An American Family History

"[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood." -- John Adams, 1765

Captain Isaac Powers, Esquire was born on February 21, 1737 in Quabbin, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. His parents were Jeremiah Powers and Hannah Fiske.

He married Phene Russell (Russel). Phene was born in 1741.

Their children were William Powers (1764), Jonathan Powers (1766), Luke Powers (1768), Simeon Powers, Elijah Powers, and Zerviah Powers.

Isaac was a Captain in the American Revolution.

Phene died on October 28, 1782. Isaac served as a representative.

The desire for political honors does not seem to have possessed the people of this town to any great extent in the olden time, for it was only when some measure directly affecting the town, like a change of bounds, was to come before the court that it was thought worth while to send a representative, to which the town was entitled once in a certain number of years, and pay his expenses.

The town was repeatedly fined for not being represented, in consequence of which a representative would be chosen the following year for the sole purpose, apparently, of getting the fine, remitted, in which they were generally successful. On one occasion the town voted to send a representative if any one would go on half-pay, and on another if any one would go for £12. Captain Isaac Powers accepted the offer, and was accordingly elected without opposition. (from History of Middlesex County by Samuel Adams Drake)

He married Thankful Stone on November 25, 1784. Thankful was born on November 18, 1757 in Greenwich. Her parents were Simeon and Eunice Stone.

Thankful had at least two more children: Phebe Powers Stone (1787) and Isaac Powers (1785). Their son William married Isaac’s sister Susannah Powers Hinds’ daughter, Susan Hinds. Isaac was guardian to the children of Bethuel Hack

They appeared in the 1800 census in Greenwich. Thankful died on September 3, 1829 Phillipston, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Upon a case stated it appeared, that Paul Chase, a pauper, was born in that part of Greenwich which is now Dana, in 1769. His father lived, and in 1772 died, in the same part of Greenwich, having then a settlement in Greenwich. The pauper, on his father's death, went to live in what is now Greenwich, first with Jeremiah Powers, and afterwards with Isaac Powers, making his home there till 1804, except that he sometimes, during that period, made his home in other places out of the limits of Greenwich. He never resided, after the death of his father, in the part of Greenwich which is now Dana.

RESOLVE ON THE PETITION OF ISAAC POWERS, GUARDIAN TO THE CHILDREN OF BETHUEL HACK, LATE OF GREENWICH.

On the petition of Isaac Powers Guardian to the Children of Bethuel Hack late of Greenwich in the County of Hampshire Deceased, praying that Esther Hack Administratrix on said Bethuel Hack's Estate may be Authorized to make and execute a sufficient Deed of a piece of land lying in said Greenwich to Jabez Town.

Resolved for the reasons set forth in said Petition that the prayer thereof be granted and that said Esther Hack be, and she hereby is, authorized and empower'd to make and execute a good [and sufficient] Deed [of sufficient] to said Jabez Town of a peice of land lying in said Greenwich Containing about three acres Bounded Northerly by a County road Westerly by Elias Haskell's land, Southerly and Easterly by Roland Blackmore's land.

March 4, 1800.

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