Jacob Drake

Other Events:

• Reference Number: 4960
• Probate: 25 Sep 1689, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Notes:

from findagrave.com:

Birth: 1624
Devon, England
Death: Aug. 6, 1689
Windsor
Hartford County
Connecticut, USA

Sgt. Jacob Drake, s. of John Drake and Elizabeth Rogers, b. circa 1624 in England. He d. testate at Windsor, Conn. Aug. 6, 1689, his age at death not stated in any record known to the memorialist.

On Apr. 12, 1649 at Windsor, Conn., Jacob m. Mary Bissell, undoubtedly the eldest dau. of John Bissell, Sr. and his unnamed first wife, b. circa 1631 in England. She d. testate at Windsor Sept. 11, 1689, her age at death also not stated in any record known to the memorialist.

Jacob Drake and Mary Bissell had no children and both left wills by which they distributed property to their respective siblings or their sibling's children. Jacob's estate, abstracted by Manwaring citing Hartford Probate District vol. V, pp. 22-24, follows:

• Jacob Drake of Windsor. Inventory of £551-14-09 taken Sept. 25, 1689 by Daniel Clarke sen. and John Moore. Will dated Aug. 2, 1689.
• I give to Mary my wife the Use of all my Real and Personal Estate during her natural life, and at her death to dispose of £100 of my Personal Estate to whom she pleaseth.
• I give unto Nathaniel Gaylord's two Children, Hezekiah & Nathaniel, my Lott beyond Rocky Hill, about 26 acres; & unto Nathaniel Gaylord I give 2 acres of Land next adjoining to his Meadow Land on the South side.
• I give unto Jacob Drake, son of Job Drake, all my Houseing and Homested, with Land that was my Father Drake's and that which was purchased of Mr. Saint Niccolases [i.e., Nicholas'] Overseers.
• I give to John Elderkin the Lott over the Great River that is commonly called Fellows Lott, he paying his sister Bashua £10, and Abigail Due's 3 Children, Israel, Mary & Joseph, £10 apeice.
• I give to my Cousin John Gaylord, son of Sargt. Gaylord, a Lott on the East side of the River called Hoskins Lott, bounded North by John Birge, south by Land of Thomas Bissell.
• I give to my Brother Job Drake half the Lott that was my Father Drake's lying above Namerick, the other half I give to Nathaniel Gaylord.
• I give to Thomas Deble the Lott that I purchased of Prior, at the age of 21 years.
• I give to Joseph Elderkin 30 acres in the Great Meadow, bounded south by Nicholas Buckland, North by Abram Phelps.
• I give to Joseph Drake, son of John Drake, 2 acres of Land in the Great Meadow, South [by] Samuel Marshall's, North [by] Nathaniel Winchell's.
• I give to Nathaniel Gaylord 15 acres upon the Pine Meadow Playne, which I bought of Humphrey Pinney.
• I appoint my wife and Cousin Job Drake Jr. to be Administrators on the Estate, and desire my Brother Drake, Abraham Phelps, Nathaniel Gaylord, and my Cousin Job Drake to be Overseers............JACOB DRAKE.
Witness:
Abraham Phelps,
Job Drake sen.

• Court Record, Page 6--Nov. 11, 1689: Will Proven.
• Page 26--Mar. 5, 1690/1: A Report to this Court that the Estate will not hold out to pay all the debts and Legacies, the Court orders to first pay the debts and distribute to the Legatees (Pro Rata.)

Family links:
Parents:
John Drake (1585 - 1659)
Elizabeth Rogers Drake (1581 - 1681)

Spouse:
Mary Bissell Drake (1631 - 1689)

Burial:
Palisado Cemetery
Windsor
Hartford County
Connecticut, USA

Created by: Don Blauvelt
Record added: Apr 24, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 51556152

Birth:
estimated date

Buried:
Palisado Cemetery

Jacob married Mary Bissell on 12 Apr 1649. Mary (daughter of John Bissell and Unknown Unknown) was born in 1631 in England; died on 11 Sep 1689 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Sep 1689 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Reference Number: 5634

Notes:

Previous genealogies going back over 150 years have John Drake as the son of William Drake of Wiscombe Park, Devonshire. This Drake family is an off shoot of the prominent Sir Francis Drake family of Esher, Surrey. However, more recent evidence shows that this is probably not the case. Thus John Drake of Windsor currently has no known accepted parentage. Refer to TAG 63:193-206 and 65:87-88.

Finding three of the five children of John Drake in Hampton In Arden, Warwickshire with the same names as the Windsor John Drake Family lends support to the Windsor John Drake being from Hampton In Arden. We also find an entry in the Hampton In Arden record for an unnamed child of John Drake and no wife named, a female baptized 20 May 1632.

Listed on a list of original proprietors of Taunton that dates to 1638 or 1639. He is found in 1641 in Windsor, receiving an average size grant of 16 acres.

He may have arrived on one of the ships that left Weymouth, England in Apr 1637, as several of those families ended up in Taunton.

Recorded in the 1640 Town Records at Windsor in the list of "First Settlers of Windsor, five years after their removal from Dorchester." (NEHGR 5:365) [The list includes people who arrived after 1635, such as those who came with Huit in 1639]

On his death, town records of Windsor gave the following account: " August 17, 1659, John Drake, Senior dyed accidentaly, as he was driving a cart loaded with corn, to carry from his house to his son Jacob's the Cattle being two oxen and his mare, in the high way against John Griffin'ssomething scar'd the Cattle, and they set a running, and he labouring to stop them by taking hold on the mare, was thrown down on his face, and cart wheels went over him: brake one of his legs and bruised his body, so that he was taken up dead, being carried into his daughter's house and life come again, but dyed in a short time and was buried on the 18th day of August 1659." 53

There are pedigrees floating around linking him to the Drakes in Ashe, Devon (the family of the navigator Francis Drake). However, that family was of considerable prominence and wealth, which is not reflected in the social standing of this John. In addition, the wills of the family don't mention him, with the exception of that of Francis in 1634 (the source of the speculation in the first place). He is also not likely the John Drake who came with Winthrop's Fleet to Boston in 1630. That John is listed as one to be made a freeman in Oct 1630, but did not actually take the oath. Most of the other men of whom that was the case died or returned to England. Furthermore, there is no other record of John Drake until 1638. It would have been virtually impossible for a man with a family to avoid any mention for 8 years. (See articles in The American Genealogist for a more in depth explanation.)

Savage's: JOHN, Dorchester, or Boston, came in the fleet with Winthrop prob. as we find his req. 19 Oct. 1630 to be made freem. yet his adm. is not found, and he rem. from our col. perhaps as a purch. of Taunton 1639 [Baylies, I. 286], and not long after to Windsor, and there, by a cartwheel running over him, was k. 17 Aug. 1659, leav. s. Jacob and Job, bef. ment. and John, beside one, if not more, d. His wid. d. 7 Oct. 1681, but we may hesitate at the old ch. rec. story of her hundredth yr. yet agree to the main truth of her being call. "old wid. D."

Birth:
estimated date

Buried:
Palisado Cemetery

John married Elizabeth Rogers about 1624. Elizabeth was born in 1581; died on 7 Oct 1681; was buried in Oct 1681 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Elizabeth Drake
• Reference Number: 4952

Notes:

Birth:
reputed to be 100 years old, unconfirmed

Buried:
Palisado Cemetery

Notes:

Married:
based on death of 1st wife and birth of next child