Tryphosa Tracy

Tryphosa Lee

• Birth: 1597, Great Yarmouth, Norwich, England (aged 27 on 1 May 1624 [TAG 51:242])
• Death: bef Mar 1654/5 of Duxbury, Plymouth Colony
• Parents unknown - NOT the daughter of widow Joos Lee AKA Tryphesa, Trifesa

Husband Stephen Tracy arrived in Plymouth Colony in 1623 on the "Anne". Speculation as to whether Tryphosa, his wife, & daughter Sarah accompanied him or whether they arrived on the "Jacob" in 1625. Prob. pre-deceased him. Age 27 on 1 May 1624. Died before he made his will which was on 20 Mar 1654/55, and did not return with him to England.

family

Marriage

1. Jan 1621, Leyden, South Holland, Netherlands (Marr Memo says 3 Jan; 6 Jan 1621) to Stephen Tracy Children
2. Sarah (~1621-1708). Married George Patridge.
3. Jane (1623-1638).
4. Rebecca (~1625-1686). Married William Merrick.
5. Ruth (~1628->1655).
6. Mary (~1630-?). Married Francis Griswold. (Disputed... Mary who married Francis is said also to be the daughter of Thomas Holcomb and Elizabeth Ferguson, or the daughter of Thomas Tracy and his wife Mary, widow of John Mason - the latter per Fifty Puritan Ancestors by E.T. Nash, but without corresponding primary source colonial records.)
7. John (~1632-?). Married Mary Prence.

Sources

1. New England Historical Genealogical Register Vol 15 page 30.  "Items from the City Records at Leyden".  "Stephen Tracy m 2 Jan 1621 Trifesa Le----."
2. The Tracy Genealogy by Sherman Weld Tracy page 21

Links

• http://capecodgenes.com/web%20cards/ps08/ps08_291.html
• Pilgrim Village Family Sketch: Stephen Tracy by Charles Anderson

notes

"Betrothal Book" in the Leyden Archives for Stephen Tracy & Tryphosa Lee:

• 18 December 1620 - appear before officials
• 19 December 1620 - banns published 
• 24 December 1620 - banns published 
• 02 January 1621 - marriage 

"Stephen, say-worker, bachelor from England" "Tryphosa, spinster, also from England"

Accompanied by:

His friend: Anthony Clements Her friend: Rose Jennings

Citation:  Leyden Documents relating to the Pilgrim Fathers, E.J. Brill, Ltd., 1920, p. 112.  Plate XLll.

From Ancestors of Malu Del & Tahlia Elphia McDonald:

"The "Warner-Harrington Ancestry" states that all 5 children were born in England, yet the marriage took place in Holland and I suspect the children were born there and in this country. The same text makes no mention of the whereabouts of Stephen's wife, but "The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth," N.G. Parke & D.L. Jacobus, 1960, p. 37 indicates that she died probably before 1655 and likely did not return to England with her husband."

From Re: Ann Hungerford and Joos Lee, in England and Mass. Posted: 30 Oct 2010 12:29PM Classification: Query Surnames: Lee, Tracy

"Tryphosa Lee and Stephen Tracy are in my family tree as well. However, Tryphosa's parents are unknown at this time. "The Adventurous Tryphosa (Lee) Tracy" by Robert S. Wakefield published in "The American Genealogist" is the most complete discussion of Tryphosa to my knowledge."

ancestry

Who was Tryphosa/Trifasa Lee(Le)

She was the wife of Stephen Tracy--their betrothal is recorded in the records of Leyden.(Image) Beyond that the intriguing record of her life invites a lot of speculation--even that she couldl have been related to the vanished Nicholas Lee.

First of all, the targetted list of Pilgrim marriages (see below) shows that the Pilgrim Lees were associated by marriage with Samuel Fuller. (He married Bridget Lee, daughter of Josephine Lee and sister of Samuel Lee.) There is also a John Lee and a Jane Lee in Leyden.(See the marriage and guarantor lists.) Tryphosa Lee is not known to be related to the other Lees.

The mystery of Tryphosa is enriched by the research of Robert Wakefield who presented an interesting scenario in "The Adventurous Tryphosa (Lee) Tracy", TAG:51, 71,242. Wakefield suggests that Tryphosa and her husband Stephen Tracy may have manipulated the system whereby cattle and land were allotted to Pilgrims in Plymouth Colony. According to his article, Tryphosa only pretended to sail to New England in 1623--and really stayed behind sending her husband to American with another woman. Tryphosa later stowed away, so to speak, on a supply ship with Edward Winslow. Wakefield attributes this ruse to the fact that she the Tracy's baby was only three months old when Stephen set sail for America and Tryphosa did not want to subject the infant to such a hazardous voyage. But of course this scenario leaves the door wide open to other speculation. The lives of all those related to the Pilgrims were precarious--especially if loved family remained behind in England. Covert activities must have been necessary to survival--but such conditions makes the pursuit of Pilgrim genealogy more challenging.

Source:

• http://westerly-journeys.com/pilgrims/pilganci.html

LEYDEN PILGRIMS & THE HOLY DISCIPLINE

by Marilou West Ficklin, CGRS 1999

Leiden, Netherlands, January 2, 1621: "Steven Treas, sayworker, bachelor from England, accompanied by Anthony Clements his acquaintance, to Tryfoce Le, spinster, also from England, accompanied by Rose Jennings, her acquaintance."

They had their first child, Sarah, in Leiden, Holland in probably late 1621 or in 1622. Tryphosa then became pregnant again. Stephen made plans to come to Plymouth by himself (although he may have brought Sarah with him) leaving the pregnant Tryphosa to have her baby without him and come later.

Stephen arrived in the Plymouth Colony on July 10, 1623 and was given three acres of land when the land first was first available for private ownership. This means that two other people should have been with him, as the deal was an acre per person. The identity of those two people is unknown, but one might have been Sarah.

At any rate, Tryphosa, Jane (the second child), and possibly Sarah, if she didn't arrive with her father, followed in 1625 on the ship, "Jacob."

They settled in Duxbury, a settlement near Plymouth.

See other entry for more information.

Prob. pre-deceased him. Age 27 on 1 May 1624. Died after he amde his will which was on 20 Mar 1654/55.

Citations

1. from TORREY: "TRACY, Stephen (ret'd to Eng) & Tryphosa LEE; 2 Jan 1620/1, Leyden, Holland; Plymouth, Duxbury {Tracy (1936) 21; Waterman (1939) 1:688; Dawes-Gates 2:799+; Warner-Harrington 671; Reg. 15:30; Ackley-Bosworth 35, 37; Plymouth (Davis) 286; Fulton Anc. 246; Blake-Torrey 153; Shaw-Williams 51; Hyde 1:25, 2:1178; Marvin 305; Dunham-Boyd 102; Brownell Anc. 153}"

Links

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=pjmpjm&id...

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Tryphosa Lee was born c 1597 Great Yarmouth Norfolk Co Eng; immigrated in 1625 to Plymouth Co MA on the “Jacob” with her dau Sarah. She died c 1653 Duxbury Plymouth Co MA. .

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