Mary Yes, I'm sure they are one and the same. I can't believe with all my research I hadn't heard of William Bean or his station until these exchanges. I found the first reference in " The Beginnings" by John Buchanan. Then I looked him up on Google and found the site you sent over, thank you. I haven't had time to read everything yet. In "The Beginning" it said John Christian came across William Beans small settlement in 1768. In "Tinkling Spring: Headwater of Freedom" It has John Christian's muster roll of 75 men in 1742 included William Maxwell's Father, John Maxwell. It was the year William was born. This was Augusta Co., VA. I need to sit and do some more reading as these names come together. Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Miller" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 7:27 AM Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] Col. John Donelson's Co. - Maxwell > The William Bean you are talking about, could this be the one from Bean's > Station? Cherokee Lake area, Bean's Station is still above water, but > German Creek is underwater and Henry and Peter Turney along with a Beeler > nephew were there....Henry moved 1780 to Cumberland......I have some land > records I think for that area and will dig them out. I seem to remember a > Funkhouser living nearby - notice all the German names, perhaps why it was > called German Creek. > > I think this is Grainger Co now, but way back it was Hawkins....and before > that it might have fallen in Spencer County of State of Franklin. > > It was a well known early station.....kind of the last stop before > Cumberland Gap, so a lot of people moving to Cumberland area went thru > Bean's Station area. > > Mary > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard and Pat" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:18 AM > Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] Col. John Donelson's Co. - Maxwell > > >> Gene: >> >> Thank you for all of that information. Everyone has been very helpful. > I >> have seen most of those records in the Tennessee histories and don't know >> which line most of them belong to. So many Williams, Johns, Thomas' and >> James' I have to be careful placing them. >> >> The siblings of our William Maxwell were: >> John, Margaret Mary, WILLIAM, James, Thomas, Audley. The Tax lists for >> Logan Co., KY show William to be there from 1795 until his death in 1820 > and >> he and his sons were the only Maxwells on the lists. >> >> Two of his brothers in Virginia, I am told, were in the battle of King >> Mountain and I am supposing William was too but haven't found him on the >> partial lists I have found, or his brothers either. I have about a 40 > year >> gap between when William was born in Virginia (1742) and when his son, >> William Jr., was born in Davidson Co., TN., later to be Sumner Co. I > keep >> trying to place his movements during that time. >> >> Someone e-mailed me awhile back to say that William's wife was Mary BEAN. >> This was exciting news as I had not been able to find a marriage record > for >> him and didn't know Mary's maiden name. When I asked where she had found >> that information I didn't hear back from her. William Jr. moved to the >> Arkansas Territories about 1811. In the 1821 tax list for Crawford >> County >> was a Mark Bean and a Richard Bean. William Jr. and Mark Bean had side >> by >> side homesteads in Washington Co., AR. and William Maxwell and his wife, > Ann >> Rea Billingsley, are buried in the BEAN CEMETERY on the Bean Homestead. >> >> I was going through one of the sites someone sent to the list during this >> exchange and in it I found the story of WILLIAM BEAN who set up a small >> community 4 1/2 miles above modern Knoxville sometime before 1768. He > was >> called the first white settler into Tennessee. The first child of > William >> Maxwell Sr. and Mary was born 1768. Could William have been among that >> small group with William Bean??? >> >> Isn't this fun? Like a giant puzzle, and we love the hunt. Thanks again >> everyone. Without each other the search would be endless. >> Pat Stevens >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Gene Phillips" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 7:51 PM >> Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] Col. John Donelson's Co. - Maxwell >> >> >> > At 03:27 PM 7/9/2007, you wrote: >> >>-------------------------------------------------- >> >>NOTE: >> >>There was a David Maxwell and a James Maxwell listed in other very >> >>early >> >>records. >> >>David Maxwell received 640 acres from a NC Grant in 1787. >> >>------------------------------------------- >> > >> > >> > David Maxwell never got to use his land grant. He was killed by Indians > at >> > Caney Fork one one of the later trips he made from VA to Davidson > County. >> > William and Moses, the heirs of David inherited his land grant and sold > it >> > to Judge John Overton. The land grant is located around the site of >> > Traveler's Rest. David's brother Jesse (my ggg-gf) claimed 640 acres to >> > the south of David's. My ggg-gf William Phillips did not have an > original >> > land grant, but lived on adjoining property to the west of Jesse. He >> > married Jesse's daughter, Elizabeth. Judge Overton's son, John Jr, >> > married Jesse's granddaughther. Harriett. Her father was Jesse Jr. John >> > Overton Jr built the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville. He named it >> > after >> > his wife's family. >> > >> > Jacob Cheek, a coffee merchant persuaded him to serve his coffee in his >> > hotel. That was the start of the Maxwell House Coffee Company. >> > >> > Also a history of the Maxwell family says the William and Moses Maxwell >> > went to Cincinnati "Northwest Territories" >> > >> > Gene >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message