Battle: | Battle of Worcester in Worcester, Worcestershire, England |
Ship/Arrival: | John & Sara, May 1652 |
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William Beames, [Beanes?], “Scotch Prisoners Sent to Massachusetts in 1652, By Order of the English Government” 1
Similar Names on the John and Sara List:
Banes [Bayne], William
Beames, William
Benne [Bene or Benny], James
Benne, John 2
First Generation in the New World
1. WILLIAM BEAMES, was born presumably in Scotland.
Biographical Notes: Trying to determine whether the name should be BeaMes OR BeaNes. 🙂
Published: 24 Mar 2020
Researchers: Ellen Gaboury, Teresa Rust
Editors: Teresa Rust
SOURCES and NOTES:
There is a William¹ BEANES in Salem by 1668, He marries and has children in Salem. “William BEANES, 1668, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Petitions against imposts, 1668, Residence” 3 He married at Salem by 1669, SARAH BUFFUM.
Children of William and Sarah (Buffum) Bean:
2. JOSHUA² BEAN, m. first at Salem on 23 Jun 1701, MARY SLUE.
2. MARTHA BEAN, m. 08 Dec 1709, SAMUEL POPE.
2. WILLIAM BEAN, b. in 1667; m., first, at Salem on 06 Feb 1695/6, HANNAH VERRY. m., second, at Salem on 29 Oct 1702, MARTHA MINSLOW.
Possible children:
ELIZABETH BEAN
TAMSIN BEAN
DEBORAH BEAN
William Bean died at Salem in 1715 ad in his will he mentions his son, JOSHUA BEAN, and WILLIAM BEAN. There is a Samuel and MARTHA POPE. It is hard to read the record.4

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By John Osborne Austin
- Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/rd/21065/379/1425475639 [↩]
- “October Meeting, 1927. Francis Tiffany Bowles; Scotch Deported to New England, 1651-52; Letters of Henry Clay.” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 61 (1927): 1-30. Accessed March 24, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/25080212. [↩]
- Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/t/21073/85/1427077863 [↩]
- Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB515/rd/13745/2213-co1/244905064 [↩]