Person:Nathaniel Drake (1)

Nathaniel Drake
 
  1. Nathaniel DrakeAbt 1612 -
  2. Susannah DrakeAbt 1617 - Aft 1663
  3. Abraham Drake1620 - 1705/06
  • HNathaniel DrakeAbt 1612 -
  • WJane UnknownAbt 1610 - Aft 1678
m. 1657
  • HNathaniel DrakeAbt 1612 -
  1. Jane Drake1653 -
Facts and Events
Name Nathaniel Drake
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1612 Colchester, Essex, England
Marriage 1657 to Jane Unknown
Marriage to Unknown
Occupation[1] 1691 Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United StatesSelectman
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    2:70.
  2.   Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939).

    ENSIGN NATHANIEL DRAKE (Son of Robert Drake), 78 in 1691, app. came with his father by 1 Oct. 1650. Gr. 30 a. by Exeter 1650, jury 1650, selectm. 1651. In 1653 of Hampt., he soon rem. to Portsm. and again to Sandy Beach; liv. just bef. the Ind. raid of 1691, he did not appear I as wit. to prove Anthony Brackett’s will 11 July 1692. Portsm. selectm. 1656, 1661, 1663, 1671, 1676. Gr.j. 1660, 1680, 1684, 1687. Ensign 1666-1680. Lists 376b, 377, 47, 49, 50, 52, 55b, 57, 311b, 312cd, 313a, 323, 324, 326c, 330abc, 332b. He m. by 1657 (likelier 2d) wid. Jane Berry (12) and fathered her younger Berry ch. List 323. See Locke. Ch: Rachel. Jane, mar. 15 Dec. 1673 Wm. Wallis. Son? ‘Pd. to Nathl. Drake & Son’— Town Treas. accts. 1671. List 331a.

  3.   Wright, Helen Marion Locke. The Ancestry of Helen Marion (Locke) Wright . (Boston, Massachusetts: Newbury Street Press, 2011)
    57 # 358.

    Nathaniel2 Drake (Robert2) was born in England possibly in or near Colchester, Essex, about 1613 (78 in 1691) and died possibly in Portsmouth, New Hampshire after 1691. He married probably second, given his age, by 1657 widow Jane (-) Berry. He was an ensign. He immigrated to Hampton, NH, probably with his father by 15 Mar 1649/50 (father's land purchase).

  4.   Thompson, Alice Smith, and Anthony Richard Wagner. The Drake family of New Hampshire: Robert, of Hampton, and some of his descendants ; a genealogy. (Concord, New Hampshire: Historical Society, 1962).