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Abraham Drake

Male 1685 - 1763  (~ 78 years)


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  • Name Abraham Drake  [1, 2, 3
    Born Apr 1685  [3
    Gender Male 
    Will 28 Jul 1759  Morris Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Grandsons, Abraham and Jacob, sons of my son Abraham, all my lands and grist mill; and they are to pay to my eldest son, Nathaniel, 20 shillings, and to my son, Jacob, 10 shillings, and to my son, Elisha, £40. Executors - my said grandsons 
    Died 29 Jul 1759 - 5 May 1763 
    Probate 6 May 1763  Morris Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Will proved 
    Notes 
    • Said to have married a Deliverance Wooden in Piscataway in 1704
    Person ID I4016  Wm L Gann Ancestors
    Last Modified 6 Jun 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  [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

  • Sources 
    1. [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.

    2. [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.

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

    4. [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), 6 Jun 2016.

    5. [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.