Ancestry of
Stephen Crane

Author of The Red Badge of Courage

John Drake

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Stephen Crane — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 198 
  • Father:
  • John Drake Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Moore   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Sep 1649 
  • Birth Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Jul 1689 
  • Death Location:
  • Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Watson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Mar 1671 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Hannah Drake (Ahnentafel No:99 )

• Sources for John Drake

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Simsbury, p. 49, Death record for John Drake, Sr..
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 23.
  • ³ Gay, Frank B., The Descendants of John Drake of Windsor, Connecticut, Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Company (1933), 5, 15.
  • ⁴ Hoyt, David W., A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families: With Some Account of the Earlier Hyatt Families, Providence: The Providence Press Co. (1871), 323.
  • ⁵ Stiles, Henry R., The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, 1635-1891, Vol. 2: Genealogies and Biographies, Hartford, Connecticut: The Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1892), 776.