The Drakes were also extensive proprietors in this town ; the old estate called Nonsuch being bounded on the west by the Bronx, on the north by the Yonkers road leading to Swain's mill, on the east by the White Plains turnpike, and on the south by the Hunt's Bridge road. The property is now owned by various individuals. It is somev/hat curious, that the only portion of the original estate at present vested in the Drake family, is the site now occupied by the barns and out-buildings of the late Moses Drake. This individual was the son of Benjamin Drake, third in descent from Samuel Drake, Esq. of Fairfield, one of the first ten proprietors of Eastchester in 1664.

On the 9th of Sept. 1650^ Samuel Drake received a grant of land from the freeholders of Fairfield.

Upon the 8th of Feb. 1677, Samuel Drake of Eastchester sold unto his son Samuel Drake, three separate parcels of land lying jn Fairfield. a

The will of Samuel Drake, sen. bears date May 30th, 1676. •> Samuel Drake is presumed to have been a son of John Drake who emigrated to Boston in 1630, and finally settled in Windsor Conn., from whence his son Samuel removed to Fairfield.

The Drake family are of great antiquity, and descend from the old house of Drake of Ashe, Devonshire, England, a branch of

• Fairfield town Rec.

* Surogate's office, N. Y. vol. iii. 47.

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PEDIGREE OF PINCKNEY OF EASTCHEsTER.