- In 1796 he (Jonathan Forman) removed from Middletown Point with his wife and daughter, mary Ledyard Forman, to Chazenovia, New York, then a frontier settlement of three years establishment. He took with him his niece Helen (the motherless child of his sister Margaret, the wife of Major John Burrowes), afterwards Mrs. Samuel Sidney Breese, of Sconondoa, Oneida Co, New York, who has left an interesting narrative of their journey up the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers."
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- "As not only all his (Samuel Forman) immediate family, but all of their connections 9save two) were said to be of the strong Whig principles, it is not strange that his elder son Jonathan should have run away from Princeton college at the age of seventeen to joint the company marched from Middletown Point -- "to the tune of Duncan Davie" -- on its way to join the American Army on Long Island. This is family tradition, but to come to the records, his Captains commission (now in pssession of his great grandson Hon. Horatio Seymour, of Marquette, Michigan, his successor in the New jersey State Soiety of the Cincinnati) is signed by General Washington, Nov 23rd 1776.
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"it was always told with pride by his daughter and only surviving child, Mrs. Henry Seymour, that Washington, who commanded in person, upon meeting her father there after so many years of peace, embraced him with much feeling, exclaiming "Colonel Forman! always first in the field!"
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"after Subsequent marriage of their daughter to Henry Seymour, Colonel Forman was tenderly cherished at their home in Pompey Hill, ten miles west of Cazenovia, but to the latter place he was brought back after his death, May 24th 1809 and there he was laid beside his wife in the village cemetery."
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