Janice,

As shown here:


http://genforum.genealogy.com/hill/messages/16602.html


a Humphrey Bell had a daughter named Edith Bell who married a Thomas Hill 
("Senior"), and Humphrey Bell owned land in VA.  The above record shows that 
after Mrs. Edith (Bell) Hill died, Humphrey Bell "rescued" the son of Thomas 
and Edith (Bell) Hill named Humphrey Hill from an orphanage in England, and 
Humphrey Bell then sent young Humphrey Hill to VA to look after the Bell 
properties there.  Humphrey Hill lived in King and Queen Co., VA (as well as 
King William Co., VA at one time), and his brother Thomas Hill ("Junior") 
lived in Spotsylvania Co., VA.  I note in a post that you left on the Bell 
message board on GenForum many years ago mentioned both Roger Bell and 
Humphrey Bell, as I recall.  Do you know if Roger Bell and Humphrey Bell 
were closely related?  There was also a John Hill and a Thomas Hill in the 
Amelia/Prince Edward Co., VA area in the 1700s, and based on a little 
research so far, I would not be surprised if they were also descendants of 
Thomas Hill and Edith Bell.

My maternal gg-grandmother was named Susan Hill Garrett (she married Smith 
W. Brown in Middlesex Co., VA in the 1840s), and she was a daughter of 
Richard Garrett and Nancy Taff.  It seems almost certain that this Richard 
Garrett was the Richard G. Garrett who had appeared on the 1810 King and 
Queen Co., VA census.  I do not know at this time why Susan Hill Garrett had 
her middle name, but I would not be too surprised if I am a descendant of 
Thomas Hill and Edith Bell (though certainly no proof).  I found a surviving 
record in King and Queen Co., VA that clearly "connects" the Hill family 
there with an earlier member of my Brown family in King and Queen who was 
named Henry Brown (Henry had moved to King and Queen from Essex Co., VA by 
at least 1769).

Bill Davidson 

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