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 ... in 1790 and a Bibliography (Classic Reprint)

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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 BibliographyMany 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 Pennsylvania 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 Antrim in northern Ireland.In England, Scotland and Ireland the Bells were armor bearing. The heads of more than thirty families of the name received grants of arms, several of them as far back as the early part of the sixteenth century. That most of these families were derived from some common stock is shown by the fact that a common feature of their arms was three church bells and of their crests a hawk belled. Bell of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire had: arms, - sable, three church bells argent, two and one, and three estoiles or, one and two; crest, - a hawk with wings expanded argent, beaked and belled or, with a string flotant from the bells gules.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com