Edward Drake

Owner of Orange Tree Valley in Trelawny.

1. Granted the patent to Orange Tree Valley in Trelawny by Charles II on 12/07/1678.

2. Edward Drake married Grace Modyford in St Catherine, Jamaica, 05/08/1679. Grace was the daughter of Sir James Modyford (d. 1672/3), Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica, and Elizabeth nee Slanning. Grace's only brother Thomas died young and she became heiress to her father. Edward Drake died in Jamaica 05/10/1680. Grace remarried, to Peter Heywood, in St Andrew, 02/02/1681/2.

1. This information appeared on http://www.orange-tree-valley.co.uk/ in 2015 but appears to be no longer available.

2. Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online]; email from Tammy Setterquist Hepp 22/03/2020 sourced to British Museum, Add. MS. 27,968, fol. 44; Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919) vol. 3 pp. 241-245.

We are grateful to Tammy Setterquist Hepp for her assistance with compiling this entry.