Job Drake

Other Events:

• Name: Jeb Drake
• Reference Number: 4937
• Baptism: 5 Mar 1619/20, Hampton In Arden, Warwickshire, England
• Probate: 28 Oct 1689, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

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Birth:
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Buried:
Palisado Cemetery

Job married Mary Wolcott on 25 Jun 1646. Mary (daughter of Henry Wolcot) was born in 1622; died on 6 Sep 1689. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Abigail Drake was born in 1648; died in 1696.
2. Hester Drake was born about 1658.

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 Lettice Shakespeare on 25 Jun 1615 in Hampton In Arden, Warwickshire, England. Lettice was born in 1583; died on 10 Nov 1623 in Hampton In Arden, Warwickshire, England; was buried on 10 Nov 1623 in Hampton In Arden, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Lettes Shaxper
• Name: Lettice Drake
• Reference Number: 3734

Notes:

An unsourced IGI record reportedly shows a marriage date of 25 Jun 1616 in Arden, Warwick, England between John Drake and Lettice Shakespeare (Note: a reputed relative of William Shakespeare).As a possible confirmation of this, a record dated 25 Jun1615 has been found. The handwriting is very hard to read. It seems to say "John Drake & Lettes Srhaxper were married 25th day of June 1615" See attached marriage record.

Death record 6 Dec 1623 in Bradford, West Yorkshire "the wife of John Drake of London" would not seem to be the correct person, based on location. Although this is offered as the death record in certain online trees.


Died:
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