Person:Michael Powell (6)
Elder Michael Powell
b.Abt 1605
d.28 Dec 1672 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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  • H.  Elder Michael PowellAbt 1605 - 1672
  • W.  Joan Sond1610 - 1634/35
m. 28 Apr 1631
  1. Sarah Powell1631/32 - 1664
  2. Mary PowellAbt 1633 - 1707
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  • H.  Elder Michael PowellAbt 1605 - 1672
  • W.  Abigail Bedle1608 - Bet 1676/77 & 1677
m. 5 May 1636
  1. John Powell1637 - Aft 1649
  2. Abigail Powell1638/39 - Aft 1679
  3. Elizabeth Powell1641 - 1705/06
  4. Dorothy Powell1643 - 1711
  5. Michael Powell1645 - Aft 1649
  6. Margaret PowellAbt 1648/49 - 1709/10
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Name[1][2][3][4] Elder Michael Powell
Gender Male
Birth[2] Abt 1605
Residence[2] 1630 Romford, Essex, England
Marriage 28 Apr 1631 Cranham, Essex, Englandto Joan Sond
Marriage 5 May 1636 London, Englandto Abigail Bedle
Emigration[1] 1639
Residence[1] 1639 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Other[3][4][5] 2 Jun 1641 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay (as "Michaell Powell").
Residence[2] 1649 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Death[2][3] 28 Dec 1672 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Estate Inventory[2] 8 Feb 1672/73
Probate[2] 20 Mar 1672/73 Administration to the widow.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Michael Powell, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
    271.

    "Powell, Michael: [Origin] Romford, Essex; [Emigration] 1639]; [Resided] Dedham [DeTR 1:62; DeChR 25; DeVR 1; MBCR 1:379; Romford parish register; NEHGR 131-173-74; Abandoning 373]."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 West, Randy A. Michael1 Powell of Dedham and Boston Massachusetts: An Update. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Spring 2020)
    174:112.

    This article adds to and supersedes Robert Charles Anderson's 1977 study of Michael Powell.

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Moore, Susan Hardman. Abandoning America: Life-Stories from Early New England. (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2013)
    373.

    "Powell, Michael (d.1672/3): Michael Powell of Woolverstone, Suffolk, emigrated to New England in 1639 and settled at Dedham. He became a church member on 16 April 1641 and a freeman of Massachusetts on 2 June 1641. He was Dedham's schoolmaster. Powell set off in December 1646 to visit England, to judge from various letters of attorney granted to him by fellow colonists: on 5 October, Oliver Cocke of Salisbury appointed Powell to take possession of a house and land in Framlingham, Suffolk; on 10 December, Barbara Weld of Roxbury gave him power of attorney for her business in England, should Thomas Bell fall sick; on 12 December, Peter and Rebecca Gardiner made Powell their attorney to receive a legacy due to Rebecca from her late father, Roger Crooke of Hammersmith. Powell soon returned to Massachusetts. He moved from Dedham to Boston in 1649. [Dedham CR, 25; NEHGR 3: 188; WJ, 708; Aspinwall, 50, 67-8]

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michael Powell, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    3:469.

    "Michael (Powell), Dedham 1639, by w. Abigail had perhaps that Sarah wh. m. 3 May 1653, Timothy Dwight, and may have been b. in Eng.; Eliz. b. 10 June, bapt. 5 July 1641; Dorothy, 11, bapt. 16 July 1643; and Michael, b. 12, bapt. 19 Oct. 1645; beside Margaret, bapt. 14 Apr. 1648 a. 8 days old; was freem. 2 June 1641, rem. to Boston 1647, and, without ordin. taught in the new ch. bef. sett. of a min. there, or, indeed, bef. the gather. of a ch. wh. occur. 5 June of the yr. foll. when he was ord. a rul. elder, the governm. forbid. his being min. for want of educat. had Margaret, bapt. 14 June 1649, 8 days old; and d. 28 Jan. 1673, or by gr.-st. wh. makes his age 67 yrs. 28 Dec. preced. Farmer strangely miscalls Increase Mather the first min. tho. he did, sub voce, Mayo, restore the honor to the proper man. Eliz. m. 23 Aug. 1659, Richard Hollingworth. Two of his more gifted succesors, Ware and Robbins, have justly discussed the diffidence of this first instr. of their, people."

  5. ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    3:419.
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