Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
NameWilliam Powell 1777
Deathbef Jun 1786, Franklin Co NC
Spouses
Birthca 1756, NC1796
Death18351796 Age: 79
FatherJohn Taylor (ca1718-<1788)
ChildrenJohn (1782-1847)
Notes for William Powell
FRANKLIN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA - from Bradley, Will Book A, Franklin Co., NC, 1785-1797 [page numbers are the ones listed from original books]

June Court, 1786

Account of estate of WILLIAM POWELL, by HARDY HUNT, admr. Persons metioned: THOMPSON CURRY, RICHARD TIMBERLAKE, THOMPSON CONYER, (Jesse?) WEBB, (?) JOHNSON, THOMAS NELMS, JAMES BAKER, WILLIAM LINSEY, NATHANIEL SEAT, HENRY HUNT, CORNELIUS SULLIVANT, JOSIAH JACKSON, FRANCIS TIMBERLAKE, JOHN ANDREWS, WILLIAM JACKSON, JOHN KING, WILSON DENSON, WILLIAM HAMMON, JESSE ADAMS, WILLIAM BABB, DRURY ALFORD, (?) WILLIAMS, KITCHEN PRIMM, WILL LASHLEY, JOHN HUNT, MOSES HARRIS (to his estate), WILLIAM WEBB, WILSON DENSON, MATTHEW JOHNSON, WILL JONES, GREEN HILL, JOHN CHEVES, JACOB COOK, JOHN WEBB, JOHN TAYLOR's estate, JOHN COOLEY, WILLIAM BOWDEN, JULIUS JACKSON, ANN JONES, THOMAS ROSE, JESSE ADAMS. Undated. p. 78.

Hardy Hunt, adminstrator, was William Powell’s brother-in-law.

brobpat@aol.com I am seeking information on the ancestors of WILLIAM POWELL who died in Franklin Co., NC, by the June Term 1786, when HARDY HUNT, administrator of his estate, presented an inventory of the estate. HUNT was his brother-in-law, both men having married TAYLOR women, WILLIAM's being RUTH ANN TAYLOR (1756-1835), daughters of JOHN TAYLOR. WILLIAM and RUTH ANN had two children, both wards of HARDY HUNT as their guardian: JOHN and MARY. RUTH ANN shortly after WILLIAM's death married as her second husband, WILLIAM BABB (1763-1819), son of JOHN BABB of Franklin Co., NC. The BABBS took the two POWELL children and moved to Wilson Co., TN. JOHN POWELL (b. 1783) married ELIZABETH ASBURY TARVER, and their grand- son, JOHN MICHAEL POWELL (b. 1841) married NANCY EMMALINE WINFORD (b. 1847), the gt-granddaughter of WILLIAM and RUTH ANN TAYLOR POWELL BABB, via their eldest child, ELIZABETH BABB (b. 1787). JOHN MICHAEL and NANCY EMMALINE were my great-grandparents.1796
Notes for Ruth Ann (Spouse 1)
In the Wilson Co., TN, Court Minute Books, there is an entry on May 7, 1819, when William BABB and his wife, Ruth BABB, sold land in Sampson Co., NC, to Henry HUNT. The land was part of the estate of Leban TAYLOR, deceased, and Ruth was one of the heirs. Laban, James, and Jonathan TAYLOR all appear in the 1784 tax lists of Sampson Co. I am doubly descended from Ruth Ann Taylor Powell BABB (her great-grandson, John Michael POWELL, married her great-granddaughter, Nancy Emmaline WINFORD (a BABB descendant). Henry HUNT and Hardy HUNT married sisters of Ruth.1797

See also, The Tennessee Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 32, No. 3, Fall 1985.1798

The relationship to Laban Taylor is still unclear. Laban Taylor was a Member of the House of Commons from Sampson Co NC in 1793.1799
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