I have been discussing with Patricia about some early Montgomery Co. ancestors and I felt that I should send this out for people who are also in the Bean family (or at least have it archived). From "Deaths in the Skippack Region", person 349: Correction: An error in the translation of the original German manuscript has been called to the attention of the compiler. The item No. 349 should read ³Old Henrich Bien his wife died October 30, 1830.² A visit to the Lower Skippack Mennonite Cemetery where Henry Bean and his wife Susannah Detweiler are buried was made in an effort to resolve the problem posed by this new light on the family. The pertinent stones are in only a fair state of preservation and read as near can be deciphered: ³In Memory of Susannah Been wife of Henry Been who died October 31, 1830 aged 72y 2m 14d² and Henry Been who departed this life the 1st day of April 1846 aged 85y 6m 1d.² These graves are in Row 10, numbers 12 and 13; of the two, that of Henry Bean is in the poorer condition. To the casual observer, the 1846 looks like 1816, but a comparison of ages which are relatively distinct seems to indicate he was born 1760 she in 1758. A further examination of tax lists for Skippack Township from 1811 through 1847 fails to change the presumption that this Henry Bean was the son of John Bean and his wife Catherine Cassel, married Susannah Detweiler and had issue as heretofore given. (transcribed by Michel Metford-Platt) I don't have any more of these transcribed, only hard copy which I will probably scan as they are important little documents. Give me time!