(252) 4. Drake. M.T.M.S. Nov. 18, 1908.  Have conclusively established the parentage and ancestry of Sarah Drake, wife of Benjamin (3) Hull of Piscataway, New Jersey (Benjamin 2, Rev. Joseph 1).  He died in 1731, leaving a will dated June 7, 1731 and probated Jan. 4, 17___, which names six children and wife, Sarah, who is made executrix.  Witnesses: Benjamin Hull, Rachel Drake and Abraham Drake, Jr..  Real estate is left to widow.  Miss Anna M. North of Trenton (now dead) made searches among miscellaneous records at Trenton and furnished the writer this memorandum:  “Sarah Hull (widow of Benjamin) married Israel Folsom before April 14, 1740.”  New Jersey Archives vol xix, page 97, gives advertisement under date of Sept. 2, 17__1, sale of a “good, large stone house, formerly belonging to Benjamin Hull and lately to Israel Folsom,” etc.: Rev. John Drake of Piscataway died in 1739 leaving a will probated April 7, 1740, which names children: Benjamin, Isaac, Abraham, Samuel, Hanna, Sarah Folsom, Mary Davis et al.  He had three wives: Rebecca Trotter, daughter of William; second and third unknown.  (Fitz Randolph traditions—1907—chart.)  Farmer gives William Trotter’s wife as Cutbury Gibbs.  Rev. John Drake was a son of Captain Francis Drake of Piscataway, formerly of Portsmouth, and wife Mary (what was her maiden name?).  Francis is presumed to have been a son of Robert, born Devonshire, Eng, 1580, died Jan. 14, 1668 at Exeter, leaving a will, however, not mentioning Francis (authority: Chambers’s “Early Germans of New Jersey,” page 235, and Savage).  The several correspondents working on Drake data will also note that Benjamin Hull (above) and Sarah Drake had a son Joseph, who married Susannah, daughter of Rev. Benjamin Stelle of Piscataway.  Hence, in the search for parentage of Mercy Drake, it is well to keep the descendants of Captain Francis in mind.  He had a brother, George, early in Piscataway, who married Mary Oliver and had a daughter, Mary (Mercy).