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Joseph Drake

Also Known As: ""Long Hunter""
Birthdate:
Death: August 1778 (39-48) (Killed by Native Americans)
Immediate Family:

Son of Col. Samuel Drake, I and Mary Drake
Husband of Margaret Belle "Peggy" Drake (Buchanan)
Father of John Drake
Brother of Rebecca Drake; Rachel Drake; Michael P. Drake; Mary Cox Crockett and Elizabeth Drake

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About Joseph "Long Hunter" Drake

In Daniel Boone's party to Kentucky in 1773. KBI at Boonesboro in 1778. Wife: Margaret Buchanan dau of Colonel John Buchanan; after his death, she married William Jones. Came from his father's home near Max Meadows by 1772, and probably before. Registered a tract of 326 acres on Carlock's Creek between Chilhowie to Saltville. Moved to a tract from Colonel John Buchanan, known as Hall's Bottom, South of the Bristol, in 1775. During the Cherokee War of 1776 . Moved to Kentucky in 1777. KBI’d near Boonesboro in August, 1778.

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Joseph "Long Hunter" Drake's Timeline

1734
1734
Birth of Joseph "Long Hunter" Drake
1775
1775
Birth of John Drake
Montgomery County, Virginia, United States
1778
August 1778
Age 44
Death of Joseph "Long Hunter" Drake
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