Ancestry of
Billie Jean King

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Lemuel Powers

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Billie Jean King — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 312 
  • Father:
  • William Powers 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Perham   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 11 Dec 1714 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Dec 1792 
  • Death Location:
  • Northbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Cemetery, Northbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Thankful Leland
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Jan 1742 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Ezekiel Powers (Ahnentafel No:156 )

  Lemuel Powers

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War Veteran

• Sources for Lemuel Powers

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/11/2018).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Grafton, Vol. 1, p. 101, Birth/baptism records for children of Lemuel and Thankful Powers.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Northbridge, Vol. 1, p. 192, Death record for Lemuel Powers.
  • ⁴ Records of Littleton, Massachusetts, Littleton, Massachusetts: Printed by the Town (1900), 418.
  • ⁵ (Caution! Source contains numerous errors) Hart, Craig, A Genealogy of the Wives of the American Presidents and their First Two Generations of Descent, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (2004), 85.
  • ⁶ Clarke, John B., Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men, Manchester, New Hampshire: John B. Clarke (1882), 51.
  • ⁷ Leland, Sherman, The Leland Magazine, or a Genealogical Record of Henry Leland and His Descendants . . ., Boston: Wier and White (1850), 34.
  • ⁸ Powers, Amos H., The Powers Family: A Genealogical and Historical Record of Walter Power and Some of His Descendants . . ., Chicago: Fergus Printing Company (1884), 21, 33-34.
  • ⁹ 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), 21-33.

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