Job DRAKE

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"The Descendants of John Drake": Job Drake served on the Jury of the Particular Court, Oct. 1655, and for six sessions after that. he was constable in the town of Windsor in 1652. Was fence viewer south side of the river 1655. Was chosen to perambulate the Hartford line in 1656, and was appointed to take a list of the town in 1658. In the year 1661 he with others was chosen to see about timber cut on the common land by Hartford men.
In 1664 Job Drake having become involved in a Church controversy at Windsor was imprisoned through the illegal action of the Church members which was permitted by Mr. Warham, if we can accept his own idea of it. Job Drake sent a letter to Gov. John Winthrop telling of his treatment by the Church and ended with the hope that, "If it pease god for toe Incline youre harts for to Consider of my afflicted condition: And how things were transacted you may possebelly ssee causse ffor toe relieue mee
Youre humble suplycantt
Job Drake."

Job married Mary WOLCOTT on 25 Jun 1646 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Mary (daughter of Henry WOLCOTT, Sr. and Elizabeth SAUNDERS) died on 16 Sep 1689 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"The Descendants of John Drake of Windsor, Connecticut":

The will of Francis Drake of Esher, County Surrey, England, dated 1633, has this bequest: "And unto John Drake my Cozen William Drake's sonne twenty punde to be sent unto him into New England in Comodityes such as my Executor shall thinke fitt" (43 Seager). Mr. henry Waters in his notes upon this will expresses the belief that this refers to John Drake of Windsor, Conn. Vivian in his "Visitations of Devon" makes the same assertion. With two such eminent authorities to support us we may trace the roots of the Drake family tree on English sol back to John of Ashe or even farther if our interest and time permits.

Just when John Drake arrived in New England we do not know, but we find his name on a list of those to be made freemen Oct. 19, 1630 (Boston Record Commissioner's Report, Vol. 29, p. 133). For some reason his name does not appear upon any list made in Boston and of his activities during the next few years we know little. In 1637 John Drake's name appears among the forty-six purchasers of Taunton, but his sojourn there must have been very brief for in Matthew Grant's Record of the Church at Windsor, Conn., we find this entry, "Womin admited here - "ould wido Drake. feb. 23. 1639." Just why John Drake's wife (if it was she) should have been called an "ould wido" twenty years before she really became one, is difficult to understand. It is somewhat at variance with the record of her death Oct. 7, 1681, "hir 100 yer of age have liued a wido 22 y()." This record also might tax one's credulity. We gain from Matthew Grant the fact that the Drakes were in Windsor early in the year 1639. John Drake was granted fourteen acres, an homelot with meadow adjoining fro the plantation at Windsor, Conn., Jan. 26, 1640.

"Aug. 17, 1659. John Drake Senior dyed accidentaly, 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 high way against John Griffin's Something Scar'd the Cattle, and they Set a runing, and he Labouring to Stop them, by takeing hold on the mare, was thrown down on his face, and the Cart Wheele went over him: brake one of his Legs and bruised his body, so that he was taken up Dead, being carried into his Daughters house had Life come again, but Dyed in a Short time and was buried on the 18th day of August '59."

John married Elizabeth ?. Elizabeth was born in England; died on 07 Oct 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]