unknown Drake

Not the same as of John Drake, of Windsor

This database speculates he was the same as John Drake, of the Mass Bay Colony and that Samuel Drake, of Eastchester was his son

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John Drake, in reference to the March 13, 1633, Bequest in the will of Francis Drake of Esher, Surrey to John Drake, my Cozen, William Drake's sonne, twenty pounds to be sent unto him into New England [Waters 580-81], a October 18, 1630 application for freemanship in New England, and a May 26, 1631 note of John Reading of the Inner Temple, London, to John Winthrop, writing about the will of Isaac Johnson: "You write you have sent it over, John Drake sayth he copied it to that purpose, bur note can be heard of". This John Drake was most certainly the son of William Drake of Wiscombe Park, Devonshire, a junior line of the prominent Drakes of Ashe of the same county. The letter of John Reading shows that a John Drake had recently been in New England, at or shortly after the death of Isaac Johnson (September 1630); this John Drake, then would have been in New England at the time of requesting freemanship in October 1630, but gone by the time the first group of freemen were admitted in May 1631. Presumably he returned on the Lyon in March 1630/1. He may have returned to New England shortly thereafter, or Francis Drake may simply have lost track of his cousin at this time. In any case, he is not the John Drake who appears briefly in Taunton, Plymouth Colony, Late in the 1630's, moves to Windsor, Connecticut, and dies there in 1659. Douglas Richardson discovered that John Drake of Windsor derived from Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire [Frederick L. Weis, Ancestral Roots ?, 7th edition (Baltimore, 1992, p. 197]. History of Ancient Windsor, Vol. II,, The Drake Family, p. 177 - 189.