Career
He was also a Justice of the Peace and held political offices. Beman was born in New York in 1760 and arrived at York, Upper Canada in 1795. Beman was a signer, as a Provincial Commissioner, of the treaty that created the Lake Simcoe-Lake Huron Purchase.
He also was one of the original settlers and businessmen in Newmarket, Ontario.
Beman was stepfather to Sir John Robinson and William Benjamin Robinson. He died in Newmarket in 1821.
