Subject: Date: Thursday, 1 July 1999 2:54 Thanks Roy, I am trying to make linkages as you know between my maternal grandmother Laura Drake Nichols (father Cornelius Drake and mother Nancy Burns Drake) of Athens, GA (b.1894 d.1987). We are an African_American family with African, Anglo Saxon and Native American blood. Here in our area "black" descendants of Thomas Jefferson and his lifelong slave mistress, Sally Hemmings, proved direct descent through DNA linking using a lock of Jefferson's hair and celluar material from a descendant of Sally Hemmings. Te results were like the O.J. Simpson DNA testimony. It is time to face the fact that Drakes probably owned slaves here and in the West Indies, and that there was a signicant amount of miscegenation. Thanks for any help, I am a neophyte in geneology although I am a professional historian and teacher, this stuff is all new to me. Thanks again, Franklin Farmer, M.A. (Farmer-Artope/Nichols-Drake) See Attached File regarding native American Drakes living in Indian Territory, we believe that our family was descended from this line.