John Drake was one of the first settlers at Simsbury; inventory presented Sept. 12, 1689; Simsbury property amounted to ¹393 15s.; Windsor property, ¹223 2s.

LAND: John Drake's Ratable List in the year 1686, was one person, House land 4 acres, meado w 8 1/2 acres, East of ye River 10 acres, 4 cows: one of 1 yr. valued at 70/10/00. He purchased of the overseers of the estate of Mr. Ephraim Huit land in the Great Meadow 3 1/2 acres more or less, which in 1684 he claimed by right of undisputed possession for twenty years or more. The wood lot which he purchased of Richard Lyman he deeded to his son Enoch in 1679. He received 40 acres of woodland from the town....

WILL: I John Drake Sen. of windsor being sick and weakly yet having my understanding sound : doe make this my last will for the disposall of my estate
Impr. my will is that my debts be duly pd by my executor
2. I give to my son Job twenty shillings beside wht i have allready given him
3. I give to my son Enoch Drake that Lot in gt meadow wch was mr huits being about 3 ackers a nd halfe
4. I give to my son Symon my house and homelot and barne and my wood Lott upon ue mill brooc k being about fifteen ackers
5. I give to my son Joseph the Remaynder of my Land on the east side the gt River
6. I give to my three daughters Lydia Elizabeth and mindwell the Remayder of my Land wch is u ndisposed of in the Lot going to hartford known by the name of clay bridge allsoe i give to my daughter mary that wood Lot being about fifteen ackers Lying by my bro Jobs pasture
7. I give to my son Johns 3 Children twenty pounds that is to his son John ten pounds and th e two daughters 5 pounds apeice to be payd wn they Come to be of age and if any dy before they Come to be of age then there part to be devided to them that doo survive
8. It is my will and I doe hereby give to my daughter Ruth and son Symon Drake that Land wc h i bought of mr Howkins and Capt marshall being about 5 ackers upon the conditions following viz that they pay to my son Johns three children the twenty pounds I have given them in currant Country pay as they Come to be of age and wt the Land Comes to more at eight pounds pr acker shall be payd to all my daughters equally unles there be a nessessity for the discharging any of my debts and wt of moveables are undisposed be equally divided amongst my daugters Allsoe my will is that my 40 ackers of woodLand wch was Granted mee by the town shall be to him or them of my children wch will give most for it and the effects or price of it be equally devided amonst all my children allsoe my will is yt the severall percells of Land above mentioned and given to my children be and Remayne to ym and yr heyers for ever and ever
Allsoe I doe nominate and appoint my son Job Drake and my son in Law Sam-ll Barber to be exec utors to ys my will and for the Confirmation of wt is above written i doe hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of Sept 1689 signed in the presence and witnes of
John Moore Sen. John Drake
John Haill

Gay, Frank B., THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN DRAKE OF WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT, (Rutland, VT: The Tuttl e Company, 1933), p. 5-6.
Stiles, Henry R., THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT, (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1997), Vol. 2, p. 583.