POWELL:- The will of Richard Powell of Amherst County, Va. was filed April 4, 1774, and names his wife Elizabeth, his sons Thomas. Edward, Wyatt, Richard and John; his grandson James Powell, son of John, and his daughters Winifred Powell, Rhoda Powell and Clary Woodruff. The will of Moses Powell of Campbell County, Va., filed September 11> 1797. names his wife Hannah, and his two sons John and David.
SOURCE: Vol, IX, No 12, April 1921 Genealogy: a journal of American ancestry