Person:Mordecai Bean (1)

Mordecai Bean
m. Abt 1743
  1. Mordecai Bean1744 - 1814
  2. Captain William R. BeanAbt 1745 - 1799
  3. Robert Bean1750 - 1793
  4. George BeanAbt 1754 - Abt 1820
  5. Jesse Bean1756 - 1827
  6. John BeanAbt 1760 - Abt 1811
  7. Edmund BeanAbt 1763 - 1807
  8. Jane BeanAbt 1766 - 1798
  9. Sarah BeanAbt 1768 - 1861
  10. Russell Bean1769 - 1826
m. Abt 1770
  1. Margaret Bean1779 - 1832
  2. Sarah Bean1781 - 1830
Facts and Events
Name Mordecai Bean
Gender Male
Alt Birth? 28 Mar 1738
Birth[1] Mar 1744 Winchester, Virginia
Marriage Abt 1770 Frederick County, Virginiato Judith Hammond
Will? 19 Aug 1814 Frederick County, VirginiaLast Will and Testament
Death[1] 28 Nov 1814 Frederick County, Virginia
Burial[1] 1814 Saint Johns Lutheran Church Cemetery, Hayfield, Frederick, Virginia, United States
Probate? 5 Dec 1814 Frederick County, VirginiaProof of Will

On October 16, 1820 Moses Russell gave a deposition in the case of "Nathaniel Cartmell & Sarah his wife late Sarah Bean, a daughter and devisee of Mordecai Bean dec'd plaintiffs and James Bean Executor of Mordecai dec'd, Judith Beane widow of said dec'd, Isaac Beane,, John Beane, John Richards and Peggy his wife, Jacob Frye and Betsey his wife, also devisees of said dec'd defendants". Moses testified that he was one of the Commissioners appointed by the Frederick County Court to "settle the estate account of Mordecai Bean dec'd with James Bean, Executor". The other Commissioner was Joshua Lupton. There was an issue with respect to a payment of $300 James Bean had made from the estate "on a verbal contract with his father". The file includes a copy of Mordecai Beans' Will of August 19, 1814, which was proved on Dec. 5, 1814. [Source: Original records of Frederick County Court on University of Virginia Library microfilm reel no. 272, image no. 504, index no. 1825-101 SC.]

DAR Ancestor #A: A008025: Mordecai Bean; patriotic service in Virginia by furnishing supplies (source: Abercrombie & Slatten, VA Rev Pub Claims, vol. 1, p. 382); born March 28, 1738 no location stated; death Nov. 28, 1814 at North Mountain, Frederick Co Virginia; spouse Judith Hammond. Descendants of Mordecai and Judith's children Elizabeth (Mrs. Jacob) Frye and James (wife Magdaline Seabert) have joined the DAR. [Source: DAR website on May 30, 2014.]

There is a findagrave.com (St. John's Luth. Ch. Cem., Hayfield, Frederick Co., VA) entry for Mordecai Bean showing a birth date of March 28, 1740 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The bio shows that he was known to have supplied flour and iron products to the Continental Army. The bio also says that Mordecai was in Frederick County "as early as 1767, and he purchased large acreages of land between 1771 & 1779 which eventually became the Bean homeplace. His family-line was of Scottish origin and Mordecai became rich (his is the only tablet-style tomb in the cemetery) overseeing the production of the iron furnace, located on his property across the road, with Isaac Zane, Jr." Findagrave shows his spouse as "Judith Hammond Bean (1753 - 1840)," and children as "James Bean (1772 - 1828)*; Elizabeth Bean Fry (1777 - 1838)*; Sarah Bean Cartmell (1781 - 1830)* - *Calculated relationship." Also the grave inscription is given as 'In Memory of Mordecai Bean Who departed this life Nov 28 1814 Aged 70 years and 8 months "Here, O my feeble limbs here willingly lay, until that great and awful rising day, In which you shall never more be Subject to pain nor dread mortality Long have you served and answered my ends, But now you shall rest until time shall end O, how many changes have you not here seen, And all but vanity and vexation of spirit have bean." ' [Note: if the inscription transaction is correct, then Mordecai was born in March 1744 (new style); if the 70 should have been 76, then the 1738 date in the DAR record is correct.]

There are 16 WorldConnect entries for Mordecai Bean (as of May 30, 2014) and 13 show his birth in Winchester, which of course does not square with the 1767 date for his coming to Frederick County.

Beginning on page 437 of "Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants", by Thomas Kemp Cartmell, is a bio of "The Bean Family". "Mordecai Bean, who appeared in Frederick County with Isaac Zane, Sr., about 1767-8, had applied for a patent for ungranted lands lying along the North Mountains; but his claim was held up by caveat filed by Lord Fairfax who, by a compromise, executed a lease to Bean in 1777 for land on Paddy Mountain, being mineral land." In 1779 Mordecai purchased 300 acres from Evan Thomas "being part of the Ellis Thomas grant at the head of Hogg Creek". There was a "Bean's Smelter" which was afterwards called Taylor Furnace. The Bean family has an English origin. "Mordecai Bean married Judith Hammond, daughter of an old settler along Cedar Creek, and one of the pioneer names, that has disappeared from that section long since." Mordecai was known as "Major Bean". Cartmell gives extensive information about Mordecai's descendants. No mention was made of the lawsuit. No location of birth was given for Mordecai.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Find A Grave.

    Mordecai Bean

    Birth: Mar. 1744 [corrected, e-mailed Find-A-Grave submitter to correct birthdate which agrees with gravestone inscription]
    Death: Nov. 28, 1814

    Patriot of the American Revolutionary War, D.A.R. record A008025. Known to have supplied flour and iron products to the Continental Army. Mordecai was in Frederick County as early as 1767, and he purchased large acreages of land between 1771 & 1779 which eventually became the Bean homeplace. His family-line was of Scottish origin and Mordecai became rich (his is the only tablet-style tomb in the cemetery) overseeing the production of the iron furnace, located on his property across the road, with Isaac Zane, Jr.

    Inscription:
    In Memory of Mordecai Bean Who departed this life Nov 28 1814 Aged 70 years and 8 months "Here, O my feeble limbs here willingly lay, until that great and awful rising day, In which you shall never more be Subject to pain nor dread mortality Long have you served and answered my ends, But now you shall rest until time shall end O, how many changes have you not here seen, And all but vanity and vexation of spirit have been."

    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=107681212