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From: "Robert Allen" <>
Subject: Re: [TNDICKSO] Fw: Bell family
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:31:44 -0500
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If you have not already done so, check the Draper Documents at the Tennessee
State Library and Archives. I know there is some info on a Hugh Bell from
1700's in Davidson County, Tn.
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From: "TJstubby" <>
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Subject: [TNDICKSO] Fw: Bell family


> Notes on Bell family from PA ::possible clues on Montgomery Bell and
possible clues for David Bell researchers/
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mary Holland
> To: Peggy Johnson Zaremba ; Tony Johnson
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 6:34 AM
> Subject: Bell family
>
>
> Tony and Peg.....
> There is another Bell family you need to be aware of in
Davidson/Williamson Counties.
> >From "Schetches of North Carolina Historical and Biographical
Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion to the Early Settlers" by Rev.
William Henry Foote published N.Y. 1846
> "in a letter toDr. Alexander wilson, of Caldwell Institute, says,"sometime
between 1755 and 1760, Samuel Bell, with his brothers and
son-in-law-Donnell, removed from Pennsylvania, and settled in the forks of
Hico. they were strict Presbyterians, and were soon supplied with preaching
by a Mr. Black, afterwards yb Mr McAden, from the lower part of the state."
>
> This is my Bell family. Samuel Bell's brother, Capt. Robert Bell is mine.
They moved from Pennsylvania to Caswell Co.,N.C. to Guilford Co., N.C. where
Robert was living during the Rev. War and was a Capt. After the war Robert
moved his very large family (19 children) to Williamson Co., Tn.
> He was married twice ...had 6 children by 1st wife Catherine Walker: Mary;
Samuel; Ann; Robert; Catherine (a twin)
> Married 2nd Mary Boyd in Guilford Co., N.C. and had 13 more children:
John; James; Hugh; Daniel; Francis; Sarah; Rebecca; David; Thomas; Abraham;
Nathaniel (mine); William; Jane.
> Capt Robert Bell was given a land grant in Tennessee for 2,568 acres, and
they were in Tennessee after the Rev. War was over.
> Brother Samuel also was in Davidson Co., Tn.
> Have not found any connection between my Bell family and Montgomery Bell
except both families came from Pennsylvania.......
>
> >From "Settlers & Intruders On Cherokee Indian Land"
> 17 May 1803 Robert Bell and JAMES JOHNSON are permitted to go to the foot
of the mountain & to the Crab Orchard & to tarry there during their
conducting with propriety in assisting in keeping houses of entertainment
and David Crawford, Joseph Carrol, William Kerr, BryanBailey & Presley Petty
as labourers at either of those places.
> (my note: don't know if this is Capt. Robert (Sr.) or Robert Jr.)
>
> With so many Bell males in Davidson and Williamson Co. it is going to be a
task to find out who any of the Bell girls belonged to!!
> I got lucky and Nathaniel left a will naming my Mary Bell in Williamson
Co., and none of his brothers has a Mary near the right age......I had a
time figuring out who she belonged to, and still would probably be looking
if the lady at the Williamson Co. Archives had not narrowed them down for me
by where Nathaniel lived, and the Jordan family that Mary married into.
>
> Hope this info will help
> Love Mary
>
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