John Bean, Sr. (I)

4/20/2020 Edits. This comment is added about his 2nd wife Margaret and his name spelling. Some of the info added in the past below is outdated in terms of these 2 items. Also edited 4/20/20 was to remove children profiles who had been linked at some point mistakenly - they are either unknown or they are related to other individuals and were merged with those profiles. Also, the children had been misassigned to their mother. The mothers now reflect the correct order for the 12 children listed below.

1. John and his descendants always used the last name Bean in America.

2. His 2nd wife Margaret was an orphan who became indentured to Nicholas Lissen in England. She was brought over at age 12 with other indentured servants (including her future husband John Bean (MacBean). She was his 2nd wife after Hannah (Lissen) Bean died. Hannah was Nicholas Lissen's daughter, and some historical genealogies incorrectly state that Hannah and Margaret were sisters.

Hannad had 3 of John's children, and Margaret had the remaining 9. Until recently, many sources cited her surname as Edwards, either as a married name as a widow or as her maiden name. However, in about 2015, the family name organization Clan MacBean cite that her diary was found and gives her maiden name as Rees.

See www.clanmacbean.org

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John Bean

John Bean

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacBayne-2

John MacBean (Bean or MacBayne), son of Donald MacBean and Margaret Jane MacGillis, was raised in Inverness, at the head of Moray Firth in northern Scotland. At the age of 18, he joined the Scottish forces of Charles Stuart, the 20-year-old claimant to the British throne (who sought to overthrow the new Puritan regime of Lord General Oliver Cromwell and avenge the beheading of his father, King Charles I). Unfortunately, Cromwell's army was superior in arms and discipline and smashed the Scottish forces in the 1651 Battle of Worcester. While the Pretender, with a bounty of £1,000 upon his head, hid for a day inside a hollow oak tree at Boscobel and escaped to France disguised as a servant, John MacBean was taken prisoner, and transported by the English Crown to New England in 1651/52 as a Scotch prisoner." From a sept of the Clan Chattan, he was about 18 years old at the time of his transport. With him were John Sinclair (Sinkler) and Henry Magoon.

In the early 1600s, settlement of the Exeter and Dover areas of New Hampshire was primarily by the English. By about 1650, however, many Scottish prisoners of war were transported to the New Hampshire and Massachusetts areas. Some of these prisoners of war, now exiled from Scotland and indentured in America, were as young as 12 and 14 years old. John MacBean (recorded as John Beene on the transport documents) arrived in this country on "the John and Sarah", which docked in Boston on 24 February 1652.

Historically, the first Scottish prisoners (about 250 of them) were sent to Hammersmith in Saugus, Massachusetts, to work in the iron mills there. From there, prisoners were sent up to Dover and Exeter and to Southern Maine, to the saw mills, two of which were owned by a Scottish expatriot, Nicholas Lissen, who had emigrated in 1637. John was among those indentured workers assigned to the sawmills of Dover, New Hampshire. Records indicate these indentured Scottish prisoners were allotted some days to work their own land and some days to work at Lissen's sawmill.

John later gained his freedom when he married the daughter of Nicholas Lissen, Hannah Lissen. They married in 1654, when he was 21 and she 19. John became a business partner with Nicholas Lissen in sawmills until 1660, when he received a land grant in Exeter, New Hampshire. He dealt in real estate development, farming, tanning; by 1708 he had acquired about 20 farms. He was town pound keeper at one time; he surveyed the boundaries between Dover and Exeter, New Hampshire to end a 25-year-old dispute.

After bearing three children, Hannah died in 1659 at the age of 24, probably in childbirth. After her death, John married a second time to Margaret Edwards, born 1640 in Scotland, who came over as a 9-year-old orphan in 1652. She was an indentured servant, free by 1660, who may have been a widow. They were married on 15 November 1660 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

John settled at Exeter in 1660 and took the Oath of Allegiance in 1677. Margaret bore nine children over the next 20 years. Margaret Edwards Bean died in 1714, when John was 81. John himself died in 1718 at the age of 85. He was buried 8 February 1718/19 in the Congregational Churchyard, Exeter, New Hampshire.

Marriages and Children

1. Hannah Lissen (c.1635 - 1659), daughter of Nicholas Lissen, married in 1654.
   1. Mary Bean
   2. Henry Bean (1657 - 5 March 1662 Exeter, New Hampshire)
   3. Hannah Bean (born 1659), married Abraham Whitaker c.1680; had five children that were all massacred by Indians at their farm at Kingston, New Hampshire on 18 July 1692.
2. Margaret Edwards (1640 - 1714)
   1. John Bean (15 August 1661 - 18 May 1666 Exeter, New Hampshire)
   2. Daniel Bean (born 23 March 1663) married c.1684 to Mary Fifield
   3. Samuel Bean (born 23 May 1665) married Mary Severance
   4. John Bean (13 October 1668) married c.1700 to Sarah Wadleigh
   5. Margaret Bean (17 October 1670) married William Taylor
   6. James Bean (born 17 December 1672 Exeter, New Hampshire)
      1. Anna Coleman (1675 - 1696) married 1692 Exeter, New Hampshire
      2. Sarah Bradley (1677 - 1738) of Haverhill, Massachusetts, married 3 December 1697 at Exeter, New Hampshire
      3. Mary Prescott James (1677 - 6 January 1753 Kingston, New Hampshire)
   7. Jeremiah Bean (born 20 April 1675) married Ruth Johnson
   8. Elizabeth Bean (born 24 September 1678) married John Sinclair
   9. Catherine Bean (born 24 September 1680) married Richard Dolloff

From Stackpole's History of New Hampshire

"An item of some importance in the early history of New Hampshire has been overlooked by historians. This was the bringing in, as servants, of some Scotchmen, who had been taken prisoners by Oliver Cromwell in the Battle of Dunbar, September 3, 1650, and the Battle of Worcester, just one year later. One hundred and fifty from Dunbar were sent to Boston in the ship Unity and there sold to pay their passage money of twenty pounds apiece. They were forced to work as apprentices from six to eight years, after which they had their liberty and received grants of land in towns where they chose to settle. Two hundred and seventy-two more prisoners came over from the Battle of Worcester in the ship John and Sara. A score or more of these Scots were employed in the sawmills at Oyster River and Exeter, that then included Newmarket, and some became permanent settlers in those places. Among them were Walter Jackson and William Thompson's son John at Oyster River, John Hudson of Bloody Point, and John Sinclair, John Bean, Alexander Gordon and John Barber of Exeter. The descendants of these include some of the leading men in the state." (p. 76)

Stackpole's statement is corroborated by information contained in an article published in the October 1927 issue of The Journal of the Massachusetts Historical Society. The article states: "The tax lists and other sources of information show that Exeter also profited by this chattel slavery, as Nicholas Lissen of the latter place is credited with being master of some of the Worcester prisoners." (p. 28)

Bean states that an expatriate Scotsman by the name of Nicholas Lissen "was operating two lumber mills near Exeter, N.H." in 1651 (Bean 1977:5). Following Stackpole, he states that "the seven men who were indentured to Nicholas Lissen were: John Bean, John Barber, Alexander Gordon, John Sinclair (AKA Sinkler), John Hudson, John Thompson, and Walter Jackson. All were to be lifetime friends of John Bean." (Bean 1977:6)

Discussion

• John might have been born in 1634 rather than 1633; he was about 85 years old when he died.
• A family tradition that John Bean originally came to America with a bride of a only few months, who died during the journey and was buried at sea, has been discredited by the research of Dr. Ames, reported in the "Essex Antiquarian" in 1906. John MacBean came to this country aboard the "John and Sara" which carried only prisoners of war (no wives or women).

Sources and Further Information

• "John MacBean, 1633-1718." The Milkcan Papers. GreatGrand.com, 27 Mar. 2009. Web. 07 Nov. 2013.
• MacBean, Bernie. The Life and Family of John Bean of Exeter and His Cousins. Seattle: John Bean of Exeter Family Association, 1970. Print.
• "Old Norfolk County Oaths of Allegiance." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852): 202. Print.
• Stackpole, Everett S. History of New Hampshire. New York: American Historical Soc., 1916. Open Library. Internet Archive, 1 Apr. 2008. Web. 7 Nov. 2013.
• Scottish Prisoners of War: The John and Sarah

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Children: Mary Bean, Henry Bean, Hannah Whittacre (born Bean), John Bean, Daniel Bean, Samuel Bean, John Bean, Margaret Taylor (born Bean), James Bean, Jeremiah Bean, Elizabeth Sinkler (born Bean), Catherine Dolloff (born Bean)

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of the Chattan Clan and MacBean Clan Scotland.

John Bean fought at Worchester and captured. As prisoner of war was sent at age 18 to the America's as an indentured servant. As the civil war in England drew to a close, Scotland proclaimed Prince Charles as their King and Cromwell travelled north to crush this new threat to his power. The scottish regiments were comprised of clansmen of the Highland chieftains and they formed an army that was valient, but undisciplined and were Covenanters (Scottish Presbyterians) who could not be returned to their homeland, where they would undoubtedly cause more trouble

Nicolas Lissen had 2 saw mills in he Americas. He was of Scottish Irish decent and had earlier left Scotland because of the persecution as a Scottish Presbyterian. He first went to Ireland and then to the Americas. When the boat the "John and Sara" arrived with Scottish Presbyterians prisoners of war arrive in 1651 he bid on 7 Scottish prisoners and a 12 year old orphan girl named Margaret. 272 Prisoners were on that ship. Nicolas purchased that day John Bean (Macbyne-his name was changed when he arrived.), John Barber, Alexander Gordon, John Sinclair (his son John b 1668 married John Bean's daughter Elizabeth, then their daughter Sara married her first cousin John Bean the III son of James, Elizabeth's brother). John Hudson, John Thompson and Walter Jackson. All from Scottish Highland Chieftain Clans. .

2 years after John arrive and now 20 he married his employers daughter Hanna Lissen daughter of Nicolas Lissen. It has been reported that Hanna was probably born at sea when her parents first came in 1634. Once married John was relased as a indentured servant. They had 3 children...Mary 1655, Hannah, and Henry 1657. Then Hanna Lisson died in child birth in 1659. 1660 John married his second wife Margaret Edwards who was the 12 year old girl Nicholas Lisson had purchased at the same time as John Bean was. However, Margaret was now 18. Along with Hanna's children John and Margaret had 11 more children. Their first child John died at age 4 and their last 2 children in 1682 and 1684 died at birth.

............................... Notes from his grave...John was born 1634 in Strathdearn, Inverness-shire, Scotland. He was a prisoner brought to New England in 1651. He lived in Exeter, NH where he died between January 24 and February 8, 1718. His wife Hannah (Lissen) died in child birth. John signed a petition as an Exeter resident, dated August 10, 1692 asking equal privileges with Massachusetts "Whereas your Majesties have been graciously pleased to settle the government of the Province of Massachusetts wherein XXX we always hoped to have been included, but not finding it otherwise XXX we are but four poor towns daily exposed from French and Indian enemies." He was a pound keeper in Exeter where he was granted land in 1660. John's stone in Exeter in the front of the Congregational Church.

He settled in Exeter, New Hampshire as early as 1600, for on January twenty-first of 1661 a grant of land was made to him by the town. He received other grants October 10, 1664, April 1, 1671 and February 21, 1698. He also received land from other sources.

In 1671, he was one of a committee chosen to run the lines between Exeter and the adjoining towns. On November 30, 1677 he took the oath of allegiance to become a freeman; he was assessed in the "Province Rate" for Exeter made April 20, 1680, eight shillings and a penny; and was pound keeper the same year. John signed the New Hampshire Petition of 1689/90.

Bean, Beane, or Beanes, John, Exeter, had John, b. 15 Aug 1661, d. under 5 yrs; Daniel; Samuel; John, again, 13 Oct. 1668; Margaret; James; Jeremy, 20 Apr. 1675; and Elizabeth. >Savage, v1, p148.

Family links:

Spouses:

 Hannah Bean/MacBean (1635 - 1659)

 Margaret Edwards Bean/MacBean (1640 - 1714)

Children: Hanna Lissen

 Mary Bean Judkins (1655 - ____)*

 Henry Bean (1657 - 1662)*

 Hannah Bean Whittaker (1659 - 1692)*

Children: Margaret

 John Bean (1661 - 1666)*

 Daniel Bean (1662 - 1718)*

 Samuel Bean (1665 - ____)*

 John Bean (1668 - 1719)*

 Margaret Bean Taylor (1670 - 1766)*

 James Bean (1672 - 1753)*

 Jeremiah Bean (1675 - 1727)*

 Elizabeth Bean Sinclair (1678 - ____)*

 Catherine Bean Dolloff (1680 - ____)*

*Calculated relationship

Inscription: John Bean | 1634 – 1718 | Wife | Hannah | 1635 – 1659 | Wife | Margaret | 1640 – 1714

Our Pioneer Ancestors From the Highlands of Scotland The John Bean of Exeter Family Association 1972

Note: This memorial stone is on the right side of the church.

Burial: Congregational Church Burial Ground Exeter Rockingham County New Hampshire, USA

Created by: BL Hughes Record added: Jun 05, 2007 Find A Grave Memorial# 19729160

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Another Scots Battle of Dunbar POWs indentured to the colonies http://scottishprisonersofwar.com/john-bean-macbean-on-the-dunbar-p...

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John Bean was born before 1634 in Strathdearn, Scotland. He died in Feb 1717/18 in Exeter, N.H.. A Scotish prisoner taken after the Battle of Worcester, by Cromwell's men, and sent to America by Cromwell in 1651. Parents: Donald MacBayne. John Bean wound up in the Exeter sawmill. He was evedently well reguarded by its owner and selectman Nicholas Lissen, as he married Lissen's daughter Hannah after being there only two years. He was married to Hannah Lissen on 18 Apr 1654 in Exeter, N.H.

Children were:

1. Mary Bean,
2. Henry Bean,
3. Hannah Bean,

He was married to Margaret in 1660.

Children were:

1. John Bean,
2. Daniel Bean,
3. Samuel Bean,
4. John Bean,
5. Margaret Bean,
6. James Bean,
7. Jeremiah Bean,
8. Elizabeth Bean,
9. Catherine Bean.

From the Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: a record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 3 (Google eBook):

John Bean, the immigrant ancestor of the Beans, first appears as the grantee of land by the town of Exeter. New Hampshire, in 1660. Other grants were made to him October 10. 1664, April I, 1671. and February 21. 1698. John Fed. of Exeter, also conveyed to him, July 22, 1664, land in Exeter, consisting of a house lot of twenty acres, and other lots in Exeter containing ten, five and twenty-six acres respectively. In 1671. he was one of a committee chosen to run the lines between Exeter and adjoining towns; he took the oath of allegiance November 30, 1677; was pound keeper in 1780; and signed the famous New Hampshire petition of T68q99.

He married before 1661, Margaret. Margaret Bean joined Hampton Church in 1671, and good wife 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 170S, which was the last mention of her. She died before 1718. John Bean died 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, one: Mary; by the second wife, born in Exeter, ten; John (died young), Henry, Daniel, Samuel. John, Margaret, James, Jeremy, Elizabeth and Catherine.

See also: Scots Prisoners and their Relocation to the Colonies, 1650-1654

• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Sep 15 2018, 5:50:14 UTC

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John MacBean was born 1634 in Strathdearn, Inverness-shire, Scotland. In the spring of 1650, when Oliver Cromwell threatened to invade Scotland, great numbers of Scottish highlanders enlisted to defend their homeland. The Scots lost the Battle of Dunbar on September 3, 1650, but exactly a year later, a reorganized Scottish army prepared to fight Cromwell at what became known as the Battle of Worcester. It was during this battle, that at the age of sixteen, John was a soldier in General Monk’s army, roughly 12,000 Royalist, Scottish troops.

On September 3, 1651, they went forth with the design to place Charles II as king on the throne which was vacant by the execution of his father King Charles I. Charles II failed to provide the ammunition he had promised, and during the 10 hour battle that ensued, roughly 3,000 Royalists were killed and 7,000 taken prisoner, likely at Tuthill Fields prison in London.

On November 11, 1651, the ship “The Sarah and John” with 272 of these prisoners aboard, set sail for Boston, arriving there on February 24, 1652. Upon arrival in America, the prisoners were sold into indentured servitude. John, and six others worked for Nicholas Lissen, owner of saw mills on the Exeter River and the Oyster River in New Hampshire.

In April 18, 1654, John married Nicholas Lissen's daughter, Hannah Lissen in Exeter, New Hampshire and was given twenty acres of land as dowry by his father-in-law. Hannah and John had three children. Hannah died in childbirth of their third child. John eventually married Hannah's sister Margaret and had another 9 children.

John died in Exeter, New Hampshire at the age of 83 and is buried in the Church Yard of the Congregational Church.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacBayne-2

John (MacBayne) Bean is a member of Clan MacBean

John Bean formerly MacBayne aka MacBean was born before 1634 in Strathdearn, Scotland (Inverness) to Donald MacBean and Mary (MacGillis) MacBean. He is the brother of William Bean.

Husband of Hannah (Lissen) MacBayne — married 18 Apr 1654 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire

Husband of Margaret (Edwards) Bean — married 15 Nov 1660 in Exeter, New Hampshire (Rockingham)

He is the father of Mary (Bean) Judkins, Henry Bean, Hannah (Bean) Whitacre, John Bean, Daniel Bean, Samuel Bean, John Bean Jr, Margaret (Bean) Taylor, James Bean, Jeremiah Bean, Elizabeth (Bean) Sinclair and Catherine (Bean) Dolloff. John died on 24 Jan 1718 in Exeter, Rockingham Co, New Hampshire Profile manager: Bob Keniston Profile last modified 3 Nov 2017 | Created 18 Apr 2013

Clan MacBean tartan. John (MacBayne) Bean is a member of Clan MacBean.

Event: Type: Arrival Date: 24 FEB 1652 Place: Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA[1] John Bean of Exeter

It was February 24, 1652 in Boston. The sky was dark and there was asure hint of snow in the air. The atmosphere was heavy and the crowd of men who stood around the docks, (some out of curiosity; some who were waiting to unload freight from the incoming ship; and some waiting to meet friends and kin), pulled their heavy but crude coats closer around them. Some beat their hands to stimulate the circulation of blood to warm them. Some cursed the weather and some just stood around glumly waiting. The northeast wind seemed to be getting ready to drive the expected snow from the Atlantic skies and bury the docks and streets of this American Colonial town.

It was a day when few people had smiles on their faces; they all thought of getting home to their warm firesides and close the door tightly against the fierce wind and cold. However, the curious found the attraction of an incoming ship from England of greater pull than the inviting warmth of a stone fireplace, at least for the moment. It was a major attraction at this early colonial town on Cape Cod when a ship docked directly from London, and few people could resist coming to the docks no matter what kind of weather it was. Besides, this incoming ship was not exactly among the usual; there was something very special about this one. It was loaded with passengers rather than the full cargo of freight it usually carried. This always meant news from England and perhaps old friends to meet and talk with.

It was not until late afternoon, that a small ship came around the point, and tacked back and forth to get in the right position to enter the harbor. From a distance it could not be determined what ship it was. Visibility got poorer and poorer with the end of the day as the lowering clouds shut out the light before the ship could enter the harbor. It would spend the night at anchor. She would have to wait until morning to dock.

By morning light, even though it was still overcast and dull, it could be determined that the ship was The Sarah and John. She was weather-beaten and covered with ice. Some of the sheets were missing, indicating she’d had a hard crossing. Men soon took their places on the blocks and enough sail was raised to slowly move the ship in toward the harbor and docks. Very slowly she angled in, then the sails were furled and long ropes were cast to the men waiting on the dock. Blocks began to creak and strain, and the ship very slowly slid into its place. Lines were cast snugly and in a few minutes Capt. Jonathan Greene stepped onto the dock.

The decks of the ship were full of men, but these were not the usual people coming to the new land in America to carve out new homes from the wilderness; these men were what the English Government of Oliver Cromwell called “ruffians and troublemakers” in Scotland. Oh, but what wonderful ruffians and troublemakers they turned out to be, for they became the builders and designers of a great nation on the western side of the Atlantic Ocean.

On this 24th day of Feb. 1652, these 272 prisoners of war from the Battle of Worcester marched down the gangplank under guard. They had been in a great war but they were not returning home to families and loved ones as heroes; they were to be sold as indentured workers to pay the cost of their transportation to America, where Oliver Cromwell thought they would be well out of his way. He could not then look into the future and see that these men and their sons would one day rise up and smite the British nation a terrible blow and break the yoke of oppression that he himself designed.

These 272 men, after spending the long days and nights since Nov.11th in the hold of a small ship, without the things needed to keep clean, actually looked like ruffians. They were ill dressed and ill kept, but undemoralized; they all walked down the gangplank with chins high and backs straight. This was not a friendly crowd who met them on the docks; Bostonians then were good Englishmen, and loyal to the King and Oliver Cromwell. In spite of the unfriendly populace, these Scottish Highlanders would not cringe nor look crestfallen; they could still look any man in the eye and proudly march to an uncertain future, in the strong confidence of their ability to win “a place in the sun.”

These men had nothing to feel crestfallen about. They had fought like “The Scottish Wildcat” against the English Army, and had only lost the war because of treason. They hated Oliver Cromwell only a little less than their own King Charles, who had betrayed them at the critical time of the Battle of Worcester, by withholding ammunition just as the battle was engaged. They had lost a war, but were not defeated. They marched between guards on either side, from the ship to Saugus House, (to the north of Boston) where the auction was to be held, which sold them into indenture.

Among these 272 men were three who seemed to be together all the time. They were Henry Magoon, Alexander Gordon and John Bean. These three men had been buddies throughout the war, and had a special relationship that would last for many years to come, in the new land to which they had been shipped. Perhaps they had all enlisted in the spring of 1650, when Oliver Cromwell made moves that were a threat tot he Sovereignty of their native homeland. If these men were anything, they were patriots and any move against their country was a call to duty. The Scottish Highlanders, and especially The Clan MacBean, never failed to answer the call to arms when an enemy approached their borders.

They all marched through the cold and stormy February day for many miles to Saugus. There a year before, the British Government had built what was to be called “Saugus House,” a name which did not stick very well because all prisoners who were taken there were Scotsmen, so the place ever after was known as “Scotch House.” It was built as a center where all prisoners were discharged or sold into indenture. Those who could not pay the cost of their transportation across the Atlantic had to serve as indentured workers to pay for it; the others were discharged as prisoners. The hero of this story and progenitor of a great American family could not pay, so he was sold to the highest bidder for his labor.

John Bean, born as John MacBean, was born very probably in the late months of 1633 or early 1634 (the exact date is unknown), in Strathdearn, Inverness-Shire, Scotland. Tradition tells us that his father was Donald MacBean and that his grandfather was Aaron MacBean, the latter being born in 1570 in Inverness-Shire. They were proud members of the Clan MacBean which had lived in this area since the late 1200’s when the Clan migrated en masse from the east of Scotland. Tradition also tells us that John’s father and grandfather were farmers, leather makers and builders. This tradition would seem to be born out by the various occupations which John chose in America when he settled in Exeter, New Hampshire.

For several years before the war in Scotland, the people, and particularly the Clan MacBean, were very unhappy with King Charles. He seemed to be an opportunist, taking advantage of every occasion to advance aims contrary to the interests of true Scotsmen. There was great controversy over religion. There were periods when the rulers were Catholic and periods when they were Presbyterian. The general populace was, of course, Presbyterian, and when the rulers were Catholic there was great persecution. In young John’s family, they well knew the fear of soldiers coming at almost any time to arrest anyone who was a Presbyterian. Their kirk (church) worship services often had to be held in caves and swamps and out-of-the-way places to escape arrest. With a change of king or queen, conditions would change for a while, but the general atmosphere in the land was tense.

There was unrest and suspicion between people and king, and especially with King Charles. Therefore in the spring of 1650, when Oliver Cromwell threatened Scotland with invasion, the king tried to raise an army but had no success until he swore to the MacBeans that he would uphold “The Covenant.” Even though the Highlanders did not trust his word, they still enlisted in great numbers to defend Scotland. The Battle of Dunbar on Sept. 3, 1650 was a great loss to Scotland, but the Army managed to regroup and hold the enemy at bay for a time. The army was then reorganized, and General David was put in command; a fine, patriotic and competent soldier. On the morning of Sept. 3, 1651, exactly a year after Dunbar, the Scottish army was in a good position to defend itself, but through the perfidy of the king, there was no ammunition. Even so, by the words of Oliver Cromwell himself, the Highlanders very nearly won the day, fighting with their muskets as clubs and using stones and anything they could get their hands on as weapons. However, by the end of the day Cromwell won, and Scotland, as an independent nation, was no more. John MacBean was a prisoner of war and destined to spend the rest of his life in the new land of America.

All of the prisoners were herded under convoy to the Artillery Grounds, Tot hill Field, about a half mile west of Parliament House. About three hundred were selected for transportation to New England, and on November 11th, The Sarah and John left the downs with orders to proceed to Boston with these men aboard. Young John MacBean, without any kin to bid him farewell and alone in the world, must have been a very bitter young man. It appears that the bitterness was in his heart for many years, for it was not until after both King Charles and Oliver Cromwell were dead, that he finally took the oath of allegiance to the crown in 1677.

It was on this ship that John’s name was changed. It is said by Charles Thomas Libby that the ship’s clerk, who made out the lists of men aboard, was an almost illiterate fellow and knew no Scotch Gaelic. He haggled the spelling of all names. With the Highlanders he left off the “Mac” from the names. After landing in America, John seems to have left it that way, and he is forever after known as JOHN BEAN OF EXETER. Many of his descendants wish he had not allowed the change. It is very probable that the two months John spent on board ship to America, was a time of loneliness and searching of his own mind and heart. He would never see any of his family again and he had only himself to depend on in a wilderness country. He knew that his life would never be easy but as is true with all Highlanders, he did not fear, but gathered the courage to be strong, even though treated as a ruffian by those who had charge of delivering him to America.[2]

Death

Death: Jan. 24, 1718, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA.[3]

Sources

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John Bean, Sr. (I)

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Biography

John MacBean was born 1634 in Strathdearn, Inverness-shire, Scotland. In the spring of 1650, when Oliver Cromwell threatened to invade Scotland, great numbers of Scottish highlanders enlisted to defend their homeland. The Scots lost the Battle of Dunbar on September 3, 1650, butexactly a year later, a reorganized Scottish army prepared to fight Cromwell at what became known as the Battle of Worcester. It was during this battle, that at the age of sixteen, John was a soldier in General Monk’s army, roughly 12,000 Royalist, Scottish troops.
On September 3, 1651, they went forth with the design to place CharlesII as king on the throne which was vacant by the execution of his father King Charles I. Charles II failed to provide the ammunition he had promised, and during the 10 hour battle that ensued, roughly 3,000 Royalists were killed and 7,000 taken prisoner, likely at Tuthill Fields prison in London. On November 11, 1651, the ship “The Sarah and John” with 272 of these prisoners aboard, set sail for Boston, arriving there on February 24, 1652. Upon arrival in America, the prisoners were sold into indentured servitude. John, and six others worked for Nicholas Lissen, owner of saw mills on the Exeter River and the Oyster River in New Hampshire. In April 18, 1654, John married Nicholas Lissen's daughter, Hannah Lissen in Exeter, New Hampshire and was given twenty acres of land as dowry by his father-in-law. Hannah and John had three children. Hannah died in childbirth of their third child. John eventually married Hannah's sister Margaret and had another 9 children. John died in Exeter, New Hampshire at the age of 83 and is buried in the Church Yard of the Congregational Church.

Event

: Event: :: Type: Arrival :: Date: 24 FEB 1652:: Place: Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA<ref>Source: #S43</ref>

John Bean of Exeter ===It was February 24, 1652 in Boston. The sky was dark and there was asure hint of snow in the air. The atmosphere was heavy and the crowd of men who stood around the docks, (some out of curiosity; some who were waiting to unload freight from the incoming ship; and some waiting to meet friends and kin), pulled their heavy but crude coats closer around them. Some beat their hands to stimulate the circulation of blood towarm them. Some cursed the weather and some just stood around glumly waiting. The northeast wind seemed to be getting ready to drive the expected snow from the Atlantic skies and bury the docks and streets of this American Colonial town.

It was a day when few people had smiles on their faces; they all thought of getting home to their warm firesides and close the door tightly against the fierce wind and cold. However, the curious found the attraction of an incoming ship from England of greater pull than the inviting warmth of a stone fireplace, at least for the moment. It was a major attraction at this early colonial town on Cape Cod when a ship docked directly from London, and few people could resist coming to the docks no matter what kind of weather it was. Besides, this incoming ship was not exactly among the usual; there was something very special aboutthis one. It was loaded with passengers rather than the full cargo offreight it usually carried. This always meant news from England and perhaps old friends to meet and talk with. It was not until late afternoon, that a small ship came around the point, and tacked back and forth to get in the right position to enter the harbor. From a distance it could not be determined what ship it was.Visibility got poorer and poorer with the end of the day as the lowering clouds shut out the light before the ship could enter the harbor. It would spend the night at anchor. She would have to wait until morning to dock. By morning light, even though it was still overcast and dull, it couldbe determined that the ship was The Sarah and John. She was weather-beaten and covered with ice. Some of the sheets were missing, indicating she’d had a hard crossing. Men soon took their places on the blocks and enough sail was raised to slowly move the ship in toward the harbor and docks. Very slowly she angled in, then the sails were furled and long ropes were cast to the men waiting on the dock. Blocks began to creak and strain, and the ship very slowly slid into its place. Lines were cast snugly and in a few minutes Capt. Jonathan Greene steppedonto the dock. The decks of the ship were full of men, but these were not the usual people coming to the new land in America to carve out new homes from the wilderness; these men were what the English Government of Oliver Cromwell called “ruffians and troublemakers” in Scotland. Oh, but what wonderful ruffians and troublemakers they turned out to be, for theybecame the builders and designers of a great nation on the western side of the Atlantic Ocean. On this 24th day of Feb. 1652, these 272 prisoners of war from the Battle of Worcester marched down the gangplank under guard. They had beenin a great war but they were not returning home to families and lovedones as heroes; they were to be sold as indentured workers to pay thecost of their transportation to America, where Oliver Cromwell thought they would be well out of his way. He could not then look into the future and see that these men and their sons would one day rise up and smite the British nation a terrible blow and break the yoke of oppression that he himself designed. These 272 men, after spending the long days and nights since Nov.11th in the hold of a small ship, without the things needed to keep clean, actually looked like ruffians. They were ill dressed and ill kept, butundemoralized; they all walked down the gangplank with chins high andbacks straight. This was not a friendly crowd who met them on the docks; Bostonians then were good Englishmen, and loyal to the King and Oliver Cromwell. In spite of the unfriendly populace, these Scottish Highlanders would not cringe nor look crestfallen; they could still look any man in the eye and proudly march to an uncertain future, in the strong confidence of their ability to win “a place in the sun.” These men had nothing to feel crestfallen about. They had fought like “The Scottish Wildcat” against the English Army, and had only lost the war because of treason. They hated Oliver Cromwell only a littleless than their own King Charles, who had betrayed them at the critical time of the Battle of Worcester, by withholding ammunition just as the battle was engaged. They had lost a war, but were not defeated. They marched between guards on either side, from the ship to Saugus House, (to the north of Boston) where the auction was to be held, which sold them into indenture. Among these 272 men were three who seemed to be together all the time.They were Henry Magoon, Alexander Gordon and John Bean. These three men had been buddies throughout the war, and had a special relationshipthat would last for many years to come, in the new land to which theyhad been shipped. Perhaps they had all enlisted in the spring of 1650, when Oliver Cromwell made moves that were a threat tot he Sovereignty of their native homeland. If these men were anything, they were patriots and any move against their country was a call to duty. The Scottish Highlanders, and especially The Clan MacBean, never failed to answer the call to arms when an enemy approached their borders. They all marched through the cold and stormy February day for many miles to Saugus. There a year before, the British Government had built what was to be called “Saugus House,” a name which did not stick very well because all prisoners who were taken there were Scotsmen, so the place ever after was known as “Scotch House.” It was built as acenter where all prisoners were discharged or sold into indenture. Those who could not pay the cost of their transportation across the Atlantic had to serve as indentured workers to pay for it; the others weredischarged as prisoners. The hero of this story and progenitor of a great American family could not pay, so he was sold to the highest bidder for his labor. John Bean, born as John MacBean, was born very probably in the late months of 1633 or early 1634 (the exact date is unknown), in Strathdearn, Inverness-Shire, Scotland. Tradition tells us that his father was Donald MacBean and that his grandfather was Aaron MacBean, the latter being born in 1570 in Inverness-Shire. They were proud members of the Clan MacBean which had lived in this area since the late 1200’s when the Clan migrated en masse from the east of Scotland. Tradition also tells us that John’s father and grandfather were farmers, leather makers and builders. This tradition would seem to be born out by the various occupations which John chose in America when he settled in Exeter,New Hampshire. For several years before the war in Scotland, the people, and particularly the Clan MacBean, were very unhappy with King Charles. He seemed to be an opportunist, taking advantage of every occasion to advance aims contrary to the interests of true Scotsmen. There was great controversy over religion. There were periods when the rulers were Catholic and periods when they were Presbyterian. The general populace was, of course, Presbyterian, and when the rulers were Catholic there was greatpersecution. In young John’s family, they well knew the fear of soldiers coming at almost any time to arrest anyone who was a Presbyterian. Their kirk (church) worship services often had to be held in caves and swamps and out-of-the-way places to escape arrest. With a change of king or queen, conditions would change for a while, but the general atmosphere in the land was tense. There was unrest and suspicion between people and king, and especiallywith King Charles. Therefore in the spring of 1650, when Oliver Cromwell threatened Scotland with invasion, the king tried to raise an armybut had no success until he swore to the MacBeans that he would uphold “The Covenant.” Even though the Highlanders did not trust his word, they still enlisted in great numbers to defend Scotland. The Battle of Dunbar on Sept. 3, 1650 was a great loss to Scotland, but the Army managed to regroup and hold the enemy at bay for a time. The army was then reorganized, and General David was put in command; a fine, patriotic and competent soldier. On the morning of Sept. 3, 1651, exactly a year after Dunbar, the Scottish army was in a good position to defend itself, but through the perfidy of the king, there was no ammunition. Even so, by the words of Oliver Cromwell himself, the Highlanders very nearly won the day, fighting with their muskets as clubs and usingstones and anything they could get their hands on as weapons. However, by the end of the day Cromwell won, and Scotland, as an independent nation, was no more. John MacBean was a prisoner of war and destined to spend the rest of his life in the new land of America. All of the prisoners were herded under convoy to the Artillery Grounds, Tot hill Field, about a half mile west of Parliament House. About three hundred were selected for transportation to New England, and on November 11th, The Sarah and John left the downs with orders to proceedto Boston with these men aboard. Young John MacBean, without any kin to bid him farewell and alone in the world, must have been a very bitter young man. It appears that the bitterness was in his heart for manyyears, for it was not until after both King Charles and Oliver Cromwell were dead, that he finally took the oath of allegiance to the crownin 1677. It was on this ship that John’s name was changed. It is said by Charles Thomas Libby that the ship’s clerk, who made out the lists of men aboard, was an almost illiterate fellow and knew no Scotch Gaelic. He haggled the spelling of all names. With the Highlanders he left offthe “Mac” from the names. After landing in America, John seems tohave left it that way, and he is forever after known as JOHN BEAN OF EXETER. Many of his descendants wish he had not allowed the change. Itis very probable that the two months John spent on board ship to America, was a time of loneliness and searching of his own mind and heart.He would never see any of his family again and he had only himself todepend on in a wilderness country. He knew that his life would never be easy but as is true with all Highlanders, he did not fear, but gathered the courage to be strong, even though treated as a ruffian by those who had charge of delivering him to America.<ref>Bernie Bean, The Life and Family of John Bean of Exeter and HisCousins, Seattle Genealogical Society, 1970.</ref>

Death ===Death: Jan. 24, 1718, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA.<ref>John Bean/MacBean, Memorial #19729160, FindAGrave, Record added: Jun 05,2007, accessed Oct 16, 2015.</ref>

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