"Thomas powell jr very likely had a daughter named lettis or letticewh o is fined for hving a bastard child in caroline co. her fine waspaid b y edward ware. (edware ware adm. the estate of mary powellwidow of tho mas jr.) in amherst co. edwardswares will i think its inthe early 1780 s. he names four men who go by the name of ware andalso powell--mark, j ames, william, and john. sometimes their namesare signed llllllll powe ll alias ware.. he names daughters elizabethpowell joplin and sarah wa re smith. sarah married john smith,elizabeth married josiah joplin. Ma ny of these powells (wares) movedto ga."
Residences & events:
1704 Thomas was listed in the Essex Co Quit Rent Roll. He and histhr ee brothers owned equal acreage of land.
5/1712 Essex Co, VA, St Mary's Parish. He and brother, John, bought3 16 acres from Richard Long.
3/18/1722 With his wife, Mary, he conveyed to John Jeter one parcelof a t ract of land granted to Richard West and Roger Clothworthy andby Roger c onveyed to Nicholas Catlett and by him sold to Wm Gibson.John Jeter ke pt the property only a few years and his deed of salesays that Wm Gibs on devised the land to his daughter, ElizabethGibson, who was the moth er of Mary Powell, the wife of Thomas.
1728 Caroline Co, VA. The boundaries shifted, causing him to live ina n ew county.
1/15/1748 The vicinity of their home was located by the followingitem : "John Glanton is appointed overseer of the road from the postabove M ary Powell's to the Mount Church." Mount Church was probablyon the Mo unt Creek which crosses the upper end of Essex Co andempties into the R appahannock River a few miles north ofTappahannock. The home of one b ranch of the Taliaferro family wasnearby and called "The Mount."
His will was dated 6/8/1739 naming wife, Mary as executrix. It waspro ved by oaths of Samuel Coleman and Thomas Samuel. Wm. Harrison,Nichol as Ware, Gabriel Long and Robert Taliaferro or any three ofthem were a ppointed as appraisers.
All above named people were formerly in Essex Co, VA. and wereassociat ed with Powells there. Anthony Samuel posted security forthe executor s of Thomas Powell in 1701 (Thomas' father) and the Waresand Taliaferr os were friends of the next generation of Powells inAmherst Co.
