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Gabriel Powell (rebel)
Gabriel Powell (born c. 1655) was a British soldier, who settled on the island of St Helena in 1673 and became a leading planter. He participated in the 1684 rebellion and, during its aftermath, led the struggle against the Government until his incarceration in 1688 and his escape to Europe in 1689.
==Arrival on St Helena==
Nothing specific is known about Powell’s life before his arrival on St Helena, but it is clear that he was one of the soldiers, who retook the island from the Dutch in May 1673. Captain Richard Munden was leading a small convoy of East Indiamen on its way back from the East, when he found the island annexed by the Dutch. Munden caught three fully loaded Dutch ships and landed a small force of marines behind Jamestown and recaptured the island on 4 May. He installed a temporary garrison to hold the island.〔 T.H. Brooke, ''History of the Island of St. Helena'', London, 1824, pp. 91-94; P. Gosse, ''St Helena, 1502-1938'', London, 1938, pp. 61-70; K. Denholm, ''South Atlantic Haven: A Maritime History for the Island of St Helena'', St Helena, 1994, p. 5; T.W. Hearl, ''St Helena Britannica: Studies in South Atlantic Island History'' (ed. A.H. Schulenburg), London, 2013, p. 20.〕
Gabriel Powell fought in Munden’s campaign and seems to have been one of those soldiers, who remained to hold the island while awaiting reinforcements.〔'Record of the St Helena Council Consultation of 5 July 1680'.〕
After these hostilities, the East India Company found it hard to convince the English settlers, who had fled the island, to return, let alone to recruit new colonists. A range of incentives was introduced and soldiers were encouraged to ‘turn planter’.〔See the ‘Petition of Coulston’s Four Daughters to the House of Commons’, appended in T.H. Brooke, ''History of the Island of St. Helena, London'', 1824, p. 454.〕 Powell must have seen this as an opportunity to make a new life for himself, as he quickly sought a discharge from the army so that he could start up his own plantation. This was granted and, as a single man, he was allotted 10 acres and a cow to get started.
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