This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: hdavey Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.powell/7201.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks for your further clarificaiton of the two Walter Powells. However, I am puzzled about the apparent discrepancy between your statement that Walter of Somerset transported his first wife Elizabeth and daughter Elizabeth from VA to Somerset Co., MD and the folowing quotation from Walter "for transporting myself, Margaret, my wife, and Elizabeth, my child, out of Virginia..." Following quotation is from "Powell's in Virginia" by Fr. Silas Emmett Lucas, p. 307: In the book "Sidelights on Maryland History:, Volume II, by Hester Richardson, 1913, "Walter Powell became a citizen of Somerset County, Maryland prior to the year 1671. He was a gentleman of substance and social position, and was affiliated in religion with the peaceful people called Quakers, his reason for leaving Virginia and seeking a home in the "Land of Sanctuary" being not hard to find, for the conditions were especially rigorous for his co-religionists in the Colony of Virginia. In the year 1671 he disposed of his immigration land rights, received for bringing himself and family into Maryland: 'Know all men by these presents that I, Walter Powell, of Somerset County in the Province of Maryland, planter, for valuable consideration do assign and set over unto Jeffry Minshall, of the same County and Province, planter, all my rights ... to 150 A. of land due to me for transporting myself, Margaret, my wife, and Elizabeth, my child, out of Virginia into hits Provinc! e....July 21, 1671. Walter Powell." (Annapolis Land Record, Liber 16, p. 304) Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.