758, at
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Norwich, married Sila Green ; Abel, born Dec. 2, 1762, at Nor
wich, died Sept. 9, 1778 ; Uriel, born May 7, 1771, at Norwich,
married Elizabeth Hough ; Nehemiah, born April 20, 1776, at
Norwich, married Hannah N. Lathrop ; Lois, born May 11, 1765,
at Norwich, married May 16, 1783, Samuel Lathrop, of Leba
non, N. H., where she died April 4, 1843. He was a son of Eli
sha Lathrop, by his second wife, Hannah Hough ; Margaret,
born Nov. 2, 1768, at Norwich, married Eufus Lathrop, and lived
at Chelsea, Vt., and left a family, the particulars of whom I have
not fully ascertained.
Experience Gifford, born at Norwich, Conn., May 16, 1788,
the fourth daughter of Samuel Gifford and Experience Hyde, of
Norwich, was a grand-daughter of John Hyde, of the third gen
eration. She married June 26, 1754, Isaac Johnson, born May
24, 1728, at Norwich, son of Ebenezer Johnson and Deborah
Champion, of Norwich. They settled at Norwich, where she died
May 7, 1755. His only child by her was Oliver, born May 5,
1755, at Norwich, married Martha Perkins. He then married,
March 18, 1760, Jerusha Gager, born March 80, 1786, at Norwich,
daughter of John Gager and Jerusha Barstow, and had by her a
daughter, Jerusha, born Jan. 14, 1761, who married June 30,
1786, Dr. Elijah Hartshorn, of Norwich. Isaac Johnson's sec
ond wife died March 10, 1839, and he died Nov. 15, 1814, at
Franklin. John Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., Feb. 11, 1726, the eld
est son of John Tracy and Margaret Hyde, of Norwich, was a
grand-son of John Hyde, of the third generation. He married
Oct. 13, 1747, his third cousin, Margaret Huntington, born Nov.
23, 1724, at Norwich, daughter of Christopher Huntington and
Abigail Abel-Lathrop, the widow of Barnabas Lathrop, of Nor
wich. They settled at Norwich, West Farms, (now Frankhn,)
where she died Dec. 23, 1756. He was a farmer. His children
by her were : John, born Dee. 21, 1749, at Norwich, married Es
ther Pride ; Mary, born April 1, 1750, at Norwich, married her
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Hyde and Lydia Abel, of Norwich ; Margaret, born May 29, 1753
at Norwich, married, first, Zebediah Lathrop, second, Benjamin
Storrs ; Lydia, bom 1755, died young and unmarried. After the
death of his first wife, he married Jan. 19, 1758, Bethia John
son, born April 15, 1734, at Norwich, daughter of Ebenezer John
son and Deborah Champion, of Norwich. She died Dec. 13,
1803. He survived her and died March 28, 1810, at Franklin.
His children by her were : Eleazer, born April 28, 1759, at Nor-
wichj died July 7, 1759 ; second Eleazer, born June 23, 1769, at
Norwich, died Oct. 7, 1760; Ohver, born Jan. 11, 1769, at Nor
wich, married Lydia Eude ; Erastus, born Feb. 11, 1771, at Nor
wich, married Clara Prentiss ; Bethia, born April 14, 1764, at
Norwich, died Sept. 9, 1764.
Josiah Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., April 17, 17£0, the
third son of John Tracy and Margaret Hyde, of Norwich, wag a
grand-son of John Hyne, of the third generation. He married
Dec. 15, 1757, Margaret Pettis, born March 4, 1740, daughter of
Peter Pettis and Abigail Pailes, of Norwich. He was a farmer,
and they settled at Norwich, West Farms, (now Franklin.) He
died Jan. 24, 1806. She survived him, and died Sept. 6, 1821.
Their children were : Eleazer, born March 21, 1764, at Norwich,
married first, Prudee Bogers, second, widow Hannah Tracy;
Peter, born April 19, 1767, at Norwich, married Abigail Harts
horn ; JoSiah, born May 7, 1772, at Norwich, married Mary Bir
chard ; Zebediah,. born July 18, 1782, at Norwich, died Aug. 15,
1783 ; Cynthia, born Sept. 6, 1758, at Norwich, married her sec
ond cousin, Joshua Hyde, the eldest son of Silas Hyde and Mar
tha Waterman, of Norwich ; Lucy, born Oct. 7, 1760, at Nor
wich, married Daniel Tracy ; Margaret, born Dec. 14, 1762, at
Norwich, married her second cousin, Abel Hyde, the second son
of Silas Hyde and Martha Waterman, of Norwich ; Bethia, born
July 16, 1769, at Norwich, married Andrew Veach Williams, of
Lebanon, son of Veach Williams and Lucy Walworthj of Leba
non, and had one son, Veach, born April 17, 1797, who died in
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died Feb. 28, 1848, at Mohegan ; Lucretia, born Sept. 4, 1774, at
Norwich, married William Bailey ; Eachel, born March 6, 1777,
at Norwich, married Cyrenus Clark ; Naoma, born May 17, 1780,
at Norwich, married Joseph H. Willes.
Lieut. Hezekiah Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., in 1736, the
fourth son of John Tracy and Margaret Hyde, of Norwich, was
a grand- son of John Hyde, of the third generation. He married
Aug. 9, 1769, Elizabeth Pettis, born Dec. 29, 1737, at Norwich,
the eldest daughter of Joshua Pettis, of Norwich, by his first
wife, Elizabeth Crocker. They settled at Norwich, where she
died, Nov, 9, 1791. He afterwards married the widow Abigail
Starr, but had no issue by her. He died June 28, 1817, at Frank
lin, aged 81. His children were : Dudley, born Sept. 28, 1700,X
at Norwich, married Sarah Kingsbury ; Joshua, born Oct. 16,
1768, at Norwich, married first, Sarah Paine, second, the widow
Martha Hastings ; Hezekiah, bom May 5, 1771, at Norwich, mar
ried Eunice Packard, of Albany, and settled at Greenwich, Conn.
She died May 26, 1801. He died July 10, 1829. They had two
children : Eliza, born June 17, 1798, died Oct. 17, 1799, and John
Jay, born July 2, 1830; Elizabeth, born Dec. 1, 1762, at Nor
wich, died unmarried ; Wealthy, born Feb. 18, 1767, at Norwich
died unmarried.
Daniel Tracy, born at Norw^ich, Conn., Ma-rch 14, 1738, the
fifth son of John Tracy and Margaret Hyde, of Norwich, was a
grand-son of John Hyde, of the third generation. He married
Sept. 16, 17(fe, Mary Johnson, born April 7, 1738, at Norwich,
daughter of Ebenezer Johnson and Deborah Champion, of Nor
wich. They settled at Norwich, where they probably both died,
but I have not ascertained the dates of their deaths. Their
children were : Uri, bom Feb. 8, 1764. at Norwich, married Euth
Hovey ; Hiel, bom July 5, 1766, at Norwich, married Susannah
Gifford; James, born Feb. 9, 1770, at Norwich, married first,
Euth Calkins, second, Margoret Wheeler ; Daniel, born Aug. 3,
1774, at Norwich, married Mary Havens ; Mary, born Sept. 22,
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and had two daughters : Mary, who married Pardon Smith, of
Oxford, and  , who married  Corbin, of McDonough,
New York.
Theophilus Tracy, bom at Noiwich, Conn., Sept. 14, 1742,
the sixth son of John Tracy and Margaret Hyde, of Norwich,
was -a grand-son of John Hyde, of the third generation. He
married Dec. 10, 1766, his first cousin, Sarah Gifford, horn June
22,' 1744, at Norwich, the youngest daughter of Samuel Giffoid
and Experience Hyde, of Norwich. He was a farmer, and they
settled at Norwich, West Farms, (now Franklin.) They subse-
queiitly removed to Granville, N. Y., where he died in 1812. She
survived him and removed to Hartwick, N. Y. Their children
were : Theophilus, bom Nov. 16, 1768, at Norwich, married
Thankful Draper; Eiel, bom Dec. 5, 1774, at Norwich, married
Dimis Anne Martin ; Stephen, born Nov. 4, 1776, at Norwich,
married widow Wade ; Sarah, born Dec. 15, 1770, at Norwich,
married March 11, 1793, Dr. William Livingston, of Salem, N.
Y., and removed to St. Lawrence county ; Experience, born Dec.
16, 1772, at Norwich, died May 16, 1793, at Granville, unmar-
Tied ; Wealthy, born Oct. 2, 1778, at Norwich, married Sylvanus
'West; Anna, born Oct. 6, 1780, at Norwich, died May 4, 1796,
unmarried; Hannah, born June 20, 1783,' at Noi-wich, married
William Loring, of Spencer, N. Y. ; Euth, born May 16, 1785,
at Norwich; Lura, bom May 11, 1788, at Franklin, married
Prince West.
Lieut, Joshua Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., August 13,
1745, the seventh son of John Tracy and Margaret Hyde, of Nor
wich, was a grand-son of John Hyde of the third generation.
He married May 22, 1771, Naoma Bingham, of Windham, born
'May 13, 1744, daughter of Jonathan Bingham and Mary Abbe,
of Windham, and grand-daughter of John Abbe, the first. Of
Wenham, Mass. He died March 20, 1777, at Norwich, of the
small-pdx, and was hurried on the hill in Franklin, near Dr.
WocidWard's. Their children were : Abel, born April 26, 1772,
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him, and presume he must have died s. p, ; Thomas, born May
23, 1774, at Norwich ; Joshua, born Dec, 21, 1776, at Norwich,
died Aug. 11, 1779.
Elizabeth Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., May 1, 1732, the
eldest daughter of John Tracy and Margaret Hyde, was a grand
daughter of John Hyde, of the third generation. She married
July 9, 1763, Zebulon Edgerton, born Nov. 14, 1728, at Norwich,
Son of Samuel Edgerton and Margaret Abel, her third cousin.
They settled at Norwich, West Farms, (now Franklin) where he
died Feb-. 6, 1796. She survived him, and died Oct. 6, 1821, at
Franklin, aged 89 years. Their children were : Zebulon, born
March 4, 1754, at Norwich, married Abigail  ; John, born
May 18, 1768, at Norwich, died Oct. 27, 1778 : Elizabeth, born
Dec. 14, 1765. at Norwich, she probably married her first cousin,
Eleazer Bentley, son of William Bentley and Margaret Tracy ;
Margaret, born April 10, 1758, at Norwich ; Silence, born March
1. 1760, at Norwich ; Anne J., born Nov. 7, 1762, at Norwich,
probably married Jan. 21, 1787, at Franklin, Ezra Edgerton,
born Jan, 17, 1752, third son of William Edgerton and Lydia
Barstow ; Bethia, bom Sept. 8, 1764, at Norwich, probably mar
ried Elephelet Metcalf ; Eachel, born June 12, 1770, at Norwich,
she probably married Jan. 24, 1791, Jehial Eoot, at Frankhn;
Asenath, born Aug. cO, 1772, at Norwich. She lived at Frank
lin, where she died Oct. 28, 1836, unmarried.
Margaret Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., May 16, 1734, the
second daughter of John Tracy and Margaret Hyde, of Nor
wich, was a grand-daughter of John Hyde, of the third genera
tion. She married Aug. 5, 1756, William Bentley. They settled
in that part of Norwich which is now Franklin, where they had
one child recorded to them. That child was Eleazer, born at
Norwich. He married Feb. 14, 1788, Elizabeth Edgerton, and
settled at Franklin. They had one son and two daughters:
Elizabeth, born May 19, 1798, at Frankhn, married Oct. 23, 1829,
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Franklin, died Nov. 7, .1812,. unmarried : Bethia, born Dec. 24,
1791, at Franklin.
Thomas Williams, bom at Norwich, March 23, 1742, son. of
Thomas Williams and Esther Hyde, of Norwich, was a grand
son of John Hyde, of the third generation. He married Dec. 6,
1767, Jerusha Abel, born March 11, 1748, at Norwich, second
daughter of John Abel and Hannah Gifford, of Norwich, They
settled at Norwich, where they had one child recorded tathem.
That child was Elisha, born March 14, 1770, at Norwich.
Thomas Waterman, born at Norwich, Conn., Aug. 12, 1784,
the eldest son of Asa Waterman and Lucy Hyde, of Norwich,
was a grand-son of John Hyde, of the third generation. He
married May 27, 1759, Eunice French, born July, 2;4, ' 1739, at
Norwich, the second daughter of Samuel French and Elizal>eth
White, of Norwich. They settled at Norwich, where he was
drowned in 1773, while washing sheep. Their children were:
Azariah, born April 3, 1761, at Nor\vich. He was a soldier in the
army of the revolution, and was on board the Jersey prison ship.
Upon his exchange he took the small-pox, cf which he died soon
after his return home, unmarried ; Erastus, born March 19, 177P,
at Norwich. He lived at Norwich,, and died March 16, 1850, im-
married ; Lucy, born Sept. 22, 1768, at Norwich. She married
 Bostwich and settled at Charletc)n, N. Y., and had seven
children : Elizabeth Maria, Sarah Anne, Lucy, Harriet, Ehoda
Thompson, Olive Eliza, and a son, who was a purser in the U.
8. navy, and ,wa^ lost at sea ; Eunice, born Jan. 16, 1765, at
Norwich. She married Nov. 24, 1791, Abner Backus, Esq., born
Oct. 10, 1767, at Norwich. They settled at Norwich, where he
was a landholder. He died May 80, 1845, and she died Sept. 3,
1846, sine prole ; Carohne, born March 26, 1769, at Norwich.
She married  Barlow, and probably removed to Saratoga
county, N. Y., and had several children, one of whom was Sam
uel. John Tracy, bora at Norwich, Conn., Dec. 21, 1765, eldest
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ington, was a great grand-son of John Hyde, of the third gener
ation. He married May 24, 1780, Esther Pride, of Lisbon. They
settled in that part of Norwich which is now Franklin. In 1806
they removed to Columbus, N. Y., where he died Jan. 14, 1821.
She died in June, 1838. Their children were: John, born Oct.
26, 1783, at Norwich, married Aug. 5, 1818, his father's third
cousin, Susannah Hyde, born July 3, 1787, at Franklin, second
daughter of Joseph Hyde, and Susannah Waterman. He was a
lawyer, and they settled at Oxford, N. Y., where he was a mem
ber of the Legislature. He was lieutenant-governor of the state
for six years, and was president of the constitutional convention
of 1846. They were, living in Oxford in 1862. They had three
children, born at Oxford : John, born June 20, 1820, died Dec.
24, 1820. He was the seventh John in descent from Lieut. Thom
as Tracy, the first, of Norwich, who came from England, the eld
est son of each generation being named John Tracy ;. Esther
Maria, born April 9, 1816, married Dec. 2, 1835, Henry Eowland
Mygatt, born April 10, 1810, eldest son of Henry Mygatt and
Sarah' S. Washburn, of Oxford, grand-son of Noadiah Wygatt
and Clarissa Lynde, of New Milford, and was the eighth in de
scent from Joseph Mygatt, born in England in 1696, who came
to Newtown, Mass., in the Griffin, in 1683, with his wife Anne,
and settled at Hartford in 1636, (see Mygatt Genealogy.) Henry
Eowland Mygatt graduated at Union College in 1880, and was a
lawyer. They settled at Oxford, where they were living in 1868.
They had two children : John Tracy, born Nov. 29, 1836, who
graduated at Union College in 1858, and in 1881, married Sarah
Dickinson, daughter of D. S. Dickinson ; William Eoland, born
April 10, 1851 ; Susan Eliza, born April 9, 1816, (twin of Esther
Maria,) She was living with her parents in 1860, unmarried ;
Zebediah Lathrop, born Oct. 8, 1783, at Franklin, married Dor
othy Eobinson, of Danbury, Conn., and settled at Durhamville,
N. Y., where she died. He had by her three children : Fayette,
born August, 1818 ; Frederick W., bom May 28, 1820, and Har
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He had by her a daughter, Susan Mehssa ; Ulysses, born Aug.
13, 1790, at Franklin, died July 28, 1791 ; Bela, born April 19,
1794, at Frankhn, married Cariista Spurr. of Columbus, N. Y.,
and removed to Sinclairville, in Charlotte, N. Y. They had six
children : Emely, born Oct. 23, 1826 ; Pamelia, born Aug. 27,
1828; Melissa, born May 7, 1830; John, born Feb. 10, 1832;
Austin, born June 1, 1834; Lewis, born July 2, 1842; second
Ulysses, borii Jan. 4, 1833, at Franklin, married October, 1835,
Jane L. Bunker, of the city of New York, and in 1838, removed
to Chautauque county, where he died Aug. 19, 1840 They had
two children : Esther and Henry ;; Eachel, born Aug. 22, 1781,
at Norwich, married Andrew Palmer, of Mansfield, Conn. She
died Oct. 29, 1852, in Wisconsin. They had four children, and
perhaps more : John, Nelson, Emeline and Catherine ; Harriet,
born May 16, 1792, at Franklin, married Oct. 3, 1811, at Colum
bus, N. Y., Otis Eddy, born Jan. 23, 1787, in Ehode Island, son
of Willard Eddy and Dorcas Matthewson. (This Willard Eddy
was born Jan. 21. 1760, in Ehode Island, and about 1795, remo
ved to Eichfield, N. Y., where he died April 13, 1854, at the ad
vanced age of 94 years. He was a son of Enoch Eddy, grand
son of Zachariah Eddy, great grand-son of John Edddy, great
great grand-son of John Eddy, and great great great grand-son
of Samuel Eddy, who was born in England, and came to Ply
mouth, Mass., in 1680, in the ship Handmaid, of which John
Grant was master.) Otis Eddy was a carpenter, manufacturer,
and a canal constructor. They settled at New Berlin, N. Y., and
afterwards removed to Ithaca, where he was a mill owner. He
died Sept. 6, 1843, at Sinclairville, in the town of Charlotte, N.
Y., while on a visit to his brother-in-law. She was living at
Brooklyn, N, Y., in 1858, with her youngest son. They had six
children: the two first born at New Berlin, and the others at
Ithaca. Willard Tracy, born Sept. 13, 1812, married July 17,
1836, his first cousin, Susan Williams, born July 6, 1819, eldest
daughter of James Williams and Esther Tracy, of Gerry, N. Y.
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children : Harriet Emily, born Sept. 80, 1838 ; Susan Maria,
born Oct. 20, 1845, and Willard Tracy, horn June 20, 1849. La
throp Storrs, born July 1, 1814, married June, 1889, Adeline E.
Hargin, of Ithaca, N. Y. He was a lawyer, and practiced his
profession for some years in the state of New York, and was an
examiner in chancery. He went to California, and died Nov. 9,
1851, at sea, on his return passage from San Francisco to Pana
ma. She died March, 1862, at Ithaca. They had one child:
Lathrop Storrs, born Sept. 1, 1844. Axala Fayette, born Oct.
18, 1816, at Ithaca, and died Oct. 1, 1817, at Ithaca ; William
Matthewson, born Aug. 16, 1818, married May 8, 1844, at Ports
mouth, E. I., Hannah Anthony, daughter of David Anthony, of
Portsmouth. He was a civil engineer, and she died in 1847, at
New York, s. p. He then went to San Francisco, Cal., and was
surveyor-general of that state. He again married in 1851, at
San Francisco, Harriet Eacker, formerly of Ithaca. He died
iMarch 9, 1854, at San Francisco, where she w-as living in 1868,
He had by her one child : Charles Eacker, born in 1853 ; James,
born Oct. 23, 1821, at Ithaca, married May 7, 1844, Maria Judd,
born May 26, 1824, at Ithaca, daughter of Eeuben Judd and Mi
nerva Stevens, of Ithaca, who were married May 4, 1814, at Wil-
hamstown, Mass. James Eddy and wife, resided at Portsmouth,
E. r., Ithaca, N. Y., Bangor and Portland, Me. In 1855 they
removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., wheie they were living in 1858. He
was the general superintendent of the American telegraph com
pany. They had two children : Otis Judd, born June 30, 1846,
at Ithaca; and Charles, born Feb. 28, 1850, at Bangor; Harriet
Emely, born Oct. 8, 1826, at Ithaca, where she died Dec. 6, 1826 ;
Esther, born Nov. 8, 1793, at Franklin, married April 16, 1817,
at Columbus, N. Y., James Williams, born Sept. 20, 1792, at
Newport, E. I., son ot Obadiah Williams and Dorcas Earl. He
was a farmer, and they hved at various places in New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania. In 1835 they removed to Gerry, N.
¥., where they were living in 1888. They had nine children :
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ried Oct. 24, 1841, at Ellery, N. Y., Anne H. Aldrich, youngest'
daughter of Tillson Aldrich and Sarah Metcalf. He was a far
mer, and they settled at Ellery, where he died April 3, 1853, and
where she was living in 1858. They had two children : Sarah
Maria, bom May 28, 1846, and Frederick Tillson, born Sept. 16,
1853: Susan, born June 9, 1819, at head of Cayuga lake, mar
ried July 17, 1836, her first cousin, William Tracy Eddy, eldest
son of Otis Eddy and Harriet Tracy, of Ithaca ;' Emely, born
Aug. 25, 1821, at Berks county. Pa., married Nov. 8, 1840, at
Gerry, Josiah Fisher. Pie was a carpenter, and in 1858 they
were living at Weyauwega, Wis. They had five children : Mary,
born Sept. 23, 1844; Henry, bom Oct. 21, 1846; Esther Ella,
born Sept. 22, 1848; Jennie Maria, born Jan. 18, 1861; George
William, born Nov. 13, 18.54 ; Henry, born Aug. 12, 1823, in New
Jer.sey, died Oct. 13, 1827; Maria, born April 23, 1323, at New
York, died Nov. 5, 1827 ; Henry H., born Sept. 23, 1828, at Hud
son. He was living at Ossawatamie, Kansas, in 1858, unmar
ried, where he was a colonel of militia, and a member of the leg
islature, and sheriff. He was a-i architect ; second Maria, born
Dec. 31, 1830, at Ithaca, married May 21, 1855, at Gerry, Loren
zo Somberger, second son of Henry Somberger and Cbloe Holms.
He was a farmer, and they were living at Gerry in 1858 ; George
Tyler, born July 28, 1833, at Ith.aca. He was a telegraph opera
tor at Cleveland in 1858, unmarried ; Edwin, born Sept. 19, 1837
at Gerry, where he was living in 1858, unmarried ; Emely, born
Nov. 10, 1798, at Franklin, married Dr. Hedges, a physician of
Jamestown, N. Y., where she died Sept. 80, 1838, sine prole.
Margaret Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., May 29, 1753, sec
ond daughter of John Tracy, of Norwich, by his first wife, Mar
garet Huntington, was a great grand-daughter of John Hyde, of
the third generation. She married Sept. 22, 1783, Zebediah La
throp, of Norwich, who died Oct. 4, 1783, s. p. She then mar
ried Sept. 14, 1783, Benjamin Storrs, of Mansfield, born May 21,
1752, fifth son of Huckins Stoors and Eunice Poater, of Mans
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able to ascertain the particulars of that family, except the fol
lowing children : Lathrop, Huckins, Oliver, Margaret-
Oliver Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., Jan. 11, 1769, third
son of John Tracy, of Norwich, by his second wife, Bethia John
son, was a great grand-son of John Hyde, of the third genera
tion. He married June 14, 1792, his fourth cousin, Lydia Eude,
born about 1769, at Norwich, youngest daughter of Jonathan
Eude and Talitha Ormsby. They settled at Franklin, where she
died March 5, 1826, and he died May 8, 1846. Their children
were : Samuel Eude, born July 10, 1796, at Franklin, died Oct.
7, 1796 ; Ohver, born Oct. 17, 1797, at Franklin. He was a far
mer, and lived in Franklin, and was a member of the legislature.
He died in 1858 at Franklin, unmarried ; Almond, born Nov. 18,
1830, at Franklin, married Nov. 4, 1846, Abby Jane Huntington,
born Nov. 15, 1825, daughter of his first cousin, Ziba Huntington
and Abigail Ellis, of Franklin. They settled at Franklin at his
father's homestead, where they were living in 1859. They had
in 1856, three children : Oliver Eude, born Aug. 21, 1847 ; Wil
liam John, born July 16, 1852, and Lydia Ellis, born Dec. 18,
1855 ; Lydia, born Oct. 8, 179?, at Franklin, died May 20, 1795.
Erastus Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., Feb. 11, 1771, the
youngest son of John Tracy, by his second wife, Bethia Johnson,
was a great grand-son of John Hyde, of the third generation.
He married Nov. 29, 1792, Clarii-sa Prentiss, of Franklin, born
in 1772. They settled at Franklin, where he died March 1, 1882,
and she died Dec. 11, 1838, aged 63 years. Their children were,:
Hariey Hie, born Sept. 2, 1796, at Frankhn, married Jan. 12,
182,3, Mary Abel Bill, probably daughter of Philhp Bill and Han
nah Abel, daughter of Simeon Abel and Martha Crocker. They
settled at Franklin, and removed to Bozrah, where she died. He
was hving at Bozrah in 1859. They had seven children recor
ded at Frankhn : Mary Louisa, born Jan. 26, 1824; Alice Abel,
born March 29, 1827, married Oct. 16, 1849, her fourth cousin,
John A, Maples, born March 7, 1826, fourth son of Capt. Joshua
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March 5,1829; John, born May 8, 1831; Benjamin Franklin,
born May 6, 1834 : Hezekiah Abel, born Nov. 28, 1836, died Feb.
13, 1861 ; Elijah Abel, born Sept. 28, 1841, at Franklin. Charles
Huntington, born Oct. 4, 1831, at Franklin, married Feb. 8,
1826, Almira Fargo, daughter of Gurdon Fargo, of Franklin.
They settled at Franklin and had several children : Emely and
Jane, both of whom married ; Joseph, who died in infancy ; and
Noyes, a physician of Franklin. Clarissa, bom Aug. 16, 1799,
at Franklin, married Odt. 19, 1817, Uriah Hartshorn, son of Dr.
Elijah Hartshorn and Jerusha Johnson, of Franklin. They set
tled and died at Franklin. They had in addition to some who
died in childhood, three children : Mary ; Henry, who married
and settled at Darien or Pembroke, N. Y. ; and Julia Frances.
Bethia Johnson, born Nov, 3, 1808, at Frankhn, mairied
April 1, 1827, Willard Gurd:>n Pember, born Feb. 6, 1805, at
Franklin, eldest son of Thomas Pember and Theodosia Fillmore,
of Franklin. They settled at Franklin, where she died April 15,
1829. He had by her one child : Bethia Tracy, born March 26,
1829, at Franklin, married Aug. 22," 1849, Lyman L. Apsley, of
Canterbury. Willard Gurdon Pember, after the death of his first wife,
married Nov. 5, 1829, Frances A. Fargo, and was living at Frank
lin in 1859, and had by her seven other children : Julian Thomas
born Oct. 2, 1830; Olivia Jennette, born Se^jt. 19, 1832, married
March 13, 1853, John Benedick ; John Luzerne, born Aug. 18,
1834; Williard Dwight, born Sept. 20, 1836; Lucius Gurdon,
born March 30, 1841; Julia Frances, born Jan. 24, 1844; and
Mary Etheridge, born Dec. 7, 1846, at Frandlin.
Major Eleazer Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., March 21,
1764, eldest son of Josiah Tracy and Margaret Pettis, of Nor
wich, was a great grand-son of John Hyde, of tiie third genera
tion. He married Sept. 14, 1788, his third cousin, Prudee Eog
ers, born July 8, 1766, at Noiwich, third daughter of Capt. Uriah
Eogers and Lydia Hyde, of Franklin, a great grand-daughter of
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They settled at Franklin, where he was a man of very consider
able consequence, and frequently represented the town in the
state legislature. She died Nov. 22, 1818, at Franklin. He sur
vived her, and married Hannah (Jones) Tracy, widow of his
third cousin, Jabez Tracy, of Norwich. He died Feb. 25, 1841,
at the residence of one of his daughters, at Mohegan, without
issue by his second wife, and was hurried at Franklin. His
children by his first wife were : Eleazer, born Sept. 28, 1791, at
Franklin, married Aug. lO, 1813, his father's and his mother's
third cousin, Hannah Hyde, born Aug. 11, 1789, at Franklin,
third daughter of Joseph Hyde and Susanna Wateiman. They
settled at Westerly, E. I., where she died. He had by her one
child : Hezekiah, H., born 1814, died at the age of six years. He
then went to Georgia and married in 1819, Sarah Gunby, of Co
lumbus, Ga, He had by her two daughters: Mary and Sarah
Elizabeth. One of them died in childhood, and the other mar
ried a commission merchant, at Savannah, by the name of Piper.
Carlos, born Aug. 8, 1793, at Franklin, married in 1822, Mrs.
Jane D. (McLean) Givens, of Beaufort, S, C, born June, 1792,
at Sanbury, Ga., daughter of Major Andrew McLean, of Savan
nah, Ga., and widow of  Givens, of Beaufort. They set-
fled at Beaufort, resided some time at Augusta, Ga., where he
was a director of the bank. He was subsequently a commission
merchant and factor at Chaileston, S. C, and died in August,
1827, at Beaufort, and she died March 7, 1847. They had three
children, all born at Beaufort : Jane, born March 8, 1824, was
living in 1859, at Geneva, N. Y., unmarried ; Carlos, born Sept.
1, 1825. He was a lawyer and settled at Walterboro, Colleton,
district, S. C, where he was a member of the state legislature,
and where he was living in 1830, unmarried : Clem Chandos,
born Feb. 10, 1828. He was a lawyer, and pursued that profes
sion for some years in the Beaufort district. He married Oct.
23, 1852, Emma H. Parker, a grand-daughter of Thomas Hay
ward, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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owner of the Poeo Sabo plantation, near Ashapoe ferry, in the
parish of St. Bartholomews, Colleton district, S. C, where he
died June 17, 1859. They had three children : Eliza Parker, born
Sept. 17, 1864; Carlos Chandos, born Jan, 27, 1856. and Jane,
born in 1858.
Fitch Eogers, born March 30, 1808, at Franklin, married
April 7, 1830, Chariotte Waldo Gager, born Sept. 28, 1837, at
Franklin, daughter of Jason Gager and Esther his wife, of
Franklin. They removed to Lapier county, Michigan, and in
1868, were living at Flint, in th«t county. They had ten child
ren : Mortimer, bom 1832, died in 1863, in California, unmarried ;
Joseph Chester, born in 1834, died in 1856, unmarried : Jane
Elizabeth married Augustus Gregory, of Goodrichville ; Emely
married Johji Algoe : Caroline married Hiram Wilson ; George
Henry ; William ; Frederick ; Melvin ; Clarence Sophia.
Prudee, born Feb. 20, 1789, at Franklin, married Sept. 10,
1811, Joseph Chester, born Jan. 81, 1788, at Montville, second
son of Joseph Chester and Elizabeth Lee, and fourth cousin by
the Lee blood of her father and of her mother. [This Joseph
Chester, (the father) born Jan. 27, 1758, at Montville, was the
eldest son of Joseph Chester, Esq., of Montville, by his second
wife, Elizabeth Otis, and had sixteen brothers and sisters, inclu
ding one half-sister, Mary, whose mother was Eachael Hillhouse.
He married Sept. 22, 1785, Elizabeth Lee, born May 25, 1757, at
Lyme, and was killed at Montville, April 2, 1791, by the falling
in of a rock, under the side of which he was excavating. His
wife survived him, and died Jan. 6, 1843. She was the youngest
daughter of Benjamin Lee, of Lyme, who was born Sept. 4, 1712,
and married Jan. 25, 1785, Mary Ely, born Jan. 8, 1716, at Lyme,
eldest daughter of Daniel Ely and Ann Champlin, and grand
daughter of William Ely, the first, of Lyme, who was born in
England. Benjamin Lee was the third son of John Lee and
Elizabeth Smith, of Lyme, and grand-son of Lieut. Thomas
Lee. the first, of Lyme, and his first wife, Sarah Kirkland.] Jo
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sea Landing, now the city of Norwich, where he died Jan. 30,
1832. She had by him nine children, born at Norwich : Albert
Tracy, born June 16, 1812. He graduated at Union College in
1834, was a Presbyterian clergyman and received the honorary
degree of D. D. at Union in 1847. He married Aug. 3, 1886,
Elizabeth Stanley, born Aug. 6, 1814, at Goshen, Conn., daughter
of Oliver Stanley and Ehoda Powell, ot Mount Morris, N. Y., a
descendent of the seventh generation, of John Stanley, of Farm
ington, Conp., who was born January, 1624, in England, and
came to America in 1684, with his father, John Stanley, and mar
ried Sarah Scott, daughter of Thomas Scott, one of the first set
tlers of Hartford. The Eev. Albert Tracy Chester was settled as
pastor of the church at Ballstou Spa, and afterwards as pastor
of the church at Saratoga Springs, and in 1850 was settled as
pastor of a church at Buffalo, N. Y., where they were living in
1859. They had nine children : Alice, bom May 20, 1887, at
Ballston Spa, married June 8, 1858, Hubert E. Ives, son of Wil
liam Ives, of New Haven. They were living at Montreal in 1863,
and had three children : Lillian, Nettie, and a son ; Frank Stan
ley, born May 6, 1839, at Ballston Spa, captain of volunteers in
1831, married Dec. 24, 1831, Kate Stillman, of Buffalo. They
were living at Buffalo in 1868, and had one daughter, Mabel :
Walter Tracy, born July 31, 1841, at Saratoga Springs, Ueuten
ant of volunteers in 1863 ; Albert Huntington, born Nov. 22,
1848, at Saratoga Springs, under graduate at Union in 1883 ;
Elephelet Nott, born July 18, 1836, at Saratoga Springs ; Ehza
beth, born Nov. 7, 1848 at Saratoga Springs ; Catherine, born
Sept. 6. 1850, at Buffalo; Ellen, born Aug. 1862, at Buffalo;
Walworth, born April 6, 1858, at Buffalo.
Harriet Newel, born Sept. 27, 1814, at Norwich, died April
23, 1715. Charies Huntington, born Oct. 14, 1816, married June 8,
1841, his mother's third cousin, Julia Anna Thomas, born April
17, 1817, at Norwich, Conn., second daughter of Charles Thomas
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was settleJ at Greenfield, Schuylerville and Niagara Falls, N. Y.
They were living at Geneva, N. Y., in 1857, and had eight child
ren : Wilham Nevens, born June 7, 1842, at Greenfield ; Mary,
born Sept. 24, 1848, at Greenfield, died March 28, 1844 ; Thomas
born May 29, 1846, at Schuylerville ; Sarah Elizabeth, born Jan.
15, 1847, at Schuylerville; Eliza, born Dec. 11, 1848, at Schuy
lerville ; Carlos Tracy, born March 17, 1861, at Niagara Faffs ;
Frederick, born May 19, 1863, at Niagara Falls ; Clara, born
May 14, 1865, at Niagara Falls. %
Harriet Lee, born Jan. 81, 1819, at Norwich, died April 1,
1820. Joseph Lemuel, born April 39, 1821, mairied June 26, 1839,
Catherine Hendrickson Hubbard, born June 26, 1819, at New
York, eldest daughter of John Hubbard and Eleanor Gustin
Shepard. They were living at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1856, and
had four children: Mary, born March 21, 1840, at Cleveland ;
Albert Horsford, born Oct. 14,1841, at New York ; Anna, torn
July 12, 1843, at New York ; and Emma, born July 12, 1846, at
Brooklyn. Sarah Elizabeth, born Nov. 21, 1823, married June 16, 1846,
Benjamin S. Stone, born March 26, 1821, at Bridgport, Vt., son
of Isaac Stone and Lydia B. Hulbert, of Bridport. They settled
at Mexico, N, Y., where they were living in 1856. They had four
children : Walter Chester, born Dec. 27, 1S47 : Anne, born May
5, 1861, died Sept. 26, 1862 ; Edward Tracy, born April 28, 1858;
William Gleason, born March 21, 1856.
Leonard Hendee, born Oct. 1, 1825, married Nov. 6, 1849,
Lucy Caroline Thurston, born March 8, 1826, at Preston, Conn.,
daughter of Benjamin Taylor Thurston and Mary, his wife, of
Norwich. They were living at Norwich in 1866, and had one
child, Carl Linley, born August, 1863.
Anson Gleason, born July 25, 1827, graduated at Union col
lege in 1849, and was an editor and miscellaneous writer. He
married Nov. 21, 1852, Mary Tillie Staines, of Buffalo, born June
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his wife. They settled at Buffalo, where they were living in 1857,
and had two children : Winfred Tracy, born Oct. 10, 1868, and
Anson Couldock, born July 28, 1866.
Frank, born Jan. 19, 1830, at Norwich, and died Jan. 27,
1831. After the death of her first husband Mrs. Prudee (Tracy)
Chester removed in 1886, with most of her children, to Eome, 0.,
where she married Sept, 6, 1837, Eev. John Hall, of Ashtabula,
0., born Nov, 5, 1788. He was in early life engaged some years
in teaching, in 1822 was ordained as a deacon, and in 1823, as a
priest of the Episcopal church, and was settled as rector of St.
Peter's church, at iVshtabula, 0. She died Oct. 6, 1858, at Nor
wich, while on a visit to her friends there, and was hurried by
the side of her first husband. She had no issue by her second
husband, who in 1868, was living at Ashtabula.
Cynthia, born March 13, 1790, at Franklin, married, March
15, 1809, her fifth cousin, Charles Huntington, born June 8, 1785,
at Norwich, eldest son of Ehsha Huntington and Nancy Eude,
of Frankhn. He died Oct. 10, 1816, at Norwich. She had by
him four children : Joseph Pettis, born in 1810, who died in in
fancy : Cornelia Eude, bom April 10, 1811, at Franklin, married
Joseph H. Pettis. She was living at Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1858,
and had three children ; Carlos Tracy, born Aug. 6, 1813, at
Franklin, married June 6, 1854, Ellen J. Cobb, of Norwich, and
was a broker, living in New York in 1858 ; Nancy Eude, born
Sept. 22, 1815, married George Howard, and was living at Tarry
town, N. Y., in 1858, and had three children. After the death
of her first husband, Mrs. Cynthia Tracy Huntington married in
1829, Cornelius M. Paul, of Eichfield, N. Y., and had by him two
other children : Catherine M., bom Feb. 18, 1830, died May 31,
1847, unmarried ; and Comeha. He died June 26, 1833, aged 86
years and 10 months, and his vidow died about 1857, at Eich
field. Lydia, born May 15, 1795, at Frankhn, married Jan. 1, 1816,
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who died ininfancy; Pradee, who marriedlMilton Delong, and
removed to ClaTion Valley, Pa. ; Henry, wha married and settled
in Jefferson county, N. Y. ; Elizabeth, and^Caroline-A., who was
a teacher at the Lower Cattaraugus Indian Mission; N. Y. She
married Hamlin B. Buckingham, of Norwich, librarian of! the
Otis Library, about 1858.
Eachel, born Jan. 4, 1797, at Franklin, maTried Jan, 8, 1815;
Charles; Pettis. They removed' to Davidsouville, Mich., where
he died March 4, 1845. She had by him eleven childreui: Eliza;
who married; and' was living at Flint, Michi, in 18.58-; Abby,
who died in infancy: Eachel, who married Daniel O.Barney,
and' died, leaving one child, Eachel ; Charles, who maiTied Jane
Annabel : Eleazer Ti-acy, who married Elsie Gorton ; second
Abby, who died unmarried ; Julia, who married James Shields,
and died leaving two children ; Petisr, who married Mosella D.
Clark; Elizabeth Stanley, who married Henry Ball; Louisa,
unmaiTied in 1858; Albert Chester, unmarried! in 1858. Aftier
the death of her first' husband, she married iuil863, Augustus
Davidson, who died Nov. 22, 1854, She died in 1858, without
issue by him.
Eliza, born May 11, 1798, at Franklin, maiTied July 80, 1816;
at Franklin, Joseph Crandall, of Sangerefield, N. Y., who died
s. p. She then mrrried in 1824, Israel Keith, of Georgia. She
had bjrhim two childreu : Anne Bennet, who married in 1840,
her mother's third cousin; Eobert T. Hyde, the youngest son of
James Hyde and Elizabeth Starr, of Eichfield, N. Y. ; Nelson
Baber, who was living at Geneva, N. Y., in 1858.
Ehzabeth HiU, born June 11, 1800, at Franklin, died July,
1820, unmarried.
Margai-frt P., born Jan. 11, 1802, at Franklin, died in 1830,
at Hamilton, N. Y., unmarried.
Bethia Wilhams, born June 20, 1803, at Franklin, mamed
Oct. 24, 1826, Anson Gleason, born May 2, 1797, at Manchester,
Conn. They went to Georgia, as Assistant Missionaries of the
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1831. He was aftei-wards ordained as a Congregational clergy
man, and for some years preached to the Indians at Mohegan,
Conn., and had charge of their school. lu 1858 he was a mis
sionary to the Seneca Indians at the Cattaragus Missionary Sta
tion, N. Y., and she was an assistant missionary and teacher.
He was originally a mechanic, and had not the advantages of a
liberal education. But he had very considerable power as^a pub
lic speaker, was a warm and devoted friend to the Indians, and a
mosttfaithful minister of the gospel. They had eight children :
Elizabeth Tracy, bom Sept. 19, 1827, at Mayhew, married Nov.
17', 1849, Dana P. White, born November, 1826, and had in 1866,
two childien, Anna Lizzie and Mai-y Adda, born March 2, 1863;
Mary Louisa, born July "24, 182;J, at the Choctaw Mission, un
married in 1856 ; Anna Burnham, born July 1, 1832, at Mohegan,
unmarried in 1856; Alfred W., boi-n Oct. 1, 18.94, at Mohegan,
living at Toledo, Ohio, in 1853, unmarried ; Sarah Eebecca, born
Sept. 20, 1836, at Mohegan, died Sept. 30, 1840; Andrew Wil
liams, b;rn,Nov. 20, 1888, at .Mohegan, unmarried in 1856; Ade
line Maria, horn Sept. 30, 1840, at Mohegan ; Wortbington
Hooker, born March 8, 1844, at ^Mohegan, died Dec. 23, 1845.
Adaline, born July 26, 1807, at Franklin, married' Nov. 26,
1829, Amen Wadsworth Langdon, horn June 26, 1795, at Farm
ington, Conn., only child of Capt. Anion Langdon and Lucy
Wadsworth, of Farmington. He was a merchant im Georgia for
some years, and after his marriage they settled at Geneva, N. Y.,
where they were living in 1867. They had five children, alb bom
at Geneva : Eliza Tracy, bom Aug. 26, 1830, married Oct: 6,
1852, George W. Eoot, son of Timothy H. Eoot and Celestia
Lewis, of Farmington, Conn, They were living at Phelps, N.
Y., in 17.57, and had one child, Amon Langdon, born May 1,
1855, at Phelps ; George Curtis, born April 9, 1838. He was liv-
ingat Detroit; in 1867, unmarried ; Lucy Wadsworth, born Maxeh
80, 1885, married Sept. 3, 1856, Stephen H. Hammond, a lawyer,
of Albany, N. Y., who, in 1857, was deputy attorney-general of
the state of New York ; Ella Chester, born May 5, 1838, was liv-

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ing with her parents in 1857, unmarried ; Thomas Folger, born
Dee. 24, 1843, at Geneva
Julia Frances, born Aug. 10, 1709, at Franklin, married May
6, 1888, Bev. Daniel VanValkenberg, born Jan. 8, 1806, at Man-
heim, N. Y., son of James VanValkenberg and Elizabeth Mc-
Conel. He graduated at Union College in 1824, was licensed as
a Presbyterian clergyman in 1827, and ordained July 18, 1831.
He was settled af Evans" Mills, Eichfield Springs, Mexico, Ta-
berg and Exeter, N. Y. They were living at Exeter, N. Y., in
1856. They had five children : Albert Chester, born May 2, 1839
died Aug. 29, 1839;, Charles Huntington, born April 30, 1840,
died April 28, 1847: Mary Warner, bom Jan. 23, 1842; second
Albert Chester, bom Jan. 21. 1846: Helen Catherine, born Oct.
19, 1848. Mary Hendee, born Nov. 3, 1811, at Franklin, married in
July, 1840, James Henry Warner, of Williamsburgh, N. Y., where
she died April 1, 1841, s. p.
Peter Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., April 19, 1767, second
son of Josiah Tracy and Margaret Pettis, of Norwich, was a
great grand-son of John Hyde, of the third generation. He mar
ried Nov. 30, 1788, his third cousin, Abigail Hartshorn, second
daughter of Capt. Ebenezer Hartshorn and Abigail Barstow, of
Franklin. He was a blacksmith, and they settled at Franklin,
where he died July 8. 1830. She was living at Carlisle, N. Y., in
1867. Their children were ; Dyer, born April 24, 1790, at Frank
lin, died May 27, 1790 ; second Dyer, born June 19, 1791, at
Franklin, married in 1816, Desdamona Babcock, of Burhngton,
N. Y. She died. He was hving at Albion, N. Y., in 1857. They
had six children : three sons and three daughters, the particulars
of whom I have not ascertained.
Simon, born May 8, 1795, at Frankhn, married Nov. 21, 1818
Euth Kingsbury, of Coventry, Conn., daughter of Joseph Kings
bury and Lois Porter, of Coventry. He was a merchant, and
they settled at Lebanon and removed to Norwich, Conn., where
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Leander, born Oct. 25, 1819, at Lebanon, married Jan. 14, 1845,
Laura P. Hunt, of Vernon, born about 1820, who died Aug. 8,
1846, at Bockville. He had by her one child, Theodore Hunt,
born May 16, 1846. He then married April, 1848, Annie Loviee
Chester, daughter of Socrates Chester, of Ellington. They were
living at Elmwood, 111., in 1857. He had by her two or three
children : Mary Euth, born January, 1849, died Nov. 19, 1851 ;
Frederick, etc.
Lois Abby, born July 21, 1821, at Lebanon, married Aug. 24,
1842, Eli Griffith, born Dec. 2, 1818, at Ellington, son of Eli Grif
fith and Abby Booth. They were living at Ellington in 1867, and
had five children : Alonzo Tracy, born Aug. 12, 1843 ; Euth Lou
isa, born Jan. 10, 1846; George Fitch, born March 29, 1848;
Ellen Maria, born Aug. 5, 1850 : and Emma, born May 31, 1857.
Susan Kingsbury, born Oct. 23, 1831, at Norwich, was living
at Elmwood, 111., in 1867, unmarried. Simon Tracy then mar
ried March 15, 1838, Frances M. Adams, of CanteVbury, where
she died May 4, 1834, s. p. He then married Dec. 13, 1835, Eliz
abeth Abel, of Lisbon, daughter of Andrew Abel, of Hanover.
They settled at Eockville, where he was engaged in manufactur
ing where he died May 11, 1864. She died Aug. 9, 1855. He had
by her one child : Harlan Page, born March 2, 1840, at Eock
ville. Ebenezer Hartshorn, born July 18, 1798, at Franklin. He
went to western Virginia about 1817, and is supposed to have
been killed by the Indians a few years afterwards in attempting
to cross the Eocky mountains.
Peter, born July 16, 1800, at Franklin. He was brought up
by his uncle, Abel Hyde, of Columbus, N. Y., and was for some
years after he arrived at his majority, employed upon the public
works. He married in 1832, Miranda Hall, born Jan. 16, 1816.
at Hector, N. Y., daughter of Anson Hall and Lucy Taylor.
They settled at Havana, N. Y., where he engaged in merchan
dise. They were living at Havana in 1867, and had eight child
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born May 15, 1836, educated at the Troy Female Seminary, un
married in 1857 ; Albert H., born April 29, 1839, died Feb. 16,
1857 : George, born Feb. 18, 1843, died April 8, 1843 : Charles
A., born June 18, 1844 ; Calvin, born March, 1846, died in in
fancy; Lucy Abby, born April 30, 1849; and Willie, born Jan.
16, 1852. Andrew Wilhams, born April 7, 1805, at Frfinklin, married
May 23, 1833, Emeline Talcott, daughter of Deacon Alvin Tal-
cott and Philomela Eoot, of Vernon, Conn. He was a merchant
and they were living at Eockville, Conn., in 1858, They had five
children ; Emma L., bom May 9, 1886, married July 2_ 1856,
Andrew Cotter Baldwin, born Oct. 6, 1831, son of Noah Baldwin
and Sabia Smith Cotter, of Cornwall. They settled at West
Cornwall, Conn., where he died Jan. 26, 1858 : Eosa M., born
Sept. 26, 1838, She was living with her parents in 1858, at
Eockville, unmarried ; Mary Louisa, born Jan. 20, 1843, died
Aug. 23, 1844: Alvan Talcott, born Jan. 2, 1845, at Eockville;
Louisa Adelia, born Dec. 13, 1853, at Eockville.
Jabez Hartshorn, born July 18, 1810, at Franklin, married
Dec. 30, 1832, Hannah Bailey Fillmore, born Feb. 23, 1814, at
Franklin, daughter of his fourth cousin, Annice Bailey and the
Eev. Comfort Day Fillmore, of Franklin. He was a manufac
turer, and died Aug. 27, 1866, at Lisbon, Conn., where she was
living in 1857. They had nine children ; Ellen Sophia, born Dec.
19, 1833 ; Edwin Day, born Feb. 19, 1886 ; Henry Fitch, horn
June 13, 1838 ; Emma Jane ; Jabez Addison ; William Hunting
ton ; Mary Ann ; Ida Elizabeth ; Annice Louisa.
Sophia Williams, born Nov. 17, 1793, at Franklin, married
her father's third cousin, Eoswell Huntington, seventh son of
Capt. Andrew Huntington and Euth Hyde, of Lebanon.
Abby Barstow, born Aug. 26, 1802, at Franklin, married Nov.
1. 1821, Clark Davison, bom at Hartwick, N. Y., son of Nathan
Davison and Catherine, his wife. He was an extensive farmer,
and they settled at Hartwick. They were living at Hartwick
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wick : Anne Elizabeth, born Nov, 6, 1823, married Oct. 27, 1847,
Eev. George H. Miller, son of Eev. George B. Miller and Deha
B., his wife, of Hartwick Seminary. He died Jan. 19, 1860. She
was hving at Ha-twick Seminary in 1867, and had one child,
Francis Louisa, born Aug. 11, 1848 ; WiUiam Clark, born Jan. 1,
1826, living at Hartwick Seminary in 1857, unmarried ; Albert
Nathan, bom J&ne 10, 1828. He was living in California in
1857, unmarried : Catherine Louisa, born April 21, 1831, unmar
ried in 1867 ; Delia Tracy, born Dec. 11, 1833, died Dec. 26, 1834 ;
Emma Sophia, born July 27, 1836, living at Hartwick Seminary
in 1857, unmarried ; second Delia Tracy, born April 1, 1838, un
married in 1857.
Louisa, born Oct. 2, 1808, at Franklin, married Calvin Coo-
ley, a lumber merchant. They were living at Albany in 1859,
sine prole.
Emma Elvira, born Jan. 6, 1818, at Franklin, married her
fourth cousin, Alexander Fitch, second son of Dr. Benjamin
Bissell Fitch and Esther Hyde, of Lebanon. They were living
at New York in 1867, s. p.
Josiah Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., May 7, 1772, third
son of Josiah Tracy and Margaret Pettis, was a great grand-son
of John Hyde, of {he third generation. He married Feb. 20,
1796, JMary Birchard, bom July 25, 1773, at Norwich, daughter
of Jesse Birchard and Lydia Waterman, of Bozrah. He was a
mechanic, and they settled at Franklin. They removed to Col-
lumbus, N. Y., where she died Sept. 10, 1840, and he died April
3, 1844, at Honesdale, Pa. Their children were : Josiah, born
Oct. 1, 1796, at Franklin, married Aug. 18, 1824, Diantha La
throp, born about 1802, daughter of Eleazer Lathrop, from Con
necticut, who was one of the earliest settlers of Sherburne, N.
Y. They settled at Painsville, 0., where he was engaged in mer
cantile business with one of his brothers and was a colonel of
militia. In 1832 they removed to VermiUion, 0., where he super-
tended the Huron company iron works, and was the first agent
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was engaged in forwarding and commission business. He was
mayor of Huron, a justice of the peace, a state senator, and one
of the judges of Erie county. She died April 22, 1840, at Huron
and he subsequently removed to Mansfield, 0., where he died
Jan. 11, 1857. They had seven children : Lathrop J., born May
26, 1825, at Painesville, married in 1852, Eliza Kirkland of Hones-
dale, Pa., and was living at Mansfield in 1857, and had two child
ren : Eunice M., born April 4, 1829, died in 1830: Erederick E.,
born May 6, 1831, at Painesville, married in 1855, Anne Lord, of
Honesdale, aud was living at Zanesville in 1857, and had one
chUd, Euth M., bom April 6, 1888, at Huron, died in 1734 ; Sa
rah B\, born June 13, 1835, at Huron, died in 1839; Mary D.,
born Jan. 12, 1839, at Huron, unmarried in 1867, Frances, born
April 10, 1840, died in infancy.
Jabez Avery, born April 28, 1798, at Franklin, married and
settled at Painesville, 0., where he was a merchant. He had two
children : James and Catherine. He died Nov. 9, 1880, at Mans
field, 0.
Guilford, born May 2, 1800, at Franklin, married April 1,
182.S, Jane Mead, of New York. They removed to Honesdale,
Pa„ where he died May 28, 1837, and she died June 2, 1838.
They had two children : Helen Marr, born Jan. 6, 1827, at New
York, married H. A. Clark, of Gilbertville, N. Y., and was living
in Milwaukee in 1856 ; Mary Jane, born Feb. 9, 1834, at Hones
dale, married September, 1855, Charles E. Havens, of Utica, N.
Y., and was living in Milwaukee in 1856.
Thomas Howard Eay, born May 16, 1806, at Franhlin, mar
ried Aug. 19, 1832, Anna A. Aldrich, born July 25, 1809, at Sher
burne, N. Y., daughter ef James Aldrich and Sybil Curtis, of
Sherburne. They settled at Honesdale, Pa. He had, only a
common school education, having spent his youth in laboring iu
his father's shop and on his farm. Soon after they settled at
Honesdale, he was appointed superintendent of the Pennsylva
nia section of the Delaware and Hudson canal, which position
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of Wayne county, and was for many years chief burgess of
Honesdale. He was an humble and devoted christian, was kind
and benevolent to the poor and suffering, and was prompt and
liberal in the promotion of all public enterprises. He died May
5, 1856, at Honesdale, leaving her surviving. They had six child
ren, all born at Honesdale : Anne Maria, born June 19, 1833,
died Sept. 1, 1834 ; MUes Lathrop, bom March 10, 1836 ; Cath
erine Seymour, bom May 16, 1839 ; Charles Wurts, born July 19,
1843 : Thomas Howard Eay, born Aug. 22, 1846 ; Lucy Ann, born
Dec. 25, 1847.
Horace Hyde, born May 26, 1811, at Columbus, married May
28, 1846, Clarissa Tucker, daughter of Stephen Tucker and Lucy
Harris, of Jackson, Pa. They settled at Honesdale, where he
died June 9, 1844. She was living at Honesdale in 1856. They
had tw^o children, born at Honesdale : James Horace, born Feb.
2-2, 1845 : and Clarissa Amelia, barn Oct. 5, 1846, died April 3,
1851. Euth Maria, born March 21, 1802, at Franklin, married
March, 1850, E. P. Sturgess, of Mansfield, 0., where they were
living in 1866, s. P.
Lucy Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., Oct, 7, 1760, second
daughter of Josiah Tracy and Margaret Pettis, of Norwich, was
a great grand- daughter of John Hyde, of the third generation.
She married Oct. 80. 1788, her father's second cousin, of the
Tracy blood, Daniel Tracy, born Oct. 23, 1756, at Norwich, fourth
son of Josiah Tracy, by his first wife, Eachel Allyn. [That Jo
siah Tracy was born May 10, 1718, at Norwich, and married Nov.
3, 1740, Eachel Allyn, born June 10, 1719, daughter of Timothy
Allyn and Eachel Dushnell, of Norwich. He was the third son
of Winslow Tracy and Eachel Eipley, of Norwich, which Wins
low Tracy, born Feb. 8, 1689, was the youngest son of John Tra
cy, the first, of Norwich, and Mary Winslow.] They settled at
Norwich, removed to Boston, and from there to Dover, N. H.
She died Oct. 11, 1807. Their chUdren were : Lucy, born Sept.
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and settled at Otsego, N. Y., and probably died s. p. He died
Jan. 6, 1860, at Eichfield Springs, N. Y. He had two other wives,
Nancy, born Aug. 18, 1786, at Norwich, married March 8, 1808,
at Franklin, Atkins Clark, of Boston, and they settled at Boston
where he was a trunk-maker ; Frances ; Augusta, who died un
married ; Lucretia.
Lucretia Tracy, bom at Norwich, Conn., Sept. 4, 1774, fifth
daughter of Josiah Tracy and Margaret Pettis, was a great grand
daughter of John Hyde, of the third generation. She married
March 6, 1799, WiUiam Bailey, born June 6. 1768, son of Isaac
Bailey and Alathea Torry, of Lebanon. They settled at Leba
non, where he died June 17, 1848. She was living at EockviUe,
Conn., in 1867. Their children were : Alonzo, born Dec. 14,
1799, at Lebanon, married Sept. 22, 1836, Lucinda Pease, born
in 1816, daughter of Deacon Jonathan Pease and Eleanor Glea
son, of Enfield. He obtained a divorce from her in 1855. He
had by her three children : Lucinda, born Dec. 9, 1840 ; Eleanor
Gleason, born June 13, 1844: Lucretia Tracy, born Oct. 28, 1846.
He then married Jan. 15, 1857, Catherine Noble, daughter of
Solomon Noble and Dorcas Vinton, of Mansfield. They were
living at Eockville, Conn., in 1857, where he was the agent of a
large manufacturing establishment.
William T., born April 25, 1804, at Lebanon, married Feb.
19, 1834, Mary Esther Clark, born in 1814, daughter of 
Clark and Mehetable Hubbard, of Chatham. They settled at
Buffalo, N. Y,, where they were living in 1857. They had six
children, all born at Buffalo: Earl William, born March 16,
1835 ; Mary Esther, bom July 21, 1887 : Alonzo Tracy, born
Feb. 11, 1889; Chauncey Clark, born Nov. 21, 1840; Emely
Hubbard, born July 7, 1842 ; William Watson, born AprU 16,
1846. Dyer Y., bom Feb. 4, 1808, at Lebanon, died Aug. 28, 1837,
at Manhattan, 0., unmarried.
Almanthe, bom Dec. 10, 1801, at Lebanon, married Dec. 30,
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of Windham. He died Dec. 5, 1830, She had by him two chUd
ren ; Mary Ann, born Dec. 28, 1822, living at Chicago in 1857,
unmarried ; Eliza, born Dec. 16, 1825, married  Hull, and
living at Chicago in 1857. She then married Joseph K. Edger
ton, born in 1815, who died June 18, 1836, s. p. She then mar
ried June 16, 1837, WUliam P. Comstock, born June 16, 1809, at
Lyme, Conn. She died May 11, 1847, and he was living at Chi
cago in 1857. She had by him four children : Saphronia Antoi
nette, born Dec. 10, 1838 ; Leonora Josephine, bom about 1840 ;
Emely D., born about 1848, died June 18, 1846 ; Mary Edna.
Lucretia, born Sept. 1, 1808, at Lebanon, married Sept. 1,
1840, Eobert Champlain, bom Jan. 28, 1805, son of John Cham-
plain, of Lebanon. They were living at Lebanon in 1857, and
had two children : Martha, born in October, 1841, and Henry.
Emely Wight, born Dec. 30, 1817, at Lebanon, married Sept.
1, 1840, Eufus Eipley Dimock, bom July 25, 1814, son of Eufus
Dimock and Elizabeth Eipley, of Mansfield. They were living
at EockviUe in 1867, s. p.
Eachel Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., March 6, 1777, sixth
daughter of Josiah Tracy and Margaret Pettis, was a great grand
daughter of John Hyde, of the third generation. She married
Jan. 19, 1797, Cyrenus Clark, born AprU 18, 1772, at Lebanon,
son of Jarred Clark and her fourth cousin, Mary Abel. They
removed to Cooperstown, N. Y., where they resided many years.
In 1858 they were living with their son, James Henry Clark, at
Winfield, N. Y. Their children were : Ezekiel Hyde, born July
9, 1801, at Cooperstown, married in 1827, Nancy WiUiams, of
Otsego county. He was a tanner and currier, and was living at
Maine, N. Y., in 1858.
Abel Hyde, born Jan. 14, 1804, at Cooperstown, married in
1830, Mary Elizabeth Earnst," of Cooperstown, who died in 1836.
He was a merchant, aud was living at La Crosse, Wisconsin, in
1858, Josiah Tracy, born June 1, 1806, at Cooperstown, married in
1835, Sophia Perkins, of Michigan. He was a physician, and
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Harvey Fitch, bom July 14, 1808, at Cooperstown, married
in 1883, Lucy Pratt^ of Cooperstown. He was a carpenter and
builder, and was living at Dunkirk, N. Y., in 1858.
WUliam, born June 26, 1811, at Ccwperstown, married in
1886, Anne Maria Newkirk, of Palatine, N. Y., who died in 1854.
He was a forwarding merchant, and was living at Fort Plain in
1858, and had been a member of the legislature.
James E., born July 6, 1813, at Cooperstown, and died in
1816. James Henry, born June 10, 1815, at Cooperstown, married
Sept. 17, 1840, Angaline Cook, daughter of Otis Cook and Lydia
Cass, of Exeter, N. Y He was a farmer, and they settled at
Winfield, N. Y., where she died Oct. 17, 1847. He had by her
two chUdren, born at Winfield : Otis Henry Cyrenus, bom Nov.
4, 1843 ; Almond Crandall, born April 29, 1847. He then mar
ried June 10, 1852, at Bradford, Wis., Jane Wetmore, born Sept.
7, 1828, at Winfield, daughter of Eichard Wetmore and Electa
Eeed. They were living at Winfield in 1868. He had by her
three children, born at Winfield : Frederick James, born April
19, 1858 ; Eichard Tracy, born Dec. 11, 1854 ; George Irving,
bom Nov. 18, 1856.
John Augustus, born Aug, 9, 1817, at Cooperstown, married
Sept. 9, 1846, Laura Cornelia Pomeroy, daughter of Dr. George
Pomeroy and Ann Cooper, of Cooperstown, and niece of Feni-
more Cooper, the novelist. He was a farmer, and in 1858, was
living at Green Lake, Wis.
Emma Elvira, born Aug. 20, 1798, at Cooperstown, and died
abovt 1812.
Naoma Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., May 17, 1708, sev
enth daughter of Josiah Tracy, and Margaret Pettis, was a great
grand-daughter of John Hyde, of the third generation. She
married Sept. 14, 1802, Deacon Joseph H. Willes, born June 15,
1781, youngest son of Joshua WUles, of Norwich, by his second
wife, Eunice Huntington, of Lebanon. [This Joshua WUles,
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Martha Edgerton ; married Dec. 13, 1764, Eunice Huntington,
and had by her two sons and two daughters : Jabez, Joseph H.
Temperance and Martha ; married Feb. 14, 1793, Ehzabeth
BushneU, of Lisbon, and died Dec. 2, 1815, aged 80 years, was
the youngest son of the Eev. Henry Willes and Martha Kirtland,
of Norwich. The Eev. Henry Willes, son of Jashua Willes, of
Windham, died in January, 1721, at the age of 75 years. He
graduated at Yale in 1716, and in October, 1718, was ordained,
and settled as the first minister of the church at Norwich, West
Farms, now Franklin. He married Oct. 27, 1718, Martha Kirt
land, and died Sept. 30, 1758, at Norwich, and she died Dec. 11,
1773. They had nine children: John, born in 1719, died the
same month ; Martha, bom "April 20, 1721, married in 1753, Ja
bez Edgerton ; Parnal, born March 14, 1723, married Simon Abel ;
Lydia, born Nov. 25, 11-25, died Dec 16, 1816, unmarried; Hen
ry, born Jan. 20, 1728, died Jan. 21, 1796, unmarried ; Hannah,
born July 13, 1780, married Simon Peck : Euth, bom Jan. 21,
1733 : Joshua, above named who married three wives ; Temper
ance, born May 19, 1788, married Abner Hyde.] Deacon Joseph
H. WiUes and wife, settled at Franklin, where she died July 3,
1859, leaving him surviving. Their chUdren were : Joseph Hunt
Chappel, born April 5, 1804, at Franklin, died July 7, 1820, un
married. Josiah Tracy, born Jan. 20, 1810, at Franklin, died Nov. 30,
1843, unmarried.
' Herman Huntington, born July 22, 1812, at Franklin, mar
ried April 5, 1835, his first cousin, the widow Mary Abel (Willes]
Woodward, born Nov. 5, 1807, at Frankhn, second daughter of
Jabez WiUes and Abigail Abel. They settled at Franklin, where
they were living in 1859. He had by her five chUdren, born at
Frankhn: Joseph J., born Feb. 26. 1836, died Feb. 28, 1842;
Herman Tracy, bom Oct. 9, 1840, died Dec, 28, 1842; Mary
Naomi, born AprU 26, 1843 : Harriet Tracy, born Dec. 25, 1845,
died Jan. 16, 1849 : James Warner, born June 10, 1848, died Feb.
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Joshua Henry, born March 25, 1824, at Franklin, died April
26, 1830. Anson Gleason, born Oct. 7, 1826, at Franklin, died AprU 4,
1827. Lucy Peck, born AprU 20, 1806, at Franklin, died May 14,
1821, unmarried.
Floretta Perkins, born April 22, 1808, married Sept. 14, 1828,
her first cousin, Horatio Willes, born April 26, 1800, at Franklin,
youngest, son of Jabez Willes and Abigail Abel, of Frankhn.
She died Sept. 14, 1839, at Norwich. She had one ehUd, Celia
Susan, born June 7, 1829.
Hermoine Warner, born July 22, 1812, (twin to Herman H,)
died April 1, 1818.
Catherine Jane, born April 17, 1817, at Franklin, died April
9, 1835, unmarried.
Margaret Selina Elmiet, born March 14, 1821, at Franklin,
married Nov. 18, 1889, Gebrge Avery of Norwich, and removed
to one of the western states. They had one child recorded at
Frankhn, Margaret. Olivia, born Oct. 2, 1840.
Dudley Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., Sept. 28, 1760, eld
est Son qf' Lieut.' Hezekiah Tracy, of Norwich, by his first wife,
Ehzabeth Pettis, was a great grand-son of John Hyde, of the
third generation. He married Nov 8, 1788, Mary Kingsbury, of
Norwich, daughter of Asa Kingsbury. They settled at Franklin^
where he was a member of the state legislature. Their chUdren
were : Dudley, born Jan. 8, 1786, at Franklin, married AprU 17,
1811, Emma Ellis, of Franklin. They had two chUdren recorded
at Franklin : Joseph Peck, born April 9, 1812, at Franklin ; Asa,
born March 31, 1816, at Franklin : Chandler, born June 9, 1788,
at Franklin ; Uriah, born Nov. 1, 1792, at Frapklin ; Asahel.
born July 7, 1795, at Franklin ; Horatio, born March 27, 1801),
at Franklin, unmarried in 1857; Asa Kingsbury, born Feb. 6,
1804, at Franklin, died in 1819 ; Elizabeth, born Aug. 29, 1790,
at Franklin, died in 1839, unmarried ; Sarah, born Aug. 6, 1797,
at Franklin, died in 1820, unmarried ; Lucy C, born Dec. 22,

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1802, at Franklin, died in 1888, unmarried ; Caxohne A., born
Jan. 24, 1808, at Franklin, unmarried in 1857.
Joshua Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., Oct. 16, 1768, second
son of Lieut. Hezekiah Tracy, of Norwich, by his first wife, Ehz
abeth Pettis, was a great grand-son of John Hyde, of the third
generation. He married June 21, 1789, Sarah Payne, of Leba
non, born about 1772. They settled at Franklin, Conn., where
he was twice elected to the legislature. She died June 25, 1821,
at Franklin, aged 49 years. He then married Dec. 26, 1824, the
widow Martha (Smith) Hastings, and died Aug. 9, 1884, at Frank
lin, without issue by her. She died Jan. 2, 1842. His children
by his first wife were : Stephen, born Sept. 13, 1790, at Franklin
married Oct. 9, 1814, his fourth cousin, Sarah Hyde, bOrn Aug.
2, 1775, at Franklin, eldest daughter of Abel Hyde and Chloe,
his wife. He was a blacksmith, and they settled at Franklin,
where she died. He had by her five children, bom at Franklin :
Martha Marvin, born Jan. 31, 1815, married Sept. 4, 1836, David
H. Waterman, of Bozrah ; Saphronia Fuller, bom Jan. 9, 1816^
died unmarried ; Chester Payne, born Aug. 14, 1817, died Feb. 5,
1818: Marvin, died in childhood. He then married Sarah Anne
(Scovel) Foote, widow of Daniel Foote, and daughter of Solomon
Scovel, Esq., of Colchester. He had by her three children : Har
riet, Eunice and Elizabeth.
Hezekiah, born Feb. 27, 1792, at Franklin, married Carohne
HaU, of Lebanon, Conn., and removed to Sahna, N. Y., and had
several chUdren, whose names I have not obtained.
Marvin, born Aug. 21, 1798, at Franklin, married, and re
moved to Ohio.
Horatio Nelson, born May 26, 1800, at Franklin, married
Sept. 16, 1822, Hetty Ann Birchard. He was a lieutenant in the
United States revenue service, and his family were living at Nor
wich in 1857. He had two daughters : Sarah Ann, bom July 25,
1823 ; Lucretia.
Henry Brown, born Sept. 22, 1806, at Franklin, married
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Joshua, born Oct. 16, 1808, at Franklin, married March 20,
1833, Abby J. Hoxie, of Lebanon. They settled at Franklin and
he represented that town in the state legislature one year. They
had two children recorded at Franklin : Henry Nelson, born Jan.
4, 1834 ; Jane EUen, born March 11, 1848.
Martha, born May 21, 1795, at Franklin,, died in 1797.
Wealthea, born Aug. 26, 1802, at Franklin, married Feb.
27, 1823, Abial B. Sherman, of Norwich, where he was living in
1860. Eunice Eliza, born Aug. 18, 1811, at Franklin, married her
fourth cousin, James Hazen Hyde, eldest son of Amasa Hyde
and Anna Hazen, of Franklin.
Uri Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., Feb. 8, 1764, eldest son
of Daniel Tracy and Mary Johnson, of; Norwich, was a great
grand-son of John Hyde, of the third generation. He graduated
at Yale in 1789. He engaged in teaching and became the prin
cipal of the Academy, at Oxford, N.. Y. He married Euth Hovey,
of Oxford, where he settled and was a member of Congress. He
died in 1838. Their children were : Samuel MUes, born at Ox
ford, graduated at Hamilton College in 1815, was a lawyer, and
married Oct. 18, 1822, Mary Dailey. They settled at Portsmouth,
0., where she died Nov. 5, 1845, and he died Dec. 25, 1856. They
had five children : Elizabeth Daley, born Aug. 4, 1823, married
Jan. 29, 1848, Matthias B. Eoss : Mary Euth, born Dec. 16, 1825,
married George Johnson, of Steubenville, 0. ; Samuel Uri, born
Dec. 13, 1827, died May 1, 1835 ; WiUiam Daley, born July 30,
1833, died unmarried ; Emely Anne, born Nov. 30, 1836.
Otis J., born at Oxford, married Margaret Cushman, who
died. He then married Jan. 2, 1820, his father's third cousin,
Jane Hyde, born March 9, 1802, at Franklin, youngest daughter
of Joseph Hyde and Susanna Waterman. She died. He had
by her one child, Joseph Otis. He then married Margaret
Storms and died in August, 1849, at Oxford.
Uri, born Jan. 22, 1830, at Oxford, married Persis Packer,
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1856, at Oxford. They had four children : Susan Hosmer, mar
ried John H. Morris, of Syracuse ; Charies Packer, born Dec. 5,
1829 ; Henry Eeed ; John Bailey.
Charles Oscar, born October, 1805, at Oxford, married in
1827, Maria Kinney. He was a lawyer, and they settled at Ports
mouth, 0. They had nine chUdren : Francis Henry, born April
18, 1828, married Frances Oakes, of Portsmouth ; Vander Lyn,
born Oct. 11, 1829, married Annice Davis ; Uri, born June 16,
1831 ; Mary Kinney, born March 28, 1833, married George Suth
erland, of Danville, Va. ; Anne Elizabeth, born May 13, 1835,
died Oct. 4, 1836 ; Anne Maria, born Feb. 6, 1837, married John
Davis, of Portsmouth ; Persis, born June 26, 1839, died young ;
Charles Oscar, born April 15, 1843, died Sept. 17, 1844; Alice
Euth, born Jan. 29, 1846.
Mary, born at Oxford, married Peter Dickinson, of Balti
more, Md.
Hiel Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., July 6, 1766, second son
of Daniel Tracy and Mary Johnson, was a great grand-son of
John Hyde, of the third generation. He married Nov. 8, 1795,
his second cousin, Susanna Gifford, born March 10, 1771, at Nor
wich, second daughter of James Gifford and Susanna Hubbard.
They settled at Franklin, and afterwards removed to Oxford. N.
Y., in 1801, where he died Jan. 17, 1842, and where she died May
22, 1857. Their children were : Melissa, born Aug. 8, 1798, at
Franklin, married Ebenezer Havens, and they were living at Dix,
Schuyler county, N. Y., in 1861, and had four children : Anne
E., Hiel Tracy, Albert and Ebenezer.
Eliza, born Oct. 26, 1800, at Franklin, married November,
1821, John Green, of Oxford, N. Y., born Nov. 10, 1776, and died
Aug. 30, 1834. They had five children, born at Oxford : Susan
Eliza, born Feb. 16, 1823, married Abner E. Holcomb, and had
three children : Lucy Ann, born Dec. 6, 1825, married May 17,
1848, WUson G. Mowry, of WoodhuU, N. Y., and had three chUd
ren ; John M., born April 7, 1828, married Dec. 17, 1856, Mary
E. Townsend, and were hving at Oxford in 1860; MaryM., born

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Oct. 27, 1880, died Jan. 6, 1832; Martha V., born Dec. 2.3, 1832,
died Oct. 10, 1833.
Susan, born July 30, 1802, at Oxford, married Ira Miner
Maine, of Brookfield, N. Y. He was a farmer, and they were
living at Orange, N. Y., in 1860, and had two children: Tracy
M. and Uri H.
Sophia, born June 12, 1811, at Oxford, married in 1845,
Dyer McCall. They were living at Oxford in 1860. He was
a farmer, and they had one child : Olive E., born March 2, 1846.
James Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., Feb. 9,1770, third
son of Daniel Tracy and Mary Johnson, was a great grand-son
of John Hyde of the third generation. He married Euth Calk
ins. His chUdren by her were : Daniel, died in 1841, unmarried ;
Hiel ; Eliza, born Oct. 9, 1792, died AprU 6, 1799 ; Sophia, mar
ried John Hillman, of Scipio, N. Y. He, James Tracy, then
married Margaret Wheeler. His children by her were : James,
died in 1818, unmarried ; Elijah, married Caroline Havens, and
settled at Dix, N. Y., and had four children : Jane, Ophelia,
Phebe and EUen ; John Foote, married EUen Jane Clark, and
settled at New York, and had two children, Mary Jane and Ellen
Jane ; Lorenzo Lewis, married Phebe Jackson and settled at
Dix, N. Y., and had three children : Benjamin, James and Wil
liam ; Charles, born in 1813, died in 1815 ; William died in 1820 ;
Nathaniel ; Sarah, married Orin Sharp, of Newfield, N. Y. ;
Lydia ; Ethelinda ; Margaret Jane.
Daniel Tracy, bom at Norwich, Conn., Aug. 8, 1774, young
est son of Daniel Tracy and Mary Johnson, was a great grand
son of John Hyde, of the third generation. He married Mary
Havens. Their children were : Johnson, married Lydia Bever
ly ; Ira ; Albert ; Daniel ; Ebenezer ; Sylvanus ; John ; Eunice,
married Cyrus Maine.
Theophilus Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., Nov. 16, 1768,
eldest son of Theopilus Tracy and Sarah Gifford, was a great
grand-son of John Hyde, of the third generation. He married
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Y., in 1797. Their children were : Samuel, born Nov. 3, 1798,
at Pompey, married Feb. 7, 1829, Hannah Edwards. They had
six children : Mary Jane, born March 2, 1880 ; WUliam, born
May 12, 1882 ; Sarah Anne, born March 27, 1834, died Sept. 20,
1834 ; Edward, born May 16, 1835 ; Hiel, born May 10, 1837 ;
Charles Elijah, born March 5, 1841.
TheophUus Draper, born April 21, 1802, at Pompey, married
Jan. 8, 1823, Patience Kenyon. They had six children : Marcia
Adaline, born Dec. 1, 1827 ; Lucy Emehne, born July 27, 1830 ;
Gifford' Theophilus, born Oct. 4, 18.33; Horace Fayette, born
Aug. 11, 1836 ; John, born Oct. 25, 18.89 ; Samantha, born Aug.
23, 1842. Eri, born Dec 19, 1808, at Pompey, married Mary Hitch
cock. They had five children : Saphronia Elizabeth, who died
in childhood ; Uri ; Alpheus ; Mary Malvina ; second Saphronia
Elizabeth. Nehemiah, born March 15, 1808, at Pompey, died the same
day. William Henry, born April 16, 1809, at Pompey, died June 2,
1825, unmarried.
Eiel Stephen, bom June 27, 1811, at Pompey, married April
5, 1888, Adeha Eobinson, who died Jan. 5, 1889, sine prole. He
then married Dorothy Fairbanks, and had by her three children :
Dorothy Adelia, born July 22, 1840 ; Stephen, born Oct, 18, 1841,
died May 13, 1843 ; Frances Orcelia, born Oct. 28, 1843.
Experience, born March 8, 1796, at Pompey, died March 14,
1815, unmarried.
Anna, born Nov. 2, 1796, at Pompey, died Dec. 29, 1796.
Laura, born July 5, 1809, at Pompey, who married David
Kenyon. Thankful, bom Dec. 19, 1808, at Pompey, (twin of Eri) mar
ried Orson Wheaton.
Joanna, born Nov. 13, 1813, at Pompey, married, Dec. 29,
1835, Murphy Thompson.
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of Theophilus Tracy and Sarah Gifford, was a great grand-son of
John Hyde, of the third generation. He married Dimis Anne
Martin, and settled at Granville, N. Y. Their chUdren were:
Peter, William, Eiel Huntington, Lucinda, Mary, Elmira and
Dimis Anne.
Stephen Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., Nov. 4, 1776, third
son of TheophUus Tracy and Sarah Gifford, was a great grand
son of John Hyde, of the third generation. He married the
widow Wade, mother of the Eev. Jonathan Wade, the Baptist
missionary. They settled at Hector, N. Y. Their children were :
Allen, Theophilus, Horace.
Zebulon Edgerton, born at Norwich, Conn., March 4, 1755,
eldest son of Zebulon Edgerton and Elizabeth Tracy, of Nor
wich, was a great grand-son of John Hyde of the third genera
tion. ;He married about 1778, Abigail  , and settled in that
part of Norwich which was afterwards Franklin, and had five
children recorded to them. Those children were : Eeuben, born
May 29, 1779, at Norwich ; Levi, born June 14, 1781, at Nor
wich ; Whiting; born Feb. 28, 1786, at Norwich, Lydia, born July
9, 1783, at Norwich ; Euth, bom March 26, 1793, at Frankhn.
Bethia Edgerton, bom at Norwich, Conn., Sept. 8, 1764,
fifth daughter of Zebulon Edgerton and Elizabeth Tracy, was a
great gr&nd-daughter of John Hyde, of the third generation.
She probably married Oct. 12, 1788, at Frankhn, Elephelet Met
calf, born Jan. 28, 1763, at Lebanon, second son of her fourth
cousin, Abel Metcalf, and AbigaU Throop, of Lebanon. They
settled at Franklin, where they had four children recorded to
them. Those children were : Uri, born Dec. 81, 1788, at Frank
lin ; Elephelet, born Nov. 19, 1792, at Franklin ; Ira, born Sept.
10, 1794, at Frankhn ; Harriet, born Nov. 4, 1798, at Frankhn,
probably married Jan. 29, 18-22, Samuel Huntington, of Lebanon.
Asa Waterman, born at Norwich, Conn., Dec. 2, 1772, eldest
son of Arunah Waterman and Hannan Leffingwell, of Johnson'
Vt., was a great grand-son of John Hyde, of the third genera
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neU, born April 28, 1784, at Piermont, N.H., daughter of Thom
as McConnell. He was a farmer, and they settled at Johnson,
Vt., where she died about 1818. His chUdren by her were : Eras
tus, born Feb. 27, 1807, at Johnson, married, and was living in
Michigan in 1856 ; Arunah, born Feb. 22, 1809, at Johnson. He
went to Texas while a young man, where he probably died un
married ; Harvey, born Feb. 29, 1811, at Johnson. He was liv
ing at New York in 1856, unmarried ; Thomas P., born April 20,
1813, at Johnson, died June 11, 1815. He then married Feb. 26,
1815, Anna Dodge, of Johnson, born March 3, 1784, at New Bos
ton, N. H., daughter of Elisha Dodge and Ginger Eaymond, for
merly of Beverly, Mass. They were living at Johnson in 1857.
Caleb Abel, born at Norwich, Conn., April, 1677, second son
of Caleb Abel and Margaret Post, of Norwich, was a grand-son
of John Post, the first, and Hester Hyde, of Norwich. He mar
ried Feb. 20, 1706, AbigaU Sluman, born March 14, 1680, at Nor
wich, daughter of .Thomas Sluman and Sarah Bliss, of Norwich.
They settled at Lebanon, where she died Nov. 11, 1748. The
date of his death has not been ascertained. Their children were :
Daniel, born Feb. 8, 1796, at Lebanon, married Sarah Crane ;
Caleb, born April 25, 1709, at Lebanon, married Mary Clark ;
Abigail, born AprU 11, 1711, at Lebanon, married Joseph Slu
man ; Mary, born Aug. 4, 1714, at Lebanon, living at Lebanon,
where she died Feb. 26, 1785, unmarried.
John Abel, born at Norwich, Conn., December, 1678, third
son of Caleb Abel and Margaret Post, of Norwich, was a grand
son of John Post, the first, and Hester Hyde, of Norwich. He
married June 2, 1703, Eebecca Sluman, born Oct. 8, 1682, at Nor
wich, daughter of Thomas Sluman and Mary Bliss, of Norwich.
They settled at Lebanon. The dates and places of their deaths
I have not ascertained. Their children were ; John, born March
10, 1704, died same day ; Solomon, born Jan. 7, 1708, at Leba
non, married Mary Northum ; David, born AprU 7, 1722, at Leb
anon, married Alice Eoberts ; Sarah, born March 2, 1705, at Leb
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at Lebanon, married John West ; Bethia, born Oct. 18, 1718, at
Lebanon ; Hannah, born Sept. 26, 1716, at Lebanon, married
Oct. 3, 1739, Marshall Hackley, of Lebanon, and had a family.
Their son Samuel, born Oct. 1, 1740, at Lebanon.
Theophilus Abel, born at Norwich, Conn., November, 1680,
fourth son of Caleb Abel and Margaret Post, of Norwich, was a
grand-son of John Post, the first, and Hester Hyde. He married
June 27, 1716, Anne Calkins, born Oct. 10, 1692, at Norwich, eld
est daughter of Hugh Calkins and Sarah Sluman, of Norwich,
and grand-daughter of John Calkins and Sarah, his wife. Their
dhildren were : Anne, born July 2, 1717, at Norwich, married
Hezekiah Edgerton ; Zerviah, born Jan. 29, 1722, at Norwich,
married Elisha Edgerton.
Benjamin Abel, born at Norwich, Conn.,  — , 1687, fifth
son of Caleb Abel and Margaret Post, of Norwich, was a grand
son of John Post, the- first and Hester Hyde, of Norwich. He
married March 17, 1714, Lydiid Hazen. I suppose they settled
iiltiiat part of Norwich which is now Franklin, but I have not
ascertained the particulars of their residence and deaths. Their
children were: Benjamin, born May 28, 1715, at Norwich, mar
ried Abigail Gild ; Andrew, born April 1, 1717, at Norwich, mar
ried his first ccjusin, Elizabeth Tracy ; Simon, born Sept. 15,
1721^ at Noi-wich, married Parnal Willes ; Elijah, born May 12,
1729, at Norwich, married first, Anne Lathrop, second, Mary
Cleveland; Matthew,- born Sept. 8, 1731, at Norwich; Oliver
born Feb.' 6, 1784, at Norwich, married Abigail Pettis; Isaiah,
born July 24, l738, at Norwich, married Ehoda Pettis; Lydia,
born July 2&, 1719, at Norwich, married her father's second cous
in, Jabez Hyde; eldest son of Jabez Hyde and Elizabeth Bush
nell : Alice, born Jan. 14, 1724, at Norwich, had an illegitimate
Child in 1769, and probably died unmarried ; Hannah, born
March 26,1727, at Norwich, married Simeon Lathrop.
-Mary Abel, born at Norwich, Conn., about 1685, the fourth
daughter of Caleb Abel and Margaret Post, of Norwich, was a
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wich. She married Dec. 81, 1706, Capt. Joseph Tracy, born
April 20, 1682, at Norwich, third son of John Tracy, the first,
and Mary Winslow. They settled at Norwich, where he was a
justice of the peace, and one of the leading men of the place.
And he very frequently represented his native town in colonial
legislature. His wife died Jan. 17, 1751. He survived her and
died April 10, 1765, aged 83 years. Their chUdren were: Joseph
born Oct. 17, 1706, at Norwich, married Ann Hinckley ; Elisha,
born May 17, 1712, at Norwich, married first, Lucy Huntington,
second, Elizabeth Dorr, third, widow Lois Huntington ; Phine-
has, born Jan. 1, 1721, at Norwich, died unmarried ; Mary, born
Jan. 4, 1708, at Norwich, married Benjamin Wadsworth, and is
supposed to have died s. p. : Margaret, born May 11, 1710, at
Norwich, married hef second cousin, William Waterman ; Zer
viah, born Dec. 14, 1714, at Norwich, probably died unmarried ;
Lydia, bom Dec. 10, 1716, at Norwich, married her mother's sec
ond cousin, Elisha Hyde ; Irene, born Jan. 15, 1719, at Norwich,
married Dec. 20, 1743, Daniel Burnham ; Jerusha, born May 23,
1723, at Norwich, married her mother's second cousin, the Eev.
Jedediah Hyde, fifth son of William Hyde ; Elizabeth, born at
Norwich, probably married her first cousin, Andrew Abel, born
April 1, 1717, at Norwich, second son of Benjamin Abel and
Lydia Hazen, of Norwich. He died Aug. 31, 1796, ft Franklin.
They had a son, Benjamin Abel,- who married AprU 8, 1769, Es
ther Smith, and had five children, born at Norwich : Anne, born
Oct. 7, 1760 ; Asa, born March 20, 1762 ; Solomon, born June
23, 1767 ; Elizabeth, born March 30, 1769 ; Eodolphus, born Nov.
26, 1770. AbigaU Abel, born at Norwich, Conn., March 16, 1690, fifth
daughter of Caleb Abel and Margaret Post, was a grand-daugh
ter of Joqn Post and Hester Hyde. She married Jan. 12, 1710,
Barnabas Lathrop. They settled at Norwich, where he died
May 25, 1710. Her child by him was : Abigail, born Jan. 1, 1711,
at Norwich. She then married Feb. 4, 1718, Christopher Hunt
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gate. [This Deacon Chistopher Huntington, was born Nov. 1,
1660, and was the first white male child born in Norwich. He
was a son of Christopher Huntington and Euth Eockwell, one
of the 36 original proprietors of Norwich, who came from Eng
land to Eoxbury in 1633, and married Oct. 7, 1652, Euth Eock
well, eldest daughter of WUliam Eockwell and Susanna Chapin,
of Windsor. Sarah Adgate, the wife of Deacon Christopher
Huntington, was born January, 1663, at Norwich, daughter of
the first Deacon Thomas Adgate, one of the 35 proprietors of Nor
wich, by his second wife, the widow Sarah BushneU.] Christo
pher Huntington and Abigail, his wife, settled at Norwich, where
she died June 2, 1780. Her children by him were : Christopher,
born June 20, 1719, at Norwich, married Sarah Bingham ; Elisha
born Sept. 22, 1720, at Norwich, married Dinah Chapman ; Aza
riah, born Nov. 26, 1723, at Norwich, probably died unmarried ;
Theophilus, born Sept. 12, 1726, at Norwich, married Lois Gif
ford, daughter of Samuel Gifford and Experience Hyde ; Barna
bas, born May 29, 1728, at Norwich, married Anne Wright ; Euth
born Aug. 3, 1722, at Norwich, married Sept. 10, 1741, Joshua
Sluman, who died Oct. 19, 1742, and she died Dec. 17, 1742, s, p. ;
Margaret, born Nov. 23, 1724, at Norwich, married her third
cousin, John Tracy, eldest son of John Tracy and Margaret
Hyde ; Sarah, born AprU 27, 1781, at Norwich, married May 12,
1766, Asa Kingsbury, of Norwich, West Farms, now Frankhn,
born AprU 7, 1729, eldest son of Ephriam Kingsbury and Mar
tha Smith. He died Sept. 5, 1776. They had four chUdren re
corded at Norwich ; Asa, born March 12, 1767 ; Sarah, born April
8, 1761 ; and Lucy, bom June 20, 1771. After the death of his
first wife, Christopher Huntington married May 2, 1783, Ehza
beth Ensworth, of Canterbury, who died March 2, 1735, and had
by her one daughter, Elizabeth, born Feb. 8, 1735. who died Oct.
25, 1758, unmarried. He then married June 4, 1740, Mary Brew
ster, who died Dec. 24, 1749. He then married Feb. 7, 1751,
Mrs. Mary Gaylord, of Hebron, who died March 14, 1761, and he
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Capt. John Hough, born at New London, Conn., Oct. 1, 1697,
eldest son of Capt. John Hough and Sarah Post, of New Lon
don, was a grand-son of John Post, the first, and Hester Hyde,
of Norwich. He married Sept. 4, 1718, Hannah Denison, born
March 28, 1699, at New London, eldest daughter of George Den
ison, Esq., and Mary Witherell, of New London. [This George
Denison, Esq., of New London, was a son of John Denison and
Phebe Lay, of Stonington, and a grand-son of Capt. George
Denison and Anne Borrodill, of Stonington. He graduated at
Harvard in 1693, and was a lawyer, and for several years a clerk
of the county court of New London county. He was born March
28, 1671, at 'Stonington, and died Jan. 20, 1720, at New London.
Ho had eight children : Grace, born in 1695, married Edward
Hallam ; Phebe, born in 1697, married Gibson Harris ; Hannah,
born in 1699, married John Hough ; Borrodill, born in 1701, mar
ried Jonathan Latimer ; Daniel, born in 1708, married Eachel
Starr ; Wetherell, born in 1705, married Lydia Moore ; Anne,
born in 1707, married Samuel Eichards ; Sarah, born in 1709,
married William Douglass.] They settled at New London, and
removed to that part of Norwich, which is now Bozrah, where
she died AprU 9, 1782.
Elijah Abel, born at Norwich, Conn., May 12, 1729, fourth
son of Benjamin Ahel and Lydia Hazen, of Norwich, was a great
grand-son of John POst and Esther Hyde, of Norwich. He mar
ried Nov. 11, 1754, Ann Lathrop, born Feb. 15, 1781, third daugh
ter of Capt. Ebenezer Lathrop and Lydia Leffingwell, and grand
daughter of Thomas Leffingwell, the third, and Lydia Tracy, of
Norwich. They settled at Norwicli, where she died Dec. 15,
1764. His children by her were : Elijah, born Oct. 18, 1755, at
Norwich; Abel, born Sept. 14, 1757, at Norwich; Jabez, born
Oct. 17, I759f at Norwich, probably married Jan. 18, 1796, Ehz
abeth Sanford ; Anne, born April 8, 1762, at Norwich ; Eunice,
born March 7, 1764, at Norwich, probably married AprU 7, 1798,
Oliver Smith, of Franklin. He then married Oct. 80, 1768, Mary
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particulars as to his residence or the time and place of his, death.
His.. chUdren by her were : Benjamin, born May 13, 1771, at Nor
wich ; Elizabeth, born March 19, 1769, at Norwich, married
Ozias Backus.
Oliver Abel, born at Norwich, Conn., Feb. 6, 1734, sixth son
of Benjamin Abel and Lydia Hazen, of Norwich,' was a. great
grand-son of John Post and Hester Hyde, of Norwich. He mar
ried Feb. 26, 1769, Abigail Pettis, born about 1746. They settled
at Norwich, West Farms, now Franklin, where he died Nov. 12,
1§15, and she died Dec, 14, 1823; Their children were : .Oliver,
born AprU 16, 1773, at Norwich, probahly married Nov. 19, 1799,
Mary Lord, of Franklin; Hiel, born Ocjt. 20, 1776, at Norwich,
married Nov,. 26, 1801, Cynthia Peck, and reiiipved.to Topsham,
Me" ; Asa, borp Sept. 19, 1780, at Norwich,: probably maj-riied
first, Aug. 16, 1804, Clarissa Hewitt, of Franklin, second March
28, 1811, Charlotte Kingsbury, of Norwich : Benjamin,, born
March :26, 1784, at Norwich; Gurdon, .born Nov. 5, 178.8j at
Franklin, married Anna Morgap ; Abigail, born, AprU* 21, 1769,
at Norwich, married Jabez Williams. . ',; ¦
Isaiah Abel, born at Norwich, Conn., July 24, 1788, young
est son of Benjamin Abel and Lydia Hazen, of Norwich, was a
great grand-son of John Post and Hester Hyde, of Norwich. He
married Nov. 5, 1762, Ehoda Pettis. They settled at Norwich,
where they had five children recorded to theiq. 'Thos^ children
were : Azel, born July 9, 17^3, at Norwich ; WyUys,' born June
11, 1777, at Norwich ; a chUd, born March 24, 1769, at Norwich,
died unnamed.; Lucretia, born Nov. 28, 1766, at Norwich; Eho
da, born May 16, 1772, at Norwich. ;
Hannah Abel, born at Norwich, Conn., March. 26, 1727,
youngest daughter of Benjamin Abel and Lydia Hazen, of Nor
wich, was a great grand- daughter of John Post and Hester Hyde,
of Norwich. She married Jan. 11, 1749, Deacon Simeon La
throp, born Jan. 15, 1723, at Norwich, youngest son of Irael La
throp and Mary FeUows, of Norwich. They settled at the New
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1802. Their chUdren were : Simeon, born Aug. 4, 1753, at Nor
wich, married Ehzabeth Calkins ; Eoger, born Dec. 8, 1764, at
Norwich ; Ohver, born Sept. 9, 1766, at Norwich, married Dec.
13, 1781, his third cousin, Eunice Hough, fourth daughter cf
Capt. David Hough and his first wife. Desire Clark. They re
moved to Hartland, Vt., and had a family : Zabdiel, born Nov.
30, 1762, at Noswich, married first, Margaret Tracy, second, Abi
gail Harris ; Andrew, born Oct. 26, 1764, at Norwich, married
first, Lucretia Smith, second, Zerviah PoUey ; Hannah, born
Aug. 28, 1749, at Norwich, probably married July 9, 1769, Christ
opher Calkins ; Eunice' born Aug. 17, 1751, at Norwich, proba
bly married Oct. 29, 1772, Stephen Woodward, at Bozrah ; Lydia
born Sept. 2, 1758, ft Norwich, probably married John Fish ;
Sarah, born Sept. 22, 1760, at Norwich.
Joseph Tracy, born at Norwich, Copn., Oct. 17, 1706, eldest
son of Capt. Joseph Tracy and Mary Abel, of Norwich, was a
great grand-son of John Post and Hqster Hyde, of the second
generation. He married Nov. 6, 1789, Anna Hinckley, born Oct.
5, 1716, at Lebanon, third daughter of, Gershom Hinckley and
Mary Buel, of Lebanon. They settled at Norwich, where he
held the office of constable and collector for nearly thirty years.
She died Jan. 8, 1801, aged 84, and he died AprU 19, 1787. Their
children were : Jarred, born Oct. 10, 1741, at Norwich, married
Margaret Grant.
Frederick, born Aug. 3, 1749, at Norwich, married, Deborah
Thomas, his fourth cousin of the Tracy blood, and third cousin
of his father, of the Hyde blood, eldest daughter of Ebenezer
Thomas, of Norwich, by his second wife, Deborah Hyde.
Uriah Tracy, born Aug. 9, 1758, at Norwich, married Feb. 9,
1794, Lydia HaUam, of New London, [the lady who was engaged
to be married to the unfortunate Capt. Hale, of the army of the
revolution, who wag taken and executed by the British as a spy.)
They settled at Norwich, where he was a merchant, and died in
1832. They had one son, WiUiam George, born May 11, 1787,
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Euby, born May 14, 1746, at Norwich, and died July 9, 1751.
Anna, born Nov. 30, 1751, at Norwich, resided there and died
in 1825, unmarried.
Lois, born Aug. 19, 1755, at Norwich, resided there and died
in 1825, unmarried.
Dr. Elisha Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., May 17, 1712,
second son of Capt. Joseph Tracy and Mary Abel, of Norwich,
was a great grand- son of John Post and Hester Hyde, of the
second generation. He graduated at Yale in 1788, and was a
distinguished physician and surgeon. He married June 16, 1743
Lucy Huntington, bom May 32, 1722, at Norwich, daughter of
Deacon Ebenezer Huntington and Sarah Lefiingwell, and grand
daughter of Deacon Simon Huntington, the second, and Lydia
Gager, of Norwich. They settled at Norwich, where he was dis
tinguished for his classical attainments, as well as for his profes
sional skill and for his moral and social qualities. She died Oct.
12, 1751, at Norwich. His children by her were: Lucy, born
July 20, 1744, at Norivieh, married Dr. Philip Turner ; Ahce,
hotn Oct. 11, 1745, at Norwich, married Elisha Leffingwell ; Lu
cretia, born Sept. 5, 1747, at Norwich, lived there and died March
28, 1825, unmarried ; Lydia, born Dec. 26, 1749, at Norwich, mar
ried Alvan Fosdick, of Boston, had three sons and one daugh
ter : Phinelias G., Gregory, John, Mary or Lydia. He died. She
survived him and died in 1825, at Norwich.
Philuira, born Sept. 30, 1751, at Norwich, married Samuel
Huntiilgton. After the death of his first wife, he married April
16, 1754,' his third coiisin, Elizabeth Dorr, born April 16, 1735,
at Lyme, Conn., third daughter of Edmund Dorr and Mary Gris
wold, of Lyme. -She died March 23, 1781, at Norwich. He then
married Oct. 19, 1781, Lois (Hinckley) Huntington, widow ot
Nehemiah Huntington, Esq., of Bozrah, but had no issue hy her.
He died May 1, 1783, at Norwich, and she died Oct. 3, 1790. His
children by his second wife were: Phinehas L., born June 29,
1755, at Norwich, was a soldier of the revolution, and died in the
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Philemon, born May 30, 1767, at Norwich, married AbigaU
Trott. Ehsha, born May 27, 1766, at Norwich, married Lucy Coit
Huntington. Joseph Winslow, born Aug. 11, 1769, at Norwich, died Feb.
6, 1770. Elizabeth, born June 29, 1760, at Norwich, died Oct. 30,
1778. Charlotte, born May 27, 1762, at Norwich, resided there and
died in 1820, unmarried.
Mary, bom May 8, 1764,. at Norwich, resided there and died
in 1888, unmarried.
Deborah Dorr, born Nov. 9, 1770, at Norwich, resided there
and died in 18-24, unmarried.
Margaret Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., May 11, 1710, sec
ond daughter of Capt. Joseph Tracy and Mary Abel, of Norwich,
was a great grand-daughter of John Post and Hester Hyde, of
the second generation. She married Sept. 28, 1738, her second
cousin of the Tracy blood, William Waterman, born July 20,
1710, at Norwich, eldest son of John Waterman, of Norwich,
by his second wife, Judith Woodward. [This John Waterman,
born March, 1672, second son of Ensign Thomas Waterman,
first, of Norwich, and Miriam Tracy. John Waterman's first
wife was Elizabeth Lathrop, by whom he had two sons and two
daughters : Eleazer, who married Martha Adgate ; John, who
died unmarried ; Elizabeth, who probably died young ; Hannah,
(this Hannah was grand-daughter of John Waterman and Miri
am Tracy) whose first husband was Absalom King, of Long Is
land, and who afterwards married Benedict Arnold, of Norwich,
and was mother of Gen. Benedict Arnold, the traitor, who was
born Jan. 8, 1741, at Norwich. John Waterman, by his second
wife, Judith Woodward, had four chUdren: William, Samuel,
Ebenezer and Peter. By his third wife, Elizabeth Basset, who
he married in 1721, he had three more : Mary, David Basset and
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where she died June 4, 1767, and where he died Nov. 7, 1789.
Their children were : WUliam, born March 17, 1748, at Norwich.
Judith, born March 20, 1786, at Norwich, married March 18,
1762, Beriah Bill, of Norwich, and had two chUdren recorded to
them at Norwich: Judith, born March 18, 1768; Uriah, born
March 1, 1765.
Abigail, bom March 12, 1739, at Norwich, married Jan. 15,
1783, her fourth cousin of the Hyde blood, Marshfield Parsons,
eldest son of the Eev. Jonathan Parsons and Phebe Griswold, of
Lyme, died March 14, 1793, at Lyme, s. p.
Lydia, born Sept. 13, 1741, at Norwich, probably married
Jesse Birchard, of Bozrah, and had a daughter, Mary, arid prob
ably other children.
Margaret, born March 24, 1744, at Norwich.
Mary, born Sept. 7, 1746, at Norwich, probably married Oct.
20, 1881, Joseph Perkins.
Irene Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., Jan. 16, 1719, fifth
daughter of Capt. Joseph Tracy and Mary Abel, of Noiwich, was
a great grand-daughter of John Post and Hester Hyde, of the
second generation. She married Dec. 20, 1743, Daniel Bum-
ham, born March 21, 1718, at Norwich, eldest son of Eleazer
Burnham and Lydia Waterman, grand-son of Thomas Water
man, the first, and Miriam Tracy, of Norwich. They settled at
Norwich, where they had four children recorded to them : Zach-
arias, born June 26, 1747, at Norwich ; Elias,' born June 17, 1754
at Norwich; Irene, born Nov. 18, 1744, at Norwich, mairied
Aaron Bushnell ; Abigail, born May 29, 1762, at Norw'ich, died
July 10, 1756.
Christopher Huntington, born at Norwich, Conn., June 20,
1719, eldest son of Christopher Huntington, of Norwich, by his
first wife, AbigaU (Abel) Lathrop, was a great grand-son of John
Post and Hester Hyde, of the second generation. He married
Sept. 19. 1748, Sarah Bingham, of Norwich. He was a physician
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He died March, 1800, at Bozrah. Their children were : Christo
pher, born July 14, 1749, at Norwich, died Feb. 11, 1759.
Thomas, born Oct. 28, 1767, at Norwich, married first, Abi
gail Backus, second,  Griswold.
Second Christopher, born March 81, 1766, at Norwich, mar
ried Lucy Culver.
Sarah, born Jan. 28, 1751, at Norwich, lived in Bozrah, and
died unmarried.
AbigaU, born June 13, 1753, at Norwich, married April 8,
1778, Job Talcott, of Bolton, Conn
Euth, born Aug. 14, 1755, at Norwich, married Sept. 22,
1775, Eev. Thomas Baldwin, D. D., born Dec. 28, 1753, at Nor
wich. They settled at Canaan, N. H., where he became a Bap
tist clergyman. She died Feb. 11, 1812, and had six children,
only two of whom survived her. He then married Margaret
Duncan, of Haverhill, N. H., and became a distinguished cler
gyman at Boston. One of his daughters married  Holt.
Elisha Huntington, born at Norwich, Conn., Sept. 22, 1720,
second son of Christopher Huntington, of Norwich, by his first
wife, Abigail (Abel) Lathrop, was a great grand- son of John Post
and Hester Hyde, of the second generation. He married Dec.
SI, 1760, Dinah Chapman, of New London, born July 20, 1784.
They settled at Norwich, where he died Feb. 12, 1766. Their
children were: Elisha, born April 23, 1766, at Norwich, married
Naney Eude : Dinah, born Feb. 18, 1765, at Norwich, married
May 19, 1786, Samuel Judd.
Barnabas Huntington, bom at Norwich, Conn., May 29,
1728, fifth son of Christopher Huntington, of Norwich, by his
first wife, Abigail (Abel) Lathrop,was a great grand-son of John
Post and Hester Hyde, of the third generation. He married
Dec. ll, 1751, Anne Wright, of Hebron. They settled at Nor
wich, West Fai-ms, now Franklin, where he was deacon of the
church, and one of its prominent citizens.
Zabdiel Lathrop, born at Norwich, Conn., Nov. 30, 1762,
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great grand-son of Margaret Post, of the third generation. He
married Sept. 22, 1783, Margaret Tracy, the third, who died Oct.
4, 1783, s. p. He then married June 6, 1785, Abigail Harris, of
Lebanon. They settled at Bozrah, where they had three child
ren recorded to them : .Alfred, born Nov. 6, 1786, at Bozrah ;
Zabdiel, bom June 2, 1791, at Bozrah ; Caroline, born Sept. 2,
1788, at Bozrah.
Andrew Lathrop, bom at Norwich, Conn., Oct. 26, 1764, fifth
son of Deacon Simeon Lathrop and Hannah Abel, was a great
grand- son of Margaret Post, of the third generation. He prob
ably married Jan. 22, 1789, Lucretia Smith, of Franklin. They
settled at Bozrah, where he was a Justice- of the Peace. She
died Oct. 9,- 1801. ' His children by her were : Simeon, born Nov.
25, 1792, at Bozi-ah, probably married AbigaU  , who died,
and had'by her one child, William, born AprU 17, 1817, at Boz
rah. He then married Dee. 20, 1820,. Phebe Peckham, of Frank
lin, born about 1800. They settled at Bozrah, where she died
Aug. 11, 1847, and where they had eight children recorded to
them : Andrew, born March 10, ,1822 ; Lucy, born May 22, 1823 ;
Jabez Sniith, born May 28, 1824; Alanson Peckham, born July
21, 1826 ; .lane,, born Oct. 25, 1828 ; Daniel Austin and Lydia
Zerviah, (twins) born April 23, 1882, and Anne, born May 20,
1884. : Azariah, born Feb. 26, 1796, at Bozrah, married Dec. 2,
1824, Tahtha Huntington, born Feb. 18, 1794, at Franklin; third
daughter of Elisha Huntington and Nancy Eude, of Franklin.
They settled at Franklin, arid removed to Vernon, and had five
children : Azariah Willes, born April 24, 1826, at Franklin. He
was a lawyer, and went to Iowa : Elisha Huntington, born' Aug.
27, 1827, at Franklin ; PhUena Maria, bom April 26, 1829, and
died July 11, 1881, at Franklin ; Eliza L., born November, 1831 ;
Nancy Huntington, born Oct. 3, 1885 ; Dice, born Dec. 8, 1789,
at Bozrah ; Philena, born April 10, 1791, at Bozrah ; Apame,
born July 25, 1794, at Bozrah; Lucy, born March 8, 1798, at
Bozrah ; Eunice, born June 14, 1799, at Bozrah. Andrew La-

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throp, Esq., then married May 30, 1802, Zerviah PoUey, of Boz
rah, where he probably died.
Lydia Lathrop, born at Norwich, Conn., Sept. 2, 1758, third
daughter of Deacon Simeon Lathrop and Hannah Abel, was a
great grand-daughter of Margaret Post, of the third generation.
She married AprU 2, 1786, John Fish, of Bozrah, where they set
tled, and had six children recorded to them : Simeon, born Feb.
1, 1787, at Bozrah; John, born Sept. 25, 1788, at Bozrah; Mil
ler, born June 5, 1791, at Bozrah ; Electa, born April 23, 1798, at
Bozrah ; Lydia, born Aug. 6, 1796, at Bozrah ; Margaret, bom
Nov. 17, 1799, at Bozrah.
Jared Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., Oct. 10, 1741, eldest
son of Capt. Joseph Tracy and Anne Hinckley, of Norwich, was
a great grand-son of Margaret Post, of the third generation.
He married Oct. 20, 1765, Margaret Grant, of Norwich, where
they settled. He was a justice of the peace, and was a commis
sary of supplies for the American army, during the siege of Bos
ton. He also had Gen. Burgoine's army under his charge after
their surrender at Saratoga. He was a member of the legisla
ture. He was a merchant and a ship-master. He died Dec. 25,
1790, at Martinique, W. I. Their children were : William Gid-
ney, born Nov. 15, 1768, at Norwich, married Jan. 19, 1800, Ea
chel Huntington, born April 4, 1779, at Norwich, daughter of
Jiidge Benjamin Huntington and Anna Huntington, and mater
nally grand-daughter of Col. Jabez Huntington, of Windham,
and his second wife, the widow Sarah Wetmore, (see Goodwin,
54, note.) They settled at Whitesboro', N. Y., where he died
AprU 15, 1830. She died April 7, 1852, at Utica. They had nine
ehUdren born at Whitesboro' : Susanna, born Nov. 20, 1800,
married November, 1834, Moses Bagg, of Utica, and died July
17, 1859, while on a visit to Saratoga Springs. Margaret, bom
Jan. 18, 1808, married AprU, 1880, Eev. Chauncey E. Goodrich,
of Utica, N. Y., and had four chUdren : Anne, born May, 1881 ;
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in 1839. William, born June 16, 1805, graduated at Union col
lege in 1824, and was a prominent and successful lawyer. He
married May 20, 1881, Lucy Perkins, daughter of Frederich Per
kins, of Lisbon, Conn. They settled at Utica, and removed to
New York, where they were living in 1859, and had three chUd
ren : Lucy Eldridge, born May 6, 1885, married May 22, 1861,
William P. Lee, of New York ; Catherine Parker, born Dec. 8,
1839 ; and WUliam Frederick, born June 15, 1837, died Feb. 11,
1839. Anne Huntington, born Oct. 7, 1807, married May 1, 1831,
William Curtis Noyes, a lawyer, and settled at Whitesboro',
where she died Oct. 5, 1838, had one child, Eachel Tracy, born
April 1, 1882. He removed to New York, and married a daugh
ter of Frederick A. Talmadge, and was living at New York in
1860, and was one of the most distinguished lawyers of that city.
Charles, born Feb. 17, 1810, graduated at Yale in 1832, and was
a lawyer. He married Aug. 80, 1837, Louisa Kirkland, daughter
of Gen. Joseph Kirkland, of Utica. They settled at Utica, and
removed to New York, where they were living in 1859, and had
five children : Anne Huntington, born June 10, 1838 : Mary Kirk
land, born Nov. 23, 1889 ; Frances Louisa, born May 15, 1842 :
Clara, born Oct. 80, 1843, and Charles Edward. Catherine, born
July 10, 1812, married Oct. 17, 1834, MUton D. Parker, of Utica,
who died Dec. 8, 1839. She was lost by the wrecking of the
steamboat Swallow, in AprU, 1845, near Athens, N. Y. They
had two children : Charlotte Huntington, born Oct. 22, 18f5, and
Catherine Eoxanna, born June 6, 1889. Henry, born Feb. 10,
1815, was a civil engineer, and died May 81, 1851, at Panama, N.
G., unmarried. Edward Huntington, born March 31, 1817, was
a civil engineer, unmarried in 1868. Frances, born Jan. 6, 1821,
married March 16, 1852, WiUiam Henry WeUes, of Brattleboro',
Vt., son of Ebenezer Welles and Mary Chester. He was through
his mother, descended from Mabel Harlakenden, and from the
kings and nobility of England They were living in New York
in 1862, and had one daughter, Julia Chester, born in 1856.
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Sept. 21, 1807, Wealthy Huntington, born Jan. 8, 1780, at Nor
wich, daughter of Elijah Huntington, Esq., of Bozrah, by his
second wife, Lydia Baldwin. They settled at Norwich, and he
died April 3, 1845, and she died July 11, 1849. They had six
chUdren, born at Norwich : Jarred Winslow, bom May 29, 1812,
a merchant in New York in 1859 ; James Joseph, bom Dec. 3,
1814, a merchant in New York in 1869 ; Edward Huntington,
born April 21, 1817, married Jan. 10, 1866, Louisa H. Thomas, of
the state of Delaware, was a merchant, and they were living at
New York in 1859 ; Sarah Grant, born Aug. 21, 1819, died in
1838, unmarried ; Cornelia Margaret, born Oct. 15, 1822, living
at Norwich in 1857, unmarried ; Lydia Huntington, living at
Norwich in 1857, unmarried.
Gardiner, born Feb. 23, 1777, at Norwich, married Feb. 9,
1805, Catherine Lansing, daughter of Cornelius Lansing, of
Lansihgburgh, N. Y., where they settled, and where he was for
many years the proprietor and publisher of the " Lansingburgh
Gazette. They subsequently removed to Utica, N. Y. They had
six children, born at Lansingburgh : Cornelius Lansing, born
Nov. 26, 1806, graduated at Union College in 1824, and was a
lawyer ; he married Sept. 9, 1845, at Cohoes, Mary Olmstead,
born Aug. 1, 1808, at Onondaga, N. Y., daughter of George W.
Olmstead and Mary Tyler. They settled at Lansingburg, and in
May, 1846, removed to Troy, N. Y., where they lived in 1863.
They had three children, born at Troy : Cornelius Lansing, born
Feb. 2, 1848, died Dec. 17, 1866 ; Mary Elizabeth, born May 2,
1850, and Catherine, born Feb. 6, 1852, died Feb. 20, 1854.
George, born Nov. 30, 18l2, married at Utica, Sept. 28, 1836, Car-
line Drake Tracy, daughter of Seymour Tracy, of Franklin,
Conn., maternally a lineal descendant of George Drake, the
brother and heir of Sir Francis Drake, the great captain of
Queen Elizabeth, (Sir Francis Drake died unmarried,) she was
also great niece of John Fitch, one of the originators of the
steamboat ; her grand-father, Uriah Tracy, feU in the battle of
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there. They settled at Utica, N. Y., and removed to Milwaujsee,
Wis., in June, 1856, and had two children : Olive, born July 11,
1887, and George Lansing, born March 25, 1841. Catherine
Margaret, born Jan. 17, 1816, married at Utica, Sept. 6, 1836,
John E. Lyon, of Cleveland, 0., where they settled, and removed
to Oswego, N. Y., and had four children : Catherine Tracy, born
Sept. 14, 1838 ; James, born Aug. 2, 1841 ; Gardiner Tracy, born
Dec. 9, 1847, and Annie, born April 10, 1850. Susan Hester,
bom Feb. 23, 1818, married at Utica, Feb. 10, 1847, Ashbeil H.
Barney, of Cleveland, 0., and had three children : Gardiner Tra
cy, born December, 1849, died July 29, 1856 ; Helen Tracy, born
May 16, 1852, and Charies Tracy, born Jan. 27, 1854. They set
tled in Cleveland, and removed to New York city. James Jared,
born Dec. 8, 1819, married at Fortress Monroe, Va., April 25,
1883, Jane Allyn Foote, daughter of George Foote, of Detroit,
Mich. They settled at Cleveland, 0., and had two chUdren:
James Jared, Jr., born Feb. 27, 1884, .arid Catherine Lansing,
born Feb. 27; 1888. Helen Alvord, born Aug. 4, 1823, married
at Utica, July 6, 1847, John E. Taylor, of Lansingburgh, N. Y.,
who graduated at Union college in I839,.and was a lawyer. They
had ho children. They settled at Troy, N. Y., and removed to
Cleveland, O., where he died.
James. Grant, born March 16, 1781, at Norwich, married
Nov. 80; 1886, Sarah Osgcxid, born at Andover, Mass. They set
tled at Syracuse, N. Y., and had three or more children : James
Grant, bora Oct. 4, 1837 ; Osgood Vose, born June 25, 1840 ;
William Gardiner, born April 7, 1843, an officer of volunteers in
1863. Sarah, born Feb. 10, 1767, at Norwich, who died in 1838, un
married. Susanna, born Aug. 8, 1770, at Norwich, married March 20,
1795, Gurdon Huntington, born March 16, 1768, at Norwich, son
of Judge Benjamin Huntington and Anne Huntington, of Nor
wich, and afterwards of Eome, N. Y. He was a merchant, and
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by her one chUd, Edward, bom Dec. 5, 1792, graduated at Union
college in 1810, and was a lawyer. He died Dec. 16, 1816, at
New York, unmarried. Gurdon Huntington then married July
6, 1794, Anne Perkins, and lived at Eome, and afterwards New
York, and had by her four other chUdren, three of whom died
unmarried. The other one, Susanna, married Major James S.
Dalliba, of the U.S. army.
Margaret, born July 28, 1782, at Norwich, and died Aug. 1,
1782. Second Margaret, born Dec. 19, 1783, at Norwich, died Nov.
•24, 1786. After the death of Jarred Tracy, his widow married
Oct. 30, 1796, Jabez Backus, Esq., of Norwich, and died Nov. 13,
1815. Lucy Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., July 20, 1744, eldost
daughter of Dr. Elisha Tracy, of Norwich, by his first wife, Lucy
Huntington, was a great grand-daughter of Margaret Post, of
the third generation. She married April 7, 1763, Dr. Philip Tur
ner, born Feb. 25, 1740, at Norwich, eldest son of Capt. Philip
Turner and Mrs, Anne (Huntington) Adgate, of Norwich. [This
Anne Huntington Adgate, born March 20, 1715, at Noi-wich, mar
ried April 24, 1739, Capt. PhUip Turner, was the widow of Thom
as Adgate, the third, of Norwich, and was the third daughter of
Daniel Huntington and Abigail Bingham, and grand-daughter
of Deacon Simon Huntington, the first, and Sarah Clark, of Nor
wich. Capt. Philip Turner, born about 1716, at Scituate, was
probably a great grand- son of Humphrey Turner, of Scituote,
who came from England previous to 1680, as follows : the emi
grant, Humphrey Turner, had two sons, named John. The first
married Nov. 12, 1645, Mary Brewster. The last, called by his
father, young John, married April 25, 1649, Anne James, and had
a son, Philip, born Aug. 18, 1672, at Scituate, who was probably
the father of Capt. Phillip Turner, of Norwich, who died Jan.
13, 17^, in the 39th year of his age.] Dr. Turner, for three
years previous to his marriage, had been an assistant surgeon to
a provincial regiment, in the service of the Crown, in the French

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war, and became a very skillful surgeon. They settled at Nor
wich, where he went into the practice of his profession with dis
tinguished success. At the commencement of the revolution he
was with the American troops at Boston. He was with the army
at New York in 1776, where his services were of immense value
to the wounded in the battles of Flatbash, Harlem Heights and
White Plains. In 1777 he was appointed surgeon-general of the
army of the United States for the eastern department ; the du
ties of which situation he continued to discharge with ability to
about the close of the war. He then returned to his private
practice at Norwich, which he continued there for nearly twenty
years. About 1800 they removed to the city of New York. He
was soon after appointed post- surgeon to the troops in the seve
ral fortifications in and about New York. It was there that, in
the spring of 1809, the writer hereof, while visiting a brother, who
was an officer in the army on Bedlow's Island, became acquain
ted with the then venerable Dr. Turner, (whose wife was a first
cousin of the writer's mother.) He died in 1815, at New York
and was hurried with military honors. Their children were :
John, born May 29; 1764, at Norwich, married Hannah Hunting
ton, bom April 29, 1765, daughter of Jonathan Huntington and
Eunice Lathrop, and settled at Norwich, where he was an emi
nent physician and surgeon, and was a member of the legisla
ture. He died May 7, 1837, at Norwich, and she died May 7,
1845. They had four children : George Frederick, born about
1791, died Feb. 9, 1813, at Norwich, died unmarried ; Charles W.,
born about 1793, died Feb. 13, 1794 ; Julia Frances Marionette,
married Eev. George Perkins, and died leaving a daughter, Han
nah Parkins, who died, unmarried ; Elizabeth H., the second
wife of Eev. George Perkins, had by him two sons : John Turner
Perkins, died unmarried ; George Turner Perkins, who in 1859,
was the sole surviving descendent ot Dr. John Turner.
WUliam Pitt, born Sept. 3, 1766, at Norwich, the poet and
satirist. He married Phebe  , and settled at New York,
where he was a physician, and was in the service of the United

States as an assistant surgeon. They had four children : George
F., died s. p. ; Francis Lathrop ; Marvin Waite,: Marionette.
The three last were living in 1859.
Lucy Ann, born at Norwich, married Dr. Gurdon Lathrop,
born Dec. 6, 1767, at Norwich, eldest son of Azariah Lathrop
and Abigail Huntington, of Norwich, and grand-son of Nathan
iel Lathrop and Anne Backus, of Norwich, and great grand-son
of Samuel Lathrop and Hannah Adgate, of Norwich. He grad
uated at Yale in 1787, and was a physician. He died in 1828.
They had two children : John, who was a merchant in Savannah,
Ga., died unmarried ; Abby Maria, married Edward Whiting, of
Norwich, died s. p.
Nancy, born April 1, 1772, at Norwich, married Nov. 15,
1810, Judge Marvin Waite, of New London, born Dec. 16, 1746,
at Lyme, second son of Eichard Waite, of Lyme, by his first
wife, Elizabeth Marvin. She was his third wife, and they set
tled at New London. Judge Marvin Waite was a lawyer, and
went into practice at New London about 1769, in partnership
with Samuel Holden Parsons, and was a successful practitioner
there until he retired from the bar about 1800. He was frequent
ly a member of the legislature, was a judge of the county court,
was a presidential elector at the first election of Gen. Washing
ton, and was one of the council appointed to dispose of the lands
belonging to the state and establish the school fund. He died
June, 1815, at New London, and his last wife died Apri., 1851, at
Norwich. He had by her one child, John Turner Waite, born
Aug. 27, 1811, at New London. He was educated at Trinity col
lege, Hartford, and was a lawyer. He married April, 1842, Eliz
abeth Harris, at New York. They settled at Norwich Town,
where he held the office of post-master for a few years, and
where he was a successful and very distinguished lawyer, and
where they were living in 1863. They had three chUdren : Mar
vin, born in 1848 ; Anne Eliza, born in 1848 ; and Mary Eliza
beth, born in 1856. Marvin was a lieutenant of volunteers, and
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wife of Judge Marvin Waite, to whom he was married April 25,
1779, was Martha Jones, of New London, by whom he had seven
chUdren : Marvin ; Martha Jones ; Harriet, who married Francis
Richards ; Richard ; Howard ; Oliver, and Eliza, married Jede
diah Huntington, of Norwich. He then married April 22, 1805,
the widow Harriet Saltonstall, and had by her one child, second
Marvin, born Dec. 10, 1806.
Elizabeth Tracy born at Norwich, married Aug. 14, 1793,
Daniel Lathrop, born Oct. 13, 1769, at Norwich, youngest son of
Dr. Joshua Lathrop, of Norwich, by his second wife, Mercy Eells,
of Stonington. [This Dr. Joshua Lathrop, born May 8, 1723,
at Norwich, graduated at Yale in 1743, and was a physician and
druggist, married May 21, 1748, Hannah Gardner, who died July
24, 1750, s. p., and after her death, married Nov. 5, l76l, Mercy
Eells, of Stonington, and died Oct. 29, 1807, was the youngest
son of Thomas Lathrop and Lydia Abel, and grand- son of Sam
uel Lathrop, the second, and Hannah Adgate, of Norwich.]
Daniel Lathrop graduated at Yale in 1787. They settled at Nor
wich, where he died in 1825. They had four chUdren, born at
Norwich : Jaue Eliza, born July, 26, 1795, married Jonathan
George Washington Trumbull, son of David Trumbull and Sarah
Backus, and grand-son of the first Gov. Jonathan Trumbull and
Faith Eobinson, of Lebanon. He graduated at Yale in 1807,
and was a lawyar. They settled at Norwich, where he died in
1858, and where she also died. They had a son Daniel Lathrop
Trumbull, and perhaps other children : Frank Turner, born Aug.
9, 1798 ; Ann Matilda, born March 10, 1800, died unmarried ;
I Cornelia Sophia, born July 80, 1804, married George G. Willes,
and died leaving a son, Wilham Henry Willes, who was living in
1859, unmarried.
Sophia, born at Norwich, married Judge Alexander Eichards
of New London, afterwards of St.^ Lawrence county, N. Y. He
was a judge of the county court, collector of customs for the
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Alice Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., Oct. 11, 1745, second
daughter of Dr. Elisha Tracy, of Norwich, by his first wife, Lucy
Huntington, was a great grand-daughter of Margaret Post, of
the third generation. She married June 15, 1766, Ehsha Leffing
well, born Nov. 4, 1743, at Norwich, seventh son of Benajah Lef-
fingweU aud Joanna Christophers. [This Joanna Christophers,
born March 19, 1707, at New London, married Aug. 24, 1726,
Benajah LeffingweU, of Norwich, youngest daughter of Judge
Eichard Christophers, of New London, by his second wife, Grace
Turner, of Scituate, Mass., which Eichard Christophers, born
July 18, 1662, in Devonshire, son of Christopher Christophers
and Mary, his wife, who came to New London in 1665. Grace
Turner was a daughter of John Turner and Mary Brewster, of
Scituate, and grand-daughter of Jonathan Brewster and Lucre
tia, his wife, of Duxbury, afterwards of New London, and great
grand-daughter of elder William Brewster, of the Mayflower.
The wife of Jonathan Brewster, with his son William, came over
with Elder Brewster, in the Mayflower. But Jonathan, the hus
band, came over in the Little Ann, Nov. 10, 1621. This Bena
jah Leffingwell, bom Aug. 9, 1693, at Norwich, married Aug. 24,
1726, Joanna Christophers, and had eight sons and five daugh
ters, was the third son of Thomas Leffingwell and Mary Bush
nell, and grand-son of Lieut. Thomas Leffingwell the first, of
Norwich, and Mary, his wife, and was also grand-son of Eichard
Bushnell, of Saybrook, and Mary Marvin.] Elisha Leffingw.ell
and wife settled at Norwich; but I have not ascertained the dates
of their deaths. Their chUdren were : Dyar, bom April 6, 1767,
at 'Norwich, died Oct. 1770 ; second Dyar, born Oct. 5, 1770, at
Norwich, married his mother's foprth cousin, Hannah Water
man, eldest daughter of Arunah Waterman and Hannah Leffing
well, of Norwich, afterwards of St. Johnsbury, Vt. After her
death, he married the widow Eunice (Sutherland) Brewster, and
died Dec. 6, 1821.
Elisha, bora Feb. 28, 1778, at Norwich, married his mother's
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Thomas and Lucretia Deshon, of Norwich, and he was lost at
sea. Martin, born October, 1785, at Norwich, married March,
1819, his mother's fourth cousin, Mary Thomas, eldest daughter
of Thomas Langrel Thomas, of Norwich, by his first wife, Eunice
Birchard. He died at sea in 1819, s. p., and she was living at
Geneva, N. Y., in 1859.
Lucy Huntington, born Sept. 4, 1768, at Norwich, married
her second cousin. Deacon Simon Abel, of Bozrah, eldest son of
Simeon Abel and Martha Crocker.
Sarah, bom Nov. 27, 1772, at. Norwich, married Eoswell Cul
ver, and died at Buffalo, N. Y. They had three children : Jona
than E., married Miss Denison, (sister of Eev. Charles Denison)
who was a grocer at Norwich, and removed to Wisconsin ; Asa,
who lived at New York, and afterwards went to New Orleans :
Cornelia, married  '¦ — Crandall, a merchant of Norwich, and
afterwards of Buffalo.
Alice, born Aug. 8, 1775, at Norwich, married her second
cousin of the Tracy blood, and her mother's fourth cousin of the
Hyde bloOd, Henry Tracy, eldest son of Capt. Frederick Tracy
and Deborah Thomas, of Norwich.
Nancy, born Feb-. 16,-1781, at Norwich, married Sept. 8,
1814, Deacon Nehemiah Huntington, born April 20, 1782, at, Nor
wich, youngest son of Elijah Huntington, of Bozrah, by his sec
ond wife,- Lydia Baldwin, and grand-son of Isaac Huntington
and Eebecca Lathrop. [That Isaac Huntington, bom Feb. 5,
1688, at Norwich, married Feb. 81, 1716, Eebecca Lathrop, born
April 20, 1695, at Norwich, eldest daughter of Israel Lathrop
and Eebecca Bliss; of Norwich, was a justice of the peace and a
member of the legislature, and was town clerk of Norwich for
about sixty years. He was the second son of Deacon Christo
pher Huntington, born Nov. 1, 1660, at Norwich, and his first
wife, Sarah Adgate.] Deacon Nehemiah Huntington and wife
settled at Bozrah, where she died July 12, 1835. He had by her
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1815, married Oct. 24, 1841, Alba C. Thompson, a merchant of
Norwich, where they were hving in 1858, and had five chUdren :
Elizabeth Huntington, bom Aug. 19, 1842 ; Malvina Hunting
ton, born May 11, 1845 ; Frank, born July 23, 1848, died in in
fancy ; Annie, born Aug. 30, 1849 ; and Caroline Hamlin, born
March 5, 1865. Elijah Baldwin, born Aug. 14, 1816, educated
at Yale, miarried March 6, 1843, Julia Welch, daughter of Thom
as Welch and Laura Lathrop, of Windham. He was a clergy
man, and was settled in Putnam, Conn., in 1848, and from 1850
he was engaged in teaching. He received the honorary degree of
Master of Arts at Yale, in 1861. In 1861 they were living at
Stamford, Conn., where he was principal of a select school. He
was then engaged in preparing a genealogical history of the
Huntington family. They had five children : Abby Swift, born
April 7, 1845, died Feb, 12, 1846 ; Julia Swift, born Sept. 1, 1846 ;
Clara Louisa, born July 27, 1848 ; Sarah Lee, born Sept. 12,
•1850, died Dec. 24, i860 ; and Edmund Clement, born May 30,
1852, died Sept. 9, 1852.
Ehsha Tracy, born Dec. 28, 1817, married Sept. 2, 1844, Mal
vina Boswell, daughter of Dr. Thomas Boswell, of Norwich City.
He was a gold-smith at Norwich, and died Feb. 16, 1859, at Nor
wich, s. p.. where she was living in 1861.
Wilham Dyar, born Dec. 18, 1821, married Nov. 16, 1847, Mary
Anne Kinney, daughter of Thomas Kinney, of Norwich. She
died July 27, 1848. He then married May 19, 1852, Calista Eeed
born March 29, 1830, daughter of James Eeed, Esq., of Spring-
¦field, N. Y. They were living at Providence in 1860. He had one
chUd by his first wife, Wilham Tracy, born July 16, 1848, and one
by his last wife, Mary Anne, born May 28, 1856. After the death
of his first wife. Deacon Nehemiah Huntington married Dec. 21,
1741, Mrs. Nancy (Hinckley) Hough, widow of Jirah Isham
Hough, and daughter of Timothy Hinckley and Saloma Strong,
of Lebanon. He died June 2, 1852, at Bozrah, where she was
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Lucretia, born Nov. 14, 1782, at Norwich, married Dec. 25,
1808, Elijah Huntiijgton, born Dec. 19, 1777, at Norwich, brother
of her sister Nancy's husband, and second son of Elijah Hunt
ington, Esq., by his second wife, Lydia Baldwin. They settled
at Bozrah, where he was a farmer and a justice of the peace, and
where she died Oct. 80, 1816. He had by her three chUdren,
born at Bozrah : Philura Leffingwell, born March 23, 1805, mar-
Tiad March 22, 1832, Christopher Leffingwell Lathrop, son of
Deacon Charles Lathrop, of Norwich. They removed to Cleve
land, 0., where she died Aug. 13, 1843, leaving one daughter,
Ehzabeth Hutchins, born Feb. 8, 1836, married in 1860, Wilham
Merriam, of Cleveland. Winslow Tracy, born Aug. 25, 1807,
married June 1, 1830, Almira Carson, of Pittsfield, Mass. He
graduated at Pittsfield medical school in 1829, and was a physi
cian. They lived at Ohio City, where she died February, 1888.
He then married July 12, 1840, at. Akron, 0., Julia (Swift) Bab
cock, daughter of Chief Justice Zepheniah Swift, of Windham,
Conn. They settled at Akron, where he died Dec. 23, 1849, from
a wound received in conducting a post-mortem examination. He
had five children : William Henry, born June 12, 1832, married
Kate Stanley ; Frances Elizabeth, born July 30, 1834 ; Cornelia
Winslow, born Aug. 8, 1837, married in 1861, William Silliman
Huntington, of Cleveland ; Julia Almira, born Aug. 6, 1845, and
Emely Lucretia, bora Aug. 12, 1849. Caroline Matilda, born
Sept. 29, 1809, married Sept. 16, 1835, Samuel K. Hamhn, Esq.,
of Buffalo, where they were living in 1858. and had two children :
Charles W., born in 1836, and Harriet Cornelia, born in 184-2.
Elijah Huntington then married June 13, 1821, Olive Starke,
born March 17, 1797, at Bozrah, fourth daughter of Joshua
Starke and Olive Lathrop, of Bozrah, where he was living in
1863. She died Sept. 26, 1862. He had by her three other chUd
ren, born at Bozrah : Lucretia Leffingwell, born Sept. 18, 1822,
married March 7, 1853, her first cousin, Lemuel Barlow Starke,
born July 1, 1828, eldest son of Dr. Joshua Starke and Silence
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chUdren. Albert Elijah, born Aug. 4, 1828, a farmer, living at
Bozrah in 1852, unmarried. Albert Joshua, born June 11, 1834,
a soldier in the Union army in 1882, unmarried.
Philena, born in October, 1791, at Norwich. She died un
married. Philura Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., Sept. 30, 17j51, fifth
daughter of Dr. Elisha Tracy, ef No.iwich, by his first wife, Lucy
Huntington, was a great grand-daughter of Margaret Post of the
third generation. She married Dec. 19, 1782, her third cousin
of the Tracy blood, Samuel Huntington, born Nov. 15, 1761, at
Norwich, son of Eev. Simon Huntington and Hannah Tracy, of
.Norwich, his first wife. [This Hannah Tracy, born Sept. 2, 1727
at Norwich, married Eev. Simon Huntington, was the second
daughter of Daniel Tracy and Abigail LeffingweU, and grand
daughter of Daniel Tracy, the first, of Norwich, and his first
wife, Abigail Adgate. Eev. Simon Huntington, bom Sept. 12,
1719, graduated at Yale in 1741, and died Oct. 2, 1801, a son of
Ebenezer Huntington and Sarah Lefiingwell, and grand-son of
Deacon Simon Huntington, the second, and Lydia Gager.] He
was a farmer, and they settled at Norwich, where he died June
23, 1812, and she died Aug. 30, 1816. Their chUdren were : Eoger
bom Feb. 1, 1784, at Norwich, married Jan. 30, 1814, Anne Den
ison, born about 1784, daughter of Benadam Denison. He was a
merchant, and they settled at Norwich, where she died Sept. 15,
1819. He had by her three children : Harriet Denison, born Jan.
9, 1815, died May 22, 1816 ; James Denison, born Jan. 25, 1817,
was living at Meriden, Conn, in 1857, unmarried ; Mary Ann,
born March 30, 1819, living with her step- mother in 1867,
unmarried. He then married in 1820, Amelia MatUda Lambert,
and lived at Norwich, where he was a member of the house of
reprevsentatives and a senator. He was comptroUer of the state
of Connecticut. He died June 27, 1862, at Norwich, and she was
living in 1858. He had by her five other ehUdren : Lydia Lam
bert, born Nov. 6, 1821, died Feb. 22, 1824 ; Louis Charies Lam
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and in 1858 was a salt manufacturer at St. Martins, W. I., and
had five chUdren: Eliza MatUda, born Sept. 13, 1860; Carohne
Maria, born June 10, 1852 ; Louis Charles Lambert, born May
,28, 1854 ; James Clement, born AprU 17, 1857, and Edward Car
rol, born June 22, 1859, died Oct. 26, 1760. John Fosdick, born
July 27, 18-27, died Oct. 23, 1828. Amelia MatUda, born Nov. 15,
1829, married December, 1867, Dr. C. C. Thomas, of Augusta,
Ga. ; Gilbert Clement, born April 9, 1841, unmarried in 1862.
Gilbert, born May 26, 1796, at Norwich, married June 5, 1886,
Mary Anne Clement, died Aug. 21' 1841, at Norwich, s. p., where
she was living in 1858.
Hannah Tracy, bora June 19, 1790, at Norwich, married
Nov. 19, 1810, Solomon Dickinson, a farmer of Hatfield, Mass.,
and had four children : Abby Huntington, bora Sept. 8, 1811,
unmarried in 1867 ; Daniel Huntington, born Jan. 28, 1816, liv
ing with his father at Hatfield in 1867, unmarried ; Philura Tra
cy, born Jan. 31, 1818, married in 1843, George W. Hubbard, a
farmer at Hatfield ; Harriet Maria, born Sept. 21, 1826, married
in 1849, David F. WeUs, of Hartford, and in 1858, had one
daughter. Dr. Philemon Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn.. May 80, 1757,
second son of Dr. Elisha Tracy, of Norwich, by his second wife,
Elizabeth Dorr, was a great grand-son of Margaret Post of the
third generation. He married in 1786, Abigail Trott, and settled
at Norwich, where he was a very distinguished physician, and
received the honorary degree of doctSr of medicine at Yale in
1817. He practiced medicine in his native town more than fifty-
five years. He excelled in the investigation of chronic diseases,
especially those which from their complication, demanded deep
research and accurate discrimination. Mrs. Sigourney says :
"His habit was minutely to investigate every symptom before
prescribing ; to require strict obedience to his prescriptions ; to
regulate diet and regimen, and to give as little medicine as pos
sible." He died in 1887, at Norwich, aged 80 years, having be
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Phinehas Lyman, born. Dec. 25, 1786, at Norwich, graduated at
Yale in 1806, and was a lawyer, married Harriet Lay, settled at
Batavia, N. Y., where he was a member of Congress and where
he was living in 1859, s. p.
Edward Dorr, born March 21, 1794, at Noi-wich, married Su
san Campbell, and was a lawyer. They settled at Macon, Ga.
He was a judge of the superior court. She died September, 1834.
He then married Aug. 2, 1835, Caroline CampbeU, and died at
Macon. He had six children; Anne, Philemon, Edward, Matil
da, Campbell, Harriet Charlotte.
Eichard Proctor, born March 21, 1791, at Norwich, (twin.)
He was a physician, and occupied his father's homestead at Nor
wich, where he was living in 1850, unmarried. He graduated in
1816 at the medical department of Yale college.
Albert Haller, bora June 17, 1793, at Norwich, was a lawyer,
and settled at Buffalo, where he was elected to congress at the
early age of 24, but attained the constitutional age before con
gress convened in December, 1819, and he was elected to the two
next congresses. During his six years services in congress he was
much respected by all parties, and finally succeeded in carrying
through a bill for the relief of his constituents upon the Niagara
frontier for the destruction of their property by the enemy in the
war of 1812. He subsequently served eight years in the state
senate, where he rendered very valuable services to the state,
particularly as a member of the court of dernier resort. He sub
sequently retired from public life, and devoted his time to his
private affairs and became a very wealthy man. He married
Nov. 23, 1825, Harriet Foote Norton, daughter of Ebenezer Foote
Norton, Esq., and AbigaU Kibbe, of Canandaigua, afterwards of
Buffalo, and grand-daughter of Aaron Norton and Martha Foote,
of Goshen, Conn. The following is an abstract of an obituary
notice of him in a Buffalo paper: "We have left for ourselves
but little space in which to describe Mr. Tracy's intellectual and
moral characteristics. He has of late years been chiefly distin
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He was one of the few American who cultivated this beautiful
and difficult art. His mastery of it was complete, and won the
admiration of all who were admitted to his society ; distinguish
ing him while yet a youth in the circles of society in Washing
ton. Every subject, whether gay or severe, seemed equally agree
able to him, pnd was treated with a wealth of diction, a felicity
of expression, and a justness of thought, which can seldom be
surpassed. His mind was both analitical and discursive ; skep
tical, yet eminently open to conviction. Always ready to aban
don old opinions when he discovered that they were false, he
stubbornly resisted every opinion, however venerable or common,
which could not stand the tests of reason. In his youth, with
out instruction, he acquired sufficient knowledge of Latin to read
the best known Eoman authors. He had also some acquaint
ance with French, and was familiar with most of the philosoph
ic and a few of the lighter writers of that language. These ac
quisitions he greatly prized, and was accustomed to say that they
were an invaluable treasure to him. His knowledge of English
literature, judged from any point, must be said to have been
very extensive. He was an industrious and unprejudiced reader
of the new as well as the old. He did not commit the folly of
stolidly rejecting romance but found constant pleasure in the
pages of Fielding, Dickins, Thackery and Bulwer. He sought
eagerly for the latest publications, and was an admirer of Ma-
cauley, Tennyson, Euskin, Longfellow and Carlyle. A lack of
imagination measurably impaired his judgment upon belles-let
tres, but notwithstanding this defect, his criticisms were highly
valued and eagerly sought after by some of the most distinguish
ed and successful of our own writers. It was in political and
metaphysical science that his mind found its most congenial nu
triment. Upon these subjects he had read much and thought
more. No one who knew him and observed his keen instinct af
ter truth, his quickness in perceiving error, the agility and sub
tlety of his intellect, and his judicial skepticism and fairness, can
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metaphysical writer." "Mr. Tracy's moral character was equally
worthy of admiration. He has dwelt among us for more than
forty years, but has done no act of which he or we need to feel
ashamed. Simple in his tastes, frugal in expenditure, generous
in hospitality, free to the approach of the humble, ever at hand
to console or sustain the unfortunate and the distressed, ever
ready to rebuke the adventurous and oversanguine ; to his debtors
most lenient, to his creditors paying every demand ; the guide of
the young, the counselor of the widowed and the orphan ; an
honorable foe, a faithful friend, scrupulous in the performance of
every public and every private duty ; he has exhibited to us for
our emulation a noble example of a good citizen, wise statesman,
a republican gentleman, and a kind and most liberal man."
Albert H. Tracy died Sept. 12, 1859, at Buffalo, where his widow
was living in 1863. They had two children : Albert HaUer, born
Oct. 29, 1884, graduated at Yale in 1864, was a lawyer, living at
Buffalo in 1863, unmarried ; Francis Walsingham, bom June 9,
1889, married Sept. 25, 1862, Mary Eobinson, daughter of Alan
son Eobinson and Zillah Townsend.
Francis, born April 13, 1797, at Norwich, and died April 23,
1892. Harriet Frances, born Sept. 1788, at Norwich. She was
the early friend of Mrs. Sigourney, whose gifted pen has done
justice to her memory. She died April 26, 1830, at Norwich,
unmarried. Col. Elisha Tracy, bora at Norwich, Conn., May 27, 1766,
third son of Dr. Elisha Tracy, of Norwich, by his second wife,
Elizabeth Dorr, was a great grand-son of Margaret Post, of the
third, generation. He married Oct. 31, 1796, Lucy Coit Hunt
ington, born March 15, 1778, at Norwich, only daughter of Judge
Andrew Huntington, of Norwich, by his second wife, Mrs. Han
nah Phelps, of Stonington, and grand-daughter of Major Gen.
Jabez Huntington and Elizabeth Backus, his first wife. [This
Major Gen. Jabez Huntington, born Aug. 7, 1719, graduated at
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second, Hannah Williams, daughter of Eev.^ Ebenezer Williams
and Penelope Chester, of Pomfret ; son of Joshua Huntington
and Hannah Perkins, and grand-son of Deacon Simon Hunting
ton, the second, and Lydia Gager, of Norwich.] Col. Ehsha
Tracy was a lawyer, and they settled at Norwich, where he was
frequently a member of the legislature, and a very successful
lawyer, and was also a justice of the peace and a colon el of mUi-
tia. He died March 10, 1842, at Norwich, where she died May
9, 1846. Their children were : WUliam Swan, born Feb. 4, 1799,
at Norwich, married Sept. 18, 1833, Mary G. Eogers, settled at
Painesville, O., had three children: Elisha, a lawyer at New
York in 1869 ; William Eogers ; Mary.
Winslow, born Jan, 18, 1801, at Norwich, died May 11, 1823,
unmarried. Elisha Dorr, born June 4, 1810, al; Norwich, died
June 12, 1828. Stephen Decatur, born July 14, 1812, at Nor
wich, drowned June 25, 1817. Elisha Winslow, born April 8,
1823, at Norwich, graduated at Harvard in 1843, was a lawyer,
living at Chicago in 1858. Elizabeth Dorr, born July 22, 1808,
at Norwich, married Oct. 29, 1829, Erastus WiUiariis, settled at
Norwich, where she died in 1855. Lucy Huntington, bora May
11, 1806, at Norwich, married Sept. 11, 1833, Albert Smith, of
Norwich. Hannah Phelps, born April 13, 1808, at Norwich, died
May 10, 1810. Mary Griswold, born May 1, 1816, at Norwich,
died Sept. 15, 1835, unmarried. Charlotte Isabella, born Sepi
80, 1819, at Norwich, married May 17, 1841, GUes M. Eaton, who
died, she was living at Norwich in 1860.
Irene Burnham, born at Norwich, Conn., Nov. 18, 1744, eld
est daughter of Daniel Burnham and Irene Tracy, was a great
grand-daughter of Margaret Post, of the third generation. She
married Nov. 2, 1763, Aaron Bushnell, bom June 16, 1743, at
Norwich, third son of Nathan Bushnell and Margery Jackson, of
Nojwich ; grand-son of Nathan Bushnell and Anne Carey, of
Norwich. [This Nathan BughneU, born Feb. 12, 1686, at Nor
wich, married first, Dec. 2, 1718, Anne Carey, second, Sept. 12,
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Mary Leffingwell, of Norwich. That Joseph BushneU, bom
May, 1651, at Saybrook, married Nov. 28, 1678, Mary Leffing
weU, the eldest son of Eichard BushneU and Mary Marvin, of
Saybrook. His wife, Mary LeffingweU, born Dec. 10, 1654, at
Saybrook, youngest daugliter of Lieut. Thomas LeffingweU, one
of the original proprietors ot Norwich, and Mary, his wife.]
Aaron Bushnell and wife settled at Norwich, where they had six
chUdren recorded to them : Asa, born July 27, 1764, at Norwich ;
Joshua, born Dec. 7, 1768, at Norwich, died Jan. 13, 1767 ; se
cond Joshua, born Feb. 27, 1775, at Norwich ; Abigail, born Nov.
24, 1767, at Norwich ; Margery, born Aug. 18, 1770, at Norwich ;
Mary, born Dec. 11, 1772, at Norwich.
Thomas Huntington, born at Norwich, Conn., Oct. 28, 1757,
second son of Christopher Huntington and Sarah Bingham, of
Norwich, was a great grand-son of Margaret Post, of the third
generation. He married Oct, 14, .1779, Abigail Backus, born
Nov. 6, 1761, at Norwich, youngest daughter of Ebenezer Back
us, Esq.,. pj his third wife,. Sarah Clark. She died March 6, 1781,
s. p., .He -then married  Griswold, and settled at Bozrah,
and removed to Middletown, Vt., and rernoved to Dresden, N. Y.,
about 1820. He was a justice of the peace and deacon of the
Baptist church at Middletown. ' His children by her were : Back
us, borir at Bozrah; John, born at Bozrahi ;; Erastus, born at
Bozrah; Noel, born at Middletown, Vt,; AbigaU, borii at: Boz
rah; Minerva, born at Bozrah.. "'I.', -i ' ^ ' '^ - .

APPENDIX.

The Hyde genealogy, from which the greater part of my
book is copied, published by Chancellor Eeuben H. Walworth, is
a work of great value in the line of family history ; embodying a
vast amount of pedigree, and displaying clearness of perception
and skill in arrangement as well as unwearied perseverance and
accuracy in research. It forms a grand memorial record of
paternity and lineage, spreading far and wide, but taking the
nine miles square of Norwich as the center from which it radi
ates. Such a work is a monument to perpetuate the name of the
author, Eeuben H. Walworth, L. L. D., more lasting than stat
ues of marble or pillars of granite. (Extract from Miss Calkin's
work on Norwich, Conn.) Home of the Tracy's.
The home of the Tracy's in England is Tewksbury, a borough
of England, situated ten miles north-east of Gloucester, on the
Avon, at its junction with the Severn, and connected with tlie
Birmingham and Gloucestershire railway by a branch three
miles in length. It has a magnificent (Abbey) church, town-
hall and many public buildings. Market houses, various chapels,
penitentiary, jail, literary and scientific mechanic institutes,
grammar school, alms-houses, and very many charitable institu
tions. It has many manufactories, especially of bobinet lace,
stockings, leather, nails, etc. It returns two members to the
house of commons. The great battle of Tewksbury was fought
immediately south of the town, from this was called "Bloody
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Ukiah Tracy.
Uriah Tracy, of Litchfield, born at Norwich in 1755, was
United States Senator from 1796 untU his death. He died in
Washington, July 19, 1807, and was a descendant of Winslow
Tracy, the youngest son of the first John, who was Lieut. Thom
as Tracy's first son, and was the first person buried in the Con
gressional cemetery. He was a very brilliant man, celebrated
for his wit and humor. V« C . Hli^
Dr. Elisha Tracy.
Dr. Ehsha Tracy graduated at Yale coUege in 1738, and
studied for his profession with the senior Dr. Eogers. He was
eminently skillful in medicine and surgery and one of the earli
est advocates of inoculation as a preventive of the small-pox.
He died May 1, 1783, aged 71.
Philemon Tracy.
PhUemon Tracy, son of Dr. Elisha Tracy, was 55 years in the
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practice of medicine. He was able and faithful in his vocation
and respected in the community. He was distinguished for his
skill in the treatment of chronic diseases, discriminating,
thorough and attentive in all his professional duties. He died
April 26, 1887, aged 80.
Frederick Palmer Tracy.
Frederick Palmer Tracy made a careful examination of the
records of Gloucestershire, when in England, which proved the
royal descent of Thomas Tracy, of Norwich, Conn. Frederick
Palmer Tracy, of Lowville, Lewis county, N. Y., died Oct. 10,
aged 45. He was the son of Cyrus and Hannah Tracy, and was
born at Windham, Conn., Feb. 22, 1815. He was of the seventh
generation from Thomas Tracy, the first, the ancestor of all the
Tracy's of Connecticut. Frederick Palmer Tracy in 1832, when
a little more than 17 years of age, joined the Methodist Episco
pal church, of Bozrah, Conn., and soon began to preach. In
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ence of that denomination, and appointed to Lyme, Conn., and
in 1834, to Hebron, Conn. In 1835, he was ordained a deacon
and appointed to Southbridge, Mass., and in 1836, to South Bos
ton. In 1837 he was ordained an elder, being then the youngest
man known in New England to have attained that position, and
was stationed at Newberg, Mass., and in 1838 at South Lyme.
WhUe at the latter place he proposed to emigrate to Oregon, and
published for about a yef>r, a monthly periodical, devoted to the
extension of the idea of emigration to that almost unknown
country. In 1839 he energetically pursued his favorite idea, but
the plan failing, he removed in 1840, to Concord, N. H., and es
tablished a paper caUed " The People's Advocate." In 1842 he
removed to Cambridgeport, Mass., and in 1844 to Williamsburg,
Mass., where he had charge of the Methodist Episcopal church
until May, 1846, when his health and voice failing he was obliged
to abandon the pulpit. He visited Europe that year for the ben
efit of his health, returning in, 1848. The succeeding summer
and autumn. he edited the"Cuyaga New Era," pubhshed at
Auburn, N, Y., and in the spring of 1849, removed to California.
He was admitted to the bar in 1851, and commenced the practice
of the law in San Francisco, and was very successful At one
time he held the office of county attorney for civil business for
San Francisco. He was a delegate to Chicago to the republican
convention in i860, and remained in the Atlantic States deliver
ing political addresses in support of the nomipees of the conven
tion till his death. His remains "were brought to Lyjne, Conn.,
and his funeral took place Oct. 15, from the church where he had
been a distinguished pastor. His father had die.d at that place
a few weeks presvious. Frederick Palmer Tracy left a widow and
several children, when last heard from were at San Francisco.
He was a man of fine parts, a clear, strong logical thinker, and
an eloquent and effective speaker. While at Williamsburg he
was appointed a resident member of the New England Historical
and Genealogical Society, and after he removed to California he
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Mrs. Matilda Ormond Abbey.
Mrs. MatUda Ormond Abbey, the compUer of this book, was
born in PhUadelphia, daughter of Tracy Taylor, of that city, and
grand-daughter of Mary Tracy, of Norwich, Conn. She was
married iii her native city by Eev. Benjamin Griffiths to Harvey
Birchard, of Milwaukee, to which city she removed. She has
one son, Harvey L. Birchard, now 28 years old. After Mr.
Birchard's death, she married Col. D. C. Abbey. The Tracy's,
Hyde's and Birchard's have so intermarried they seem like one
family. The immediate ancestors of Harvey Birchard, of Mil
waukee, lived at Wilton, then moved to Eidgeburg, Conn. His
grand-father was Lieut. Isaiah Birchard, who married Sarah
Betts in 1767. Harvey Birchard's brothers and sisters were :
Eleia, married Mary Demming ; Pheobe, married John Foster ;
Mirilda, married Eliazer Taylor ; Lyman, died aged 22 years :
Anise, married Harvey De Forrest ; Stephen, married Betsey
Gray ; Alanson, married Esther Eockwell. Mr. Francis Birch
ard, nephew of Harvey Birchard, is the son of Alanson Birchard,
has lived in Milwaukee many years. Elizabeth, married Charles
De Forrest. Jeremiah Birchard's brother was a very rich and
eccentric man, and died a bachelor. Harvey Birchard's mother
was Elizabeth Abbot, she was a beautiful woman and of noble
character. Benjai^in F. Tbacy.
The State of New York has the honor of being the birth
place and home of many of the Tracys. The foUowing was
kindly sent me by Mr. Kelby, librarian of the Historical Society
of New York, (regarding the family of the Hon. Gen. Benjamin
F. Tracy, our present Secretary of the Navy.) Copied from the
Historical Gazetter of Tioga county, N. Y., town of Owego.
Thomas Tracy came to this vicinity with his wife and infant
son, Benjamin Tracy, and settled near the mouth of Tracy creek,
Broome county, in 1790. This creek receives its name from Mr.
Tracy. In 1801 he removed with his family to the HoUand Pur-

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chase near Buffalo. His son, Benjamin, several years after-
wards_ returned and settled on the Apalachin creek where he
raised a large family of chUdren, one of whoni is Gen. Benjamin
F. Tracy, born at Owego, April 26, 1830, now a resident of
Brooklyn, N. Y. Benjamin Tracy, the son of Thomas and father
of our Secretary of the Navy, was born in 1795 and died in 1883.
^ Benjamiri F. Tracy is distinguished not only for his eminent
career as a lawyer but as a learned, impartial and laborious
judge, and acute independent minded legislator who follows the
leadership of his own judgment, subordinated to partisan inter
est only so far as it enhances the interests of all his constitu
ency ; a determined enemy to aU pohtjcal quackery. He is also
distinguished as a soldier, inspired by a self-sacrificing patriot
ism. As a fearless able prosecuting officer of government who
discharged difficult and responsible duties with clean hands and
honest heart in tiines when speculations and stupendous frauds
were pearly overwbelnjirig it, when strong defiant rings and
unscrupulous jqntas were by the unstinted use of money cor
rupting the very sources of Justice. Benjamin P. Tracy was
born at Owego, N. Y., April 26, 1830. His father, Benjamin
Tracy, was one of the oldest and most highly respected residents
not only of Owego bqt of the county of Tioga. A pioneer of the
southern tier, one of that band most of whom are now banished
from earth whose virtue, integrity, enterprise and industry made
the desert bloom and laid the foundation for wealth and culture
of that beawtiW wgion, The secret of Benjamin F. Tracy's
success and his control of the popular mind may be found in his
sincerity, constancy and direetneps. There is no deceit jn his
natnre, men are never left in doubt about his views, and what is
better he is never in doubt about himself. One always knows
where to find bim. His sympathy is always with the masses.
No man better understands the impulses of the people than he,
and he has an intense sense of justice between man and man,
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assumed dignity nor by word or manner indicating any assumed
personal superiority in his official positions. His policy was
never timid or vacillating ; whatever the responsibUity he never
hesitated to assume it but always moved promptly to the front.
Perhaps nowhere in his whole career were these features more
conspicuously exhibited than when discharging the duties of
UnUed States District Attorney for the eastern district of New
York. In the spring of 1882 stUl remembered as a period of
alarm to the friends of the Union cause, new levies were imper
ative for the Federal army, and Gov. Morgan at once appointed
a committee in each senatorial district to organize a general
recruiting effort. Tracy was one of the committee for Broome,
Tioga and Tomkins counties. He accepted the charge and in
addition to general service as a member, he received a commis
sion from the governor, and personally recruited two regiments,
the 109th and the I87th, making his headquarters at Binghamp-
ton. The active work was completed in 80 days, and Tracy was
appointed colonel of the 109th with which he reported to Gen.
Wool at Baltimore, in whose department it remained until
transferred to that of Washington. In the spring of 1864 the
regiment was ordered to join the 9th (Burnside) corps, then a
part of Grant's advance. Col. Tracy led his regiment with
great gallantry in the battle of the Wilderness when its loss on
Friday, May 6, was upward of eighty killed and wounded. Near
the close of the fighting on that day he fell exhausted and was
carried from the field, urged by the staff of his commanding
officer to go to the hospital. He refused, but resumed the lead
of his regiment and held it through three days of the hard fight
ing at Spottsylvania where he completely broke down and was
compelled to surrenderthe command to the Lieut. Colonel. When
he became satisfied that months must elapse before he could
again join the army, and not liking military service in a hospi
tal he tendered his resignation and came north to recruit his
health. In the following September without solicitation on his
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127 United States colored troops which he accepted ; subsequently
was ordered to the command of the mihtary post at Elmira, in
cluding the prison camp and the draft rendezvous for Western
New York. This was a large and important command in the
prison camp. There were at this time 10,000 prisoners. In his
domestic relations Sec. Tracy is fortunate and happy. In 1850
he was united by marriage to Miss Delinda E. Catlin, a sister of
Gen. Isaac S. Catlin, Ex-District Attorney of the county of
Kings and one of the ablest members of the bar. Judge Tracy
has three children — two daughters and a son. After retiring
from the bench in 1882 as he could not resist his love for the
profession he decided to resume it again. Accordingly he form
ed a co-partnership with William C. Dewitt, Esq., and his son,
F. B. Tracy, and opened an office in Brooklyn. This was an
advantageous and fortunate business relation, combining a
strength, a variety of talent, learning and infiuence which gives
it high rank in the profession, and is justly appreciated at home
and abroad. Unfortunately for Judge Tracy his devotion to his
judicial labors and duties impaired his health to such an extent
that he was incapacitated for business, but a total abnegation
from business, judicious medical treatment and a tour to
Europe has nearly restored his health, and he is once more in
the discharge of those duties his noble nature loves so well, and
by which he has gained the high honors he so well merits and
enjoys. The Birchard's.
Thomas Birchard, aged 40, embarked for New England in a
vessel called the "True Love," Sept. 20, 1685, with his wife,
Mary, and six children, one of them a son, named John, aged
seven years, the others were daughters. He is subsequently
found at Saybrook, and was deputy from that township to the
general court in 1660-51. After that there seems no record ex
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Pratt, of Martha's Vineyard, wherein he quits claim for himself
m behalf of his son, Johri Birchard. It has been proved that
this son John was one of the ten inhabitants of Norwich, Conn.,
accepted as freeman, and was deputy to the general court in
Oct., 1691. The marriage of John Birchard and Christian An
drews, July 22, 1653, and ranging from 1654 to 1680, the birth of
14 children is recorded in Norwich, Conn. The first five chil
dren and one of later birth died in infancy. The mother was
caUed away whUe her family were still young. Mr. Eichard
married for his second wife. Jape,, widow of Samuel Hyde, and
daughter of Thomas Lee. In the. settlement of Lebanon, Mr.
Birchard took a prominent interest.. He was one of the four
original proprietors of the nine-mile tract, Norwich, purchased
from thelndian chief Owaneco, in. 1692. He assisted in the ex
pense of laying out the lands and moving thither with his family
in 1698, and died Nov. 17, 1702, His wife, JVlrs. Jane Birchard,
died at Lebanon, Jan. 21, 1723. Mr. Birchard had six sons that
lived to maturity. These sons all left families. The two daugh
ters of John Birchard, of the nincTmile tra^t.' I'^afS'jifid iJohn
Caulkins and Jonathan Hartshorn.
Ezra Birchard, born at Norwich, Conn., Sept 11, 1731, eld
est son of John Birchard and Jane Hyde, of Norwich, was a
grand-son of Thomas Hyde, of the third generation. He mar
ried Oct. 17, 1756, Martha Barret. They settled at Norwich,
where they had six chUdren recorded to them : Andrew, born
April 22, 1759, at Norwich, died at Norwich, Feb. 16, 1767;
Asahel, born June 14, 1762, at Norwich, married Jan. 1, 1788,
Elizabeth Fox, at Bozrah, and settled at Lima, N. Y. ; Ezra,
born Aug. 9, 1766, at Norwich ; second Andrew, bora Dec. 2,
1768, atNorwich ; Eli, born Aug. 7, 1772, at Norwich ; Eunice,
born Dec. 6, 1774, at Norwich.
John Birchard, born at Norwich, Conn., Sept 30, 1733, sec
ond son of John Birchard and Jane Hyde, of Norwich, was a
grand-son of Thomas Hyde, of the third generation. He mar-

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ried July 5, 1759, Anne Barker, and settled at Norwich, wherei
they had three children recorded to them : Jonathan, born Nov.
11, 1763, at Norwich ; Jabez, born May 16, 1765, at Norwich,
married Jan. 31, 1799, Mary Downer, at Bozrah : Anne, born
Dee. 4, 1761, at Norwich.
Gideon Birchard, born at Norwich, May 23, 1735, third son
of John Birchard and Jane Hyde of Norwich, was a grand-son
of Thomas Hyde, of the third generation. He married April 13,
1757, Eunice Abel, born March 1, 1737, second daughter of Capt.
Joseph Abel, of Norwich, Conn., by his first wife, Jerusha Frink.
They settled at Norwich. He died at Utica, N. Y. Their chU
dren were : Elisha, born June 14, 1758, at Norwich ; Eoger, born
May 5, 1762, at Norwich, died Oct 15, 1782; Jedediah, born
Aug. 17, 1765, at Norwich ; Gurdon, bora Dec. 29, 1767, at Nor
wich ; Erastus, born April 7, 1769 ; Eunice, born April 27, 1780,
married her father's second cousin, Thomas Langrel Thomas,
second son of Ebenezer Thomas and Deborah Hyde, of Norwich,
Conn. Phinehas Birchard, born at Norwich, Conn., Sept. 26, 1738,
fourth son of John Birchard and Jane Hyde, of Norwich, was a
grand-son of Thomas Hyde, of the third generation. He mar
ried June 14, 1764, Lydia Farnham, and settled at Norwich,
where they had one child recorded to them : Amasa, born Jan.
19, 1765, at Norwich.
Lois Birchard, born as Norwich, Conn., Nov. 15, 1744, fourth
daughter of John Birchard and Jane Hyde, of Norwich, was a
grand-daughter of Thomas Hyde, of the third generation. She
married May 23, 1767, Joseph Chapman, born Sept. 8, 1729, son
of Joseph Chapman and Elizabeth Ames. They settled at Nor
wich, where she died March, 1769. His child by her was : Joseph,
born Oct. 13, 1768, at Norwich. He then married in 1769, Eliz
abeth Abel, born Dec. 5, 1749, third daughter of Capt. Joshua
Abel, by his second wife, Anna Backus.
Of the many illustrious persons who are connected with the
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Hayes, Ex-President of the United States. The Hayes' family
can boast of a long line of honorable ancestors, which can be
traced back as far as 1280, when the Hayes' and Eutherford's
were two Scottish chieftains, fighting side by side with Baliol,
Wilham Wallace and Eobert Bruce. Both f amihes were num
bered among the nobility, owning extensive estates and having
a large number of followers. The first who came to America
was George Hayes, he left Scotland in 1680. He made his home
in Connecticut, all that can be learned of him is that he settled
in Windsor, Conn. He had one son, named George, who remain
ed in Windsor during his life. Daniel Hayes, the son of the
latter, married Sarah Lee, he lived after his marriage and until
his death, at Sinisbury, Conn, Ezekiel Hayes, son of Daniel,
born in 1724, was extensively engaged in manufacturing iron,
especially scythes, at Bradford, Conn. Eutherford Hayes, son
ot EJ;ekiel, and grand-father of Gen. Hayes, was born at New
Haven, Aug 1756. During his life-time Vermont was the eldor-
ado ot New England, and a large number of people from Connec
ticut, emigrated to that state, including Eutherford Hayes, who
purchased a farm and established a hotel at Brattleboro'. It
was at Brattleboro', the father of Gen. Hayes was born. He
married Sept , 1813, Sophia Birchard, of Wilmington, Vt., whose
family also emigrated from Connecticut, they having been
among the wealthiest and best families of Norwich, Conn. Her
ancestry by the male side can be followed in an unbroken line
back to 1635, when John Birchard came to Norwich, and became
one of the original proprietors of that place. Both ot her grand
fathers were valient soldiers of the revolution. The father ot
Gen. Hayes was one of those interesting characters whose hfe
iUustrates the perseverance and varied talents of our early New
England people. He was a leader among his young companions
in all their plays and games. He estabhshed a store at Brattle
boro'. In this mercantUe occupation, which he conducted on
the strictest principal of honesty, he made a large number of
acquaintances, who invariably became warm friends. He was a

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sincere christian and was a liberal and active member of his
church. It was at church that he met Sophia Birchard. Too
much can not be said of this admirable woman. She was a most
fit companion for Eutherford Hayes, and her disposition had a
most happy effect on his. He was often inclined to be silent
and sad ; she was gay, witty and sparkling as a mountain
spring ; with him, religious services were a solemn duty ; witli
her, they were a happy privilege ; she was playful, witty, light-
hearted and unconsciously forced him to merriment. He was
charitable and generous out of a sense of duty ; she performed
kind acts because she loved to make others happy. Their lives
ran parallel ; his keen sense of duty and her unbounded love al
ways brought them to the same conclusion. What motive could
have induced Eutherford Hayes to abandon his old home and
thriving business, many warm friends. He had secured enough
in business to be independent and comfortable, and yet Euther
ford Hayes followed a destiny he could not fathom, and moved
by an impulse none could explain, determined to set his face to
wards Ohio, that terrible wilderness, then the home ot wild
beasts and savage men, where he arrived after many difficulties,
accompanied by his wife, Sophia, his two young children, Fanny
and Lorenzo, and Sardes Birchard, Mrs. Hayes' brother. The
years 1821-22 were terrible years for the people of Ohio. During
these years a malignant fever swept over the state like a simoon,
smiting with deadly blow the young and the old, in many in
stances, whole households were exterminated at one swoop.
Eutherford Hayes was one of its victims. It was but a few short
hours after the first feverish flashes ran through his limbs before
the poison had performed its dreadful mission, and Eutherford
Hayes passed away from this life ; he died July 22, 1822, and
the desolation surrounding his lovely wife can be imagined only
by those who have experienced such a bereavment under simi-
liar circumstances. Oct. 4, 1822, less than three months after
the death of his father, and in his house, built four years before,
was born, the Hon. Eutherford Birchard Hayes.

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Unique Letter Written in 1639.
This unique and interesting letter of the Eev. John Daven
port, communicated by the Eev. John Wadington, of London,
was published for the first time by the Historical and Genealog
ical Society of New England. The Eev. John Davenport held a
correspondence with Lady Mary De Vere, who was a daughter
of Sir John Tracy, Kt., of Toddington, Gloucestershire, who was
of the family of the Tracy's of Norwich, Conn. In the British
Museum, are several letters by him, written to her from London,
Rotterdam and New Haven. In the history and geneaology of
the Davenport family, A. B. Davenport, Esq., has printed many
of these letters entire, and from others made extracts ; we quote
from an account of Lady De Vere, prefixed to these letters.
"Lady Mary De Vere was the wife of Horatio Lord De Vere,
Baron of Tilbury, son of John De Vere, the fifteenth Earl of Ox
ford. During the reign of Charles, the first, he went into Hol
land as a commander of a regiment, sent to join with the United
Princes, of Germany. He is characterized by Fuller in his
"Worthies," as of excellent temper, being true of him as what is
said of the Caspian Sea, "that it doth never ebb or fiow;" ob
serving a constant tenor, he is neither elated with success nor
depressed by defeat. He died May 2, 1635, and was intered near
his brother. Sir Francis De Vere, in Westminister Abbey. By
his wife. Lady Mary De Vere, he had five daughters, his co-heirs,
viz.: Elizabeth, married John Hollis, second Earl of Clare;
Mary, married Sir Eoger Townsend, Baronet of Eaynham, in the
county of Norfolk, after whose decease she married Mildmay
Fane, second Earl of Westmoreland ; Catherine, married first,
Oliver, son and heir of Sir John St. John, of Lydiard Tregeze,
second, John Lord Paulet ; Anne, married the celebrated parlia
mentarian. Gen. Sir Thomas Lord Fairfax ; Dorothy, married
John Wolstenholm, Esq., eldest son of Sir John Wolstenholm,
Baronet of Nostel, county York."

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The Letter.

To the Right Honorable Lady Mary Vere— Madam: "By
the good hand of our God, upon us my deare child is safely ar
rived with sundry desirable friends, as Mr. Fenwick and his lady,
Mr. Whitfield, and to our great comfort thyre passage was so or
dered as it appears that prayers were accepted, for they had no
sickness in ye ship except a little sea- sickness ; not one dead, but
they brought to shore one more than was known to be in the
vessel at their coming forth, for a woman was safely delivered of
a child, and both are alive and well. They attained to the Hav
en, where they would be in seven weeks. There provisions at
sea held good to ye last, about the time when we guessed they
might approach near us, we sett a day apart for public extraor
dinary humiliation, by fasting and prayer, in which we com
mended them unto ye hands of our God, whom windes and seaes
obey, and shortly after sent out a pinnis to pilott them to our
harbour ; for it Was ye first ship that ever cast anchor in this
place. But our pilott having watched for them a fort-night,
grew weary and returned home, and the very next night, the
ship came in, guided by God's hand to our towne. The sight of
ye harbour did so please the captain of the ship and all the pas
sengers that he called it Fair Haven, since that, another ship
hath brought sundry passengers, and a third is expected daily,
and which is more, the Lord our God hath bestowed upon us,
the greatest outward privilages under the sun, to have and enjoy
all His ordinances, purely dispensed in a church, gathered and
constituted according to His owne mind in all things, and hath
promised that in every place where he shall sett his name. He
will come unto his people and bless them, and now madam my
desire is that your La-P (lady-ship) may be assured that what
ever interest I have in J X, and by him in fellowship with his
people at the throne of grace, it is wholly for your advantage, if
in anything I may express ye reality of my thankfulness to your
honour, for my favours formerly received, and for your helpful-

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ness to my httle one in carrying him in your coach to Sir Theo
dore Maherne, for advice about his neck, and for your cost in a
coate, of which bounty and labour of your love, my servant,
Ann, hath made fuU report to us. The Lord recompense ye,
same to your La-P, and to your noble famUy, one-hundred-fold,
I hope befor this time He hath rebuked the feverness and smaU-
pox in your family, which has lately affected it, and wiU make
the losse of Mr. St. Jo, a mercy to your daughter, whom I love
and honor in the Lord. The Lord ye holy one of IsraU, our re
deemer, hath undertaken to teach his people to profitt as well
by his provedences as by his ordinances even by all his dispensa
tions ; accordingly I believe He will, and pray that he may be
pleased grp tiously to make this losse be her gain, and these trials
evidances of his fatherly love, both to your La-P, and her, that
mortality of earthly comforts and the dissolubleness of the mar
riage-bond, with ye creature may quicken us to secure our inter
est in the everlasting God, and our marriage with the Lord J.
C, by an everlasting covenant of his grace, which nothing can
dissolve. My wife presenteth her humble service with much
thankfulness to your La-P. We both desire in like manner to
salute my Lady Wake, and all your noble daughters. Had I
time, I would write to Mrs. Watson, your scribe, at present, I
have no more liberty than to salute her, and to let her know that
it her affections stand hetherward, I shall be gladly be useful to
her in what I may and do think that it would be comfortable to
her many wais. But it is God who setts the bounds of our habi
tations, to whose everlasting doings I commend your Lady-ship
with aU yours in Jesus Christ, in whom I rest. Your honorable
La-P, much obliged in ye Lord." John Davenport.
Quinnepiack, 28 vf e 7 month, 1689.

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The Fashions of Norwich
The fashions of Norwich in 1757. The dress of that middle
period can not be eulogized for its simplicity, or economy. The
wardrobe of the higher circle, was rich and extravagant, and
among the females of all classes, there was a passion for gather
ing and having articles of attire, beyond what was necessary for
present use, or even years ahead. It was an object of ambition
to have a chest full of linen, a pillow bier of stockings, and other
articles in proportion laid by. In this connection we present a
schedule of the wardrobe of widow "Elizabeth White," of Nor
wich, as contained in the inventory of her effects, taken Aug. 16,
1757. She was a daughter of Samuel Bliss, and relict of Daniel
White, of Middletown. After the death of her husband in l726,
she returned to Norwich, and died there July 2, 1767, aged 71.
The items of jewelry, plate and apparel, were circumstantially
enumerated, but we give them in abridged form : she had many
gowns of durog striped stuff, plaid stuff, blach-silk crape, and
blue camlet, a scarlet cloth cloak, and one of blue satin, flowered
mantel and fur below scarf, a woolen petticoat with border, cam
let riding-hood, long silk hood, velvet hood, white hoods brimed
with laces and ribbons, a silk bonnet, and 19 dress caps, cambric
lace handkerchiefs, silk and 16 linen ones, a lace apron embroid
ered, one green taffety, and 14 aprons in all, a silver girdle, a
blue girdle, four pieces of flowered satin, many yards of silver
ribbon, a parcel of crewels, and handsome fans, Turkey worked
chairs, a gold jewelnecklace, deaths-head, gold ring, set of gold
sleeve buttons, plain gold ring, gold locket, silver hair-pin, silver
cloak-clasps, a precious stone, set in silver, for a button, a large
silver tankard, a silver cup with two handles, one silver cup with
one handle, silver spoons. The next generation was still more
extravagant. Eicher goods were imported, and more splendor
was exhibited. The following is an illustrative instance : The
daughters of Gen. Jabez Huntington were sent successively, at
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school in Boston. The lady who kept the establishment was of
high social standing, and made it a point, of taking her pupils
often in society, that their manners might be formed according
to the prevailing codes of politeness and etiquette. Of course
the wardrobe prepared for the young ladies was rich in articles
of ornament and display. One of the daughters, who had been
carefully fitted out with twelve elegant silk dresses, had been but
a short time in Boston, when her instructress wrote to her par
ents, requesting that another dress should be procured- for her,
made of a certain rich fabric, that had recently been imported,
in order that her appearance in society might be equal to her
rank. A thirteenth robe of silk of the requisite richness was
sent. Before the revolution, wigs full and curled, for clergyman
and other dignitaries were white, and powdered, red clbaks, or
rouquelaurs, and buckles or bows of ribbon at the knees and in
the shoes, were worn by gentlemen. Even young boys were often
arrayed in cocked hats, small clothes and knee buckles. If on
ceremonious occasions, wigs were not worn, gentlemen had their
hair crimped, curled and powdered by barbers. A full dress for
gentlemen were mostly made of silk, with trimmings ot gold and
silver lace. The waist-coat most always highly embroidered.
Ladies wore trains to their dresses or gowns, often quite long,
and when they walked out they threw the end over the right arm.
They dressed their feet in silk stockings, sharp-toed slippers, al
ways made of rich material, mostly of embroidered satin, and
with veiy high heels. At one time sharply gored gowns, and
cumberous hoops were the fashion. Cushions stuffed with wool,
covered with silk, were used to dress the hair. At one period,
leathers were much worn on the head, surmounting a high tur
ban of gauze. Parasols were unknown, or of rare occurance, but
a fan, neariy a foot and a half in length, was often carried open
to keep off the sun. A lady in fuU dress for great occasions, dis
played a rich brocade, with open skirt and traU, front skirt trim
med and embroidered elegantly, with stomacher and fuU ruffles
of real lace at the elbows. As the great struggle for liberty grad-

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ually over-shadowed the land, and the sacrifices necessary to
consummate the revolution, began to be appreciated, a decided
change took place in regard to dress, amusements, and display ;
women discarded all imported articles, ornaments, etc., arrayed
themselves wholly in domestic goods. Gentlemen also, who had
been accustomed to appear in society in the daintiest costume,
following the example set by the women, discarded their shining
stocks, their linen cambric ruffies, silk stockings, silver buckles,
and other articles of foreign production, and went back-to leath
er shoe-strings, home-spun clothes^ etc
Copied prom " Picturescjue Canada," Page 87.
A handsome new church was dedicated in 1876 to La Bonne
Sainte Anne de Beaupre, To it were removed the old altar and
pulpit, both of the seventeenth century, and the relics and orig
inal ornaments of the old church. Among these are an altar-
piece by Le Brun, the gift of the Marquis de Tracy ; a silver
reliquary, and a painting by Le Francois, both the gift of Mons.
Le Laval ; a chasubel, worked by Anne of Austria, and a bone
from the finger of Sainte Anne.
A great number of the Norwich Tracy's have been graduates
of Yale college.

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Letter of Sir Bernard Burke, C. B., L. L. D., Ulster King
of Arms, Dublin Castle. Author of the Extinct and Dormant
Peerages ; The Landed Gentry ; The General Armory ; Vicissi
tudes of Families, and Eeminiscences Ancestral, Anecdotal and
Historic.

Dublin Castle Ireland, November 3, 1888.
Dear Mrs. Abbey :
I am and have been so ill since I last wrote to you, that I
am obliged to use the pen of an amanuensis. I do not like wait
ing until I am better and able with my own hand to express how
much I am' pleased with your admirable history of the great
house of Tracy. I have carefully gone through the volume and
my estimate is formed on a minute perusal. When I return to
my usual pursuits, which, please God, wiU be soon, I trust to
obtain some genealogical additions for your acceptance.
With esteem and regard, yours most truly,
J. Bernard Burke, Ulster.

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