| Notes |
- From "Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine":
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=7hvbSyc6a1cC&pg=GBS.PA532&hl=en
Captain Peter, fourth son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Whitcomb) Powers, was born in Littleton, Massachusetts, in 1707. He spent his boyhood days on his father's farm, and in 1728 married Anna Keyes and removed to Dunstable, locating in that part of the town now known as Nashua, and he was commissioned captain of militia by Governor Wentworth. During the summer and fall of 1730 he made the first clearing and built the first house in what has become Hollis, New Hampshire, and he removed with his young wife and two children, Peter and Stephen, through the unbroken forest, and became the first settler of what became a thriving town. Here Anne, their first daughter, was born, the first child of English descent born in this town. In 1738 there were forty families in the present limits of the town and he joined the other settlers in petitioning for a town charter. He was prominent in town offices and led in the building of a meeting house and securing a preacher. In 1754 he headed an expedition to explore the Connecticut River Valley, but his report, owing to Indian troubles, was never published, but has been preserved by his descendants and the Rev. Grant Powers caused it to be deposited in the rooms of the Connecticut Historical Society at Hartford. In 1755 he raised a company of men mostly from Hollis to march under Colonel Joseph Blanchard against the French at Crown Point, and in the company were: Jonathan, Levi, Stephen and Whitcomb Powers, all of Hollis, the last three being sons of Captain Peter. In 1758 Whitcomb and Thomas Powers, of Hollis, joined the expedition against Louisburg. Captain Peter Powers died soon after the close of the French and Indian war.
|
1707 - 1757 (50 years)