NATHANIEL BELL
Born: 1757 Berkeley county, Virginia
Died: March 1845
Buried: Lowe Burial Grounds, Johnson County, Indiana
Service: 1778, volunteered while residing in Washington Co, PA
Served for 3 months in Capt William Harrod's Co, Col Cannon's PA Regiment
Assisted in the building a fort on Fishing Creek near the Ohio River and was at Fort Wheeling when it was attacked by indians.
He was engaged by Col Crooks to watch the indians and Tories in 1780 and 1781
Served two months as sergeant under Capt James Archie and Col Morgan.
Proof: Pension Reject 724.
Pension rejected because he did not serve 6 months in an embodied military organization.
Married: Mary Timmons about 1784
Children:
Elizabeth
Robert
Polly
Jane
Benjamin
Hannah
Jacob
Nathaniel
James
Samuel
Katie
Ruth
Directions: Lowe Burial Grounds
Information collected by Mrs I E Tranter, Franklin, Indiana
Photographs are courtesty of Brad Manzenberger, see his webpage
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