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granny8;27253 wrote: Hi can anyone help! I am trying to find if my line of the Powells are native american. As far as I have gotten back is Levi Powell b 1799 Nc married Anna Laws 1835. His son Thomas b abt 1825, his son Peter Powell 1845. Most of them lived in Knox county Ky . Does anyone know any thing about these Powells? Darlene
Levi Powell’s parents were Elijah Powell and Morning/Mourning Wilson
Morning Wilson’s family were Quakers. For more iinformation
TaraBrooks6866;39013 wrote: Levi Powell’s parents were Elijah Powell and Morning/Mourning Wilson
Morning Wilson’s family were Quakers. For more iinformation
Hi Tara, welcome to SaponiTown.
Do you know what Monthly Meeting Elijah Powell and Mourning Wilson attended?
MarcSnelling;39014 wrote: Hi Tara, welcome to SaponiTown.
Do you know what Monthly Meeting Elijah Powell and Mourning Wilson attended?
Unfortunately I don’t know which meetings house they attended. I do know that Morning’s family were Quakers and ancestry has some of those records.
Her parents were William Wilson and Mary Moore.
They were from Perquimans County, North Carolina
Here’s the link I have in my ancestry app to one of Mary’s Quaker meetinghouse records
http://sharing.ancestry.com/9194646?h=9cd7c7
I don’t have a monthly account with ancestry to access it but anyone on here who does can view it.
I hope this helps. William and Mary are my 6th Great Grandparents through Levi Powell’s mother.
My family always said we were Cherokee through the Powell line and we think it came through Morning Wilson.
I’ve read that the Quakers had good relationships with the Cherokee and sometimes married members of the tribe.
I don’t know if that’s accurate or not but that’s what read.
Elijah Powell’s parent’s are Henry Powell and Elizabeth Roberts.
MarcSnelling;39014 wrote: Hi Tara, welcome to SaponiTown.
Do you know what Monthly Meeting Elijah Powell and Mourning Wilson attended?
I am so sorry for not seeing this sooner. I don’t know which meeting house they attended but Elijah and Mourning were married in Randolph County, North Carolina in 1794. I hope this helps.
Randolph County is where many of my ancestors are, Perquimans is a location DNA cousins (Elliott) tie to me too. These are Quaker lines whose descendants are living in central locations for what became the Underground Railroad.
Looking at Quaker records they were at Center Monthly Meeting in 1782 – Guilford NC. This meeting is tied to other meetings like Deep River and New Garden. These are all meetings that have families with oral history of Native American descent. There is definitely inter-marriage in Quaker lines, and it seems an effort to record and disguise identity at the same time.
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