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3. JACOB (4) DRAKE, of the tenth generation, married, April 12,
1649, Mary Bissell. They had no children.
LIEUT. JOB (27), son of Job of the tenth generation, married
widow Elizabeth Cook (daughter of Hon. Daniel Clarke), September 13,
1677. He died November 9, 1 71 1, in his sixtieth year ; she died December
32 22, 1729, aged seventy-eight. His children were: Job}"^ born January 26,
33' 34 1678; Mary}''- born April 29, 1680; Jacob}''' born January 29, 1683;
35 Sarah, 12 born May 10, 1686, who married Gov. Roger Wolcott, December
36 3, 1702; Job}''' born in 1705.'
John Drake the emigrant is believed to have been the "John Drake,
my cozen William Drake's sonne," to whom Francis Drake Esq. of Esher,
CO. Surrey (of the family of Drakes of Ashe in Devonshire), in his Will,
dated March 13, 1633, and proved May 7, 1634, gave ^20., ''to be sent
vnto him into New England, in comodityes such as my Executor shall
thincke fitt."^
" The family of Drake," says Dr. Stiles in his " History of Ancient
Windsor," "has been distinguished in England from the earliest ages, by
a long array of noble men—soldiers, navigators, clergymen, martyrs and
authors. ... It is sufficient for our purpose to say that, among the
.many noble families of the name in Great Britain, the family who held
their seat at Ashe were ever prominent, and from them it is supposed
that the Drakes of New England were descended."^ Henry FitzGilbert
Waters Esq., in a private letter to the writer (April 22, 1887), says of the
John Drake referred to in the Will of Francis of Esher: "who could it
be but your ancestor ?"
' These particulars respecting the sons, grandchildren and great grandchildren of the emigrant
John Drake are taken from The History of Anc. Windsor. ... By Henry R. Stiles. . . . New
York, 1859, pp. 583-84. The generation-numbers accord with the descent of the emigrant John Drake
as set forth later in this paper.
' A full abstract of this Will has been given to us by Henry FitzGilbert Waters Esq.
^ Stiles's Anc. Windsor, ut supra, p. 583.
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