John DRAKE

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"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]

1. Mary DRAKE was born on 21 May 1674 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
2. Hannah DRAKE was born about 1678 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died after 1745.
3. John DRAKE was born on 12 Aug 1688 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died between 08 Feb 1724 and 1725 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

John married Hannah MOORE on 30 Nov 1648 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Deacon John MOORE and Abigail UNKNOWN) died on 16 Feb 1686 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of John Moore

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"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]

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He came as a Deacon of the Dorchester church in 1630, (History of Dorchester, p. 68), probably in the "Mary and John." He with Thomas Moore, Rev. John Warham, Roger Williams, Ralph Mousall, and others were made Freemen of Massachusetts, May 18, 1631. He went with Warham to Windsor in 1635 or 6. He has been confused with what seems to have been another John Moore, whose name appears on the Dorchester Records in 1638; he was one of the chief men at Windsor; was on the jury of the Particular Court in October, 1642; Representative at the May session of 1661 and many times after; "Ordayned Deacon Janu 11, 1651," (O.C.R.) and was an excellent and esteemed citizen. At a session of the General Court, held March 13, 1661/2, he and "Scery Daniel Clark" were granted 400 acres to be divided between them. He dealt largely in real estate; farmed; manufactured pike heads and built a ferry about 1671; was a contributor to the Connecticut fund for the relief of the poor in other colonies.

The will of Deacon John Moore shows that he left four daughters and a son John, but as Thomas and Elizabeth Moore are recorded on the Dorchester Records as "children" baptized apparently at the same tie and as Elizabeth is known to have been the daughter of Deacon John Moore, it seem as if Thomas must have been a son of his. (Records of First Ch., Dorchester, p. 149.) Stiles says the wife of John Moore was Abigail and that he married her June 16, 1639, but in the record of John Moore's family in the Old Windsor Church record, we find: Abigail Moore Feb. 14, 1639. then follows: Mindwell, dau. of John Moore, b. 10July 1643. The original looks as if Abigail was interlined after Mindwell had been written. The records says nothing about marriage or wife and the Abigail here recorded was evidently the first child. b. 14 Feb. 1639/40. She was the first child born in Windsor.

John married Abigail UNKNOWN on 16 Jun 1639. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"William Henry Moore Genealogy": Thomas Moore was first at Dorchester, Massachusetts, possibly as early as 1630. Savage places him (as well as his son,, John Moore, whom Savage thought was his brother) as a passenger on the "Mary and John", which sailed from Plymouth, England, on March 20, 1630, part of the "Winthrop Fleet", and carried one hundred and forty passengers, the original settlers of Dorchester. Banks does not give Thomas Moore as a passenger on this vessel but he may have lost sight of him as Moore soon left Dorchester. John Moore is mentioned by Banks as one of the passengers on the "Mary and John". Certainly Thomas Moore was in Dorchester as early as may 18, 1631, when he was made a freeman. Thomas and John Moore witnessed the will of John Russell of Dorchester on August 26th, 1633. Possibly the Thomas and Elizabeth Moore who were recorded among the children baptized at Dorchester abut 1636, their parents being members of the church of Windsor or Hingham, Massachusetts, were the children of Thomas Moore.
About 1635 or 1636 Thomas Moore removed to Windsor, Connecticut, being one of the founders of that town. He remained there until his death in 1645. He is not known to have been related to Andrew Moore of Windsor.

Thomas married ? UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]