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Bedinger, Daniel (d. 1818)
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Aler's History of Martinsburg and Berkeley County, West Virginia
by F. Vernon Aler, 1888
Printed for the Author by 
The Mail Publishing Company, Hagerstown, MD.

CHAPTER VIII.
Historical Pen Sketches of the Early Residents of Berkeley County
by the late Hon. Chas. James Faulkner.

Page 92, DANIEL BEDINGER

Was born in Berkeley County. When in his sixteenth year he ran away
from home and joined a company of volunteers and served throughout
the revolutionary war. He was captured at the battle of Brandywine
on the 11th of September, 1777, and was detained as a prisoner of
war until the British army evacuated Philadelphia in the summer of
1778. After his exchange as a prisoner of war, although he had
suffered incredible hardships during his captivity, he promptly
returned to the army. — He bore the rank of ensign during the war,
and was appointed Navy Agent at Gasport, Virginia, by President
Jefferson, and remained in office during his administration. When
the old frigate Constitution was dismantled he purchased the masts,
which were used in the portico of the house which he built near
Shepherdstown, and which house, then the property of Edmund I. Lee,
who had married his daughter, was, by order of General Hunter,
burned during the late civil war. He was a man of vigorous and
original mind, with a decided talent for poetical satire, and lines
from some of his poems are, after a lapse of nearly half a century,
in the memory of many persons. He died at his residence near
Shepherdstown in March, 1818, aged 54 years.

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