Benjamin Forman, Sr.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: 1734, Orange Co, Virginia; land grant

Notes:

Likely that Benjamin had emigrated from New Jersey prior to the death of his father, Thomas, in 1723. Ultimately settled on the South Branch Potomac River near present day Romney, Hampshire, West Virginia, USA. Received land grant from Lord Fairfax after he came to Orange County, Virginia in 1734. Was one of first 5 families to settle in present day Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA.
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Benjamin married Elizabeth Ann Hamilton, (immigrant) about 1719 in Freehold, Monmouth Co, New Jersey. Elizabeth was born on 8 Apr 1698 in Boness, Falkirk, Scotland; died about 1761 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Descendants of this marriage can be found here:
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1. James Forman was born about 1723 in Freehold, Monmouth Co, New Jersey; died before 10 Feb 1828 in West Liberty, Ohio Co, West Virginia.
2. John Forman was born in 1725 in Freehold, Monmouth Co, New Jersey; died before Jan 1809 in Bourbon Co, Kentucky.
3. Edward* Forman, (son? speculation) was born between 1715 and 1725 in Virginia; died in 1805 in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.
4. William M. Forman was born about 1726 in Berkeley Co, Virginia; died on 27 Sep 1777 in Hampshire Co, West Virginia.
5. Benjamin Forman, Jr. was born before 11 Aug 1728 in Berkeley Co, Virginia; died between 17 Jun 1755 and 1 Nov 1759 in Frederick Co (now Hampshire Co, West Virginia), Virginia.
6. Ann Hamilton Forman was born on 21 Oct 1731 in Berkeley Co, Virginia; died on 29 Jun 1786 in Shepherstown, Berkeley Co, Virginia.
7. Margaret Forman was born on 28 Aug 1732 in Berkeley Co, Virginia; died in Jan 1812 in Berkeley Co Virginia.
8. Aaron Forman was born in 1734 in Berkeley Co, Virginia; died in 1790.
9. Thomas Forman was born about 1736 in Berkeley Co, Virginia; died on 1 Jun 1764 in Virginia.

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:

daughter of Emmanuel Woolley, born November, 1657; married, first, Judah, son of George and Hannah Allen, born March 14,1650/1; died 1689; second, May 27, 1695, Thomas, son of Aaron and Dorothy Forman, died 1723

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.

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]