Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Bedford” in chapter 7 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition.:

...ancient principle of his party to fight up against the King and against the people, and set about forming a Ministry by cementing the shattered fragments of the old Whig aristocracy. He began with Bedford . Bedford and Grenville are one, said Rigby, by authority; and neither of them will ever depart from the ground taken, to assert and establish the entire sovereignty of Great Britain over her Coloni...
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Bedford 197 34 29 0 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

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