William Bell Jr. (abt. 1720 - aft. 1779)

Born about 1720 in Ireland [uncertain]

Died after 1779 after about age 59 in Augusta Virginia [uncertain]

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Biography:

William Bell Jr. is the son of William Bell Sr. and Mary McGowan-Bell. William's wife's name was Mary and if any children were born between his adult age of approximately 18 and 1779 then they would have most definately been born in Augusta Virginia as records indicate that William lived in Augusta Virginia until at least the year 1779. If William was born circa 1720 then in 1779 he would have been 59 years oldand one can conclude that most his children if not all would have been born and raised already.

William Bell, Jr. appears to have been born about 1720 in Ireland, and came to America with his father. The family first settled in Pennsylvania and sometime in the mid to late 1730s moved to Virginia.

William was named in his father's will dated 25 July 1757 in Augusta Virginia. The only child mentioned to not be living in Virginia at this time was son Joseph Bell which states he was in the Carolinas.

Land records for Augusta Virginia reference his name as William Bell (Jr.) and he is listed in most of these records with his brother David Bell one includs the name of David's wife Florence. These records indicate that William Bell Jr. was living in Augusta Virginia from the time of the family's move there in the mid 1730s to as late as March 1779 which is the last land record found for William Bell Jr. in Augusta, this same record also is the first to mention William having a wife, giving her name as Mary.

There are researchers who speculate William Bell moved to North Carolina and others say Kentucky and some say he stayed in Virginia, but that is all it is, speculation.

Records for William Bell:

Deeds

Acquisition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Page 475.--16th February, 1747. £40 and divers other good considerations. Samuel Gay to William Bell, Jr., and David Bell (his brother), planters, 567 acres in Beverley Manor; corner to Robt. Turk and lot No. 1; corner to Finley; corner to Samuel Gay; corner to George Homes; to Robert Turk's line. Teste: None. Acknowledged by Samuel, 16th March, 1747, and dower released by Margaret, his wife.

Disposition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Page 453.--20th November, 1754. Willam. Bell, Jr and David Bell (brother) to Ro. Patrick £30, 283 acres, part of a tract conveyed by Samuel Gay to William and David. 16th February, 1747, in Beverley Manor; corner said Patrick; corner Samuel Givens, Finley's land; corner John Ramsey; corner Black's land. Teste: William and Zachanah Bell.
• Page 2.--August, 1754. William Bell, Jr., and David Bell to Saml. Givens, £80, 283 acres conveyed to grantors by Saml. Gay, 16th February, 1747, in Beverley Manor; corner Ro. Patrick; corner Finla.
• Augusta County Deed Book 8, page 99; 21st March, 1759: William Bell to Samuel Bell, £40, 300 acres in Christian's Creek in Beverley Manor; corner Carr's land, point or end of a hill in Fork of Long Meadow Run and Christian's Creek, supposed to be a corner in the patent line; corner Geo. Roger; widow Baskin's line.
• Page 133. - 27th May, 1762. William Bell, David Bell and Florence, his wife, to Samuel Logan, £30, 108 acres on Elk Run in Beverley Manor, cor. said Logan's other land, Hamilton's line. Delivered: Samuel Logan, May, 1765. [Chalkley's Chronicles, Volume 3]

Processioning List of 1767/8

"Processioning" was the periodic review and agreement of property lines between settler's lands. Processioning Lists are useful in determining the general area of a settler's lands and their neighbors at specific time periods:

• Vol. 2 - Page 179.--1756: Processioned in Capt. Israel Christian's Company by John Henderson and Wm. Baskins, viz: For Rev. John Craig, for Daniel Denniston, for James Wallace, for David Bell, for Robert Poage, for John Anderson, for Andrew Russell, for John Hutcheson, for Patrick McCollum, for James Coyle, for Geo. Anderson, for Robert Patterson, for Mathew Armstrong, for William Lewis, for James Lesley, for Archibald Hamilton, for John Poage, for Mr. Shodder, for Willm. Bell, for Wm. Wallace, for Robert McClenachan, for Alex. Wright, for Samuel Wilson, for John Cunningham, for Alex. McNite, for John Black, for Nathan Gililand, for John Bigham, for John Coulter, for John Buchanan, for Elijah McClenachan, for Robert Breckinridge, for Wm. Baskins, for Widow Crawford, for Joans Henderson, for Andrew Scott, for John Henderson. ~ Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's Augusta County Records:

• Page 101.--16th November, 1762. Charles Patrick and John Patrick, division of estate of their father Robert. John is to have 283 acres conveyed to Robert by William and David Bell, also all the land lying on north side of South River in the tract whereon the said Robert lately dwelt, and to have a waggon way over the ford of the river opposite a pond and so up the river on the south side. Charles to have that on the north side, John to pay Charles £30. Delivered: J. Patrick, February, 1767.
• Page 426.--29th July, 1767. Charles Patrick and Mary, of Albemarle, to John Patrick. Whereas Robert Patrick by will, 10th August, 1761, devised to sons Charles and John 720 acres and Charles and John agreed to divide said land by deed of partition, 16th November, 1762, and recorded in Augusta, viz, John to have tract 283 acres formerly conveyed to Robert by William and David Bell, 20th August, 1754, and to Willaim and David by Samuel Gay, 21st February, 1747; also the land on North of South River whereon said Robert lately dwelt, &c., &c., £200, all the land on south side of the river above.
• March 1779 transaction (is the last Augusta County) record of William, and the first naming a wife, when he with Mary his wife conveyed 242 acres of land in Beverly Manor on Christian's Creek to William Richards (where William had apparently been living since April 1763, when the land was conveyed to him from William Armstrong and wife). Henderson Bell concludes "that he went west, perhaps to Kentucky where many others went shortly after this date."

Sources

1. Land records for Augusta Virginia 1747-1779 2. Augusta County Will Book 2, page 195 3. Descendants of William Bell of Augusta Co., Va. 4. "THE STONE CHURCH BELLS" Compiled by Harry E. Handley, M.D.

References: http://genealogytrails.com/vir/augusta/deeds.html

Other References: 1. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia - Complete in Three Volumes Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County 1745 - 1800. 2. Descendants of William Bell of Augusta Co., Va. 3. "THE STONE CHURCH BELLS" Compiled by Harry E. Handley, M.D.

Speculations:

"William Bell, Jr. appears to have been born about 1720 in Ireland, and came to America with his father. The scant records available seem to indicate that he went to NC (probably that portion now TN) about 1782. However that could be a different William Bell, other info points to Kentucky or possibly relocating in Augusta. "^[1]

William is said to have had a son with Mildred Lily Wolf, daughter of Running Wolf (1636-1678) and Autumn Rose (1781-1851).^{[citation needed] [2]}

Although shown here (in WikiTree) as a wife, Mildred and William may not have married.^[3].

A March 1779 transaction found by Henderson Bell to be the last Augusta County record of William and the first record to name a wife, Mary, appears to be the only Virginia record that William was married, with earlier records of land conveyances (1747, 1757, 1763) not mentioning a wife.^[4] Another Bell researcher stated in a query that William married Anna Bland, but that is the only reference to her that I could find.

Henderson Bell concludes that after the 1779 record of William and wife Mary in Augusta County, Virginia, "he went west, perhaps to Kentucky where many others went shortly after this date."^[4]

William's children:^{[citation needed] [5]}

• Lindsey Bell (b 1739 in Hillsboro, North Carolina; died 1803 in Wayne, Kentucky)^{[citation needed] [2]}
• James Bell (b 1767)

While James and John turn up in later generations of this family, they were not names known to have been used in William's immediate family. It is possible that he had brothers named James and John (and Lindsey) who had died before his father wrote his will. (The Stone Church Bells lists the children named in the will of William "the immigrant" — William, David, Samuel, Mary, and Joseph.^[6]) The name Lindsey does not appear in the manuscript for The Stone Church Bells, but both Lindsey and James (and John) are repeated in the family behind the Bell Blog: "There is remarkable repetition by the BELL family in the use of first names. JAMES, JOHN, WILLIAM, GEORGE, LINDSEY, ELIZABETH, MARY, REBECCA, and SARAH recur in succeeding generations of BELLS."^[7]

William died February 26, 1802 in Wayne, North Carolina.^{[citation needed]}

Lindsey died in Wayne County, Kentucky, according to his profile.

William Bell, Sr. (Elizabeth Handley, daughter of James Handley), died Wayne Co., N.C., 23 Feb. 1802 [William Bell's Estate Papers are found in the North Carolina Archives]^[8][9]

The William Bell, Sr. who married Elizabeth Handley does not appear to be the William Bell being discussed in this profile, which casts doubt on the death information for him ([Bell-1595]) of February 26, 1802 in Wayne County, NC. See below for leads on Elizabeth Handley.

William "the immigrant" Bell

"Little is known of the immigrant ancestor of this family, except that his name was William Bell, and he was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, having been born of Scotch parents in the north of Ireland, about 1685 to 1690. He came to America with his older children and is believed to have landed in PA from the Delaware River. It is not known how long he lived in PA., but about 1738 to 1740, he located in Augusta County, VA a few miles northeast of Staunton. There he and his wife, Mary, founded the branch of the Bell family which came to be known as the 'Stone Church Bells'. They were thus designated to distinguish them from several other Bell families located in Augusta County but who seem to be unrelated to the Stone Church clan.

"William Bell appears to have been a staunch Presbyterian."

~ from The Stone Church Bells

1. ↑ Descendants of William Bell of Augusta Co., Va., excerpt from The Stone Church Bells,
   • See this page for a link to the manuscript, which was originally compiled by Dr. Harry H. Handley in 1957.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Note: Profiles for Mildred & her parents do not have sources and are incompatible, date-wise, with each other and with William Bell (b 1720). The biography for Lindsey Bell, b 1739 in Randolph County, North Carolina and attached as a son of this William, says "his father, William, was 19 and his mother, Mildred, was 39." This matches with William being born c1720, but would put Mildred's birth c1699, which is 20 years after she could have been born the daughter of Running Wolf, died 1678 (and about 100 years off for a mother born 1781). However, if Autumn Rose was born 1681 (assuming century typo for birth & correction made to death), and Running Wolf was born c1678 (or possibly Running Wolf b 1636 was the father of Autumn's husband), then Mildred b 1699 to parents b 1681 & 1678 works, date-wise.
3. ↑ A profile for Mildred was imported with parents and attached as William's wife by KRH Family Tree_2010-12-30.ged; a profile for son Lindsey was added later with a biography collaborating Mildred as his mother, but sources lacking for both profiles (and her parents).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Information from an 1895 letter by Henderson Bell to James Franklin Lindsey, see page 4, Appendix A, The Stone Church Bells.
5. ↑ Information on children came from their attached profiles. See also the profile for Anna Blake.
6. ↑ the latter born May 25th 1742 O.S. [old style], from research by Henderson M. Bell, Joseph's grandson (#AppendixA)
7. ↑ From a 2009 Bell Blog post by Earl P. Bell, Jr., which includes a discussion about the paths of the various Bells and which might be this family's ancestors:
   

   "The BELLS from whom we are descendants have remained remarkably close to the same geographic spot in North Carolina. Johnston, Dobbs, Wilson, Wayne, Edgecombe and Nash Counties have been home for our family for over two hundred years. The Black Creek area of present day Wilson County, North Carolina is a kind of ancestral place for our family of BELLS since mid-1700s. The historical evolution of North Carolina Counties has placed Black Creek in Carteret, Craven, Dobbs, Wayne and Wilson Counties respectively. Craven and Dobbs Counties were carved from Carteret County, North Carolina. Wayne was created in 1779 from parts of Craven and Dobbs, Counties. Dobbs County only existed from 1760 to 1790. It is a crucial county for information on many of our families but most of its records were lost in a nineteenth century fire. Also, Nash County was created in 1779 by dividing Edgecombe County into two parts and naming the western part Nash. ... Finally, Wilson County was formed from parts of Edgecombe, Nash, Johnston, and Wayne Counties in 1855.

   "My best guess, based on these years of researching the family, is that, once on the North American mainland, our ancestors are first found in King and Queen County, Virginia after 1704, then move to Bertie County, North Carolina, then to Duplin County, Wayne County, Wilson County and, finally, Nash County, NC. The evidence is strongly suggestive that this is the correct line of descent, however, it has not been proven as absolutely true. It is speculation or educated guessing."

8. ↑ Bell Blog
9. ↑ Search returns for FamilySearch included a reference to these estate papers. See these search results. Reference to the estate:
   • "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDF-CLFL : 20 November 2015), William Bell, 1802; citing Wayne County, North Carolina, United States, State Archives, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 2,260,963.

Leads

The following leads are provided. If this is your Bell line, I think the best lead to follow up on would be the one that says William Bell, Sr.'s estate papers are found in the North Carolina Archives. The Bell Blog presented those papers as source for William Bell's death in Wayne County, 23 February 1802, but showed him connected to Elizabeth Handley. FamilySearch also references the estate papers, with the entry showing only William Bell, probate 1802. (See footnotes attached to the above paragraph.

to the Guide to... the Katherine Gentry Bushman Papers, 1961-1997, A Collection in the Library of Virginia (Accession Number 35743)

Find a Grave memorial #25181968 for William Bell (d 1802) has a picture of a tombstone - Wm. Bell, Peyton's Co., 3 Va. Regt., Rev. War - Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina (memorial created by Tom Reece, Mar 10, 2008).

Find a Grave memorial #58189357 for William Bell (1685-1757), Augusta Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Fort Defiance, Augusta County, Virginia notes the plot is "Old cemetery, 1/4 mile from current church". It has links to memorials for sons David, Samuel, and Joseph, as well as "Mrs Bell" (his wife), who is mentioned in his will as being buried there and recently deceased, but does not mention her name.

William Bell, WeRelate, also includes the following (which is not quite right for Samuel, and possibly others, based on Henderson Bell's research):

From Augusta County, Virginia web page:

posted by Bonnie Gaunt Snow on Monday, August 24, 1998

"The Stone Church Bell" of Augusta County, Virginia I am seeking information about William Bell born circa 1685-1690 in the north of Ireland, his wife, Mary McGowan, and their children:

William Bell b. 1720, m. Anna Blake This is the only reference I could find for a wife named Anna Blake.

David Bell, b. 1722, m. Florence Henderson

Mary Bell, b. 1726, m. Edward Beard

Joseph Bell, b. 1742 (?), m. Elizabeth Henderson

Samuel Bell, b. 1724, prob. in Ireland, m. Jane Holmes, they had the following children:

William m. Hannah

Samuel m. Rosannah Smith

Elizabeth m. Matthew Glaves (my gggggg Grandparents)

David m. Nancy Holmes

George m. Elizabeth Mitchell

Joseph m. Jane Downey

John m. Sarah McCutchan

Sarah m. Alexander Kerr

James m. Sarah Crawford

Thomas

Margaret m. William McCutchan

Martha.

Information on his father's profile clarifies that his mother is probably Mary McGown (not the speculated 2nd wife, although this site says she's the 2nd wife]). His father's profile profile also includes the following:

"William Bell served in key roles in the formation of the earliest churches in Augusta County, that which is now known at the Stone Church north of Staunton, Virginia in an area now known as Ft. Defiance. It remains a thriving Presbyterian Church and it and its two cemeteries are well maintained by its people.

"William (bc 1680-August, 1757) and Mary Bell are buried there, as are sons Capt. David (1722-1780)(wife Florence Henderson), and Joseph (1742-1823)(wife Elizabeth Henderson). Other children: Mary Bell (1726/1730-1805)(husband Edward Beard/Baird) Samuel Bell (1724-1803)(wife Jane Holmes) William, Jr. (1720-1802)(wife Mary ??)"

Following is more for father/siblings than William [Bell-1595]:

The will of William Bell-1651 (transcription on WeRelate) speaks of son Joseph returning from Carolina and that son David was not of the colony. Edward Beard (Baird) is named as a son (i.e., son-in-law in the modern sense).

The Stone Church Bells says "An intensive search of available records was made, about 1895 to 1910, by two of William Bell’s descendants, Maj. Henderson M. Bell (source #8), Staunton, VA and Judge Samuel M. Wilson, Lexington,KY (source #2). They concluded that William Bell, immigrants, was probably married twice, his first wife being the mother of the four older children named in his will, all of whom appear to have been born in Ireland before 1726, and came to America with their father.

The five children named in the will of William Bell, immigrant, were:

11. William Bell, Jr.* Born Circa 1720 - to NC or TN circa 1782

12. David Bell* Born Circa 1722 - Died March 1780

13. Samuel Bell* Born Circa 1724 - Died June 1803

14. Mary Bell* Born Circa 1726 - Died Circa 1804

15. Joseph Bell Born 25 May 1742(os) - Died 4 March 1823

* (Information about families of 11-14 based on compilations prepared by Judge Samuel M. Wilson, Lexington, KY.)

from page 5 & page 6, Appendix A of The Stone Church Bells, talk of Kentucky bounty land for the service of David Bell (son of William I), which is probably the land grant in the next lead.

from son James's profile, citing Willard Rouse Jillson, The Kentucky Land Grants, Vol. I-II. Louisville, KY : Filson Club Publications, 1925. (Ancestry online publication, 1997), Possible Land Grant:

Grantee: Bell, James

Acres: 50

Book: 19

Survey Date: 4-13-1815

County: Logan

WaterCourse: Sinking Fk Drake Cr

Reference: THE KENTUCKY LAND GRANTS

Volume 1

Part 1

CHAPTER IV GRANTS SOUTH OF GREEN RIVER (1797-1866)

THE COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY

page 268

Looking for a service record, I found 16th Virginia had two entries for soldiers who enlisted in Staunton, Virginia; one under Lt. Col. Bell (among others) and one under Capt Bell's company. See page 186.

From Appendix A of The Stone Church Bells, which has as a subheading: "From a letter written in 1895 by H.M. Bell to James Franklin Bell..." and is a tale of discovery. The short version:

Henderson M. Bell (b 1826), younger brother to John Bell (b 1809), was son of James Bell and grandson of Betsy Henderson and Joseph Bell (youngest son of William Bell). Henderson Bell's is father was born in 1773 and both his father and mother died in 1856. His cousins included "Margaret A. Crawford, daughter of my uncle William, and ... Thomas A. Bell, son of my uncle Joseph."

By personal interviews of and an examination of deeds and wills, Henderson drew the following conclusions about William and his children:

William was about 70 years old when he signed his will July 25, 1757, making his birth about 1687.

• 1st: William Bell. born about 1720 based on surmise he was 27 when, in 1747 (9 October 1747), "William and David Bell, sons of WIlliam Bell, Sr., received a conveyance... from Samuel Cay..." (dates for following children, who Henderson concluded had been born in the Old Country, are every 2 years, except Joseph, whose birth after such a gap indicates a second wife).

William (b 1720) received in 1754 a conveyance from John Perkins of 300 acres of land on "Middle River on both sides of Christian's Creek and Long Meadow Run." The same year, he and David sold over half of the Cay conveyance: 283 acres to Robert Patrick and 28 acres to Samuel Givens. As no wives were mentioned, Henderson concludes neither William nor David were married in 1747 or 1757. A March 1779 transaction is the last Augusta County record of William, and the first naming a wife, when he with Mary his wife conveyed 242 acres of land in Beverly Manor on Christian's Creek to William Richards (where William had apparently been living since April 1763, when the land was conveyed to him from William Armstrong and wife). Henderson Bell concludes "that he went west, perhaps to Kentucky where many others went shortly after this date." (page 4, Appendix A)

see more on William's siblings, page 4, Appendix A

• 2nd: David Bell (named executor of 1757 will over the eldest because he, David, was married and living with his father, while William was as yet unmarried and living elsewhere)
• 3rd: Samuel Bell see page 4, Appendix A
• 4th: Mary Bell, the wife of Edward Beard, who died in 1806 see page 4, Appendix A
• 5th: Joseph Bell see page 4, Appendix A

A partial telling of the how he figured it all out...

In 1895, he "received a letter from James Franklin Bell 1st Lieut. 7th Cavalry, U.S.A., and Aide-de-Camp at Army Headquarters in San Francisco, informing me that he was from the Bell family in Kentucky, and was greatly interested in tracing his ancestry, and had been referred to me by a mutual friend, as one, perhaps of his family, who could probably give him some information. That his gr. grandfather was named John Bell and came from Augusta County to Kentucky prior to the year 1800; that he was struck with my name Henderson; that he had a granduncle, John Henderson Bell, son of the John Bell of Augusta, and that be believes John Bell had a brother James who also came to Kentucky, and was thought to be the ancestor of Dr. David Bell of Lexington, Ky.; that his information was that his gr. grandfather John Bell, previous to coming to Ky, had married Miss Jane Mills who was supposed to be a sister of a "Mills" who had served as Captain of Virginia troops during the Revolution, and had lived in Botetourt County, &c." ... "In reply to this letter, among other things, I informed Lieut. Bell of a piece of history personal to myself which I had derived from my brother John; that at the time of my birth in 1826, a gentleman from Kentucky, named Henderson Bell, visited my father, and my father called him his cousin; that he was a handsome and attractive man apparently about 25 to 30 years of age; that my father was greatly drawn to him, and that my name, Henderson, was attributed in part to him, as well as to my grandmother, Betsy Henderson. Mr. Bell replied, that his grand-uncle, John Henderson Bell was usually called Henderson, that he, was an attractive and handsome man, about the age spoken of, at the time mentioned that he was the oldest son of his father John Bell; and that about 1826 was engaged with his father in taking livestock of all kinds from Kentucky to Virginia for sale, and that he was doubtless the gentleman referred to by my brother, as having been recognized by my father as his cousin." ... [before finding the 1757 will of William Bell, which included that his wife had died recently, thus debunking the myth that the father of Joseph Bell, probably the Joseph Bell who purchased a lot in Augusta in 1747, was murdered with his wife while their children were at church] ...

"I visited Mr. Samuel Holmes Bell of South River who is a gentleman 83 years of age, [if visit was in 1895, then b c1812] to learn what he knew upon the subject or his relationship to my father. He told me that his father had always told him that he and my father were first cousin and that their fathers were brothers; that his grandfather was Samuel Bell and his father David Bell; and that his mother was a Miss Holmes; and that he was named Samuel Holmes Bell, for both of his grandfathers. I could not understand this statement because I was still under the belief that my grandfather Joseph Bell was the only child of his Father Williams Joseph Bell, who with his wife had been murdered, The finding of the will of William Bell naming Samuel and Joseph as two of his sons sustained Mr. Bell's statement to me and put me on further search. [I learned from] Mr. Joseph McComb of near Tinkling Springs church, whose mother was Susannah Henderson, supposed to be a sister of Elizabeth Henderson, my grandmother that their father was named William Henderson and I commenced investigating for him and found his will recorded In Will Book No. 4 page 350. This will is dated September 2nd, 1770 and was admitted to record November 20th 1770. I found this provision in his Will: 'I leave to my three sons-in-law David and Joseph Bell and John Leper five pounds each for their parts'."

~ If you've read this far, I encourage you to go to the first page and read from the beginning of Appendix A. It is seven pages, and the page links are broken, but just change "page5" in the URL to "page6", "page7", etc.

Handley Leads

• Stone Church Bells manuscript by Harry E. Handley, M.D., has a William Harvey Bell (1810-1878), married Sarah Handley (1816-1836) on September 11, 1832. No mention of an Elizabeth married to a William Bell; no mention of a James Handley. This William Harvey Bell is a son of Joseph Bell, Jr. (1778–1855) and Mary Ann “Polly” Nelson (1785–1841). This couple (Joseph & Polly), married 1 June 1800 and had 15 children. The manuscript shows William Harvey Bell as the 8th child. Joseph m (2) Margaret Walker, 13 June 1842 (no children).
• Handley, The Stone Church Bells
• AngelFire
• USGenNet, Wayne County, NC:
  • BELL, BRITT, DAWSON, NIXON posted by Jana Shea on Tuesday, October 24, 2000 (links to names are live on this page)
    • Looking for any information concerning the BELL family of Wayne Co.,NC from the 1700s to early 1800s. Looking especially for information concerning William and Elizabeth Bell - their son, John Bell (who married Leah DAWSON) - and their grandchildren William Bell, Lindsey Bell, Patience Bell (married William BRITT), Rebecca Bell (married Henry NIXON), and Clarkie Bell (married Williamson Vaughn LEWIS).

Note

William Bell, b c1700, Isle of Wight County, Virginia and married 1721 Ann, daughter of Richard Jones, is a different William Bell. (Generation 1 given by Bell Witch.org

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