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From: "TJstubby" <>
Subject: Re: [TNDICKSO] Fw: Bell family
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:36:01 -0700
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Thanks I will pass this on to Cousin Mary Holland as this is her lines::
Montgomery is married into my Patterson Lines - Leech lines
Tony
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From: Robert Allen <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [TNDICKSO] Fw: Bell family


> 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.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "TJstubby" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:47 AM
> 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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