Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1875-01-05
Early Bethel Fam Hies.
BEAN


Irish descent aud oil the Scotch Irish
emigration. OF his vile snd family ]
have been able to learn but little. lie
was probably the emigrant ancestor oil
the Beans or Banes in Maine, and OF
"A distinct family from those at Exeter and
Salem. lie had son LEWIS who was
an early resident of The town OF York
aud prominent citizen. lie was lie
auently on the Jury when the Courts were
held at Old \ OK, and Il representative to
the General Court lie had sons, LEWIS
Jf., jonathan aud John, also daughters.
Ia 1893 Lewis Bean died, and Lewis Jr.
was appointed administrator OF his estate.
In l7l6 Lewis Bean gave a deposition
concerning matter OF which he was
coguizant, which occurred 80 years
before. that is. in lGol Lewis Bean Jr.
married Mary, widow OF Jonathan Say
wood oil York, and had JONATHAN
Jose ph, Mary ahd others.
Capt. Jonathan, sou of Lewis Jr., born
in 1893. was for long time commando
OF the Block or TRUCK" House on SAco
river. He had sons, Joshua. Jonathan.
born in l7l9, DANIEL and Ebcnezer;
also daughters. and perhaps other sons.
Daniel Bean moved 10 Pcarsontown.
ESTABLISH } have not been able to learn
the name of his wife, but he had sons,
Josiah. Jonathan, and Daniel also
daughters. DollV. who married Luther
Tapping (rappan) Of Slandish .tLigaH,
who married Col. John York, an early
settler in Bethel, and Tina, who was the
second wife Of Hhiel Smith, who carly
settled at the mouth of Bear liver. (See
Smith, lie may have had other daugh.
tiers. Daniel Bean Jr.. Of Pearsontown.
(Smndsh) bought land OF Aaron Rich
ardsonof Newton in 1881 The lands he
bought were interval lots numbered %
and % on the south side of the liver in
Bethel. II has since been known rs the
Sanborn place. Jonathan Bean OF the same
town bought land ollhc same party about
the same time. His purchase was farther
down the river.
In 1882 Josiah Bean OF Pearso MO WI
bought of Aaron Richardson interval lot
No. 10 on the south side OF the river.
Daniel Bean, Senior, his three sons and
two daughters had therefore settled on
the Andtoscoggin river in Sudbury Can
ada previous to 1898. The children Of
Anna. who married Ithiel Smith. we have
already given in the Smith family; those
OF Anna who married Col. John York.
we shall give hereafter in the York family.
Josiah, who settled on the ntervalc up
the Androscoggin from Beans Corner,
married Molly Ctocker OF Standish, and
had the following children:
Timothy married Hannah. daughter Of
Asa Kimball Senior. oil Bethel. (See
Kimb4I) lie had sons. Col. Croker,
Geo. W. Wear, &c also daughters.
Joshua married Sally. daughter OF Reu.
ben Bartlett (see Bartlet;) He hail sons,
Francis. Reuben b and Josiah. and sew
cral daughters, one OF whom was tho
wife OF Benz Estes tsce Eites.) lie may
have had other sons
Luther married Lydia. daughter OF Asa
Kimball, Jr.. and lived At Rum(ord. lie
had sons. Aaron, Francis. and perhaps
others and daughters. among whom were
The wives OF IIezeklah uutohIns aud
Patrick II. Virgin of Runlord, and Of
Gilman Farnum OF Woodstock
Edmund married Emma, daughter OF
Dea. Asa Kimball, aud had sons, Eiphaz
c., Esq, and Zlcheus, and = daughter,
who was the wiie oil BENZ. Brown, Jr.
limos married IIuldah, daughter Of
Samuel Kimball. and ives killed early in
lite by tree falling upon him. lie lett
sons. Humphrey and Samuel, and 4
daughter who married Daniel G. York,
and another who married q Frost OF
Newry.
AJigaH married Phineas Eros. Of Beth.
ell, and reared = large family, but all have
lett town; Mary married Moses kimball.
Esq. and they were the pareuLs OF Gen.
w. X kimbalI OF Paris, and c. A. and
Asa kimball Of Rumlord. (See KImball)
DoAy married Francis Keys Of Rumlord.
and was the mother OF Josiah Keys, and
/ the first vile OF the late Peter {. Virgin,
Esq. and also oil Lydia, the widow OF
The late Francis Cushman OF Rumford.
Jonathan, son OF Daniel. had sons.
John, who married q McGill; Nathaniel.
who married Hannah, daughter OF Isaac
Yok; AGidiher, who married q Fogg,
and EJeHezer, who married Clalrissa
Newton. lie also had daughter Lucy,
who married Josiah Smith. and perheps
others. | know but little concerning this
family.
Daniel Bean Jr. brother of Josiah and
Jonathan who came from Pearsontown,
/ lived on the farm afterwards called the
/ Sanborn farm, below Middle lntervale.
lie had large family, but know but
/ little Of them. lie had sons, E6eHezer,
JustuS, Daniel, Sargent, married Anna
Smith; AJiah married Cyrus Mills of
West Bethel; Anna married the late
Bezaleel Kendall of Bethel Stephen
married u Bosworth of Scion, Maine
Laodicea married Elijah Grover Of West
Bethel; Mary married William Hall OF
Scion, and Dolly married George Grover