Rowland Powell (1751 - 1838)

Born 16 Nov 1751 in Lebanon, Windham, Connecticut

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Died 1838 at about age 86 in Richford, Franklin County, Vermont

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Biography

Rowland was born in 1751 in Lebanon, Connecticut, the oldest son of Rowland Powell Sr. and Mary Ann Richardson^[1]. In 1773, he married Mary Janes, perhaps in Windsor County, Vermont (the marriage is not recorded in the Lebanon records, so is presumably after the Powells moved to Vermont).

Rowland served in Vermont in the Revolutionary War with his father and two brothers (Luther and Calvin). All four were on the Pay Roll of Captain Joshua Hazen's Company (under Col. Woods Regiment) that marched to Brookfield in the alarm of Oct. 1780^[2].

Rowland and Mary had the following children^[3]:

1. Bradford b. 1775; m. Clarissa Goff; d. 1820 (Richford, Vt.)
2. John b. 1777; m. Aurilla Lasset; d. 1849
3. Elfreda m. Mr. Rogers
4. Lucy m. Elisha Smith, (son of Joshua Smith and b. 1783)
5. Anna b. 1774; m1. Daniel Miller; m2. Daniel Cheney
6. Cynthia m. Russell Lathrop 12 Jan. 1815
7. Prosper b. 9 July 1795; m. Mary Goff; d. 1881
8. Horace m. Harriet Parker
9. Chester (moved to southern Indiana)
10. Horatio m. Miss Russell of Frelighsburg, Lower Canada
11. Mary (Polly) b. 1787; m. Daniel Janes, Jr. 24 April 1814; d. 1850

Sources

1. ↑ Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Volume I, Page 251
2. ↑ State of Vermont, Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783, compiled and edited by John E. Goodrich, Rutland, Vt., 1904 | Pages 283-284
3. ↑ Vermont Families in 1791, Pg. 60

See Also:

• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/36407284/person/260157860790/facts

• History and Genealogies of the Powells of America, compiled by Charles S. Powell, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1935, Page 34

• Genealogy of the Early Settlers of Richford, Vt., by Leon E. Gibson, published in Richford Newspaper, 1935 and 1936, Pages 6 & 7

• Descendants of Governor William Bradford, compiled by Ruth Gardiner Hall, 1951| Page 134

• History of Windsor County, Vt.| Page 345

• 1790 United States Federal Census

• 1800 United States Federal Census

• 1810 United States Federal Census

• 1820 United States Federal Census

• Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)

• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=92850788&ref=acom

• U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783