Peter Ohmer Descendants

This basis of the story of the BEAN family from 1730 through the mid-1800s is taken from the second volume of the BEAN genealogy. This is a 1,064 page book published in 1976 by THE CLAN MacBEAN Register, P. O. Box 279, Cut and Shoot, Texas, 77301. The information was compiled by Bernie and Carol Bean. The section related to this family begins on page 341, The Pennsylvania Beans includes a number of groups. This is only a reference to The Mercer County Beans which also begins on page 341 and continues through page 372 covering families numbered 7007 through 7051. The numbers in btackets are the RIN numbers in this genealogy. This line begins with William Bean, born in Scotland about 1730 (family 7007), and continues through James Bean from Stokes County, North Carolina (family 7059). Again, the scope of this descendancy is arbitrarily limited. This will only cover the direct line from William to Emmett Law Bean, born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1872 (family 7045). Individual entries will be cover the direct line and their siblings. Descendants of the siblings will be discussed in the notes. The base data for this line "comes from a sort of genealogy written in 1906 by E. F. Bean of Transfer, Pennsylvania. It appears to have been a 'hurried' work for it is so very brief and incomplete." Mrs. Arvilla Bean Hill researched many sources, by corespondence, to expand on the 1906 information. The basic defects of the original information could not be surmounted. The text will discuss problems in the book. Since Hugh was born in 1750, it is assumed he was the oldest child. There is information concerning 10 children with five birth years or estimated years given. For the other five this will use "abt" in the desgination. The entry for Andrew (family 7027) contains a question since he may have been born in Philadelphia after William brought his family to the United States. Betsey is listed second last (penultimate) since there seems to have been the birth of a child each year. Betsey may have been anywhere in the sequence. In 1985, J (Jack). C. Heck provided information concerning William (family 7029), Thomas (family 7011), and Betsey. Mr Heck was a decendent of Betsey. The information is from a letter by Mrs. M. C. Moseley dated 11 September 1937 and is entered in the record for each child. In 1833 their brother, James, affirmed that he was 85 years of age which is suspect since his recorded age is eight years later. In his statement he affirmed that both William and Thomas served with Samuel Nelson's Pennsylvania Company during the Revolution. The spellings of the surname varies. In his affidavid, James signed his name BEANES and William is shown as BEANS. William is believed to have fled from Scotland to North Ireland after the battle of Culloden and lived there while his family of ten children were born. He is believed to have come to Pennsylvania in 1760. The entire family moved to York County. They all moved again to Hannahtown, Westmoreland County after the Wiskey Rebellion in 1794. They moved in mass in 1800 to Mercer County Pennsylvania.