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The Brackett Family

Four Centuries in America: born in England - William Brackett, Explorer (ca.1589 - 1660) portrait n/a ; Anthony Brackett, Explorer (ca.1600 - 1691) portrait n/a ; born in America - Thomas Brackett, Pioneer (1635 - 1676) portrait n/a. Portraits above from left to right: Lieutenant Joshua Brackett, Pioneer (1672 - 1749) oil portrait ca. 1725; Captain John Brackett, Esq. (1700 - 1759) oil portrait ca. 1750; George Brackett, Esq. Patriot (1737 - 1825) oil portrait ca. 1800; Thomas Brackett , Esq. (1773 - 1851) oil portrait ca. 1830; George E. Brackett, (1803 - 1859) tin type portrait ca. 1850; George Edwin Brackett (1830 - 1880) albumen print ca. 1875.

Decades before the famous Pilgrims landed at Massachusetts Bay in 1620, the great European explorers stepped upon the shore of a new world at the mouth of the Piscataqua River. Where the clear water of the Piscataqua joins the vastness of the great Atlantic Ocean much of the early history of America took place. Here, Piscataway Plantation was started and grew to become the first colonial Navy port. From the very beginning of those early times, the surname "Brackett" has been forever etched into American history. Brackett men, women, and children crossed the great depths of the Atlantic in tall ships to settle a vast hostile wilderness and form a new nation. These Brackett pioneers endured tremendous hardship to help transformed a wilderness into a center of provincial colonial power. That provincial power became the new world's pinnacle of commerce for European kings and lords.

Richly steeped in history, the Brackett family heritage has survive for 400 years in America and eight centuries in England.

The Brackett Family History & History's Time line:

Genghis Khan invaded China (1211),

Ralph Bracket appears in the Curia Regis Rolls for Cambridgeshire (1214),

King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta (1215),

Franciscan order was formally instituted (1221),

Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274),

First reference to the spinning wheel in Europe, at Speyer on the Rhine (1280),

Dante Aligheri (1265-1321), author of the Divine Comedy (1300),

Robert I Bruce became king of the Scots and led a Scottish revolt against England (1306),

Invention of the printing press (1443),

Spanish Inquisition authorized by Pope Sixtus IV (1478),

Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation (1517),

William Brackett recorded in Subsidy Rolls for Suffolk (1524),

First complete English Bible printed (1535),

Pope Paul III establishes the Jesuit order (1540),

Galileo (1564-1642),

William Brackett, Explorer (ca.1589 - 1660)

Oliver Cromwell, Cambridge (1599-1658),

Anthony Brackett, Explorer (ca.1600 - 1691)

Pilgrims land at Plymouth Massachusetts (1620)

John Locke (1632-1704),

Galileo tried in Rome for heresy on his view of the solar system (1633),

Thomas Brackett, Pioneer (1635 - 1676),

Joshua Brackett, Pioneer (1672 - 1749),

Captain John Brackett, Esq. (1700 - 1759),

George Brackett, Esq. Patriot (1737 - 1825),

Thomas Brackett , Esq. (1773 - 1851),

The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)

George E. Brackett, (1803 - 1859),

George Edwin Brackett (1830 - 1880).

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