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James Travis 1645
The children of James and Mercy Travis were as follows
| Order | Name | Birth | Notes |
| James Travis | Apr. 28, 1645 @ Newbury, MA. | Married Mercy Pearce on Apr. 8, 1667 @ Gloucester, MA. | |
| wife | Mercy Pearce Travis | Sept 1650 @ Gloucester, MA. | Daughter of John and Elizabeth Pearce |
| 1 | Elizabeth Travis | Feb. 8, 1667/8 @ Gloucester | Married Nathaniel Haven of Lynn. He was born at Lynn on June 30, 1664. They had 8 children born between April 7, 1690 and September 8, 1704. She died before 1734. |
| 2 | Mercy or Mary | abt. 1670 @ Brookfield | Married Benjamin Whitney of Sherborn on October 24, 1700. He held the rank of cornet in the cavalry. He died at Sherborn on August 29, 1718, aged 40, and she married Thomas Frink, son of Rev. Thomas at Sudbury on July 16, 1719. He died on November 14, 1739, and she was married a third time to Nathaniel Smith of Sudbury. She was still living on Aug. 21, 1734, when she acknowledged a deed (18, 19, 20). |
| 3 | James Travis, Jr. | Bef. 1675 @ Brookfield | Married Mercy Leland of Sherborn, in 1699, she died before 1716. He settled in Framingham before its incorporation on June 25, 1700. He died there before 1734. His children, all born at Framingham, were: Joseph, born December 3, 1700; James, born April 12, 1703; Mercy, born Jan. 26, 1705/6; and John, born Aug. 16, 1710. |
On June 22, 1717, there appears in the Proprietor's Book for Brookfield, a letter addressed to the committee for Brookfield and concerned with "a 30 acre grant of upland, and 15 of meadow," formerly owned by James Travis, Sr. The letter requested an equivalent grant of land in lieu of their "ancient right" which had then been allotted to someone else. The letter is signed "Benjamin Whitney: one of the Heirs and at the Request of the other Heirs ye sd. James Travis." The committee agreed with the contention of the heirs as to the amount of land held by their father and allowed them a grant to compensate for their loss. This last was signed on July 5, 1717 by Samuel Partridge, Ebenezer Pomeroy, Samuel Porter, Committee for Brookfield. On November 17, 1717, 60 acres of upland were laid out "near Brookfield sawmill."
On August 21, 1734, Mary (Travis) (Whitney) Frink, only surviving child of James Travis, Sr., conveyed by deed "all the land of which James Travis, formerly of Brookfield, died seized of, and all the allotments and town rights," to Captain Thomas Barnes of Brookfield, for the sum of 15 pounds.