Webb County TX Jail is a County Jail used by the jurisdictions of Webb to confine inmates for short periods while awaiting trial or processing. As inmates are staying for only a short period, it has fewer amenities than a jail or prison.
Sir Francis Drake Â© Drake was an Elizabethan sailor and navigator, and the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon in around 1540 and went to sea at an early age. In 1567, Drake made one of the first English slaving voyages as part of a fleet led by his cousin John Hawkins, bringing African slaves to work in the 'New World'.
Edwin Drake was born in Greenville, Greene County, New York on March 29, 1819, the son of Lyman and Laura (nee NÃ©e) Lee. Drake he grew up on family farms Around New York state And, Castleton Rutland, County vermont before leaving home at the age of. 19dwin Drake was hired by the Seneca Oil Company to investigate suspected oil deposits in Titusville, Pennsylvania. James Townsend, President of the Seneca Oil Company, sent Drake to the site in the spring of 1858. The oil company chose the retired railway man partly because he had free use of the rail.