Isabel Drake

Generation 13 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Beulah Grahm ← Anna Frances Brown ← Isaac Horace Brown ← George Ellison Brown ← John Brown ← Isaiah Brown ← John Brown ← John Brown ← Sarah Barsham ← Anabel Smith “Bland” ← Isabel Drake

Born

c. 1579

Died

Abt. October 1639 near Watertown, Massachusetts

Family

Father

William Drake

Mother

Joan Merrylls

Child in this line

Anabel Smith “Bland”

Children

Isabel Smith “Bland”
b. Abt. 16123/16153/1617 · d. Abt. February 1698 [1699]
m. Francis Austin; Thomas Leavitt

Siblings

Robert Drake
b. Abt. July 1581 near Halstead, Essex, England · d. January 14, 1667[1668], in Hampton, New Hampshire
Thomas Drake
b. Abt. December 1582 near Halstead, Essex, England
m. Margery ____
Joshua Drake
b. Abt. November 1584 near Halstead, Essex, England
Joseph Drake
m. Rebecca Fairchild in 1610 at St. Botolph’s, Colchester, England
Joan Drake
m. Francis Cocke
Alice Drake
Ellen Drake
Elizabeth Drake

In brief

Born Abt. She died Abt in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Life story

A Watertown Burial

Isabel Drake was born around 1579–1589 in England, daughter of William Drake and Joan Merrylls, and inherited ten shillings from her mother in March 1617. She was buried in Watertown, Massachusetts, in October 1639.

Sources (3)

Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, 6 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009), 6:391-394; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2496/images/42521_b158317-00504 : accessed 21 August 2026).
Robert Charles Anderson, “John Smith of Watertown, Massachusetts,” The American Genealogist 61 (January/April 1985): 18-31; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/12790/18/144273857 : accessed 24 August 2026).
Alice Smith Thompson, The Drake Family of New Hampshire (Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1962); image copy, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/drakefamilyofnew00thom : accessed 24 August 2026).