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An American Family History

Aaron Powers

Greenwich was incorporated in 1749 and dissolved in 1938. It was renamed from Quabbin in 1754 and was also called Quaker Plain and Narragansett. Quabbin is now under the Quabbin reservoir.

Aaron Powers was born in June, 1738 in Greenwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. His parents were Jeremiah Powers and Hannah Fiske.

He married Olive Osborn. Olive was born in 1742 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Her parents were Benjamin Osborn and Priscilla Hulse (or Hull).

Their children were Aaron Powers (1760), Olive Powers Crossett (1762), Stephen Powers (1762, married Elizabeth Hinds), Susanna Powers Smith (1765), John Powers, Jeremiah Powers, Polly Powers Moulton (1770), Hannah Powers (1772), Reverend Reuben Powers (1740), Benjamin Powers (1776), Rufus Powers, (1778) and Dr. Isaac Powers (1780).

Olive died on May 25, 1790 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.

His second wife was the widow Martha Tilson. They had at least one daughter, Patty Powers Sanderson (1792). 

They appeared in the 1800, 1810 and 1820 censuses in Greenwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.

Aaron died October 9, 1826 in Greenwich.

Children of Jeremiah Powers
and Hannah Fiske
  • Hannah Powers White
  • Captain Jeremiah Powers, II
  • Eunice Powers Bridges
  • Captain Isaac Powers
  • Aaron Powers
  • Esther Powers Gibbs
  • Elizabeth Powers Davis Griswold
  • Nathan Powers
  • Susannah Powers Hinds
  • Colonel Thomas Powers
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