Benjamin Pedan of York County, son of John Pedan, was born about 1740. His father in 1733 settled in Hempfield township, Lancaster County, along Big Chickies Creek, half a mile below where the Pennsylvania Railroad crosses. It is not known when the son removed west of the Susquehanna and took up his residence in what is now Lower Chanceford township, York County. When the struggle for independence came on he took an active part, and was on the Committee of Observation for the county. When supplies were asked for the people of Boston, personally and unaided he secured grain and flour, which he took to Baltimore for shipment. He was appointed by the Constitutional Convention of 1776 one of the Board of Commissioners for York County, and on June 10, 1777, commissioned justice of the peace. He was a delegate to the Pennsylvania Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution in 1787, which he signed, although he eventually became a prominent Anti-Federalist. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1789-1790, and represented his county in the Legislature of the State, session of 1805-6. He died at his residence in Lower Chanceford township, York County, in October [sic], 1813. He left descendants. By marriage he was related to the McCalls. Of McCalls' Ferry.
[pp 257-258, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XI, Philadelphia, 1887]
[pp 257-258, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XI, Philadelphia, 1887]
Benjamin Pedan of York County, son of John Pedan, was born about 1740. His father in 1733 settled in Hempfield township, Lancaster County, along Big Chickies Creek, half a mile below where the Pennsylvania Railroad crosses. It is not known when the son removed west of the Susquehanna and took up his residence in what is now Lower Chanceford township, York County. When the struggle for independence came on he took an active part, and was on the Committee of Observation for the county. When supplies were asked for the people of Boston, personally and unaided he secured grain and flour, which he took to Baltimore for shipment. He was appointed by the Constitutional Convention of 1776 one of the Board of Commissioners for York County, and on June 10, 1777, commissioned justice of the peace. He was a delegate to the Pennsylvania Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution in 1787, which he signed, although he eventually became a prominent Anti-Federalist. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1789-1790, and represented his county in the Legislature of the State, session of 1805-6. He died at his residence in Lower Chanceford township, York County, in October [sic], 1813. He left descendants. By marriage he was related to the McCalls. Of McCalls' Ferry.
[pp 257-258, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XI, Philadelphia, 1887]
[pp 257-258, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XI, Philadelphia, 1887]
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