Genealogical Records: Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 1600-1800s
Colonial & Revolutionary Families, Vol II, Powell Evans, P 776
Walter Powell, supposed to have been a son of John, a granson of Thomas, of Northampton Co., VA, was settled in Somerset, Eastern shore of Maryland, in 1668. *In the land grants to Walter in the Maryland archives, he declares that he had removed from Virginia to inhabit Maryland with his wife and daughter Elizabeth. The Somerset County records, of Maryland, give the date of the births of all his children except Elizabeth and the date of the death of his wife who was buried on his plantation"Greenfields" on the Pomoukie River* He married Elizabeth Beere, whose death occured in 1679. They had six children, mentioned in the will of Walter who died in 1695.