Pat Mount in My Powell Family Ancestral Line said:
"Edmund POWELL was a 2nd Lt. in the Amherst Co., VA Militia, in 1780du ring the Revolutionary War."
In Deeds of Amherst Co, VA, 1761-1807 is:
Page 8. 6 Oct 1803. (page 406)
WILLIAM WARE, NELSON CRAWFORD, & JOSEPH HIGGINGOTHAM JR, executors ofJ ACOB SMITH, and his children JAMES SMITH, WIATT SMITH, RICHARDSMITH, M ARY SMITH & CLARY SMITH to WILLIAM SANDIDGE, Amherst County,for 1250 p ounds, 570 acres both sides Buffalo. Lines: AARONHIGGINBOTHAM, dec'd, J OHN DUCAN, EDMUND POWELL, old line, survey madefor JACOB SMITH, dec'd m outh of a lane, BENJAMIN TALIAFERRO, the mainroad. JOHN CLARKSON, WILL IAM TALIAFERRO, WILLIAM SANDIDGE, ROBERTCASH, dec'd Throasher's Creek. ( Thesher's Creek?)
It was where JACOB SMITH lived at time of death and got from hisbrothe r, JAMES SMITH, RICHARD and EDMUND POWELL -- save what he gavethe wido w of WILLIAM SMITH & WILLIAM's children -- WILLIAM isdeceased -- and w hat he sold to BENJAMIN TALIAFERRO. THe will directsale and proceeds t o go the five children named above. Wit: JOHNSMITH, PHILLIP SMITH JR, W ILLIAM TALIAFERRO, JACOB PHILLIPS JR. Memo:half acre reserved for a ce metery. Original delivered to "WILLIAMSANDIDGE's son, 28 Feb 1822."
From the Thomas Jopling Doc:
Amherst Co., Va. Deed Bk. 1, p. 329: 23 Dec 1801 -
Indenture in which James Jopling and Martha, his wife-Edmund Powelland L ucy, his wife - Pleasant Martin and Rebeccah, his wife - HannahAllen - a nd John Griffen - parties of one part - sell to Edward andHoleman lopl ing - of the other part - for $10.00 (deed of gift,actually) 1, 8131/2 a cres Of land in KaDawha (sic) Co., Va. (now WestVirginia) - on the rig ht hand fork of Thirteen Mile Creek, which is abranch Of the Great Ken hawa (sic) - which land was patented to ThomasJopling, etc. Witnesses: W illiam Lee Harris - Benjamin Childress -Richard C, Pollard - Jesse Jop ling - William Dixon - no date ofacknowledgment or of recording)
