Moses Powell’s family is given in Boddie’s Historical Southern Families”, Vol I, p. 145 ff.

Moses Powell paid taxes in Wilkes CO, GA in 1791 in the Simmons District.103

Moses Powell, Sr. moved to Duplin County at an early date along with his brother Lewis Powell (who later moved into Bladen and Robeson Counties, N.C. The index of Johnston and Dobbs County, N. C. Deeds (the earliest deed books have been destroyed) shows that he was deeded land in Duplin County by Luke Whitfield (Book 2, Page 74), by Edward Carter (Book 2, page 300) and by Charles Royall (Book 3, page 117). Deeds in Book 2 were from 1750 - 1754; in Book 3, from 1754 to 1755.

Moses Powell was still living in Duplin County, NC in 1766, when he was in the Militia there, but had been granted land in Edgefield County, SC in 1762 and that he moved there soon afterwards. He moved to Wilkes County, GA in 1773 and last appears there in 1789. He and his sons Cader, Lewis, Moses, Jr. and Benjamin, all served in the Revolution from GA.79

Moses was still living in Duplin CO, NC in Oct. 7, 1766, when he appears in the militia of that county in the General Muster (NC Colornial and State Records, VII, 263). He was granted land in what later became Edgefield County, SC in 1762, and probably moved there soon after 1766. By 1774 he was living in GA, Wilkes CO, and last appears in the records on Feb. 14, 1791, when Moses Powell, Sr., of Wilkes CO, GA, deed to Thomas Holsel of Edgefield County S. C., 100 acres in Edgefield which had been granted him June 1, 1762 ( Edgefield Deed Book 8, p. 102). n Sept. 29, 1773, 400 acres of land on the Ogeechee River in GA was granted “Moses Powell, with a family of three sons and one daughter, aged 17 to 7 years of age”, and on the same date 100 acres was granted to “Cader Powell of S. C. with a wife and son 2 months old” (Davidson “Early Records of GA., Wilkes CO” I, 7).

On August 24, 1774, Moses Powell was living in Ga, for on that date he signed a protest of the inhabitants of St. Paul’s Parish against resolutions passed August 10, 1774 by the patriots on the coast (Dandler “Revolution Record of Georgia”, I, 23). However, Moses Powell, his sons Cader and Lewis, and probably also his sons, Benjamin and Moses, Jr., all served in the Revolutionary War in GA. The service is shown in Knight’s “Georgia’s Roster of the Revolution” as follows: Moses Powell, pages 143, 213, 390; Cader Powell, pp 143,273; Lewis Powell, pp 143, 207, 210, 272, 390, 44 and Benjamin Powell, pp 143, 425.79

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he following items have been extracted from The Early Records of Georgia, Volume II, Wilkes County abstracted and compiled by Grace Gillam Davidson, published in 1933 at Macon, GA
NOTE: "End of Page" notations refer to the page numbers of the original (1933) Mrs. Davidson book. Page numbers beside a person's name refer to the page from the primary source, such as a will or deed book.

[WILKES COUNTY, GEORGIA] EARLIEST TAX DIGEST (1785 REMNANT)
EXPLANATORY

This is the first tax digest found in the court house, and was taken to give a practically complete census of the heads of families of that date, to identify their lands as headrights, and possible bounty grants for Revolutionary service, and to replace in a measure the census of 1790, all of which for Georgia was destroyed by the British during the War of 1812 in Washington, D. C. There is no complete digest until 1802, only a few pages left in the interim. The remnants for 1792, 1793, 1794 have been published in "Some Tax Digests of Georgia" Ruth Blair, State Historian and Archivist, and give valuable information.

Moses Powell, Sr., 1 poll, 600 acres Wilkes Co. Ogeechee river.
Lewis Powell, 1 1/2 polls, 1 slave, 200 acres Wilkes Co. Ogeechee, 287 1/2 acres Washington Co. on Oconee.