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94 sion of the Indians, and to receive the Jesuits as missionaries. He felt a strong dislike for that order, and, on the ground that Port Royal was in no condition to receive the missionary-. hedged them to postpone their departure, and then sailed for Acadia in 1008. He afterward wrote letters to the pope and the French court describing whole- sale conversions that had been made by himself, and deprecating the necessity of sending out Jesu- its. In 1610 Madame de Guercheville formed a partnership with him, according to the terms of which Jesuit missionaries that she should send out were to be supported from the proceeds of the fishery and fur-trade. They were badly received on their arrival, and the suspicions that Poutrin- court entertained of their designs considerably hampered them. He returned to Prance in 1613, had a serious quarrel with Madame de Guercheville on this subject, and appears to have been im- prisoned for some time about this period. Pou- trincourt sailed for Acadia after the English aban- doned it in 1014, but made no effort to rebuild Port Royal, returned home, and entered the French service. His son,, afterward called Poutrincourt, remained in Acadia, and died there in 1628 or 1624.

POVEDA, Francisco (po-vay'-dah), Cuban poet, b. in Havana in October. 1 ?!)6 ; d. in Sagua in 1881. When very young he went to Sagua la Grande, a small inland town, where he spent his life, becoming successively a shepherd, a ploughman, an actor, and a teacher. He has published several collections of poems, including " Guirnalda Habanera," " Ra- millete Poetico," and " El tiple campesino," which are known by heart throughout the island by the country people ; "Las Rosas de Amor" (1831); "Leyendas Cubanas" (1846); a complete collec- tion of his songs and poems (1863 ; 2d ed., 1879) ; and " El peon de Bayamo." a drama, which was performed in 1879. Poveda was known under the name of the " Trovador Cubano," or the Cuban troubadour, on account of his popularity and the nature of his poems.

POWEL, Samuel, mayor of Philadelphia, b. in Philadelphia in 1739; d. there, 2!) Sept., 1793. He was graduated in 1759 at the College of Phila- delphia (now University of Pennsylvania), served several years in the city council, was a justice of the common pleas and quarter sessions courts, anil in 1775 was chosen mayor, being the last under the charter of 1701. He continued in office until the military authorities took municipal matters into their own hands, and after the Revolution, under the new charter, he was, in 1789, again chosen mayor. In 1780 he subscribed 5,000 for the pro- visioning of the army. He was the speaker of the Pennsylvania senate in 1792, one of the early mem- bers of the American philosophical society, from 1773 till his death a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the founders, and, in 1785, first president of the Philadelphia society for promoting agriculture, and a managerof the Pennsylvania hos- pital. His wife, Elizabeth Willing, was a sister of Thomas Willing, the partner of Robert Morris. Her nephew, John Hare, agriculturist, b. in Philadelphia, 22 April, 1786; d. in Newport, R. I., 14 June, 1856, was originally named John Powel Hare, and he was own brother to Dr. Robert Hntv (q. (>.), but he was adopted by his aunt. Mrs. Powel, and at his majority assumed her name by act of legislature. He was educated at the College of Philadelphia, became a successful merchant, and, going abroad for pleasure, became secretary of the U. S. legation in London, under William I'itiek- ney. While there, according to Charles Greville in his memoirs, he was "the handsomest man ever seen." He returned in December, isn, served as brigade-major of volunteers under Gen. Thomas Cadwalader. and from December, 1814, till June, 1815, was inspector-general with the rank of colonel in the regular army. He subsequently, at the de- sire of his family, refused a brigadier-general's commission in the Colombian service, and passed the remainder of his life in efforts to develop agri- culture and improve the breed of domestic ani- mals in the United States. He was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania agricultural society in 1823. and its secretary till 1824, corresponded actively with English agriculturists, and imported many valuable animals. Col. Powel was a good speaker and debater, and a patron of the fine arts. He was a member of the Pennsylvania senate in 1827-'30, and a delegate to the Free-trade conven- tion of 1832. He published many papers in the "Memoirs of the Pennsylvania Agricultural So- ciety " ; " Hints for American Husbandmen " (Philadelphia, 1827) ; pamphlets entitled " Reply to Pickering's Attack upon a Pennsylvania Farm- er" (1S25). and " Remarks on the Proper Termina- tion of the Columbia Railroad" (1830); and many essays in agricultural periodicals.

POWELL, Aaron Macy, reformer, b. in Clinton, Dutrhess co.. X. V., 21! Ma'rdi. ls:!2. He was edu- cated in public schools and in the state normal school, but left before graduation to take part in the anti-slavery movement. He was lecturing- agent for the American anti-slavery society from 1852 till 1865, editor of the " National Anti-Slavery Standard" from that time till 1870, and then of the " National Standard " till 1872. and since that year has been secretary of the National temper- ance society and editor of the " National Temper- ance Advocate." In 1886 he also took charge of the " Philanthropist." Mr. Powell was a delegate to the International prison congress in London in 1872, and to those for the abolition of state regula- tion of vice, in Geneva in 1877, the Hague in 1883, and London in 1886. He is the author of ' State Regulation of Vice " (New York, 1878).

'''POWELL. Henry Watson''', British soldier, ).. in England in 1733 ; d. in Lyme, England, 14 July, 1814. He became a captain in the 64th foot in 1756, served in the West Indies in 1759, and was stationed in this country in 1768. He became lieutenant-colonel in 1771, participated in Gen. John Burgoyne's expedition in 1777, with the rank of brigadier-general, and in July of the latter year, after the evacuation of Fort Ticonderoga, was placed in command of that post, and success- fully defended it against New Hampshire and Con- necticut militia. In 1801 he became a general.

POWELL, John Wesley, geologist, b. in Mount Morris. N. Y., 24 March. 1834. He is the son of a Methodist clergyman, and passed his early life in various places in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Illinois. For a time he studied in Illinois college, and he subsequently entered Wheaton college, but in 1854 he followed a special course at Oberlin, also teaching at intervals in public schools. His first inclinations were toward the natural sciences, particularly natural history and geology, and he spent much of his time in making collections, which he placed in various institutions of learning in Illinois. The Illinois state natural history society elected him its secretary and extended to him facilities for prosecuting his researches. At the beginning of the civil war he enlisted as a private in the 20th Illinois volunteers, and he rose to be lieutenant-colonel of the 2d Illinois artillery. He lost his right arm at the battle of Shiloh, but soon after-