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.:

...r of his Majesty's colonies, and that Protestant settlers should occupy their lands. From this atrocious proposal, Newcastle, who was cruel only from frivolity, did not withhold his approbation; but Bedford , his more humane successor, restricting his plans of colonization to the undisputed British territory, sought to secure the entire obedience of the French inhabitants by intermixing with them colonis...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
Bedford (Missouri, United States) 177 0 5 0 0 user votes
Bedford (United Kingdom) 76 38 2 0 0 user votes
Bedford (New Hampshire, United States) 25 0 5 0 0 user votes
Bedford (United Kingdom) 11 0 1 0 0 user votes
Bedford (North Carolina, United States) 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Ohio, United States) 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Alabama, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Canada) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Illinois, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Kentucky, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Louisiana, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Michigan, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Montana, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (South Africa) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Tennessee, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Texas, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Virginia, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Washington, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Wyoming, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes

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