Source: Town Records of Windsor, Connecticut
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Town Records of Windsor, Connecticut |
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| 974.6 V2w, Births Mg., & Deaths of Windsor, Connecticut , NEHGR |
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| "Aug 17 1659, John Drake Sr.dyed accidentaly, as he was driving a cart, loaded with corn, to carry from his house to his son Jacob's . The cattle being 2 oxen and his mare, in the high way against John Griffin's. something scar'd the cattle, and they set a runing and he labouring to stop them, by takeing hold on the mare, was thrown down on his face, and the cart wheel went over him; broke one of his legs and bruised his body, so that he was taken up dead, being carried into his daughters house, had life come again, but died in a short time and was buried on the 18th day of August '59.'" |
John Drake Sr