[1] His name is listed among those in a company from Roxbury that responded to the Lexington Alarm at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.

He later served in the Roxbury Company as a clerk[1] In 1778, Tracy graduated from Yale University, his contemporaries including Noah Webster.

Tracy had five children with Susannah Bull; Sally, Susan, Julia, George and Caroline.

Tracy died in Washington, D.C on July 19, 1807 at the age of 52, of a long illness which caused dropsy.

He was buried at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.[7] On October 25, 1807, Chauncey Goodrich was elected by the Connecticut General Assembly to serve the remaining portion of Tracy's term.