To the Person searching for Robert Bean: Some members of the Bean family migrated from Pittsylvania Co. Va. to east Tennessee about 1775. That area of Tenn. would have been a part of N.C. at the time..Also, there is a creek in Mitchell Co., N.C. named Beans Creek, it flows into Big Rock Creek and is just south of the Tenn. N.C. line and south of Iron Mountain..The area which became Tenn..was known as the Washington District of N.C. and the Beans Creek would have been in Rowan, Burke, Yancey and finally Mitchell County, N.C... This may be a clue...G. Lee Hearl..