John Bedient1

M, #1406, * 28 May 1695, + 1761
FatherThomas Bedient1 * 22 Jul 1654, + b 7 May 1697
MotherMary Osborne1 * 1648

Family

Mary Morehouse * 16 May 1702, + 6 Sep 1748
Children
  • Thomas Bedient3,5 * 11 Feb 1724
  • Mary Bedient3,5 * 23 Feb 1727
  • John Bedient3,5 * 4 Jun 1729
  • Elisabeth Bedient3,6 * 30 Oct 1731
  • Adoniran Bedient3,7 * 9 Apr 1734
  • Asariah Bedient3,7 * 9 Apr 1734
  • Mordecai Bedient8,2 * 23 Jul 1736, + 1 Aug 1736
  • Mordecai Bedient+3,8 * 7 Oct 1737, + 10 Nov 1777
  • Eunice Bedient3,9 * 9 Mar 1740
  • Giliead Bedient3,10 * 24 Jan 1741/42
  • Jesse Bedient3,11 * 13 Jan 1745
     John Bedient was born on 28 May 1695 in Fairfield, Connecticut.2 He married Mary Morehouse, daughter of Thomas Morehouse and Mary, on 28 May 1723 at Fairfield, Connecticut.3,1,4 He died in 1761 in Wilton, Connecticut.2

Other information:
     In 1723 John and Mary moved to Wilton, Connecticut, where he is supposed to have built the "Old Bedient Homestead." All eleven of the children were born in this house. It was located on Hurlburt Street and was still standing in 1987. A postcard dated 1909 shows the house and another was taken by Jean Bedient of Gerry, NY in 1987.2
     Possibly there was another son, Elezar, who fought in Revolutionary War, he joined 2 Aug 1781, Capt. Chas. Smith Co.2

Citations

  1. [S755] Donald Lines Jacobus, Fairfield, CT, Vol. 1, pg. 54. Available online at https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/426503/ ; https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/418412
  2. [S426] Bedient-2, online http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bedient
  3. [S469] Lorraine Cook White, Barbour, CT, Fairfield index, pg. 10 (vol. 1, pg. 220).
  4. [S464] Donald Lines Jacobus, Morehouse-Jacobus. Available online at https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/426503/
  5. [S756] Elizabeth Hubbell and Godfrey Schenck, Fairfield, CT, Vol. 2, pg. 487. Online at Archive.org: vol. 1 <https://archive.org/details/historyoffairfie01scheiala>; vol. 2 <https://archive.org/stream/historyoffairfie00schea>; Vol. 2, pgs 465 - 525 cover First Extant Parish Records of Christ's Church, Fairfield.
  6. [S756] Elizabeth Hubbell and Godfrey Schenck, Fairfield, CT, Vol. 2, pg. 488. Online at Archive.org: vol. 1 <https://archive.org/details/historyoffairfie01scheiala>; vol. 2 <https://archive.org/stream/historyoffairfie00schea>; Vol. 2, pgs 465 - 525 cover First Extant Parish Records of Christ's Church, Fairfield.
  7. [S756] Elizabeth Hubbell and Godfrey Schenck, Fairfield, CT, Vol. 2, pg. 489. Online at Archive.org: vol. 1 <https://archive.org/details/historyoffairfie01scheiala>; vol. 2 <https://archive.org/stream/historyoffairfie00schea>; Vol. 2, pgs 465 - 525 cover First Extant Parish Records of Christ's Church, Fairfield.
  8. [S756] Elizabeth Hubbell and Godfrey Schenck, Fairfield, CT, Vol. 2, pg. 490. Online at Archive.org: vol. 1 <https://archive.org/details/historyoffairfie01scheiala>; vol. 2 <https://archive.org/stream/historyoffairfie00schea>; Vol. 2, pgs 465 - 525 cover First Extant Parish Records of Christ's Church, Fairfield.
  9. [S756] Elizabeth Hubbell and Godfrey Schenck, Fairfield, CT, Vol. 2, pg. 491. Online at Archive.org: vol. 1 <https://archive.org/details/historyoffairfie01scheiala>; vol. 2 <https://archive.org/stream/historyoffairfie00schea>; Vol. 2, pgs 465 - 525 cover First Extant Parish Records of Christ's Church, Fairfield.
  10. [S756] Elizabeth Hubbell and Godfrey Schenck, Fairfield, CT, Vol. 2, pg. 492. Online at Archive.org: vol. 1 <https://archive.org/details/historyoffairfie01scheiala>; vol. 2 <https://archive.org/stream/historyoffairfie00schea>; Vol. 2, pgs 465 - 525 cover First Extant Parish Records of Christ's Church, Fairfield.
  11. [S756] Elizabeth Hubbell and Godfrey Schenck, Fairfield, CT, Vol. 2, pg. 493. Online at Archive.org: vol. 1 <https://archive.org/details/historyoffairfie01scheiala>; vol. 2 <https://archive.org/stream/historyoffairfie00schea>; Vol. 2, pgs 465 - 525 cover First Extant Parish Records of Christ's Church, Fairfield.