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Genealogical Records: Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 1600-1800s
Colonial & Revolutionary Families, Vol II, Powell Evans, P 778

William Alexander Powell, son of Levin Powell Jr. and his wife Susannah Elizabeth Orr, and father of Maria Antoinette(Powell) Evans, was a lawyer in Leesburg, Loudoun Co., VA. He married in 1820, Lucy, who came to VA in 1740, married Lucy Smith, of Culpepper Co., and for many years a member of the General Assembly of Va, and his wife Elizabeth Nicholson, daughter of Captain Henry Nicholson, quartermaster of a Virginia brigade in the Revolutionary War, and his wife Sarah Hay, daughter of Hon Anthony Hay of Williamsburg, VA, a lineal descendant of the family of Hay of the earldom of Erroll, in the Scottish peerage. Hon Daniel Lee was a son of Dr John Lee, of Trinity College, Dublin, a native of Ireland, who came to VA m 1740, married Lucy Smith of Culpepper Co and settled at Woodstock, Frederick Co, where Daniel was born. Daniel and Elizabeth (Nicholson) Lee had, besides Lucy Peachy (Lee) Powell, Mrs Hedges of New Orleans, Mrs Patrick Henry Cabell, Rev Henry Lee, Judge George Lee, of the Virginia Court of Appeals, grandfather of Dr Duncan Lee Despard, assictant Professor of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphis, 1911, and Hugh Lee Esq of Winchester, Va.
William Alexander and Lucy Peach(Lee) Powell, had besides Maria Antionette(Powel) Evans, four sons: Colonel Daniel Lee Powell, of Richmond, Rev John Dalrymple Powell, of Norfork, Dr Alfred H Powell, of Baltimore, MD., and Hugh Lee Powell, of Leesburg, VA and three other daughters, Mrs Fredrick Lloyd, of Missouri, Mrs Frank F Jones of New York, and Mrs William F Brooks of Alexandria, VA.