Myers-Hancock Family Tree » William BELL (1685-1757)
Personal data William BELL
Source 1- He was born in the year 1685.
Attention: Was younger than 16 years (15) when child (Joseph BELL) was born (??-??-1700).Coleraine, Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland
- Resident: USA.Source 1
- He died on August 17, 1757 in Fort Defiance, Augusta, Virginia, USA, he was 72 years old.
- A child of Matthew BELL and Sarah GRACE
Household of William BELL
He is married to Mary MCGOWAN.
They got married in the year 1720 at Ireland, he was 35 years old.
Child(ren):
- Joseph BELL 1700-1746
- David Capt BELL 1722-1779
- Samuel BELL 1724-1800
- Mary BELL 1726-1805
- Sarah BELL 1727-1766
- Joseph BELL 1742-1823
- Martha BELL 1743-1790
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Day of death August 17, 1757
- The temperature on August 17, 1757 was about 17.0 °C. There was 48 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: geheel betrokken hagel regen. Source: KNMI
- Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- In the year 1757: Source: Wikipedia
- January 5 » Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
- January 16 » Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela.
- May 6 » English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
- May 6 » The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
- June 18 » Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
- December 5 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
Same birth/death day
- 1720 » Anne Dacier, French scholar and translator (b. 1654)
- 1723 » Joseph Bingham, English scholar and academic (b. 1668)
- 1768 » Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1703)
- 1785 » Jonathan Trumbull, English-American merchant and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1710)
- 1786 » Frederick the Great, Prussian king (b. 1712)
- 1809 » Matthew Boulton, English businessman and engineer, co-founded Boulton and Watt (b. 1728)
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The Myers-Hancock Family Tree publication was prepared by Kristi Hancock.
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Kristi Hancock, "Myers-Hancock Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/myers-hancock-family-tree/P1436.php : accessed May 12, 2025), "William BELL (1685-1757)".