Jonathan Powers, Sr.

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Jonathan Powers (1704 - 1766)

Born 13 Oct 1704 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Son of Daniel Powers and Elizabeth (Whitcomb) Powers

Brother of Daniel Powers, Oliver Powers, Peter Powers 1st, Hannah (Powers) Davis, William Powers [half], Sepheron Powers [half], Timothy Powers [half], Jerathmiel Powers [half], Martha Powers [half], Increase Powers [half], Abijah Powers 1st [half] and Tryphena Powers [half]

Husband of Hannah (Moore) Powers — married 17 Dec 1730 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts

Father of Jacob Powers, Amos Powers, Elizabeth Powers, Hannah Powers, Oliver Powers, Jonathan Powers, Silas Powers, Lucy Powers, Ephraim Powers and Manasseh Powers

Died 28 Apr 1766 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay

Profile last modified 2 Mar 2020 | Created 11 Sep 2011

Biography

Birth

Jonathan Powers was born on October 13, 1704, in Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay.[1][2] Marriage

Jonathan Powers married Hannah Moore on December 17, 1730, in Lancaster, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay.[3][4] Children

Children of Jonathan Powers and Hannah Moore: Jacob Powers Amos Powers Elizabeth Powers Hannah Powers Oliver Powers Jonathan Powers Lucy Powers Silas Powers Ephraim Powers Manasseh Powers Lois Powers Bridget Powers Jonathan Powers Betsey Powers Jerusha Powers Death

Jonathan Powers's wife, Hannah died about 1775.[5] Military

Jonathan Powers served as a soldier in the old French war.[6] Jonathan Powers was mustered and scouted by order of Coll Willard under the command of Sergt. James Houghton. He served six weeks from July 24, 1748.[7] Note: Hannah (Sawyer) Snow survived her husband, John Snow in 1750 and moved to Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts, living there with her son, Samuel Snow. In about 1776, she married Jonathan Powers, who born 13 Oct 1704 in Littleton, Massachusetts. His first wife, Hannah Moore, whose mother was born a Sawyer was a cousin of Hannah (Sawyer) Snow. She had died in 1775. Jonathan and Hannah (Sawyer, Snow) Powers moved 35 miles west to the village of Ware, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. She died in Ware, Mass., in March 1780 and is buried at Quabbin Park Cemetery in Ware, Hampshire County, Massachusetts in Plot: 542-7.[8]

Sources

↑ Myers, Forrest D, and Jerry A. Clouse. Briner Family History: A Genealogy of George Michael Breiner and Anna Catharina Loy, Married 1756/7 in Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, PA: A.E. Myers, 1984, p. 247. ↑ Harwood, Joseph A, and Samuel Smith. Records of Littleton, Massachusetts. Littleton, Mass: Patriot Press, Concord, Mass., 1900, p. 403, 406. ↑ Nourse, Henry S. The Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts: 1643-1850. Lancaster: Printed by W.J. Coulter, 1890. Print. Page 25. <https://archive.org/stream/birthmarriagedea1905lanc#page/25/mode/1up>. Text: "Jonathan Powers & Hannah More was married by ye Revd. Mr John Prentice Decm. ye 17 : 1730." ↑ Bolton, Ethel Stanwood. “Some Descendants of John Moore of Sudbury, Mass.” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, LVII, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903, p. 303. ↑ Powers, Franklin E., 1937- A Genealogical Record of the Powers(s) [i.e. Power(s)] families / compiled by Franklin E. Powers. [Aurora, Colo.]: Powers, [1974], p. 15, 152. ↑ Powers, Franklin E., 1937- A Genealogical Record of the Powers(s) [i.e. Power(s)] families / compiled by Franklin E. Powers. [Aurora, Colo.]: Powers, [1974], p. 152. ↑ Nourse, Henry S. The Military Annals of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1740-1865: Including Lists of Soldiers Serving in the Colonial and Revolutionary Wars, for the Lancastrian Towns-Berlin, Bolton, Harvard, Leominster, and Sterling. Lancaster [Mass.: W.J. Coulter, 1889, p. 28. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 17 July 2018), memorial page for Find A Grave: Memorial #52750505, citing Quabbin Park Cemetery, Ware, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Nick Francischelli (contributor 48240267). See also: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Crutchett, Ralph H, and Isabel M. Crutchett. The Powers Family. Provo: CCLA/GSU, 2000. Internet resource.