I will take a good look at your message as I am a Drake descendant and have a good data base on the family. However, looking at it quickly I see you reference Monnette's First Settlers of Piscataway. BEWARE -- he is almost totally unreliable. His entries on Drake are particularly bad. Harman Clark. -----Original Message----- From: Jasspro@aol.com <Jasspro@aol.com> To: NJMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com <NJMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, August 13, 1998 12:34 PM Subject: Re: NJ MIDDLESEX SURNAMES >Hi Mark, >Sorry to send this to the list but have tried several times to send it to just >your address and it keeps getting sent back as undeliverable. Below is the >copy I sent last week of info I had in my files on DRAKES in MIDDELSEX >Midge >Jasspro@aol.com > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >451 mkcox@brightnet.com... brightnet.com: Name server timeout >Message could not be delivered for 3 days >Message will be deleted from queue > > ----- Original message follows ----- > >Received: from Jasspro@aol.com > by imo25.mx.aol.com (IMOv14_b1.1) id 6AZa003745 > for <mkcox@brightnet.com>; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 19:45:41 -0400 (EDT) >From: <Jasspro@aol.com> >Return-path: <Jasspro@aol.com> >Message-ID: <1c7a76d5.35ce34a6@aol.com> >Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 19:45:41 EDT >To: mkcox@brightnet.com >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Subject: DRAKES NJ 1700's >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 170 > >Hi Mark >I Missed these DRAKES last week. >>From NJ ARCHIVES 1st Ser. Vol XXX Abstract of Wills Vol 2, >and page 234--- >The will of Benjamin Huff, Esq. Mar 9, 1744-45 mentions the plantation joins >land which DANIEL DRAKE and SAMUEL MACKFERSON bought of Thomas Brown. >>From the book "Marriage Records of Hunterdon Co. 1795-1875" by Hiram >DeatsFrom >other counties: >page 119 Drake, Catherine and Henry Molleson, Middlesex Co. 1749 Mar 2 >page 281 Molleson, Ruth and Ephraim Runyon, Piscataway, 1757 Oct 12 > Molleson, Sarah and John Juley, Middlesex 1780 Dec 30. >>From the book "FIRST SETTLERS OF PISCATAWAY AND WOODBRIDGE-GENEALOGICAL >AUTHORITIES" on Page 76-77, Piscataway Names Originating In Piscataqua, New >Hampshire--the following Drakes included-- >Captain Francis Drake, Robert Drake, Nathanial Drake, George Drake, John >Drake, Mary Drake. >On Page 78--The orginal pioneers to take up land in Piscataway, under the >generous terms of "The Consessions and Agreements of the Lords Proprietors of >the Province of New Jersey" came in 1666 from the most northeasternly >settlements in New England on a borderline between what is now the States of >Maine and New Hampsire. Woodbridge NJ friends from Mass., bought a large >tract of land lying between the Rahway and Raritan Rivers. These few were >soon followed by other friends from New England--inclucing Francis Drake, John >Drake and George Drake. Page 79---Prominent among the other citizens and >freeholders of Piscataway at a date just previous to the close of the >Proprietary period (1702) were the folowing property owners and residents, >many who were sons of pioneer planters include Samuel Drake, Francis Drake, >Jr., Joseph Drake, John Drake........ >On Page 80--Earliest settlers who had died before the beginning of the >Colonial Epoch, 1702, among those who originally settled the wilderness >include Francis Drake, Sr. died 1687. >Page 844----Under Children of JOHN MOLLESON and SARAH HOWELL > CHRISTIAN (female) b. Dec 15, 1689 married ca. 1709 JACOB DRAKE b. >May 10, 1710 a son of REV JOHN DRAKE and wife REBECCA TROTTER. They had 7 >children. > A second son named GILBERT b. March 21, 1706 (a first son name GILBERT >b. Sept 10, 1697 d. before second was born). GILBERT-2 married SARAH DRAKE >daughter of ANDREW DRAKE and wife HANNAH FitzRANDOLPH. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- >------------------------------------------- >There is more --if you do not have any of this let me know. I will get what >I can find . Seems as though DRAKES were from the New England. I have more >information to digest in a big packet from Walt Ayars whose family are also >Pioneers and he is deeply into tracing all of this stuff. You may have >already run across him or his family as they were also neighbors of the >McPHERSONS in some places. > >Midge Haines >Jasspro@aol.com >