Mary Drake (1598 - abt. 1641)

Born 1598 in England

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Biography

Name

Mary Drake, alleged wife of John Bissell.

• "May I try to set the record straight once again? John¹ Bissell did indeed died in 1677; there is no authority that I know of for calling his wife Mary Drake. A nameless wife, perhaps mother of his children, died in 1641; he thereafter had another nameless wife whose death, as wife of John ;Sr.;, was recorded in 1665. ..."^[1]

Marriage Abt 1625 England

Death 21 MAY 1641 The real first wife died this day.

Whereas Francis Drake may or may not have had a daughter Ann, There is no known proof connecting his daughter as a wife of John Bissell.

Sources

1. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines. "Dorothy, Unidentified Wife of Edward Kellogg." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 123:278. (1969) [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11620/278/235594243 Link at AmericanAncestors ($)]

• U. S. and International Births and Marriages, 1650-1900, Ancestry.com.
• Birmingham England Births and Baptisms and marriages Book, William Richard Cutter
• Genealogies of Connecticut Families (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983) Page 350 Text: "The emigrant John Bissell (1591-1677) was keeper of the ferry at Windsor, Conn. By his wife, Mary Drake, he had six children, ..." This article was immediately refuted by Donald Lines Jacobus and is printed in the same volume on p. 352
• History of Litchfield County, Connecticut (J.W. Lewis & Co., Philadelphia, 1881) Page 160: "John Bissell, Sr., died Oct. 3, 1677, aged eighty-six; his wife died May 21, 1641." Makes no claim as to the wife's name