Individual Details

Job Drake

(1623 - September 16, 1689)

Job Drake was b. in Devon, England 1622/23. On June 25, 1646 he married Mary Wolcott in Connecticut. Both Job and Mary probably arrived in Boston in 1630, on the same boat and then conencted again 16 years later. they lived in Windsor, CT and

Events

Birth1623Devon, England
Arrival1630on the Mary and John - Boston, British America
MarriageJune 25, 1646Connecticut, British America - Mary Wolcott
WillSeptember 14, 1689Windsor, British America
DeathSeptember 16, 1689Windsor, British America
ProbateOctober 28, 1689Hartford, British America
BurialPalisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Families

SpouseMary Wolcott (1622 - 1689)
ChildAbigail Drake (1648 - 1696)
FatherJohn Drake (1585 - 1659)
MotherElizabeth Unknown Drake (1590 - 1681)
SiblingElizabeth Drake (1624 - 1716)
FatherJohn Drake (1585 - 1659)
MotherLettice Shakespeare (1583 - 1623)

Notes

Will

Job gives grandson Joseph Dewey money and grandson Israel Dewey 2 young steers and a chest marked E.D. The remainder of the estate is divided between children Job, Abigail, Elizabeth and Esther. Job is the executor.

Death

Mary Wolcott and husband Job Drake may have died on the very same day,

Probate

Job's probate included a will and inventory, mentioned his children, grandchildren and son Job was the executor with John Mooore and Thomas Griswold as a supervisors.

Endnotes

1. C. Edward Banks , The Planters of the Commonwealth: a study of the emigrants and emigration in colonial times; to which are added lists of passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony, the ships which brought them, their English homes, and the places of their settlement in Massachusetts, 1620-1640 (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1975), Page 87 Mary and John sailed from Plymouth England …the Drake family.

2. (2008). || Volume 1 page 473.

3. (1847) || Volume 163 page 285.

4. (1995). || Great Migration Begins, Volume 3 P-W, page 2051.

5. Ancestry.com, Record $ Connecticut Wills and Probate Records 1609-1999 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2015), Early to 1880, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut.

6. (1904–6). || Volume 1 Page 438.

8. Ancestry.com, Record $ Connecticut Wills and Probate Records 1609-1999 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2015), Early to 1880, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut.

9. (1904–6). || Volume 1 Page 438.

10. , "FindAGrave.com," online database, Find a Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed ), .