Ancestry of
Billie Jean King

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Ezekiel Powers

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Billie Jean King — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 156 
  • Father:
  • Lemuel Powers 
  • Mother:
  • Thankful Leland   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Mar 1744/1745 
  • Birth Location:
  • Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Nov 1808 
  • Death Location:
  • Croydon, Sullivan, New Hampshire 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Hall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Jan 1767 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  James Powers (Ahnentafel No:78 )

• Sources for Ezekiel Powers

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Grafton, Vol. 1, p. 101, Birth record for Ezekiel Powers.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Uxbridge, Vol. 1, p. 291, Marriage record for Ezekiel Powers and Hannah Hall.
  • ³ New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, Grooms p to 1901, p. 25149, Marriage record for Ezekiel Powers and Hannah Hall.
  • ⁴ New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1654-1969, Deaths P to 1901, p. 14788, Death record for Ezekiel Powers.
  • ⁵ Clarke, John B., Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men, Manchester, New Hampshire: John B. Clarke (1882), 51.
  • ⁶ Leland, Sherman, The Leland Magazine, or a Genealogical Record of Henry Leland and His Descendants . . ., Boston: Wier and White (1850), 104.
  • ⁷ Powers, Amos H., The Powers Family: A Genealogical and Historical Record of Walter Power and Some of His Descendants . . ., Chicago: Fergus Printing Company (1884), 33, 57-58, gives Ezekiel's birth date as 27 MAR 1745.
  • ⁸ Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 4, The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers 1839-1879, Boston: New England Historica Genealogical Society (2000), 27, 34-44, 349.

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