b: abt 1764 in Upper Marlboro, Prince Georges Co., Maryland
d: 1827 in Todd Co., Kentucky
It is rather doubtful that his middle name was Dagan. This theory, according to Bivin family researcher Lurene Bivin, originated with another Bivin researcher, who
"... suggested that the "D" in John D. Bivin was for an "Uncle Daggie who lived in the holler" according to a "memory Record" of someone she had interviewed. At first I was willing to accept her theory for the son, but when she seized upon the Sr. [in a deed dated 1854 by his heirs] as proof that he [the elder John] was also a John D. Bivin, therefore also a Daggie, that was just too much supposition for me. She alone determined that Daggie was a nickname for Dagan."
All known documentation refers to him only as John Beaven/Beavin/Bivan/Bevins/Bevin/Bivin/Bevian/Bivins/Bivien/Biven variously, and only the 1854 deed refers to him as John Bivins Sr.
Unfortunately, we also do not know of any documentation naming John Beavin's ancestors. One possible ancestral line (from the Best Harbor web pages) goes:
Charles Beaven, Sr. (b. 1645 Caernarvon, Wales, d. 30 June
1698 Upper Marlboro, Prince Georges, MD)
m. Mary Unknown (b. 1669, d. 1713 Prince Georges Co., MD) [See below]
Richard Beaven (b. abt 1691, d. Bet. 1738 - 1739 Prince Georges, MD)
m. Jean Blanford (b. abt 1679 Calvert Co., MD, d. abt 1709 MD)Henry Bivin (b. bef. 1719, d. abt 1742 Prince Georges, MD)
m. ???John Bivin (b. bef 1742 Upper Marlboro, Prince Georges, MD, d. 17 Feb 1810 Prince Georges, MD)
m. Mary Wood (b. bef 1745, d. ?)John Beavin (b: abt 1764 in Upper Marlboro, Prince Georges Co., Maryland, d: 1827 in Todd Co., Kentucky)
m. Verlinda Gibbons (b. abt 1777 Upper Marlboro, Prince Georges, MD, d. aft 1827 Todd Co., KY)
Charles Beaven's wife, Mary, may have been the sister of Richard Marsham (b. abt 1638 England, d. Bef. 07 May 1713 Prince George's Co., MD):
"There seems to have been a close relationship between Mary Beavan and Richard Marsham whether as his sister, sister-in-law (sister of Katherine---, his first wife, or sister-in-law to Katherine if the sister of her husband, Charles Beavan), perhaps related to his second wife, Anne Calvert-Brooke-Brent, or to a husband of his daughters. ... Whatever the relationship of Richard Marsham to Mary Beavan, it does not suggest that of paternity but rather, they seem to have been contemporaries, called "brother" by Mary Beavan's husband and "my well beloved" (not "my father") by Mary.
-- Mildred A. O'Brien, "Brent-Marsham-Beavan-Blanford: Myth or Mystery?", Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin, Vol. 36 No. 1, Winter 1995.
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