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Thomas Powell[1, 2]

Male Abt 1602 - 1670  (~ 68 years)


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  • Name Thomas Powell 
    Born Abt 1602  Essex County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 11 Apr 1670  Sittenburn Parish, Essex Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Probate Date
    Person ID I5659  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 8 Aug 2019 

    Father Captain Hugh Powell,   b. Abt 1577, St. Olive Parish, Surry, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1623, Jamestowne, Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 46 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Wells,   b. Est 1577, St Olive Parish, Surry, Eng Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1619, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 42 years) 
    Family ID F2128  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ann Gorsuch,   b. Est 1610,   d. Yes, date unknown, Sittenburn Parish, Essex Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Abt 1626 
    Children 
    +1. Thomas dna Powell,   b. Abt 1630, Essex County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Apr 1701, Sittenburn Parish, Essex Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 71 years)
     2. John Powell,   b. Abt 1644, Essex County, Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jan 1709, Essex County, Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 65 years)
    Last Modified 12 Feb 2019 
    Family ID F2124  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S122] Genealogy. com, http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/o/w/Lee-P-Powell/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0113.html.
      Thomas Powell (son of William Hugh Powell and Elizabeth Welles) was born Abt. 1602 in Powelltor, Suffolk, England, and died 1664 in MD. He married (1) Ann Gorsuch on Abt. 1626. He married (2) Jane Catesby on Abt. 1664.
      Notes for Thomas Powell:
      Came on the "Seaflower" abt 1619. Will dated 1664.
      Interesting will listed at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/md/state/wills/01/041.html
      Powell, Thomas, Talbot Co., 17th Jan., 1679; 11th Apr., 1670. To dau. Anne Powell, Anne, dau. of Howell Powell, Howell Powell, and Winlock Christison, personalty [personally?]. To wife Anne, 1/2 plantation during life. To eld. son Thomas, 1/2 sd. plantation, he to possess whole at death of wife Anne afsd.; also 1/2 'Hog Island.' To William Thunderman, Jr., 'Old Towne' on Choptanke R. at majority. Exs.: Richard Gorsuch, Lovelace Gorsuch, Geo. Cowley. Test: Wm. Blackstone, Jno. Wiggins, Michael Parker, Edward Fish. 1. 377.
      More About Thomas Powell and Ann Gorsuch:
      Marriage: Abt. 1626
      More About Thomas Powell and Jane Catesby:
      Marriage: Abt. 1664
      Children of Thomas Powell and Ann Gorsuch are:
      Ann Powell, d. date unknown.
      Nathaniel Horton Powell, d. date unknown.
      Howell Powell, b. 1623, d. 1724.
      +Thomas Powell, b. 1630, Essex Co., VA, d. April 1701, Sittenburn Parish, Essex Co., VA.
      +John Powell, b. 1644, Isle of Wright Co., VA, d. 1709, Essex Co., VA.
      Rawley (Rawleigh) Powell, b. Abt. 1652, d. date unknown.

    2. [S40] Will, Thomas Powell, Talbot Co., MD, 17 Jan 1679, 11 Apr 1670.
      Powell, Thomas, Talbot Co., 17th Jan., 1679; 11th Apr., 1670. To dau. Anne Powell, Anne, dau. of Howell Powell, Howell Powell, and Winlock Christison, personalty. To wife Anne, 1/2 plantation during life. To eld. son Thomas, 1/2 sd. plantation, he to possess whole at death of wife Anne afsd.; also 1/2 'Hog Island.' To William Thunderman, Jr., 'Old Towne' on Choptanke R. at majority. Exs.: Richard Gorsuch, Lovelace Gorsuch, Geo. Cowley. Test: Wm. Blackstone, Jno. Wiggins, Michael Parker, Edward Fish.

    3. [S251] Various Books.
      The Powell Families of Virginia and the South
      The Rev. Fr. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr.
      Editor, Compiler and Publisher 1969
      Section 8- Group III
      The Powell Family of Essex County, Virginia into Culpeper, Orange Amherst and Halifax Counties, Virginia