New Discoveries on the Powel Children Pt. II
In this post, I would like to explore my findings about Samuel Powel Jr., the first son of Samuel and Elizabeth Powel, from the transcripts in the“Bringhurst, Claypoole, Evans, Foulke and Parker papers” scrapbook, located at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The following excerpt from the multi-page, transcribed memorandum (whether inserted into the Shippen bible, or loose, is unclear), is full of information about Elizabeth Powel’s Shippen ancestors, her parents, and h
New Discoveries on the Powel Children Pt. I
November 4 1792 letter from EWP to GW about his presidential resignation Photo courtesy of Mount Vernon Ladies Association My name is Samantha Snyder, and I am one of the librarians at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington (GWNL), located at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. I first became interested in Elizabeth Willing Powel through a letter located within the collections of my library, dated November 4, 1792. Elizabeth wrote this letter to c
