DUPLIN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA POWELL FAMILY Selected Revolutionary War Pension Applications |
Brittain Powell W4768 Mary fn89NC |
1st Where and in what year were you born? Ans: in Virginia the County is not recollected, & I believe in the year 1740 or thereabouts 2nd Have you any record of your age and if so where is it? Ans: I have no record of my age, but recollect it from what my older brothers have told me respecting it. 3rd Where were you living when called into service: where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live? Ans: when called into service I lived in Duplin County, since the Revolutionary War I have lived in Duplin County and I still lived in Duplin County. 4th How were you called into service; were you drafted; did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if in substitute, for whom? Ans: I enlisted or volunteered in all my service [fn p. 17: On July 3, 1841 in Duplin County, Mary Powel, 80, filed for a widows pension under the 1838 act stating that she is the widow of Britain Powel who applied for a pension but it was not allowed him but she refers to his application for the particulars of his service; that she married him May 10, 1784; that he died October 1838; that she has a record of the birth of her oldest child who is 50 odd years old; that said record is in the hand writing of Morris Fennell, then a neighbor of theirs.] [fn p. 13-14 family record] Elijah Powel the son of Brittain Powel & Mary Powel was born October the 4th 17-- [last 2 digits illegible] Miller Powell was born January the 29th 1788 Brittain Devane Powel, son of Elijah and Mary Powel was born October 19th 1810. Polly Powell was born November 15 [facts in file: Mary Bland of Duplin filed a power of attorney in which she states that she is the daughter and heir of Brittain and Mary Powel -- the power of attorney is dated April 16, 1853: Isaac Newton, 59, gave testimony on December 20, 1845 that he was well acquainted with Britain Powel and his wife Mary Powel and their children Elisha, Isaac, Jacob, Milly who intermarried with Joel Johnson, and Molsey or Mary who intermarried with James Bland; Isaac Newton states that he was born August 30, 1786 and was a little older than Elisha the eldest child of the veteran and his wife |
Elijah Powell W5570 Mary fn38NC |
State of North Carolina Duplin County: Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions November Term 1832. On this the 27th day of November in the year of our Lord 1832 personally appeared in open Court before John Watkins, James Lawson & Gibson Sloane Esquires Justices of the Court aforesaid now sitting Elijah Powell, residing near upon the dividing line between the Counties of Duplin and New Hanover in the State of North Carolina aged about 74 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. [fn p. 13: On July 24, 1839 in New Hanover County North Carolina, Mary Powell, 68, on the 16th of March last, applied for a widow's pension under the 1838 act stating that she is the widow of Elijah Powell a pensioner for his services in the revolution at the rate of $56.66 per annum; that she married him June 11, 1789; they were married by William Robinson Esquire of Sampson County North Carolina who she understands is still living; that her husband died April 2, 1835; that she remains his widow; that she has no record of her birth or marriage; that she wants had a record of her birth in her father's family Bible but her brother, Jacob Powell, barred it from her father to transcribe his age as he was moving away and was killed in a short time thereafter the book never being returned; that she has a record of the births of her children (before eldest) in the hand writing of John Fellows who is now deceased. And attached affidavit by the justice of the peace who took Mary's application indicates that she lived 42 miles from the courthouse in Wilmington and due to bodily infirmity could not travel to the court to make her application.] [fn p. 20 family record] Ages of Children born to Elijah Powell Zany Powell born December 27, 179_ [sic] Nelly Powell born September 17 1792 Jacob Powell born August 21 1794 Williby Powell born December 5 1796 |
Compiled By: David H. Robertson, 159 Hickory St., Roswell, GA 30075 davidhr@hushmail.com |