December 9, 1721| St. Stephens Parish, Northumberland County,
Virginia Washington District, North Carolina |Known for||being
the first permanent settler in Tennessee| |Title||Commissioner,
Washington District, North Carolina| |Spouse(s)||Lydia Russell
(1726-1788)| Personal life  William Bean was born December 9,
1721 in St. Stephens Parish, Northumberland County, Virginia. In
1741 he married Lydia Russell (b. September 29, 1726). They were
to become the future Tennessee area's first permanent European-
American settlers; and were both of English descent. Frontier
settler  Bean was an associate of Daniel Boone's and a fellow
longhunter. In 1769, he built a cabin close to the junction of
Boone's Creek and Watauga Creek, near what is today Johnson
City, Tennessee. It is said[by whom?] that either Bean visited
the site with Boone, or Boone and a friend, Richard Callaway,
visited it when exploring as agents for Richard Henderson, a
land speculator who later played an important role in the early
settlement of Tennes