Genealogical Records: Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 1600-1800s
Colonial & Revolutionary Families, Vol II, Powell Evans, P 775-778-9
Captain William Powell and Thomas Powell, probably a son or nephew, sailed from Plymouth, England in 1609, with Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Somers in the ill-fated ship "Sea Adventurer", which was wrecked on the Bermuda Islands, and whose history written by Strachy and published in London in 1610, was the foundation of Shakespeare's play of "The Tempest". The ship-wrecked crew of the "Sea Adventurer" constructed two small vessels at the Bermudas from the timbers of the "Sea Adventurer", which they christened the "Patience" and the "Deliverance", with which they arrived at the starving colony of Jamestown in May, 1610, just prior to the arrival of Lord De La Warre, the new Governor, and Captain William Powell represented Jamestown as a burgess in the first assembly of the Province, called by Sir George Yeardley in April, 1619, and which met at Jamestown, July 30, 1619. This was the first representative assembly ever held on the American Continent. After the great massacre Captain William Powell and Sir George Yeardley commanded respectively the two expeditiions formed to chastise the savages and an interesting account of this expedition is given in Captain John Smith's "True Relation." He was killed by the Indians on the Chiccahominy river in 1623-24