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