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