Ezekiel (elder bro of Gen. David) Forman

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: Monmouth, New Jersey; escaped jail
• Property: Bayou Sara, Natchez, Mississippi; 1000 acres with Richard Butler.
• Residence: New York; to New York from NJ then returned to NJ
• Residence: 1767, Princeton, New Jersey
• Politics: 14 Jan 1776, High Sheriff of Kent Co, Maryland
• Residence: 5 Nov 1777, Maryland
• Residence: 1789, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Residence: 20 Apr 1790, Natchez (Spanish held), Mississippi; from Pennsylvania
• Residence: 22 Jun 1790, Natchez (Spanish held), Mississippi; flatboat "The Nancy" from Monmouth Co, New Jersey
• Property: 1795, Natchez, Mississippi; (at death)
• Possessions: 19 Nov 1804, Natchez, Mississippi

Notes:

Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805 by May Wilson McBee


p 439 2 May 1790. Richard Harrison to Ezekiel Forman, 450 arpents on St. Catherine's Creek, from Fort, b. by Bennet Truly, John Lum, the creek and Mistress Spell. Signed by both.

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.

p 369 Claim No. 1251. Nathan Swazey and wife Bethia, to William Gordon Forman of Monmouth Co, N.J. for $1282 paid, 366 acres on Second Creek, ... plat made by Spanish Govt b. by lands of the late David Forman, Samuel Swazey, Elijah Swazey and David Lambert.
File. Claimant. Wm. G. Forman, 26 March 1804, Wit Nath'l Ivy

p 371 Claim 1252 Spanish gr to Ezekiel Forman 600 acres 40 mi S.E. from Fort, adj Dona Frances Forman, sister of grantee, N.O. 30 Jun 1796 by Carondelet. // p 372, last will of Ezekiel Forman of Natches Dist, May 7 1795. Beloved wife, Margaret Forman, extrx, and friends, Wm. Dunbar, Ebenzezer Rees and Benajah Osmun, exrs. Joseph Bernard appraiser. Exrs. to be guardians of my dear children (not named) Sep 16 795. // file claimant, Wm,. G. Forman for Exekiel Forman, 26 Mch 1804. W.G. Forman suggests that this tract of land is still the property of the original claimant. (signed) E.T. No. 26 1804. Wit. Nthaniel Ivy 26 Nov 1804. Certf. A-379 issued to legal representatives of Ezekiel Forman, 26 Jun 1805. (one side of paper torn and parts missing.) Wm. Gordon Forman, executor of the last will and testament of David Forman, dec'd. hereby gives notice that he claims 600 acres in Wilkinson Co, subject to the uses and trusts expressed in the sd will. 30 Aug 1796. By virtue of a Spanish grant to Ezekiel Forman now deceased and conveyed by the exrs of the will of sd Ezekiel Forman, decd, to said David Forman in his lifetime. By Lyman Harding, atty.

Book D p 373:
Claim No. 1253, Spanish grant to James Fletcher, 1000 acres on Fairchild's Creek and Cole's Creek, 15 mi NE of Fort, adj Thomas peterson, Robertson, John Reed, and Gabriel Griffin. N.O. 9 Sep 1788 by Miro. Plat and certif. of survey, 25 May 1796. // p 375. Power of attorney from James Fletcher to John Turnbull. N.O. 17 Dec 1798. // Charles Norwood, of N.O. exor of the late John Turnull sells to Abijah Hunt and Wm. G. Forman, for $1600, the above 1000 acres granted to James Fletcher. May 31, 1802. Signed. Wit: John Murdock, Robert Moore. "This excepts 200 acres James Fletcher granted to have the land improved. // p 377. 10 July 1803. Abijah Hunt to William Gordon Forman, for $500, a quit claim to 800 acres.
(omitted parts of entry because no cut and paste!)
William Gordon Forman claims an undivided 800 acres of 1000 acres by virtue of Spanish grant to James Fletcher, as above, and conveyed from sd Fletcher to John Turnbull, 17 Dec 1798, and by exr of Turnbull to this claimant and Abijah Hunt and released by sd Hunt to claimaint.

p 378 Claim No. 1254 Spanish grant to Augustina Forman, 600 acres 40 mi SE of Fort, adj to Ezekiel Forman, father of grantee. N.O. Jun 30 1795 by Carondelet. // File. Augstina Forman, claimant 26 Mch 1804. Wit: Nathaniel Ivy. Cert. A-380 to Augustina Forman, 26 Jun 1805. Augustina Forman claims 600 arpents to Wilkinson Co, by virtue of the above Spanish grant. by Lyman Harding.

p 380 Claim No. 1255: Spanish grant to Dona Margarite Forman, 600 acres 40 mi SE from Fort, adj. Dona Frances Forman, sister of grantee, N.O. 30 Jun 1795, by Carondelet. // file. Claimant, Margaretta Forman, 26 Mch 1804. Wit Nath'l Ivy. 26 Nov 1805. Cert. A-380 issued to claimant, 26 Jun 1805. Margaretta Forman claims 600 acres in Wilkinson Co, by a grant from the Spanish Govt, as above.

pg 381 Claim No. 1256 Spanish gr. to Francisco (Frances) Forman, 600 acres 40 mi SE of Fort. b by Ezekiel Forman and Margarita Forman, brother and sister of the grantee. N.O. 30 Jun 1795 by Carondelet. Plat shows tracts on Bayou Sara. // File Frances Forman, claimant 26 Mch 1804. Wit Nath'l Ivy 26 Nov 1804. Cert A 382 issued to claimant 26 Jun 1805. Frances Forman claims 600 arpents in Wilkinson Co, by virtue of a grant from the Spanish Govt. as above.

http://books.google.com/books?id=yvJw1hHgSLMC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=green,+province+of+west+florida&source=bl&ots=-PhXvwnRzr&sig=UyLpAOAD_6BqmGrQBlpgUxY2Cfc&hl=en&ei=tAIUTYznK8K88gbewKy7Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFcQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=green&f=false

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"Here (Natchez MS) in 1795 he (Ezekiel) died. Besides Margaret Douglas Forman, aged 39; Ann, aged 14 months; David, aged 34; Ezekiel, aged 23; all children of the second marriage there is buried at Natchez with her sons, Elizabeth, wife of Gen. Benjamin Chambers of Chesterdown, Md., who was daughter of the first marriage."
(The Forman Genealogy - pg 98)

In Major S.S. Forman's "Narrative," Ezekiel Forman is described as a "fine, portly looking man, neat and dignified; always wore powder, as all gentlemen did in those days, and large cocked hat."
(The Forman Genealogy, pg 99)


Property:
I will also note here that Ezekiel Forman's land is on the Bayou Sara and he shares ownership of another 1000 acres with Richard Butler. This is important because it establishes a contact between the Butler's and the Forman's of George's line. (George Forman son of Edward* Forman)
http://jeffersoncountyms.org/bios.htm#george



Other-Begin:
This Ezekiel, was evidently the favorite brother of Gen. David Forman, but was a Tory and had been under a death sentence in NJ, where he was a wealthy merchant. He escaped from jail, where another nephew, David Forman, was the sheriff.

http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/surnames.forman/38.47.59.106.107.108.110/mb.ashx

Residence:
The was a branch that went to NY but came back to NJ(this would be Ezekiel Forman.

http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=38&p=surnames.forman

Residence:
"It was at Ezekiel Forman's house at Princeton, N.J., that his brother David was married in 1767."
)The Firman Genealogy, pg 98)

Residence:
Archives of Maryland show that on Nov 5, 1777, "Ezekiel Forman, Esq, is appointed Paymaster to the Eastern Shore Marching Militia..." In the same year he was a member of the council of safety of Maryland."
(The Firman Genealogy, pg 98)


Residence:
Living there in 1789 when arrangements having been made by Gen. David Forman with his family journeyed down the Oio and Mississippi, and established himself as a tabacco planter at the Wilderness Plantation on the St. Catherine's Creek about four or five miles from Natchez.
((The Forman Genealogy, pg 98)

Residence:
These reports were written by a Spanish officer, Carlos de Grand Pre to Governor Estevan Miro; therefore many of the names are in SPANISH or a PHONETIC attempt to convert the name to Spanish. Some are in English. The term "settler" means those with intent to settle the district. In 1788, a royal order encouraged American immigration and trade, and colonist began arriving in larger numbers than ever before. Few of these arrived via the land route, however; most arrived on flatboats, coming down the Mississippi. The majority came from Kentucky. Many settled in what would become Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Franklin, Jefferson and Wilkinson counties. List taken from records in the MS Dept. of Archives and History, Jackson MS.

FLATBOATS ARRIVING IN NATCHEZ -
OWNER, EMPLOYEES, AND/OR SETTLERS
ACCORDING TO LETTERS FROM CARLOS
DE GRAND PRE TO GOVERNOR MIRO

APRIL 22, 1790
Arriving from PENNSYLVANIA ,
brought by EZEKIEL FORMAN all to settle:
FORMAN, EZEKIEL
with wife, son, and three daughters
Passengers:
OMUND, EBENEZER
CHACACH, ELIZABETH
Employees:
HARLTOCK, CHRISTIAN
ROBENS, GEORGE
OCONOR, GUILLERMO

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msfrank2/americansinspanishnatchez.htm

Residence:
AMERICANS ARRIVING in SPANISH-HELD NATCHEZ 1788-1790

*These reports were written by a Spanish officer, Carlos de Grand Pre to Governor Estevan Miro; therefore many of the names are in SPANISH or a PHONETIC attempt to convert the name to Spanish. Some are in English. The term "settler" means those with intent to settle the district. In 1788, a royal order encouraged American immigration and trade, and colonist began arriving in larger numbers than ever before. Few of these arrived via the land route, however; most arrived on flatboats, coming down the Mississippi. The majority came from Kentucky. Many settled in what would become Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Franklin, Jefferson and Wilkinson counties. List taken from records in the MS Dept. of Archives and History, Jackson MS.

JUNE 22, 1790
Arriving by 6 flatboats from the UNITED STATES

First flatboat, the NANCY, from OHIO [River]
FORMAN, SAMUEL, owner and settler
FORMAN, EZEK, resident of Natchez District

Other flatboats all from KENTUCKY

-------
"He [Samuel]

Second boat, owner and one passenger returning
Settlers:
MITCHEL, WILLIAM
GOLL, JACOBO
MCKEY, JUAN

Third boat
WINTERS, ELISHA, owner and settler

Fourth boat, owner returning
Settlers:
BUSHNELL, EUSEBIO
GUILLION, JOHN
Fifth and sixth boats,
consigned to OLIVER POLLOCK
SHIPMAN, STEPHEN , to settle

JUNE 28, 1790
Arriving by flatboat from KENTUCKY
Settlers:
BEARE, WALTER
TERRY, JAMES with wife and 5 children
HUFFMAN, JACOBO with wife and three children

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msfrank2/americansinspanishnatchez.htm

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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


Property:
He also settled the estate of Ezekiel Forman, when he passed on, and bought up much of Ezekiel's land. Some of the land did go to David Forman, a son of Ezekiel Forman.

http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/surnames.forman/38.47.59.106.107.108.110/mb.ashx

Possessions:
Natchez Court records (pg 447)
p 284 Claim No. 1128 Spanish govt to Ezekiel Forman 1000 acres 41 mi SSE of Fort, by Augustine Forman, son of grantee and David Forman, N.O. 30 Jun 1795, by Carndelet. File, // Richard W. Crane, 19 Nov 1804. Certif B-64 issued to claimants, 10 Sep 1806. Elizabeth Ann Coburn claim 476 arpents by virtue of a warrant of survey in favor of Jacob Coburn above and as in preceding claim.

Family/Spouse: Augustina Marsh. Augustina (daughter of Esq Thomas Marsh and Mary Thompson) was born in Apr 1740. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Gen. Thomas Marsh Forman was born on 20 Aug 1758 in Kent Island, Maryland; died in 1845 in Cecil Co, Maryland; was buried in "Rose Hill," Cecil Co, Maryland.
2. Colonel Joseph Forman was born on 10 Jan 1761; died on 14 Apr 1805.
3. Elizabeth Forman was born on 11 Jun 1762; died on 27 Jan 1820 in Natchez, Mississippi; was buried in Natchez, Mississippi.
4. Sarah Emory Forman was born on 1 Oct 1763; died on 15 Mar 1846.
5. William Lee Forman was born in Oct 1764; died on 4 Oct 1804.
6. Augustina (Augusta) Forman died after 1804; was buried in Mount Pleasant Cem, Newark, New Jersey (age 68).

Ezekiel married Margaret Neilson before 1789 in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania. Margaret was born about 1740; died in Natchez, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Margaret Douglas Forman was born in 1778; died in 1817 in Natchez, Mississippi; was buried in near, Natchez, Mississippi (age 39).
2. Frances Forman was born in 1782; died on 22 Oct 1830; was buried in Newark, New Jersey.
3. David Forman was born in 1787; died in 1821 in Natchez, Mississippi; was buried in near, Natchez, Mississippi.
4. David Forman, Jr. (son of who?) died before 1797 in Natchez, Mississippi; was buried in Natchez, Mississippi (age 34).
5. Ann Forman was born in 1790 in Natchez, Mississippi; died in 1791 in Natchez, Mississippi; was buried in near, Natchez, Mississippi (age 14 mos).
6. Ezekiel Neilson Forman was born in 1792 in Natchez, Mississippi; died in 1816 in Natchez, Mississippi; was buried in near, Natchez, Mississippi (age 23).
7. Ann E. Forman was born on 24 Dec 1795 in Natchez, Mississippi; died on 5 Jan 1872; was buried in Mount Pleasant Cem, Newark, New Jersey .

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:

• 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.
findgrave

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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]
wikipedia


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]
(wikipedia)

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]