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Richard Bracket

Male 1610 - 1690  (79 years)


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  1. 1.  Richard Bracket was born on 16 Sep 1610 in (bp)St.Gregory,Sudbury,Suffolk,Eng; died on 03 Mar 1690 in Braintree,,MA aged 80.

    Notes:

    Source: The Great Migration Begins 1620-1633, Vol. I, NEHGS, pub. 1995, pages 203-206.

    Origin: Sudbury, Suffolk, England Migration: 1632 First Residence: Boston Removes: Braintree 1641
    Return Trips: Travelled to England in 1633 for his marriage, and then returned to New England in 1634.
    Occupation: Husbandman. Boston jailkeeper (1637-1640).
    Church Membership: Admitted to Boston church as member #144 which would be shortly before 11 November 1632. Richard and Alice were dismissed from the Boston church to the Braintree church on 8 May 1642.
    Freeman: 25 May 1636
    Education: Sufficient to be Braintree clerk of writs. Signed will with shaky hand.
    Offices: Deputy for Braintree to General Court (as "Capt. Richard Brackett"), May of 1655, 1665, 1667, 1671, 1672, 1674 (and October 1674), 1680 and January 1680/1. Commisioner to meet with men of Plymouth "to lay out that marsh lying at Connahassett", 29 May 1655. Commissioner to lay out land, December 1683. Appointed by General Court "to join persons in marriage in the town of Braintry...also to administer oaths in civil cased," October 1679. Braintree selectman in 1652, 1653, 1670, 1672, 1683. Braintree clerk of writs, 1646 to 1654. Admitted to Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1639 and was granted his request to lay down his arms as chief military commander in Braintry on October 15 1684...due to infirmaties of age being above 73 years of age.

    Estate: named the following- wife, Alice Brackett of Braintree; to the children of son John "by his wife Hannah Brackett", to son Peter Brackett, son-in-law Simon Crosbey and son-in-law Joseph Thompson; to "the two daughters of my son Josiah deceased Elizabeth and Sarah; to my son James Brackett; to my son-in-law Joseph Crosby; to "my daughter Hannah Blancher", to "my daughter Rachell Crosby; "to my grandchild Abigall Tompson"; to Hannah Brackett the daughter of my son John; "to Anna Crosby daughter of my son Joseph Crosby."

    Associations: Through his mother and his wife Richard Brackett became a member of, and the first immigrant from, the largest kinship network as yet uncovered among the participants in the Great Migration, a network worked out mostly by Mary Lovering Holman, John Brooks Trelfall and Douglas Richardson. (See John Brooks Trelfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins (Madison, Wisconsin, 1990).

    Richard Brackett was son of Peter Brackett and his wife Rachell; another son of this couple was Peter Brackett who came to Braintree about 1636 (TAG 52:65-75m 92). About 1618 Rachel, the mother of the two Brackett immigrants, married secondly Martin Sanders, and in 1635 Sanders, his wife, and their Sander children, along with Rachel (Brackett) Newcomb (sister of Richard and Peter Brackett), her husband, Francis Newcomb, and their children sailed for New England on the "Planter" (Hotten 48-49, TAG 55:215-217).

    Alice Blower was daughter of Thomas and Alice (Frost) Blower; she may have had two brothers who came to New England, and her father certainly came to New England in 1635, but apparently died soon (TAG 52:73-75; see also NEHGR 139:148-49), Her mother, Alice Frost, was sister of Thomasine Frost, who married Edmund Rice, imigrant to Sudbury, and also of Elizabeth Frost, who married first Henry Rice and then Philemon Whale, the latter also an immigrant to Sudbury (TAG 15:227,26:10-11; TG 6:131-41; Stevens-Miller Anc 143-44).

    Taking into accounts all these persons and their children, then, there were more than forty future immigrants to New England who were related to Richard Brackett by blood or marriage before their departure from England."

    Richard married Alice Blower on 06 Jan 1634 in St Katherine by the Tower,London,Eng. Alice (daughter of Thomas Blower and Alice Frost) was born on 30 Jun 1615 in (bp)St.Gregory,Sudbury,Suffolk,Eng; died on 03 Nov 1690 in Braintree,,MA aged 76. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 2. Hannah Bracket  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 04 Jan 1635 in (bp) Boston,,MA.
    2. 3. John Bracket  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 07 May 1637 in (bp) Boston,,MA.
    3. 4. Peter Bracket  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 07 May 1637 in (bp) Boston,,MA.
    4. 5. Rachel Bracket  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 03 Nov 1639 in (bp) Boston,,MA; died on 07 May 1748 in Cambridge,,MA.
    5. 6. Mary Bracket  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 01 Feb 1641 in Braintree,,MA.
    6. 7. James Bracket  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1646 in Braintree,,MA.
    7. 8. Josiah Bracket  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 08 May 1652 in Braintree,,MA.
    8. 9. Sarah Bracket  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1655 in Braintree,,MA.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Hannah Bracket Descendancy chart to this point (1.Richard1) was born on 04 Jan 1635 in (bp) Boston,,MA.

  2. 3.  John Bracket Descendancy chart to this point (1.Richard1) was born on 07 May 1637 in (bp) Boston,,MA.

  3. 4.  Peter Bracket Descendancy chart to this point (1.Richard1) was born on 07 May 1637 in (bp) Boston,,MA.

  4. 5.  Rachel Bracket Descendancy chart to this point (1.Richard1) was born on 03 Nov 1639 in (bp) Boston,,MA; died on 07 May 1748 in Cambridge,,MA.

    Rachel married Simon Crosby on 15 Jul 1659 in Braintree,,MA. Simon (son of Simon Crosby and Ann Brigham) was born on 06 Aug 1637 in Cambridge,,MA; died on 22 Jan 1725 in Billerica,,MA. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 10. Mary Crosby  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Nov 1680 in Billerica,,MA; died on 07 May 1748 in Billerica,,MA.

  5. 6.  Mary Bracket Descendancy chart to this point (1.Richard1) was born on 01 Feb 1641 in Braintree,,MA.

  6. 7.  James Bracket Descendancy chart to this point (1.Richard1) was born about 1646 in Braintree,,MA.

  7. 8.  Josiah Bracket Descendancy chart to this point (1.Richard1) was born on 08 May 1652 in Braintree,,MA.

  8. 9.  Sarah Bracket Descendancy chart to this point (1.Richard1) was born about 1655 in Braintree,,MA.

    Sarah married Joseph Crosby on 01 Jun 1675 in Braintree,,MA. Joseph (son of Simon Crosby and Ann Brigham) was born in Feb 1638 in Cambridge,,MA. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 11. Living  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 12. Living  Descendancy chart to this point


Generation: 3

  1. 10.  Mary Crosby Descendancy chart to this point (5.Rachel2, 1.Richard1) was born on 25 Nov 1680 in Billerica,,MA; died on 07 May 1748 in Billerica,,MA.

    Mary married John Blanchard on 07 Aug 1701 in Billerica,,MA. John (son of Samuel Blanchard and Hannah Daggett) was born on 03 Jul 1677 in Charleston,,MA(not recorded Charles.); died on 10 Apr 1750 in Billerica,,MA. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 13. Samuel Blanchard  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Aug 1717 in Billerica,,MA; died on 26 Mar 1807 in Billerica,,MA, aged 90; was buried in Old South Cem,Billrica.

  2. 11.  Living Descendancy chart to this point (9.Sarah2, 1.Richard1)

  3. 12.  Living Descendancy chart to this point (9.Sarah2, 1.Richard1)


Generation: 4

  1. 13.  Samuel Blanchard Descendancy chart to this point (10.Mary3, 5.Rachel2, 1.Richard1) was born on 17 Aug 1717 in Billerica,,MA; died on 26 Mar 1807 in Billerica,,MA, aged 90; was buried in Old South Cem,Billrica.

    Samuel married Mary Brown on 14 Jul 1747 in Billerica,,MA. Mary (daughter of Living and Living) was born on 21 Mar 1728 in Billerica,,MA; died in 1811 in Billerica,,MA, aged 83; was buried in Old South Cem,Billerica. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 14. Jonathan Blanchard  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 20 Feb 1769 in Billerica,,MA; died on 30 Jun 1835 in Rockingham,,VT,age 66 yrs; was buried in Rockingham First Church Cemetery, VT.


 

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