F297.txt
Joseph Power's will dated 8/21/1794 and executed 12/8/1794 listed Sarah
Power as his wife with son Walter Power as executor. Witnesses were
Samuel Canby, Mary Fitzsimmons, and Elizabeth Luke.
Index to Tithables of Loudoun Co VA 1758-1786 show Joseph S. 60-61, 63,
65, 69-70, 71s-75s, 78s, 80s, 83s-85s (s= Shelburne Parrish)
Owned slave "Sid"
According to Nancy Power Hodous, Joseph is listed as beneficiary in will
of Edmund Shore as his son-in-law. His father-in-law left his tobacco to
him. Joseph owned property in Loudoun County, left two slaves to his
son, Walter, and that he raised tobacco. He is mentioned as having lost
his tobacco in the Coan Warehouse fire - from William and Mary Quarterly,
1754 (Va. State Archives, Richmond July 1994)
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F304.txt
Mary (Joseph's daughter) had brothers Robert, Richard, James, Jeremiah, Joseph, and possibly
John and Jacob who served in the Revolutionary War. All were Kentucky
pioneers. She and her two sisters, Sarah and Ann, and brothers Robert
and Thomas settled in Bracken Co KY. Her husband, John Lewis, was listed
with her father Joseph Power and brother Richard in the 1771 Loudoun Co
VA tithables.
Sources:
a. Anonymous. Descendancy chart of Joseph Power and Sara of Loudoun Co
VA Power Folder, Kentucky Historical Society Library, Frankfort KY
b. Bracken County KY Marriage Register, Book 1, 1797-1890
c. John Frederick Dorman. THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST 17:2(1973).
"Loudoun County 1771 Tithable List"
d. Virginia Brown, Grand Junction CO. Correspondence and family group
sheet Aug 1992.
(This all came to me from Jim Stone)
John Lewis (Mary Power's husband) and Thomas Shore were church wardens in 1771 for Shelburne Parish in Loudoun Co VA. On 10 April 1771, they were "directed to employ some minister to perform divine service once in every three months during
pleasure, and that the preference be given to the Rev. Mr. Scott and that
the minister employed do preach at Leesburg and the other chapel (called
the Mountain Chapel) in the parish of Shelburne as also at some
convenient place near the gap of the Short Hill."
Sources:
a. Bishop William Meads. Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of
Virginia. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. Inc., 1966, p 273.
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F76.txt
Robert Power is Richard W.A. Power's twin.
Robert Power is listed as Amey's guardian in marriage bond between Thomas
Gheen and Amey Gheen, bm 9. Feb. 1835. Cam.
Robert's worth in the 1850 census is listed as $500.
In the Loudoun County Census (212?)
Robert Power age 50
Arminda 45
Margaret 25
Mary 21
Sarah 19
Burr 15
Martha 13
Robert 11
Charles 7
James 5
Joseph 2
There is also listed in Loudoun (348):
Lucinda Power age 48 (sister-in-law?)
Catherine 20
Lucinda 10
(illegible) male 8
And in Jefferson County
John A. Power age 23 (laborer)
And in Prince William County
Mary Power age 82
lived with Peak
male age 75
female age 71
female age 69
In the 1880 Census
Name Age Sex Race Locality/District Enumeration Distr Page
Robert Sr 78 M W Broad Run 4 52 23 C
Lucinda 76 F W Broad Run 4 60 31 C