Google: "Fiction Versus Possibility In The Tracy Genealogy' by John G. Hunt, B.S.C. of Arlington, VA.
Based on John Hunt's assessment of documentation in British archives and in those repositories as the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress, it appears that the surviving son of William Tracy of Gloucestershire who embarked on the ship 'Supply' in September 1620 is not the Lt. Thomas Tracy who came to CT.
In fact, there were two first cousins of the same name and relative same age. The one who came to CT was either the cousin or possiblyan imposter who assumed the name.
There is no verification of William Tracy's widow, Mary Conway Tracy's death in the UK. William Tracy who took his wife Mary, daughter Joyce, and son Thomas to Jamestown's Berkeley Hundred was not married to a woman named Anne.
Thomas returned with Mary his mother in April 1621, having only spent 2 months in British Colonial Virginia and, according to records listed on page 699 of 'Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635',
"In May 1625, when a list of patened land was sent back to England, Thomas Tracy was credited with 100 acres of land in the corporation of Henrico. His patent was located on the lower side of the James River, below The Falls. (67) (CBE 20-21; VCR 3:396, 426, 555; 4:552)."
There were other Tracy's who came from England who settled in Maryland and in Virginia at a later date. It is possible they are descended from the Tracy family of Gloucestershire and Toddington.
Deborah Prideaux
