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Personal data William Drake 

• He was born on May 30, 1661 in Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay.
• He died after September 15, 1727 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay.
• A child of Thomas Drake and Jane Holbrook

Household of William Drake

He is married to Sarah Nash.

They got married in the year 1689 at Weymouth, MA, he was 27 years old.

Notes about William Drake

== Biography ==
William Drake was born 30 May 1661 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He was the son of Thomas Drake and Jane Holbrook."Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F45T-2R7 : 9 February 2018), William Drake, 30 May 1661; citing Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, pg 58; FHL microfilm 2,031,513.
William married Sarah Nash. Children, Sarah through James recorded at Weymouth:
* Sarah b. 1 May 1687
* Abigail b. 4 April 1689
* James b. 7 March 1691
* William b. 20 July 1695
* Lydia b. 5 January 1698/9
* Joseph b. 18 March 1702
* James b. 25 November 1704
* Rebecca
* Daniel
* Benjamin
* Sarah
William Drake was a member of Capt. Hunt's Weymouth Co on the Canadian expedition in 1690. Source as noted below re his will.
Sold land in Weymouth 20 May 1708. Had ten children. Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 for William Drake Colonial Families of the United States of America, Volume I - Drake Family https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61175/colonialfamiliesi-000356_137/2576
The will of William Drake of Taunton, husbandman, was dated 15 September 1727 and was proved 20 February 1727/8.Bristol Co., Mass., probates vol. 6 [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9Y5-893S-Z?cat=277787 pages 88–9] It mentions:
* wife Sary
* youngest son Benjamin
* eldest son William
* sons Joseph, James, and Daniel
* daughters Abigail, Rebecah, Lydia, and SarahThe will stated that daughter Sarah was to live with her mother until she reaches age eighteen.

== Research Notes ==
Louis Stoughton Drake in ''The Drake Family in England and America'' lists only eldest daughter Sarah. But William's explicit statement in his 1727 will that his daughter Sarah would live with her mother until age eighteen proves that there was a second daughter named Sarah, probably the youngest. A more general observation: assuming that when names were repeated that the elder child had died young, it appears that in his will he named the sons in birth order and the daughters separately in birth order, except for switching Rebecca and Lydia.

== Sources ==

* WFT Vol. 1 Tree # 3162 dated June 23, 1995.
* Drake, Louis Stoughton. ''The Drake Family in England and America, 1390-1895,'' p. 12. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Drake_Family_in_England_and_America/kcKvgKIoRfIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Sarah%20Nash%22]

== Acknowledgements ==* This person was created through the import of PittsPenn_2010-09-21.ged on 22 September 2010 by [[Pitts-33|MG Pitts]].
* [[Ackerman-258 | Paul Ackerman]]. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Paul and others.

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