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Billie Jean King

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William Powers

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Billie Jean King — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 624 
  • Father:
  • William Powers 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Banks   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1691 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 14 Oct 1720 to 31 Jul 1729 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Perham
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Mar 1713/1714 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Lemuel Powers (Ahnentafel No:312 )

• Sources for William Powers

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Groton, Vol. 2, p. 134, Marriage record for William Powers and Lydia Perham.
  • ² Records of Littleton, Massachusetts, Littleton, Massachusetts: Printed by the Town (1900), 403, 418.
  • ³ Clarke, John B., Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men, Manchester, New Hampshire: John B. Clarke (1882), 51.
  • ⁴ Powers, Amos H., The Powers Family: A Genealogical and Historical Record of Walter Power and Some of His Descendants . . ., Chicago: Fergus Printing Company (1884), 13, 21.
  • ⁵ 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), 17-21, 543.

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