Robert Bell was born between 1520 and 1539 in England. He married three times and had twelve children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in England and Virginia.

Chiefly ancestors and some of their descendants of John Henderson Bell. He was born November 13, 1791 in Decatur Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania to William and Margaret McCartney Bell " ... on land on which his grandfather, George Bell, had settled in 1773" (Page 3). John Bell's great grandfather William Bell Sr. (died 1783) and his wife Jane (Jean) Lea were Scot-Irish who came from Ireland to America sometime before 1732 settling in Pennsylvania. John married Mary Sigler, daughter of George and Elizabeth Bunn Sigler in 1810. They purchased his father's farm in Mifflin County. John died June 8, 1838 in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. His wife Mary also died there on June 19, 1857. Both are buried at Vira, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, New Jersey, California and elsewhere

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Mark Carney was born in about 1740. He married Suzanne Goux (1745-1799), daughter of Daniel Goux. They had twelve children. They lived in Pownalboro, Maine. They later moved to Boston, Massachusetts. His name may have originally been Carney or Marconnet.

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