Was he an ancestor of General A.P. Hill, one of Lee's generals? Linda Garrett -----Original Message----- >From: Lee Powell <[email protected]> >Sent: Sep 21, 2008 8:46 PM >To: [email protected] >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 > >On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Lois Powell <[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] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message