Elizabeth Drake

Other Events:

• Baptism: Warwickshire, England
• Reference Number: 4970
• Baptism: 9 Jan 1624, Hampton In Arden, Warwickshire, England

Notes:

Birth:
baptism date

Elizabeth married William Gaylord on 9 Feb 1653/54. William (son of William Gaylord and Unknown Unknown) was born on 28 Dec 1617 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; died on 14 Dec 1656. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Josiah Gaylord was born on 13 Feb 1654 in Connecticut, USA; died on 24 Jan 1726/27 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA.
2. Nathaniel Gaylord was born on 3 Sep 1656 in Connecticut, USA; died on 26 Apr 1720.

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