The Gunning Bedford Family

The Gunning Bedford Family New Castle, Philadelphia, Baltimore LEWIS D. CooK, F.A.S.G., F.G.S.P. UNNING BEDFORD of the Town and County of New Castle upon Delaware, merchant, was so described in the Deed dated 12 January 1712/13 by which John Atkey of Cecil County Maryland, planter, conveyed to him for eighty pounds sterling silver money of America, the 400 acre tract Bachelor's Hope at the head of Elk River in that county, with all the houses, barns, stables etc. Beginning at a bounded white oak tree at the head and north side of Carsy's Runn, the head of Elk River; thence down the Runn East South East 200 perches to a marked Gumm tree; thence East North East 320 perches; thence West North West 200 perches; thence by a straight line to the first mentioned bounded tree (Cecil County, Maryland, Land Records, 2:230.) Charles Calvert, Second Proprietor of the Province of Maryland, issued a Patent for the same property to Gunning Bedford of Cecil County dated 10 September 1716, specifying the annual rent of sixteen mills. (Maryland Patent Book, 4:131.) By Deed dated 25 March 1724, John Thomas of Cecil County, Maryland, farmer and Madlen his wife, conveyed to Gunning Bedford of the same place, Gentleman, for thirty pounds currency, a tract of twenty acres on the East side of the North East main branch of Elk River, adjoining upon said River to a tract of land called Bachelor's Hope, surveyed as Bedford's Chance. (Cecil County, Maryland, Land Records, 4:65.) G Gunning Bedford one of the six vestrymen of Immanuel Church, New Castle upon Delaware, was present at their meeting with the rector, the Reverend George Ross on 26 October 1714. His two daughters were baptised there in 1716 and 1719 according to the church register. (Thomas Holcomb, History of Immanuel Church, New Castle, Delaware, Wilmington, 1890, 90.) Mr. Ross had charge also of St. Mary Ann's Church at North East, in Cecil County, Maryland, some twelve miles west of New Castle, whose records previous to 1743 are lost. 2 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine A possible indication of Bedford's ancestry are the bequests to "my well beloved cusine and friend Gunning Bedford my new coat trimmed with black and a pair of new black stockings, and to his son William Bedford I give a gold ring which was my father's," in the Will of Robert Hutchinson of the County of New Castle on Delaware, yeoman, dated 11 April 1717. Testator names also his uncle Josiah Tailor, mother Margaret Hutchinson, sisters Mary Hutchinson and Hannah Richeson, brother-in-law John Richson, and appoints him and "my cusine and friend Gunning Bedford executors," the latter to have nine pounds as a recompense for what trouble he shall be att as one of my said executors." (Abstract of original Will, Hall of Records, Dover, Delaware.) Gunning Bedford died in Penn's Neck Township, Salem County, New Jersey, directly across the Delaware from his home in the Town of New Castle, but no Deeds conveying land there to him, or from him, or his widow, are found of record. The Bond of MARY BEDFORD, widow of Gunning Bedford of Penn's Neck, Salem County, yeoman, deceased intestate, administratrix of his estate, dated 2 February 1724/25. The Inventory of his personal estate, including, a silver tumbler, was made by Joseph Gregory, William Grifies and Thomas Miles, appraised at 19 Pounds 13 Shillings, dated 8 February 1724/ 25. Receipts dated March to June 1725 for Mary Bedford's payments due by the estate to George Ross of New Castle for his "trouble in crossing the river and preaching his Funeral Sermon," three pounds, and others for medicines and funeral charges. The Account of the administratrix Mary Bedford, Gentlewoman, dated 7 January 1726/ 27. (New Jersey Archives, 1st Series, 23:33.) No further record of the widow Mary Bedford is found. Children of 1. Gunning and Mary Bedford: 2. i. WILLIAM BEDFORD, b. 1712: d. 13 July 1788, of whom further. ii. MARY BEDFORD, bapt. 25 August 1716 (Immanuel Church) ; d. y. iii. MARY BEDFORD, bapt. September 1719; no further data. 3. iv. GUNNING BEDFORD, b. 1720; d. 26 March 1802, of whom further. 2. WILLIAM BEDFORD, born 1712, elder son of Gunning and Mary Bedford of New Castle on Delaware; died there 13 July 1788, age 76 years, per gravestone inscription in the Presbyterian cemetery. A sadler of that town, he and his wife CATHERINE conveyed to Casparus Jacquett of New Castle Hundred, yeoman, by Deed of 21 March The Gunning Bedford Family 3 1748, a tract of 155 acres at Feiron Hook on Christiana Creek, with houses etc. (New Castle County, Delaware Deed Book Q, 1:348.) By Deed 15 November 1757, Joseph Jacquett of the Town of New Castle on Delaware, carpenter, and his wife Susanna conveyed to William Bedford of the City of Philadelphia, sadler, a tract of 171/2 acres on the King's Road from New Castle to Christiana Ferry with the buildings. (New Castle County, Delaware Deed Book S, 1:503.) The Will of William Bedford of the Town and County of New Castle on Delaware, dated 31 March 1786 and proved 26 December 1789, devises to my daughter Ann this my dwelling house and lot or lots adjoining, also my old messuage and orchard, meadow and pasture adjacent to this Town, at the West and thereof, eleven acres, with all my plate (my large Silver Caudle marked with the names of my Father and Mother excepted) , household goods and furniture. To Miss Catherine Bradford, who bath lived with me from her childhood a suit of mourning. (A gravestone in Immanuel Churchyard, New Castle, Delaware is inscribed "In memory of Catherine Bradford who departed this life February the 25th 1789, aged 45 years." Her nuncupative Will devises to Nancy Bedford. Attested by Ann Johns and Fidelia Rogerson, New Castle County, Delaware.) I commit my grandson William Cannon to his uncle, my son and executor, I having advanced to his father and mother a reasonable share of my property. To my son Gunning Bedford of New Castle the two plantations in New Castle Hundred and all other of my real estate, as also all personal property not devised to my daughter Ann, subject to his payment of my debts and the care of my grandson. Appoints son Gunning Bedford executor. Witnesses: George Read, Jno. Stockton. (Recorded in New Castle County, Delaware, Delaware Will Book N-1: 84, whence this abstract.) Children of 2. William Bedford and his wife Catherine Jacquet: i. MARY BEDFORD, married JAMES CANNON (Pennsylvania license, 19 September 1758) who died by 1766. (Children baptised per register of 1st Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia.) i. WILLIAM CANNON, b. 7 April 1759; bapt. 11 August 1766; d. after 1786. ii. ANN CATHERINE CANNON, bapt. 1 March 1761. iii. GUNNING CANNON, b. 5 July 1766; bapt. 11 August 1766; "dedicated by his grandfather William Bedford, father deceased." 4 GUNNING BEDFORD, 1720-1802, Architect of Philadelphia. Portrait on canvas 27 x 31Ys by Charles Willson Peale. Courtesy of Mrs. Hugh C. Montgomery, a descendant, and Frick Art Reference Library, 1976. The Gunning Bedford Family 4. 5 ii. GUNNING BEDFORD, b. 7 April 1742; d. 30 September 1797. 5. iii. ANN BEDFORD, b. 1747; married JOHN STOCKTON. 3. GUNNING BEDFORD was born in 1720, the younger son of Gunning and Mary Bedford of New Castle on Delaware. His death was reported in Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, Mon. day, 29 March 1802, "Died, on Friday evening last (26th) , Gunning Bedford, Esq., one of the Aldermen of this City, in the eighty-third year of his age. His remains were interred yesterday afternoon, attended by a numerous concourse of mourning relatives and friends." (Register of Burials, Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. Copy in the Collections, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.) Gunning Bedford on 27th March 1802, aged 82 years. Interments in the Burial Ground on North side of Arch Street, west of Fifth, were removed to Mount Vernon Cemetery in 1867. He married first, on or before 1744, SUSANNAH JACQUETT, who died 6 January 1766, (see Bible Records, Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, XXIX, (1976) 259) . He married second, 1 September 1767, MARY STEPHENS, (widow of Dr. Stephens of Jamaica, West Indies,) according to the Bible Records and the register of the Presbyterian Church of Abington, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. (Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, 9:187.) The death of Mary Bedford, consort of Gunning Bedford, on January 28, 1793, was noticed in Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, of February 1793, and her burial on 30 January, aged 80 years, in the register abovesaid. The following background material on Gunning Bedford was contributed by the late Hannah Benner Roach. In the years between 1754 and 1764 Gunning Bedford pursued his calling as house carpenter in Philadelphia. He built, or had built, for himself a dwelling on the South side of Lombard Street between Second and Third, which he caused to be resurveyed for fire insurance in 1755. In the same year, he surveyed an house in that Street where William Young lived. (Philadelphia Contributionship Surveys nos. 318, 319, 320.) Both of these properties were listed in his estate papers at probate. (Philadephia Will, 1802. no. 31.) In 1756 Gunning Bedford, carpenter, and William 6 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Bedford, sadler, were listed in the Tax Assessments in the Dock Ward of the City (PGM, XXII, 1961, 12) . The claim has been made in print (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, APS, 42:30) that he became a member of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadephia at the age of sixteen years, but unless the Company's rules have changed drastically over 140 years this was not likely the case. Master Builders, acting as principals in their business at least five years is now, and probably was then, a requisite for admission. He subscribed to "The Company of Carpenters of Philadelphia, Their Articles," as the eleventh in seniority, after Joseph Fox whose signature leads the list, perhaps as Master (Original Papers of the Carpenters' Company, Collections APS). "In the same year 1758 enthusiasm for the construction of Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Hospital was strong; Gunning Bedford contributed £ 10 at least twice. While Samuel Rhoads, a Carpenters' Company member, was responsible for its design, Bedford may have had a hand in it also (Votes of the Pennsylvania Assembly, 6:5015; 7:5763) . Although military records for the period are largely missing, we find Lieutenant Gunning Bedford in Colonel Hugh Mercer's Second Battalion on 3 May 1760. A list of Officers for the three Battalions of the Pennsylvania Regiment, 1758-1759, with the ranks to which they were promoted after that time, has survived (Pennsylvania Archives, 5th Series, 1:267, 300, 314) . Lieutenant Gunning Bedford was awarded two lots for his part in the engagements against the French. With hostilities ended, Gunning Bedford, in Lombard Street, near the New Church, so advertised in the Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, 23 April 1761, for sale an Oat-Meal mill a little below the New Market in Philadelphia, and again in the Gazette, on 25 August 1763, he and (his brother) William Bedford offered for sale a house and lot on the South side of Lombard Street between Third and Fourth, near St. Peter's church. This may have been a jointly erected dwelling, the house which William Bedford occupied until his return to New Castle, Delaware. . The Gunning Bedford Family 7 By this time, Gunning was employed by the Contributionship in surveying buildings for fire insurance purposes, as for instance„ a Frame house of Tom Murry on the South side of Plumb (Monroe) Street in Southwark, between Second and Third Streets. He was also deemed of sufficient worth and experience to be a member of the Carpenters by 1763, in which year his name appeared in the earliest surviving Minute Book thus: April 18, 1763. On the Committee to purchase a lot. Purchase dated February 2, 1768, Emlen to Loxley, Newell and Smith; thence to Trustees. January 19,1770, on Committee to let part of the lot. February 5, 1770, on the Building Committee of twelve, April 20, 1775, on Committee of six to confer with Friendship Company in regard to a merger. Gunning Bedford: Warden in 1763; Assistant to the Master in 1766 and 1787; President 1791-1794. These five items are from James Hutchinson and others in, Reminiscences of Carpenters' Hall. (Philadelphia, 1858) . (See also Charles E. Peterson, A.I.A. in Transactions APS, 43:96128.) According to Nicholas B. Wainwright, A Philadelphia Story, (Philadelphia, 1952, 93) , he served from 1762 to 1801 as Surveyor and Director, except for the year 1778. March 31, 1779, Gunning Bedford, Philadelphia, Carpenter, took the Oath of Allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania, (Thompson Westcott, Names of Persons Who Took The Oath of Allegiance To The State of Pennsylvania,1777-1789, Philadelphia, 1865, 6; also Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, 14:40) . According to the Colonial Records (16:251) he was named a Commissioner to regulate Southwark, Moyamensing and Passyunk Townships, Philadelphia County on September 29, 1787. On October 24, 1788, he with others, not named, were ordered paid £ 185 additional for erecting a triumphal arch in Philadelphia for the celebration on the 4th of July 1788 of the adoption of the United States Constitution (Colonial Records, 15:574) . April 11, 1789, he with twelve other men were elected Aldermen for Philadelphia and took the oath before the Supreme Executive Council there (ibid. 16:53) . The Will of Gunning Bedford of Philadelphia, dated 9 October 1795 and proved 2 April 1802. Unto my son Gunning my silver 8 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine tankard' presented to me by Messrs Penn, and my silver can' presented to me by William Bingham and family, six silver table and six tea spoons, and a pair of tea tongs. Unto my daughters Ann Barney and Martha Stricker each a piece of Plate of the value of twenty five pounds. Unto my daughter-in-law Ann Bedford my silver dish and cream pot, six silver table and six tea spoons and a pair of tea tongs marked S.S. Unto each of my grandsons of my own name, a piece of plate of the value of twenty dollars. Unto my son Gunning, his heirs and assigns, my house in which I now live, with the lot on which it stands, he paying, or securing to be paid, unto his brother Peter and each of his sisters Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Ann and Martha, their heirs and assigns, one hundred and fifty Pounds within five years after my decease, with interest yearly until paid, and also to the children [not named] of my son Joseph the sum of one hundred and fifty Pounds when they shall respectively arrive at age, to be equally divided between them. Unto my executors all the rest of my real estate, real and Personal, in Trust, to be by them sold and the monies arising therefrom to be equally divided into seven parts, each of my children: Gunning, Peter, Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Ann and Martha, my daughter-in-law Ann Bedford, each to take one part, and she one part for the benefit in Trust for her children [not named] by my son Joseph as they arrive of age. Whereas I have kept accounts against several of my children of moneys advanced to or paid for them and other matters, it is my desire that the utmost harmony should prevail among them after my decease. I therefore give to each of them the respective balances that may appear on my books against them. I nominate my sons Gunning and Peter the Executors of this my last Will and Testament, who are not to receive commissions for doing the business, having had more advanced to them than the other children. (Signed) : Gunning 1The tankard, now (1976) in The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, is illustrated in American Silver Collected by Philip Hammerslough, (Hartford, 1958). From the devisee Gunning Bedford (1747-1812) it passed to his only surviving child, Henrietta Jane Bedford of Wilmington, Delaware, who by her Will dated 7 August 1869 bequeathed it to "My relative, Doctor Gunning Bedford of New York," who died in 1870, survived by son Judge Gunning S. Bedford of New York, who died in 1894. From him, or his heirs, the tankard came into the possession of Edgar Sittig, antiques dealer from Shawnee on Delaware, Pennsylvania, who sold it to Mr. Hammerslough. Also, the silver can, (a mug without a lid) was inherited by Henrietta J. Bedford, who bequeathed it in her Will to her "relative Gunning Bedford Hackett, son of Doctor William Henry Hackett." The statement "my silver can, presented to me by William Bingham and family" in Gunning Bedford's will, suggests that Gunning Bedford had provided some work in the Hon. William Bingham's stately mansion in Philadelphia at the Northwest corner of Third and Spruce Streets. The Gunning Bedford Family 9 Bedford. Witnesses: John Hazelwood, Ferguson McElwaine. Recorded in Philadelphia Will Book Y, 670, whence this abstract. Children of 3. Gunning Bedford and his wife Susannah Jaquett: 6. i. MARY ANN BEDFORD, b. 4 October 1744; married JOHN YOUNG. SUSANNAH BEDFORD. iii. WILLIAM BEDFORD. iv. CATHERINE BEDFORD. 7. V. GUNNING BEDFORD, b. 1747; d. 30 March 1812. 8. Vi. ELIZABETH BEDFORD, b. 19 April 1754; married JACOB BANKSON. 9. Vii. ANN BEDFORD, b. 4 October 1756; married JOSHUA BARNEY. 10. Viii. PETER BEDFORD, b. 18 March 1759; d. 1818. 11. ix. JOSEPH BEDFORD, b. 1766; d. 19 May 1794. 12. X. MARTHA BEDFORD, b. 1764; married JOHN STRICKER. Xi. BENOI BEDFORD, died young. 4. GUNNING BEDFORD, born 7 April 1742, son of William and Catherine (Jaquett) Bedford of New Castle on Delaware. In Immanuel Churchyard in that Town is "This monumental marble Inscribed to the memory of Gunning Bedford, Esquire, late Governor of the State of Delaware, who departed this life September XXX, MDCCXCVII (1797) and lies here interred" (Holcomb, Immanuel Church). He was entered a scholar in the Pennsylvania Academy by his father William Bedford, in 1752 (Thomas H. Montgomery, A History of The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1900, 532). See the Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 831 and the Dictionary of American Biography, 2:122. He married in 1769 MARY READ, who was born about 1745, only daughter of John and Mary (Howell) Read of Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. (Major Harman P. Read, Rossiana, Albany, N.Y. 1908, 268 and John Meredith Read in Jacob W. Reed, History of the Reed Family, Boston, 1861, 442.) "Died, on the 1st inst., at the residence of Matthew Pearce, Esq., in Cecil County, Maryland, Mrs. Mary Bedford, relict of the late Governor Bedford of Delaware." (Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, 10 November 1820. Gunning and Mary (Read) Bedford died without issue. Matthew Pearce, Esq. of Poplar Neck, Cecil County, Maryland, whose wife Mary (Read) Pearce, daughter of the late George Read, the Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and niece of Mrs. Mary (Read) Bedford, had died on 12 January 1816. Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, 23rd inst. 10 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 5. ANN BEDFORD, daughter of William and Catherine (Jaquet) Bedford, was born in 1747. She became the second "Wife of JOHN STOCKTON and daughter of William Bedford" and died on 15 March 1807, aged 60 years, (Gravestone inscription, Presbyterian cemetery, New Castle, Delaware) . Her grave is next to that of her father. John Stockton's first wife Ann (Griffith) Stockton, mother of his children, had died 15 April 1790, aged 45 years according to the gravestone inscription in Immanuel Churchyard, New Castle. With a New Castle County, Delaware license dated 24 May 1808, Brigadier General John Stockton married, as his third wife, Mrs. Sarah Hyatt. The wedding was noticed in Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, of 27th inst. John Stockton was born 15 November 1754, the son of John and Elizabeth Stockton, according to the register of St. Stephen's North Sassafras Parish, Cecil County, Maryland. The gravestone inscription in Immanuel Churchyard reads, "John Stockton, born in 1755, died Octobcr 29th 1822, an Officer of the Revolution. (See The Stockton Family of New Jersey and Others, (1911) , 252) . 6. MARY ANN BEDFORD, the eldest of the eleven children of Gunning and Susannah (Jaquett) Bedford of New Castle County on Delaware, was born 4 October 1744; died 4 June 1817, aged 72 years and 8 months, in Baltimore, Maryland, widow of JOHN YOUNG, whom she had married 6 May 1762, evidently in Philadelphia. John Young was born 19 May 1740, Old Style, the second of the eight sons of John and Ann (Boyte) Young of Philadelphia; he died 10 January 1812, aged near 72 years, in Baltimore, Maryland, and was interred in St. Peter's Cemetery there. (See The John & Mary Young Bible Records, PGM, XXIX, 1976, 256-264) . Children of 6. Mary Ann Bedford and her husband John Young: i. JOHN YOUNG, b. 15 August 1763; d. 4 October 1763; buried in Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia. ii. GUNNING YOUNG, b. 7 January 1765; d. 24 July 1766; buried in Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia. iii. SUSANNAH YOUNG, b. 20 April 1767; d. 12 July 1805; married 26 November 1787, JAMES BUCHANAN of Baltimore; 9 children. iv. SAMUEL YOUNG, b. 3 June 1769. V. ANN YOUNG, b. 29 June 1771; d. 15 January 1841, age 70 years; unmarried. vi. CHARLES YOUNG, b. 20 September 1773; d. 16 June 1809, 11 MARY ANN BEDFORD YOUNG, 1744-1817. Oil on canvas 29 x 25, painted in 1765 by James Claypoole. Courtesy, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. 12 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine in Baltimore, Maryland. vii. GEORGE WASHINGTON YOUNG, b. 24 December 1775; d. at sea in 1809. viii. MARY YOUNG, b. 27 July 1779; d. 13 May 1834; married 12 June 1810, CAPTAIN SETH SANGER, who d. 11 February 1812. ix. FRANCIS YOUNG, b. 23 October 1781; d. at sea in 1805. X. WILLIAM YOUNG, b. 26 November 1783; d. 24 July 1785. xi. ELIZA YOUNG, b. 17 March 1786; d. 6 January 1865, in Baltimore, unmarried. 7. GUNNING BEDFORD, JR., eldest son of Gunning and Susannah (Jaquett) Bedford of New Castle on Delaware, and of Philadelphia, was born in 1747; died intestate, 30 March 1812, at his country seat, Lombardy Hall, in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He was buried in the First Presbyterian Churchyard, at the southeast corner of Tenth and Market Streets, Wilmington. A marble column was erected at his grave by his daughter Henrietta Jane Bedford in 1858, inscribed with thirty lines to his memory. His remains and the monument were removed in March 1921 to the grounds of the Masonic Home on Lancaster Pike, near Wilmington, (Evening Journal, Wilmington, Delaware, 31 March 1921). He was the first Grand Master of the Masonic Lodges in Delaware. (Full accounts of Judge Gunning Bedford can be found in Henry C. Conrad's biography in Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware, no. 26. (1900), 13 pages, illustrated; and the Dictionary of American Biography, 2 : 123.) Gunning Bedford married in 1770-71, JANE PARKER, daughter of James Parker, of New York City and Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, the prominent printer and journalist, and his wife Marie Ballareau. She was born 6 March 1710/11, the daughter of James and Jeanne (Odart) Ballereau; and baptised 11 March 1710/11 in the French Church of New York. Jane (Parker) Bedford died 26 July 1831, aged 85 years, as per her Bible Records, (Parker, Inglish & Bedford Records, from a bible published in London, 1566. Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania), at her residence in Brandywine Hundred, per notice in the Delaware Free Press of 30 July 1831, and the inscription on her husband's monument. The Account of Jane Bedford and John Stockton, Administrators upon the estate of Gunning Bedford, Esq., late of Brandywine Hundred, County of New Castle, deceased intestate, showing a balance on hand The Gunning Bedford Family 13 of $7,006.49, was allowed by Evan Thomas, Register of Wills, 14 December 1816. Children of 7. Gunning Bedford and his wife Jane Parker: i. JULIANA BEDFORD, b. 14 October 1773, in Philadelphia; bapt. 23 June 1774; died young. ii. ANNA MARIA BEDFORD, b. 8 December 1775, Philadelphia; bapt. 23 June 1776, 2nd Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia; d. 13 January 1835, unmarried. iii. SUSANNA BEDFORD, b. 10 December 1778, Philadelphia; bapt. 22 May 1779; died young. IV. GUNNING JAMES BEDFORD, b. ca. 1782; d. 21 November 1842, in 60th year; unmarried. V. HENRIETTA JANE BEDFORD, b. 8 December 1788; d. 13 August 1871, in Wilmington, Delaware, testate, unmarried. (See Parker, Inglish & Bedford Bible Records from bible published in London, 1566. Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.) 8. ELIZABETH BEDFORD, daughter of Gunning and Susannah (Jaquett) Bedford, was born 19 April 1754, and baptised 19 May 1754, per register of the Second Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. She married JACOB BANKSON on 13 February 1772, per that register. The son of Andrew and Sarah (Allen) Bankson, he was born 27 September 1751, and baptised 17 January 1751/2 per the register of Gloria Dei ("Swedes") Church, Philadelphia. In the Churchyard is a gravestone inscribed "Sacred to the Memory of/ Jacob Bankson, Eqs./ Attorney at Law/ Who died in the 43rd year of his Age/ On the 10th day of Decr. 1795." Letters of Administration on the estate of Jacob Bankson, Esq., deceased, were granted to Elizabeth Bankson and Andrew B. Bankson on 15 December 1795, with Gunning Bedford of Southwark and John Young of Philadelphia, Sureties, (Philadelphia Administration Book H:225). Jacob Bankson, A.B.,1767; A.M.,1770, the College of Philadelphia; and Honorary A.M.,1771, the College of New Jersey; was admitted to the Bar of Philadelphia, August 1771. The Philadelphia Directory for 1785 listed Jacob Bankson, Esq. counsellor at Law, Lombard Street between Second and Front. Children of 8. Elizabeth Bedford and her husband Jacob Bankson: 1. ANDREW BEDFORD BANKSON, b. 28 January 1773; bapt. 26 March 1773. Inscription added to his father's gravestone 14 13. The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine in Gloria Dei Churchyard, Philadelphia: "To the memory of the much lamented Mr. Andrew B. Bankson, who died in October 1800, aged 28 years." The Philadelphia Directory for 1796 listed: Bankson, Andrew Bedford, M.D. at 287 South Front Street. This was also his father's address. He is said to have married a Baltimorean who died there in 1854, (this from a letter headed Elkton, Maryland, from Henrietta Jane (Hackett) Barroll, dated November 1873, to Mrs. Kate Oldfield). ii. ELIZABETH GRANT BANKSON, b. 1 February 1775; married 1St CHARLES HENRY WILMANS; married 2nd JAMES BEATTY; of whom further. 9. ANN BEDFORD, daughter of Gunning and Susannah (Jaquett) Bedford, was born 4 November 1756; baptised 16 November 1756, per register of the Second Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. She married on 16 March 1780, JOSHUA BARNEY, per register of the Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. He was born 6 July 1759, the son of William and Frances (Watts) Barney, of Baltimore County, Maryland, Ann (Bedford) Barney died 25 July 1806, age 53, at their residence in Charl's Street, Baltimore. Joshua Barney married as his second wife, Harriet Cole (Coale) on 24 April 1809. She died 14 October 1849 in Louisville, Kentucky. Commodore Joshua Barney died 1 December 1818, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was buried in the First Presbyterian Churchyard there, later reinterred in Allegheny Cemetery on 12 May 1848. (See William F. Adams, Commodore Joshua Barney, Springfield, Mass., 1912, 76; also The Dictionary of American Biography, 1:632.) Children of 9. Ann Bedford and her husband Joshua Barney: 1. WILLIAM BEDFORD BARNEY, b. 7 December 1781; died 18 November 1838. ii. Louts BARNEY, b. 12 January 1783. iii. JOHN BARNEY, b. 18 January 1785; d. 26 January 1856, at Washington, D.C. iv. CAROLINE BARNEY, b. 21 December 1787; married NATHANIEL WILLIAMS. V. HENRY BARNEY, b. 25 April 1790. vi. ADELEE BARNEY, married ISAAC WADDY, Louisville, Kentucky in 1849. vii. ELIZA BARNEY, buried 18 January, 1819 aged 2 years, nine months. The Gunning Bedford Family 15 viii. JOSHUA BARNEY, JR., named in his father's Will. 10. PETER BEDFORD, second of the three surviving sons of Gunning and Susannah (Jaquett) Bedford, was born 18 March 1759 and baptised 29 April 1759, per Register of the Second Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. He died intestate shortly before 15 December 1818, on which date the administration upon his estate was granted to [his son] Joseph Bedford, with Eliza Bankson of the city of Philadelphia, widow, and Thomas Armstrong of Philadelphia, Attorney at Law, Sureties, by the Philadelphia Register of Wills, (Philadelphia Administration Book M:130). Peter Bedford and MARY VAN SOLINGEN were married on 10 August 1779, per Register of the Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. She was the daughter of Dr. Godardus van Solingen of Philadelphia, who died testate in September 1779,3 and his wife Sarah (Moone) Hall. Mary (Van Solingen) Bedford was probably the "Mrs. Bedford" whose burial on 14 December 1790 was noted in the Register of the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. Which would explain why three of their five children, left motherless, are found in Baltimore by 1801, possibly living with their aunts, Mary Ann Young, Ann Barney or Martha Stricker. The Philadelphia Directory for 1794 listed Peter Bedford, Inspector of Revenue, 88 Lombard Street, the same address as his widower father Gunning Bedford, the Alderman. The Federal Census of Pennsylvania, 1790, listed Peter Bedford, Clerk at Court House, head of a family, with one free white male over 16 years, two free white males under 16 years, and six females, living on the West side of Second Street, Southern District, Philadelphia. Children of 10. Peter Bedford and his wife Mary van Solingen: 1. GUNNING VAN SOLINGEN BEDFORD, b. 6 May 1780; bapt. 24 August 1780, Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia; d. 2 May 1809 in his 28th year, in Baltimore, (Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia 5 May 1809). He married, 25 February 1803, ELIZABETH DEADY, the Rever°The Will of Godardus Van Solingen of the City of Philadelphia, Druggist, dated 21 April 1779; proved 20 September 1779, names his wife Sarah, Executrix, and children: Mary, Henry and Nancy. Witnesses: Thomas Bond, Jno. Sparhawk, Jno. Dupuy : recorded ho Philadelphia Will Book R:211. Testator was baptised 31 May 1724 in the Reformed Dutch Church in Jamaica, Long Island, son of Johannes Van Solingen, Chirurgeon, and his wife Antje Marselis. (N etc York Genealogical & Biographical Record, 106:140.) 16 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine end Lewis Richards of the Baptist Church, Baltimore, officiating. Their children: i. GUNNING S. BEDFORD, M.D., b. 1806 in Baltimore, Maryland; Professor in the Medical Dept. U.C.N.Y., 1841-1864; d. 5 September 1870, New York, N.Y.; funeral at St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church, (New York Times, 6 September 1870). He married 15 September 1829, his first cousin, JANE MARIE VAN SOLINGEN, only daughter of Henry M. van Solingen, M.D. of New York. Their children: i. HENRY MOORE BEDFORD, M.D., who d. 20 August 1880 at Richfield Springs, New York. ii. FREDERICK BEDFORD, M.D., who d. 8 December 1891, in New York City. iii. GUNNING S. BEDFORD, JR., City Judge in New York City, who d. in 1894. ii. HENRIETTA BEDFORD, said to have married and had a daughter MARY, later Mrs. Wright, who by 1873 had several children in Europe, according to a letter written by Henrietta Jane (Hackett) Barroll. ii. SARAH BEDFORD, b. 2 April 1782; bapt. 23 June 1782, Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia; married JOHN HACKETT of Baltimore. Their children: i. HENRIETTA JANE HACKETT, b. 23 December 1804; d. 17 March 1877; married 15 June 1824, as 2nd wife, JAMES EDMONSON BARROLL of Easton and Elkton, Maryland, (see H. H. Barroll, Barroll in Great Britain and America, Baltimore, 1910:81). ii. GUNNING BEDFORD HACKETT, d. before 1869 in Queen Anne's County, Maryland. His children: JOHN; HENRIETTA; JOSEPH B. and GUNNING B. HACKETT. iii. WILLIAM HENRY HACKETT, M.D.; d. before 1869. His children: JOSEPH MARION; GUNNING BEDFORD and ALMIRA HACKETT. iii. JOSEPH BEDFORD, b. 10 June 1784; bapt. August 1784, Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia; married a Miss FRANCIS of Philadelphia. Their children: i. GUNNING BEDFORD, who located in Alabama, said to have had a son who d. young, (according to a letter of Henrietta Jane (Hackett) Barroll in 1873). The Gunning Bedford Family 17 IV. HENRY BEDFORD, b. 8 January 1787; bapt. 24 February 1787, Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia; buried 10 November 1787, Second Presbyterian Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia. V. MARY COOKE BEDFORD, b. 20 December 1789 in Philadelphia, bapt. 22 February 1801, First Presbyterian Church, Baltimore; married 14 November 1811, JOSEPH WILKINS, (see Mary E.W.Cooch: Ancestry and Descendants of Nancy (Foote) Webb, Reverend Edward Webb And Joseph Wilkins Cooch, Wilmington, Delaware, 1919:137). H. JOSEPH BEDFORD, youngest son of Gunning and Susannah (Jaquett) Bedford of Philadelphia, was born in 1766, and died in Philadelphia on 20 May 1794, aged 27 years. He was buried on the 22nd of May, per the Register of the Second Presbyterian Church. He married ANN CUYLER of Philadelphia on 19 June 1784, per that Register. The daughter of Teleman and Jeanne (Latouche) Cuyler, she was born 7 November 1764 and baptised, 27 November 1764, per the Register of the Reformed Dutch Church of New York City, (see Maud C. Nicoll, The Earliest Cuylers in. Holland and America, New York 1912, 28-37). Her father died 29 September 1772 in Savannah, Georgia; his widow and daughter Ann left the city upon its capture by the British in 1778 and took refuge in Charleston, South Carolina until it too fell to the British in 1780, when they escaped to Philadelphia. Returning to her native city, "Ann Cuyler, widow of Joseph Bedford," was received into membership of the Reformed Dutch Church of New York, 29 February 1804. No further record. Children of 11. Joseph Bedford and his wife Ann Cuyler: L SUSANNAH BEDFORD, b. 15 March 1785; bapt. 27 May 1785, at the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. She married a MR. GILLESPIE, according to the letter of Henrietta Jane (Hackett) Barroll in 1873. ii. GUNNING CUYLER BEDFORD, b. 5 January 1787; bapt. 27 February 1787, Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. He d. 24 October 1805 in Abercorn, Effingham County, Georgia. He married in Abercorn, 24 March 1805, his first Cousin, ELIZABETH ANN (CUYLER) BURGH, widow of John Burch of Abercorn, who had d. 11 October 1801. She married as her 3rd husband, 2 August 1810, John Barnett Staley, and d. in 1817. (See Nicoll: Earliest Cuylers, for no. 159, now corrected. The marriage license of Gunning C. Bed- 18 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine ford and Mrs. Eliza Ann Burch, dated 15 March 1805, in Georgia Genealogical Magazine, 26:1792.) iii. CAROLINE BEDFORD, d. unmarried, according to the letter of Henrietta Jane (Hackett) Barroll in 1873. 12. MARTHA BEDFORD, youngest daughter of Gunning and Susannah (Jaquett) Bedford of Philadelphia, was born in 1764; she died on 4 November 1816 in her 53rd year, in Baltimore, Maryland. She and CAPTAIN JOHN STRICKER were married on 9 October 1783, per Register of the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. General John Stricker died on 23 June 1825, at his dwelling on Charles Street, Baltimore. He was President of the Bank of Baltimore and a Revolutionary patriot. He commanded the 3rd Brigade which put an end to the British invasion of Baltimore in the Battle of North Point. (The National Intelligencer, Washington, D.C., 25 June 1825). See "General John Striker," by his son John Striker, Jr. in the Maryland Historical Magazine, IX, (1914), 209. John Striker was an officer in the Pennsylvania Line in 1777, he took the Oath of Allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania on 8 October 1782 in Philadelphia. (See Westcott, Oath of Allegiance.) He served as a First Lieutenant to June 17, 1782 in the 3rd Regiment Pennsylvania Continental Line. (See Bryce Metcalf, Original Members and Other Officers Eligible To The Society of The Cincinnati, 1783-1938, Strasburg, Virginia, 1938, 301.) Children of Martha Bedford and her husband John Stricker: i. MARY STRICKER, b. 16 September 1784; bapt. 23 November 1784, per register Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. She married a MR. MAGRUDOR. ii. CATHERINE STRICKER, b. 29 September 1786; bapt. 10 January 1787 in First Presbyterian Church, Baltimore; d. 21 September 1860, unmarried. iii. ANNE ELIZABETH STRICKER, b. 11 Febraury 1789; bapt. 12 March 1789, First Presbyterian Church, Baltimore. She married a MR. BRADFORD. iv. SUSANNA STRICKER, b. 13 March 1791; bapt. 31 March 1791 in First Presbyterian Church; died unmarried. V. GEORGE BEDFORD STRICKER, b. 12 February 1793; bapt. 7 April 1793, First Presbyterian Church, Baltimore; d. 15 November 1793. The Gunning Bedford Family 19 vi. JANE HENRIETTA STRICKER, b. 15 October 1794; bapt. 8 March 1795; d. 29 March 1795. vii. JULIANA STRICKER, b. 21 December 1796; bapt. 22 February 1797; married 1st, a MR. RANKIN; 2nd, a MR. COLES. VIII. CHARLOTTE STRICKER, b. 4 November 1798; bapt. 10 March 1799; d. 26 August 1825. ix. JOHN STRICKER, JR., b. 26 July 1800; bapt. 22 February 1801; d. 23 December 1837, unmarried. X. WILLIAM BEDFORD STRICKER, b. 9 January 1803; d. in infancy. xi. LAURA CAROLINE STRICKER, b. 23 January 1805; bapt. 5 June 1805; d. 17 July 1877; married a MR. NICHOLSON. 13. ELIZABETH GRANT BANKSON, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Bedford) Bankson, was born 1 February 1775, and baptised 2 January 1776, per register of the Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. She married first, CHARLES HENRY WILMANS, on 25 June 1795, per register of the Third Church, Philadelphia. "Mr. Charles H. Wilmans, Merchant of Baltimore, son-in-law of Jacob Bankson, died February 21st 1799 in his 28th year." (Memorial added to the latter's gravestone inscription.) The widow Elizabeth Wilmans married JAMES BEATTY on 19 October 1801, per register' of the Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. He was the oldest son of James and Elizabeth (von Rainer) Beatty of Fredrick County, Maryland. He died 15 October, aged 81 years at his residence, 31 North Calvert Street, Baltimore. (The Baltimore American of 17th inst.) The Baltimore City Directory for 1824 listed James Beatty, merchant, 7 W. Pratt; dwelling Calvert St., east side, north of New Church. The issue for 1837 listed James Beatty, gunpowder manufacturer etc., 7 Pratt St.; dwelling Calvert St. near Lexington. See James Beatty in The Tercentenary History of Maryland, (1925), vol. IV, 102. Elizabeth Grant (Bankson) Beatty died 5 June 1851, in her 77th year. Children of Elizabeth Grant Bankson and her 1st husband Charles Henry Wilmans: i. SOPHIA BANKSON WILMANS, bapt. 21 April 1796 at St. Paul's Church, Baltimore. ii. CHARLES HENRY WILMANS, JR. Children of Elizabeth Grant (Bankson) Wilmans and her 2nd husband James Beatty: i. JAMES BRATTY, JR., married 6 October 1829 ELIZABETH LAURENSON. 20 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine ii. SUSAN BEATTY, married 19 September 1822, DR. ROBERT DORSEY, the son of Edward Dorsey, at the Second Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, the Reverend John Glondy officiating. (The Federal Gazette, Baltimore, of 20th inst.) In 1858 they lived at 39 N. Calvert St. and in 1883 at 85 W. Monument St., Baltimore. James Beatty died in 1889, (Anne Arundel Gentry, II, 40) . 11. EDWARD BEATTY. iV. JOHN BEATTY married MERCY ELIZABETH JACKSON. Their only son FRANKLIN THOMASON BEATTY, b. 18 November 1857 in Baltimore; d. 10 April 1935 in Boston, Mass.; M.D., Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1885. Member of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire, elected 1899. V. ELIZABETH R. BEATTY married 23 October 1834 in Baltimore, LIEUTENANT HUGH YOUNG PURVIANCE, U.S.N. He was born 22 March 1799, the son of James and Eliza (Young) Purviance of Baltimore. He died there 21 October 1882, Rear-Admiral, Ret., (Baltimore American, 22 October 1882). Their children: 1. ELIZABETH PURVIANCE married B. ATKINSON. ii. FRANCES SUSAN PURVIANCE, b. 1847; d. in 1942 in Paris. She married 8 January 1867 in Baltimore, LIEUTENANT ADAM ECKFOLDT KING, U.S.A., per register of First Presbyterian Church. He was b. 29 October 1837 in Delaware; d. 19 November 1910 at his residence, 853 Hamilton Terrace, Baltimore. Brigadier-General of Volunteers, (The Sun, Baltimore, 20 November 1910; Francis B. Heitman: Historical Register & Dictionary of the U. S. Army, I, 598). Their children: i. ELIZABETH KING. ii. KATHERINE KING. iii. FRANCES KING. iv. HUGH PURVIANCE KING, bapt. November 1872, at Brown Presbyterian Church, Baltimore; he died 13 January 1966, resident of Hewlett, Long Island, New York, burial in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, (The New York Times, 14 January 1966) . His wife VIRGINIA (MILLER) KING The Gunning Bedford Family 21 died in 1946. Their children: LIEUTENANT HUGH PURVIANCE KING; VIRGINIA H. KING married Vicroit R. BELLorr; FRANCES C. KING married 1st, a MR. BOYKIN and 2nd, HUGE' C. MONTGOMERY; she lives (1976) in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. iv. SARAH BEATTY was born 18 une 1815, and died in 1899 in Baltimore. She married 1st, 2 February 1836, DAVID TELFAIR MCKIM, who was born 22 May 1794, the son of John and Margaret (Telfair) McKim of Baltimore; he died, 7 July 1847 in Baltimore. Sarah (Beatty) McKim married 2nd, 5 November 1849, DONALD MCILVAINE, who was born 31 December 1800, in Inverneshire, Scotland, the son of William and Christiana (Campbell) Mcllvaine. The Baltimore City Directory for 1883 listed Donald McIlvaine, Commercial merchant, 12 So. Gay St.; dwelling 110 Park Ave. Children of the 1st marriage: i. JOHN MCKIM. ii. EMELIE MCKIM, b. 10 May 1840; d. 10 May 1924 in Baltimore. Mrs. William Reed, President of the Maryland Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1909-1920. Tercentenary History of Maryland, (1925), IV, 98. iii. JAMES MCKIM. V. ROBERT McKim. Children of the 2nd marriage: i. THE REVEREND JAMES MCILVAINE, D.D. ii. DONALD MCILVAINE, d. in infancy. iii. ELIZABETH GRANT MC ILVAINE, b. 5 February 1857 in Baltimore; lived there in 1925, unmarried. Tercentenary History of Maryland, (1925), IV, 101. %di. GEORGE BEATTY. Viii. MARY BEATTY.