I am not sure if this will be the bridge to connect my Powell's.  But THANK YOU for being so generous and sharing your information with all of us trying to find our first arrivals.    Ours was also a story of Powell brothers coming but apparently further back than our parents had thought.   Again Thank you!! --- On Sat, 11/14/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [POWELL] The 5 Powell Brothers - 1685 To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 6:22 AM This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Tammi84 Surnames: Powell Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.powell/4436.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Do not know if this will help you or not but will post. In my searching this is the first family with 5 brothers (one is half a diffrent mother same father) that came from England. There is a whole lot of Powell informtion out there getting the lines correct is a large problem. Hope this helps you. If you are intrested in sharing let me know, my line is from the brother William Powell (1640-1695). Name:    Thomas Powell Sr. AKA:        Thomas Powell Parents:        Barnable Powell (born in 1543 in Barton Mills, Suffolk, England - died in 1602 in Suffolk, England) and Agnes Webbe (born in 1543 in Barton Mills, Suffolk, England - died in September 1594 in Barton Mills, Suffolk, England) Life Range:    March 25, 1584 - February 09, 1688 1584 March 25    Birth:    England, Suffolk, Mildenhall.  1584 March 25    Birth Record:    England, Suffolk, Mildenhall.  1594 September    Death of Mother:    England, Suffolk, Barton Mills.  Agnes Webbe (born in 1543 in Barton Mills, Suffolk, England - died in September 1594 in Barton Mills, Suffolk, England).  1602    Death of Father:    England, Suffolk.  Barnable Powell (born in 1543 in Barton Mills, Suffolk, England - died in 1602 in Suffolk, England).  Abt 1607    Spouse (#1):    England, London, , City Of London.  Elizabeth Hipsely (born about 1607 in City Of London, , London, England).  1614    Birth Record:    England, London, , City Of London.  1614    Birth Record:    England, London, , City Of London.  Abt 1616    Spouse (#2):    _______________.  Priscilla Whitson (born about 1616  - died about 1711 in Isle Of Wright, Wake , Virginia, USA).  1626 July 21    Court:    _______________.   petition in behalf of himself and his poor distressed brothers and sisters.                 The Calendar of State Papers, 1574-1660, shows that on July 21, 1626, Thomas Powell made a petition in behalf of himself and his poor distressed brothers and sisters to the Privy Council, praying for an order to the Governor and Council of Virginia for the estate of his deceased brother, Capt. Nathaniel Powell, which had come into the hands of Mr. Blaney who married the relict of Will. Powell and is in no way kin to them. 1627 March 05    Marriage (1):    England, London, , City Of London.  Elizabeth Hipsely (born about 1607 in City Of London, , London, England).  in City Of London, , London, England. 1635 May 02    Immigration:    England, London, , City Of London.  age 21, came over in the "Mathew".   These under-written names are to be transported to St. Christophers, imbarqued in the Mathew of London, Richard Goodladd Mr p warrant from ye Earle of Carlisle.   . . .  Tho: Powell, age 21  . . .                         Thomas Powell of Isle of Wight County was perhaps identical with a Thomas Powell, aged 21 in 1635, who came over on May 21, 1635 in the "Mathew'' of London.                      Hotten's Emigrants 1600-1700, ed. John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations 1600-1700, page 82, "Passinger (sic) Which Passed From Ye Port of London".   Thomas Powell of Isle of Wight County was perhaps identical with a Thomas Powell, aged 21 in 1635, who came over on May 21, 1635 in the "Mathew'' of London. 1637    Marriage (2):    _______________.  Priscilla Whitson (born about 1616  - died about 1711 in Isle Of Wright, Wake , Virginia, USA). Abt 1639    Son born (2-#2):    USA, Virginia, Wake, Isle Of Wright.  Nathaniel Powell (born about 1639 in Isle Of Wright, Wake , Virginia, USA - died before March 10, 1678 in Isle Of Wright, Wake , Virginia, USA).  1640    Son born (2-#3):    Virginia, Isle Of Wight.  William Powell (born in 1640 in Isle Of Wight, Virginia - died on December 11, 1695 in Chuckatuck Quaker, Nansemond, Isle Of Wight, Virginia).  Abt 1642    Son born (1-#1):    Virginia, Isle Of Wight.  Nathaniel Powell (born about 1642 in Isle Of Wight, Virginia).  1644    Son born (2-#4):    _______________.  John Powell (born in 1644  - died in 1698-1699 in Essex , Virginia).  Abt 1665    Son born (2-#1):    Virginia, Old Rappahannock.  Thomas Powell Jr. (born about 1665 in Old Rappahannock , Virginia - died about 1701 in Sittenburn Parish, Essex , Virginia, USA).  Bef 1678 March 10    Death of Child (2-#2):    USA, Virginia, Wake, Isle Of Wright.  Nathaniel Powell (born about 1639 in Isle Of Wright, Wake , Virginia, USA - died before March 10, 1678 in Isle Of Wright, Wake , Virginia, USA).  Bef 1683 July 12    Death Certificate:    Virginia, Isle Of Wight.  1683 July 12    Will:    USA, Virginia, Wake, Isle Of Wright.   Will of Thomas Powell, dated July 12, 1683 and probated Feb. 9, 1687/8;  . . .  half the lands of Thomas, Nathaniel, William and John Powell and they shall not sell it except to on another; the rest of the lands to son William Powell; daughter-in-law Elizabeth Powell; daughter-in-law Lucretia Corbett; 1 cow jointly to Lucretia Powell and John Powell; 1 steer jointly to Rebecca and Elizabeth Powell. Bef 1688 February 09    Death Certificate:    USA, Virginia, Isle Of Wight, Upper Parish.  1688 February 09    Death:    Virginia, Isle Of Wight, Chuckatuck Quaker, Upper Parish.   9 February 1687 1688 February 09    Probate:    USA, Virginia, Wake, Isle Of Wright.  1688 February 03    Burial:    USA, Virginia, Suffolk (City), Nansemond, Wp.      Immigration:    USA, North Carolina, Sampson.   Many of the Powells of Sampson County  descended from Thomas Powell who came to  Virginia 1637 on "The Matthew of London."  (a). He paid for his own passage and that of  five other men. That entitled him to 300 acres which he patented in Upper County of New Norfolk (now City of Suffolk), Va. (b). Later he  moved across the river to Isle Of Wight County where he made his will 1683 and died there the  winter of 1687/88, leaving his estate to the  children of his deceased son Nathaniel and his  surviving son William, (c).     General Notes:     Alt Ancestral Ref#: FM3D-0P                 NOTE: The name Powell (originally Ap Howell) is of welsh derivation and not         uncommon in Virginia.                 On 10 Jun 1637, Thomas Powell patented 100 acres in Upper Norfolk         County an the south side of the Nansemond River "50 acres for his own         and 50 acreas for the personal adv (enture) of a servt."  On the same         day he patented 200 acres "1 mile from the plantation of sd Powell"         which would lead to the inference that he had settled there earlier         and that these two patents were additions to acreage in his         possession. (See Nugent, "Cavaliers and Pioneers," Page 76)                 It seems most likely that he is the Thomas Powell (Hotten's "Original         Lists," page 236) who appears in the1625 Muter taken after the         massacre, as one of the servants of Captain Ralph Hamor then living at         Hog Island and who states that he came over in the "Seaflower." This         boat is elsewhere listed as coming over in 1621.                 There is a distance of some forty miles between Hog Island and where         Thomas Powell settled in 1637, but it is known that the settlements         around Nansemond River were later than those close to Jamestown. Hog         Island laying across the river was settled by 1608, possibly even by         1607, and is near enough to Jamestown for signal fires to be used as a         means of communication.  If the enormous holly tree, over four hundred         years old according to experts, that stands on Hog Island close to the         river, could only speak, how greatly of these early days would be         increased!                 This Thomas Powell is not the same person of that name listed in         Hotten on page 263 as living on the eastern shore and havong come in         the "Sampson" in 1618.  The descendanys of that Thomas Powell can be         traced through Accomack and Northampton County records and are         entirely distinct.                 The will of Thomas Powell, dated 12 Jul 1683 and probated on 9 Feb         1687/8, is abstracted in Mrs Chapman's "Wills and Administration of         Isle of Wight County," Vol. 1, page 40.  In this he names legatees         Thomas,         Nathaniel, William and John Powell, daughter-in-law Elizabeth Powell,         daughter-in-law Lucretia Corbett, Lucretia, Roberta and Elizabeth         Powell, son Willaim to be executor.  Witnesses: Thomas Griffin and         Francis         Hutchins. 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