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Rev DRAKE's other family: with Rebecca TROTTER (1655- )

Family of Rev John DRAKE Sr. and Barbara SCOTT

Husband: Rev John DRAKE Sr. (1653?-1740)
Wife: Barbara SCOTT ( - )

Husband: Rev John DRAKE Sr.

Name: Rev John DRAKE Sr.
Sex: Male
Father: Capt Francis DRAKE (1615?-1687)
Mother: Mary WALKER (1625?-1688)
Birth 1653 (app) Piscataway, Middlesex Co. N.J. 1
Occupation Baptist Minister 2
Death 7 Apr 1740 (age 86-87) Piscataway, Middlesex Co. N.J. 3

Wife: Barbara SCOTT

Name: Barbara SCOTT
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -

Note on Husband: Rev John DRAKE Sr. - shared note

John along with Hugh Dunn & Edmund Dunham presumably started holding some sort of meetings for religious teaching in Piscataway about 1669 & did so for about 2 yr when a Baptist congragation was organized & John became the 1st pastor (The Beginnings of Three New Jersey Family Lines, Runyon Dunn Drake p 16). P 25 says John b. Portsmouth @ 1655. He pastored over 50 yr.; was member of Assembly 1693; Town Clerk 1695. John may have md. 3rd time & moved to Essex Co., towards end of his life. Will said of Essex, yoeman.

Sources

1"Automated Archives, Inc. cd 100". cd 100.
2"empty".
3"Carol Harbushka".

 

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