THE EASLEY FAMILY PAGE
THE GENEALOGY OF ROBERT (ROBIN) EASLEY, THE FRENCH HUGUENOT IMMIGRANT AND ANN PARKER
THROUGH GEORGE WOODSON EASLEY AND DELLA JEANETTE WHITTON AND THEIR FAMILY
POWELL/PARKER/EASLEY FAMILIES
WILLIAM POWELL
(1585-1623)
(ANN WARHAM PARKER WAS MARRIED TO OUR IMMIGRANT, ROBERT EASLEY. CAPTAIN WILLIAM POWELL IS ANCESTOR TO ANN AND ALSO AN IMMIGRANT FROM WALES ALONG WITH HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH WYLLYS)
The First House of Burgesses of Virginia Colony
| "The General
Assembly of Virginia, which sat between July 30 and August 4, 1619,
was the first legislative assembly to organize in America. The
assembly was made up of a governor, six councilors and twenty
burgesses who were charged with making regulations and laws for the
colony in agreement with the Virginia Company in England. The
members of the assembly were landholders who were responsible for
one of ten settlements in the region. The Virginia Assembly of 1619
included Sir George Yeardley, governor, and the following burgesses:
Captain William Powell, Ensign William Spense, Samuel Sharpe, Samuel
Jordan, Thomas Dowse, John Polentine,
Captain William Tucker,
William Capp, Thomas Davis, Robert Stacy, Captain Thomas Graves,
Walter Shelley, John Boys, John Jackson, Mr. Pawlett, Mr. Gourgaing,
Ensign Roffingham, Mr. Johnson, Captain Christopher Lawne, Ensign
Washer, Captain Warde, and Lieutenant Gibbes. John Pory was the
speaker for the assembly and he documented the transactions that
took place during." (Above from Jamestown Colony) |
*William Powell qualifies recent generations to join the First Families of Virginia Colony, Colonial Dames and many other early American organizations.
