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' i‘ (ojré‘nitogj 1 Fred:' Wllliams in 8 Mia. and Empire? 3; mama: from. a RailWay Station l The Toronto Mail: an pire on“) Tuesday: February 11th,? carried 'thei'i following. history of the’Bedei‘l family 3 from the pen of Fred? Williams: ' ‘ ' p“It_1is3‘shmetimes ,strari‘gehow a simple V; question will prodrueerb’manee in the ; irhad: Leorrespond‘ence with Mr. W.'D.‘ ,1 (Bedell, of the" Bedell Earms at Hillier. , Struck bylthe. snmla-rity of rabies I.‘ asked ‘if hisiamzily was in _any..way' a, connected with the junction station on; ,the‘ C. P. RV Bedell, Where the 301d; St. Lawrence and QttaWa, running from» {Prescott tfo‘ the capital,- orbsses the main line.‘ The result is ,a linking up‘ I withUniteyl Ernpire Loyalists and! the H Canadianmmy in France covering a r.- centuryfand a; Quarter of our‘ historyr 3 Bedell was first known as‘Kempton, ‘ ‘ but it being quite close to'Kemptville some «passengers got confused and got off- at’ the wron-g- station and consider- able perfusion was caused: To obviate this a‘ change of name was decided up- ; on and. Bedell . was selected. in hon- j- our of LieutL-‘C‘oir. Bedell, who was in 5 command of the 156th Battalion, C. E. 5 Fl, which ‘was raised- in'Leeds and j Grenville and: who: prior tokthe war 3' had practised as a physician at Merrihk- [ ville, mot : very, far from Kempton { (Bedell), but is new practising in the v‘ :Village of Bloomfield, Prince Edward ? County. .. Mr. W, D. Bedell writes: l “Colonel Bedell is my brother, and , ; we are of U“ E L. descent. Our great- *‘great ,g‘rand'father‘fims Reuben Bedell, ‘ fiiwhosefl‘wiie ‘was \Sally 'Dorland. He Wasthe first town clerk of Adolphus-‘5 ‘ town. 1' Our mother was a grand-granCL I deiaughter "of ’Phili'p ‘Dorland; who was, the-first ,member elected to; Simcoe’sq ~ parliament, buhbeing a‘ Quaker he re- ‘ fillusedkto-take j e oath of oifiee‘ and the] ivse'at was declared variant. ’There are“ ”amofis’tori’es as to who actually filled” the oifice“. «One isthat "his brother; J [Thomas Dorland’; Awas elected; the ! other that Colonel VanA-l‘stine was elected to fill, the vacancy; (My feathers ‘mother was -‘ Margaret Huffman, a- ‘daugh’ter- .of'Coanafl Huffman (Who ,I‘ [believe was Ux'I'l' L.) andi his wife, manaz-Shibley; who was a, daughter. of, 1 John smbley; U‘: n L. Our father’s «grandmother was:S‘arah ‘Gasey, daught-. ezo’fwfllet, Casey,- and his wife ewes} Jane Nes. Our mother’s grandfather. ‘vwas'Vl‘lhom-as‘ :Clapp, son of another Loyalist, . _H;e«afiendied,sc‘hool at Adolf; Phustown in L801:â€" _and? we have “his; inos‘tl unexpected places. Recently II, . \5 _. " gils’ter's as?! {R‘ be Mngaiibthe first Presbyt riéii in afy in 'EUp'pe'r' Canada; it “Frederick g bur-g, contain wveral r'referémes” to their [Bedell ramily and others. mentioned E'a’b‘ove. The \Very'ifi‘rs‘tfl'entry ’in‘ his (register'notes the marriage on May 11, 1800, 'of 'Gilbért C‘l’app’i'axnd: Elizabeth i v [Bowerman and Mary Bedell of «Hal-i and Jean Bedell, November 191.1805; William Bedell and' Peggy Bedell, De- cember 2, 1813; Enbch Bedell and Sarah l‘Casey'ofi Ad-olphustown, March 5,181é,r and George W.: Bedel (one 1' omitted), and Susannah'BraWn” of. Fredericksâ€"~ burg, April ‘12-. 1832,vthis latter entry: being repeated in another page than :the first. ' ' ' ' .References to the Dorlands include the marriage of 'Philip Dorlan’di to to Gilbert Clapp in. 1800; were they si’sterslor cousin's?) Deborah Doriand of Adolphustown, to James Farlet of "Sidney, March 2‘, 1806; ‘Ann Doriandi to Philip HeightLJune 6, 1808, Bedell Dor’land and Sarah Booth of Ernest- tpwn,’ September 5, 1808; Samuel Dor- land and Susan Henderson, May 1, ‘1816; James Foster and- Tabby Dor- ‘A land;-Ju:1y4 2, 1816. ' . . Conrad Huflman and Jenny Shibley 'wer’e jmarried February, 5, 1804. .A ThoinasClapp was married to Sarah ' was owner of the 01d spelling book? ‘ ‘Thusends a dissertation .arising-out of. a query as to the name of a railway depot! . ; ,7 7 7,- 4, , â€" " edell. Other entries» include John: ‘lowell, on June 5, 1805; Isaac Smith-i Elizabeth Bedell'of Hallowell, July 14, ‘ 1803 (note the Elizabeth Bedell married ‘ ‘ Jac‘ob‘so‘f Fredericksburg on November. , 16, 1808., Could it'have been he who ' r