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Sarah Drake

Female 1686 - 1749  (63 years)


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  • Name Sarah Drake  [1, 2
    Born 1686  [1, 3
    Gender Female 
    Will 2 May 1749  Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Children Joseph and Trustrum Hull, Anne (wife of John Skilinan), Elizabeth (wife of John Clawson), Eunice (wife of Phineas Dunn). Grandsons Moses (son of Moses FitzRandolph), Benjamin (son of Jeremiah Dunn), Meshack (son of Benjamin Hull), Benjamin (son of Jacob Hull). Granddaughter Zerviah (daughter of Mulford Martin). Executor, son-in-law Jeremiah Dunn.  
    • Most likely the "son-in-law" Jeremiah Dunn was what today would be called a "step-son" resulting from her second marriage
    Died 3 May 1749 - 18 May 1749 
    Person ID I1983  Wm L Gann Ancestors
    Last Modified 16 May 2016 

    Father John Drake,   b. 6 Jul 1655, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Apr 1740 -29 Sep 1741  (Age 86 years) 
    Mother Rebecca Trotter,   b. 5 Jul 1655 
    Married 1677  [5, 6
    Notes 
    • Order of children is speculative at best; it is even likely that some were born to later wives than Rebecca Trotter
    Family ID F902  Group Sheet

    Family 1 Benjamin Hull,   b. 1680, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Jun 1731 - 3 Jan 1733, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years)  [3
    Married 1704  [3
    Notes 
    • Birth order of children shown here is likely not quite correct; it is given as in the source
    Children 
     1. Rachel Hull,   b. 30 Apr 1705
     2. Joseph Hull,   b. Abt 1706, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1 Sep 1768, Sussex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 62 years)
     3. Benjamin Hull,   b. Abt 1708, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Jan 1747/8 - 15 Feb 1747/8, Peapack, Somerset, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 40 years)
     4. Trustrum Hull,   d. Aft 2 May 1749
     5. Jacob Hull,   d. Bef 8 Feb 1747/8
     6. Reuben Hull,   d. Aft 8 Jun 1731
     7. Meshach Hull,   d. Aft 8 Jun 1731
     8. Anne Hull,   d. Aft 2 May 1749
     9. Elizabeth Hull,   d. Aft 2 May 1749
     10. Zeruah Hull
     11. Eunice Hull,   b. 9 Apr 1722,   d. Aft 2 May 1749  (Age 27 years)
    Last Modified 11 Apr 2016 
    Family ID F871  Group Sheet

    Family 2 Folsom,   d. Bef 2 May 1749 
    Married 3 Jan 1732/3 - 8 Apr 1740 
    • We assume she was married after her first husband's death and we know she was married before her father's will was written
    Last Modified 2 May 2016 
    Family ID F1815  Group Sheet

  • Sources 
    1. [S101] The Drake Family in England and America, 1630-1895, Louis Stoughton Drake, (Boston: Privately printed, 1896), 293 (Reliability: 1), 16 May 2016.

    2. [S26855] The Hull Family in America, Col. Charles H. Weygant, (The Hull Family Association), 266 (Reliability: 1), 10 Jul 2009.
      Benjamin Hull...was married in 1704 to Sarah Drake

    3. [S26855] The Hull Family in America, Col. Charles H. Weygant, (The Hull Family Association), 266 (Reliability: 1), 10 Jul 2009.

    4. [S99] New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Volume XXX, Abstracts of Wills, 1730-1750, p. 180 (Reliability: 2), 11 Apr 2016.

    5. [S100] History of the First Baptist Church of Piscataway, Geo. Drake, P. A. Runyon, W. H. Stelle, (New York: Pakenham & Dowling, 1889), 112 (Reliability: 1), 2 May 2016.

    6. [S26855] The Hull Family in America, Col. Charles H. Weygant, (The Hull Family Association), 266 (Reliability: 1), 10 Jul 2009.
      59. Ensign Benjamin Hull...was married in 1704 to Sarah Drake, 1686-17--, daughter of Rev. John Drake and his wife Rebecca Trotter, who was the daughter of William Trotter and his wife Catherine Gibbs.