The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-17

wards the name seems to hold an hons
orable place In English history. 4 n N SsssS
y curious Incident Ia .elated By. tho 4
Herolds College ot Richard Lie Poor
High shcriH OF Gioucestershlre 1857
nat he was killed while defending theS
Lords day. g45gS ~
When Horny IT. invaded rrelandsS
1l9l. for tho sake OF conquest. n chiefi s
command seems to have been given 10 i
sir Roger Lee Pur, an English knight. e
Tor distinguished services rendered thait
crown (See Havestys History OF tholss
County of Watcrford.'D. Tho Engllsl
Parliament has many members from
MS descendants and native Gets. who
| took tho name OF the estates to which
they were attached. The namo has be- 4
come very numerous In tho country. IKE
The name of William and Walter5Le
fonr (Power) appears many times 4
| among those possessed OF landed
rights, 1872.
In Farmers "Gcnealosy OF New Eng /.
lnnd,' he refers 10 John Power. or
Chariestown. who had [, son, Peter.
born 1913, as possible the founder OF
Inc families of the name of Powers in
New England, but careful inveStiga-5
| ton docs not prove this the case.
| And December 3. 1915, Lottie Powers.
inhabitant OF New England. In the
! town OF Charlcstown. be authorized
! and ordained to make the salo OF
| :iiousen'' ana lands of my absent hus-
4
! power of attorney appcarcth. sold to
| tahdF Powers. etc, and as he did not
! una the business of hoStcr profitabla
returned to Europe VI
| About this time Nicholas Powers Il
| appeared, but made his permanent
| home In Rhode Island. uc had one
| SON but the name became extinct. (See&
Savages New England C,enealoGy.)
Al q later date the name of Thomas
! Powers appears in Charlestown. In
| lii5 he married Abigail FoslSet. and
] had family OF sons and daughters,
! but probably his descendants were not
numerous in the country.
Thomas Powers seems 10 have los
| Gated on the north and west border
| OF Harvard. the town adjoining. He 7
| was ancestor of a large family OF the
name in Greenwich, Enfield, Psttsfords
| Vermont
The name of Walter lowers appears
on the Mlddlesex county records OF
1851 as boy of fourteen years. He5
was married on the 18th day OF the
of Deacon Ralph and Thank Cor. ass
some writer's have 1t, Thanks LoTdG@
Sheppard at Moulden, Mass. go
Rev. Grant Powers, OF Goshen.I
! Conn, has left a. manuscript record
from Information obtained from his
| grandmother. the widow OF ColoneEs
! Peter Powers. of Hollis, N. r., that
that he married u daughter OF "a Lon
don goldsmith, which>is probably4co
| rect. though she was born at Wey43
! mouth, Mass.
Ralph Sheppard carpe from StepneY5
Parish London. in Essex. Bngland,s
July, 1896, aged twenty-ninc, with his
{. wife, Thank, aged twenty-three, and
/ daughter of two years, md settled ins
| Weymouth; later moved to Maiden
| where he took up his residence: was
deacon In the church; died September
IL, 1893, aged ninety. 5s2
There seems to DO positive record;
where Walter came from. A writer ms
the New England Historical and
Genealogical Register, Vol. 20. says the
carly families OF Powers came from
| Essex. England. and other similar.
circumstances seem to Indicate he
came from there.
1t seems u strange fact thatstinG
Lttleton, Mass, OF this family Of two
daughters and seven sons, Amos Pow
ers and DIR. Herman Powers, . { san;
| Francisco Cal, met there in Muy, 1885,
an old gentleman, who said I'VE We're,
! the first of that name he had met In
| thirty years. Hc showed us theEpldi
| Powers house and shwmill. and trees
| two and one-half feet thick that had
grown up In Rnceway. The granite
stones in the graveyard We're mostly;
Powers. -
GeTnuDS tnC luOSl nOteu McTcHsJll9
descendants of Walter, VIZ, Hiram
Powers, the sculptor. Flo removed
from Littleton, first to Willington,i
from there to Hardrick, TO Quobbin.4to
Greenwich In all these places he
seems to have owned land. and to-
have been a man of prominence.
Little seems to be known of Walters
who was born 4 ebraary %, 1859, and
married March II, 1861.
This was copied In the Philadelphia
Historical Society rooms by me- s8
EMMA L. POWERS.
Editor Genealogical Column. TimesS3
Dispatch: vi;
In Sundays paper, February IS, you,
say: I'm It'll Christopher Dickens took
up land. but thsre is no more of hint
II lac was kinsnan OF Charles ~ e
About 1745 or l746 Christopher d Sk-:
ems obtnined 400 acres OF land lying
on the west side of Bush River, 5S,rg
Amelia, now Prince Edward county, I'D "a
Joining the lands OF Richard Randolph.S
John Nash and Edward aIcGehce. On
June !, 1850, Christopher Dickens and
William Pemb srton took UP ninety-sixs
acres of land lying on the upper side
OF Mountain Creek, in Amelia, now
Prince Edward county. adjoining the
lands of Richard Randolph, John SDa-S
wilson and John Basby. See Amelia
Grants. in Land Office, Capitol Szf 55fl
i$,S4 5tss4s syl,.
Richard Clanselle Puryear was first
cousin 10 my great grandmothcr, Lucy
Puryear, who was mother Of Anne
Barnes. who was my grandmother who
was my mothers mother. THIS Rich
ard Clanselle Puryear, OF Yadlstns couns
", N. c.. was in Congress before. tinsE
Civii War. and was the father of a
Mrs. Gibson, now Of Concord. N G.
Can amy one give the parentage DE-
James Watts who married Susanna,s
Taylor daughter OF George Taylor. or3
New Castle. Hanover county, Va, abniIbs
17t5 or 1910. and emigrated to South
Carolina? This Susannah Taylor wns I