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(exact date unknown), born in Philadelphia. The fifth of seven children.
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Exact birthday is unknown
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(exact date unknown) Married Jane B. Parker, who gave birth to at least one daughter.
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(exact date Unknown) In 1771 Bedford graduated with honors from the College of New Jersey (Princeton). He was a classmate of James Madison.
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(exact date unknown) Bedford won admittance to the bar and set up a practice
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served in the Continental Army, possibly as an aide to General Washington.
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(no exact date) He sat in the legislature, on the state council, and in the Continental Congress
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The continental army was disbanded
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start of his carrer as the attorney general of Delaware
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(no exact date) End of sitting in legislature
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in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. he was numbered among the more active at convention, and he missed few sessions. A large and forceful man, he spoke on several occasions and was a member of the committee that drafted the Great Compromise.
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The end of the constitutional convention
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(No exact date) Ending of his career of being the attorney of delware.
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Washington designated him as a federal district judge for his state, an office he was to occupy for the rest of his life.
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(no exact day) as a Federalist presidential elector
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(no exact date) End of Federalist presidential
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(no exact date) Bedford died at the age of 65 in 1812 and was buried in the First Presbyterian Churchyard in Wilmington. Later, when the cemetery was abandoned, his body was transferred to the Masonic Home, on the Lancaster Turnpike in Christiana Hundred, DE.
