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<div align="left">Of Springfield<span style="font-size:12pt">, near Barnstaple.  Memorial in Lee Chapel, Lee Bay near
Ilfracombe.  A J.P. and D.L. for Devon. </span></div>
<div align="left">Baptism Source</div>
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<div align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt">Zachary Drake was in the Commission of the Peace (a Justice of the Peace),
and was Deputy Lieutenant for the Counties of Devon and Cornwall.  </span></div>
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<div align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt">W. Hammett Drake is listed as a Commissioner (along with O.S. Saunders
and William Spurway) on the Stoke Rivers Land Tax Records for 1817.  </span></div>
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<div align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt">Zachary Hammett Drake lived at “Chapel” in the parish of Morwenstow (county
Cornwall) and afterwards at Springfield, near Barnstaple.  </span></div>
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<div align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt">Frances Drake's brother, Lieutenant-Colonel John Mervyn Cutcliffe, died in
1822 without issue.  By the terms of his Will apparently Frances Drake
inherited the Cutcliffe estates.</span></div>
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<div align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt">Vellum document (one page) dated 10 April 1828 [measuring 25.5 inches
(long) by 31 inches (wide)]:</span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt">… a security for £500 on a dwelling and gardens in High Street, Barnstable in
the County of Devon.  It is between Benjamin Baller, Zachery Hammett Drake,
John Gribble, and John Marshall to Joseph Wingnett Hunt.  It retains the
revenue stamp and the seal and signature of Benjamin Baller. [Description of
a document offered for sale on E-bay]</span></div>
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<div align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt">In 1841 Zachary Hammett Drake Esquire and Humphry Worth were listed as
the landowners/occupiers of land at the site of the (yet-to-be-built) Woodford
Bible Christian Chapel, at the hamlet of Woodford, in the parish of
Morwenstow, county Cornwall (field number 1641, described as "common
garden"; size one rood, 11 poles)  ['Woodford Methodist Chapels: 1841 Tithe
Schedule']</span></div>
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