Person:Philip Drake (2)

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Page 466.-[undated, appears to be abt. 1778/79] - Lines of Abraham Lene [prob. s/b Larew] and Philip Drake.

• Page 35.-[undated, appears to ba abt. 1778/79] - Corner to Phillips Drake.

• Page 102.--10th August, 1790. Abraham Larew's will--To son, Jacob; to daughter, Mary; daughter, Anna; to Philip Drake; to son, Reuben; son Peter's 3 children; to daughter Mary's son, John Standlee. Teste: John Caldwell, Thomas, Mary, Anson Caldwell. Proved, 27th April, 1801, by John and Thos. Caldwell.

• Page 39.--7th November, 1810. Reuben Larew's will--To brother Peter's three children, viz: Abraham Larew, Sarah Felts, Elizabeth Bodine; to sister, Anne Drake, and two children; to brother Jacob's children, viz: Peter Larew, Elizabeth Allen, John Larew, Benj. Larue, Joseph Larew, Sally Best, Polly Larew, Jacob Larew, Amy Larew. Executors, Benjamin and Joseph Larew, Wm. Davis, Geo. Zumbro, Walter Davis. Proved, 27th August, 1811. Executors qualified.

Citations

http://www.mocavo.com/family-tree/Vicki-L-Keith/Keith-Family-Tree/Phillip-Drake

1. ↑ Lee, Francis Bazley. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey: a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation. (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910)
   pg. 727.

   The Drake family are a Virginia family, coming to this country at the time of the Cavalier movement and settling in Fairfax county. The ancestry of Edgar Bless Drake is unfortunately not traceable back farther than the Rev. Philip Drake, of Kentucky, in the middle of the eighteenth century. And although it is almost certain that this ancestor was not the original emigrant founder of the family, all attempts hitherto made have failed to determine whether he is a descendant of Robert Drake, of Hampton, New Hampshire, Captain Francis Drake, of Piscataway, New Jersey, or of the several Drake families which were among the original settlers of the Virginias and Carolinas.
   
   (I) The Rev. Philip Drake, above referred to, was born January 1, 1743, and is found in the latter part of the eighteenth century as the Baptist minister at Lee's Creek, Kentucky. By his wife Anne (Larue) Drake, of whom nothing more is known, he had two children: 1. John, referred to below. 2. Sophia.
   
   (II) John, only son and eldest child of the Rev. Philip and Anne (Larue) Drake, was born in Kentucky, November 15, 1785, died there December 28, 1823. He married Sophia Crosby, and had five children: 1. Joseph Crosby, born July 30, 18n. 2. James, November 4, 1813. 3. Elizabeth, March 16,1816. 4. Anna, November 6, 1818. 5. Robert, born in Mason county, Kentucky, March 8, 1821, died in Martinsville, Indiana, October 26, 1892.

2.   From Drake Family Bible:
   Phillip Drake, the father of John Drake, was born January 1st, 1743
   Anna Drake, his wife, was born December 21st 1745 and died August 5, 1822
   
   :John Drake was born November 15th, 1785, married August 9, 1808, and died December 28th, 1823
   :Sophia (Crosby) Drake died September 5th, 1825
   
   Births
   Joseph C. Drake was born July 30th, 1811
   James Drake was born November 4th, 1813
   Elizabeth Drake was born March 19th, 1816
   Anna Drake was born November 6, 1818
   Robert Drake was born March 8th, 1821