John Bell

Male 1784 - 1860  (76 years)


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  • Name John Bell  [1, 2, 3
    Born 1784  Richmond, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Race Mulatto  [1
    Reference Number 2343 
    Residence 1820  Cumberland, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1830  Sampson, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Residence 1840  Sampson, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Residence 1850  Linton, Vigo, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Age: 66 
    Died 1860  Vigo, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2343  Families

    Family Elenore Bell,   b. 1784, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 1814  North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Henry J Bell,   b. Abt 1815, Sampson, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Nov 1880, Coles, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 65 years)  [natural]
     2. Rebecca Bell,   b. 1822, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Between 1862 and 1869, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 40 years)  [natural]
     3. Ellen Bell,   b. 4 Jul 1824, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Sep 1910, Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F487  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1784 - Richmond, North Carolina, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 1814 - North Carolina, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1820 - Cumberland, North Carolina, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1830 - Sampson, North Carolina, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1840 - Sampson, North Carolina, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Age: 66 - 1850 - Linton, Vigo, Indiana, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 1860 - Vigo, Indiana, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • BELL A Thomas Bell owned a square mile of land next to Col. William
      Eaton in Granville County in 1754. His son Samuel Bell enlisted there in
      1761. There was a Samuel Bell whose Revolutionary War Service reported
      that he was born in Surry County, Virginia in 1749. He lived in Sampson
      County, N.C. from 1782 to 1807 and lived in Robeson from about 1807 until
      1832. John Bell, listed as white in Capt. Abram Barnes' district of south
      Robeson and probably Lumbee, appeared in the 1776 and 1786 tax lists of
      Bladen and in 1786 was listed with a wife and daughter. The Bell name
      appears in Robeson records of 1780 and 1784 and in Sampson County in
      1790. Robeson grantee and grantor deeds show John Bell with 200 acres on
      Turkey Branch in 1787 and 10 acres additional in 1789. John Bell left a will
      dated 1788 (Will Book I, 16). Mary Bell left a will dated 1804 (Will Book I,
      88). Cheraw County, S.C. had William, Frederickson, Levi, Thomas and
      William Bell with land grants between 1785 and 1797 (Royal Land Grants,
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      Craven, Cheraw and Chesterfield Counties, C.C.). Some Bells in the 1850
      Robeson census reported being born in Robeson by 1800. Mary Bell had 50
      acres on Bridge Branch in 1803 and 150 acres on Hogg Swamp in 1808.
      Samuel Bell had 223 acres south of Ten Mile Swamp in 1807. This tract
      went from Samuel to Hardy H. Bell in 1819. Hardy H. Bell (1790-1866), a
      powerful landowner and Lumberton storeowner who married Sarah Parker
      c1820, had eighteen deeds on Ten Mile, the Stage Road, Saddletree Swamp,
      Great Marsh and along the Lumber River filed between 1840 and 1865. The
      surname was listed in S1. Pauls Township in 1880. Bell was self-identified as
      Indian in the 1900 Census of Robeson and listed on the 1900 Indian
      Schedule. The Directory of Robeson County, 1900, lists the "Croatan" name
      of Bell in the Rozier community The name was listed as Indian in the 1930
      census of Pembroke Township. Death records of Robeson of 1916 and 1936
      show the Indian name Bell as primarily in Saddletree but a numerous name
      allover Robeson, in Lumberton, Lumber Bridge, Pembroke, Saddletree and
      Union townships. Cited at Bethel Hill Church cemetery and numerous other
      locations by Jane Blanks Barnhill, Sacred Grounds, 2007, a listing of 162
      Lumbee cemeteries in Robeson County. Those named Bell were attending
      Pembroke State College by the 1940s. The name Bell is not found in any
      other tri-racial isolate groups (DeMarce, 1992).

  • Sources 
    1. [S153] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1850; Census Place: Linton, Vigo, Indiana; Roll: M432_177; Page: 283B; Image: 580.
      Record for John Bell

    2. [S288] 1830 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), 1830; Census Place: Sampson, North Carolina; Series: M19; Roll: 125; Page: 168; Family History Library Film: 0018091.
      Record for John Bell

    3. [S243] 1840 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1840; Census Place: Sampson, North Carolina; Roll: 371; Page: 31; Family History Library Film: 0018098.
      Record for John Bell