This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Powell, Skeels Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pAC.2ACI/2108.3.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi Cindy, Sarah's parents were Elijah Powell and Mary Andrews, married in 1759. They had at least 8 children, but no daughter named Lydia. Also searched Elijah's brothers' children - no Lydia there either. Time frame is right, just no females named Lydia. While doing a search over the Internet, noticed it looks like there's a dilemma of her last name. Powell or Powers? In the Daughter's of the American Revolution index, it says her last name is Powell. On another note.... 1836 Vermont Register and Farmer's Almanac: William Skeels, Justice of the Peace, Highgate, Franklin Co, VT. (possible son or grandson of David?) Regards, Mic