Francis Drake

1679 - 1733  (53 years)

• Name	Francis Drake  [1, 2]
  Born	23 Dec 1679  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Will	1 Apr 1733	Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey   [3]
  	Wife, Patience. Children - Rachel Runion, Martha, Betty, Francis, Benjamin, James, Henry, and Joseph (all minors). Grandson, Ephraim Drake. Real and personal estate. Executors - brother-in-law, Joseph FitzRandolph, kinsmen Edmund Dunham, Jun'r, and Moses Martin.
  Died	2 Apr 1733 - 25 Apr 1733
  Probate	26 Apr 1733	Middlesex Co., New Jersey   [3]
  	Estate inventory, £48.3.2.
  Probate	27 Apr 1733	Middlesex Co., New Jersey
  	Will proved.
  Person ID	I4021	Wm L Gann Ancestors
  Last Modified	26 May 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  [1, 4]
  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	Patience Walker,   d. Aft 11 Sep 1749
  Married	10 Nov 1698	Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey   [2, 5]
  Notes	"11 children." [2]
  Last Modified	26 May 2016
  Family ID	F1821	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [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 XXX, Abstracts of Wills, 1730-1750, p. 151 (Reliability: 2), 26 May 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. [S102] American Marriages Before 1699, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997) (Reliability: 1), 26 May 2016.