An American Family History

John Bean was born about 1747 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. He may have been a son William and Lydia Bean)

He may have married Rachel Jordan.

Stephen Bean.

John second wife was Rachel Griffith.

Jesse Bean (1794, Catherine Bird).

In 1762, John built a temporary the shelter that William and Lydia Bean moved into.

In 1780, William, John, George, Jesse, Edmund, and Robert Bean were with Sevier at the Battle of Kings Mountain.