Powell

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7.1.1789 Powell at Miss Williams' and 14.9.1789 there.

Jane Powell 1766-1838 and her sisters Anna and Margaret, daughters of John Powell (d.1799 PCC will) a prosperous Boston merchant who lost money by taking English side then came to live in Ludlow where they were part of Penelope Weston's circle (see her entry) and moved to London about the same time as her. Their brother Willam Dummer Powell (see his life by William Renwick Liddell) became Chief Justice of Upper Canada and died in 1835. Anna married Isaac Winslow Clark on 5.3.1791 in Boston and died in childbed in America. Jane married Rev Thomas Warren, vicar of Tolpuddle, on 3.10.1805 at Clifton, Glos. On 9.9.1793 Jane and Margaret Powell had been visiting Penelope Pennington (nee Weston) for 5 weeks (Piozzi letters online)