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Hij is getrouwd met Christiana Billett.

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Notities over John Drake

New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: Volume 2
William Richard Cutter
Pg 1093-1094

DRAKE
Before the Norman Conquest in 1066, the Drake family was established in county Devon, England, and in the Domesday Book six places are mentioned as being owned by persons of that name. The name is said to have come from a family named Draco or Drago, which took possession of the old Roman encampment in what is now Musbury, county Devon, soon after the conquest of Wessex by the Saxons. The name signifies "a leader." The coat-of-arms is: A wivern displayed. Crest: Dexted an arm erect proper, holding a battleaxe sable, headed argent. Motto:Aquila nor; capiat muscas. The home of the family at Musbury came to be known as Mount Drake, where there was a fortified house before the erection of Ashe, the ancient seat of the family. This came into the Prake family through the marriage of the first John Drake, and remained in their possession about four hundred years. Ashe House, part of the old original house and chapel still existing, is the property of an Axmmster grocer, and the estate of Mount Drake is owned by the Rev. John Vaughan Payne, Lord of the Manor of Musbury.

(I) John Drake, Esq., of Mount Drake and Exmouth, county Devon, "a man of great estate," married in the time of Henry V. (1413-22), Christiana, daughter and heiress of John Billett, of Ashe. He was engaged in shipping in Exmouth, and his son and grandson succeeded him in the trade.

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