Hello, Joe & Judy. Well, I rarely ever hear from anyone on my line here, & I wish this one was, BUT it so far does not look like it. my Susannah, the mother says on the 1850 census that she is 47 years old & from S. Carolina. no indication of her maiden name. HOWEVER, she has this niece named Mahala Taylor. her mother Elizabeth (Cook) Taylor is not mentioned in her will as a daughter or dgtr in law, she is not mentioned at all so I have surmised that Susannah could be a Cook. or had a son named Taylor (surname) but then I see that this Cook that E.is married to has parents. I have thought maybe too that she, Susannah was a Powell herself, never married BUT had ch.there are a lot of Powell's in WI. none apparently related to us. I also took out John Powell's will. he made that out as he was leaving for the civil war. he went out of WI. he apparently was b. in Ind. he was 18 in 1850 so in July 1862 he was 30.had a son named Andrew Jackson Powell calls him an inf. in July of that year. I find him no more anywhere. John had a brother Andrew J. Powell. in 1850 he is 21 not around for the 1860 census. I dont have the names involved with this family previous to some of the ch. marrying.Cynthia m. a Newberry, Rachel m. a Stewart, Mahala m. a Trout,Susannah J. m. Jesse A. Ferrel that is our line. & the Taylor child m. a man named Cave. everyone that I have found of the children's marriages were happy I found them because they did not know the maiden names for any of these girls. John Powell m. Luzena (Bates) Powell. nothing on his brother Andrew. I am always happy to hear when someone finds "their brick wall family" & wish I could find this one. I do thank you for a reply. IF you find any of these in your line you know I want to hear from you. in the meantime to all the Powell list members I wish you all a Happy New year.right from the N.W, corner of Arkansas..........Jo Ann Loghry

Is anyone researching William & Wilmoth Wade Powell of Va., N. C., Tenn. & Tishomingo Co., Miss. in the 1800s? Wilmouth was a sister of my great grandfather, George Boxley Wade. If you would like to exchange info on these families, please write...Betty in Texas

That is an excellent Word, Angie. I am impressed with what the Lord gives for you to share with others! Love, Mom ----- Original Message ----- From: Jane Foley To: POWELL-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 6:30 PM Subject: [POWELL] Dinner in the 1700's I found this online, and found it very informative. My thanks to this group for posting this in an effort to learn about our forefathers and foremothers. This information was collected as a part of the research done by the 25th Continental Regiment, a living history group. The regiment re-creates an American unit from 1776 that fought in the American Revolution. HOW THE SOLDIERS COOKED: We drew a day's ration of beef and flour, what was called a pound of each. The flour, perhaps, was not far from its nominal weight, but the beef was, as it always was in such cases, and indeed in all others in the army, not more than three fourths of a pound, and that, at the best, half bone. And how was it cooked? Why as it usually was when we had no cooking utensils with us, - that is, the flour was laid upon a flat stone and scorched on one side, while the beef was broiling on a stick in the fire. This was the common way of cookery when on the marches, and we could get anything to cook, and this was the mode at the time mentioned. After I had satisfied my hunger, I lay down upon the ground and slept... Private Joseph Plumb Martin, 1777 We arrived at Valley Forge in the evening ... I lay here two nights and one day and had not a morsel of anything to eat all the time, save half of a small pumpkin, which I cooked by placing it upon a rock, the skin side uppermost, and making a fire upon it. Private Joseph Plumb Martin, 1777 F[riday] 16 to T[hursday] 29. very Cold indeed / we git sum wheat that is [in] bags below ware we go after wood and burn it wich makith very good Coffe and selling sum of our thing we git sum money & so we have once in a while Sum Caffe. Private Jeremiah Greenman, February, 1776 [At the siege of Yorktown, Sarah Osborne] took her stand just back of the American tents, say about a mile from the town, and busied herself washing, mending, and cooking for the soldiers, in which she was assisted by the other females ... cooked and carried in beef, and bread, and coffee (in a gallon pot) to the soldiers in the entrenchment. Sarah Osborne, 1781 ************* RECIPES OF THE 18th CENTURY AND THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD: At home, families in America cooked following the recipes handed down to them, or from English recipe books. The first American cookbook was not published until 1796, but English cookbooks had been re-printed in America before then. Breakfast Recipes: Indian Slapjacks One quart of milk, 1 pint of indian [corn] meal, 4 eggs, 4 spoons of flour, little salt, beat together, baked on griddles, or fry in a dry pan, or baked in a pan which has been rub'd with suet, lard or butter. Amelia Simmons, 1796 To make fried Toasts Chip a manchet [ a round loaf of fine bread] very well, and cut it roundways into toasts; then take cream and eight eggs, season'd with sack, sugar, and nutmeg; and let these toasts steep in it about an hour; then fry them in sweet butter, serve them up with plain melted butter, or with butter, sack and sugar, as you please. Eliza Smith, 1758 Meat Recipes: To broil Stakes When you have a very clear brisk fire, make your gridiron very clean, put some hot coals from the fire into a chafing dish, and place a dish over them, in order to receive your stakes when ready; take rump-stakes, which should be about half an inch thick; after you have thrown over them a little pepper and salt, place them on the gridiron, and do not turn them till that side be done; when you have turned them you will soon perceive a fine gravy laying on the upper part of the stake, which you must carefully preserve by taking the when ready warily from your gridiron, and placing them on the dish: Then covering the dish, send them hot to the table with the cover on. Some before they take the stake from the gridiron, cut into the dish a shalot or two, or a fine onion, and a little vinegar. Eliza Smith, 1758 To mumble Rabbits and Chickens Put into the bellies of your rabbits, or chickens, some parsley, an onion, and the liver; set it over the fire in the stew-pan with as much water mixed with a little salt as will cover them; when they are half boiled take them out, and shred the parsley, liver, and onion; tear the flesh from the bones of the rabbit in small flakes, and put it into the stew-pot again with a very little of the liquor it was boiled in, a pint of white-wine, some gravy, half a pound or more of butter, some grated nutmeg; when tis enough, shake in a little flour, and thicken it with butter. Serve it on snippets [pieces of toasted bread]. Eliza Smith, 1758 To stew a Rump of Beef Season your rump of beef with two nutmegs, some pepper and salt, and lay the fat side downward in your stew-pan; put to it a quarter of a pint of vinegar, a pint of claret, three pints of water, three whole onions stuck with a few cloves, and a bunch of sweet-herbs; cover it close, and let it stew over a gentle fire four or five hours; scum off the fat from the liquor. Lay your meat on sippets, and pour your liquor over it. Garnish your dish with scalded greens. Eliza Smith, 1758 Vegtable Recipes: To stew Cucumbers Pare twelve cucumbers, slice them as for eating, put them to drain, and lay them in a coarse cloth until they are dry; flour them, and fry them brown in butter; then put in some gravy, a little claret, some pepper, cloves, mace, and let them stew a little; them roll a bit of butter in flour, and toss them up; put them under mutton or lamb roasted. Eliza Smith, 1758 To dress Carrots. Scrape them very clean, and when the water boils, put them into your pot or sauce-pan; if they are young spring carrots, they will be boiled in a half an hour, but if large they will require an hour. Take them out, slice them into a plate, and pour over them melted butter. Eliza Smith, 1758 To dress Potatoes Put your potatoes into the sauce-pan with a proper quantity of water; and when they are enough, which may be known by their skins beginning to crack, drain al the water from them, and let them stand close covered up for two or three minutes; then peel them, plate them in a plate, and pour over them a proper quantity of melted butter: Or after you have peeled them, lay them on a gridiron, and, when they are of a fine brown, send them to table. Or you may cut them into slices, fry them in butter,and season them with pepper and salt. Eliza Smith, 1758 Dessert Recipes: Plain Cake. Three quarters of a pound of sugar, 1 pound of butter, and 6 eggs work'd into 1 pound of flour. [Bake in a loaf pan at 325 degrees F. for 75-80 minutes.] Amelia Simmons, 1796 A Nice Indian Pudding. No. 1. 3 pints scalded milk, 7 spoons fine Indian meal, stir well together while hot, let stand till cooled; add 7 eggs, half a pound of raisins, 4 ounces butter, spice and sugar, bake one and half hour. No. 2. 3 pints scalded milk to one pint meal salted; cool, add 2 eggs, 4 ounces butter, sugar or molasses and spice q.s. [quantum sufficit - as much as suffices] it will require two and half hours baking. Amelia Simmons, 1796 Apple Pastries to fry. Pare and quarter apples, and boil them in sugar and water, and a stick of cinnamon, and when tender, put in a little white wine, the juice of a lemon, a piece of fresh butter, and a little ambergrease or orange-flower water; stir all together, and when it is cold put it in a puff-paste and fry them. Eliza Smith, 1758 Puff Paste for Tarts. No. 5. One pound flour, three fourths of a pound of butter, beat well. 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My thanks to Jane Foley for the excellent articles on "1700 Rations" and "Dinner in the 1700s". I find these most interesting, and appreciate an insight into the daily lives of our ancestors. Our Charles Powell II was born in Stafford County, VA in 1740. He served in the First Continental Line with Geo. Washington for three years, including Valley Forge. He was a "bombardier" in Col. Harrison's Artillery Regiment; one who prepared the shot and cut the fuse for the artillery shells. He had previously served in the Spotsylvania County Militia for two years, then served three years as a Sergeant in Col. Harrison's 1st Continental Artillery, then served two more years in the Halifax County Militia. He received a land grant in Kentucky in 1783 for his service in the Continental Line, and died in Mercer County Kentucky in 1810. I can just imagine Charles and his gun crew huddled around their campfire at Valley Forge, eating their flour from a flat rock and their beef from a stick. Just as a sidenote; my Powells in the Civil War fared no better. How any of them survived I don't know, and most of them didn't. Disease and privation killed twice as many CW soldiers as combat; one can only wonder at the ratio in the Revolutionary War. Probably about the same. Once again, my thanks to Jane. Ray Walters Independence, MO

I found this online, and found it very informative. My thanks to this group for posting this in an effort to learn about our forefathers and foremothers. This information was collected as a part of the research done by the 25th Continental Regiment, a living history group. The regiment re-creates an American unit from 1776 that fought in the American Revolution. HOW THE SOLDIERS COOKED: We drew a day's ration of beef and flour, what was called a pound of each. The flour, perhaps, was not far from its nominal weight, but the beef was, as it always was in such cases, and indeed in all others in the army, not more than three fourths of a pound, and that, at the best, half bone. And how was it cooked? Why as it usually was when we had no cooking utensils with us, - that is, the flour was laid upon a flat stone and scorched on one side, while the beef was broiling on a stick in the fire. This was the common way of cookery when on the marches, and we could get anything to cook, and this was the mode at the time mentioned. After I had satisfied my hunger, I lay down upon the ground and slept... Private Joseph Plumb Martin, 1777 We arrived at Valley Forge in the evening ... I lay here two nights and one day and had not a morsel of anything to eat all the time, save half of a small pumpkin, which I cooked by placing it upon a rock, the skin side uppermost, and making a fire upon it. Private Joseph Plumb Martin, 1777 F[riday] 16 to T[hursday] 29. very Cold indeed / we git sum wheat that is [in] bags below ware we go after wood and burn it wich makith very good Coffe and selling sum of our thing we git sum money & so we have once in a while Sum Caffe. Private Jeremiah Greenman, February, 1776 [At the siege of Yorktown, Sarah Osborne] took her stand just back of the American tents, say about a mile from the town, and busied herself washing, mending, and cooking for the soldiers, in which she was assisted by the other females ... cooked and carried in beef, and bread, and coffee (in a gallon pot) to the soldiers in the entrenchment. Sarah Osborne, 1781 ************* RECIPES OF THE 18th CENTURY AND THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD: At home, families in America cooked following the recipes handed down to them, or from English recipe books. The first American cookbook was not published until 1796, but English cookbooks had been re-printed in America before then. Breakfast Recipes: Indian Slapjacks One quart of milk, 1 pint of indian [corn] meal, 4 eggs, 4 spoons of flour, little salt, beat together, baked on griddles, or fry in a dry pan, or baked in a pan which has been rub'd with suet, lard or butter. Amelia Simmons, 1796 To make fried Toasts Chip a manchet [ a round loaf of fine bread] very well, and cut it roundways into toasts; then take cream and eight eggs, season'd with sack, sugar, and nutmeg; and let these toasts steep in it about an hour; then fry them in sweet butter, serve them up with plain melted butter, or with butter, sack and sugar, as you please. Eliza Smith, 1758 Meat Recipes: To broil Stakes When you have a very clear brisk fire, make your gridiron very clean, put some hot coals from the fire into a chafing dish, and place a dish over them, in order to receive your stakes when ready; take rump-stakes, which should be about half an inch thick; after you have thrown over them a little pepper and salt, place them on the gridiron, and do not turn them till that side be done; when you have turned them you will soon perceive a fine gravy laying on the upper part of the stake, which you must carefully preserve by taking the when ready warily from your gridiron, and placing them on the dish: Then covering the dish, send them hot to the table with the cover on. Some before they take the stake from the gridiron, cut into the dish a shalot or two, or a fine onion, and a little vinegar. Eliza Smith, 1758 To mumble Rabbits and Chickens Put into the bellies of your rabbits, or chickens, some parsley, an onion, and the liver; set it over the fire in the stew-pan with as much water mixed with a little salt as will cover them; when they are half boiled take them out, and shred the parsley, liver, and onion; tear the flesh from the bones of the rabbit in small flakes, and put it into the stew-pot again with a very little of the liquor it was boiled in, a pint of white-wine, some gravy, half a pound or more of butter, some grated nutmeg; when tis enough, shake in a little flour, and thicken it with butter. Serve it on snippets [pieces of toasted bread]. Eliza Smith, 1758 To stew a Rump of Beef Season your rump of beef with two nutmegs, some pepper and salt, and lay the fat side downward in your stew-pan; put to it a quarter of a pint of vinegar, a pint of claret, three pints of water, three whole onions stuck with a few cloves, and a bunch of sweet-herbs; cover it close, and let it stew over a gentle fire four or five hours; scum off the fat from the liquor. Lay your meat on sippets, and pour your liquor over it. Garnish your dish with scalded greens. Eliza Smith, 1758 Vegtable Recipes: To stew Cucumbers Pare twelve cucumbers, slice them as for eating, put them to drain, and lay them in a coarse cloth until they are dry; flour them, and fry them brown in butter; then put in some gravy, a little claret, some pepper, cloves, mace, and let them stew a little; them roll a bit of butter in flour, and toss them up; put them under mutton or lamb roasted. Eliza Smith, 1758 To dress Carrots. Scrape them very clean, and when the water boils, put them into your pot or sauce-pan; if they are young spring carrots, they will be boiled in a half an hour, but if large they will require an hour. Take them out, slice them into a plate, and pour over them melted butter. Eliza Smith, 1758 To dress Potatoes Put your potatoes into the sauce-pan with a proper quantity of water; and when they are enough, which may be known by their skins beginning to crack, drain al the water from them, and let them stand close covered up for two or three minutes; then peel them, plate them in a plate, and pour over them a proper quantity of melted butter: Or after you have peeled them, lay them on a gridiron, and, when they are of a fine brown, send them to table. Or you may cut them into slices, fry them in butter,and season them with pepper and salt. Eliza Smith, 1758 Dessert Recipes: Plain Cake. Three quarters of a pound of sugar, 1 pound of butter, and 6 eggs work'd into 1 pound of flour. [Bake in a loaf pan at 325 degrees F. for 75-80 minutes.] Amelia Simmons, 1796 A Nice Indian Pudding. No. 1. 3 pints scalded milk, 7 spoons fine Indian meal, stir well together while hot, let stand till cooled; add 7 eggs, half a pound of raisins, 4 ounces butter, spice and sugar, bake one and half hour. No. 2. 3 pints scalded milk to one pint meal salted; cool, add 2 eggs, 4 ounces butter, sugar or molasses and spice q.s. [quantum sufficit - as much as suffices] it will require two and half hours baking. Amelia Simmons, 1796 Apple Pastries to fry. Pare and quarter apples, and boil them in sugar and water, and a stick of cinnamon, and when tender, put in a little white wine, the juice of a lemon, a piece of fresh butter, and a little ambergrease or orange-flower water; stir all together, and when it is cold put it in a puff-paste and fry them. Eliza Smith, 1758 Puff Paste for Tarts. No. 5. One pound flour, three fourths of a pound of butter, beat well. Amelia Simmons, 1796 http://members.aol.com/Srlohnes/recipe.html Happy Holidays! Jane Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!

My thanks to this group for posting this in an effort to learn about our forefathers and foremothers. I hope you learn as much from this information that has been so generously shared by the living history group mentioned, as I have. This information was collected as a part of the research done by the 25th Continental Regiment, a living history group. The regiment re-creates an American unit from 1776 that fought in the American Revolution. THE ISSUE RATION approved by the Continental Congress appears generous. The "General Orders" issued by General George Washington state what was supposed to be issued to the Continental soldier. Subsequent orders and journal entries indicate what was actually received as time went on. In general, the soldiers' diet appears monotonous. Their diet does not appear to meet today's dietary guidelines as depicted in a comparison of the modern "food pyramid": By order of his Excellency General Washington, a Board of General Officers sat yesterday in Cambridge, and unanimously recommended the following Rations to be delivered in the manner hereby directed - Viz: Corn'd Beef and Pork, four days in a week. Salt Fish one day, and fresh Beef two days. As Milk cannot be procured during the Winter Season, the Men are to have one pound and a half of Beef, or eighteen Ounces of Pork pr. day. Half pint of Rice, or pint of Indian Meal pr Week - One Quart of Spruce Beer pr day, or nine Gallons of Molasses to one hundred Men pr week. Six pounds of Candles to one hundred Men pr week, for guards. Six Ounces of Butter, or nine Ounces of Hogs-Lard pr week. Three pints of Pease, or Beans pr man pr week, or Vegetables equivalent, allowing Six Shillings pr Bushel for Beans, or Pease - two and eight pence pr Bushel for Onions - One and four pence pr Bushel for Potatoes and Turnips - One pound of Flour pr man each day - Hard Bread to be dealt out one day in a week, in lieu of Flour. General George Washington, General Orders Headquarters at Cambridge Mass., December 24, 1775. we wenent down the river Sorrel to Shambalee Fort, where we tried to get baked bread (no other provisions to be had hear) Lt. Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin, Journal Entry Fort Chambly, Canada, May 14, 1776. they [the workmen] had only 12 ozs of pork 1 1/2 lb of Flower pr Day Lt. Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin, Journal Entry Mount Independence VT, July 18, 1776. The Weather being so wet and Stormy all Last Night, the Commisary is to Issue one gil of Rum to Every non Commisioned Officer and Soldier now in Camp. [Note: this order repeats frequently throughout the summer and into the fall.] 2nd New Jersey Orderly Book, General Orders Fort Ticonderoga NY, July 19, 1776. As Live Cattle increce, the Commisary will Issue five Days Fresh and two Days Salt a Week. 2nd New Jersey Orderly Book, General Orders Fort Ticonderoga NY, July 26, 1776. The Troops are to Receive 1 lb. Flower Beef or 1 lb. of pork per Man a Day Till further Orders. 2nd New Jersey Orderly Book, General Orders Fort Ticonderoga NY, August 5, 1776. When there is not Beef, the Commisary will Isue a half a Pound of Porke 1 1/2 lb. Flour to each man Per Day til further Orders. 2nd New Jersey Orderly Book, General Orders Fort Ticonderoga NY, September 1, 1776. The Commissary will issue three Sheep to each Regt. and two to the Corps of Artillery tomorrow Morning at 10 o'clock. The Commanding Officers of Regts. will see that the sick weak Soldiers of Regts. are supplyed with this Refreshment. 2nd New Jersey Orderly Book, General Orders Fort Ticonderoga NY, September 27, 1776. Mr. Commissary Avery has orders to send directly from Saratoga one thousand Bushels of Turnips Potatoes, which will be served out to the Troops in due proportion upon their arrival at the Commissary Store. 2nd New Jersey Orderly Book, General Orders FortTiconderoga NY, September 29, 1776. It having been represented to the General that many regiments would at this season choose to lesson their ration of meat and supply it with vegetables if they could be permitted, is concerned for the health of the troops, and desires to gratify them in every reasonable request, induces him to direct that Cols. of such regiments as choose to adopt that plan signify to the Commy. Gen. and in two days afterwards the Quartermasters of such regiments be allowed to draw one quarter part of the usual rations in money to be laid out in vegetables. Orderly Book, General Orders Martin's Regiment - New Jersey Militia, July 22, 1776. ************* The PURCHASE of liquor from suttlers (people who traveled with the army to sell liquor to the soldeirs) and food from markets established in camp or nearby, supplemented the issue diet. Fruits and vegetables as well as liquor were purchased: Pine apples as large as a quart Mug, for 6d [d = penny, s= shilling] each. ... A vessel came in on the 19th loaded with the above. She brought 300 dozen of Pine apples - I went on board her this morning (23d) and chose two out of several Cartloads, for which I gave only 1s/ 5 1/2d - The most beautiful fruit I ever saw, and in flavour much superior to any in England. Lt. Mackenzie (British Army), Royal Welch Fusiliers Upon Arrival in New York City, June 29, 1773. No Person is for the future to presume to sell any Stores, or Liquor to the troops, unless he be first appointed Sutler to some Regiment, by the Colonel or Officer commanding the same... General George Washington, General Orders Headquarters at Cambridge, September 6, 1775. bought 50 lemmons Lt. Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin, Journal Entry Camp at Cambridge, February 15, 1776. No Suttler is to Sell Liquor to a Soldier after Sunset or Suffer them to be about their Huts after that time. 2nd New Jersey Orderly Book, General Orders Camp at Crown Point, July 5, 1776. Various frauds, impositions and abuses being every day committed, by traders, and huksters, coming to this camp, the Quarter Master Gen. and his Assistant are immediately to regulate the prices to be paid for the several commodities brought to sell particularly, garden stuff, venison, cheese, butter and all manner of eatibles. For the future all persons bringing any of the above articles immediately for sale are to carry them to the foot of the glasee of the old fort where the markitt is constantly to be held - Should any person or person be detected monopolising or fore stauling the markitt, they will be punish'd by a Court Martial and have all their goods seiz'd for the sick of the hospital. The markett is to be opened every morning at 8 oclock and be allow'd to continue till Sun Sett. 4th Penn. Battalion Orderly Book, General Orders Ticonderoga, September 25, 1776. The two hundered bushels of onions just brought to the Carrying Place at Lake George are to be one half of them sold at the markett post upon the glacis of the old fort and the other half at the markett place in front of Col. Pattersons Regt. upon Mount Independence. 4th Penn. Battalion Orderly Book, General Orders Fort Ticonderoga NY, September 29, 1776. ************* FORAGING, or gathering food from the surrounding countryside, was another way the soldiers could add variety to their meals. Not everyone wanted soldiers to find food this way: our People are not alowed to tread on the ground scarcely they are not alowed to get orsters out of the Cove one man forbid the soldery catching eales But he got nothing for that But Cryes. Lieutenant Joseph Hodgkins, Letter to His Wife Camp at Long Island NY, May 22, 1776. A Sergant and twelve men to be Draufted from the Main Guard tomorrow to be posted on the South Side of the Lake near McDonald's for the Security of his Property, as he Complains of the Destruction offered to his Peas and Potatoes by the Soildiers. 2nd New Jersey Orderly Book, General Orders Fort Ticonderoga NY, July 29, 1776. Fishing in Battoes being Prejudicial to the men's Health, to the Service, to the Battoes, is positively Prohibited. 2nd New Jersey Orderly Book, General Orders Fort Ticonderoga NY, July 31, 1776. Strayed yesterday from Head Quarters, a Fat Sheep belonging to the General. He has that Opinion of the Soldiers under his Command that they will return Him his sheep whenever they find it. 2nd New Jersey Orderly Book, General Orders Fort Ticonderoga NY, August 16, 1776. Contrary to all good discipline and in dissobeydiance of the most possitive orders some officers and soldiers have presumed to shoot pidgeons and other game in and in about the several incampments. 4th Penn. Battalion Orderly Book, General Orders Fort Ticonderoga NY, October 10, 1776. ************* ITEMS SENT FROM HOME further added to what was issued, bought or foraged: ... I sent a suguer Box By Naty Dodge I wish you could fill it with suguar send it as soon as you can ... I should Be glad of Sum Coffee Lieutenant Joseph Hodgkins, Letter to His Wife Camp at Cambridge, June 20, 1775. These Comes per your scooner Capt. Ingraham with sundry Artikles for the Army I understood per Letter from Colo. Huntington that it was very difficult to Obtain green Sase [sauce] in N York so ordered a Box filled with Betes, Carriots, Puttatoes, and Turnups directed to your Care to be divided between your Self and Brothors in Camp ... have also sent a Box of Choice good Old Cheese . Jabez Huntington, Letter to His Son Addressed to Camp at New York, August 6, 1776. If there is a good Opportunity to send me a small Matter of Honey Tamarinds they will be very acceptable. Colonel Jedediah Huntington (HP/321) Letter to His Father From the Camp at New York, August 19, 1776. Happy Holidays! Jane Foley

Oglethorpe Co., GA., will book A., page 72 Will DTD Nov 4, 1795 Edward Powell, Jr., Albemarle Parish in Sussex Co., VA. I give to my son John Powell ----------. I give to my son Seymour Powell----------. I give and bequeath to my son Edward Powell----------. I lend to my daughter Elizabeth Fletcher----------. I lend to my daughter Martha Dunn----------. I give and bequeath to my grandson John Powell, son of John Powell----------. I will that all the residue of my estate be sold and money arising from such sale be equally divided between my three children, John Powell, Edward Powell and Martha Dunn. I appoint my two sons John and Edward Powell executors Witnesses: John Garland or Darham ?, Peter Rainey, and Arramanars Abernathy. Recorded March 31, 1798 ___________________________________________________________________________ 1c. Edward Powell: AKA Jr. b. ca 1728/1735 VA., d. before 1798 Oglethorpe Co....., GA. m. Mary VA. Will: DTD 4 Nov 1795, probated 31 Mar 1798 Oglethorpe Co., GA., Ex. John & Edward Powell, (sons), wife, Mary; sons, Seymour, John & Edward; daughters; Elizabeth Fletcher, Martha Dunn, grandson John Powell, s/o John Children of Edward Powell SR. & wife Mary 2a. Elizabeth Powell: b. 26 Jan 1746-7 VA., m. 1st 24 Nov 1785 Sussex Co., VA., Peter Cain m. 2nd 20 Sep 1792 Thomas Fletcher. Birth recorded in the Register of Albemarle Parish, Sussex Co., VA 2b. Seymour Powell: b. 14 Nov 1748 VA., d. ca 1816 Oglethorpe Co., GA., m. Elizabeth Drury VA. Birth recorded in the Register of Albemarle Parish, Sussex Co., VA Will: DTD 24 May 1816, rec 17 Jun 1818 Oglethorpe Co., Ga., wife, Elizabeth Powell, sons Thomas, Edward W., Drury, Hudson, Lyman, and Seymour. Children of Seymour & Elizabeth Powell: 3a. Thomas Powell: b. 22 Mar 1776 VA., m. 12 Oct 1804 Sally Milner Oglethorpe Co., GA. 3b. David Powell: b. 22 Feb 1778 3c. Edward Whitaker Powell: b. 2 Oct 1780, m. 23 Jul 1812 Oglethorpe Co. Ga. Polly Hardin 3d. Drury Powell: b. 30 Apr 1782 VA, d. Dec 1822 Montgomery Co., AL, m. 7 Feb 1815 Oglethorpe Co., GA Nancy W. Dunn. 3e. Francis Denton Powell: b. 11 Jun 1783 VA 3f. James Powell: b. 5 Apr 1785 VA. 3g. Hudson Powell: b. 31 Jan 1787 VA., m. 7 Apr 1812 Lydia Bessent 3h.William Powell: b. 7 Mar 1790 VA 3i. Seymour Powell, Jr., b. 5 Nov 1792 VA., d. 9 Aug 1834 Lowndes Co., AL., m. Martha Ursula Cowling 4 Oct 1814 Columbia Co., GA. 2c. Penelope Powell: b. 7 Dec 1750-1 VA. Birth recorded in the Register of Albemarle Parish, Sussex Co., VA 2d. Martha Powell: b. 29 Mar 1752 VA., m. 2 Nov 1782 Sussex Co., VA., Drury Dunn Birth recorded in the Register of Albemarle Parish, Sussex Co., VA 2e. Edward Powell, Jr.: b. 3 Aug 1755 VA., d. ca 1801 Oglethorpe Co., GA., m. Mary Hardaway Birth recorded in the Register of Albemarle Parish, Sussex Co., VA Will DTD 1 Jul 1801, probated 1 Feb 1802, children under age, Ex, John Powell & John Hardeman, wife Mary Deed DTD 17 Nov 1785, Thomas Hardaway, Jr., of Sussex Co., VA, to his brother-in-law Edward Powell, Jr., (and his wife Mary my sister) of same. 8 Jul 1785. Deed of gift --- which were devised to Mrs. Sarah Hardaway dec’d (Mother of the SD Thomas Hardaway, Jr.) Wit: Noah Brown, Edward Powell. 17 Nov 1785 Children of Edward Powell Jr., wife Mary: 3a. Sally Powell, m. 1801 Oglethorpe Co., GA., William Collier Book, “Virginia Soldiers of 1776” cites marriage of Sally and William Collier 3b. Jemena/Jemima Powell, m. 1803 Oglethorpe Co., GA., Williamson Collier Book, “Virginia Soldiers of 1776” cites marriage of Jemena and Williamson Collier 3c. Polly Powell, m. 1809 Oglethorpe Co., GA., James Micklebrough Guardian and Administrator’s Bonds 1794-1848, Oglethorpe Co., GA.: Polley Powell orphan and minor of Edward Powell deceased. John Powell appointed guardian 5 Jan 1807 3d. Rebecca Powell, b. 19 May 1797, d. 7 Sep 1839 Coosa Co., AL. m. 1810 Oglethorpe Co., GA., Vines Smith, b. 28 Fe 1794, d. 8 Dec 1857 Burial in Higgins Cemetery, located near the site of the old Smith Ferry’s Coosa River Crossing. Guardian and Administrator’s Bonds 1794-1848, Oglethorpe Co., GA.: Rebecca Powell orphan and minor of Edward Powell deceased. John Powell appointed guardian 5 Jan 1807 3e. Lucy Powell, m. 1806 Oglethorpe Co., GA., Barnett Gresham Records of Florine Matthews and James Devenport 3f. Nancy Powell: b. ca 1790, d. betw 1840 & 1850, m. John Varner 10 Dec 1807 Oglethorpe Co., GA. John & Nancy moved from GA ca 1819 to Montgomery Co., AL., later Lowndes Co., AL. Children of John & Nancy Powell Varner: (for children contact NKCorum@aol.com) 2f. Rebekah Powell: b. 31 Mar 1759 VA., m. 22 Jul 1785 Sussex Co., VA., Thomas Hardaway Birth recorded in the Register of Albemarle Parish, Sussex Co., VA 2g. John Powell: name found in will

I am trying to reconstruct the families of John and Edward Powell of Sussex Co. VA and Oglethorpe Co., GA. The following is what I have for John. Please someone let me know if I have something wrong. Oglethorpe Co., Will Book A. 1793-1807, page 28 Will of John Powell. I lend to beloved wife Boice Powell during her natural life or widowhood, 1/3 of the land I now live one. Then it is to go to my son John Powell-----------. I give to my beloved son Abram Powell----------. I give to my beloved daughter Elizabeth Bell ----------. I give to my beloved son John Powell the tract of land whereon I now live, allowing my wife Headright's during her life or widowhood. Then it is to go to my son John Powell. I give to my beloved daughter Rebecca Brigs Powell----------. I give to my daughter Amy Powell----------. The residue of my estate not mentioned in this will is to be equally divided between my son John Powell and my daughter Rebecca B. Powell and daughter Amy Powell and my grandson Jones Powell Bell. I appoint my son John Powell and my brother Edward Powell executors to this will Date of will: April 15, 1796 Witnesses: John Lumpkin, Parmenas Haynes, Richard Haynes Recorded June 11, 1796. ______________________________________________________________________________ _ This will was also recorded in Sussex Co. Will Book "F" 1796 -1806. Page 94. John Powell of Oglethorpe Co. 1 Feb 1798, wife Boye Powell the land I live on and then to son John Powell. Son Abram Powell. Daughter Elizabeth Bell. Daughter Rebecka Briggs Powell. Daughter Amy Powell. Grandson James Powell Bell. Exors: Son John Powell and my brother Edward Powell. Wit: John Jamison, Parmana Haynes and Richard Haynes. Will probated first on 28 Sep 1797 in Oglethorpe Co., GA. ____________________________________________________________________________ John Powell: b. ukn, d. before Jun 1796, Oglethorpe Co., GA. m. 1765 Susanna (Suky) Bell Brown, m 6 Sep 1780 Sussex Co., VA. Boice Gee Will: DTD 15 Apr 1796 rec 11 Jun 1796, Oglethorpe Co., GA., Ex. John Powell (son), & Edward Powell (brother), wife: Boice Powell; sons John, Abram; daughters Elizabeth Bell, Rebecca Briggs Powell, Amy Powell, grandson, James Powell Bell Children of John & Susanna Powell: 2a. Abraham Powell: b. 29 Jun 1766 VA Birth recorded in the Register of Albemarle Parish, Sussex Co., VA Deed, DTD 17 Oct 1788, Sussex Co., VA., John Powell of Albemarle Parish Sussex Co., to his son Abraham Powell. 2b. Elizabeth Powell: b. 6 Oct 1775 VA., m. 8 Oct 1792 Sussex Co., VA., Benjamin Bell Birth recorded in the Register of Albemarle Parish, Sussex Co., VA 2c. Seymour Powell: b. 8 Jan 1772 VA., d. prior to Aug 1783 Birth recorded in the Register of Albemarle Parish, Sussex Co., VA Deed DTD 18 Aug 1783 refers to a John Rogers, executor of Seymour Powell deceased. 2d. John Powell: b.17 Mar 1776 ? m. 28 Feb 1799 Viney Williams Oglethorpe Co., GA. Will: DTD 18 Jan 1816, rec 20 May 1816 Oglethorpe Co., GA., wife, Viney Powell, children not named. Children of Boice & John Powell: 2e. Amy Powell: b. ?, d. 1856 Oglethorpe Co., GA., m. 1st Mr. Given, 2nd John Armistead 2f. Rebecca Briggs Powell: m. 16 Dec 1799 Oglethorpe Co., GA., John Arnold Ann Corum NKCorum@aol.com

Ed, do you have any siblings for Andrew J. Powell? I am looking for information on William Hezekiah Powell b. May 14, l874 possibly in Walker County, TX and possibly with brothers Elmer and Andy and sister Carolyn. Siblings may have been born in Altus, OK. Any help would be appreciated. - I'm very close to this same line (I think). This is one big brick wall. This is what I've been able to put together, but not much really verified. John G. Powell b. 1764 North Carolina Hezekiah S. Powell b. 1790 Virginia, wife: Rachael (unknown) b. Randolph County, North Carolina William Robert Powell b. 1824 McNairy County, Tennessee d. Walker County, Texas, wife: Louisa J. Taylor b. 1827 Texas Andrew J. Powell b. ???????? William T. Powell Son Wendell Powell Grandson William Robert is shown as a brother to my ancestor, John Powell, b. 1826 in McNairy County, Tennessee. Most of this, I have picked up on the internet . Most is someone else's work. If you feel that there might be a connection, I can be reached at ed-powell@comcast.net. I live in the Dallas/Ft.Worth, Texas area. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Virginia A." <vdach@gte.net> To: <POWELL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 12:13 PM Subject: [POWELL] Andrew J. Powell > Born in Georgia about 1827, married Mary J. ?? born in Tennessee. Died in Caldwell County, Kentucky about 1908. > > Does anyone know who Andrew's parent are and /or what Mary's maiden name is? > > Appreciate any help. > > Virginia in Seattle > > > ==== POWELL Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > ==== POWELL Mailing List ==== If you wish to unsubscribe from the Powell surname list, send only the word UNSUBSCRIBE to Powell-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the digest list to Powell-d-request if you are on the digest list. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

----- Original Message ----- From: kenwilde To: NYC-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 10:54 AM Subject: BYRT,Arthur William Brooklyn N. Y. C. Hi to all listers, Here is the POWELL/BYRT family i am interested in Charles BYRT=Emma Jane POWELL,married in Bristol England in 1835 and came to America the same year: Issue: Charles Washington,Fort Wayne Indianna Ella Maria =Francois J.G.LADD, Morris Park Long Island Arthur William,Brooklyn New York City My link with the above is Thomas Millard POWELL = Elizabeth HARDING,who was the brother of Emma Jane. Regards to all, Ken p.s.Any pointers in the right direction would be more than welcome

I have watched this list for a long time & on occasion an Andrew J. Powell shows up. I too have an Andrew J. Powell. he is b. in either Ill. or IN. or MI. depending on the lines drawn. in 1850 he is 21 & in Grant Co. WI.closer to the Iowa border. he is with his mother, Susannah Powell & siblings. the older ones are married. he also has a Taylor niece in the home. at one time WI. was a rather large territory. he is no longer in the census of 1860, nor in a territorial census.of course I have never found out WHO his father is either. one of the daughters says his name is John Powell. the mother is 47 years old in 1850 making her b. 1803. her birth place is listed as SC. I have posted several times but come up with nothing on him. here's hoping!!..........Jo Ann Loghry

Replying to a message from Jo Ann Loghry...Andrew Powell Delong (b. April 24, 1871), is the brother of my ggrandmother Catherine Elizabeth Delong. Their mother was Susan Powell, born June 14, 1838, in Ontario Canada. Other siblings include Eva Silence DeLong, Matilda DeLong, Susan DeLong, Edward Peter Delong. Their father is Peter DeLong. He was caught in one S South Dakota'a (andrew,Susan, and Catherine lived there), bad snowstorms and disappeared. We don't know if he was visiting Catherine, or if he had moved there. Catherine married George Daugherty (a very good looking man), and had many children, finally dying from childbirth. My grandfather was her son. I have a wonderful picture of Susan and also all of Catherine's children the day of her funeral. It's quite a story. I have seen Susan's name as Susannah. I have Andrew as being born in Brooklyn Ontario, just across the border from Michigan. I'd love to see if our notes correspond. Please get back to me, Jo! Ann.

Asking all Powells and Stulls to check your files. I have been looking for information on MARTHA A. POWELL, Ritchie Co. WV and Washington Co., Ohio for some time. That is the only two counties where I have found anything on her. She was married in Washington Co., Ohio and lived in Ritchie Co. WV in 1900. Here's what I have: Looking for information on JEFFERSON D STULL (son of Hiram) b. abt 1862 m. MARTHA A. POWELL b. abt 1864 in VA(WV). Washington Co Ohio Marriages 1789-1918 Jefferson Stull m. Jan 2, 1880 Martha A. Powell. Children: ELIZABETH FRAN b. abt 1864; ARIZONA REBECCA b. abt 1887(my grandmother); DELLA M. b. abt 1891; LILY G. b. abt 1894 m. a Fluharty; ORA OLIVE b. abt 1899 and ROSIE b. abt 1880. Arizona m. Nickolas M. Stewart, Fran married a ? Winters and Rosie m. a James Chevrons. Lived in Tyler Co., WV in 1900. Daughters later moved to Marion Co., Harrison Co., Braxton Co. and Monongalia Co., WV. Ritchie Co WV 1870 Census Union Twp 91-91 L. D. STARKER 38 VA carpenter MARTHA A. 37 VA JEFFERSON D. STULL 9 VA NOTE: Jefferson D. Stull may be found also as J.D. Stull. Thought to be son of Hiram Stull and Amanda Louise Jones. Raised by LD. Starker and Martha A. Jones (probably cousin of Louise). Hiram names J.D. in his will.

Patricia, I didn't quite understand your reply. Do you mean that you descend from Samuel or Rev Joseph POWELL, the Moravians who came to Bethlehem in 1742? I am especially interested in learning more about Samuel's family. Ellen elmartin@localnet.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "PATRICIA SPRINGER" <SPRINGERPC@msn.com> To: <POWELL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [POWELL] Joseph POWELL md Christen FRY > Sam and Joseph Powell, Moravian Missionary's in Behtlehem, Northhampton CO. Pa. in 1742. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ellen L Martin<mailto:elmartin@localnet.com> > To: POWELL-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:POWELL-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 11:47 AM > Subject: [POWELL] Joseph POWELL md Christen FRY > > > Does anyone on this List descend from Joseph POWELL and Christen/Christian > FRY? > > Also, do any of you know the children of Samuel POWELL, the "English > Moravian", with wife named Martha, who came to Moravian community in South > Bethlehem, Northampton Co, PA, in 1742? Among other things he operated a > book shop and an inn/tavern. His brother, Joseph, apparently a bit younger, > also had a wife named Martha. He was a Moravian missionary.

Sam and Joseph Powell, Moravian Missionary's in Behtlehem, Northhampton CO. Pa. in 1742. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ellen L Martin<mailto:elmartin@localnet.com> To: POWELL-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:POWELL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 11:47 AM Subject: [POWELL] Joseph POWELL md Christen FRY Does anyone on this List descend from Joseph POWELL and Christen/Christian FRY? Also, do any of you know the children of Samuel POWELL, the "English Moravian", with wife named Martha, who came to Moravian community in South Bethlehem, Northampton Co, PA, in 1742? Among other things he operated a book shop and an inn/tavern. His brother, Joseph, apparently a bit younger, also had a wife named Martha. He was a Moravian missionary. ==== POWELL Mailing List ==== NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net<mailto:kathleenburnett@earthlink.net> ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237<http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237>

It is now,almost 8 years now! It`s no secret that it spoils one! -----Original Message----- From: Atpowelljr@aol.com [mailto:Atpowelljr@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 8:50 AM To: POWELL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [POWELL] Andrew J. Powell FOR TED IS Hawaii your home. AT ==== POWELL Mailing List ==== NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

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Does anyone on this List descend from Joseph POWELL and Christen/Christian FRY? Also, do any of you know the children of Samuel POWELL, the "English Moravian", with wife named Martha, who came to Moravian community in South Bethlehem, Northampton Co, PA, in 1742? Among other things he operated a book shop and an inn/tavern. His brother, Joseph, apparently a bit younger, also had a wife named Martha. He was a Moravian missionary.

Hi Ted, They could easily be related, but I am not sure. My Andrew J., according to the Census was born in Georgia. That said, I also have a Thomas line where one person has three different states of birth listed at different times. Virginia Georgia and Texas! So????? Andrew did finally settle and die in Kentucky. There were 6 children. John H. b. 1844 married Sarah Elizabeth Nichols born Tennessee Malissa Francis b. 1860 married W. A. Morris born Tennessee Rest born in Kentucky Virginia D. (Jennie) b. 1864 married William J. Miller Delilah b. 1866 Married Robert Daniel Nichols (my line) also brother to Sarah Elizabeth) Elizabeth Mary b. 1868 married Milton P. Smith Humphries b. 1870 Apparently never married I am not so sure that the family moved to Kentucky or if the state line was drawn and they found themselves in Kentucky. Merry Christmas or what ever Holy day you celebrate. Virginia in Seattle >

Does anyone know who the parents of William Winston Powell were? He was born July 27, 1821 in Clark Co., Georgia and died July 17, 1878 in Clay Co., Alabama. He married 1. Mary Aurelia Eidson on Sept. 25, 1843 in Tallegeda Co., Alabama. Thanks, Shirley/La HappeeNotes@aol.com