Homestead located a mouth of Boone's creek. Granted 1000 acres from a
land grant in North Carolina across from brother William. John and
Daniel Boone built a cabin on Boone's Creek in 1761, as a hunting cabin.
He later traded the original land grant in Washington County, NC for 1000
acres in Grainger County, Tennessee.
Served in Capt William Russell's unit during Dunmore's War (1774)
According to "Sequatche", by J. Leonard Raulston. John and his brother
Capt William scattered a band of Tories and hung 9 of them at Kings
Mountain, SC.
From "In the Sweet By and By" by Mary Coghlan White:
"Tories..reinforced Indian attacks..Tories concealed themselves high in
the mountains. Capt Bean and his wig comrades, including his son George,
his brother John, and John's son, Edmund, ferreted them out and fired
upon and wounded their leader, Capt Henry Grimes"
"In 1784, Washington, Sullivan and Gilbert counties formed the
independent State of Franklin...John Bean was a delegate from Washington"
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