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Samuel Powel (1738September 29, 1793) was a colonial and post-colonial mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1759 from the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania). He served as mayor from 1775–1776 and 1789–1790, the office having lain vacant in the interim. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1790 to 1793. Powel was an early member of the American Philosophical Society and a trustee of the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania). ==Personal life== On August 7, 1769, he married Elizabeth Willing, was the daughter of Philadelphia mayor Charles Willing and Ann Shippen, and a sister of Philadelphia mayor and Continental Congressman Thomas Willing, the business partner of Robert Morris. Powel died in the Yellow fever epidemic of 1793 on September 29, 1793, in Philadelphia, where he is interred at Christ Church Burial Ground. ==Some Ancestry of Samuel Powel== "Samuel Powell, Pioneer ancestor of the Philadelphia family of that name, was born in stokes parish, St Gregory, Somersetshire, England 11 mo. 2, 1673, Of a somersetshire family originally from Wales, and Claimed descent from the prince of Powis, through Einion Efell, Lord of Cynlaeth, who flourished in the twelfth century. Their coat-of-arms bore "Party per fesse argent and or, a lion rampant gules", crest, "A star of eight points above a cloud,-all proper."〔 Title: Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania : genealogical and personal memoirs Author: John W Jordan Colonial And Revolutionary Families Of Pennsylvania John W. Jordan Genealogical Publishing Com, 2004 - Reference - 1706 pages (PG 110-112)(Colonial And Revolutionary Families Of Pennsylvania ) ISBN/ISSN: 0806352396 9780806352398 OCLC:70056604 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samuel Powel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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