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About Colonel Levin C. Powell
Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III Powell Evans
Colonel Levin Powell married, in 1763, Sarah Harrison, daughter of Colonel Burr Harrison, of "Chippawamsic", Prince William county, Virginia, a justice of the peace and member of the House of Burgesses from Prince William county, where his great-grandfather, Burr Harrison, had settled, in 1655, having fled from England, a refugee from the royal army to escape the vengeance of Cromwell. Burr Harrison, of Chippawamsic, was a son of Cuthbert Harrison, Esqr., of Acaster, Caton and Flaxby, in com. Ebar (Arms: "Az. three demi lions ramp. or." Crest: "A demi lion ramp. or, holding a laurel branch, vert.") and his wife, a daughter of Lord Hangdale, of Holme, and was baptized in the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminister, December 28, 1637. While a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in April, 1699, he, with Mr. Giles Vauderville, was sent as an Ambassador to the Piscataway Indians. His name appears, July 10, 1700, with those of John Washington, Rice Hooe, George Mason, etc., of his Majesty's Officers both Civil and Military, to a petition to Governor Sir Henry Nicholson for protection against the Indians. (C. P. 1, 631--Id. 70). Cuthbert and William Harrison Powell, two of the sons of Levin and Sally (Harrison) Powell, were, like their father, members of United States Congress.
He served with a commission as Major in the Virginia Militia and led a battalion of Minute Men against Lord Dunsmore. Again he was commissioned a Lt.Col. of Grayson's 16th VA. Continentals who fought at Whitemarsh and Valley Forge. He retired and served as Fiscal Agent for supplying the arms and provisions until after the war.
- Residence: "The Shades", Middleburg, Loudoun, VA - From 1764 To 1810
- Military service: Elected Major of the Loudon militia of minute men - 1774 - Loudon County, Virginia, United States
- Residence: Frederick, Maryland, United States - 1810
- Find A Grave Memorial # 7621470
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jul 5 2019, 3:27:30 UTC
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Leven Powell was born to William Powell and Eleanor (Peyton). Leven was born near Manassas in Prince William County, Virginia. He studied in private schools. He was deputy sheriff of Prince William County, Virginia, before he moved to Loudoun County in 1763, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. He purchased a mill on Hunger Run and named it Sally Mill after his young wife, Sally. Sally Mill Road is between Aldie, Virginia and Middleburg, Virginia. A wall of the original mill still exists on the site. Leven later purchased 50 acres from Joseph Chinn who had built Chinn's Ordinary, now called the Red Fox Inn, in 1728 near the center of that 50 acre parcel. The area had been called Chinn's Crossroads, and was then known as Powell Town. When the town was officially established in 1787, Leven Powell declined to have the town named after him, so the name became Middleburgh, and later simply Middleburg.
During the American Revolutionary War, he served as major in the Continental Army in 1775 and was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 16th Continental Regiment in 1777. He resigned on account of ill health in 1778.
Powell served as member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1779. He was a delegate to the Virginia ratification convention in 1788 and again a member of the House of Delegates in 1787, 1788, 1791, and 1792. In the 1796 presidential election, Powell stood alone among Virginia's 21 electors in voting for John Adams over Thomas Jefferson.[1] He was elected as a Federalist to the Sixth Congress (March 4, 1799 – March 3, 1801). In 1787, Powell is known as the founder of the town of Middleburg, Virginia in Loudoun County. He also helped to build a turnpike (now Rt 50) from the port of Alexandria, Virginia to Winchester, Virginia. He died in Bedford, Pennsylvania in 1810 and was buried in the Old Presbyterian Graveyard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leven_Powell
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Colonel Levin C. Powell's Timeline
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July 19, 1737
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Dumfries, Prince William County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1756
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1766
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Loudoun County, Virginia, United States
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May 11, 1768
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Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States
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1771
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Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
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March 4, 1775
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August 6, 1810
Age 73
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Bedford Springs, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States
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August 26, 1810
Age 73
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Old Presbyterian Graveyard, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States
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