Additions and Corrections

Additions and Corrections Additional data on the John Bell family, see "The Bells in Dauphin County Before the Revolution," PGM, XXIX, 27-36, by Raymond Martin Bell. New information on the John Bell family has become available through the help of Virgil Light Townsend, Gainesville, Florida. He is a descendant of: 3. b. George Bell, b. ca. 1758; m. ca. 1780, Sarah , moved to So. Carolina, 1800. George Bell, d. 3 Nov. 1825, Bell Town, Lancs. Co., S. C. m. Sarah b 1760; d. 22 Jan. 1849. issue: Abner, William of Alabama, Elizabeth-Foot-Blair, Nelson 1794-1869, Walter of Florida, John of Alabama, Nancy-Addison. Mr. Townsend found in the Lancaster County (Penna.) Historical Society an 18 page manuscript "The Bell Family of Middle Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania," written 2 August 1931 by William Bell Clark 1889-1968, of Evanston, Illinois. From Mr. Clark's notes the following can be added to the John Bell record: e. Isaac Bell, went to the Carolinas. Houston. ? another daughter Nancy, b. ca. 1771 m Additional data on the William Bell family, see "The Bells of Cumberland County," PGM, XXIX, 107-111, by Raymond Martin Bell. From Bible Records supplied by Suzette H. Annin, Brooklyn Heights, New York. William Bell, 1732-1819, m. 1760, Elizabeth Stewart, 1737-1825. I. Mary Bell, b. Nov. 1760. 2. Arthur Bell, b. Sept. 1762. 3. Elizabeth Bell, b. Aug. 1764. 4. Robert Bell, b. Oct. 1766, died young. 5. David Bell, b. 11 April 1769 (see below) . 6. Jane Bell, b. July 1773. 7. William Bell, b. Sept. 1775. 8. Sarah Bell, b. Sept. 1777. 9. Ann Bell, b. May 1778. 10. Dinah Bell, b. 1779, likely died young. 11. Robert Bell, b. March 1783. 307 308 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Children of: (5.) David Bell, d. May 1835, m. 27 April 1800, Agnes Allen. 1. Dinah Bell, b. 24 August 1801. 2. Joseph Allen Bell, b. 24 July 1808. 8. William Turner Bell, b. 1 August 1806. 4. Sarah Matilda Bell, b. 29 Dec. 1807. 5. David Stewart Bell, b. 15 Nov. 1811. 6. Sarah Bell, b. 26 July 1814. 7. Elizabeth Bell, b. 16 March 1816. 8. Robert Samuel Bell, b. 1818. 9. Thomas Mitchell Bell, b. 19 Oct. 1820. 10. Nancy Maria Bell, b. 25 April 1821. (1823?) . 11. James Boyd Bell, b. 11 Oct. 1823. (1825?) . Margaret A. Bell, b. 1813, d. 1841, may have been a daughter-in-law. Raymond Martin Bell, FASG. Corrections on "Howard, An Early Philadelphia Family," PGM, XXI, 197-215, by Ralph Dornfeld Owen. See page 198, re: Grace Beaks — Grace Beaks, wife of Thomas Howard of Philadelphia, born in 1695, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Biles) Beaks of Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; granddaughter of William and Mary (Walle) Beaks of Backwell, County Somerset, England, who arrived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 12 February 1682, and settled in Middletown Twsp. See The American Genealogist, 51: 205; 52: 35. See page 199, 4th paragraph should read: "Grace Beaks, four months before her marriage, (to Thomas Howard) requested and received a certificate (for removal) from Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, dated 1st of 3rd mo. (May) 1723." Hinshaw, 2: 978. 6th paragraph should be added — " (Thomas Howard's) second wife was a widow Susanna " Thomas Howard of Philadelphia and Susanna Edgecomb, widow, were married 22 October 1745, Trinity Church, Oxford Township, Philadelphia County. She was his 2nd wife, widow of Nathaniel Edgecomb of Philadelphia, who died intestate shortly before 10 Nov. 1741, (PGM, XXVIII, 263) , and whom as Susannah Skinner, she had married 2 February 1729 at Christ Church, Philadelphia. Lewis D. Cook, FASG, FGSP. Several inadvertent errors were made in the text of "The Puzzling Name Wrixham," PGM, XXIX, 226-233. see page 227: line 6, should read — "After the death of Waddilow in Accomac, intestate, in 1660, ..." line 12, should read — "William Nock, . . ." line 27, should read — "Jeremiah Scott, who lived in the same neighborhood. By 3 August 1703, Wrixham White, as administrator of the estate of his mother Comfort Scott, deceased, " page 229: line 14 should read Rigson, not Risson. Mary Burton Derrickson McCurdy