Brief Life History of James
When James Bean was born about 1784, in Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Col John Bean, was 34 and his mother, Hannah Ames, was 31. He married Susannah Bigelow about 1809, in Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died in Vermont, Howard Township, Howard, Indiana, United States.
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- James, "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016"
- James in entry for Helen Bean, "England, Yorkshire, Bishop's Transcripts, 1547-1957"
- James, "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1788 · New Hampshire Helps Ratify the US Constitution
On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and final state needed to ratify the US Constitution and make it the official law of the land
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
English: nickname for a pleasant person, from Middle English bēne ‘friendly, amiable’.
English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of beans, from Middle English bene ‘bean’ (Old English bēan ‘beans’, a collective singular). The broad bean, Vicia faba, was a staple food in Europe in the Middle Ages. The green bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, came from South America and was not introduced to Europe until the late 16th century. The word bene was commonly used to denote something of little worth, and occasionally it may have been applied as a nickname for someone considered insignificant.
English: possibly a habitational or topographic name. Redmonds, Dictionary of Yorkshire Surnames, cites Adam del Bene of Harrogate (1351) as evidence to suggest that in the Harrogate area, where the Yorkshire name later proliferated, it may have been derived from a place where beans grew.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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