POWERS & SHEPARD LINES continued

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THIRTEENTH GENERATION

5020. poss. John Power

"POWER,...(5020) JOHN, Charlestown by w. (5021) Sarah, had (5021ii) Peter, b. 4 Nov. 1643."

-- James Savage, op. cit.

5021. poss. Sarah /Sallie unknown (F)

REF: http://data.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=gedfam&ti=0&f0=13444&f1=298

1 Charlestown Births & Burials recorded in Boston 1632-44 c/o http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kpowers11_1&id=I10997

There seems to be no agreement as to who were (2510) Walter Powers' parents. One LDS posting lists them as Walter Powers and Joane Newman of Wiltshire, England, but most reckon him to have come from either Essex or Ireland.

"There is a book by O'Brien New England Settlers---that sez (sic) many Irish youths were kidnapped & shipped to New England on ship "Goodfellow" arriving in early 1654 @Marblehead, Ma & all were sold into servitude for 7 to 9 yrs. The author believes our ancestor immigrant (2510) Walter Power was on that ship. Almost no Irish records survive today until the 1850's. We have verified the ship "Goodfellow"'s sailing but no manifest/passengers lists have been found yet...

"By the 17th century there were many landowner families of name POWER, almost all in Co. Waterford, the biggest estate, according to the CIVIL SURVEY OF 1654 being that of John Power of Donooyle (Dunhill) & Kilmeaden. This John was dispossessed by Cromwellians & was NOT restored under Charles II. ACCORDING TO A PEDIGREE in the Genealogial Office, Dublin, drawn up by Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms,,, the PROGENITOR OF THE FAMILY was WILLIAM POWER of KNOCHADERRY, county Waterford, "son of John, Baron of Kilmeaden...."

-- Albert Powers c/o http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?walter,power,ireland::powers::4297.html

"The name (2510) Walter Power appears in the Middlesex county record...in 1654 as a boy of fourteen years; on "[th]e eleventh daye of [th]e first month 1660" was married to (2511) Trial, daughter of (5022) Deacon Ralph and (5023) Thankes or Thankeslord Sheppard at Malden... The fact that Stepney Parish is in London, Essex, and that both William and Walter Power appear among the family names of Essex, and that Lord Littleton, for whom Littleton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, was named, member of parliament for Essex, gives color to the claim of that section as his birthplace..."

-- Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine c/o Google Book Search

"In Farmer's Genealogy of New England's Pioneers he refers to (5020) John Power of Charlestown, who had a son (5021ii) Peter, born 1643, as probably the founder of the families by the name of Powers in New England, but a careful investigation does not prove this to be the case, and Dec. 3, 1645, "(5021) Sally Power, inhabitant of New England, in the town of Charlestown, being authorized and ordained to make sale of the housen and lands of my absent husband, John Power, as by letter of attorney appeareth." Sold to Gandy James the dwelling house and appurtenances, and 5 acres of planting land adjoining. He is also referred to as John Power, "hosier," and it is probable that not finding his business as "hosier" profitable in the New Country he returned to Europe and later sent for his family."

-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kpowers11_1&id=I10992

Note that the above places the sojourn of John Power in New England before the arrival of the Goodfellow -- making it unlikely that he was one of the "kidnapped Irishmen", and rather likely that he was the brother of (5021ii) Peter. On the other hand, note the DNA results:

Power, Powers -- Family name of Norman-Irish origin, first found in Devonshire

The yDNA (2510) Walter Powers' line has been reported at the Power Et Al DNA and History Project, and found of be of Hg R1b1:

[LAST REVISED 21 Nov. 2008]

Haplogroup

DYS
393

DYS
390

DYS
19/
394

DYS
391

DYS
385
a

DYS
385
b

DYS
426

DYS
388

DYS
439

DYS
389
-1

DYS
392

DYS
389
-2

DYS
458

DYS
459
a

DYS
459
b

DYS
455

DYS
454

DYS
447

DYS
437

DYS
448

DYS
449

DYS
446
a

DYS
446
b

DYS
446
c

DYS
446
d

#SL00093P (=JXU29) Horace Hiram Powers 26 Jan. 1809 VT-1 Apr. 1891 - desc. of Walter Powers & Trial Shepard

R1b1b2
OGAP-24

13

24

14

11

11

14

12

12

14

14

13

30

17

9

10

11

11

25

15

19

30

14

14

15

15

Walter's DNA (typified by #Z39XW and JXU29) does not match any of the Power /de Paor families of Waterford, Ireland (which are mostly Hg I1*).

Haplogroup R1b1b2, aka M269, formerly called R1b1c, is associated with Western Europe and Britain, where it is by far the most prevalent haplogroup. The Walter Power DNA is a subset of the "Celtic/ Basque" or "Atlantic" Modal Haplotype. Kevin D. Campbell, in Journal of Genetic Genealogy 3:1-13, 2007, identifies Walter Power's DNA pattern as belonging to OGAP24. This group is apparently common in Ireland and the Western Isles (REF: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Megaw_McGaw/default.aspx?section=results).

5022. Ralph Shepard

"SHEPARD, SHEPPARD, SHEPHERD, or SHEPHERD,...(5022) RALPH, Dedham, came in the "Abigail" from London, 1635, aged 29, with w. (5023) Thanks, 23, and d. (5023i) Sarah, 2; first sat down, prob. at Watertown, but by Farmer is call. of Weymouth, when he had there (5023iv) Isaac, b. 20 June 1639; and (2511) Trial, a d. 19 Dec. 1641; but had, also, (5023vi) Abraham; (5023viii) Thanks, 10 Feb. 1651; and (5023ix) Jacob, June 1653. Shattuck makes him live some time at Concord; but earlier he was of Rehoboth, perhaps in 1644; and yet more prob. to me appears his resid. at Malden, where one of the not freq. name was bur. 11 Sept. 1693, aged 90, with moderate allow. for usual exaggera. See Geneal. Reg. IV. 66. Trial m. 11 Mar. 1661, Walter Power."

-- James Savage, op. cit.

5023. Thank-the-Lord Perkins

REF: http://www.my-ged.com/db/page/newberry/10566

"(5023) Thankslord PERKINS was born about 1612 in , London, Middlesex, England. She died before 1681 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.

"Source: British FHL film #380154, Marriage record reads Thankslorde Perkins, listed as a spinster not a widow. FHL US/CAN Book 974 D2thj pp. 275-282, includes a copy of Thankslorde's signature. Lord is part of given name. Spouse: (5022) Ralph SHEPARD. Ralph SHEPARD and Thankslord PERKINS were married on 21 May 1633 in St Bride's, London, Middlesex, England. Children were: (5022i) Sarah SHEPARD, (5022ii) Thomas SHEPARD, (5022iii) John SHEPARD, (5022iv) Isaac SHEPARD, (2511) Trial SHEPARD, (5022vi) Abraham SHEPARD, (5022vii) Walter SHEPARD, (5022viii) Thanks SHEPARD, (5022ix) Jacob SHEPARD, (5022x) Mary SHEPARD.

-- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/2806/b39.htm

Tradition in the family preserved in manuscript records that, (2510) Walter [Powers] landed at Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1654, and that he married the daughter of a London goldsmith [??]. (5022) Ralph Sheppard came from Stepney, London, July, 1635, aged twenty-nine, with his wife (5023) Thankes, aged twenty-three, and daughter, (5023i) Sarah, aged two, and settled in Weymouth and later removed to Malden, Middlesex county, where he held office as deacon of the parish church and died aged ninety years, September 11, 1693, as gravesman in the cemetery at Malden attests..."

-- Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine c/o Google Book Search

FOURTEENTH GENERATION

10044. Isaac (Shephard/) Shepard

10045. Margaret unknown

REF: http://data.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=gedfam&ti=0&f0=F4092&f1=695

Shepard -- Family name, of Anglo-Saxon origin, first found in Dorset

I have seen (10044) Isaac proposed as Ralph's father (prob. because Ralph had a son named Isaac), but have never seen documentation to show that Ralph of London was the same person as Isaac's son Rarlph, b. in Derby.

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