In article <951016234521_74735130@mail04.mail.aol.com> Matt Buell writes: >Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 23:45:51 -0400 >From: Matt Buell >Subject: Burke's Peerage & Colin Powell Royal Descent >I read today in my newspaper that General Colin Powell is descended from King >Edward I of England. According to the paper, Powell's great great great >grandmother was an illegitiment child of Sir Eyre Coote, lieutenant govenor >of Jamaica and a black slave. Does anyone have the exact details on this >line? The source on this is Burke's Peerage it says. I would like to get >copies of Burke's Peerage, but I don't know where to wright. Does anyone >know where I should wright for this? Thanks ~Matthew James Buell