Cornelia Bell Paterson
(1755-1783)
BIRTH
1755
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NAME
Cornelia Bell
DEATH
1783
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FAMILY
HUSBAND
William Paterson
(1745-1806)
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RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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Cornelia Bell Paterson was the daughter of Somerset County landowner John Bell and first wife of attorney general William Paterson. They married on February 9, 1779, and had three children. She died at New Brunswick on November 13, 1783, aged twenty-seven. Her husband drafted an epitaph, preserved with family papers. Their daughter Cornelia later married Stephen Van Rensselaer. Letters to the elder Cornelia survive in the Library of Congress.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Cornelia Bell Paterson’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Cornelia Bell Paterson is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Cornelia Bell Paterson died in 1783. Cornelia Bell Paterson was the daughter of Somerset County landowner John Bell and first wife of attorney general William Paterson. They married on February 9, 1779, and had three children. She died at New Brunswick on November 13, 1783, aged twenty-seven. Her husband drafted an epitaph, preserved with family papers. Their daughter Cornelia later married Stephen Van Rensselaer. Letters to the elder Cornelia survive in the Library of Congress. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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