Eliza Forman

Notes:

Died:
she was named in his will, but is also listed as deceased at the time of his death in the book "Three Revolutionary Soldiers"
http://www.archive.org/stream/threerevolutiona00form#page/16/mode/2up

Other Events and Attributes:

• Politics: Monmouth, New Jersey; sheriff
• Military: Mar 1777, New Jersey militia; brigadier general
• Military: 1778, Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey; advisor of Charles Lee
• Property: 1789, Natchez, Mississippi; bought property
• Other-Begin: Between 1791 and 1793, Monmouth Co, New Jersey
• Residence: 1794, Maryland; moved to Maryland
• Other-Begin: 1796, Natchez, Mississippi; traveled to Natchez
• Will: 26 Oct 1797, Chestertown, Maryland

Notes:

David Forman (3 November 1745 ? 12 September 1797) was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey of parents Joseph Forman and Elizabeth Lee. His father was a wealthy shipowner and he was educated at Princeton. At the start of the American Revolutionary War he rallied to the patriot cause and was appointed lieutenant colonel of a New Jersey state regiment. When his commander assumed command of the brigade, he was promoted colonel of the regiment during the New York and New Jersey Campaign in 1776. At the time of the battles of Trenton and Princeton Forman's regiment waged a merciless war against the American Loyalists of Monmouth County. Then and later he became known as "Devil David" for his zeal in suppressing the local Tories. In January 1777, the Continental Congress authorized him to raise Forman's Additional Continental Regiment with the rank of colonel in the Continental Army.

In March 1777 he was promoted brigadier general of New Jersey militia. He led a militia brigade in an unsuccessful attack at Germantown in October 1777. He resigned his general's commission because of political troubles but continued to assist the revolutionary cause. At the Battle of Monmouth he served on the staff of Charles Lee as an adviser. When local guides failed to appear on time, he directed the vanguard on the correct route. When Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing's French fleet appeared off the coast soon afterward, Forman stepped in as a liaison between the French and George Washington. His regiment was absorbed by Spencer's Additional Continental Regiment in April 1779. He organized a system of outposts on the coast in 1780 that reported British and French ship movements. This information was passed on to Washington. Late in the war, he played a small role in the Asgill Affair.

After the war he had portraits done by James Sharples and by Charles Willson Peale. He and his wife Ann Marsh had eleven children; of these only five daughters survived him. A slaveowner, he bought a property at Natchez, Mississippi and sent 60 of his slaves to work there in 1789. He was Vice President of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati from 1791 to 1793. The following year he moved to Maryland. In 1796 he traveled to Natchez where he had a debilitating stroke the following spring. The dying man took a ship home but it was captured by a British privateer and brought into The Bahamas where he succumbed on 12 September 1797.

orn 3 November 1745
Monmouth County, New Jersey
Died 12 September 1797
New Providence, The Bahamas
Allegiance United States
Service/branch Infantry
Years of service 1776?1783
Rank Colonel (Continental Army)
Brigadier General (State militia)
Battles/wars American Revolutionary War

Battle of Germantown (1777)
Battle of Monmouth (1778)

Other work Society of the Cincinnati


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Forman_(general)




Property:
sent 60 of his slaves to work the property.

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He [Samuel] later owned a flat bottom boat and took his Uncle Ezekiel Forman, his family and 67 Negro slaves down the Ohio River to Natchez, Mississippi where his Uncle General David Forman had arranged for the purchase of some 1200 acres from Spanish Governor Gayoso for the purpose of starting a tobacco plantation.

http://jeffersoncountyms.org/bios.htm#george

Other-Begin:
Vice president of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati.

Other-Begin:
In 1796 he traveled to Natchez where he had a debilitating stroke the following spring. The dying man took a ship home but it was captured by a British privateer and brought into The Bahamas where he succumbed on 12 September 1797.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Forman_(general)

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In the fall of 1796, Gen. David Forman came to Natchez, remained until the following August, when he left for his home in Chestertown, Maryland, and died before he reached there."
"The Forman Genealogy" pg 99




Will:
Will prob at Chestertown, Maryland, Oct. 26, 1797,.
"The Forman Genealogy"


http://books.google.com/books?id=DHxMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=general+david+forman&source=bl&ots=NjVcfUQnuy&sig=ehVPltay_jbLHEIzYyC7if0nwkk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pjf6UcXQHsbjrQGF04CoCw&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=general%20david%20forman&f=false
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Natchez Court Records 1767-1805 by May Wilson McBee, page 454

Page 454
p 363 Claim No. 1250 Spanish grant to David Forman, 600 acres, 40 mi. SE of Fort, adj. land of Ezekiel Forman, father of the grantee. N.O. 30 Jun 1795 by Carondelet. // p 365. Will of David Forman, of Chester Town, Co. of Kent, State of Maryland. To daughter Sarah Marsh Forman all my plate and household furniture, also all my house servants, for and in consideration of the tender care she has shown towards her mother, my beloved wife. The remainder of my estate to be divided into seven equal shares. It has pleased God to deprive my beloved wife, Ann, of her reason, 1/7 to remain in the hands of my exor. for her maintenance. To my son-in-law, william Gordon Forman and Sarah Marsh Forman, his wife, 1/7 of my estate. To my daughters, Ann, Emma, Eliza, Malvina and Elvina, each 1/7, etc. Son-in-law and dau Sarah, Exrs. 30 Aug 1796. Prob Oct 26 1797. Wit Phill Reed, Wm, Burnseston, Ben Chambers. //

File. Claimant, Wm. G. Forman, 26, Mch. 1804. Nov 12, 1804, W.G. Forman suggests that he has no claim to this land but that it belongs to D. Forman, Jr. Wit: Nathaniel Ivy, 26 Nov 1804. Certif. A. 378 issued to D. Forman. Wm. Gordon Forman, surviving exr., of David Forman, decd, claims 600 acres in Wilkinson Co, subject to the uses and trusts declared and devised in the last will and testament as above, by favor of a grant from the Spanish Govt. to sd David Forman, decd. By Lyman Harding, his attorney.




Died:
In 1796 he traveled to Natchez where he had a debilitating stroke the following spring. The dying man took a ship home but it was captured by a British privateer and brought into The Bahamas where he succumbed on 12 September 1797.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Forman_(general)

David married Ann Marsh on 28 Feb 1767 in New Jersey. Ann (daughter of Esq Thomas Marsh and Ann Frisby) was born on 3 Dec 1751 in Chestertown, Kent Co, Maryland; died on 9 Sep 1798 in Monmouth Co, New Jersey; was buried in Old Tennent Churchyard, Tennent, Monmouth Co, New Jesey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

from "The Revolutionary Soldiers"
The list of Gen David Forman's children is as follows, the names of those who died before him, six out of eleven, being printed in italics:
1. Joseph
2. Sarah Marsh
3. Elizabeth Lee
4. Ann
5. David Lee
6. Augustine (a dau)
7. Emma
8. Eliza
9. Malvina
10. Rivine
11. Alfred

Sarah M. married her first cousin, Major William Gordon Forman; Ann married Dr. Jonathan Longstreet; Emma married Robert Cumming. Miss Malvina Forman, whose sketch of her father's life has been quoted, lived to an advanced age and died in Fauquier Co, Virginia. Rivine, the youngest daughter, married James Neilson, son of Gen. John Neilson, and died leaving an only daughter, who married the Rev. George Griffin. Mrs. Robert Edmonds, of Fauquier Co, Virginia is a daughter of the last named, and hence a great-granddaughter of Gen. Forman."


http://www.archive.org/stream/threerevolutiona00form#page/16/mode/2up

Married:
"The Forman Genealogy"
Gen. David Forman (son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Lee) Forman, born Nov. 3 1745, d Sep 12, 1797.

children:
1, Joseph Forman, b. March 31, 1771, d. before his father.

2, Sarah Marsh Forman, b. Feb. 1, 1773, m. Major Wm. Gordon Forman,

her 1st cousin, son of Joseph Forman of Shrewsbury, N. J.

3, Elizabeth Lee Forman, b. Dec. 4, 1775, d. before her father.

4, Ann Forman, b. Jan. 14, 1779, m. Dr. Jonathan Longstreet.

5, David Lee Forman, b. April 1, 1781, d. before his father.

6, Augustine Forman, b. Jan. 5, 1784, d. April 6, 1784.

7, Emma Forman, b. Oct. 12, 1785, d. 1853, m. Robert Cumming of Balt.

8, Eliza Forman. b. March 9, 1787, d. Oct. 14,1796.

9, Malvina Forman, b. July 30, 1788, d. at very advanced age in Fau

quier Co., Va.

10, Rivine Forman, b. Dec. 30, 1791, d. 1816, m. James Neilson, son of

Gen. John Neilson of New Brunswick.

Only dau. m. Rev. George Griffin.

11, Alfred Forman, b. May 9, 1793, d. June 29, 1793.

Note:?The foregoing dates of birth, and the dates of death of the 6th, 8th and 11th children are from the family Bible of Gen. David Forman. The other information is mainly from the article by Miss A. M. Woodhull in the Monmouth Democrat.

http://books.google.com/books?id=DHxMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=general+david+forman&source=bl&ots=NjVcfUQnuy&sig=ehVPltay_jbLHEIzYyC7if0nwkk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pjf6UcXQHsbjrQGF04CoCw&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=general%20david%20forman&f=false

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: 1734, First Church, White Hill, Monmouth Co, New Jersey

Notes:

From his Bible:
"Sunday November the 3rd 1745 three o'clock in the Morning was Born our Son .... David."

In a sketch written by Miss Malvina Forman (dau of David):
"My dear father was born in New Jersey, Nov 3 1745. His parents were Joseph Forman and Elizabeth Lee. His father was a wealth shipping merchant of New York, afterwards retired from business, and settled on one of his farms in Monmouth Co, N.J. My father was educated at Princeton College; my mother was born Maryland, Dec 3, 1751. On the 28th of Feb, 1767, my father was married to Miss Ann Marsh (daughter of Thomas Marsh, Esq. of Maryland) by the Rev. William Tennent In consequence of my grandmother's death (Mrs. Thomas Marsh), my parents were married in Princeton, at the house of Ezekiel Forman, Esq, the elder brother of my father, who married my mother's elder and only sister. I think my father left Monmouth, where he resided during the Revolution, on the 5th of February, 1794, and removed to Chestertown, Md. Gen. Forman left his own house in Chestertown, Sep 10, 1796 in order to attend to a large landed estate which he owned at Natchez, Miss."

http://www.archive.org/stream/threerevolutiona00form#page/16/mode/2up


Religion:
Monmouth County, New Jersey (1730s)
Source:
History of the Old Tennent Church,
by Rev. Frank Rosebrook Symmes
p. 39 Diagram of Pews in 1734 in the First Church built on White Hill:
(snip)
Pews #19 and 20 (just ahead of Berry) rented by John and Joseph Forman, respectively; 5# each; Jonathan Forman, Esq., and Aaron Forman rented pew #29, across the aisle from William Allen's pew (3# and #1 paid by them, respectively)

https://books.google.com/books?id=X59BAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA166&lpg=PA166&dq=james+hyde+elizabeth+stout&source=bl&ots=jQNNvezCDH&sig=-ppGMyc6tZvEyvQasEawX1HGjeY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBWoVChMIpeS_4vmcyAIVzZuICh1ANQ2n#v=onepage&q=james%20hyde%20elizabeth%20stout&f=true

Joseph married Elizabeth Lee. Elizabeth was born in 1710; died on 15 Oct 1774. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 7 Jan 1782, Queen Ann Co, Maryland

Notes:

Will:
"I, Thomas Marsh of Queen Ann's County in the province of Maryland . . . being of sound mind, &c. ... do give and bequeath . . . All my lands in Cecil, and all my lands in Kent Island in Queen Ann's County and my plantation on the main road to Queen's Town in the s'd County which I lately bought of Thomas Emory unto my grandson, Thomas Marsh Forman and his Heirs . . . and for default of such heirs, to my grandson, Joseph Forman, and his heirs, and in default of such heirs to my grandson Wm. Forman, and his heirs, and for default of such heirs, to the first, second, third and fourth and every other son and sons of the Body of my Daughter, Ann Forman . . . according to priority of birth . . . and in default of such heirs, to daughters of my daughter, Augustina and daughters of Ann.

To my grandson, Jos. Forman, grist-mill at Head of Island Creek; and land near Kingstown, and houses (&c) in Chestertown . . . and for default of such heirs, to my grandson Thomas, and in default of such heirs to my grandson William, and and in default of such heirs to the first, second and third sons of my daughter Ann . . . in default, to daughters of Ann and Augustina . . . (other property, same reversion). To Thomas Whittington, son of Jane Whittington, my plantation bought of Walter Nevil ... in default of heirs, to grandson Jos. Forman, in default, to grandson Thomas Marsh Forman ... in default, to grandson Wm. Forman ... in default, to daughters of Ann and Augustina . . . Son-in-law Ezekiel Forman to have custody and management of Estate devised to Thos. Marsh Forman and of Estate devised to Thos. Whittington ... To Thos. Marsh Forman my Sword (&c).

All silver plate to two grand daughters, Elizabeth, daughter of Ezekiel Forman and my daughter Augustina his wife, and Sarah, daughter of David Forman and my daughter Ann, his wife. . . . Executors?Son-in-law Ezekiel Forman and my friends, James Frisby, Thomas Ringgold, of Kent, and John Thompson and Dr. Samuel Thompson, his brother, of Queen Anne's County. . . .

In witness (

Thomas married Ann Frisby. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: 11 Apr 1693, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York; conveyed to bro Alexander
• Politics: 29 Nov 1695, High Sheriff of Monmouth Co, New Jersey
• Residence: 11 Dec 1695, Springtown, Monmouth Co, New Jersey

Notes:

Samuel Forman, who removed to East New Jersey (as did also his father Aaron and brothers Alexander and Thomas was commissioned High Sheriff of Monmouth Co NJ in November 1695 and died Oct 1740. He married Mary Wilbur of Rhode Island.



Property:
described as "of Springtown in the County of Monmouth and Province of East New Jersey, in America, planter"

Samuel married Mary Wilbur (or Wilbore). Mary (daughter of Samuel W. Wilbur (or Wilbore), Jr. (immigrant) and Hannah Porter, (immigrant)) was born in 1666 in of, Providence Co, Rhode Island; died on 13 Mar 1728 in Monmouth Co, New Jersey; was buried in Wyckoff Hill, Freehold, Monmouth Co, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

daughter of Samuel Wilbur Jr. and Hannah Porter, who was daughter of John Porter, a prominent man in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Samuel Wilbur Jr. was the son of Samuel Wilbur, Sr., who came from England to Massachusetts with his three sons and his wife Ann Bradford, the daughter o f Thomas Bradford, who was the uncle of Governor William Bradford of the Mayflower.