When John Bedford Sr was born on 21 June 1764, in Drakes Branch, Charlotte, Virginia, United States, his father, Col. Thomas Bedford, was 39 and his mother, Mary Ligon Coleman, was 32. He married Mary Ann Marshall on 10 September 1787, in Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Nelson, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States in 1820. He died on 1 April 1841, in Bloomfield, Nelson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 76.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
English: habitational name from the county seat of Bedfordshire, or a smaller place of the same name in Lancashire, or from Bedforth in Thornhill, Yorkshire. Both of the former are named with the Old English personal name Bēda + Old English ford ‘ford’. The name is now very common in Yorkshire as well as Bedfordshire.
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