Hello Pam, Your research sounds interesting to me. Maybe I can ask a few questions and we can discuss the Drake name a bit. I have heard that there were 2 Drake lines in particular, one was DUTCH , and one was ENGLISH. You say that your dna project has matched your line to Capt. Francis Drake. Was he Dutch or English? I have heard some researchers tell me they are related to SIR Francis Drake. Do they refer to this Capt. Francis Drake? Or to some other man in history? As I recall, Sir Francis Drake was a sailing Captain, or Navigator, and he was English. Have I got this correct? The DUTCH Drake family line was began by Josias Janse De Raet, his descendants used the name DRAKE. This Josias married Aeltje, the daughter of the immigrant Adam Brouwer b. 1620. I research the descendants of Adam Brouwer, which is why I would be interested in the DRAKE name, since all the Dutch Drake names would be Brouwer as well. Not too long ago, and found that my own personal ancestor was Sarah Drake, said to be daughter of John Drake and Sarah Trotten, of Dutchess Co NY. Sarah married Nicholas Brouwer/Brewer of Dutchess Co NY, as his second wife. When he died in 1779, she married in 1780 to Stephen Callow of Dutchess Co NY. Sarah Drake was having children in the 1770 time frame, and her last was about 1778, she died about 1798. I do not have an exact birth date for her, but I estimate about 1740's time period. I have never been able to find any info on her father John Drake, married to a Sarah Trotten. I would like to work on this couple. This DRake line could be Dutch or English,I have no idea. I would like to hear your comments. Best regards, LIlly Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Drake" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:31 PM Subject: [NJ] DRAKE Descendants > > According to the DRAKE DNA Project my line of > DRAKE's > is connected to Captain Francis DRAKE who moved to > NJ. from NH. in the 1600's. I'm trying to tie up > loose > ends by figuring out where his descendants migrated > to > in the US.
>>>>Was he Dutch or English?<< > > Lilly, I'm also researching the Francis Drake family.............. Info from "Ancestry of Jeremy Clarke" shows Francis Drake to be English ........... Francis Drake is thought to be of the Drakes of Drakesworth from County Meath Ireland, with the family originally from County Devon England Rev Francis Drake moved from NH to Piscataway NJ In 1675 in NJ he was commissioned Captain of Foot Wife Mary; Children: George, John and Elizabeth >>I have heard some researchers tell me they are related to SIR Francis Drake. Do they refer to this Capt. Francis Drake? <<< No, not to this Capt Francis Drake .... he was born c 1615. Sir Francis Drake was born c 1540s. Barbara