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. Good Luck, sassy bama @ centurytel. net (direct mail if you take the spaces out.) 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