History of Bucks County, Pa Volume 3 by William H. Davis
Names and Page # Index
Beans FamilySubmitted by Linda Musgrave" at no1rosemom@hotmail.com Some dates have been omitted due to privacy concerns. This Genealogy was updated on Oct 2002 Please Note This is a correction to the Bean Family Genealogy This is the Genealogy of the Beans Family of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, owners and residents of "Indian Springs" farm, for two hundred and thirty-two years. Mary and William Beans sailed for America in 1687. They died on board the ship, and their two children, young William, age 5, and Elinor, an infant at the time, were taken in and raised by "Friends" or Quakers. Young William, at the age of sixteen married Elizabeth Sands. (1692) In 1740, their second son, Mathew, paid Adam Harker, five pounds and six shillings, for seventy-one acres of land. Seven years later, he bought more acreage from Ebinezer Large. With this land, came the "Indian Springs" Mathew was thirty-one years old when he moved from Southampton Township to Halifax (later called Mechanicsville, Bucks county). Mathew was born on December 10, 1709, the second son of Young William and wife Elizabeth. Mathew married Margery Paxton on May 2, 1734. Margery was born September 24,1716 in Falls Friends Mtg. Bucks county Pa. She died sometime before 1763, in Buckingham Twp. Bucks County, Pa. Mathew and his wife,Margery Paxton-Beans, had two sons, David and Jonathan. In his will, Mathew bequeathed the home and land of "Indian Springs to his oldest son,David. The adjacent farm went to Jonathan, with access to the springs for watering his creatures. Jonathan’s farm is believed to have later became the "Percel"farm. Mathew and Margery also had a daughter Ann and possibly a son Aaron, but the land was divided between David and Jonathan in Mathew’s will. David’s eldest son, John, inherited the farm. Henery Beans and his wife Elizabeth Stitsman Beans were the next to raise their family on Indian Springs farm. Henry and Elizabeth had eight children. The oldest, Watson, inherited the farm next. Watson’s brother, Samuel S.Beans,(my grandfather), was the husband of Esther Appleton – Beans. Esther and Sam had two children. Ethel Appleton Beans, whose twin sister, Edith, died when she was nine months old, September 7, 1902. At 9 O’clock a.m. The twins were born on December 11,1901, Ethel Appleton Beans-Skill, (my mother), died when she was 52 years old, June 4, 1953. Esther and Sam’s son, Leonardo List Beans,was born on July 26th 1904. Thursday morning at 10:45 A.M. He died on December 14, 1979 and is buried in Ewings Cemetery, on Scotch Rd. in Trenton, New Jersey. In a mausoleum. (There is a stone in Forest Grove cemetery with his name on it, but he wasn’t buried there.) Ardo, as he was called, never married. Samuel S. Beans and his wife, Esther Appleton-Beans, and daughter, Ethel Appleton Beans – Skill, are buried in Forest Grove Cemetery, in Mechanicsville, Pa. (near rt. 413 ) Sam and "Essie", as she was called, also adopted a child. Nettie Smith Beans-Bancroft. She came to live with them at four years of age. Esther had lost her son, Clarence C. Beans, born April 12, 1896 (at 11a.m.) on a Sunday and died April 12,1896 at 1:00 P.M. There is a family rumor to the effect that Nettie was possibly Sam’s daughter by a previous marriage. (The Bancroft family is working on her true identity at this time. May 24,2001) When Samuel S. Beans brother,Watson died, the family farm, Indian Springs Farm in Mechanicsville, passed on to Watson’s son, Warren Beans. Warren and Elsie sold the farm, thus ending two hundred and thirty-nine years of family ownership. Some thirty years later Mr. And Mrs. Guilliaem Aertsen III became owners of "Indian Springs farm" and put in many improvements to the home, but made sure the old pump remained by the kitchen door and the Judas tree still lived. They used the stones from the streets of Mechanicsville to build the addition on to the house in order to retain the charm of the home. In 1995, Joe and Marie Dillon became the new owners of this 18th century fieldstone farmhouse. They also have retained the charm of my family’s Ancestral Home in Mechanicsville, Pa. My grandfather and his seven brothers and sisters lived there and went to school at Hickory Grove school on Durham Road and later to Tyro Hall grade school on Holicong Road. When the church in Mechanicsville was built in 1892, the Beans family donated the stone for it, brought in their farm wagon. The new owners have respected the property and the family history. Hopefully, this house with all its charm and history will remain sitting proudly on its land for many years to come. Linda Alaythia Skill – Musgrave Daughter of Ethel Appleton Beans – Skill Joseph Wilmer Skill May 24, 2001 On this page I will endeavor to put the immediate family of Samuel S. Beans in chronological order of birth and death dates to the best of my ability. Most, but not all, dates taken from the Beans Family bible, written in by Esther Appleton Beans, wife of Samuel S. Beans. "Not for the ancestors passed on long ago, but for all the descendants to come……….Our life will never be lived in vain, if it lives on in the heart of someone."
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