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An American Family History

Thomas Powers and Mary Harwood

 
Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
 

Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts was first settled in 1686 by English settlers and was the the location of the Native American village called Nashoba Plantation

Thomas Powers married Elizabeth in about 1691. They had two children. Joseph Powers was born on December 1, 1692. Elizabeth Powers Farr was born about 1696. 

Thomas' wife, Elizabeth, died on May 25, 1698.

Thomas Powers and Mary Harwood were married on October 25, 1702 in Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Phineas Powers was born on May 8, 1705. Ephraim Powers was born in 1706. James Powers was born in 1708. Jane Powers Davis was born on August 19, 1709. Jeremiah Powers was born in 1710

The Thomas Powers family was located on the northwest border of the town adjoining Harvard.

Thomas died in 1733 and Mary followed in 1756.

Lady Day Before 1752 the year began on March 25th. Dates between January 1st and March 24th were at the end of the year, not the beginning.
     
 

Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, by George Thomas Little, Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs, Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1909

Thomas [Powers], born 1667, married (first) Elizabeth, whose maiden name is not recorded and who died May 25, 1698, and (second) Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Harwood (sic), of Concord, October 25, 1702. Mary Harwood was born February 5, 1676.

Thomas Power lived on the westerly borders of the town of Littleton, adjoining the town of Harwood and he lived in Wellington, Hardwick, Quobben and Greenwich, and his descendants were residents of Greenwich, Enfield and Pittsford, Vermont, and the best known of them was Hiram Powers, the sculptor, who was a son of Stephen and Sarah Perry and grandson of Dr. Stephen and Lydia Drew, of Woodstock, Vermont.

 
 

 

 

 

     

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