General David Forman

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"


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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]

Sarah married Major William Gordon Forman before 1797. William (son of Joseph Forman and Amelia Gale) was born on 22 Jun 1770 in Monmouth Co, New Jersey; died on 3 Oct 1812 in Lexington, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married Jonathan Longstreet after 1797. Jonathan was born about 1779; died after 1780. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emma married Robert Cumming about 1805. Robert was born about 1785 in of, Baltimore, Maryland; died after 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

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

Died:
died at a very advanced age in Fauquier Co, Virginia

Rivine married James Neilson about 1811. James (son of General John Neilson) was born about 1791; died after 1816. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
(only daughter)

(daughter) married Rev. George Griffin about 1822. George was born about 1810; died after 1840. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]