Person:Ambrose Powell (4)

Early Land Acquisition in Virginia

Acquisition of Land from Orange County, Virginia Records:

Pages 276-80. 22-23 March 1737 [1738]. Richard Yarbrough Junr. of Orange County to Ambrose Powell of same. Lease and release; for £33.15.1- current money. 287 acres, part of a larger tract belonging to said Yarbrough which he purchased of Richard Mauldin on the north side of the Robinson River in Mr. Fry's line... to a great stone near a run corner of Colo. Beverley's... corner to Zachary Sparks on the north side of the said Robinson River...

(signed) Richd. Yarbrough.

Wit: Zach Taylor, George Eastham, Charles DeWitt.

23 March 1737 [1738]. Acknowledged by Richard Yarbrough. On motion of Zach Taylor, Gent., admitted to record. Rachel, wife of said Yarbrough, relinquished her right of dower.

Delivered to Ambrose Clark Nov. 1795.

[Orange County Virginia Deed Book 2, Dorman, pg. 49].

Pages 417-21. 27-28 May 1741. Joshua Yarbrough of Orange County, planter, to Ambrose Powell of same, planter. Lease and release; for £40 current money.

213 acres on the south side of the Robinson River... on the river bank at the mouth of a branch... against Zachary Sparks' corner...

(signed) Joshua Yarbrough

Wit: Geo. Taylor, Jos. Morton, Richd. Winslow.

28 May 1741. Acknowledged by Joshua Yarbrough. Sarah the wife of Yarbrough relinquished her right of dower.

[Orange County Virginia Deed Book 4, Dorman, pg. 63].

Acquisition of Land from Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys:

• Ambrose Powell, 7 Mar. 1747 - 19 Mar. 1747; 372 acres at fork of Robinsone River where he has improved, to Dark Run; adj. Benjamin Powell, Richard Halcum. Chain Carriers - Wm. Bledsoe & Wm. Sparks. Surv. by George Hume. [Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Orange & Augusta Counties, with Tithables, Delinquents, Petitioners, 1730-1754, Volume One, Peggy Smomo Joyner, pg. 13].

• Ambrose Powell, 30 Mar. 1748 - 21 May 1748; 530 acres on fork of Robinson River; adj. his own land, Benjamin & Ambrose Powell, John Bruce, Wm. Sparks. Chain Carriers - William Bledsoe, Jr. & Joel Yarbrough. Marker - Benja. Powell. Surv. Philip Clayton. [Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Orange & Augusta Counties, with Tithables, Delinquents, Petitioners, 1730-1754, Volume One, Peggy Smomo Joyner, pg. 13].

Acquisition of Land from Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants 1742-1775, Vol. 2:

• K-23: Ambrose Powel of Culpeper County, 412 acres in said County in Fork of Rapidan River. Surv. George Hume. Adjoining Gasper Hains, Richard Maulden, Tho's Sparks, John Willson. 25 Oct. 1757. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, pg. 113].

Notes

ix. Capt. Ambrose Powell, born 9/18/1713 in Culpeper Co., VA. [Birth date is from a Bible record.]

[From “Browning Genealogy”, Ambrose was an intimate freind of James Madison, Sr., the father of the 4th President of the United States. He was the godfather of Nellie Madison, a daughter of James Madison Sr.]

11/3/1743, William Crosthwaite estate, receipts from Benjamin and Ambrose Powell.

4/9/1750, Ambrose, an explorer with Dr. Thomas Walker, reached the Clinch River near the present town of Sneedville, TN. Ambrose Powell had carved his name on so many beech trees that it was said you could follow his trail from VA into TN and on through to the fork of Rockcastle River in KY. Powell River and Powell Valley are both named for Ambrose.

3/10/1752, Ambrose married young Mary Bledsoe, born 1735, sister of Benjamin’s wife.

4/19/1759, Benjamin and Ambrose Powell witnessed the estate of Joseph Wood.

10/21/1762, Wm. Bledsoe, Grantee - Ambrose Powell & wife, Grantors - Deed recorded 3-17-1763.

1764, Ambrose Powel on the quit rent rolls of Culpeper Co. [Along with his brothers Benjamin Powell and John O Powell.]

Rev. War – Ambrose and officer. (S) Received a warrant for 2000 acres for being “an officer in the last war.”

1768, Ambrose named Executor in will his brother Benjamin Powell.

12/27/1769, Ambrose and Mary named in her father’s will.

1773-1787, Ambrose appears in multiple estate papers of Culpeper Co.

1/26/1782, Ambrose wrote his will. He names his sons, with military rank, and his son-in-law, and identifies his daughter Fanny as deceased.

(S) 1783 Tax List Culpeper Co., Ambrose Powell.

9/8/1788, Ambrose died.

1/9/1791, Mary remarried to Benjamin Rowe.

6/15/1789, Mrs. Mary Rowe, widow of Ambrose Powell, deceased. (S) Inventory of Estate of Capt. Ambrose Powell.

1802, Mary died.

[Source: http://www.teachergenealogist007.com/2010/03/bell-328-329.html]

1. ↑ Dorman, John Frederick. Culpeper County, Virginia, deeds. (Washington [District of Columbia]: J.F. Dorman, c1975-)
   Vol. 3, p. 197-200.

   (Original Pages 197-200)
   21 Oct. 1762. Ambrose Powell and Mary his wife of Culpeper County to William Bledsoe and Elizabeth his wife during their natural lives and after their decease to Mumford Stevens of same. For 10 pounds current money. 119 acres on the south side of the Robinson River ... on the west side of Halcomb's Branch in a line of Daniel Philips ... on a ridge ... corner to JasperHaynes ...
   Signed 19 Nov. 1762
   Ambrose Powell
   Mary Powell
   Wit: Thos. Jones, Martin (X) Christopher.
   17 March 1763. Acknowledged by Ambrose.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).