Christopher TRACE

                       This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File:
    William /TRACY/ (AFN:1P3N-6K) and Anne /SHAKERLY/ (AFN:29KZ-CB)

    Sources are: (1) Vital records of Norwich, New London, Connecticut vol 1, and
    (2) History of Norwich by Frances Manwaring Caulkins.
    Jonathan was age 50 in 1698 and Solomon was age 46 in 1697.
    Norwich was created in 1659 and Middlesex was created in 1785.
    John and Thomas could have been born in Westerfield and other children were
    probably born in Saybrook.  Lt. Thomas Tracy was one of the original settlers
    in Saybrook  and one of the original settlers in Norwich.

    Lt. Thomas Tracy came to New England in April 1636 and was enrolled at Salem,
    Feb 23, 1637.  He settled in Wethersfield in about 1640. He was not married to
    the widow of Edward Mason (probably the son of John Mason who was one of the
    original founders on Norwich).  This can be proven by looking at the records in
    Wethersfield Connecticut.  The Widow Mason, wife of Edward Mason, died in 1659
    and in the disposition of her property she was called the Widow Mason.  This
    proves that she did not remarry after his death.  They lived in Saybrook for 12
    to 14 years. Thomas moved to Norwich with six sons and one daughter.  It is not
    known if his wife was living when he moved to Norwich.  The second wife of Lt.
    Thomas Tracy was Martha, widow of John Bradford (married in 1676) and his third
    wife was Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Foote of Wethersfield and
    widow of John Stoddard (he died in 1664) and also widow of John Goodrich of
    Wethersfield (he died in 1680).