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William Drake was born in New
York, according to the 1906 Bangor, Michigan death certificate for his son, Joshua C. Drake, and the
death certificate for his daughter, Margaret Dobbyn. In approximately 1806 TA10, when William married Hannah Montross, he
resided in Ancaster Township, Wentworth County,
Ontario TA10, RE18.
He enlisted as a private in Mabee’s Company of the Norfolk Militia during the War of
1812 MU4. He
was listed on Muster Rolls from April 25 through May 24, 1814, May 25 through
June 24, 1814, and June 25 through July 24, 1814 as “W. Drake”, “William
Drake”, or “Wm. Drake”, serving as a private in the Third Company of the First
Regiment of the Norfolk Militia, commanded by Captain Oliver Mabee WA11. Several pages from this ledger are missing. William’s name
was not listed on Muster Rolls from Mabee’s Company
before April 25, 1814, such as that from June 30 through September 24, 1812,
and September 25 through October 24, 1813, but clearly there were gaps in the
records, as the next Muster Roll after the October 1813 roll was that of April
25, 1814 WA11.
William received sums of fifteen shillings to fifteen shillings and six pence
for each month in which he served under Captain Mabee
WA11.
Levi, Peter, and Simon Montross, his brothers-in-law, served in the same
company WA11. The
Militia Act of 1808 expected members of the militia to provide his own musket,
fusil, rifle, or gun, and a minimum of six pounds of powder and ball WA11.
He purchased 113 acres of land in
Charlotteville, Ontario, on Lake Erie, from William and Miriam Cronk for £60 on
December 16, 1813 LA11, TA10. A
transcription of the “Memorial of the Deed of Bargain and Sale”, witnessed on
January 14, 1814 by Thomas Cope “between the hours of 9 and 10 oClock in the forenoon of
the same day”, has been provided below LA11:
Memorial of an Indenture made the
Sixteenth day of December in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred
and thirteen at Charlotteville in the Province of Upper Canada Between William
Cronk of the Township of Charlotteville in the County of Norfolk District of
London and Province of Upper Canada Yeoman and Miriam his wife of the one part,
and William Drake lately of the Township of Walsingham
County District and Province aforesaid Yeoman of the other part. Purporting to
be a Deed of Bargain and Sale Whereby the said William Cronk and Miriam his
wife for and in consideration of the Sum of Sixty Pounds lawful money of the
said Province to them in hand paid by the said William Drake at or before the
unsealing and delivery of the said Deed of Bargain and Sale the Receipt whereof
is thereby acknowledged, Did grant bargain sell and confirm unto the said
William Drake his heirs and assigns forever… that parcel or tract of land
Situate in the Township of Charlotteville in the County of Norfolk in the
District of London and Province of Upper Canada being Composed of part of Lot
number one in the first broken front in the said Township of Charlotteville
which said parcel or tract of land is butted and bounded… beginning at the
South West angle of the said Lot thence Eastwardly along the edge of the waters
of Lake Erie thirty five chains more or less to the East side of the Said Lot
thence North Thirty degrees West fifteen chains more or less to Jeremiah Beckers South East angle, thence South Sixty degrees west
fourteen chains and Ninety links thence North thirty degrees West thirty three
chains and seventy links thence South Sixty degrees West two chains and fifty
links more or less to Simon Montros’s South West
angle thence North thirty degrees West nineteen chains more or less to Stephen
Price’s South East angle, thence South Sixty degrees West twelve chains more or
less and forty links more or less to the Allowance for Road at the Town line
thence South thirty degrees East Fifty two chains and seventy links more or
less to the place of beginning containing and now laid out for One hundred and
thirteen Acres of land… together with… the hereditaments and appurtenances
thereunto in any wise belonging… rents issues and profits To Have and To Hold
the same with the appurtenances unto the said William Drake his heirs and
assigns forever…
Which said Indenture or Deed of Bargain
and Sale duly executed, is Witnessed by Thomas Cope and Jacob Cope both of the Township of Walsingham
aforesaid Yeomen –
This Memorial thereof is by William Drake
the grantee required to be Registered pursuant to the Statute of the
Legislature of Upper Canada in such case made and Provided. In Witness whereof
he has hereunto set his hand and seal this fourteenth day of January 1814-
William was assessed at forty pounds,
twelve shillings in 1815 MU4. He
and Hannah sold 11 ¼ acres of land, which was worth £16, to Peter Prockunier the elder on February 24, 1816 LA11, TA10. A transcription of the “Memorial of the Deed of Bargain and
Sale” follows LA11:
A Memorial to be registered_ _ Of an
Indenture of bargain and Sale bearing date the twenty fourth day of February in
the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Sixteen made at
Charlotteville in the Province of Upper Canada Between William Drake of the
township of Charlotteville in the County of Norfolk in the district of London
in the Province aforesaid Yeoman and Hannah his wife of the one part and Peter Prockunior of the township of Walsingham
County District and Province aforesaid Weaver of the other part, Whereby the
said William Drake and Hannah his wife for and in Consideration of the Sum of
Sixteen pounds of lawful money of the said Province to them in hand paid by the
said Peter Prockunior the receipt whereof is thereby
fully acknowledged Hath granted bargained sold and confirmed unto the said
Peter Prockunior… that parcel or tract of Land
Situate in the Township of Charlotteville in the County of Norfolk in the
district of London and Province of Upper Canada, being Composed [of?] part of
Lot Number one in the first broken front in the township of Charlotteville,
Which said parcel or tract of Land is butted and bounded or may be otherwise
known as follows that is to say Commencing in the Westren
[sic] side Line at [the?] South West Angle of a peice [sic] of land Surveyed [by?] Stephen Rice
thence South thirty degrees East ten chains and twenty nine
links thence North Sixty degrees East Eleven chains and Ninety links thence
North thirty degrees west ten Chains [and?] twenty nine links thence South
Sixty degrees west Eleven chains and ninety links to the place of Beginning,
Containing and now laid [for?] Eleven Acres and one quarter of Land be there
more or less…
Which said Indenture is Witnessed by
Daniel Hazen the Elder of the Township of Walsingham
in the said County of Norfolk Land Surveyor and Peter Prockunior
the younger of the township of Houghton in the said County of Norfolk Farmer…
this Eighteenth day of October in the year of our Lord
one thousand Eight hundred and twenty two.
On June 24, 1833, they sold the remaining
parcel of land for £100 to Thomas Edwards TA10. In
December 1833, William was of Aldborough, Elgin
County, Ontario TA10,
although according to the Memorial of the Indenture of Bargain and Sale which
was made at St. Thomas, Middlesex County on December 26, 1833, he was a yeoman
“of
the Township of Aldborough” in the “County of
Middlesex in the London District and Province of Upper Canada” LA9. William Drake paid
one hundred pounds to George Barnes of Yarmouth for one hundred acres of land
on the north side of Longwoods Road in Mosa Township,
Middlesex County, London District, in the Province of Upper Canada LA9, TA10. The bounds were LA9:
composed of the south easterly angle half
of Lot number twelve on the northerly side of the Longwoods Road in said
Township of Mosa Commencing at the south easterly
angle of the said half Lot Thence North forty three chains and thirty three
links and a half more or less to land conveyed to Mahlon
Burwell Esq thence South forty two degrees ten minutes West thirty chains more
or less to the allowance for road between Lots Number Twelve and thirteen
thence South forty three degrees fifty Eight minutes east thirty three chains
and thirty three links and a half more or less to the Longwoods road Thence
North forty two degrees ten minutes east thirty chains more or less to the
Place of Beginning…
Described again as “William Drake of the
Township of Aldborough in the County of Middlesex in
the London District and Province of Upper Canada Yeoman” LA9, he sold this land the following week, on
January 4, 1834, to Thomas Pool of Mosa Township for
a profit of twelve pounds and ten shillings LA9, TA10. He was enumerated as a farmer in Aldborough Township, Elgin County, Ontario, in the 1842
census CA76, and he may have
died about the year 1845 TA10.
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1842 Canada Census: lived in Aldborough Township, Elgin County, Ontario (Canada West).
Hannah
Montross (Peter, Leah) was born in Nova Scotia,
according to death certificates for her daughter and son,
Joshua Drake and Margaret Dobbyn, although Margaret Dobbyn stated on the 1900
census record that her mother was born in New Brunswick. Hannah was said to have been born on
December 4, 1791 in York County, New Brunswick, and relocated with her family
to the Long Point Settlement in Ontario when she was five years old TA10. As the daughter of a United Empire
Loyalist, she applied for 200 acres of land on March 15, 1810 TA10, UP1, which was granted on November 27, 1815 TA10, RE18, UP1. The record of Hannah’s petition for land
has been transcribed UP1:
To his Excellency Francis Gore, Esquire
Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada Ye Ye
Ye In Council.
The Petition of Hannah Drake, of the
Township of Ancaster in the Home District, wife of
William Drake [about two illegible words follow his name]
Humbly Sheweth:
That your Excellency’s Petitioner is the Daughter of Peter Montross an U.E. Loyalist [a short, wavy
scribble followed the word “Loyalist”] that your Excellency’s petitioner has
never received any lands from the Crown wherefore humbly prays that she may
receive Such a portion of the waste Lands of the Crown as it has been usual to
grant to persons of her description. And as in duty your Excellency’s
petitioner will ever pray Beverly [this may have indicated Beverly Township] 15th March 1810 [the mark of Hannah Drake
follows]
Personally appeared before me Henry Hagle Esquire one of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace of
the District of Niagara the above named Hannah Drake who being Sworn upon the
Holy Evangelists of Almighty God deposeth and Sayth that She is the daughter of Peter Montrose that She
never has received any lands or order for lands from the Crown Ancaster 30 Mach 1810 [the date appeared to read “30 Mach 1
610, with a space between the “1” and a digit that resembled a poorly formed
“6”; the date of March 30, 1810 is assumed here] Henry Hagle
JP
I certify that the petitioner is the
person She describes herself to be in the above petition, that She never has to
my Knowledge received any lands or Order for lands
from the Crown
Sworn before me at Ancaster
March 30 1810
David Shannon of Beverley Yeoman maketh oath and Saith that he is acquainted with Hannah
Drake late of Ancaster, wife of William Drake and
Daughter of Peter Montross a U.E. Loyalist, that she now resides in the Long Point
Settlement in the District of London, where she remained about Eighteen months
since, with her husband.
Sworn before me this 13th day of November 1815 [the signature of
David Shannon and an illegible signature of a Justice of the Peace follow]
Hannah was the mother of Frances, Joshua, and Margaret Ester
Drake. She was probably the mother of Peter, Catherine (probably Kate), Alvin Torry Drake, and Eliza Ann Drake, and she was
allegedly the mother of Leah, Jane, and Mary Ann Drake.
Leah Drake was allegedly the
daughter of William and Hannah TA10, MU4 and was said to have married Titus Finch
TA10. The 1877 marriage record for their
twenty-eight-year-old daughter, Mary Finch, to Joseph Sweetman, stated that her
parents were “Lear” Drake and Titus Finch ON4.
While various individuals with the Finch surname were enumerated on the 1851
Canada Census, her name has not been located CA85. Titus Finch, a teamster from Nova
Scotia who was born about 1792, was enumerated in Charlotteville, Norfolk
County, Ontario, Canada without Leah in 1851 CA85. Others with the Finch surname in that
same town were Peter, born about 1823, William, born about 1833, and Mary, born
about 1837 CA85. “Tites”
Finch was called a widower in 1861 when he lived in Norfolk County, Canada West
CA86.
Frances Drake was born in 1807 in Ancaster
Township, Wentworth County TA10, MU4. The Lenawee County, Michigan death certificate for Frances Teeple stated that she was born to William Drake and Hannah
Montross on April 22, 1807 in Canada, and died at age ninety-nine years, eleven
months, and twenty days from “Softening of Brain” on April 12, 1907 in Ogden,
Lenawee County. The death certificate stated that she was a widow,
but was nineteen when she first married; she had been a mother to twelve
children, but just four were alive at the time of her death. Her body was meant
to be buried in Orwell, Canada. She probably married around 1826. George and
“Francis” Teeple lived in Elgin, Canada West in 1861
with Thomas (age twenty-four), Mary Jane (age seventeen), and Ann (age fifteen)
CA86. George and Frances Teeple lived in
Yarmouth, Elgin East, Ontario, Canada in 1871 CA87. By 1881, Frances was a widow who resided in the household of
her son and daughter-in-law, Thomas and Mary Teeple, in Yarmouth; her name was spelled “Fraes” Teeple CA88. She remained in Yarmouth with Thomas and Mary in 1891 CA89, but sometime before 1900, she relocated to the household of her
daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and David Pifer in
Ogden, Lenawee County, Michigan UN14.
Margaret’s name was badly misspelled on the 1900 US Census, and it appears to
state “Maynirete A” UN14. Frances Teeple was born about in
April 1807 UN14 or about 1807 CA86, CA87, CA88 in
Upper Canada CA86, Ontario CA87, or New York UN14. A
notice in The Waterloo Press in April 1907 stated that she had been involved in
a carriage accident about the year 1894 when she was propelled from a buggy and
subsequently broke her hip, leaving her unable to walk NE37. The same article mentioned that she passed away in her
daughter’s home (“Mrs. David Pifer of Ogden”) of “old
age”, just shy of her centennial birthday NE37.
Peter Drake was
born on November 6, 1808 in Ancaster Township,
Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada TA10, MU4 and
married Sarah DeLair or Alair
TA10. Census records indicate that he was born about 1807 CA85 or 1809 CA87, CA88.
Peter and Sarah Drake were enumerated in Dunn, Haldimand County, Ontario in
1851 with William (age twenty), John (eighteen), Nelson (sixteen), Thomas
(fourteen), Fanny (twelve), Elvin (ten), Mary A. (seven), Peter (five), Owen
(two), and Levi (who was one year old) CA85. In
that year, 1851, Peter was forty-four and Sarah was thirty-nine years old, with
ten children CA85. They remained in
Dunn in 1871 and 1881; in 1871 they lived with William (thirty-seven), Owen
(twenty-one), Levi (nineteen), a person whose name appeared to state Mary Jane
(fifteen), and Hannah (sixteen) CA87.
Dunn Township was briefly a part of Monck County, and in 1881 in Dunn, Monck
County, Ontario, Peter and Sarah were enumerated with
William, Mary, and Oscar, who was sixteen CA88. He
died on September 28, 1886 and was buried in Dunn, Ontario TA10. The death record for Peter Drake stated that he was born in
the Township of Beanly in Wentworth County and died
at age seventy-seven of heart disease (“dropped dead”) on September 20th (this may state 28th),
1886 in Dunnville, Haldimand County, Ontario ON1. Although this death record was hand-written, it very clearly
states “Township of Beanly”. No record of such a
township in Wentworth County has been discovered, but it is likely that this
was supposed to state “Beverly” or “Beverley”.
Joshua Drake TA10, MU4 born in Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County, Ontario MU4 about 1817 UN10, UN11, UN12, 1818
UN13, or in February 1817 UN14 in
Canada UN10, UN11, UN12, UN13, UN14 to a
father who was born in New York and a mother who was born in New Brunswick UN14. According to his Van Buren County, Michigan
death certificate, Joshua C. Drake was born on February 11, 1816 in
Canada to William Drake (who was born in New York) and Hannah Montrose (who was
born in “Niva Scotia”), and married
at age nineteen (about the year 1835). He was very likely
the Joshua Drake who married Elizabeth Little on October 19, 1836 in Yarmouth
Township, Middlesex County, Ontario ON4. The
1900 US Census stated that he immigrated to the United States in 1861 UN14, but his son, Edwin, was born in Michigan about 1848 UN10, UN11. Joshua C. and Elizabeth Drake (who was
thirty-one) lived in Palmyra, Lenawee County, Michigan in 1850 with Alvin T.
(born in Canada about 1839), John W. (age ten), Thomas (age eight), James (age
six), Joshua C. (age four and born in Canada), and Edway
(age two and born in Michigan) UN10.
They continued to reside in Palmyra in 1860 and 1870 UN11, UN12. In 1860, they were enumerated with the
same children as were listed on the 1850 census, with the addition of Laurence
(age six), Maria (age four), and Elizabeth (age two), but their twelve-year-old
son who was born in Michigan (“Edway”) was called
“Edwin” UN11. In 1870, Joshua C. and
Elizabeth lived with their children: Lawrence (sixteen), Maria (fourteen), Mary
A. (twelve), and George (nine) UN12. Elizabeth died after this census. Joshua
Drake moved across the state to the west side of Michigan sometime between 1870
and 1880, and he married Mary E. Penrod about the year 1880 UN13, UN14. J.C. Drake and his wife, Mary E.,
lived in Bangor, Van Buren County, Michigan in 1880 with his daughter, Mary,
who was born in Michigan about 1858, and his three step-children,
Ann Penrod, Isaac Penrod, and John Penrod UN13.
Joshua C. and Mary E. Drake were again enumerated in Bangor, Van Buren County,
Michigan in 1900 with their three sons, Earl (age sixteen), Merl (age fifteen),
and Leon (age thirteen) UN14.
This census record indicated that Joshua and Mary had been married for twenty
years, and that Mary was the mother of eight children, but seven were alive at
that time UN14. His Van Buren County, Michigan death certificate stated that
Joshua C. Drake died at age eighty-nine years and eighteen days of paralysis in
Bangor, Van Buren County, Michigan on March 1, 1906; his body was to be buried
at Thomas Cemetery. It also stated that he was married at the time of his death
and was the father of fifteen children, of whom ten were alive.
Jane Drake was called the
daughter of William and Hannah TA10, MU4, and she was said to have married a man
with the surname “Allen”, and lived in Iowa TA10. Kate
Drake
was also called the daughter of William and Hannah TA10, MU4 who allegedly married someone with the surname “Cope” and lived
in Copetown, Ontario TA10. A marriage record was located which
stated that Catherine Drake married Howard
Allen on March 13, 1837 in Mosa Township, Middlesex
County, Ontario ON4. This was the same day that Thomas
Drake married Mary Jane Eveland in Mosa Township, and the witnesses to both weddings were
William Drake, Joshua Drake, and Hannah Drake ON4. It is unclear if this Catherine Drake
was the daughter of William and Hannah Drake, but it does seem likely.
Catherine was born about 1819 UN10, UN11, UN13, KA5 or 1821 UN12
in Canada UN10,
UN11, UN12, UN13, KA5.
Catharine and Howard M. Allen lived in Ogden, Lenawee County, Michigan in 1850,
with their children, William (thirteen and born in Canada), George (eleven),
Eliza J. (nine years old, and born in Michigan). Mary A. (seven), Loretta
(five), and Alexander (one year old) UN10. By 1860, they had moved to Palmyra, Lenawee County, Michigan;
“Catherin” and H.M. Allen were enumerated there with George, Mary, Harriet (age
fourteen – this may have been Loretta), Alexander, Ira (age four), and James
Drake (age seventeen and born in Canada) UN11. Catherine Allen was the head of the household by 1870, when
she lived in Jefferson Township, Jackson County, Kansas with Mary A.,
Alexander, and Ira UN12.
She lived in the household of her son, Ira B. Allen, in Jefferson Township,
Jackson County, Kansas in 1880, when in that year the census enumerator
recorded that her father was born in Vermont and her mother was born in Nova
Scotia UN13, but they had moved to Spring Creek,
Pottawatomie County, Kansas by 1895 KA5.
A gravestone for Catharine Allen, located in Spring Creek Cemetery in Fostoria,
Pottawatomie County, Kansas, stated that she was born on May 6, 1819 and died
on May 7, 1900 (a photo may be viewed on the Find a Grave website). Mary Ann Drake was also allegedly
the daughter of William and Hannah TA10, MU4 who died in her youth from injuries received from a fallen tree or
tree branch TA10.
Alvin Torry Drake was born about 1820 UN11, UN12, UN13 or 1821 UN10 in Canada UN10, UN11, UN12, UN13. His birth was said to have occurred at Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County,
Ontario MU4. According to his death record, he was the son of Jehial and Hannah Drake, and he was born in Canada about June
6, 1820 MI3. “Alven” T.
Drake married Ann P. Defield on May 6, 1841 in Mosa Township, Middlesex County, Ontario ON4. The November 25, 1892 marriage record
for their son, William W. Drake, stated that his parents’ names were Alvin T.
Drake and Anna Defields MI23. Alvin T. Drake and Anna lived in
Palmyra, Lenawee County, Michigan in 1850 with Elizabeth (age eight and born in
Canada), Leah J. (five), twins James B. and William W. (three years old), and
another set of twins who were one month old and were born in Michigan: Peter
and Joshua UN10. They lived next to Joshua C. Drake UN10. By 1860, Alvin and Anne had moved to Hartford,
Van Buren County, Michigan, where their household included Elizabeth, L. Jane,
James B., William W., Peter C. (ten years old), Anne M.E. (six), Betsey M.E.
(three), and Phoebe V.S. (who was one year old) UN11. Peter’s twin, Joshua, was not listed on
this census. His wife, Ann or Anna, probably died by
1870, for in that year Alvin T. Drake was enumerated in Bangor, Van Buren
Township, Michigan with Amy, who was also born in Canada UN12. They lived near L.W. and Jane Disbrow
and Ludwig and Sarah Disbrow, and their household included William W., Peter
C., Anna M., Betsy M., Clara F. (age eight), and Elva A. (who was six) UN12. Phoebe was not included on this
census. Alvin Torry Drake of Bangor, age fifty-eight,
who was born in Canada West, married Hannah Percival on November 10, 1878 in
Berrien County, Michigan MI2.
A.T. and Hannah Drake remained in Bangor, Van Buren County in 1880, and at that
time they lived with Clara, age eighteen, Hatte, age
sixteen (this should have been Elva A.), and Hannah’s children from her
previous marriage, Martha, Sarah, and Hellen Dunham UN13. Alvin T. Drake wrote his will on
September 24, 1891 and named his children: Lutta Jane
Cleveland, James Bruce Drake, William Wallace Drake, Peter Cornelius Drake,
Anna Murilla Eugene Malley (or Mallery), Betsy M.U.
Nutting, Clara P.E. Drake, and Elva Arletta E. Foster MI27. He died of pneumonia at age
seventy-one years, four months, and eleven days on October 17, 1891 in
Hartford, Van Buren County, Michigan MI3.
William
and Hannah Drake were said to have been the parents of Ellen, who was born
about 1820 TA10, MU4 in Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County, Ontario MU4, married Peter Wrightman, and then died about 1853 TA10. A marriage
record for Eliza Ann Drake and Peter
“Wrikeman” stated that they married six days after “Alven” T. Drake and Ann P. Defield
on May 12, 1841 in Aldborough, Middlesex County,
Ontario ON4. Eliza and Peter Wrightman
were enumerated in Cottrellville, St. Clair County,
Michigan in 1850 with Hannah (age eight), William (six years old and born in
Canada), and two-month-old twin daughters who were born in Michigan, Lavina and Lomina UN10. By 1860, the Wrightman
family seems to have been geographically separated. Hannah may have been the “Hanah” Wrightman, age eighteen,
who was enumerated with Edward and Nancy Wrightman in
Cottrellville, St. Clair County in 1860 UN11. Levina “Rightman”,
age eleven, lived in the household of George and Francis Teeple
in Elgin, Canada West in 1861 CA86.
The Lenawee County, Michigan death certificate for Lavina
Lee stated that she was born on March 14, 1850 in Michigan to Peter Wrightman and Eliza Drake, who were both born in Canada,
and that she died on April 14, 1923. It is possible that this Eliza Ann Drake
who married Peter “Wrikeman” (Wrightman)
was the daughter of William and Hannah Drake.
The Van Buren
County, Michigan death certificate for Margaret
Ester (Drake) Dobbyn stated that she was born on March 11, 1824 in Canada to William Drake of New York and Hannah Montrose of Nova
Scotia.
Hannah may have begun to live with her son, Peter, on his farm near Dunnville, Ontario, after the death of William TA10, yet was not enumerated anywhere in Dunnville at the time of the 1851 Canadian census, nor was her name located in that census, whatsoever. She was said to have died on August 11, 1859 in Ontario TA10.