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Saturday, January 7, 2012 3:12 PM |
Francis Bell is a brick wall for me and may always be. He was in Clinton County, New York by 1826 when he had a letter in the Plattsburgh Post Office. I believe he married Susan Pray about 1828. He was a farmer and shoemaker. The 1850 census says he was born in Holland, the 1860 says he was born in Saxony. I think he might be from East Frisia which was part of Lower Saxony but became part of the Kingdom of Holland. I don't know what his surname was at birth--it may have been a patronymic name, or Bell could be from Van Bell or German Bohle or a translation of Glock. How can I learn more about his origins?
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