Powell Family

Elizabeth Powell daughter of Miles Powell, married Seth Wheeler, as his second wife, according to this blog.

Source: Henry Genealogy

David Powell's estate in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, index: 445, 446, 447, 449, 517, 518

Next Volume: 335, 336, 337 (last entry named his heirs, including sister Elizabeth)

Miles Powell's Correspondence

A letter from the collection, American Archives: Consisting of a Collection of Authentick Records, State ...:

Lanesborough, April 3, 1776

Sir: Permit us to crave your attention and, if worthy, your advice and assistance, in our present disturbed circumstances in this town, which, briefly as possible, we mean herein to relate;...we pray and hope you will attend to as a friend to justice, regularity, and our Continental cause. We have...to adept all probable measures to assist and support the just cause of America....".

Names Including Miles Powell

New York, Probate Records...Steuben Final settlements 1854-1868 vol 2:

Image 75

List of names including Miles Powell

12 August 1856

Census 1865

Canisteo, Steuben, New York, United States

Miles Powell M 50

Asenath Powell Wife F 59

Marissa Powell Daughter F 20

Perlina Powell Daughter F 20

Iretta Powell Daughter F 12

A Backus And Powell Connection In Massachusetts?

Source

"He [Dr. Whiting*] was a surgeon of Col. Miles Powell's regiment in which twenty men from Great Barrington, under Capt. Roswell Downing, enlisted from July 19 to August 23, 1779." [Source]

*John Backus, Jr., was Dr. William Whiting's uncle by marriage.

Note: My grandkids are descendants of Miles Powell on their paternal side; they also have 3 ancestors named John Backus, a father, son and grandson (none of them are the John Backus mentioned above; all are descendants of William Backus the immigrant) on their maternal line.

The Matthew Marvin Line

Source - Matthew Marvin On Plat Map of Ancient Norwalk, Connecticut

My grandkids' ancestors through the Matthew Marvin line:

Matthew Marvin m. Elizabeth

Sarah Marvin m. William Goodrich*

William Goodrich m. Grace Riley**

Anne Goodrich m. Robert Powell

Miles Powell m. Jemima Adkins

Hannah Powell m. Wait Squier

Wait Squier m. Abigail Powell

Manley Wallace Squier m. Caroline Young

Manley Dean Squier m. Mabel Helms

D. Squier m. Lorell Thierry

Living 

***The Goodrich family in America...included the following excerpts:

William Goodrich born in England... .  ...also called Ensign William Goodrich in 1676, just after the close of King Philip's war. He married Sarah, daughter of Matthew Marvin of Hartford and his wife Elizabeth, Oct 4, 1648... . 

A few of the mutual "Marvin" descendants...[through] Matthew Marvin...:

Lee Marvin [lineage here]

William T. Sherman [here]

Humphrey Bogart [here]

Truman Powell Of Vermont

William Beaumont was Truman Powell's apprentice according to Wikipedia.

Fold3 - Truman Powell's Appt. As Surgeon In 31st Inf.

Truman Powell's biography:

Source (See a picture of the home mentioned above)

Bio information can also be found at FindAGrave.

Worth seeing:  Truman Powell [Burlington, VT]. Letter of recommendation for W. Beaumont. September 10, 1812.

Is the Truman Powell of Livingston County, New York, who is affiliated with our family related to this Truman Powell?  I do not know.

Miles P. Squier

The miscellaneous writings of Miles P. Squier ... with an autobiography:

LATE PROFESSOR OP INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY, 

BELOIT COLLEGE, WISCONSIN. 

"I was born, in Cornwall, Vermont, May 4th, 1792; being the second son and child of Wait and Hannah Squier. My parents were of English descent, and natives of Berkshire Co., Mass. My father was the third son of Andrew Squier, of Lanesboro, Mass., through whom the family is traced to Waterbury, and that region in Connecticut. My mother's maiden name was Hannah Powell: she was the fourth daughter of Miles Powell, whose name I inherit. He was a man of some distinction in his day, and the Colonel of a regiment of
Berkshire Militia, in the well-known Bennington battle in the war of the Revolution : that beginning of victories in behalf of the American standard, which had so much influence on the great issue pending, and on the liberties of the world."

"It was indeed a privilege to visit the death-bed of Mr. Squier. It was not a scene of melancholy gloom, of doubt, of distrust, of alarm, or of apathy or indifference. It was not the scene so often witnessed, of a clinging to earth, and of an unwillingness to be torn from it ; it was one of peaceful, contented, happy resignation to the Divine will, under the conviction that this sickness was to be his last; nay, it was a scene of joyful hope in Christ and assurance of heaven, and desire to be freed from the incumbrance of an earthly tabernacle. One day he said, 'Why should I be confined to this little speck of earth when I may soon have the freedom of the universe?"'

From this site:

Miles Powell Squier... (May 4th, 1792- June 22nd, 1866) Pastor of 1st Presbyterian Church from (3 May, 1816- 1 January 1824).
Born in Cornwall, VT, the second child of Wait Squier and Hannah Powell Squier, who were both of English decent and natives of Berkshire County, MA, they were married in 1790. He was one of three sons and three daughters who survived into adulthood, the names of his siblings were Wait, Jr., Calvin, Laura, Lorinda, Aurelia, and Huldana, Laura and Lorinda.  His parents, Wait Sr. and Hannah Powell Squier moved to New Haven, CT in 1794 where the elder Wait Squier took up farming.
While living in Buffalo on 22 February, 1820, he married his wife, Catherine Seymour (8 October, 1792 – 6 December, 1873), then of Rome, NY, but who was born in Hartford, CT. Miles and Catherine had no children.

United States Census, 1850

Seneca, Ontario, New York, United States

Household Gender Age Birthplace

Miles P Squire M 58 New York

Catharine S Squire F 57 Connecticut

Mary Mcdonough M 30 Ireland

Margarett Mcwilliams M 23 Ireland

Catharine S Henry F 13 Connecticut

John Backus In 1855

New York, State Census, 1855

E.D. 2, Livonia, Livingston, New York, United States

Household Gender Age Birthplace

Head John Backus M 82

Wife Johanna Backus F 64

Per the census information, John Backus was born in Columbia County and resided in city or town 39 years; Johanna Backus was born in Massachusetts, resided there 3 years.

Living next to John and Johanna were John's son, Clinton T. Backus, age 28, who was born in Livingston County and lived there for 28 years; Clinton's mother-in-law (he was a widower in 1855), Catherine Groesbeck, age 58, who resided there for 4 years (she was born in Rensselaer County); and Clinton's son, Manson F. Backus, age 2, who was born in Livingston County, New York.

Chloe Powell, who was born in Vermont, was on John Backus's other side.

Also living nearby was George Kennady, born in Ontario Co., age 44, who lived there 16 years.  George was married to (Welthy) L. (Lucina) Baker, daughter of Timothy and Philena (Powell) Baker.  Philena was also living in the Kennady household.  Timothy Baker was John Backus's uncle.

Gifford Nash, age 46, born in Cayuga Co., who was Philena (Powell) Baker's son from her first marriage also lived nearby.

Col. Miles Powell, Who Participated In This Country's Struggle For Independence

"Miles Powell turned out at the Lexington Alarm." "He commanded Berkshire county troops at Bennington and served in frontier defense during Tryon's invasion," according to information submitted to the DAR by Mrs. Aurelia Henry Russell.

Who was Miles Powell? The son of Robert & Anne (Goodrich) Powell "...he settled in Lanesboro, Massachusetts, as early as 1759," according to this publication. Most of what is known of Miles Powell is through his descendants.

Miles Powell is the 6th great-grandfather of my grandchildren, through his daughter, Hannah, who married Wait Squier. Another Hannah Powell & Wait Squier descendant was their son, Miles Powell Squier, whose biography can be seen here at Wikipedia. The wife of Michigan Senator (and Governor) Russell A. Alger is also a descendant of Wait & Hannah Squier.

Miles Powell was also the father of Rachel, who married William Lampson. A portrait of Rachel Powell Lampson, daughter of Colonel Miles & Jemima Powell, painted by Gilbert Stuart can be seen on Footnote (which also has much more information about William Lampson, including a portrait).

Another daughter, Ruth, married Winthrop Noble. Daughter Elizabeth married Seth Wheeler.

Other children were Miles (Jr.), Jemima, Irena, Calvin, David and Daniel.

The family of Daniel Powell, son of Miles, Jr., can be found here.

Miles Powell's gravestone can be seen here; he and his wife, Jemima, are buried in the Lanesborough Center Cemetery in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.