Some History of Van Zandt County, Volume 1 Page: 36
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36 SOME HISTORY OF VAN ZANDT COUNTY
being emptied to recruit the Spanish army. Bean was left in his
cell. He assured a Spanish officer that he would gladly fight
for the king if given his liberty to do so and a gun. For this
purpose and under his promise he was released and given a gun
and a sabre. He was loyal to the king about one fortnight,
awaiting an opportunity to join the republican forces under
Morelos, taking with him a large number of the royalist soldiers
and much munitions of war. According to his account he had
planned the affair with Morelos and marched his command into
a preconcerted trap. He so ingratiated himself into the confi-
dence of Morelos that upon leaving Acapulco with his army, he
placed Bean in command of the besieging forces encompassing
that place.
About the close of the year 1812, Bean had the satisfaction of
taking the town and its garrison by force of arms and making
prisoner of the Governor of the Castle who had been his master
in captivity. Remember this, about eleven years since he struck
his colors and surrendered on Nolan's River in Texas, as he said,
under promise of being conducted out of Texas and released.
Bean went on succeeding in one way and another; met and
married Senorita Anna Grothas, owner of the rich hacienda of
Benderillas, near Jalapa, between Vera Cruz and the City of
Mexico. In 1814 he was dispatched by General Morelos on a
mission to the United States, to procure aid for the patriot
cause in Mexico.
At the port of Nautla, on the gulf coast above Vera Cruz, he
boarded one of Lafitte's vessels, Captain Dominic, master. He
informed Dominic of his mission and was landed on the island
of Barrataria, 6elow New Orleans, where he met Lafitte, who con-
ducted him by a short route to New Orleans. There he found
General Jackson, who being an old friend of his family, invited
him to share in the glories of the 8th of January. He embraced
the offer and fought side by side with Lafitte with his accustomed
gallantry. After the battle of New Orleans, Lafitte furnished
him transportation to Nautla for himself and his munitions of
war for the patriot army of Mexico. Bean worked himself up
to where he held a high commission in the patriot army of Mexico
before the close of the revolution in 1821, when Morelos won for
the Mexican people their independence of the Spanish kingdom.
After the death of Morelos, and the conciliatory propositions of
Apodica, the fires of the Mexican revolution had so far expired
that Bean left the country and visited his native State. He
reached the residence of his half brother, Captain William Shaw,
in White County, Tennessee, in the spring of 1818. After re-
maining here sometime, he formed a matrimonial alliance with a
daughter of Isaac Midkiff. He then emigrated with his family
and father-in-law to Smackover Creek, in Arkansas. Here they
settled, without a neighbor within thirty miles of them, and com-
menced raising stock. At the end of three years his father-
in-law died. This event together with the news of the libera-
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Manning, Wentworth. Some History of Van Zandt County, Volume 1, book, 1919; Des Moines, Iowa. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth61110/m1/36/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .