ARTICLE XIII.

NOTICES OF THE

POWELL FAMILY,

AND

EXTRACTS FROM MANUSCRIPTS OF T. D. POWELL.

GIVEN TO ELIZA SUSAN QUINCY, 1848, BY THE NEPHEW OF MRS. POWELL,-JOHN BROMFIELD, ESQ., OF BOSTON, AND COPIED BY HER FOR THE MAINE

HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

1869.

5 PARK STREET, BOSTON, Mass.

THE POWELL FAMILY.

JEREMIAH DUMMER POWELL, who owned lands at North Yarmouth, Maine, in the last century, which he inherited from his father, John Powell, was born June 3d, 1720. His mother, Ann Dummer Powell, was sister to Lieutenant Governor Dummer, and the celebrated Jeremiah Dummer, agent for Massachusetts at the Court of Queen Anne. John Powell was Secretary to Lieutenant Governor Dummer.

Copy of a memorandum in the handwriting of Jeremiah Dummer Powell.

"I received a Commission as Justice of the Peace for "the County of York, from Governor Shirley, dated "August, 1744. 1745.-I went Representative from North "Yarmouth, and served the town as Representative about "16 or 17 years between 1745 & 1766. I was then chosen "into the Council.

"1762. I was appointed Lieutenant Colonel under "Colonel Waldo.

"1763.-I was appointed First Justice of the Court of "Common Pleas in Cumberland County.

"1767.-I was appointed Justice through the Province. "The three last Commissions were under Governor "Bernard.

"My father, John Powell, died October 1, 1742. I lived

"with him at North Yarmouth, and after his death I took "his eastern lands, and lived at North Yarmouth.

"I married Sarah Bromfield September 15, 1768, and "now live with her at North Yarmouth.

"OCTOBER 11, 1769."

"JEREMIAH POWELL.

The elder sons of John Powell,* were John Powell, who married Miss Tallmadge of Connecticut. He left Boston in 1776, with the loyalists, went to England and never returned. His son, William Dummer Powell, was educated in Massachusetts and married an Englishwoman, a Miss Murray, who was on a visit to Boston, they went to England, and resided there until he received the appointment of Chief Justice of Upper Canada in 1785, when they returned to America, accompanied by his sister, Ann Powell, whose Journal describing their passage and journey from Montreal to Detroit is a very interesting narrative. Miss Powell was a very accomplished woman. She married Mr. Clarke, a brother of Mrs. J. S. Copley, (and an uncle of Lord Lyndhurst,) and died early in life deeply regretted by her friends.

William D. Powell, the son of John Powell, resided in Boston; he married Mary Bromfield, ‡ sister of the wife of his brother, Jeremiah D. Powell, and of Abigail Bromfield who married William Phillips, and whose daughter, Abigail Phillips, married in 1769, Josiah Quincy, jun., of

* The Secretary of Lieutenant Governor Dummer.

+ Chief Justice Powell died at Toronto, Upper Canada, 1834, aged 79. His widow died in 1849, aged 94.

Their daughter, Susan Powell, married Honorable Jonathan Mason of Boston, and Anna Powell, Thomas Perkins, Esq. Their descendents are numerous, portraits of Governor and of Jeremiah Dummer are in their possession. They are fine portraits, probably by Sir Godfrey Kneller.