Michael Drake b. Abt. 1745 VA. d.May 1798 Montgomery Co., VA. md. Jane Davidson b. Abt. 1755 VA. d.Bef. 1824 KY. md. January 01, 1769 VA

Drake, Private Michael

shows entitlement to land bounty warrant

Drake, Private Michael

Capt Arrell's company 1776

Michael Drake was the son of

Samuel Drake & Mary Cox

children

Michael Drake b 1745

Mary Drake dau of Samuel Drake and Mary Cox married James Crockett 1749=1826

Family History: Virginia Genealogies #1, pre-1600 to 1900s page 456

(Virginia Military Records, Montgomery Co.'s Revolutionary Heritage, )

Michael and Jane Davidsons Children:

James Drake

Nancy Drake

Charles Frederick Drake

George Drake

Muhulda Drake

Polly Drake McComb Belcher (wife of James Belcher)

Priscilla Drake

Information on Jane Davidson is confusing a bit.

Born: About. 1755 in Virginia/Kentucky Death: About. 1823 in Kentucky/Virginia

(Polly and James named one of their children James Davidson Belcher after her mothers maiden name Davidson.)

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN

I Michael Drake of Montgomery County and ole of Virginia

being very weak in body but Influenced with Lively sediments of
Gratitude in the God of nature who has Blessed me with singular mercy in
and thro his Son Jesus Christ who takes away the Sin of the whole World
according to the Scripture, and now being convinced that it is appointed
for men to die and now being convinced of the uncertainty of life and all
human affairs do make it necessary to publish and declare this to be my
last will and Testament in the manner following.

Imprimis it is my will and desire for that my body be decently buried and ordered that all my
Just Debts be paid and my funeral expenses discharged, that my dearly
beloved wife JANE DRAKE and her children may have the plantation that she
now lives on and all the stock of all kind and plantation tools with
household furniture during her widowhood she and her children or if she
should marry that each child that is hers to have an equal part.

I have given JAMES DRAKE sometime ago a mare and saddle and an entry of Land,
the mare and saddle was worth thirteen pounds and that is all that I've
allow him, my son MICHAEL and JOHN to be schooled to read write and
phycer as far as the rule of five numbers, and I've appoint my wife JANE DRAKE and John Paul Elbing to be executors of this my Last will and Testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
the eleventh day of December one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven 1797.


Michael Drake (seal)
Signed Sealed published
and declared + Delivered
In presence of us

Alexander Ross
Barbary Ross

Montgomery May court 1798

This last will and Testament of Michael Drake deced was prescribed in
Court and proven by the Oaths of witnesses thereto and ordered to be
Recorded and on the ?_______ of Jane Drake and John Paul Ebling the
executrix and executor herein named who made oath, ?ordered into and
acknowledged ?bond with security according in Law Certificate is grated
them for obtaining a probate thereof in due form.

A copy

teste

Charles Taylor CWC

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DRAKE HEIRS TO JAMES ROWE, JR. GILES CO. VA 11/1/1816


This Indenture made this first day of November, 1816 between

Janie Ross, George Drake, Solomon Rowe and Elizabeth his wife, Charles Drake Isam
Atkins & Jane his wife, Polly McComb, John Drake,Michael Drake, Huldy Drake,
William Elswick, & Nancy his wife heirs & legatees of MICHAEL DRAKE
deceased of the County of Floyd & State of Kentucky of the one part and
James Rowe Jr. of the County of Giles and State of Virginia of the other
part witnessed that for the consideration of the um of hundred & Eighty
pounds to them in hand paid by the said James Rowe Jr. before the
unsealing and delivery of these presents the Receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged have granted bargained and Sold unto the said James Rowe his
heirs assign Executors & administers forever the two certain Tracts or
parcels of land to wit the first containing one hundred acres by Letters
patent bearing date the twenty ninth day of June one thousand and Seven
hundred and ninety five lying & being in the County of Giles on the head
of Spruce run a branch of New River and bounded as followeth to wit
Beginning at two red oaks and a white oak on the South Side of the branch
and running North 43 Poles crossing the branch to a double white oake
South 80 West 7178 poles to a chestnut oake on the South side of a hill
South 57 West 122 poles to a white oak in a flat South 30 East 35 poles
crossing Spruce run to a large black oake among a parcel of rocks north
70 East 290 poles to the Beginning the Second tract or parcel containing
Eighty acres by letters patent bearing date the twenty first day of
January one thousand Eight hundred lying & being in the County of Giles
and State of Virginia on Spruce run a branch of New River and bounded as
followeth to wit Beginning at a chestnut and two chestnut oaks on David
Prices line thence South 84 W 154 poles to two white oaks Saplings and a
red oake North 13 West 48 poles to two chestnut oaks & a chestnut North
14 East 44 poles to two chestnut on the South Side of a hill north 70
East 56 poles to two pines among racks S 60 East 56 poles to a large
chestnut oake on the Side of a mountain South 25 East ?90 poles the
Beginning, with all the appurtainances priveledges and a?maluments there
unto belonging orin anywise appurtaining to Each of the aforesaid tracts
of Land to himself the said James Rowe Jr, his heirs and assign forever
and the above written heirs and legatees do covanant and agree, to
warrant and defend the above described tracts of Land unto the said James
Rowe against themselves their heirs and every other person or persons
claims or claimant forever.

In witness whereof we have her unto set our
hand and seals the date above written.


Janie Ross (seal)
John Drake (seal)
Michael Drake (seal)
Polly McComb (seal)
Wm Elswick (seal)
Nancy Elswick (seal)
Huldy Drake (seal)

Testes:
Solomon Rowe
Willliam Mays
Elizabeth Rowe
Thomas Rowe
At Giles Co. June Court 1817

This deed from Jane Drake, John Drake, Michael Drake, Polly McComb,
William Elswick, Nancy Elswick, Huldy Drake which has been proven before
two Justices as to some of the parties and acknowledged by others and
returned into Court and ordered to be recorded.

Teste
David French CGC

Informatin provided by: Bob Burns

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Cousins of Michael Drake

The Drake brothers, Ephraim and Joseph, were both long hunters, but Joseph more so than Ephraim. Both had good family connections. Joseph was married to Margaret, the daughter of Col. John Buchanan who lived at Anchor and Hope Plantation. Joseph was killed by Indians near Boonesboro, Kentucky in August 1778, leaving his widow and a known son, John Drake, who lived later in Nicholas County, Kentucky.
Ephraim Drake married Anna Buchanan, a sister to the wife of Joseph. These Buchanan girls who married the Drake brothers were first cousins of General William Campbell (whose mother was a Buchanan), and of Captain James Thompson, whose mother and the wife of Col. John Buchanan were sisters and the daughter of Col. James Patton who was killed at Fort Vause in 1755. When Ephraim Drake went from the Holston is unknown to this writer. He was one of four Indian Spys serving on the Clinch frontier under Gen. Shelby in 1773.
Joseph Drake went from his father's home on New River and near Anchor and Hope Plantation (present Max Meadows) to Southwest Virginia by at least 1772, and perhaps earlier, according to court records. He took up 336 acres of land on Carlock's Creek. This is the creek that flows into the Holston just east of Chilhowie, and along the road that leads from Chilhowie to Saltville today.
Joseph got a tract of land from Col. John Buchanan's estate. The Hall's Bottom land (south of Bristol's Howard Johnson's Restaurant) and went to live there, but there was a German living there named Jacob Young, who had moved in on the land and squatted and he came to Drake's home and fired a pistol across the front porch and heckled Drake in general until he moved. James Dysart, who was the first sheriff of Washington County, wanted to help Drake run Young off, but Drake moved away nonetheless. Dysart wanted to help Drake because of
his attachment to him. He said he had been hunting on three long hunts with Drake, one in 1769 for 7 months, another in 1771 for 9 months, and the third in 1772 for 11 months.
Drake had moved his family to the Hall's Bottom tract in 1775, and then with the outbreak of the Cherokee War in 1776, moved them back up new river near his father's home, and left the Hall's Bottom land for Kentucky in 1777.
It will be recalled that a Drake boy was killed in Boone's party to Kentucky in 1773, and he was probably the son of this same Joseph Drake, who was either in the party of planning to join it later, as it is not likely that he would permit a teenage son to go to Kentucky alone. After Isaac Crabtree, who was in this party, witnessed the brutal slaying of his comrades from his hiding place in the driftwood along Wallen's Creek, he became so embittered he swore to kill every Indian he saw on sight. Joseph Drake must also have felt like Crabtree, for he, along with Crabtree and others created much dissension and danger on the frontier in their attempts on Indians. It will be recalled that Col. Christian thought of sending Drake to warn the surveyors but recalled that he had to be a witness at Crabtree's trial. Later in 1774 when Captain William Russell was raising troops for the Point Pleasant Campaign some eight or nine men refused to go unless Drake went as their Captain, and others refused to follow him, saying they wanted no part of the followers of Crabtree.
In 1773, Joseph Drake was living on Carlock's Creek as stated, and it was probably here that his young son joined Boone's son, James, and others who had left the main party at Chilhowie to go across country to let Captains William Russell and David Gass, know they were on their way, as both Russell and Gass, as both Russell and Gass planned to go to Kentucky with Boone. Boone's main party moved on down the Wilderness Road and was to await the Castlewood party in Powell Valley.
James Boone, son of Daniel, and two Mendenhall brothers from North Carolina are all that we definitely know to be in the party Boone sent to Castlewood, and it is very likely that these three were the party. Leaving the main party near present Chilhowie they must have journeyed up Carlock's Creek where they were joined by the Drake boy and as they proceeded on to Saltville where they were joined by Isaac Crabtree, traveling across Hayter's Gap and down through Elk Garden to Castlewood. All these young men, except Isaac Crabtree who escaped were killed near the head of Wallen's Creek in present Lee County by Indians on the morning of October 10, 1773, as well as young Henry Russell, son of Captain William, and a Negro slave of Russells'. The road from the Town House (now Chilhowie) across Hayter's Gap had been ordered to be opened earlier this year by the Court of Fincastle County