Timothy Bedal of Bath, Grafton County, New Hampshire

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Surname: BEDAL
Source:  A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. by Samuel Carroll Derby, 
          Columbus, Ohio, 1901, pages 20-21

Listed under Colonels:

TIMOTHY BEDAL of Bath (b. Salem, N. H., 1740; d. Haverhill, N . H ., 1787); was a prominent 
figure in the history of western New Hampshire. He held a variety of positions; was justice of 
the peace and later (1783) a judge. He raised a company of rangers which was mustered in, July 
29, 1775, and marched in Sept. of that year to join Gen. Schuyler in an expedition against St. 
Johns (Canada). In January, 1776, he was ordered to raise a regiment of 8 companies to join the 
"Northern Continental Army." He also served as commander of a regiment in the northern army from
Nov. 15, 1777 to June 1, 1779, and was an efficient officer; though cashiered in July, 1776, for
alleged misconduct at the Cedars (Canada), (Am. Archives, I, pp. 158-70, 23I, 801), he was 
afterwards reinstated in command.