Ambrose P Powell
BIRTH 1756
Orange County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 9 Nov 1821 (aged 64–65)
Maury County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL Williamsport Cemetery
Williamsport, Maury County, Tennessee, USA
Ambrose Powell [born circa 1750, and at least before 1755 (reported he was over 45 in 1800) in Orange County, North Carolina; passed intestate on October 27th, 1827, in Maury County, Tennessee (see Jeff James citing Maury County Court Records transcribed at http://www.geocities.com/arkansasfamilytree/ambpownot.html) (location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_County,_Tennessee); entered a 500 acre tract on Zach’s Fork of Lower Creek in Burke (later Caldwell) County, on December 23rd, 1778; chainbearer, along with Brother, Robert, for a Survey of 200 acres adjacent to John Day entered by Brother John, on December 29th, 1778 (see John Powell Group citing North Carolina State Archives, North Carolina Secretary of State Land Grant Office Warrants, Plats, Etc., Burke County at Number 1414); enumerated in the 9th Company (Militia District) in Burke County, North Carolina, living with Wife, 1 other man, 4 boys, 4 other females, and 1 slave during the census of 1790, all next door to Brother, Elias, and Jacob and Peter Holt, as well as other Powells and Blairs; moved to Williamson County, Tennessee, before July 9th, 1804, when the Ambrose Powell Place on the Natchez Trace was mentioned in a court record; moved, perhaps by boundary change, to Maury County, Tennessee, circa 1809 (see James, citing Erin Renfroe) before he purchased 300 acres on the northeast bank of the Duck River at the mouth of Fish Trap Branch on November 28th, 1809, from Nicholas Perkins for $1,250.00 in a Deed witnessed by Thomas Stallings, Robert Hill, and Samuel H. William (see Maury County Deed Book F at page 490); represented by O.B. Hays of the lawfirm of Perkins and Harris when he sued Thomas Hudspeth in a Maury County Court on October 18th, 1811, for defamation and in particular for statements Hudspeth made to the public on August 10th, 1811, that the Powells were a “set of damned thieves” and that “the damned Powells” paid their workers (who were erecting a mill for Son, Peter) by stealing bacon, all of which allegedly caused those who heard these statements to avoid any discourse or commerce with Ambrose, causing damages in the amount of 2 thousand dollars (see original Maury County court record at pages 41-43); paid taxes in Maury County in 1812 (see Maury County Historical Society at Volume 8, Number 1, page 23); mentioned in the accounting of the Estate of Robert Neely in Maury County in 1812 (see Maury County Will Book A at page 174, published online at http://www.tngenweb.org/maury/wills/willpg2.htm); subsequent marriage to Margaret “Peggy” Knox, the widow of James Knox, in October of 1812; purchased, along with Son-in-Law, Alexander Kelly, and Walker Knox, inventory from the Estate of James Knox on November 23rd, 1812 (see Maury County Will Book A at page 141, transcribed online at http://www.tngenweb.org/maury/wills/willpg1.htm); paid taxes in Maury County in 1812 (see Maury County Historical Society, Volume VIII, Number 1, page 23); lived next to Thomas and Nicholas Perkins when he paid taxes for 300 acres in Maury County in 1813; registered 300 acres on the Fish Trap Branch of the Duck River in 1814; called Charles Court and his wife as witnesses in the defamation lawsuit against Thomas Hedgepeth as recorded in the court minutes of June 5th, 1815 (see Maury County Wills Book A at page 144, transcribed online at http://www.tngenweb.org/maury/wills/willpg2.htm); owed a Note to the estate of Walker Knox as of August 21st, 1815 (see Maury County Wills & Settlements Book A at page 141, transcribed online at http://www.tngenweb.org/maury/wills/willpg2.htm); paid taxes for 300 acres on the Duck River in Maury County in 1816; denied recovery for his defamation lawsuit against Thomas Hudspeth by a Maury County jury in April of 1816 (see original Maury County court record at page 443); listed in the 1820 census of Maury County living with Wife, and 2 slaves comprising 1 boy and 1 girl, all next door toSon-in-Law, Alexander Kelly; sold 100 acres on the north side of the Duck River, bounding Thomas Hudspeth and Son-in-Law, Alexander Kelly, to Alexander Kelly and William Hudspeth, for $260 on January 4th, 1827, in a document witnessed by James Hudspeth and Joshua Smith, though a John, rather than a Joshua, Smith, later testified in support of the transaction (see Maury County Deed Book 1N at page 14); conveyed 53 acres adjoining the land of John Priest to the Southeast and Thomas Hudspeth elsewhere, to Son-in-Law, Alexander Kelly, for $358 on January 22nd, 1827 (see Maury County Deed Book 10 at page 96), paid $40 in both Pulaski and Columbia Counties as security for defense of Son, Peter, which would later be the subject of a lawsuit seeking to attribute those charges, totaling $200 towards Peter’s inheritance, estate administered by William Hudspeth and Son, John Powell, in Maury County, Tennessee, where the pair sought recovery of issued 2 “notes of hand” issued to Moses Priest, one for $60 the other for $50, and another to Henry Brachen for $103, a Note against Sam Crawford for $66, a Note for Ezekiel Perkin for $20, all of which was besides the debt due from Son, John Powell, for $520 and from Son, Peter Powell, for over $200 to pay for a defense from State prosecution (see Jeff James, citing original court record of John Holt v. Estate of Ambrose Powell, filed on June 22nd, 1830, with the Second Division of the State of Tennessee.
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