Notes for Nathaniel POWELL

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Notes for Nathaniel POWELL

Residences & events:

Port of Powele-Brooke, VA. According to the passenger list hearrived with his wife and daughter, destination "to Mr Tracey,"apparently joining the in-laws.

They settled on 600 acres on the south side of the James River knownas Powell Brook and later Merchant's Hope.

Capt. Nathaniel was among the most prominent of the early settlers,rising to governor of VA, serving until his death. The following wastaken from a plaque in Burton Parish, Williamsburg, VA:

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD
and
COMMORATIVE OF THE FIRST
REPRESENATIVE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
HELD IN AMERICA WHICH MET IN THIS COUNTY
IN THE CHURCH AT JAMESTOWN ON JULY 30,1619.

'Where Sir George Yeardley the Governor being sett downe in hisaccustomed place in the quire have of the counsel of the Estate satenexte him on both handes but foreasmuch as mens affairs doe littleprosper where Gods service is neglected, all the Burgess tooke their
places in the quire till a prayer was said by Mr Burke, the minister,that it would please God to guide and sanctify all our prodeecings tohis own glory and the good of this plantation.

and in Special memoryof

CAPTAIN NATHANIEL POWELL
Senior counselor and acting GovernorApril 1619, and
CAPTAIN WILLIAM POWELL
Burgess from James CityCounty
This endowment tablet has been erected by one of thedescendants of
CAPTAIN WILLIAM POWELL
in the year of our Lord nineteen hundredand seven
Both he and his pregnant wife, as well as 10 others, were killed inthe 1622 Massacre by the Powhattan Indians. The administrator ofNathaniel's estate was Capt. William Powell (relationship notestablished) who was sent to avenge the massacre and was himselfkilled in 1623 before the estate was settled.

William's widow remarried and her new husband tried to seized theestate but was prevented from doing so by the following petition sentfrom England:

"The petition of Thos. Powell in behalf of himself and his poorbrothers and sisters to the Privy Council, that whereas Capt.Nathaniel Powell died about three years since seized of lands inVirginia to a good value, whereupon petitioner being the elder brothertook out letters of administration in London, that the Governor andCouncil of Virginia have certified that one William Powell no way kinto the deceased had before administered to said estate, that saidWilliam Powell being since dead and said estate come to the hands ofone Mr. Blaney that married the relict of William Powell the lateCommissioners for Virginia by letter of 3 november 1624 desired theGovernor and Council there to examine the cause, but the ships forVirginia having departed hence before said letter was obtained and thesickness immediately after spreading thro the City of London,petitioners had no means of sending it. Said Commissioners beingdissolved pray their Lordships to renew the like letter inpetitioner's behalf."

Apparently the commissioners did act in the petitioner's behalf asshown by the next item: "Thos Powell of Powellton, Suffolk County,England his brother and heir, sold the estate to John Taylor 'citizenand girdler' of Longon."

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