Tracy, Thomas, 1610 - 1685

The parentage of Thomas Tracy is unknown.  It has been asserted that he was the son of Sir Paul Tracy of Stanway, Gloucestershire, England, but those claims have not been substantiated.  Tracy immigrated in 1636 to the Massachusetts Bay Colony then removed to Wethersfield in Connecticut.  In 1645 with Thomas Leffingwell, he provisioned the Mohegans at Fort Shantock during a siege by the Narragansetts and for that task was well regarded by Uncas and his family.  Tracy became a founder of Norwich (1660) and represented that town as a deputy to the General Assembly from 1667 to 1678.  He was appointed ensign of the trainband in 1666 and promoted to lieutenant of the New London dragoons in 1673.  Five years later he was made a justice of the peace.  In 1675 Tracy was named a legatee in the will of Joshua (Attawanhood).  Charles Stedman Ripley, The Ancestors of Thomas Tracy of Norwich (Boston: Alfred Mudge & Sons, 1895), 14.