Benjamin Drake

1683 - 1763  (80 years)

• Name	Benjamin Drake  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	1683  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	22 Jun 1763	Hopewell Twp., Hunterdon, New Jersey   [4]
  Will	22 Jun 1763	Hunterdon Co., New Jersey   [4]
  	"Being aged." Wife, Hannah, all the goods she brought when I married her; also £50. Daughter, Rebecca, £40. Son, Zachariah, £40. Daughter, Hannah, £40. Grandson William Drake, the son of William Drake, £5. To Isaac Eaton, minister of Baptist Church of Hopewell, £2. Son, Edmond, my plantation where I live. Executors - my sons Edmond and Zachariah Drake.
  Died	23 Jun 1763 - 29 Aug 1763
  Probate	30 Aug 1763	Hunterdon Co., New Jersey   [4]
  	Will proved
  Probate	20 Sep 1763	Hunterdon Co., New Jersey   [4]
  	Estate inventoried, £231.19.11
  Person ID	I4014	Wm L Gann Ancestors
  Last Modified	3 Jun 2016

  
  

  Father	John Drake,   b. 6 Jul 1655, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire ,   d. 8 Apr 1740 -29 Sep 1741  (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Rebecca Trotter,   b. 5 Jul 1655
  Married	1677  [2, 5]
  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	Hannah
  Married	Bef 22 Jun 1763
  Last Modified	3 Jun 2016
  Family ID	F1826	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [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. 151 (Reliability: 2), 2 May 2016. [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. [S101] The Drake Family in England and America, 1630-1895, Louis Stoughton Drake, (Boston: Privately printed, 1896), 293 (Reliability: 1), 16 May 2016. [S99] New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Volume XXXIII, Abstracts of Wills, 1761-1770, p. 120 (Reliability: 2), 3 Jun 2016. [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.