Individual Details
Colonel Thomas Bedford
(16 May 1725 - 4 Feb 1785 - 7 Mar 1785)
Events
| Birth | 16 May 1725 | Gloucester, Vrginia |  | ||
| Marriage | 24 Sep 1750 | Cumberland, VA - Mary Ligon Coleman | | ||
| Property | 21 Nov 1757 | gift of land from his father Stephen Bedford - Lunenberg, Virginia, British America | | ||
| Property | 26 Apr 1760 | Cumberland, Virginia | | ||
| Signature | 11 Nov 1772 | Charlotte County, Virginia, United States | | ||
| Marriage | 1775 | Drucilla Williamson ? surname | | ||
| Military | Abt 1775 | Charlotte, Virginia | | ||
| Census | 1782 | Charlotte, Virginia | | ||
| Will | 3 Feb 1785 | Charlotte County, Virginia, United States | | ||
| Death | 4 Feb 1785 - 7 Mar 1785 | Near Drake's Branch, Virginia, United States | | ||
| Burial | 4 Feb 1785 - 7 Mar 1785 | Locus Grove Cemetery, Drakes Branch, Charlotte Co, VA | | ||
| Miscellaneous | Mar 2005 | Locust Grove, Charlotte, Virginia | | ||
| Occupation | land owner | | |||
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Families
| Spouse | Drucilla Williamson ? surname (1743 - 1807) |
| Child | Jane Flippen "Jinsey" Bedford (1776 - 1855) |
| Child | Margaret "Peggy" Bedford (1779 - 1822) |
| Child | Charles Wesley Bedford (1780 - 1805) |
| Spouse | Mary Ligon Coleman (1731 - 1769) |
| Child | Stephen Bedford ( - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth Bedford ( - 1785) |
| Child | Mary Bedford ( - ) |
| Child | Martha Bedford ( - ) |
| Child | Thomas Bedford Jr ( - 1807) |
| Child | Susannah Bedford ( - ) |
| Child | Benjamin Francis Bedford ( - ) |
| Child | John Bedford Sr (1764 - 1841) |
| Child | Ann 'Nancy' Bedford ( - ) |
| Child | Littleberry Bedford (1769 - 1829) |
| Child | Archibald Bedford ( - ) |
| Father | Capt Stephen Bedford (1695 - 1758) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Flippen (1700 - 1762) |
| Sibling | Sarah Bedford (1722 - ) |
| Sibling | Maudlin "Moddy" Bedford (1724 - ) |
| Sibling | Stephen Bedford (1734 - 1772) |
| Sibling | Benjamin Bedford (1739 - 1772) |
Endnotes
1. Proceedings in two sections, the Ligon Family and Kinsmen Assoc. Vol 1, p27.
2. Ligon family and connections. Part II, p752.
3. SAR #43495, State # 195 for thomas bedford 1927, image 204.
4. Millennium File about Thomas Bedford 2003.
5. Compiled by Billy Ray Bedford and Luetta Bedfor Kirker, The Bedford Family of Virginia and descendants thereof (Knoxville, TN: Tennessee Valley Publishing, 1994), p13, pdf p22.
6. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 11 June 2022), memorial page for Col Thomas Bedford, Find A Grave Memorial # 37755157, citing Locust Grove Cemetery (Drakes Branch, Charlotte, Virginia), memorial created by Luetta Bedfor Kirker, photograph by Dorothy McKay Locke and Marilyn Frazier.
7. SAR #43495, State # 195 for thomas bedford 1927.
8. Millennium File about Thomas Bedford 2003.
9. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 11 June 2022), memorial page for Col Thomas Bedford, Find A Grave Memorial # 37755157, citing Locust Grove Cemetery (Drakes Branch, Charlotte, Virginia), memorial created by Luetta Bedfor Kirker, photograph by Dorothy McKay Locke and Marilyn Frazier.
10. "Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1700-1850," digital image of book of marriages, Ancestry (ancestry.com: accessed 16 June 2023), Thos Bedford & Mary Ligon Coleman, 24 Sept 1750.
11. "Lunenburg Co, VA, Deeds Vols. 5-6 1757-1761," digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org: accessed 29 August 2021), Stephen Bedford Senr to Thomas Bedford, 21 Nov 1757; citing FHL microfilm 32390.
12. "Virginia, Cumberland, Deed book, no. 2, 1752-1760," digital images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org: accessed 17 June 2023), im 32, Thomas Bedford and Mary his wife to Richard Ligon, 26 April 1760; citing FHL microfilm 30745 (Item 3).
13. DAR Packet on Thomas Bedford with Application of M84019;" National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Genealogical Research System, digital image (http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/ : 8 Jul 2017), document 7536025; Access only available at DAR Library, Washington, DC., approval for daughter to wed, 11 Nov 1772.
14. Compiled by Billy Ray Bedford and Luetta Bedfor Kirker, The Bedford Family of Virginia and descendants thereof (Knoxville, TN: Tennessee Valley Publishing, 1994), p17, pdf p26.
15. Charlotte Co., VA, Will Book 2, 1765-1791: 366-367a Thomas Bedford, 5 Feb 1785; Circuit Court, Charlotte Court House.
16. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 11 June 2022), memorial page for Col Thomas Bedford, Find A Grave Memorial # 37755157, citing Locust Grove Cemetery (Drakes Branch, Charlotte, Virginia), memorial created by Luetta Bedfor Kirker, photograph by Dorothy McKay Locke and Marilyn Frazier.
17. DAR Packet on Thomas Bedford with Application of M84019;" National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Genealogical Research System, digital image (http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/ : 8 Jul 2017), document 7536025; Access only available at DAR Library, Washington, DC..
18. Bureau of the Census, Heads of Families at the First Census, 1790: Records of the State Enumerations: 1782 to 1785 (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), 14, im 2, Thomas Bedford, abt 1782.
19. Compiled by Billy Ray Bedford and Luetta Bedfor Kirker, The Bedford Family of Virginia and descendants thereof (Knoxville, TN: Tennessee Valley Publishing, 1994), p13, pdf p22.
20. Charlotte Co., VA, Will Book 2, 1765-1791: 366-367a Thomas Bedford, 5 Feb 1785; Circuit Court, Charlotte Court House.
21. "Chancery Records Index," digital images, Virginia Memory (www.virginiamemory.com: accessed 5 March 2021), 1790-007, im 10, Thomas Bedford will, 3 Feb 1785.
22. SAR #43495, State # 195 for thomas bedford 1927, image 204.
23. Millennium File about Thomas Bedford 2003.
24. Compiled by Billy Ray Bedford and Luetta Bedfor Kirker, The Bedford Family of Virginia and descendants thereof (Knoxville, TN: Tennessee Valley Publishing, 1994), p13, pdf p22.
25. "Chancery Records Index," digital images, Virginia Memory (www.virginiamemory.com: accessed 5 March 2021), 1790-007, im 11, Thomas Bedford, 3 Feb 1785.
26. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 11 June 2022), memorial page for Col Thomas Bedford, Find A Grave Memorial # 37755157, citing Locust Grove Cemetery (Drakes Branch, Charlotte, Virginia), memorial created by Luetta Bedfor Kirker, photograph by Dorothy McKay Locke and Marilyn Frazier.
27. Compiled by Billy Ray Bedford and Luetta Bedfor Kirker, The Bedford Family of Virginia and descendants thereof (Knoxville, TN: Tennessee Valley Publishing, 1994), p13, pdf p22.
28. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 11 June 2022), memorial page for Col Thomas Bedford, Find A Grave Memorial # 37755157, citing Locust Grove Cemetery (Drakes Branch, Charlotte, Virginia), memorial created by Luetta Bedford Kirker, photograph by Dorothy McKay Locke and Marilyn Frazier.
29. "Ancestry tree submitted by jonescollectables2," photo of col thomas bedford, Ancestry (ancestry.com: accessed 16 June 2023), house on original land grant made to Stephen Bedford in 1751. Thomas Bedford's house burned in 1841, this one built afterward..
30. Compiled by Billy Ray Bedford and Luetta Bedfor Kirker, The Bedford Family of Virginia and descendants thereof (Knoxville, TN: Tennessee Valley Publishing, 1994), p13, pdf p22.