Personal Details

Born	1635
Birthplace	England
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Died	1720, aged about 85 years
Died at...	VA, USA
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Parents

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Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [x1000_sa] - Mary Margaret (Blish) Bell 2 Married by: No Entry Married at: No Entry Children by this spouse: I [x1000_c1] John Bell 3 b. No Entry c. ? II [x1000_c2] William Bell 3 b. No Entry c. ? III [x1000_c3] George Bell 3 b. No Entry c. ? IV [x1000_c4] Nathan Bell 3 b. No Entry c. ? V [x1000_c5] Mary Bell 3 b. No Entry c. ? VI [x1000_c6] Henry Bell 3 b. No Entry c. ? VII [x1000_c7] Joseph Bell 3 b. No Entry c. ? VIII [x1000_c8] Benjamin Bell 3 b. No Entry c. ? IX [x1000_c9] James Bell 3 b. No Entry c. ?

Immediate Family Tree

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Personalized History Timeline, 1635 to 1720

1231-1808: Papal Inquisition from before birth until after line end 1478-1834: Torquemada's Spanish Inquisition from before birth until after line end 1618-1648: 30 years war from before birth until age 13 1625-1649: Reign of King Charles I (Stuart) from before birth until age 14 1630-1642: English aggressively settle Massachusetts from before birth until age 7 1635: Connecticut first settled at age 0 1639: 1st printing press in America (Massachusetts) at age 4 1642-1649: English Civil War from age 7 to age 14 1642: Pascal invents Calculator at age 7 1643: Barometer invented at age 8 1645: Rainbow, 1st American slave ship, sails for Africa at age 10 1649-1660: Oliver Cromwell rules (Stuart) from age 14 to age 25 1650: Chattel slavery officially recognized at age 15 1650: World pop. est. at 500 million at age 15 1652-1654: Anglo-Dutch war from age 17 to age 19 1652: Air Pump invented at age 17 1654: Theory of Probability - Pascal and Fermat at age 19 1655: Oliver Cromwell allows Jews back in England at age 20 1657: Pendulum Clock invented by Galileo at age 22 1657: First Stockings at age 22 1660: British Navigation Acts restrict commerce at age 25 1660-1685: Reign of King Charles II (Stuart) from age 25 to age 50 1660: Light composition discovered by Isaac Newton at age 25 1661: Manometer at age 26 1664: English take New York from the Dutch, no shots fired at age 29 1664-1665: Great Plague in London kills 68,596 from age 29 to age 30 1665: Differential Calculus (Isaac Newton) at age 30 1666: 1st Armenian Bible printed at age 31 1666: Great fire of London - 9/2 to 9/9. 14,000+ buildings burned at age 31 1668: Isaac Newton makes first reflecting telescope at age 33 1675-1676: King Phillip's War from age 40 to age 41 1678: Polarization of light discovered (Huygens) at age 43 1679: Habeas Corpus passed in England - trial before imprisonment at age 44 1680: Dodo becomes extinct at age 45 1681: Pennsylvania founded at age 46 1682: Appearance of Halley's Comet at age 47 1683: Newton explains tides via theory of gravitation at age 48 1684: Street lighting introduced in London at age 49 1687: Newton publishes his Laws of Motion at age 52 1688: Plate glass cast for 1st time at age 53 1689-1702: Reign of King William III and Queen Mary II (Stuart) from age 54 to age 67 1692: The Puritans murder 20 alleged witches in Salem, MA at age 57 1700-1721: Great Northern War from age 65 until after line end 1701-1713: War of Spanish Succession from age 66 to age 78 1701: Captain William Kidd hung for piracy at age 66 1702-1714: Reign of Queen Anne (Stuart) from age 67 to age 79 1707: Mount Fujiyama erupts at age 72 1712: Slave revolts in New York at age 77 1712: Last execution for witchcraft in England at age 77 1714-1727: Reign of King George I (Hanover) from age 79 until after line end 1714: Witch trials abolished in Prussia at age 79 1714: Farenheit invents mercury thermometer at age 79 1716: Christian teaching forbidden in China at age 81 1718: New Orleans founded at age 83 1718: Spain seizes Sicily (from Savoy) at age 83 1718: Peter the Great has son and heir murdered at age 83

Additional Information

John Bell made a will dated 3/1/1720 in Pasquotank Country. He came to Virginia in 1635 aboard the ship "Safety" under Captain John Grant. A reference to this is in VOL 4 (pub 1850) New England Geneological and Antiquarian Register.