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Levin Powell, son of William and Elinor(Peyton) Powell, born in Prince William Co., VA in 1737, settled in Loudoun Co., VA in 1760. He had served prior to attaining his majority as a deputy to his maternal uncle, Col. Henry Peyton, then sheriff of Prince William Co. He was elected in 1774 major of the Loudoun batallion of minute-men, and he was the author of the resolutions adopted by the Loudoun county patriots, in the Committee of Safety, of which he was a member. He was in active service with the Virginia militia in its operations against Lord Dunmore in 1775, and in 1777 was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 16th Virginia regiment Continental Line, and was with Washington at Valley Forge and Morristown where his health was so impaired by the hardships he bore that he was forced to resign his commission. Colonel Levin Powell was a member of the Virginia Convention of 1788, which ratified and adopted the Federal Constitution. He was a presidential elector in 1796 and in 1799 was elected to the United States Congress as a Federalist and re-elected in 1801. He died at Bedford Springs, Bedford Co., PA where he had gone for his health, July 23, 1810.
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POWELL, Leven
(1737—1810)

POWELL, Leven, (father of Cuthbert Powell), a Representative from Virginia; born near Manassas, Prince William County, Va., in 1737; studied in private schools; deputy sheriff of Prince William County; moved to Loudoun County in 1763; engaged in mercantile pursuits; served as major in the Revolutionary Army in 1775; appointed lieutenant colonel of the Sixteenth Regiment of the Continental Line in 1777; resigned on account of ill health in 1778; member of the State house of delegates in 1779; was delegate to the Virginia ratification convention in 1788; again a member of the State house of delegates in 1787, 1788, 1791, and 1792; elected as a Federalist to the Sixth Congress (March 4, 1799-March 3, 1801); helped to build a turnpike from Alexandria, Va., to the upper country; died in Bedford, Bedford County, Pa., on August 23, 1810; interment in Old Presbyterian Graveyard.
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Following is a list of the first land grants issued by Virginia, to help settle the new and somewhat wild areas.
**Note: 'M' stands for Military Grant, 'W' stands for Withdrawn. Book #1 is in Lincoln Co., Book A is in Jefferson.
Last Name First Name Acre Location Date Bk-Pg
Powell Leven 1000 Salt River 05-26-1780 A-100 W
500 Salt River 05-27-1780 A-104 W
500 Salt River 05-27-1780 A-104 W
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Source: Rootsweb;DEEDS: Abstracts, Mason County Kentucky Deed Book A-L 1789-1810 1973 Library of
Congress Card No.74-154302

A277 8 Mar 1793 Leven Powell of Louden co Va apptd. Alexander D. Orr attny to convey
land to Aaron Owens "being 100 acres out of my Patent land being tract located under
Pre right of Henry Batterter". Wt: William Owens, Alexander Dougherty, William Johnson
Jr., William Dye Jr. Clerk: Hugh Shannon and Thomas Marshall Jr.

A-280 1 Oct 1792 Alexander D. Orr of Mason co AND George Berry Jr. of Mason co Tr:
Sale of 300 acres Mason co land, and all houses for 250 pounds; part of Mathew Rust
Preemption. Wt: Shadrack Nye, William Roe, John Thompson Clerk: Thomas Marshall Jr.