Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Bell Family in America: Being an Account of the Founders and First Colonial Families, an Official List of the Heads of Families of the Name Resident in the United States in 1790 and a Bibliography
Many pioneers bearing the name of Bell were in the provinces of New England as early as 1643, and also in New Jersey before 1680 and in Penn sylvania about 1682. To Virginia several of the name came direct from Scotland and settled in the middle and southwestern parts of that colony between 1642 and 1720. Most of these emigrants were _from Edinburgh, Linlithgow, Jedburg, Paisley and Glasgow in Scotland; some from northern England and southern Ireland and others from the counties Londonderry and Ah trim in northern Ireland.
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