BRACKETT, Richard
1610 - 1690 (79 years)-
Name BRACKETT, Richard Birth 16 Dec 1610 Sudbury, Suffolk, Eng. 
[1] Gender Male Fact 1 See Note Page [2] Fact 1 Death 5 Mar 1690 Braintree, Norfolk, MA Burial Hancock Cemetery Quincy, MA - N 42.14.992 W 71.00.206
Person ID I868 Ruth's Family Tree Last Modified 9 Jun 2008
Father BRACKETT, Peter (A), b. Abt 1580, Sudbury, Suffolk, Eng. d. 23 Aug 1616, Sudbury, Suffolk, Eng. (Age 36 years) Mother Rachel, b. Abt 1590, Sudbury, Suffolk, Eng. d. 15 Jul 1651, Braintree, Norfolk, MA (Age 61 years) Marriage Abt 1607 Sudbury, Suffolk, Eng. Family ID F338 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family BLOWER, Alice, b. 30 Jun 1615, Sudbury, Suffolk, Eng. d. 3 Nov 1689, Braintree, Norfolk, MA (Age 74 years) Marriage 6 Jan 1633 London, London, Eng. - In the register of St. Katharine by theTower, London, as published in 1946, is recorded the marriage of Richard Brackett & Alice Blower on Jan 6 1633/4. No other entry under either of these surnames appears between 1584 & 1665, the period covered in the two volume transcription. ( John B. Threlfall )
This was found in: English Origins of New England Families, Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell, MA. (Page 943)
Facts about this marriage:
Marriage Fact January 06, 1632/33
St. Katharine by the Tower, London, Eng.
Marriage Fact See Note Page Children 1. BRACKETT, Hannah, b. 4 Jun 1634, Boston, Suffolk, MA, USA d. 3 Jul 1706, Dunstable, Middlesex, MA. (Age 72 years)2. BRACKETT, John, b. 7 May 1637, Boston, Suffolk, MA, USA d. 18 May 1686, Billerica, Middlesex, MA, USA (Age 49 years)3. BRACKETT, Peter, b. 7 May 1637, Boston, Suffolk, MA, USA d. WFT Est 1690-1729, MA. (Age 91 years)4. BRACKETT, Rachel, b. 3 Nov 1639, Boston, Suffolk, MA, USA d. Abt 1727 (Age 87 years)5. BRACKETT, Mary, b. 1 Dec 1641, Braintree, Norfolk, MA d. 23 Mar 1679, Billerica, Middlesex, MA, USA (Age 37 years)6. BRACKETT, James, b. 1645, Braintree, Norfolk, MA d. 8 Apr 1718, Braintree, Norfolk, MA (Age 73 years)7. BRACKETT, Sarah, b. Abt 1647, Braintree, Norfolk, MA d. WFT Est 1727-1747, Mendon, Worcester, MA. (Age 100 years)8. BRACKETT, Josiah, b. 8 Mar 1652, Braintree, Norfolk, MA d. 3 Jun 1701, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA. (Age 49 years)Family ID F340 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 9 Jun 2008
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Notes - Capt. Richard Brackett, was one of the first of names in America. It is known that he was in the colony of Massachusetts Bay as early as 1630. He probably came with Gov. Winthrop in 1629. In 1629, the year he came to America, Richard Brackett was about seventeen years old.
Other Bracketts in the Bay colony at an early date were Peter Brackett of Boston, and Thomas Brackett of Salem.
There are many books in the libraries here in Mass, on the Bracketts, among them are:
Brackett Genealogy Book, By Herbert I. Brackett 1907
History of Billerica,Mass. by Hazen.
The American Genealogist
New England Historical Genealogical Register
The Memorial History of Boston, MA. 1630 -- 1680 Vol. I. page xxiv.
Also Vol 2 page 543.
Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England 1620-1650,
by Charles Edward Banks, Page 166.
City, State and Federal Vital Records.
IGI files, Mormon Church.
Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England and Their Origins:
"The Brackett-Blower-Frost Ancestry" by John Brooks Threlfall, Page 63-116.
Richard Brackett the jailer is also in the book THE SCARLET LETTER, BY
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE; page 57-58.
Up date Note: The Roland Brackett that so many people have put in their records thinking he belongs to Peter Brackett & Rachelle of Sudbury Suffolk, England, he does not belong at all. Check the records and the history books.
There is a Roland Brackett that is recorded on a IGI file # page17,654 London, England, no parents just him marrying a Alice??????
That particular entry of the name Roland, may very well be an error itself because I do not believe
Roland was a Brackett name in that era. I have not found it used elsewhere in Brackett records then.
Also the Anthony Brackett line that is in the Brackett Genealogy book is a different line of the Brackett
families that the author wrote about and Richard Brackett is not a brother of Anthony.
Facts about this person:
Fact 1 December 16, 1610 - Christened St. Gregory, Sudbury, Eng.
Fact 2 1630 -among the first Colonists to MA.
Fact 3 May 25, 1636 - admitted a freeman in Boston,MA.
Fact 4 February 12, 1638/39 - a Jailer
Fact 5 1652 - Selectman
Fact 6 December 05, 1641 -Richard & Alice, was dismissed by the
Boston Church, & joined the Braintree, Church
Fact 7 July 21, 1642 - Ordained a Deacon, Braintree, Church.
- Capt. Richard Brackett, was one of the first of names in America. It is known that he was in the colony of Massachusetts Bay as early as 1630. He probably came with Gov. Winthrop in 1629. In 1629, the year he came to America, Richard Brackett was about seventeen years old.
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