John Bell

Biography

Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County Pennsylvania, Volume 1 . By John Woolf Jordan. Page 252. GoogleBooks

John, son of Matthew Bell, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, about 1712. He married and left sons:[1]

1. Samuel, born about 1732[1]
2. Andrew, born about 1734; in 1759 he was a large land owner of Lancaster county[1]
3. James, born about 1736; he lived for some time on his brother Samuel's farm on Stony Ridge, five miles below Carlisle, Pennsylvania[1]
4. Robert, of whom further[1]

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Family

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Generation No. 3

3. JOHN3 BELL (MATHEW2, MATTHEW1)1,1,2,3 was born 18 Feb 1709/10 in New York, New York, NY, USA4,4, and died 21 Jan 1742/43 in Cecil, MD, USA4,4. He married UNKNOWN UNKNOWN. She was born Abt. 1712 in Cecil County, Maryland.

Children of JOHN BELL and UNKNOWN UNKNOWN are:

• i. SAMUEL4 BELL4, b. 1738, Cumberland, PA, USA4.
• 5. ii. WILLIAM BELL, b. 15 Oct 1740, Cecil City, Cecil, MD, USA; d. 1796.
• iii. JAMES BELL4,5, b. 1741, Hanover, Dauphin, PA, USA6; m. ELEANOR FINLEY7, 1765, Hanover Twp, Lancaster Cco7; b. Abt. 1741.
• iv. ANDREW BELL8, b. 18 Apr 1741, New York City, New York, NY, USA8; d. 04 Sep 17798.
• v. JAMES BELL8, b. 1742, New York City, NY, USA8.
• vi. JOHN BELL8, b. Dec 1742, Cecil City, Cecil, MD, USA88.
• vii. ROBERT BELL8, b. 1744, New York City, NY, USA8

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Third Generation

5. John BELL (Matthew, Matthew) was born about 1712 in Chester Co., Pennsylvania.

McCutchen Trace - page 103

A number of the families in Augusta County can be documented as coming from the Lancaster and Chester Co., Pennsylvania area. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/scripts/data/database.cgi?file=Data&...

John Bell, son of Matthew Bell of Ireland and Pennsylvania , was born in Chester County, Penn., about 1712.

His children were: Samuel, born about 1732; Andrew, James, Robert, and William.

John had the following children:

• + 8 M i. Samuel BELL died in 1780.
• 9 M ii. William BELL . McCutchen Trace - page 103
• 10 M iii. Andrew BELL . McCutchen Trace - page 103 http://www.accessgenealogy.com/scripts/data/database.cgi file=Data&Book=Bell+Family+History&report=BookReportB&firstrecord=25&finalrecord=25 Andrew Bell, son of John Bell, was born about 1734 in Lancaster county, Penn. , was a large real estate owner.
• 11 M iv. James BELL . McCutchen Trace - page 10 http://www.accessgenealogy.com/scripts/data/database.cgi?file=Data&... James Bell, another son of John Bell, was born about 1736 in Lancaster county and lived near Carlisle. Children: John, William and Samuel. John Bell, son of James Bell, was born about 1762 and moved to western Pennsylvania or Ohio . He had a son, James M. Bell, who was a member of Congress from Ohio, 1833-35. William Bell, another son of James Bell, was born in Cumberland county, Penn., about 1764. He was a Justice of the Peace thereabout 1791.
• 12 M v. Capt. Robert BELL Sr. was born in 1731/1732. He died in Feb 1816.
• 13 M vi. Francis BELL . http://home.netcom.com/~boju2325/Bell.html Land was sold by Robert Bell to his brother Samuel Bell "His father-in- law, John Walker, a witness, also his brother, Francis Bell." Francis of Guilford, North Carolina moved to Georgia

References

• https://www.thetintypeshop.com/family/Douglas/Surnames/AtoC/BE/Bell...
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bell-1621 cites

1. Gen & Pers Hist of Fayette Co PA, p.252
2. Lyman Horace Weeks, The Bell Family in America (1913), page 17. Space:Weeks, 1913 PDF

• Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County Pennsylvania, Volume 1 . By John Woolf Jordan. Page 252. GoogleBooks