>From the book, “Seedtime on the Cumberland” by Harriette Simpson Arrow, 1960, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln BENJAMIN DRAKE: Pg. 219: “There were also Haydon WELLS, and William and Benjamin DRAKE, all borderers and seasoned woodsmen.” (This is the last sentence in the paragraph about Cumberland bound travelers, abt. 1779 time frame.) Pg. 319: In a footnote: “The first Davidson County Grand Jury, not chosen until January 1784, ibid., 4, was made up almost entirely of first settlers - Haydon WELLS, John BUCHANAN, Benjamin DRAKE, James MULHERRIN, William GOWER, and others.” DR. DANIEL DRAKE: Pg. 352: In a footnote: “Dr. Daniel DRAKE wore a wool hat as a boy in Kentucky in the 1790's, Drake, Letters, 76.” (Subject matter of this page was pioneer clothing.) HUMPHREY DRAKE: Pg. 331: “While some were amassing great boundaries of the best land, the settlers could only look on, watch surveying lines run through their fields, and bisect the stations they had built. The lawmakers in offering them preemptions had stipulated they must vacate all property “owned by the State.” Some, such as Humphry DRAKE, did and left the country. Most stayed, and a few were affluent and lucky enough to get a guard right or surveying job, on the local level, and hence get land, while others could buy a preemption from a soldier or land speculator. (This passage was dated approx. Mid-1780's.) JONATHAN DRAKE: Pg. 272: There was no one way of frontier life, and though all at first lived in homes of logs, there is nothing to indicate that families such as the ROBERTSONS, STUMPS, MANSKERS, and other first settlers mentioned by travelers ever knew the floorless cabin with glassless windows and makeshift beds. Nobody beginning with Daniel SMITH early in 1780 ever complained of the bed and board at MANSKERS; all chance accounts of Indian warfare indicate floors, and by 1784 there was at least one house, that of Jonathan DRAKE, good and big enough county court with all the men required to administer justice - no small number - could meet in it. (There is a footnote next to DRAKE’s name: DC, I, 12. DRAKE by that date, April 12, 1784, had moved away.) JOSEPH DRAKE: Pg. 160: “Uriah STONE was going out again, and there is some question if this was the first long hunt for either Isaac BLEDSOE or Kaspar MANSKER. These two with John MONTGOMERY, Joseph DRAKE, and Michael STONER, who had been there in 1767, are said to have had in 1768 a station camp on what is now Station Camp Creek, north of the Cumberland in Middle Tennessee. (Footnote: The station was said to have been west of Station Camp Creek and south of the turnpike.) Pg. 163: “Another party that included Kaspar MANSKER, Issac BLEDSOE, Uriah STONE, Joseph DRAKE, and Henry SCAGGS was not at this time a part of the group at Price’s Meadows. The men kept on west after reaching the Rockcastle, following a trail that was a rough approximation of today’s Kentucky 80, for they left Crab Orchard “to their right or northern side.” (Price’s Meadows was near present-day Mill Springs, KY. This passage is referring to hunters’ camping spots.) WILLIAM DRAKE Pg. 219: “There were also Haydon WELLS, and William and Benjamin DRAKE, all borderers and seasoned woodsmen.” (This is the last sentence in the paragraph about Cumberland bound travelers, abt. 1779 time frame.) DRAKE FAMILY Pg. 251: “Kaspar MANSKER’s Station was in good enough shape to put up travelers by the early spring of 1780; Frederick STUMP was making a permanent settlement on White’s Creek where his family, the EATONS, DRAKES, and a number of others had spent the winter in tents and half-faced camps.” Pg. 337: “However, in the late summer of 1784 Texas begging for annexation was far away. Could old Jacob CASTLEMAN who helped saved the Kentucky settlements, then come to the Cumberland and there lost his life, read here such pretty words as victory and democracy, he would shake his head and go away. He, nor any of his kin, got any free land. They came too late. Neither did John RAINS, Edmund JENNINGS, the DRAKES, nor any of the RENFROES.” DRAKE’S CREEK MEETING HOUSE Pg. 344: Footnote #5 text: “Williams, Travels, “Journal of Reverend Francis Asbury”, 309, Aug. 19, 1800. The only church building finished and in use in all of Middle Tennessee at the time of Asbury’s visit was DRAKES’s Creek Meeting House, south of Mansker’s; at least Asbury, ibid, conducted services there. >From the book, Flowering of the Cumberland”, same author, 1963, same printing company & location: BENJAMIN DRAKE Pg. 227: (this passage refers to branding of cattle stock and the various marks used) “Benjamin DRAKE who came with the STUMPS and the EATONS used a crop and an underkeil in the left ear, an underkeil in the right, and also a brand - BD.” DRAKE’S CREEK Pg. 14: “He had settled on DRAKE’s Creek, and was now building a new home, stone.” (This passage is referring to Daniel SMITH, one of the “most important men in the early history of Tennessee.” Time frame appears to be approx. 1781 for this passage.) DR. DANIEL DRAKE Pg. 74: “Still, no matter how important mother’s role, father was head of the house, not only by law, but often we find him making the more important decisions. It was Daniel DRAKE’s father who decided that young Daniel should get an education better than that to be had in their local community. There is no record Daniel’s mother objected, for source materials of the South do not yield a picture of father as a domineering tyrant that so often comes from New England.” Pg. 175: “No single pattern was held up as perfect, though forced to read the Bible, religion was not urged upon them, or, in the words of Dr. DRAKE, they were taught “morality rather than superstition.” Pg. 179: “ This may or may not have been a blab school. Dr. Daniel DRAKE attended one in Kentucky and regretted the idea was discontinued. (This passage is referring to pioneer education. I think the “blab” must be a printer’s error and it should read “bad” because I cannot find the word “blab” in earlier passages or the index.) Pg. 216: “The old ones writing of childhoods on the borders almost always remembered the family cow, though few with as much fondness as did Dr. Daniel DRAKE on whose boyhood farm the cow was so gently tended she seemed almost a member of the family.” Pg. 72: “Dr. Daniel DRAKE, whose family settled in northern Kentucky in 1788, was in a home short of girls. He churned, scrubbed -- after he had made the hickory brushes and brooms with which the work was done -- carded wool and spun it, spent much time caring for the younger children, helped in the cooking, and “had often to leave the field to help my mother.” (Quoted by permission of the publishers, Abelard-Schuman, Ltd., form Pioneer Life in Kentucky, 1785-1852, by Dr. Daniel DRAKE, ed. From the original manuscript (a series of letters to DRAKE’s children) by E.F. Horine, copyright Abelard-Schuman, Ltd., New York, 1948, 96-109.). Dr. DRAKE did more about the house than most boys, but his work not unusual for any farm home. (This passage is about farm life.) Pg. 411-412: “Dr. Daniel DRAKE on the Kentucky border where life was uncomplicated by Indians grew up in a home stricter than most and with no help for much of the time save the family, but childhood fun and pastimes were a daily part of life. When a little boy he enjoyed, as did country people everywhere, watching the big road, conveyances, horses and people, going slowly enough a child could see the dress, study the faces, and wonder on the strangers. Older, he learned the fun and wonder of the woods while bee hunting, sugar making, or cow hunting; these, like the rest of life, work at the bottom, but never all work; sharing the woods with him was his dog, “Old Lion.” Pg. 134: “This speech of the man from Yorkshire or Lancashire would in time appear crude and rude, especially to Americans. Dr. DRAKE, old and looking back form an age that said “epistle” instead of letter, wrote of the speech of his boyhood in Kentucky of the 1780's; “all was rudely vernacular, and I knew not then the meaning of that word; we spoke a dialect of old English in queer pronunciation and abominable grammar.” (Footnote, take from Drake, Letters, 126.) (This passage is about the languages and speech of the frontier.) Pg. 324: “There was of yet no knowledge of germs, but people were at least getting suspicious, and by 1810 some citizens of Cincinnati were declaring that Ohio River water, filled as it was with human excrement, the refuses of tanneries and meat-packing plants, was unhealthy, though Dr. Daniel DRAKE, leading physician of the town, assured them it was not.” (This passage is about medicine and vaccines.)