DEar C. J. Sheldon, Thanks so much for giving me this CLUE. I appreciate your thoughtfullness. I will certainly look for this research. I have done some work in Westchester County records, on the name ODELL, this was a name in the Makenzie Papers. I will post here anything that I find. Best regards, Lilly Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "C J Sheldon" <cjsheldonim@gmail.com> To: <nydutche@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:50 AM Subject: Re: [NYDUTCHE] Brower-Brewer-Drake-Callow-Manning--To Lilly > Dear Lilly, This may be a clue about the DRAKE surname in case you > have not had clues since you posted. > > There are families that I researched in early Westchester > County . Many of these families moved up the Hudson River into > Duchess County,NY .The DRAKE name popped up over and over in > standard Westchester Co. records WESTCHESTER PATRIARCHS by Norman > DAVIS has,for example ,at least 14 references in the index to DRAKE > given names. > > EARLY WILLS OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY FROM 1664to 1784 by > PELLETREAU has in the Index about 20 to25 such references. > > Have you tried these references? Perhaps they are on-line > somewhere. They are in many libraries. C.J.Sheldon