Martin Allen a respectable and honorable inhabitant of this
Jurisdiction who being duly Sworn to depose the truth as to what he
knows relative to Said Bean makes the following declaration—to
wit—that this deponent lived a number of years in the Same Section
of Country in the Arkansas Territory with Said Bean and was
intimately acquainted with him and his family for Six years and was
frequently at his house both in Arkansas and on the river Neches
in the district of Nacodoches where he now lives—The Said Bean
had a wife when this deponent first saw him in Arkansas, does not
know where he was married but believes in the State of Tennessee—
The common and universal belief of every one was that the said
Bean was legally married to his wife according to the laws of the
country where he lived—his Father in law was by the name of
Metcalf and was well known to this deponent. He had the character of
respectable and honorable man and was a Justice of the Peace in
Arkansas territory, and does not believe from the character and
standing of said Metcalf that he would have permitted the Said
Bean to live with his daughter unless they were legally married.
This deponent thinks Bean to be an honest man he is very fond
of boasting and telling large stories about his exploits in the
Mexican revolution and said he was a Colonel of the regular army of
Mexico.
This deponent cannot positively state how many children Said B.
has at this time but believes he has three.