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Richard Brackett Sex: Male | | | |  | | Birth Date | 1610 SEP 06 Sudbury, Suffolk, England | | Death Date | 1690 MAR 03 Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay | | Father | Peter Brackett | Born: 1585 St Gregory, Sudbury, Suffolk, England | Died: 1616 | | Mother | | Born: | | | Richard Brackett
Notes: | He emigrated in 1632[2] (ship name unknown), arriving in Boston, but removing to Braintree, MA by 1641. He returned to England in 1633 to marry, then came back to New England in 1634. While in England, he married 16 Jan 1633/4 at St. Katherine by the Tower, London, Alice Blower,[3][4] baptized St. Gregory, Sudbury, Suffolk 30 Jun 1615, dau of Thomas Blower [and his wife Alice Frost].[5]. He was a husbandman, and served as Boston jailkeeper 1637-1640.[6] He was admitted as member #144 to Boston church sortly before 11 Nov 1632. One 5 Dec 1641 he and wife Alice were recommended to Braintree church, but dismissed 8 May 1642 "at their desire of him unto the Office of a Deacon among them." (Savage gives 21 Jul 1642 as date of Bracketts ordination as deacon, but the source has not been found.) Freeman: 25 May 1636
| | Notes: | Deacon of the First Church of Boston
| | Richard Brackett Will: | Dated 29 Jan 1688/9; probated 19 Dec 1690[10] Richard Brackett of Braintree bequeathed: to wife Alice Brackett for life entire estate in Braintree and all income from estate in Billerica; to the children of his son John
| |  | | Birth Date | 1615 Sudbury, Suffolk, England | | Death Date | 1690 | | Father | | Born: | Died: | | Mother | | Born: | | | Alice Blower Notes: | About Alice Brackett Immigration Came to America in the Puritan Great Migration (1620–1643), most of them emigrating from the southeast of England and settling in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The busiest years of the Great Migration were those of “The Eleven Year Tyranny” (1629–1640) during which Charles I tried to rule without calling the Puritan-dominated parliament. Once the King was forced to call Parliament in 1640 and the Puritan revolution began, immigration to New England came to a near-complete halt. Virginia Anderson’s book New England’s Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1993) is an excellent account of the immigrant group and the experience of sea travel. Many of the immigration dates given below are upper bounds, based on when the person in question first appears in the New England records. Thus, in the absence of more specific information, a date of 1636 should be understood as “arrived by 1636.” Very few passenger lists exist from the time of the Great Migration and only in a few cases are the names of ancestors’ ships and their actual departure or arrival dates known. For the period 1620–1633 the standard reference is now Robert Charles Anderson’s The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995). It should be noted that the early work of Charles Banks on the composition of the Winthrop Fleet of 1630 is now considered unreliable. None of Banks’ conjectures about arrival dates are used here. | | Individual Notes: | | | |
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