This is a Message Board Post that is forwarded to this mailing list. Author: Maureen Harbourt <[email protected]> Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AWB.2ACE/249.391.3 Message Board Post: The surname Bedell (aka Beadle, Beedle, etc) is found in the 1700's in New Jersey. Some of them spread out along with some of the "low Dutch" groups who moved from NJ to Conewago PA or Shepherdsville, VA and subsequently to Shelby Co. Ky in the 1820's.