33779.Martha Beedle. Born on 10 Nov 1703 in Amesbury, MA.541
21 Jan 1724/5 Martha married Israel Young, son of John Young (-10 Jun 1697) & Sarah Wadleigh (15 Jun 1655-), in Amesbury, MA.541 Born ca 1690 in Amesbury, MA. Israel died in Salem, Rockingham County, New Hampshire in 1764.
33780.John Beedle. Born on 2 Nov 1705 in Amesbury, MA.541 John died in Amesbury, MA, on 20 Jul 1706.541
33781.Anne Beedle. Born on 13 May 1707 in Amesbury, MA.541
On 31 Oct 1739 when Anne was 32, she married Caleb Hobbs in Amesbury, MA.541
33782.Jacob Bedell. Born on 29 May 1709 in Amesbury, MA.541 Jacob died in Salem, Rockingham County, New Hampshire bef 1762.
Jacob’s surname was sometimes spelled Beedle.
8 Mar 1738/9 Jacob married Mary Dorington in Second Congregational Church records, West Parish, now Merrimac.541
The town of Merrimac, Massachusetts, was the West Parish of Amesbury until it was incorporated as a separate town in 1876. It’s just west of the town of Amesbury, north of the Merrimac River. Southwest of it is Haverhill, MA, and north and west of it is Newton, New Hampshire.
33783.Mary Beedle. Born on 21 Nov 1711 in Amesbury, MA.541
33784.Robert Beedle. Born on 2 Nov 1714 in Amesbury, MA.541
33785.Judith Beedle. Born on 20 Sep 1718 in Amesbury, MA.541 Judith died in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 13 Jan 1800; she was 81.
On 13 Dec 1739 when Judith was 21, she married Rowland Rideout, son of Abraham Rideout (ca 1677-1719) & Jemima Davis (30 Oct 1697-19 Apr 1746), in Haverhill, MA.325 Born on 31 Aug 1715 in Haverhill, MA. Rowland died in Wilton, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire in Apr 1779.
Roland was convicted of the murder of Samuel Davis.
33786.John Bedell. Born on 1 May 1721 in Amesbury, MA.541 John died ca 1761.
On 6 Feb 1742 when John was 20, he married Judith Colby, daughter of Isaac Colby (15 Jul 1680-18 Jun 1733) & Hannah Getchell (30 Jan 1681-1737), in Salem, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Born on 2 Jul 1725 in Amesbury, MA.
33787.Col. Timothy Bedell. Born on 31 Jul 1724 in Amesbury, MA.541 Timothy died in Haverhill, Grafton County, New Hampshire, on 24 Feb 1787; he was 62. Buried in Haverhill Cemetery.
From John Quincy Bittinger’s 1888 History of Haverhill, N. H.:
“Timothy Bedel [...] was from Salem, and after remaining in the employ of Capt. Hazen for a year or two, he moved his family to the newly organized Town, and settled on Poole brook. He and his family were a valuable accession to the population, and added to the substantial character of the new settlement. Col. Bedel was one of the original Proprietors of Haverhill and also of Bath, and was a man of large influence and prominence in the Town. Previous to the Revolution he lived for a short time in Bath. In 1775 he was a member of the Provincial Congress of New Hampshire, which met at Exeter, but at the breaking out of the War of the Revolution, he entered the military service, first as captain of a company of rangers, and afterwards as colonel of a regiment. During the long struggle he raised several regiments, one of which he led to Canada in 1775 in the army of Gen. Schuyler when that officer made the attack on Montreal. In this campaign Col. Bedel's regiment which was stationed at a place called ‘the Cedars,’ disgracefully surrendered to the enemy, and Col. Bedel suffered much in reputation; but subsequent revelation of the facts in the case completely exonerated him, as at the time he was on his way to Montreal for reinforcements, and his regiment was in command of Maj. Butterfield. The pay-roll of his regiment for 1775 is now [1888] in possession of his grandson, Hon. Hazen Bedel of Colebrook. He was also in the army of Gen. Gates at thq battle of Saratoga when Gen, Burgoyne and his army were captured.
“The first regiment Col. Bedel raised was for the defence of the Cohos Country in 1775. This was a body of rangers. Afterwards, in 1777, he was in command of a regiment for service in the Cohos Country and for the defence of the western frontier on the Upper Connecticut river. He also raised a regiment in 1778 for a like service when the time of the regiment of 1777 had expired, and he was for most of the time, after his return from Canada till the close of the war, in command of troops stationed in the Cohos Country and vicinity. After the Revolutionary War he was appointed Major-General of the Second Division of New Hampshire Militia.
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“Col. Bedel had a family of six children, of whom Gen. Moody Bedel was the oldest and most distinguished. One daughter, Ruth, married Jacob Bailey, son of Gen. Jacob Bailey of Newbury, Vermont. Anna became the second wife of Samuel Brooks of Haverhill; her first husband was Dr. Thaddeus Butler. Another.was married to Dr. Isaac Moore. Drs. Butler and Moore Were early physicians of Haverhill. Col. Bedel died in 1787.”
From the Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire:394
“Colonel Timothy, youngest child of Robert (2) and Anna (Carr) Bedel, was born July 21, 1724. in Amesbury. Massachusetts, and died in Haverhill. New Hampshire, in February, 1787. He was taxed in Salem, New Hampshire, in 1757, and is probably the Timothy Bedel who was out in Captain Goffe's scouting company in 1745. He left Salem in early life and seems to have worked northward, ‘scouting and ranging and finally settled in Haverhill in 1760, and a little later in what was then called the Cohos country.’ He was one of the original grantees of Haverhill and of Bath, New Hampshire, and also of Newbury. Vermont. He lived in Bath a short time just previous to the Revolution. His first positively known service to the province of New Hampshire as a soldier was in Captain Goffe's company, to make a scouting campaign from the Merrimack and the Connecticut rivers, which was begun on the 30th of July, 1745. In 1754 he was in Colonel Blanchard’s regiment, raised for His Majesty’s service on the Merrimack and Connecticut rivers. He was in a detachment of Colonel Blanchard's regiment, posted at Charlestown, on the Connecticut river, under the command of Major Benjamin Bellows. In 1755 he was under General Johnson in his expedition against Crown Point. The troops from New Hampshire were under Colonel Blanchard and stationed at Fort Edward. The next year he was in William Stark’s company of rangers in the second expedition against Crown Point. He went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1757, as a lieutenant under Colonel Meserve and the following year was with General Amherst as a lieutenant at the capture of Louisburg. In 1759 he was under General Wolfe as a lieutenant at the taking of Quebec, and in 1760 was a lieutenant in Captain John Hazzen’s company, Colonel John Goffe’s regiment, under the command of General Amherst, and participated in the conquest of Isle Aux Noix, St. John’s, Chambly and Montreal. The next year he was in the King’s service under General Amherst as lieutenant of the western frontiers guarding conquest. In 1762 he was a lieutenant with the Royal Provincials and went to Havana, and was at the six weeks’ siege and capture of that place. He was appointed captain under Sir Jeffery Amherst, April 13, 1762, and remained in service until after peace was made in 1763. The captain's commission was signed by Benjamin Wentworth, Provincial governor of New Hampshire. Under his advice and direction, and by order of Governor John Wentworth, in August, 1768, a company of militia was established in Coos, composed of men from Picrmont, Haverhill and Bath. This is understood to be the first militia organization in that locality, and, was raised to aid the civil authorities in an effort to suppress a band of counterfeiters, and in support of a warrant to be issued by Bedel in some judicial capacity.
“In 1775 Timothy Bedel was elected from Bath to the Provincial congress to be holden at Exeter in May, 1775, to organize an independent government or take such action as the welfare of the colony might require. This congress resolved that it was necessary to raise immediately two thousand active men in New Hampshire. On the 6th of June. 1775, Timothy Bedel was appointed ‘to be colonel of the rangers raised by said congress for the defence of the united colonies in America.’ This regiment was designed for service on the northern and western frontiers as a protection against Indian and British invasion from Canada. On July 7 of the same year the committee of safety commissioned ‘Colonel Bedel as captain of the first company of rangers in the service of the colony.’ Under this commission he was ordered to proceed immediately to Northumberland or Lancaster, and in conjunction with the inhabitants erect a garrison, and when that was done to assist the inhabitants in building a garrison at such other places on the frontiers as he, with the advice of the inhabitants, should think best. On the 10th of September, 1775, in compliance with orders from the Provincial congress, Colonel Bedel marched from Haverhill, New Hampshire, to Lake Champlain and proceeded then by lake to a point on the north of St. Johns, Canada, which Major-General Schuyler was then besieging. His command drove a herd of cattle, took a supply of flour and provisions on the backs of horses, the entire route at that time being through an uninhabited wilderness. This march he accomplished in eight days instead of fifteen, which had been allowed to him. He is spoken of at this time as a ‘person of great experience in war and well acquainted with Canada.’ By constant accessions his command soon came to number twelve hundred men or more. Colonel Bedel was active in conducting the siege of St. Johns, and was commended for his energy and gallantry. He was also at Chambly and assisted in its capture. During the fall his men suffered much from want of clothing, but he pressed the siege of St. Johns until the second of November, 1775, when he captured that place, which was a position of great importance. It fell after a siege of fifty-one days. In the winter following a regiment of eight companies was raised in New Hampshire to march directly into Canada, for the reinforcement of the American troops then there. Colonel Bedel received his commission as commander of this regiment on the twenty-second day of January, 1776, and in his march following was in command of a force of five hundred men at a point of land called the Cedars, at or near the junction of the waters of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, which was ordained to be a position of strategic importance. On the fifteenth of May, Colonel Bedel left his command at the Cedars, although suffering with smallpox, and proceeded to Caughnawaga for the purpose of holding a friendly counsel with a body of Indian chiefs, whose friendship it was regarded as very necessary to obtain. While absent on this mission he rece1ved notice from friendly Indians that a large force of British and Indians was advancing for an attack on his position at the Cedars. After considering whether the emergency demanded he should at once return to the Cedars or that he should proceed to Montreal for reinforcements and that he might report the result of his conference with the council of chiefs, he decided upon the latter course, considering at the time that the visit to Montreal would delay his return to his command only two or three hours. It is also apparent from the writings of Arnold and the commissioners as to the threatening dangers at the Cedars, that this mformation was questioned and that there was a lack of activity in getting off reinforcements. It is also apparent that the advance of Major Sherburne, who was in command of the reinforcing party, was retarded by the lack of proper means of transportation across the lake and by stress of weather. Colonel Bedel, after proceeding as far as La Chine on his return to the Cedars, was prostrated with disease and thereby prevented from conducting the advance of the reinforcing party. During the time occupied by Major Sherburne's advance the position was surrendered to the enemy, and when Sherburne's force proceeding under great difficulties had reached a point about four miles from the Cedars it was surprised and overcome by the enemy which advanced from the position Major Sherburne supposed to be in the hands of his friends. Under this misfortune and disaster. General Arnold became violent and openly charged Colonel Bedel with leaving his post in the presence of the enemy, and peremptorily ordered him to Sorel for trial. Colonel Bedel pleaded for a trial and justification, but did not get either at Sorel. In a letter to General Gates, written at Crown Point, July 12,1776, Colonel Bedel said : ‘I am now under confinement these forty days or more, for a crime I am sensible I am innocent of, and which I hope your honor will find. I am under a court of inquiry—only wait the decision of the affair.’ Under the impulsion of Arnold’s power and ascendency at the time, an incomplete court of inquiry found Colonel Bedel guilty of the technical offense charged—’for quitting his post at the Cedars.’ He was removed from his command, but not incapacitated from holding commission. Judge Aldrich, in an address before the New Hampshire Historical Society, has said : ‘It is difficult to find evidence to warrant even this finding of a technical military offense. Indeed it is difficult to see wherein Colonel Bedel was in the slightest degree culpable in respect to the matter involved in the charge or in any way responsible for the surrender of the fort. When he left the position to discharge what he supposed to be an important duty in the service of his country, things were tranquil at the post and no immediate danger was apprehended. ... Colonel Bedel for a time suffered in military circles by reason of this affair, and in fact never received due credit for his important service at St. Johns, but it is apparent that those who knew the man, and especially the people of the western frontiers, never lost confidence in his loyalty and courage. Colonel Bedel returned to Haverhill and was in communication with Generals Gates and Schuyler much of the time during the summer and winter of 1777, in respect to military operations on the borders, and was much of the time active in connection with the ranging and scouting service which was maintained in the direction of the frontiers.’
“When General Stark raised his force to oppose the advance of General Burgoyne, many men who had held high rank went in subordinate capacities, and Timothy Bedel, although having held the rank of colonel, served as a first lieutenant of a company of thirty-four men which went from Haverhill and Bath, under Colonel Joseph Ilutchins as captain. This company was out from August 18, 1777, to October 5, and according to the authority of Governor Harriman and others, Timothy Bedel fought bravely as a volunteer in the army of General Gates at the battle of Saratoga.
“On the 10th of November, 1777, Colonel Bedel was again commissioned a colonel, the regiment which he was called to command being raised to defend the frontiers on and adjacent to the Connecticut river. A part of this force built what was known as the Bedel-Hazzen road, which extended about fifty miles beyond Peacham, Vermont; other portions of the command performed scouting service. The regiment was maintained until sometime in 1779, when it was disbanded. Colonel Bedel remained active as a member of the Vermont Board of War and otherwise, gathering and forwarding military supplies and stores. After the adjustment of the dispute with regard to the boundaries of Vermont, and upon the close of the Revolution and the establishment of peace, Colonel Bedel remained a man of prominence and influence, and the people of his locality gave evidence of their continued confidence, respect and esteem by electing him to various positions of responsibility and trust. He readily adjusted himself to the jurisdiction of New Hampshire, and became a useful supporter and advocate of her interests and institutions. He is credited by some writers with the rank of major general after the Revolution, but we find no record of such a commission. He was a member of the New Hampshire house of representatives in 1784, representing the classed towns of Haverhill, Pier- mont, Warren and Coventry. Colonel Bedel died, it has been said, in February, 1787, ‘and his dust rests in the old cemetery at Haverhill on that commanding eminence which overlooks the broad valley of the Connecticut and the locality which was the centre of his struggles, his leadership and power.’
“It must be said of Colonel Bedel that he was a man of large natural endowments and great force of character ; that he was a man of never ceasing energy, of indomitable will and a man of courage. The northwestern settlements furnished their generous proportion of military force for the common cause, and Colonel Bedel probably actually raised more troops in the province of New Hampshire for service in the war of the Revolution than any other one man. He performed loyal and important service in the war for the independence of the colonies, and history should accord him just and honorable recognition and praise. Colonel Bedel’s first wife, Elizabeth, died August 31, 1779, in her thirty-sixth year. His second wife was Mary Johnson, daughter of Captain James and Susanna Johnson. She died in August, 1789. She was a sister of Elizabeth Captive Johnson, who was born while her mother was an Indian prisoner in the forests of the present town of Cavendish, Vermont. There were nine children—seven by the first marriage, and two by the second, as follows: Cyrus, Moody, Ruth, Anna, Mary, two daughters (died young), Hazen and Abigail.”
Timothy third married Elizabeth Merrill, daughter of Joseph Merrill (3 Jul 1709-) & Ruth Corliss (14 Oct 1712-). Born ca 1742. Elizabeth died in Salem, Rockingham County, New Hampshire on 31 Aug 1779.
New Hampshire Death Index.
Elizabeth Bedel, d. 31 Aug 1779 at Salem.
Their children include:
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Cyrus Bedell (Died young) (22 Jan 1760-8 Jul 1772)
Timothy fourth married Mary Johnson, daughter of James Johnson & Susanna Willard. Born on 8 Dec 1752 in Charlestown, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. Mary died in Aug 1789.394