Person:Margaret Allen (29)
Margaret "Peggy" Allen
b.22 Feb 1767 Augusta County, Virginia
d.20 Jun 1844 Augusta County, Virginia
Parents and Siblings
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m. Abt 1739
  1. Rachel Allen1740 - 1773
  2. Margaret AllenAbt 1742 - Bef 1770
  3. James AllenAbt 1744 -
  4. Isabel AllenAbt 1746 -
  5. William Allen1750 -
  6. Francis Allen1752 -
  7. Nancy 'Agnes' Allen1756 -
  8. Rebecca Allen1758 -
  9. Mary Allen1760 -
  10. Elizabeth 'Betty' AllenAbt 1766 -
  11. Margaret "Peggy" Allen1767 - 1844
Spouse and Children
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m. 27 Feb 1790
  1. Margaret BellAbt 1800 -
  2. Susan BellAbt 1801 - 1821
  3. Julia Henderson Bell1815 - 1887
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Facts and Events
Name Margaret "Peggy" Allen
Gender Female
Birth? 22 Feb 1767 Augusta County, Virginia
Marriage Bond 17 Feb 1790 Augusta County, Virginiato Maj. William Bell
Marriage 27 Feb 1790 Augusta County, Virginiato Maj. William Bell
Death? 20 Jun 1844 Augusta County, Virginia
Burial? 1844 Stone Church Cemetery, Augusta, Virginia, United States
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Parentage

Margaret Allen is mistakenly identified as a daughter of James Allen (1733-1810) and Margaret Anderson, but she is listed in the will of another James Allen (1716-1791), husband of Mary 'Mollie' Hogshead:
  • Page 422.--28th April, 1788. James Allen's will (Sr.), farmer--To children of daughter, Rachel Thomson, 5 shillings each; to daughter, Margaret Bell, 5 shillings; to daughter, Agnes Shields, 6 shillings to son, William Bell, 5 shillings; to daughter, Rebecca McClure, 5 shillings; to daughter, Elizabeth McNair, 5 shillings; to daughter, Mary Allen, 5 shillings; to son, Francis Allen, 50; to son, James, home plantation. Executors, wife Mary, son-in-law David McNaire, son James. Teste: Wm. Wilson, James Allen, John Hartsook, Wm. Baker. Codicil, 24th March, 1789. Teste: Wm. Wilson, John Hartsook, Wm. Baker. Proved, 18th October, 1791, by Hartsook and Baker.
Marriage Bond: 1790--February 17, William Bell and Peggy Allen, daughter of James Allen (consent); surety, James Allen; witnesses, David Hanna, James Allen, Jr.
Also, another fact rules out this Margaret Allen as a daughter of James Allen, who married Margaret Anderson:
The "James Allen, Jr." that witnessed this Margaret Allen's marriage bond [listed above] could only have been the son of James Allen, Sr. (1716-1791), as the other James Allen's son James Jr., born 1771, would not quite been old enough to witness their marriage bond [had to be an adult [age 21] to sign legal documents in colonial Virginia.
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Gravestone Inscription

Stone Church Cemetery, Ft. Defiance, Augusta County, Virginia:

Bell, Margaret
22 Feb 1759 [s/b 1767*] - 20 June 1844
w/o William Bell
[Note: Margaret Bell's obituary lists her age at her death as "77 years old", which would have made her born in 1767, not 1759 as listed on Rootsweb. This appears to be a likely transcription error. Her birthdate appears to be correct on Find-A-Grave.
References
  1.   Find A Grave.

    Margaret Allen Bell
    Birth 22 Feb 1767
    Augusta County, Virginia, USA
    Death 25 Jan 1844 (aged 76)
    Augusta County, Virginia, USA
    Burial Augusta Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery
    Fort Defiance, Augusta County, Virginia, USA

    From Augusta County Historical Society, Vol. 15, Number 1, pg 29. Augusta Co. Obituaries 1842-1843 by Anne Covington Kidd.

    Died on Thursday, 25 January, Mrs. Margaret Bell relict of the late Major William Bell of this county...member of the Presbyterian Church...several strokes of paralysis...in the 77th year of her age - the last of a numerous and respected family...she now sleeps with her fathers in the grave-yard of Augusta Church (article 8 Feb 1844)

    She and William were married at the Stone Church by Reverend William Wilson 27 FEB 1790.

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38009121/margaret-bell

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