Esther Simpson

Not a known daughter of John Powell, Sr. and Elizabeth Powell

This couple brought their first 5 children from North Carolina to Alabama in 1788.

33. ELISHA SIMPSON (AVERILLA PERKINS, RICHARD, RICHARD, ROBERT) was born February 27, 1758 in Northhampton County, North Carolina, and died September 04, 1835 in Wayne, Washington, Alabama. He married (1) MARY WALL. He married (2) ESTHER POWELL. She was born Abt. 1760.

Family

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Notes for ELISHA SIMPSON:

ELISHA SIMPSON WAS BORN 2/27/1758 IN NORTHAMPTON CO. NORTH CAROLINA AND DIED 9/4/1835 IN WASHINGTON CO.ALA. HE SERVED IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM BLADEN CO. NORTH CAROLINA THE APPLICATION NUMBER OF HIS PENSION BEING S 31963.HE MARRIED HIS FIRST WIFE, NAME UNKNOWN, IN NORTH CAROLINA . HE IS LISTED ON THE 1790 CENSUS FOR NORTH CAROLINA IN WILMINGTON DISTRICT, BRUNSWICH COUNTY.HIS FIRST WIFE DIED PROBABLY BETWEEN 1790-1795 ANDE HE RE MARRIED ESTHER POWELL . NOT POSITIVE ON THE LAST NAME POWELL.

Children of ELISHA SIMPSON and ESTHER are:

• 8 i. ELIZABETH2 SIMPSON.She married ZACHARIAL MURRELL 1833 in WASHINGTON CO.MISS.. Notes for ELIZABETH SIMPSON. MARRIED IN WASHINGTON CO. ALA. 1833-1835. SOME OF HER DESCENDANTS LIVE IN EASTERN MISS.
• + 9 ii. PHILLIP SIMPSON.
• 10 iii. JOHN POWELL SIMPSON

Will of Elisha Simpson

His will is in Washington County, AL, Will Book B, p. 38. Written 24 September 1831.

.....Thirdly it is my will and desire that all the remainder of my estate both real and personal be equally divided between my three youngest children viz Elizabeth Murrell and her children, Phillip Simpson and John P. Simpson share and share alike. The children herein mentioned is the children of my present wife and it is by her that I received my Negro property therefore I think it is proper to give them to her children. At the same time not forgetting my oldest children or those of my first wife that is to say Nathan Simpson, Charles Simpson, Kelley Nancy Blackwell and Nancy Wall, of which except the last mentioned has received a proportionate of my estate escept the Negroes which came by my last or present wife Mary Wall is living in South Carolina and I have never had it in my power to give her anything and as she is in affluent circumstances I think it is unnecessary to divide my small estate with her.

References

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