Oooohhhh... Jan, .... what you did! You've just sent all us brick-wallers running for our sources to see if our ancestors are hiding among the Power/s people! <g> THIS is VERY interesting! We have this name [Power/s] on our list of variants at the Homestead and Cottage, but this is the first case I've seen that openly declared the original spelling was Bowers. Now I get to (mutter...mutter) go check all the NY Power/s names to see if my Phineas, Joel and Isaac happen to be piddling around among them. Thanks for thinking of and sharing this with all of us. :) The BOWERS-L cousins are enjoying this little goodie, too. I hope you're all having a SUPER Sunday! :) Colleen -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BOWER] Valentine & Martin Powers, brothers, originally Bowers Resent-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:46:08 -0600 Resent-From: BOWER-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 16:46:00 EDT From: KTompk7744@aol.com Reply-To: BOWER-L@rootsweb.com To: BOWER-L@rootsweb.com From: "Emmert Bittinger" <ebitting@bridgewater.edu> Subject: RE: [BRE] Valentine Powers Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:18:46 -0400 Resent-From: BRETHREN-L@rootsweb.com REPLY FROM EMMERT: <snipped> The original spelling of the last name of Valentine and Martin [Powers] was BOWERS, and they had come to the South Branch about 20 or 30 years earlier with a group of migrants from Pennsylvania. <snipped>