Someone asked about a James Bean, and when I looked in the CD of wills, I found adm papers that used the spelling Bean (Bane), which got me thinking, so I looked under Bean and Bane, in Futhey and Cope....found the following on the Bane family, who seemed to have James in each generation, and might be the 'way to go' when researching James Bean. S. BEAN (BANE), JAMES. Chester County.January 6, 1809.Esther Bean and Daniel Meredith, Administrators. Alexander Bane...Merion...bought 300 acres Goshen 1711 and settled there. 1713 married Jane Moore and had ch - Jane, Mary, William Catharine, Alexander and David; Wm m Margaret, dau Thomas Evans ca 1746 and had ch - Alexander, Thomas, Elizabeth (m Jonathan Hoopes), Wm, Jesse, Nathan, Abner, Jane and James. Mordecai Bane, probably bro of Alexander, bought land in 1715, Goshen, where he died ca 1747 leaving second wife, Mary (Teague) and children - Mordecai, Nathan, James, Joseph, Mary, Samuel, Isaac, Sarah, Hannah, Rachel, Barbara, and Jane. Nathan Bane, s Mordecai, m 12-27-1735, Mary Cock, d Henry and Mary Cock, of Long Island b 8-8-1711. He died Goshen 1748, leaving 8 children. Among them, Amy, m Nathan Cope 1758, Sarah m Thomas Hoopes 1763, James m Ruth Waln, 1765. Elizabeth m Daniel Hoopes 1762, Deborah m Samuel Rea, 1774.