[1] She was in the service of an East India Company nabob who returned with her to London, then moved to Fife, Scotland.
[1] She entered the service of John Johnstone of Hangingshaw, who was a wealthy merchant and tax collector in the British East India Company, and his wife Elizabeth.
In 1767, Johnstone returned with Bell and several other Indian servants to London where they lived for four years, before the family moved to Balgonie House in Fife.
"[2] Bell avoided hanging, which was the sentence handed down to a woman who had been convicted of the same crime in Perth 10 years earlier.
Two years after Bell was transported to Virginia, the case of Joseph Knight was also heard in Perth and it found that "the state of slavery is not recognised by the laws of this kingdom".