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An American Family History

Colonel Thomas 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.

Colonel Thomas Powers was born October 5, 1752 in Greenwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. His parents were Jeremiah Powers and Hannah Fiske.

He married Mary Hinds on January 19, 1774. Mary was born on September 25, 1752 in Greenwich. She was the daughter of of Nehemiah and Sarah Hinds. Thomas' sister Susannah Powers married Mary's brother, Captain Joseph Hinds.

Their children were Thomas Powers (1774-1824), Mary (Polly) Powers (1775-1849), Warren Powers (1777), Sally Powers (1779) Ezra Powers (1780), Eunice Powers Walker (1781-1828), Sally Powers (1782), Erastus Powers (1784), Captain Joseph Powers (1786-1853), Belara Powers Wardwell (1787), Anna Powers Newcomb(1788), and James Powers (1789).

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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