Alexander Forman

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Townsend, (immigrant). Elizabeth was born in 1688 in England; died in 1788 in New Britain, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary Rebecca Forman was born between 1725 and 1728 in Delaware, Pennsylvania; died in 1796 in Preston, West Virginia.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 8 Apr 1687, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York
• Property: 11 Dec 1695, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York

Notes:

Other-Begin:
witness:
land conveyed to Aaron by his father. Deed is witnessed by Dorothy and Alexander Forman, although they are not named therein, showing that these were the names of his wife and of another son, Alexander (Records of Oyster Bay, Liber 2, page 194). It was custom when wife and son of a grantor were willing to be bound by a deed, for them to sign the deed simply, without being named therein.

Property:
Alexander conveyed lands at Oyster Bay to John Rogers, adding "these lands did formerly belong to my brother Samuel Forman."

Alexander married Mrs. Rachel (..) Forman about 1680. Rachel was born about 1659; died after 1682. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1645, Flushing, New York
• Unknown-Begin: 19 Dec 1658, Hempstead,
• Unknown-Begin: 1660, Hempstead, ; townsman
• Residence: 1683, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York
• Residence: Bef 11 Apr 1693, Monmouth Co, New Jersey
• Property: 8 Apr 1867, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York; conveyed to son Aaron Jr.

Notes:

Robert had three sons, one of whom was named Aaron.

Aaron had four sons, one of whom was named Samuel.

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Unknown-Begin:
with others, summoned to answer complaint of farmer of excise.

Property:
land conveyed to Aaron Jr. Deed is witnessed by Dorothy and Alexander Forman, although they are not named therein, showing that these were the names of his wife and of another son, Alexander (Records of Oyster Bay, Liber 2, page 194). It was custom when wife and son of a grantor were willing to be bound by a deed, for them to sign the deed simply, without being named therein.

Aaron married Dorothy Craig (Cregg?) about 1654 in Flushing, Queens Co, New York. Dorothy was born about 1637 in Flushing, Queens Co, New York; died in 1695 in Freehold, Monmouth Co, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 8 Apr 1687, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York

Notes:

Other-Begin:
witness:
land conveyed to Aaron by his father. Deed is witnessed by Dorothy and Alexander Forman, although they are not named therein, showing that these were the names of his wife and of another son, Alexander (Records of Oyster Bay, Liber 2, page 194). It was custom when wife and son of a grantor were willing to be bound by a deed, for them to sign the deed simply, without being named therein.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Bef 1645, Flushing, Long Island, New York
• Will: 7 Feb 1670, Oyster Bay, Long Island; written

Notes:

"The Forman Genealogy"
Genealogy of the Forman Family of Monmouth County, New Jersey, descended from Robert Forman who died in 1671.
By far the most thorough researches that have been made in the history of this family were mde by Mr. William Henry Forman of New York City, whom credit is due for the information here presented proving that the Forman family of Monmouth Co, New Jersey is descended from Robert Forman, an Englishman who settled in Long Island and died in 1671."
pg 62


Robert Forman, who died at Oyster Bay, Long Island, in 1671, was one of the eighteen Englishmen who founded Flushing, Long Island, under Dutch authority in 1645. He afterwards lived in Hempstead and at Oyster Bay, and served as magistrate in each town. The record of his will and of deeds amoung the Oyster Bay records at Jamaica, Long Island, and the published Documents relating to the colonial History of New York, together with the New Jersey records, published and unpublished, tombstones and family Bibles, -- all these enable the history of the famiy to be clearly traced. Robert had three sons, one of whom was named Aaron. Aaron Forman had four sons, one of whom was named Samuel.

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from Thomas Halloway's paper on the Forman Family.

Robert Forman first set foot in the New World in 1645, in the Dutch territory called the New Netherlands (present day New York). On October 10, 1645, the Governor General of that province, on behalf of Frederick Hendrick, the Prince of Orange, granted a charter to eighteen Englishmen to settle a tract of land on what is now called Long Island. These English patentees, including one ?Robert ffirman,? were given the authority to ?build a Towne, or Townes, wth such necessary ffortifications, as to them shall seeme Expedient; and to have and Enjoy the Liberty of Conscience, according to the Custome and manner of Holland, without molestacon or disturbance, from any Magistrate or Magistrates, or any other Ecclesiasticall Minister, that may extend Jurisdiction over them? and ?to have and enjoy the free Liberty of Hawking, Hunting, ffishing, ffowling within their abovesd Limitts, And to use and Exercise all manner of Trade and Commerce . . . as if they were Natives of the United Belgick Provinces.? The new townsmen would call their settlement Flushing, after the place where some of them initially sought refuge from ecclesiastical persecution at the hands of the English church.

Robert and family spent more than a decade in Flushing, but by 1658 were living in the nearby town of Hempstead. We know this because on March 5 of that year he served as a magistrate there. Later that year, in a letter dated December 9, Governor Peter Stuyvesant appointed Robert to serve as one of two Hempstead magistrates for the following year.

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Will:
probated June session, 1671 Jamaica, Long Island.

Robert married Johanna Pore, (immigrant) about 1625. Johanna was born in 1608 in Vissenger, Netherlands; died in Jun 1672 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]