Rebecca Forman

Rebecca married Isaac Van Kleif (Van Cleaf) in 1718 in Monmouth Co, New Jersey. Isaac was born in 1694 in Gravesend, Kings Co, New York; died in 1731 in New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Rebecca Van Kleif (Van Cleaf or Van Cleef) was born in 1732 in New Jersey; died on 9 Jul 1806 in Kingston, New Jersey.

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.

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.

http://www.archive.org/stream/threerevolutiona00form#page/26/mode/2up

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.

Notes:

Birth: 1622
Sible Hedingham
Essex, England
Death: 1697
Taunton
Bristol County
Massachusetts, USA

He was bapt. April 10, 1622; he died in Taunton, MA in 1697. Son of Samuel Wilbore and Ann Smith; married Hannah Porter by 1650 in Portsmouth, RI.

Some records indicate he died 16 Dec 1695. (1) Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 and (2) The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011.
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As a youngster, Wilbur and his two surviving brothers, Joseph and Shadrach, sailed to New England with their parents, settling in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where his father was made a freeman in March 1633. The Wilbur's stay in Boston lasted only a few years, because Wilbur's father became a supporter of the dissident ministers Anne Hutchinson and John Wheelwright, and was banished from the Massachusetts colony in 1638, joining many others in establishing the settlement of Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island in the Narragansett Bay, later a part of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.[2]
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Died:
The date of his death has not been well established. Austin gives his death date as being about 1679, shortly following the writing of his will,[2] but B. F. Wilbour writes (without citing any references) that he died in 1697 in Taunton, Massachusetts, where his two brothers lived.[4]
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Samuel married Hannah Porter, (immigrant) about 1644 in Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of John Porter and Mrs. Margaret (..) Odding-Porter) was born on 18 Oct 1639 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts; died on 6 Apr 1722 in Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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.

http://www.archive.org/stream/threerevolutiona00form#page/26/mode/2up

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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.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=simmonswhipp&id=I15130


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:

Birth: 1595, England
Death: Sep. 29, 1656
Boston
Suffolk County
Massachusetts, USA

Born by about 1595 based on date of marriage. Migrated from Sible Hedingham, Essex to Massachusetts Bay in 1633. First settled in Boston; moved to Portsmouth RI in 1637, then Taunton MA, & finally Boston. Died in Boston 29 September 1656.
Married: (1) Sible Hedingham, Essex, 13 January 1619/20 Ann Smith; she died after 1 December 1633 and before 1645.
Married: (2) By 1645 Elizabeth (_____) Lechford, widow of Thomas Lechford (on 2 May 1648 "Mr. Samu[el] Wilbore did depose that when he married the widow of Tho[mas] Lechford late of Boston scrivener deceased, he never received or had any of the widow or other estate of the said Lechford no not so much as his said wife's wearing apparel;" on 29 November 1645 "Elizabeth Wilebore the wife of our brother Samuell Wilbore" was admitted to Boston church; she died after 30 April 1656 (date of husband's will).
Source Anderson's Great Migration Study Project
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Note of corrections found in some records:
his wife Ann shown as daughter of Thomas Bradford of Doncaster. This has been proven to not be true.

Benjamin F. Wilbour. 1945. "English Home of Samuel Wilbore." New England Historical and Genealogical Record 99(April): 175-176.
Debunks the claim by Savage in his Genealogical Dictionary that Samuel's wife was Ann BRADFORD. Gives marriage record of Samuel WILBORE and Ann SMITH at Sible Hedingham in 1620.

http://dgmweb.net/FGS/W/WilboreSamuel-AnnSmith-Elizabeth_.html


also: Some records show:

(II) William Wilbur, son of Samuel Wildbore, was born in 1630, and died 1710. He married Martha ____, in 1653. He settled at Little Compton, Rhode Island, about 1654, and died at Tiverton, Rhode Island. Children: Mary, born 1654; Joseph, born 1656; John, 1658; Thomas, 1659; William, December, 1660; Martha, 1662; Samuel, 1664; Daniel, 1666, mentioned below; Joan, 1668; Benjamin, 1670...

From here on (to p. 933) the book traces the line from (II) William to (IX) Thomas J. WILBUR, born 3 Nov 1873 in Hamilton Co., NY. The problem is that Samuel WILBORE's son, William, was born in 1626, not 1630, and he died in infancy. Samuel had no surviving son named, William.
http://dgmweb.net/FGS/W/WilboreSamuel-AnnSmith-Elizabeth_.html

Samuel married Ann Smith, (immigrant) on 13 Jan 1620 in Sible Hedingham, Essex, England. Ann died between 1 Dec 1633 and 1645. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mrs. Margaret (..) Odding-Porter before 1630. Margaret was born about 1610; died after 1665 in Roxbury, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She first married William Odding of Braintree, MA. She was married to John Porter by 1630.
"Margret Porter,the wife of John Porter admitted to Roxbury church as member #75; on 3 May 1665 'Margaret Porter, the wife of John Porter, petitioned the Rhode Island court for relief, since her husband had abandoned her upon which the court ordered that John Porter's estate be impounded for her benefit; Porter soon made provision for his wife, and the attachment of his estate was ended." Source: Great Migration Begins, Vol. III, pages 1501-1504.
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