Having such a well is an asset. I don't why you want to try to plug it. Many only run part of the year - but . . . if your's is full time, why not make use of it? If you manage to actually stop the flow - with a well casing full of water above ground - it can freeze and break open.
The ability to plug such a well depends on many factors - especially how much pressure potential. That water could be coming from many different sources - which you'll probably never know for sure. Soure may be only a few feet higher than your well - or - could be a mountain top aquifer a mile higher. If capped, it might stop at 2 PSI, and might keep going at 50 PSI. They are all different. I have a artestian well in the Adirondack mountains. It runs full-time around a gallon per minute. I temporarily sealed the well casing, and got over 30 PSI before I unsealed it. I dug a 6 foot deep trench, and installed a pitless adapter, and pipe along with some UF 12 gauge wire. Ran the water-line to my cabin to an upstairs water-tank with a float-valve for a shut-off. So, now we have water flow anywhere downstairs in the cabin, all the time, without using any electricity. By installing the pitless adapter and wire - I can always install a submerged electric pump later if the well dries out a bit and ceases to be artesian. My wife's parents in northern Michigan also have an artesian well. There's ran full time for the first year, but now dries out by August every summer, and then starts to run again by late Fall. They put a drain on the side of the well casing and let the water run off through a drain pipe. By letting it run like this, it prevents the well casing from filling to the top and keeps it from freezing up.
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