. Powers-Banks ancestry, traced in all lines to the remotest date obtainable, Charles Powers, 1819-1871, and his wife Lydia Ann Banks, 1829-1919. Phillips (Banks)Warriner1809-1907 Lydia Ann Banks (Powers)Deering 1829-1919 THE BANKS LINE The first Banks in America was John. His English home isunknown. There were Bankses in Kent and also in the northcounties. John, too, was a common name. In Parliament atalmost the same time were three John Bankses: John of GraysInn, from Wootton Bassett, Wilts, 1624; John, Esq., counsellorat law, from Morpeth, Northumberland, 1626, 1628; John jr.,from
. Powers-Banks ancestry, traced in all lines to the remotest date obtainable, Charles Powers, 1819-1871, and his wife Lydia Ann Banks, 1829-1919. Phillips (Banks)Warriner1809-1907 Lydia Ann Banks (Powers)Deering 1829-1919 THE BANKS LINE The first Banks in America was John. His English home isunknown. There were Bankses in Kent and also in the northcounties. John, too, was a common name. In Parliament atalmost the same time were three John Bankses: John of GraysInn, from Wootton Bassett, Wilts, 1624; John, Esq., counsellorat law, from Morpeth, Northumberland, 1626, 1628; John jr.,from Maidstone, Kent, 1654. From Naresboro, York, RichardBanks had gone to Parliament in 1572; Ralph represented CorfeCastle, Dorset, in 1660. As the first American John was calleda lawyer, he may have had legal training in England, and a con-nection with the John of Grays Inn, or the John of Northumber-land is not impossible.^ In America he is first found in Windsor,where he was town clerk in 1643; in the same year also he wasappointed to size the weights and measures of Windsor. - Heserved on the jury in 1645.^ His first certain connection wi
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