Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Bedford” in chapter 2 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition.:
...anger of exposing the king's authority and myself to contempt.
Thus issue was joined with a view to involve the British parliament in the administration of the colonies, just at the time, when Bedford , as the secretary, was resolving to introduce uniformity into their administration by supporting the authority of the central government; and his character was a guarantee for resolute perseverance.
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Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
† | Bedford | 197 | 59 | 29 | 1 | 0 user votes | |
Gunning Bedford | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
G. S. Bedford | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
H. L. Bedford | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
P. B. Bedford | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
H. S. Bedford | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
A. W. Bedford | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Anna Maria Bedford | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Botetourt Bedford | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
J. O. Bedford | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Nathan Bedford | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
S. Bedford | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Thomas Bedford | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
W. Bedford | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
W. A. Bedford | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
A. M. Bedford | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Peter Bedford | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes |
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.