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JOHN DREW (c. 1642–1721)
HANNAH CHURCHILL (b. 1649), daughter of John Churchill and Hannah Pontus
John Drew was born about 1642. He died on 27 July 1721, age 79, and is buried on Burial Hill in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. [1]
Hannah, the daughter of John, was born on 12 November 1649 in Plymouth. [2]
John Drew died intestate. John Drew of Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts and Thomas Howland and Nicholas Drew posted bond on his estate on 8 March 1721/2. On that day the probate judged ordered his son John Drew—the administrator of his father's estate—to present an inventory. [3]
Children of John Drew and Hannah Drew: Births recorded in Plymouth. [4]
i. Elizabeth Drew was born on 5 February 1673. She married Benoni Delano, the brother of her brother John's wife Sarah. [5]
ii. John Drew was born on 29 August 1676. He died between 17 April 1742 and 10 July 1745. He married Sarah Delano.
iii. Samuel Drew was born on 21 February 1678. He married Ruth Delano, the brother of his brother John's wife Sarah. [5]
iv. Thomas Drew was born on 1 May 1681.
v. Nicholas Drew was born about the middle of October 1684. He died before October 1735. He married first Abigail Keene (Keen) about 1708 in Plymouth. [6] Abigail was born on 3 April 1685 and died on 22 April 1715 in Plymouth. [6] Nicholas married second Rebecca Morton on 19 April 1716 in Plymouth. [6]
Abigail was the daughter of Josiah and Lydia (Baker) Keen, the granddaughter of Josiah and Abigail (Little) Keene, the great-granddaughter of Thomas and Anna (Warren) Little, and the great-great-granddaughter of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren. [7]
Abigail's father referred to the children of his daughter Abigail Drew in his will of 2 February 11728. [7]
Nicholas Drew, shipwright of Plymouth, and Lemuel Drew, mariner of Plymouth, bought their niece Rebecca (Delano) Turner's rights in the rights of her mother (and their sister) Elizabeth Drew to their parents' estate from Rebecca's husband Amassa Turner for £12-10-00 on 21 August 1733. [8]
On 24 October 1735 Joshua Drew was appointed administrator of his father Nicholas Drew's estate. [6]
vi. Lemuel Drew was born on 4 August 1687. He died before 15 June 1738. He married Hannah Barnes on 22 December 1715 in Plymouth. [6] Hannah was born on 8 January 1695/6 in Plymouth and died there on 25 October 1731. [6]
Hannah was the daughter of John and Mary (Bartlett) Barnes, the granddaughter of Joseph Bartlett, the great-granddaughter of Joseph Bartlett and Mary Warren and the great-great-granddaughter of Richard Warren. [6]
On 15 June 1738 Jonathan Barnes, cordwainer of Plymouth, was appointed administrator of the estate of Lemuel Drew, mariner of Plymouth. [6]
Endnotes:
1. "John Drew," Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47827684/john-drew), photograph of stone: ""Here lies the body of John Drew aged 79 years, died July the 27th, 1721."
2. Lee D. van Antwerp and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1993), 657 (birth of Hannah).
3. "Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686–1881," database with images, AmericanAncestors, case 6700, citing records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.
4. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-GMJX : 12 March 2021), John Drew in entry for John Drew, 29 Aug 1676; citing Birth, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934186.
5. Alicia Crane Williams, "The Alden Family: A Look at the First Four Generations," Mayflower Descendant 48 (1998): 107–10.
6. Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700–1880," online database, AmericanAncestors, vol. 18, part 2: 62 (Lemuel), 117 (Nicholas), citing Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975–2015).
7. The Editor, "The Wills of Josiah Keen, Sr. of Duxbury and His Son Josiah of Pembroke," Mayflower Descendant 19 (1917): 128–31.
8. George Ernest Bowman, "The Wife of Dr. Benoni Delano and the Settlement of His Estate," Mayflower Descendant 20 (1918): 31–34.
Last revised: 24-Dec-2023