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Personal data John Drake 

• He was born about 1600 in England.Source 2
• He died on August 17, 1659 in Windsor, CT.Source 1
• A child of William Drake
• This information was last updated on November 23, 2014.

Household of John Drake

He is married to Elizabeth Rogers.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Job Drake  
2. John Drake  ????-1688 
3. Jacob Drake  
4. Mary Drake  
5. Elizabeth Drake  

Notes about John Drake

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

DRAKE
(IX) John (7), son of William Drake, was born at Wiscomb, about 1600. He was the immigrant ancestor and came to Boston in 1630. He bought land at Taunton, Massachusetts, but did not settle there. He settled in Windsor, Connecticut, before 1639. In August 17, 1659, "John Drake Sr., dyed accidentally as he was driving a cart loaded with corn to carry from his house to his son Jacob's; the cattle being 2 oxen, and his mare. In the highway against John Griffin's, something scared the cattle, and they set a running, and he laboring to stop them by taking hold on the mare, was thrown down on his face, and the cartwheel went over him, broke one of his legs, and bruised his bodye so that he was taken up dead, being carried to his daughter's house, had life come again, but dyed in a short time, and was buried on the 18th of August, 1659." He married Elizabeth Rogers, who was admitted a member of the Windsor church, February 23, 1639, and died October 7, 1681, aged one hundred years.
Children:
Job;
John (8), of whom further;
Jacob;
Mary;
Elizabeth.

The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Volume 1
G.W. Ball
pg 118

John Higley came from England, and was an early settler at Windsor, Conn. Representative, judge of county court. He married November 9, 1671, Hannah Drake.

John Drake, with his wife Elizabeth, came from England in the fleet with Winthrop in 1629. Removed to Windsor, Conn., where he was accidentally killed August 17, 1659. Mrs. Elizabeth Drake died October 7, 1681.

Second Generation, John Drake, born in England, married November 30, 1648, Hannah Moore, born in England, daughter of John Moore, a deacon of the church, gathered in England, who came to Dorchester, Mass., May 30, 1630; removed to Windsor in 1635, and died April 18, 1677. John Drake died 1680. She died February 15, 1686.

Third Generation, Hannah Drake, born August 8, 1653, married November 9, 1671, John Higley.

Second and Fourth Generations, Brewster Higley, born 1681, married Elizabeth Holcomb.

Thomas Holcomb came from England to Dorchester, Mass., in 1633. He removed with Rev. John Warham to Windsor, Conn., in 1635-36, and died September 7, 1657.

Second Generation, Joshna Holcomb, born September 27, 1640, married January 4, 1663, Ruth Sherwood, daughter probably of Thomas Sherwood, from England, in the ship "Francis," with his wife Alice, to Dorchester, Mass., in 1634. Joshua Holcomb removed to Simsbury, Conn., and died December 1, 1690.

Third Generation, Elizabeth Holcomb, born about 1686, married Brewster Higley.

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