A Bedford man was captain of the Bedford grenadiers.

The evidence

• “Among the names of subscribers to build a meeting house in Bedford, April 19, 1831, is that of John P. Houston, apparently his son, who was captain of the Bedford grenadiers in 1832. In 1829 he had built a bridge and made that his business.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 299 / book p. 798

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources