Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

John Drake Jr.

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Amelia Earhart — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 858 
  • Father:
  • John Drake 
  • Mother:
  • Lettice Shakespeare   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 25 Aug 1616 
  • Christening Location:
  • Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • from 12 Sep 1689 to 31 Oct 1689 
  • Death Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Moore
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Nov 1648 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Drake

  Job Drake

  Hannah Drake (Ahnentafel No:429 )

  Ruth Drake

  Mindwell Drake

• Sources for John Drake Jr.

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 19, Marriage record for Samuell Barber and daughter Ruth Drake.
  • ² England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963, FHL No 4291976, Image 21, Baptism for John Drake.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 23.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1988, Vol. 63, p. 201.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1277.
  • ⁶ Andrews, Henry Porter, The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Vol. 1, Saratoga Springs: G. W. Ball, Book and Job Printer (1893), 264.
  • ⁷ Gay, Frank B., The Descendants of John Drake of Windsor, Connecticut, Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Company (1933), 2-3, 5.
  • ⁸ Johnson, Mary Coffin, The Higleys and their Ancestry: An Old Colonial Family, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1896), 30, 47.
  • ⁹ Loomis, Elisha S., Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America: And His Antecedents in the Old World, Berea, Ohio: unknown (1909), 134.

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