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The father of Sergeant Job^*' Drake, who married Mary Wolcott,
was the emigrant JOHN^ DRAKE, believed, by Mr. Savage, and
other antiquaries, to have come in the fleet with Winthrop. In October
1636 he requested to be made a freeman of Boston, Mass. He was of
Windsor in 1635, and was a purchaser of land at Taunton, Mass., in 1639.
His wife was Elizabeth Rodgers, as we learn from a manuscript statement,
dated in 1731, by his great grandson Dr. Matthew Rockwell, a physician
and clergyman. He was evidently a man of substance ; his family took
rank, and intermarried, with the best of the Windsor settlers ; his sons left
estates large for the period.
John Drake Sen., according to an old Windsor record, was killed,
August 17, 1659, by his oxen taking fright and running away; he trying
to take hold of the leader, a mare, was thrown down, and the cart wheel
went over him. " He was taken up for dead, being carried into his
daughter's house had life come again, but dyed in a short time, and was
buried on the 18"' of Aug. 1659." The Windsor church-record states that
his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Drake, "died Oct. 7, 1681 at 100"' y'' of age,
having lived a widow 22 years." After the death of her husband she lived
with her son Jacob.
Most, if not all, of the children of John Drake and his wife were
born in England. Savage says there were three sons : Job, John and Jacob,
and one or more daughters. His Will now in the office of the Secretary of
State at Hartford, Conn., shows that he had four sons, in the followinaf
order : John^^
(a document filed in Hartford says he was born in 1612), Job
(i), Jacob'^^ and Timothy}'^ and two daughters, Mary'^'^ and Elizabeth}-'^
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