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, now archived as a Maury County Chancery Court Record, and citing further research by Erin and Betty Renfroe; see generally the John & Mary O'Neal Powell Research Group of the JohnPowellDescendants organization online at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JohnPowellDescendants/]

Children:

John (born before 1784, married Polly Hardin in Maury County on April 27th, 1814, passed on November 15th, 1859, in Coryell County, Texas, moved to Adair County by 1810, purchased property with William Hudspeth at the estate sale of Thomas Fore in 1812, indebted to Father for $520 at time of Father’s passing, served with court summons which noted he lived in Hickman County on August 18th, 1831)

Lewis (born 1769, married Betsy “Betty” Choate on August 9th, 1788, in Maury County, Tennessee, passed before June of 1830 in Maury County, Tennessee, lived in Wayne County, Tennessee)

Margaret (“Peggy”, “Peg”, born 1772, in Wilkes County, married Alexander Kelly on October 24th, 1820, in Maury County, lived next door to Father in Mary County in 1820, court summons served on February 19th, 1831, noted that she lived North of the Duck River)

Peter O. (“O” speculated to be Oliver or O’Neal, born on February 13th, 1788, in Wilkes County, North Carolina, married Elizabeth Burton in 1825, in Conway County, Arkansas, passed 1851, in Conway County, built a mill in Maury County, Tennessee, in 1811, and was accused that same year by Thomas Hudspeth of stealing bacon to pay his workmen, all of which became the subject of a lawsuit for defamation brought by his Father, who was also included in the accusations; defended by attorney Calvin Smith against prosecution by the State of North Carolina whose fee of $200 was paid for by Father before 1818, when Father used land to secure a Note securing payment which was the subject of later litigation involving the estate of Father, purchased a silver watch at the estate sale for a Marmaduke O’Neal in Maury County, Tennessee, on June 9th, 1809, lived in Giles County, Tennessee, in 1820, lived in Pulaski County, Arkansas, in 1830, lived in Van Buren County, Arkansas, in 1837, 1838, 1839, and 1840, lived in Conway County, Arkansas, in 1850)

William (“Bob”, born 1771, in Burke County, North Carolina, married sister of wife of Brother, Elias, Mary Day, in 1796, in North Carolina, passed in Adair County, Kentucky, before 1818, when his estate was administered by Wife and Brother, Elias, moved to Adair County by 1804, when he purchased land, Captain of Adair County militia)

Rachel (born 1785, married Thomas Priest in Williamson County, Tennessee, on November 6th, 1806, passed after 1850, when she is last reflected in the census, moved to Nob Creek in Maury County on January 1st, 1832)

Sarah "Sally" (married Thomas Brown on July 4th, 1821, in Maury County, court summons served on February 15th, 1831, noted “lives near Littlefields”)

Mary "Polly" (married Enos Rambo(w) on November 23rd, 1815, in Adair County, Kentucky, lived with children, Elias, Enos, and Lytle, in Adair County neighboring Brother, Elias, in 1830)

Elias (see hyperlink)

Siblings:

John (Jr., born 1750, reportedly married Jane (though others report Margaret) Holt, passed 1802, in Orange (later Alamance) County, North Carolina, perhaps the other John Powell who paid taxes in Orange County, North Carolina, in 1755, perhaps the John Powell Jr. who paid taxes in Orange County, North Carolina, in 1779, paid taxes for 4 polls and 820 acres in Orange County in 1790, moved to Burke County in 1794, some report he married a Flora whose surname may have been Smith)

Robert (born 1755 in Culpeper County, Virginia, married Sarah Harvey, reportedly passed after April 8th, 1826, probably in Georgia, known as the “Tory Desparado”, who was described as “man of unusual size, strong, supple, and powerful”, exiled from Burke County for treason, moved to Pendleton County, South Carolina, then reportedly to Franklin County, Georgia, by 1818, named a daughter Argin and a son James Blair)

Margaret (born 1752, married Robert Netherly around 1777)

Elias (born on September 16th, 1754, in Bromfield Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia, married in North Carolina on November 25th, 1777, to Anna Barbara Al(l)bright, the Daughter of Ludwick Allbright (Albrecht) who passed in Orange County, North Carolina, and whose 1810 Will, witnessed by Michael and Rachel Holt, left his Daughter $100, passed on May 5th, 1832, in Burke (later Caldwell) County, perhaps the Ensign Elias Powell, who along with Corporal George Holt and drummer Jacob Albright, helped form the Southern Battalion of the Orange County Militia which drove the Cherokees back from the frontier in 1776, legendarily picked up a silver whistle that fell to the ground when Colonel Ferguson was shot and killed at King's Mountain, afterwards keeping the whistle and passing it down in his family for some generations before it was lost, though this seems dubious, given its loss prior to an 1850 interview (Lyman Draper, King's Mountain and It's Heroes History of the Battle of King's Mountain (1881), at an unknown footnote), lived in Burke County in 1790)

James (born 1758)

Elizabeth (born 1761, married James Blair in Burke County, North Carolina, in 1782, passed 1839, in Pickens County, Alabama, and buried at Old Mt. Moriah Cemetery, named a Daughter Argin)

Thomas (born 1761, in Orange County, North Carolina, married an Ann on August 4th, 1782, upon a Bond secured in part by Brother, Ambrose, then married a Flora, passed 1815, in Maury County, Tennessee, lived in Burke County near family in 1790), and from Father’s second marriage, Benjamin (born 1766, in Orange County, North Carolina, passed 1852, in Adair County, Kentucky, purchased land along with Brother, Elijah, on September 10th, 1789, taxed in Burke County in 1796, purchased a slave from Mother in 1799, moved to Adair County)

Elijah (born 1768, married a Margaret, passed before 1800 in Burke County, was a minor at the time of Father’s passing, which later was the subject of a legal dispute brought by his Son, Austin, to recover for his share of the sale of 2 slaves sold by his Mother, Mary, to Peter Thompson after Father’s passing, lived in Burke County in 1790 near family, taxed in Burke County in 1796)