Captain George Bell

1734 - 1816  (82 years)

• Name	George Bell  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Title	Captain
  Birth	1734	Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 2, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Family Search ID	KGMF-TT5
  Reference Number	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bell-9701
  Residence	2 Aug 1790	Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA   [4]
  Burial	1816	Decatur, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, USA   [3]
  Death	Mar 1816	Decatur, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 2, 5]
  Person ID	I43167	MontyHistNotes_II
  Last Modified	6 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	William Bell, Sr,   b. 1705, Antrim, Antrim, Northern Ireland d. 29 Oct 1783, Paxtang, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 78 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Jane Jean Lea Richardson,   b. 1710   d. 1780, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1731  [5]
  Family ID	F30011	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Bell,   b. 1738, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1833 (Age 95 years)
  Marriage	1756  [5]
  Children	+ 1. William Bell,   b. 1762, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. Sep 1827, Decatur, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 65 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F30013	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Sep 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1734 - Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Residence - 2 Aug 1790 - Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA Death - Mar 1816 - Decatur, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S831] Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). Record for William Sr Bell https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=2204&h=906530&indiv=try [S831] Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). Record for William Bell https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=2204&h=906526&indiv=try [S2745] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). Record for George Bell https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60525&h=17173637&indiv=try [S42] Ancestry.com, 1790 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000;), The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC; First Census of the United States, 1790.; Year: 1790; Census Place: Dauphin, Pennsylvania; Series: M637; Roll: 8; Page: 196; Family History Library Film: 0568148. Record for George Bell Home in 1790 (City, County, State) Dauphin, Pennsylvania Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over 2 Free White Persons - Females 3 Number of Household Members 5 https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=5058&h=305581&indiv=try [S4118] Bell, Raymond Martin, The Bell Family of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, (Name: Edwards Brothers Inc; Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan;), Bell, William (1705-1783) Page 48. Book found on Ancestry.com https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/17131/ Book found at FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/606611-the-bell-family-of-mifflin-county-pennsylvania-the-ancestors-and-descendants-of-john-henderson-bell-of-decatur-township Book found at Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/bellfamilyofmiff00bell/page/n7/mode/2up https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/17131/