[Ancestor] Bean

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Husband [Ancestor] Bean

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1 M Abraham Bean ^{1 2}

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           Born: 5 Jan 1828 2 3
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           Died: 3 Feb 1882 2 3
         Buried:  - East Hickory, Forest Co, PA

         Spouse: Nancy Whitton (      -1905) 1 2
           Marr: Bef 1848

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Bean

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The name of this family, descended undoubtedly from the old Scottish clan, Vean, has been variously spelled, Bean, Bain and Bayne; in Gaelic the letters B and V are interchangeable, so that Vean and Bean are the same name differently spelled. The origin of the name is a matter of conjecture; by some it is claimed to be derived from the name of the clan's place of residence, "beann," a mountain. But an opinion which seems to have better authority is that it is a name derived from the fair complexion of the earliest progenitor of the old family, "bean" meaning white or fair. This term is often used by highlanders to indicate a man of fair complexion; as "olive," black or swarthy, is used to designate the opposite. The Clan Vean, or as often styled, MacBean, in Scottish history, was one of the tribes of the Chalti, or Clan Chatlan, which occupied the Lochaber territory some time previous to the year 1300 A. D. Three distinct families of this blood came to America: The Bains settled in Virginia, the Banes in Maine, and the Beans in New Hampshire. In what year or in what ship the immigrant ancestor of the Bean family reached these shores is not known and probably never will be.
This ancestor, John Bean, first appears in American history as the grantee of land by the town of Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1660, other grants having been made to him afterward. Tradition has it that his wife died on the passage over, and that he married again, his second wife having been a fellow passenger on the voyage. The name of the first wife is not known; the name of the second, whom he married prior to the year 1661, was Margaret. She joined Hampton Church in 1671; and "goodwife Bean" was among those who were dismissed from that church in 1698, "in order to their being incorporated unto a church state in Exeter." Margaret Bean was one of those who organized the church in Exeter, September 2, 1698. She was a member in 1705, which was the last mention of her; she died before 1718. John Bean died some time between January 24 and February 8, 1718. He divided his property among his children before his death and left no will. He had eleven children; by the first wife there was one, Mary, and by the second wife, ten, born in Exeter, as follows: John, died young; Henry, Daniel, Samuel, John, Margaret, James, Jeremy, Elizabeth, Catherine. One of the descendants of John and Margaret Bean settled in New Jersey, being the progenitor of Abraham Bean and founding the family in that state. ⁴

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 385.

2 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 123.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 387.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 386.