General Notes

Russell Bean was the youngest child of Captain William Bean and Lydia Russell Bean, and his name has been im- mortalzed as "the first white child born in Tennessee". If tradition is to be believed, he grew up Iflo be a handsome youth with black, curly hair and fine physique. He married a. daughter of 'Captain Charles Robertson, a man of culture, an emigrant from South Carolina and trustee of the Wa tauga, sutlers until their lands were purchased' outright from the Indians. He was sometimes called "Black Charles Robertson," ei'h'.r beoaiuse of his swarlhiness of com plexion ur to distinguish him from another Charles Robert son of the settlement. Russell Bean early developed a propensity for adventure, often leaving his wife in Washington County, he acted as pilot for convoys down the river from Knoxvi'lle to the Climb.' Hand settlements. Later in the same capacity he 'travelvd 'between Memphis and Natchez, .'