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58. Reuben Bedwell73 was born between 1761 and 1770
in Kent County, Delaware.73
He died in 1834 in Bedford County, Tennessee.73
• 1793 Wythe County, Virginia Personal Property Tax List (transcription
from New River Notes website, http://www.ls.net/~newriver/va/wyth1793.htm#2)
shows:
Reuben Bedwell, taxed for one tithe and two horses. He is listed on the line
immediately before Robert Bedwell.
Listed in section two, which became Grayson County sometime in 1793.
• Reuben Bedwell was in Bedford County, Tennessee by 1809. He was deceased
by 1834 in Bedford County, Tennessee.
• The 1820 Census for Bedford County, Tennessee, page six, shows Reuben
Bedwell as head of household containing: two males under 10, one male between
10-15, one male 16-25, and one male 26-44; also, two females under 10, one female
16-25, two females 26-44, and one female of 45 & up. Two people are involved
in agriculture. The two names listed after his are James Bedwell and Archibald
Bedwell. Also on the same page are Archibald Oglesby and James Gambel.
• The 1830 Census for Bedford County, Tennessee, page 105, shows Reuben
Bedwell as head of household containing: one male of 60 and under 70; one female
of 15 and under 20; and one female of 50 and under 60.
• ancestry.com has this note in its War of 1812 service records, which probably
refer to Reuben and his son:
REUBEN BEDWELL
Company: 1 REG'T (WYNNE'S) W. TENNESSEE MILITIA.
Rank - Induction: PRIVATE
Rank - Discharge: PRIVATE
Roll Box: 14
Roll Exct: 602
Name: ARCHIBALD BEDWELL
Company: 1 REG'T (WYNNE'S) W. TENNESSEE MILITIA.
Rank - Induction: PRIVATE
Rank - Discharge: PRIVATE
Roll Box: 14
Roll Exct: 602
• The Presbytery met at the Ridge meeting-house (located in Sumner County,
Tennessee) , on the second Wednesday in October, 1811, agreeably to adjournment.
Members present--Messrs. McGee, Ewing, McLean, Kirkpatrick, Bell, Foster, and
Calhoun, preachers. Elders Chatam Ewing, John Whitsett, Jonathan Berry, Samuel
Crockett, Hugh Telford, Hugh Roan, and Robert Kirkpatrick.
Representatives--James Hucheson, from McAdow; David Robeson, from the Boyling
Fork society; Dennis Dunham, from Union and Gasper River societies; Reuben
Bedwell, from Harpeth Licks, Pisgah, Rock Creek, and West Harpeth societies;
William Young, from Kelly's Creek, Norrises Creek, and Indian Creek societies;
Spence Mitchel from Union, Zion, and Concord societies.
Source: Minutes of the Original Cumberland Presbytery 1810-1813, from pages
printed in the Cumberland Presbyterian Review. Bound in Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, Cumberland Presbytery and Synod Minutes, 1810-1828 at the Historical
Foundation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Memphis, TN (pages 17 &
18). Original manuscript archived at the Presbyterian Historical Society in
Philadelphia, PA.
• Marshall County, Tennessee Deed Books:
1836 Heirs of R. Bidwell (Bedwell) sold 60 ac. to George Cathy, Bk. A, P.39
1836 Samuel Bedford sold 105 ac. to Archibald Bidwell (Bedwell) Bk. A, P. 41
1838 James Bidwell (Bedwell) sold 97 ac. to Moses Gambill (Gamill) Bk. B, P.
357
1840 James Bidwell (Bedwell) sold 40 ac. to Alexander Burpo Bk. C, P 428.
1841 Archibald Bidwell (Bedwell) sold 34 ac. to W. H. Howard, Bk. D, P. 318.
1841 A. Bidwell (Bedwell) sold 100 ac. to Martin Dowdy, Bk. D, P. 319.
1842 James Bidwell (Bedwell) sold 40 ac. to Phillip Moses, Bk. E, P. 53.
1842 James Bidwell (Bedwell) sold 37 ac. to Phillip Moses, Bk. E, P. 54.
1844 A. Bedwell sold 225 ac. to B. B. Lavender, Bk. F, P. 355.
• From TSLA - James M. Bedwell married Rebecca Lorens, Sept. 16, 1840 in
Marshall Co., TN.
• 1839 Tax List, Marshall Co., TN, Dist. # 9:
Bedwell, James - Land 650 ac.,Val. $1200, Tax $ 1.50.
Bedwell, Hugh M. - Land 145 ac., Val. $700, Tax $ 1.12.
Bedwell, Archabald - Land 225 ac., Val. $1800, Tax $ 2.50 Plus one poll tax.
• 1840 Tax list, Marshall Co., TN, Dist. # 9:
Bedwell, Archabald - Land 225 ac., Val. $1000, Tax $ 2.75 Plus one poll tax.
(Marshall Co. was formed from Lincoln, Bedford, Giles and Maury Counties in 1836.)
• TSLA ROLL #A-2188-Marshall Co. TN Probate Deeds 1836-1840, Page 10
Samlul RAAFORD To Archibald BEDWELL
Indenture, and Bargain of Sale & 105 Acres of Land in Marshall County was
this day proven before by me the oaths of Joseph A. BRIM & Larkin VENABLE
and certified by me as such for registration Dec 5th 1836
M W OAKLY Clerk
By his deputy A E MCLURE
• TSLA ROLL #A-2188-Marshall Co. TN Probate Deeds 1836-1840, Page 11
Archibald BEDWELL, James BEDWELL, James GAMBELL, Joseph HOUSE & Archibald
OGLESBY
To George CATHY
Indenture and bargain of sale of 60 Acres of Land in Marshall County was this
day proven before me by the oaths of Larkin VENABLE & Joseph A. BRIM and
certified by me as such for registration Dec 5th 1836
M W OAKLY Clerk
By his deputy A E MCLURE [--?--] [--?--] was born
before 1775.74 Reuben Bedwell
and [--?--] [--?--] had the following children:
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