Hannah DRAKE

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• Fact: Daughter of John Drake, of Simsbury

Hannah married John HOYT about 1690 in Simsbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut. John (son of John HOYT and Mary LINDALL) was born on 21 Jun 1669 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died in Mar 1745/6 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary HOYT
2. Hannah HOYT
3. Eunice HOYT
4. John HOYT died about 1766.
5. Rebecca HOYT
6. David HOYT was born about 1710.
7. Hannah HOYT was born about 1700.
8. Deborah HOYT
9. Jonathan HOYT died about 1779.
10. Drake HOYT was born in 1717; died in Apr 1805 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

Notes:

"The Descendants of John Drake": John Drake had a grant of land at Hop Meadow, Simsbury, in 1667. Just when John Drake, Jr., took up his residence upon it we do not know, but the Committee empowered to lay out the land in Massaco (Simsbury) voted in 1668 that if the "oweners" of lots were not resident upon them by September next, the lots would be forfeited. (Barber's History of Simsbury, p. 36). John Drake's barn was near the site of the present Congregational Church and his name was given to a small stream known as Drake's Brook and to a hill.
John Drake was buried in the old burying ground at Simsbury; his tombstone is still standing. It give the year o death as 1688, a year earlier than the Town records. the probating of the estate in 1689 would agree with the Town records.

John married Mary WATSON on 20 Mar 1671 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Mary was born on 11 Jan 1651; died on 07 Aug 1693 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Robert and Mary (Rockwell) Watson