Pat, we're still waiting for Roger's results. Jerry Powell NC-16 ----- Original Message ----- From: "PATRICIA SPRINGER" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [POWELL-DNA] Three Centuries of Ballingers in America > Hi Jerry, did Roger's DNA Test come in yet, just wondered. > > Pat (Powell) Springer > [email protected] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jerry Powell<mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 9:07 PM > Subject: Re: [POWELL-DNA] Three Centuries of Ballingers in America > > > Ambrose Powell of Cumberland Gap fame was, according to Ted Belue's book, > Walker's assistant surveyor from Culpeper County. He had a dog named "Old > Tumbler." Later, when the dog was killed by the blow of an Elk hoof, > Walker > named the spot "Tumbler's Run." Belue writes: "So often did Elisha Walden > ten years later see 'A. Powell' -- distorted from a decade's growth -- > cut > into trees bordering the path that he named the rivulet flowing nearby > Powell River." Powell was of tremendous value on the trip as a hunter. > Walker reported that in 4 months they killed 13 buffalo, 8 elk, 53 bears, > 20 > deer, 4 wild geese, 150 turkeys, and much small game. Sometimes the bears > hunted back though, as Powell was attacked by a bear which grabbed his > leg > and cut his knee badly. See Ted Belue, "The Hunters of Kentucky" > (Stackpole > Books 2003). > > This Ambrose Powell is perhaps an uncle or cousin of the Ambrose Powell > of > Burke County NC and Maury County VA, whose descendants have submitted DNA > to > FTDNA. He is also probably somehow related to the Honorias Powell branch. > > Jerry Powell > NC-16 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lee Powell" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > To: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 7:46 PM > Subject: Re: [POWELL-DNA] Three Centuries of Ballingers in America > > > > Walker's journal can be read here > > > http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/squabble/walker.html<http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/squabble/walker.html> > > > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Lois Powell > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > >> You mentioned Ambrose Powell. I don't have any genealogy on Ambrose > >> Powell, > >> and you probably know his connection with Powell Valley, Virginia, but > >> this > >> is what I found. > >> > >> Ambrose Powell was a member of Dr. Thomas Walker's expedition that > went > >> through Powell Valley. On April 12, 1750 Ambrose cut his name on a > tree > >> on > >> the bank of a river located ten miles from Cumberland Gap. In 1770 > the > >> tree > >> was found by a party of 15 to 20 Virginians on their way to Kentucky > on a > >> hunting expedition. They gave it the name of Powell's river, and the > >> other > >> names came from that. > >> > >> HAROLD POWELL > >> > >> > >> > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >