The following is a quote from Info Source 2:

In 1728 at the rebuilding of Lathrop’s bridge on the Shetucket, connecting Newent and Norwich, which had been destroyed in the freshet of 1727, a part of the frame-work gave way, and one hundred feet of the bridge, and forty men were precipitated into the water. The water was low, and they were thrown upon the rocks, and among those most seriously injured, was Mr. Daniel Tracy, who died the following day.

The pamphlet, giving an account of the accident, says that “Mr. Tracy was not a person concerned in the affair, only as he was a benefactor to it, and went out that day to carry the people some provision, and happened to be on the bridge at that juncture of danger : a man that had always been noted for an uncommon care to keep himself and others out of probable danger, and yet now himself insensibly falls into a fatal one. 

And very remarkable is it, that to keep his son at home this day, and so out of danger by that occasion, he chooseth to go himself” (of his meare good pleasure, we suppose), “on the fore-named errand, and is taken in the snare which he thought more probable to his son.” This son was then a married man, forty years of age; and Daniel Tracy was seventy-six. His foot-stone in the cemetery reads : “This worthy in a good old age died by a fall from a bridge.”