Thomas Forman

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: 3 Jun 1690, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York; conveyed land to Thomas Youngs
• Residence: 3 Jun 1690, Jerusalem, East New Jersey
• Will: 26 Nov 1723; written

Notes:

Will:
1723, Nov. 26. Will of Thomas Forman, of Freehold;
proved Dec. 5, 1723,
mentioned: wife, Mary; daughter, Rebecca, wife of Gerard Edge, and her children Mary and Daniel; son-in-law, Isaac Forman. Benjamin Forman, given a legacy as a bar against any claim to any part of my estate as heir-at-law.
Executors: wife, and son-in-law, Isaac Forman. Witnesses: Charles Hub, Robert White, Jonathan Hutchins.

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Thomas married Mary Woolley on 24 May 1695 in New Jersey. Mary was born on 1 Nov 1657 in Newport, Newport Co, Rhode Island; died in 1723 in Freehold, Monmouth Co, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
1695, May 24. The original marriage license of Thomas Foreman and Mary Allen is in the New Jersey Historical Society's Library. The record of their marriage, May 27, 1695, before L. Morris, is found in Book C, of Deeds, at Freehold.

1. Benjamin Forman, Sr. was born on 3 Dec 1695 in Freehold, Monmouth Co, New Jersey; died before 4 Aug 1751 in Hampshire Co, West Virginia.
2. Rebecca Forman was born on 7 Jun 1698 in Freehold, Monmouth Co, New Jersey; died after 1726.
3. Elizabeth Forman was born on 3 Apr 1702; died after 1723.

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."
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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]

Notes:

from Thomas Halloway's paper on Forman History.

The Foremans are of English extraction. Their known roots reach to Lincolnshire, in eastern England.
A William Forman, found in records of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, was the father of

Sir William Forman, a haberdasher whom King Henry VIII made High Sheriff of London in 1533. On October 18, 1537, he was knighted, and in 1538 served as Lord Mayor of London (the ceremonial head of London?s commercial center). He also served as a Member of Parliament. Sir William Forman died on January 13, 1547, and was buried at the Church of St. George on Botolph Lane in London.

He left several sons, the eldest of whom was also named William. The younger William was a merchant in London during the early part of his life, but later returned to Lincolnshire.

He had several sons, one of whom was named Robert. This Robert also had several sons, including one named WILLIAM who became a vicar in Buckinghamshire.

This Reverend WILLIAM had a son named Robert, who probably was born in Lincolnshire about 1605. This man, Robert Forman, is the family?s American progenitor.

Sources: William S. Horner, This Old Monmouth of Ours, (Freehold, New Jersey: Moreau Brothers, 1932);
William Forman Wyckoff, ?The Formans of Monmouth and Middlesex Counties,? Somerset County Historical Quarterly, Volume 6, 1917;
Anne Spottswood Dandridge, The Forman Genealogy, (Cleveland, Ohio: The Forman-Bassett-Hatch Company, 1903);
William P. Forman, Records of the Descendants of John Forman, (Cleveland, Ohio: Short & Forman, 1885);
Henry Chandlee Forman, The Formans of New York, (Decatur, Georgia: Published by the Author, 1945);
Elbert Eli Farman, The Foreman-Farman-Forman Genealogy, (New York: T.A. Wright, 1911);
George Lipscombe, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, (London: J. & W. Robins, 1847);
Sir Henry St. George, Knight, The Visitation of London, (London: The Harleian Society, 1880).

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William married Marie Marianna Foster in 1604 in Lincolnshire, England. Marie was born in 1585 in Lincolnshire, England; died in 1613 in Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]