This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: POWLEY, CLARK, COBB, SOLOMON, SPAULDING, HUNT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4076.1 Message Board Post: Do you know why Daniel's middle name was POWLEY? I wonder if he went to Grand Rapids because of a POWLEY connection? My ggg-grandmother was Catherine POWLEY CLARK of Kent Co. From Chapman's 1881 "History of Kent County": "James Clark, born at Rahway, N. J.,  Jan. 31, 1799 married Miss Catherine Powley, of New York, in January, 1821; immigrated in 1831, and settled in Superior township, Washetaw [sic] County, where he dwelt until February, 1834, the date of his settlement at Grand Rapids. His was the 14th white family to make Kent county a home. He was the pioneer of Plainfield township, where he died in 1867."