Jacob Powell (1771 - 1849)

Born 1771 in Coeymans Monthly Meeting, New Baltimore, Greene, Province of New York

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah Pearsall — married 22 Jan 1794 in Bethpage, Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York, United States

Descendants

Died 1849 at about age 78 in Moravia, Cayuga, New York, United States

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Jacob was born in 1771. He passed away in 1849. He was born on Long Island, probably in the Jericho Monthly Meeting of the Friends or Quakers, also married in that area, then they moved north to Coeymans Monthly Meeting, by then it was in Greene County, NY. Quaker births could be found in records in many monthly meetings if they moved from place to place, as Jacob and family did, so his birth or age could be seen in Jericho, Coeymans and Scipio if recorded there, especially before the major schism of 1828...

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Summary of his Quaker Records: Jacob Powell, son of Samuel and Mary Powell of Oyster Bay, NY, meeting, married 1-22-1794 at Bethpage, NY, to Hannah Pearsall, daughter of John and Mary Pearsall of Huntington, NY. They had children named: Israel, Samuel, Abigail, John. Jacob and family got certificate for removing to NY monthly meeting, 3-21-1805, from Jericho monthly meeting, NY. From NYMM, they got certificate to remove to Coeymans MM 4-21-1806 with their 4 children. In 3-24-1819 they removed on to Scipio MM and lived in the Sempronius meeting, listed in the Locke/Summer Hill 1820 Census. Still there in 1828, they are on the Sempronius member list of the Great Schism of 1828 and later disowned and lived near the Lickville Free Will Baptist Church, in Summer Hill, Cayuga, NY. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol 3, pp. 258, 293-294. Also the Coeymans and Scipio MM records and the US Censuses 1800-1850. - Loren Fay.

A remote ancestor, the first Quaker ancestor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Powell_(1641%E2%80%931722)

• Powell Jacob b Coeymans MM 1771 7 24 C 626 3.1 3 229388

Anyone who says Coeymans Monthly Meeting has to be in Albany County, is thinking pre-1800, when the meeting was named it was in Albany County, but Greene County was formed in 1800, and it was ever after that in Greene County, especially in the town of New Baltimore, where the meetinghouse was located and where the cemeteries still are located... Coeymans meeting began under Hudson MM in 1789, and they bought land and began building a meeting house in 5th month 1795 on Stanton Hill, where the old meetinghouse also had a plain cemetery around the meetinghouse with mostly plain grave stones, meaning they had no or minimal inscriptions, as per old Quaker tradition. The land and cemetery are still there at the oldest place marked by tall trees. Coeymans Monthly Meeting was organized from Hudson MM in 12th month 1799, which is when those monthly meeting records begin, but earlier member births may be seen in records written down later, but not always... After the schism of 1828 there were two Coeymans MM's with meetinghouses and records, as Orthodox or Hicksites. As some decreased in members and support they were later laid down and eventually the records were gathered to the Friends' archives in NY City, and in the later 1900s, were moved to a better Friends' archive in Pennsylvania, but are accessible online and well indexed with the James Hazard Index to NY Yearly Meeting. In the 1950s, most of the remaining Friends meetings in NYYM reunited together. (Notes from reading the old original Coeymans PM and MM records on microfilm at the NY State Library in Albany, NY, in October 2023 by Loren Fay.)

His birth is recorded in Coeymans Monthly Meeting records, of the Society of Friends or Quakers, and I found it easily by searching in the James Hazard Index to the NY Yearly Meeting records... Its all online and free to use. Friends' birth records are mostly recorded without a specific birth place, but in the Monthly Meeting records, so I often use that meeting as the birthplace, showing where it was recorded. The same or similar information might be seen in two or three Monthly Meeting records when they moved to a newer location during their life.

(There are several references to Jacob Powell, the last is the birth of this man or this name in the James Hazard Index to NY Yearly Meeting Friends' Records...) You selected: meeting: any first name letter: J; firstname: Jacob last name letter: P; lastname: Powell year: any; date range: any event: any keyword: sort on: last_name first_name

number of results: 10 (new search) last name first name event meeting note year month day call number volume page id

Powell Jacob d Creek John & Elizabeth. Age 54y 3m 6d. Clinton 1814 1 8 C 731 3.1 16 11369

Powell Jacob rocf Scipio Coeymans MM with w Hannah and ch: Abigail, John, Mary, Henry, Jacob, Elizabeth & William 1819 7 15 S 381 1.1 307 30352

Powell Jacob mbr New York Monthly (Orthodox) Hicksite 1848 12 6 N 454 1.3 362 52870

Powell Jacob b Westbury Daniel & Mary 1737 6 2 W 453 3.1 127 60301

Powell Jacob mbr Westbury 1755 5 3 W 453 1.2 267 60302

Powell Jacob d Westbury Daniel & Mary. In 22d year 1758 12 14 W 453 3.1 107 60303

Powell Jacob rocf New York Monthly (Pre) Jericho MM with w Hannah and 4 ch: Israel, Samuel, Abigail & John. See also N 452 Vol 3.9 pg 165 1805 4 3 N 452 1.11 29 70375

Powell Jacob gct New York Monthly (Pre) Coemans MM with w Hannah and 4 ch: Israel, Samuel, Abigail & John. See also pg 70 and N 452 Vol 3.9 pg 187 1806 4 2 N 452 1.11 74 70376

Powell Jacob gct Jericho New York MM; with w Hannah and ch: Israel, Samuel, Abigail & John. See also pg A9 1805 3 21 J 451 1.2 91 102950

Powell Jacob b Coeymans 1771 7 24 C 626 3.1 3 229388

Jacob Powell in the U.S., Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885 Name Jacob Powell Gender Male Marital Status Widowed Estimated Birth Year abt 1766 Birth Place New York Age 83 Death Date Dec 1849 Census year 1850 Census Place Moravia, Cayuga, New York, USA Line 10

In 1828, Jacob Powell and family listed in the Sempronius Meeting of Friends (Quakers) Jacob Powell, Hannah, Mary, minors: Elizabeth 15, Henry 19, Jacob 17, William 12. They removed 1819 from Coeymans Monthly Meeting to the Scipio Monthly Meeting, and were local members of the Sempronius Meeting which was located in Moravia since the town changed in 1833. Aparently they lived in Locke after they arrived, and that became Summerhill after that was divided off from Locke in 1831...

William W Powell

in the New York, U.S., State Census, 1855 View New York, U.S., State Census, 1855

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Name William W Powell Age 38 Birth Date abt 1817 Residence Date 1855 Residence Place Summerhill, New York, USA Relation to Head Head Line Number 44 Sheet Number 2 Household Members (Name) Age

William W Powell 38 born Green County, living here 36 years, since 1819. This was probably the original farm or town where they settled in 1819 from Greene county??

Maria Powell 33 wife and children all born Cayuga county, she here 8 years, since 1847.

Mary E Powell 12 children all born Cayuga County, here since birth.

Amanda A Powell 10

Julia E Powell 8

Henry I Powell 6

Fanney C Powell less than 12 months, on page it says 11/12, or11 months old.

Jacob Powell in the 1830 United States Federal Census Name Jacob Powell Home in 1830 (City, County, State) Locke, Cayuga, New York Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14 1 Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19 1 Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29 1 Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59 1 born c.1770-1780 Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19 1 Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29 1 Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59 1 born c. 1770-1780 Free White Persons - Under 20 3 Free White Persons - 20 thru 49 2 Total Free White Persons 7 Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored) 7 (TWO other Powell families seen on same page in Locke, see photo image.)