Priscilla Powell

• Not the same as 'Goodwife' . Powell
• Evidence needed to support Priscilla Powell as daughter of Stephen Lynn Whitson & Catherine Whitson

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Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-192741

According to Jacobus, we do not know the parents or even the surname of Priscilla, the wife of Thomas Powell of New Haven. Thomas and Priscilla Powell had 6 daughters and no sons: Hannah, Priscilla, Mary, Martha, Martha, and Hester.[1]

The origins of the wife of Thomas Powell are unknown. Priscilla died after 29 September 1681, the date her husband Thomas Powell executed his will.[2]

Because nothing is known of Priscilla's parentage, the birth place previously listed for her, Mildenhall, Suffolk, England, has been removed. It is estimated that her husband was born about 1616, so that same estimated date is given for her.

It has been suggested that Priscilla Powell's maiden name was Whitson, and that her father was Stephen Lynn Whitson, but no sources have been found for that information so he has been removed as her father.

She is listed as Priscilla [?Whitson] in Torrey's New England marriages.[3]

Children listed in "List of Baptisms In the Church in New Haven, Conn., during the Ministry of Rev. John Davenport, from Nov 1639 to Nov 1666 taken from the Church Records & arranged alphabetically"[4]

[Where the name of the child is in italics it denotes that the name of the parent is not mentioned in the Church Record, but is supplied by the compiler from the town Registry of Births, Probate Records, or other sources of information. In all other cases the parent's name is taken from the Church Record. Where the name of the mother is given from the Record, that of the husband is supplied, when known. The date of birth, when it occurs in the Church Record, is put following the name. The dates in brackets are births from the Town Records. The name of the father is always entered in the Town Record of births. The year of the dates commences 25 Mar. H.W.]

The children of Thomas Powell and Priscilla his wife, born at New Haven, were:

1. 1643, Hannah, b. Aug 1641. Married Thomas Tuttle.
2. 1644, Priscilla, b. Dec 1642. Married John Thompson.
3. 20 Jul 1645, Mary. Married Ephraim Sanford.
4. 28 Jan 1648, Martha. Died young.
5. Jan 1659, Martha (again). No known children.
6. 6 Jun 1653, Hester, [b. 6 Jun 1653]. No known children.

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Families of Ancient New Haven by Donald Lines Jacobus, pg. 1476, 1882

• The descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, who came from old to New England in 1635, and settled in New Haven in 1639, with numerous biographical notes and sketches : also, some account of the descendants of John Tuttle, of Ipswich; and Henry Tuthill, of Hingham, Mass. (1883)
• http://www.archive.org/stream/descendantsofwil01tutt#page/n411/mode...
• * 'THOMAS POWELL may be the same who in May 1552, was of Long Island, admitted to be sworn freeman of Conn. by commissioners of Huntington. He was disatisfied probably with the recusancy of that colony to the union with Conn. as by royal charter provided, and may have been at Springfield, 1665. At least bought land there but did not continue long, but went back to New Haven, but not to be on the list there of 1669. He d. in New Haven 1681. His dau. Priscilla m. March 29, 1666, John Thompson. "_Savage. "THOS. POWELL was one of the patentees and purchasers of Huntington in 1664, to whom in that year Gov. Andrews issued a patent. In 1683 Gov. Dongan issued another patent for part of the same lands, in which THOS POWELL, jr., is named. In 1695 T. P., jr., moved to and one of the propriotors of Bethpage. L. I." --Thomason's Hist. of L. I. Hannah, b. 1641; bap.1643; m. Thomas Tuttle. Priscilla, Dec. 1642; m. March 29, 1666, John Thompson. Mary, bap. 1645; m. at Milford, Conn., Nov. 18, 1669, Ephraim Sanford. Martha, Jan. 28, 1649; prob. d. soon. Martha, Jan. 1651. Esther, bap. June 5, 1653. All Bap. in right of wf. PRISCILLA. THOMAS POWELL conv. to his son Thomas Tuttle July 11, 1681, one acre of land in the Yorkshire Quarter bounded by Samuel Newman's on one side, by the fortifications at meadow land, also house, lands and home lot, except a part to gr. chil. Hannah Tuttle, Joshua, Martha, Abigail, Mary and Esther, and one acre to Caleb Tuttle--N. H. Rec. A THOMAS POWELL was made freeman of the Stationers' Co., London, July 21, 1556. --Hansard's Typograhia.

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References

• Reference: RootsWeb's WorldConnect - SmartCopy: Jan 23 2017, 21:37:21 UTC
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-192741 cites

1. Donald Lines Jacobus, "Families of Ancient New Haven", Vol VI, page 1476 (Powell Family).
2. Louis Effingham De Forest, "Moore and Allied Families: The Ancestry of William Henry Moore", New York 1938, page 432, found on Ancestry.com
3. Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Com, 1985.)
4. Henry White New England Historical & Genealogical Register Vol 9, October 1855, pages 357 - 364 [Transcribed by Jane Devlin]