Ancestry of
Oliver Wolcott

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Job Drake

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• • Great-grandfather of Oliver Wolcott — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12 
  • Father:
  • John Drake 
  • Mother:
  • Lettice Shakespeare   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 5 Mar 1619 
  • Christening Location:
  • Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 16 Sep 1689 
  • Death Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Wolcott
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Jun 1646 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Abigail Drake

  Mary Drake

  Job Drake Jr. (Ahnentafel No:6 )

• Sources for Job Drake

  • ¹ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, Birth record for daughter Sarah Drake.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, Page 78, Marriage record for Job Drake and Mary Wolcott.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, Page 78, Death record for Job Drake.
  • ⁴ England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963, FHL No 4291976, Image 22, Baptism for Job Drake.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1851, Vol. 5, p. 167.
  • ⁶ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Jan 1916, Vol. 47, Page 92.
  • ⁷ The American Genealogist, 1988, Vol. 63, p. 201.
  • ⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 539.
  • ⁹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 2051.
  • ¹⁰ Dewey, Adelbert M., et. al., Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N., and Dewey Family History, Westfield, Massachusetts: Dewey Publishing Company (1898), 721.
  • ¹¹ Gay, Frank B., The Descendants of John Drake of Windsor, Connecticut, Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Company (1933), 2, 7-10.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 141.
  • ¹³ Wolcott, Chandler, Wolcott Genealogy: The Family of Henry Wolcott, One of the First Settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, Rochester, New York: Genesee Press (1912), 35, 56.