When Lemuel Powers was born on 14 June 1714, in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, William Powers, was 53 and his mother, Mary Bank, was 44. He had at least 5 sons and 6 daughters with Thankful Leland. He died on 11 December 1792, in Northbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Old Cemetery, Northbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.