John Drake

1585 - 1659  (74 years)

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• Name	John Drake  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Born	1585	England
  	estimated date
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	5634
  Died	17 Aug 1659  [6]
  Buried	18 Aug 1659	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
  	Palisado Cemetery
  Person ID	I5634	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Rogers,   b. 1581,   d. 7 Oct 1681  (Age 100 years)
  Married	Abt 1624
  	based on death of 1st wife and birth of next child
  Children	1. Joseph Drake,   b. Aft 1599,   d. 20 Nov 1634, Hampton In Arden, Warwickshire, England  (Age < 33 years)  [natural]   2. Jacob Drake,   b. 1624, England ,   d. Abt Aug 1689, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA  (Age 65 years)  [natural]   3. Mary Drake,   b. 1625, England ,   d. 12 Jun 1683, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA  (Age 58 years)  [natural] + 4. Elizabeth Drake,   b. 9 Jan 1624/25, Hampton In Arden, Warwickshire, England ,   d. 8 Jun 1716, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA  (Age 91 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F1492	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Lettice Shakespeare,   b. 1583,   d. 10 Nov 1623, Hampton In Arden, Warwickshire, England  (Age 40 years)
  Married	25 Jun 1615	Hampton In Arden, Warwickshire, England   [1]
  Married	Warwickshire, England   [1]
  Children	1. John Drake,   b. 25 Aug 1616, Hampton In Arden, Warwickshire, England ,   d. 7 Jul 1689, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA  (Age 72 years)  [natural] + 2. Job Drake,   b. 5 Mar 1619/20, Hampton In Arden, Warwickshire, England ,   d. Abt Sep 1689, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA  (Age 69 years)  [natural]   3. Enoch Drake,   b. 31 Mar 1622, Hampton In Arden, Warwickshire, England  [natural]
  Photos		Warwickshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 Warwickshire County Record Office; Warwick, England; Warwickshire Anglican Registers; Roll: Engl/2/1305; Document Reference: DR(B) 63
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F1493	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1585 - England Married - 25 Jun 1615 - Hampton In Arden, Warwickshire, England Buried - 18 Aug 1659 - Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Married - - Warwickshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Warwickshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 Warwickshire County Record Office; Warwick, England; Warwickshire Anglican Registers; Roll: Engl/2/1305; Document Reference: DR(B) 63
  		Warwickshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 Warwickshire County Record Office; Warwick, England; Warwickshire Anglican Registers; Roll: Engl/2/1305; Document Reference: DR(B) 63
  		Warwickshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 Warwickshire County Record Office; Warwick, England; Warwickshire Anglican Registers; Roll: Engl/2/1305; Document Reference: DR(B) 63
  		Warwickshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 Warwickshire County Record Office; Warwick, England; Warwickshire Anglican Registers; Roll: Engl/2/1305; Document Reference: DR(B) 63
  		Warwickshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 Warwickshire County Record Office; Warwick, England; Warwickshire Anglican Registers; Roll: Engl/2/1305; Document Reference: DR(B) 63

  
  

• 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."

  
  

• Sources

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