Samuel Hallock Powell (1725 - 1822)

Born 10 Nov 1725 in Bethpage, Suffolk, Province of New York

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Wood) Powell — married 23 Mar 1749 in Huntington, Long Island, New York Colony

Descendants

Died 1822 at about age 96 in Albany, New York, United States

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Biography

CAPT. Samuel Powell served with 2nd New York Regiment, Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Samuel Powell served in the New York Line, 2nd Regiment, a Continental Line Infantry Combat Unit that saw action all over New York State and the other original Colonies during the Revolutionary War.

According to DAR paperwork in the hands of the PM, this is the person who allows for membership, since he is born prior to the Rev. War.

When Samuel Hallock Powell was born on 10 November 1723, in Bethpage, Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York, United States, his father, Thomas Powell, was 30 and his mother, Abigail Hallock, was 18. He married Mary Wood on 23 March 1748, in Bedelltown, Oyster Bay Town, Queens, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. He registered for military service in 1775. United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors in First Company Of Philadelphia Militia Artillery. He served in Colonel Jehn Eyre's Battalion and Captain John McGinley's Company as a Second Lieutenant and gunner. He died in 1792, at the age of 69.^{[citation needed]} NOTE: This date disagrees with what DAR shows.

Sources

• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/195226530/person/362547559064/facts
• Ancestry list of Children
• LI Genealogy-Bros & Sis
• Powell-L.I. Surnames
• L.I. Surnames
• Marriage
• "New York Marriages, 1686-1980",
• "New York Marriages, 1686-1980", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F637-VBW : 21 January 2020), Samuel Powel, 1748.
• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG29-3JZB : 6 June 2023), Samuel Powell, 19 Oct 1775; citing Military Service, United States, Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 102229255.
• "United States, New York Land Records, 1630-1975", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:8WK4-XZT2 : 1 March 2023), Samuel Powell, 1826.
• Wood, Matthew. Jonas Wood "Halifax", of Huntington, Long Island, NYGBR (NYGBS, 1993) Vol. 124, Page 26.