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Susannah Taylor (Drake)

Also Known As: "widow Brackett"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Of , Rockingham,, Hampton, Rockingham County, NH, United States
Death: November 04, 1719 (60-61)
Falmouth, Cumberland, ME, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Abraham Drake and Jane Drake
Wife of Capt. Anthony Brackett, Jr. and John Taylor
Mother of James Brackett; Zipporah Towle; Zachariah Brackett; Jane Brackett; Ann E. Leavitt and 2 others
Sister of Abraham Drake, I; Sarah Libby; Mary Sanborn; Elizabeth Beadle and Robert Drake

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About Susannah Taylor

Susannah Drake was born to Abraham and Jane Drake about 1652 at Hampton, New Hampshire. She married first Captain Anthony Brackett. She married second John Taylor on October 30, 1700. She died November 14, 1719.[1]

Susannah (Drake) Brackett Taylor died 14 Nov 1719 in Hampton, New Hampshire, at age 66, widowed.[2]


Anthony of Back Cove, Casco Bay was killed by Indians in 1689. He and all of family captured at Falmouth by Indians 1676, and escaped after capture. Reference: Coleman's New England Captives Vol I page 211. His first wife was Ann Mitton - daughter of Michael - they had 5 children. His second wife, and mother of Zachariah was Susannah Drake, daughter of Abraham Drake.

Capt. Anthony, son of Anthony the Immigrant. Husband of 1st Ann Mitton and 2nd Susannah Drake. Source: Brackett Genealogy, H. I. Brackett, 1907, pps 60 thru 71. < Archive.Org >. The story of his life and death are found in pages referred in the Source.

By wife, Susannah Drake:

  • James, b February 7, 1679. (In Dow, not in Brackett)
  • 6. Zipporah, b. 28 Sept., 1680; d. 19 Aug., 1756; mar. 1 Apr., 169-, Caleb Towle, b. 14 May, 1678; d. 20 Sept., 1763; resided in Hampton. Children were : Philip, Elizabeth, Caleb, Anthony, Zach- ariah, Mathias, Jeremiah, Francis, Hannah, Nathaniel, Abraham, Samuel.
  • 7. Zachariah, b. 20 Jan., 1682. See chapter VI.
  • 8. Jane, b. 7 Feb., 1684. (In Brackett, not in Dow)
  • 9. Ann, b. 18 June, 1686; d. 10 Feb., 1748; mar. 20 Feb., 1 717, James Leavitt, b. 10 Nov., 1652; d. 13 Apr., 1760.
  • 10. Sarah, b. 16 Mar., 1688; mar. Samuel Proctor; he came to Falmouth about 17 13; was son of John and grandson of John, the immigrant, who lived in Salem, Mass., and there in 1692, lost his life in his efforts to abate prosecutions for witchcraft. She was a member of the church in Falmouth in 1736. Children were John, b. 1715; Benjamin, b. 17 1 7 ; Samuel, Jr., b. 1719; Sarah, b. 1723; mar. John Cox, son of John, and had Josiah, Mary, Kezia and Keren; William, b. 1724; Kezia, b. 1727; Kerenhappuck, b. 1729; mar. (1st) Joseph Hicks; (2nd) Anthony Brackett (see fam. 1, div. 15). (In Brackett, not in Dow)
  • 11. Susannah, b. 29 Aug., 1689 ; mar. 30 Jan., 17 18, Jasper Blake ; removed to Falmouth where she united with the First church in 1739

References

  • https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Drake-262 cites
  • Marriage with Brackett: New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Volume 1 page 186. Subscription Marriage with Taylor: New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Volume 3, page 1493. Subscription *Scales, John. Piscataqua Pioneers (C.F. Whitehouse, Dover, N.H., 1919) Page 43 Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2004)
  • Dow, Joseph History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire: From Its Settlement in 1638, to the Autumn of 1892, Volume 2, published 1894. Reference pages 689, 989 (Taylor)
  • "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSL8-Y5P : accessed 6 December 2015), Susannah Taylor, 14 Nov 1719; citing , Bureau Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,001,112.
  • History of the town of Hampton, New Hampshire, from its settlement in 1638 to the autumn of 1892 by Dow, Joseph, 1807-1889; Dow, Lucy Ellen, ed. Page 614. < Archive.Org >
  • Brackett Genealogy, H. I. Brackett, 1907, pps 60 thru 71. < Archive.Org >.
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Susannah Taylor's Timeline

1658
1658
Of , Rockingham,, Hampton, Rockingham County, NH, United States
1679
February 7, 1679
Hampton, NH, United States
1680
September 28, 1680
Falmouth, Plymouth Colony
1682
January 20, 1682
Sandy Beach, Springfield, Province of New Hampshire
1684
February 7, 1684
Falmouth, ME, United States
1686
June 18, 1686
Hampton, Province of New Hampshire
1688
March 16, 1688
Sandy Beach, Old Norfolk County, Massachusetts
1689
August 2, 1689
Sandy Beach, Springfield, NH, United States