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Rose Hill, Cecil County, Maryland.

Reproduced by courtesy of
Miss Mary Formax Day.
Paragraph 95.

THE

FORMAN GENEALOGY

Descendants of Robert Forman of Kent Co., Maryland,
who died in 1719-20;

ALSO

Descendants of Robert Forman of Long Island, New York,
who died in 167 1 :
The Forman Family of Monmouth Co., New Jersey;

TOGETHER WITH

Notices of other Families of the Name of Forman.

COMPILED PRINCIPALLY BY
MISS ANNE SPOTTSWOOD DANDRIDGE
FOR
MRS. E. P. DISMUKES OF COLUMBUS, GA.

CLEVELAND, OHIO:
THE FORMAN-BASSETT-HATCH CO.

1903.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PARAGRAPH NO.
Descendants of Robert Forman of Kent Co., Maryland :
Robert Forman the Immigrant, his acquisitions of land, his will probated 1720. His son
Robert's will. Order of his children.  .  1
Arthur Forman 1st, eldest son of Robert, will probated 1757    2
Francis Forman 1st (1702-1758), son of Arthur 1st, abstract of will   3
John, eldest son of Francis 1st (d. 1785) ; abstracts of his will, and of the wills of Henrietta
his widow, and of Alice their daughter     4
Sweatnam Forman of "Royston," Q. A. Co. (d. 1807), son of John    5
Arthur Forman 2nd, second son of Francis 1st, d. intestate 1785, abstract of inventory, will
of Mary his widow, d. 1817_  ...    6
William, second son of Arthur 2d, sketch of his life    7
Jesse Forman, son of William, and Dr. S. E. Forman of Baltimore, grandson of Jesse Forman 8
Francis Forman 2nd (1773-1857), son of William, sketch of his life. His will ; the will of
his widow ; inscription on tombstones      9
Arthur Immel Forman (1807-1867), eldest son of Francis 2nd, sketch of his life. Ancestry
of his wife, Mary Ann Booth of Virginia. Civil War reminiscences of his son, Dr.
William Booth Forman of Florida (Confederate Army)  10
Mrs. Anne E. (Forman) Dismukes, daughter of Arthur Immel Forman    11
Mrs. Anne E. (Forman) Jones, daughter of Francis Forman 2nd   12
Mrs. Caroline (Forman) Howard, daughter of Francis Forman 2nd-  13
William Raymond Forman, son of Francis Forman 2nd    14
Arthur Thomas Forman, son of William Raymond Forman   15
Mrs. Mary Jane (Forman) Vickars, daughter of Francis Forman 2nd  16
Table of Descent-  -    -  17
Extracts from Church Registers, from other Records, etc  .18 to 32
Wills recorded in Annapolis  19
Rev. John Forman (1773-1840).  -  20
Letters of Administration recorded in Baltimore  21
Wills recorded in Baltimore  22
Abstracts of some Baltimore wills   23 to 27
Pedigrees from same   28 and 29
Items from Baltimore newspapers  .     30
Wills recorded in Centreville, Md    31
Administration accounts from Centreville  1  32

CONTENTS— Continued. paragraph no.
Sweatnam Family — Genealogy of   35
Will of Sweatnam Burn, etc    36
The Family of Hon. E. E. Farman of Warsaw, New York   37
Descendants of Robert Forman of Long Island :
Introduction        38
The English Genealogy _       39 to 41
Robert Forman the Immigrant, his will, etc     -- 42
Moses, son of Robert      43
Samuel, son of Robert.   44
Aaron, son of Robert, and his sons      45, 46, 47
Samuel Forman, son of Aaron, his commission as High Sheriff of Monmouth County, New
Jersey         48
Extracts from New Jersey Archives      49
The children of High Sheriff Samuel Forman   _ 50
Judge Jonathan Forman (d. 1762), second son of High Sheriff Samuel Forman of Mon
mouth Co., N. J., and his descendants    51 to 74
Samuel Forman of Middletown Point, eldest son of Judge Jonathan   53
Gen. Jonathan Forman, eldest son of Samuel of Middletown Point; Governor Horatio Sey
mour of New York, and other descendants of Gen. Jonathan Forman   54
Philip Freneau, son-in-law of Samuel Forman of Middletown Point     55
Major Samuel S. Forman,    _.   56
Peter Forman, second son of Judge Jonathan, and his descendants.    57 to 69
Garrett Forman and descendants       59 to 66
Judge William P. Forman       67
Jonathan Clayton Forman of Cleveland, Ohio  69
Sheriff David Forman, youngest son of Judge Jonathan, and his descendants  70 to 74
Tunis Forman    74
Aaron Forman (d. 1742), third son of High Sheriff Samuel Forman of Monmouth, and
his descendants, William Henry Forman of New York City and others   75
Captain John Forman (d. 1748), fourth son of High Sheriff Samuel Forman, and his
descendants. Col. Samuel Forman of the Revolution    76
Joseph Forman (d. 1775), fifth son of High Sheriff Samuel Forman and his descendants. 77 to 102
Joseph Forman 2d, eldest son of Joseph    79
The Forman family at Natchez and in Mississippi  .    80
Richard Howell Forman   37
Stephen Samuel Forman        39
Ezekiel Forman, second son of Joseph 1st     93
Will of Thomas Marsh     _  94
Gen. Thomas Marsh Forman of " Rose Hill," Cecil Co., Md  95
Col. Joseph Forman of Queen Anne's Co    _  9g

CONTENTS— Continued. paragraph no.
Major Ezekiel Forman of " Cloverfields, " Q. A. Co  -...  -  -  97
Ezekiel Marsh Forman of Centreville    98
Hon. Ezekiel F. Chambers     99
Gen. David Forman of the Revolution       102
Ezekiel Forman of Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey (d. 1746), sixth son of
High Sheriff Samuel Forman of Monmouth, and his descendants.   103 to 149
Thomas Forman, second son of Ezekiel of Upper Freehold, and his descendants in Kentucky
and elsewhere..     104
Ezekiel Forman of Mason Co., Ky., eldest son of Thomas     106
Thomas Seabrooke Forman of Louisville, Ky., eldest son of Ezekiel of Mason Co.  107
Col. James Brown Forman of the Union Army, son of Thomas Seabrooke Forman of
Louisville  108
John Samuel Forman, third son of Ezekiel Forman of Mason Co., Ky    110
Rev. Ezekiel Forman, D. D., of Kentucky, son of Ezekiel Forman of Mason Co.  116
Benjamin Rice Forman of New Orleans, son of Rev. Ezekiel Forman, D. D   117
Thomas Throckmorton Forman of Lexington, Ky., son of Rev. Dr. Ezekiel Forman  118
Rev. Charles William Forman of Lahore, India, son of Ezekiel Forman of Mason Co., Ky. 119
Whiteman W. Forman of Paris, Ky., son of Ezekiel Forman of Mason Co   121
Joseph Forman of Mason Co., Ky., son of Thomas    124
Hon. George Lewis Forman of Mason Co., Ky., son of Joseph.    130
Lieutenant Samuel Tebbs Forman of the Confederate Army, son of Hon. Geo. L. Forman. 131
Samuel Forman of Mason Co., Ky., son of Thomas      135
Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman of Mason Co., Ky., son of Samuel.  136
Dr. Aaron Forman of Hunterdon Co., N. J., third son of Ezekiel of Upper Freehold, Mon
mouth Co., — his sons, and their descendants     145 to 148
Ezekiel Forman, fourth son of Ezekiel Forman of Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., N. J_. 149
Descendants of Robert Forman of Long Island, in Westchester and Tioga Counties, N. Y., in
California, Canada, and elsewhere    150
Other Families whose connection with the foregoing has not been traced  151 to 153
Judge Joshua Forman, the founder of Syracuse — sketch of his life, etc  151
Aaron Forman, Revolutionary Soldier from Virginia   152
Hon. William S. Forman of Illinois       152
Rev. Aaron Parker Forman  ._    152
The Forman family of St. Clair Co., Ala., descended from Samuel Forman of Halifax Co.,
N. C    -    153
Extracts from Annals of Newtown, Long Island    154

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Paqe
Rose Hill   Frontispiece
Francis Eagle Forman    19
Samuel Eagle Forman, A. M., Ph. D.  19
Francis Forman   20
Mrs. Anne E. (Immel) Forman   23
Arthur Immel Forman..   27
Residence of Arthur I. Forman  29
Booth Coat-of-Arms  30
Mrs. Mary A. (Booth) Forman    30
William Booth   32
"Leinster," Nottoway Co., Virginia  34
Major William Fitzgerald  34
Mrs. Sarah (Epes) Fitzgerald.   34
Dr. William Booth Forman  37
Mrs. Elisha Paul Dismukes  41
E. Paul Dismukes, Jr_   42
Children of E. P. Dismukes, Jr  42
Robert Ernest Dismukes   42
The Tennent Parsonage    75
Mrs. Eleanor Forman Hankinson  81
Ebenezer Forman  82
Garrett Forman  85

PA8B
Mrs. Esther Forman Cadmus   86
William P. Forman   89
Samuel William Forman  91
Jonathan Clayton Forman   91
Samuel William Forman; 2d  91
General Thomas Marsh Forman  105
General David Forman.  -  112
Colonel James Brown Forman   117
Rev. Charles William Forman   123
Lieut. Samuel Tebbs Forman   127
William Forman   -.130
Judge Joshua Forman   135
Mrs. Elizabeth Forman Buckelew  140
Fransinchy Forman  140
Mrs. Catharine Forman Way  140
Emma Francis Way.    140
Jonathan Forman    144
John Clayton Forman  144
Mary JaneForman   .144
Jonathan Clayton Forman, Jr  152
Elizabeth Mary Forman  .152
Residence of Jonathan Clayton Forman  152

INDEX TO APPENDIXES.

PAGE.
Booth Family, further information, Appendix A    145
Wyckoff Family, Appendix B    147
Jonathan Forman, of Freehold, N. J., Appendix C  „  148
Hamilton Forman, Appendix D —  _  149
George V. Forman, Appendix D.  149
Justus Miles Forman, Appendix E    _.   149
Robert Henry Forman, Appendix F    149
Hon. William S. Forman, of East St. Louis, Appendix G  149
Jacob Forman, of Westchester County, N. Y., Appendix H  150

PREFACE.

At the beginning of the researches made by Miss Anne Spottswood Dandridge
on the genealogy of the Forman family in Maryland, it was hoped that a common
ancestor for all persons of the name could be found. This hope is as yet unfulfilled,
but it has nevertheless been thought best to include in the book not only the
descendants of Robert Forman, who died in 1719-20, but also another family whose
ancestor came to Maryland from Monmouth Co., New Jersey, later in the same cen
tury — the eighteenth. Much information had been collected regarding the New
Jersey family before it appeared that the connection, if any, was remoter than at
first supposed, and a good deal has been since added relating to other branches of
the New Jersey family whose earliest ancestor in America, also named Robert For
man, died in Long Island in 1671. There will also be found in these pages notices
of other families of the name whose connection with the two mentioned is as yet
untraced. It is proper to state that, while the book has been principally compiled by
Miss Dandridge, much additional matter has been added by various contributors, to
all of whom I desire to renew the expression of my thanks. The following have been
especially helpful in rendering assistance:
Mrs. Josephine Forman Rodgers of Washington, D. C, Hon. E. E. Farman of
Warsaw, N. Y., Mr. J. Clayton Forman of Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. W. B. Forman of
Florida, Mr. Charles Forman of New Orleans, La., and Hon. E. P. Dismukes of
Columbus, Ga., and others whose names will be mentioned in the body of the work.
Additional information and corrections will be welcomed.
1515 Third Avenue, A. E. F. Dismukes.
Columbus, Ga. (Mrs. E. P. Dismukes.)

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.

Genealogy of the Forman Family of Maryland — Descended from
Robert Forman who died in 1720.

1. From the Index of Early Settlers in the Land office at Annapolis, Mary
land, Liber 18, folio 94, it appears that Robert Forman arrived in Maryland in the
year 1674. Whether he came directly from England or was an offshoot of a family
already settled in the colonies — perhaps of the family which had settled in Long
Island a generation before, is unknown. That such a removal would not be singular
is shown by the case of Augustine Herman who came from New Amsterdam, made
the famous map and founded Bohemia Manor in Maryland.
Robert Forman became the owner of "Lewstern," a tract of land of 200 acres
on the north side of the Chester River, surveyed for him on October 12, 1704 (Rent
Roll of Kent Co. page 65, MS in Md. Hist. Socy.), and granted to him, according to
the deed to Calder hereafter to be mentioned, by letters patent of the Lord Pro
prietory, on October 10, 1707. His will (at Annapolis) shows that he also owned
the upper part of " Blackhall's Hermitage," 100 acres, also on Chester River. In
1707 it appears (Rent Roll of Kent Co. page 59) that 100 acres of "Blackhall's
Hermitage " was " possest " by Edward Forman, whose relationship to Robert is
unknown. From Edward it seems to have passed to Robert. Nothing more is known
of Robert's life except what may be learned from the following :
" Whereas There hath been Eight hundred twenty-five thousand Nyne hun
dred Seventy Nyne pounds of Tobacco Expended Layd out & disbursed by several
of the Inhabitants of this Province in the late Expedicon against the Nanticoke
Indians and other the necessary Charges of this province which hath been examined
stated and allowed by the upper and lower houses of this present General Assembly
To the intent therefore That the same may be satisfied and paid to these persons to
whom the same is due Bee itt Enacted by the Right Honble the Lord Proprietary
by and with the advice of this present General Assembly and the Authority of the
same That the said Eight hundred twenty five thousand Nyne Hundred Seventy
Nyne pounds of Tobacco be paid in the manner & form as is hereafter Expressed by
an Equal Assessment uppon the persons & Estates of the Inhabitants of this Province
And be payd to the severall persons to whome the same is due as aforesaid Any Law
Statute Custome or vseage to the Contrary thereof Notwithstanding."

1 0 THE FORMAN GENEAL OGY.
Then follow the amounts to be paid to the persons named, among whom Robert
Foreman of Kent County is to be paid 300 lbs.
(Procedure of the Assembly of Maryland, October, November, 1678.)
In Robert Forman's will, which is extant, and which we subjoin, the name is
spelled Foreman. To those who are at all acquainted with old records it is well
known that small differences in the spelling of proper names signify nothing, being
generally due to the carelessness or ignorance of the clerk.

WILL OF ROBERT FORMAN OF KENT CO., MD.1
In the name of God Amen. I Robert Foreman being sick and weak in body
but of sound and perfect memory praised be to God for his mercy, Do make this my
last will and Testament, in manner and form as followeth.
Item First I bequeath my soul to God Allmight who gave it and body to be
decently burried at the direction of my Executor hereafter named.
Secondly, I will that my debts be oneslly paid.
Thirdly, I will that the Dwelling plantation I now live upon shall be for the
use of my loving wife Mary Foreman during her life for to live upon for her and her
children's maintenance but in Case She after should marie <fc be renounced from the
Plantation that then it shall be Lett yearly rent for the good of my children born
of her body. Fourthly, I give to my son Robert Foreman fifty acrers of Land called Luse-
tren, being a part of a Tract of two hundred acrers at the North East End of the
Tract and the rest of my three youngest children as followeth.
Fifthly, I give to my youngest son Charles Foreman Fifty acres of Land with
the plantation upon itt.
Sixthly, I give to my son Wm. Foreman fifty acres of Land adjacent to the
second part.
7th,ly, I give to my son John Foreman the last Fifty acres of Sd. Tract to
them their heirs & afd & assignds for ever.
8th,ly, I give to my youngest Daughter Eliza . Foreman two cows and calves
and sow & piggs young mare & two ewes.
9thly, I give to my son Aurther Foreman the plantation with the hundred
acres of Land that he lives upon called the Upper part of Blackhalls hermitage, his
heirs an assignis forever.
lOthly, I give to my Daughter A. Mildratt Hendrickson one shilling.
llthly, I give to my Daughter Mary Fanning one shilling.
12thly I give to my loving wife Mary Foreman all the rest of my Temporal
Estate. And in Case that any of my four youngest Children should Dye without heirs
that then the Land be Equally Divided among the rest of the surviving of the four
& my Daughter Eliza then to have an Equal part of said Land with the rest of the
survivors.

'Annapolis Records T. B. 1-341.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 11
And lastly I constitute my well beloved wife Mary Foreman and my Son
Aurther Foreman my sole Executors of this my Will and Testament as witness my
hand & Seal the Twenty Seventh day of Sept Anno Dom 1711. •
Robert Foreman (Seal)
Signed Sealed & Diliverd before us
Thos Winn
Michael Haskett
This Day Micheal Haskett & Thos. Winn came before me James Harris D.
Conty of sd County & made oath upon the Holy Evangelist that they Saw ye above
Robert Foreman signe, Seale publish & declare the above will to be his last will &
Testament & that he was of sound sense & perfect Memory
Sworn this 15th day of March 1719 Jas. Harris D. Conty.
Note : — Although as a rule it has been attempted in this work to finish with
each branch before taking up the next younger, we now give the will of the second
son, a little out of the proper order, since the line is not carried further.

WILL OF ROBT. FOREMAN, (JUNIOR).1
" I Robert Foreman of Kent County in the province of Maryland 
I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth, my dearly beloved wife, all my stock of horses,
cattle and hogs, together with all my household goods and movables.
I give to my well beloved son, Walter Foreman, all and singular the lands,
messuages and tenements to him and his heirs forever. . . .
Exrs. wife Elizabeth and son Walter.

prob. July 27, 1762. Robt. Foreman's K i seal

The order in which Robert Forman's children were born is not altogether cer
tain, and is obtained partly from the will and partly from a deed from Robert's
oldest son Arthur, another son John and his wife, and Elizabeth their sister and
her husband Richard Chaddock, by which they all convey to James Calder, attorney
at law of Thestertown, Md., the portion of the Lewstern estate which had been de
vised by the will to William and John. The deed recites that William died after
his father without issue, and the will is attested by only two witnesses ; the lands
presumably did not pass thereby, and estate in fee descended to Arthur as heir at
law of Robert. Arthur therefore became a party to the deed for the benefit of the
others. The price paid was twenty pounds Maryland currency to John and his wife
and Elizabeth and her husband, Arthur receiving the nominal sum of five shillings.
This deed is dated February 8, 1733, and is recorded in Liber J. S. No. 16, folio 432
etc. (A Land Record for Kent Co., Md.).
Arthur was clearly the eldest son. That the daughters Mildred and Mary,
who were married at the time of the will, were older than their brother Robert is

i Wills, Chestertown, Kent Co., Md.

12 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
uncertain, but since Robert the younger seems to have been not yet provided with
an establishment of his own as his eldest brother had been, it is presumed his mar
ried sisters were older than he — they may, indeed, have been older than Arthur.
As the three youngest children are named as Charles, William and John, and
Charles is stated to be the youngest, the proper order would seem to be — John, Wil
liam, and Charles. The proper place of Elizabeth, the youngest daughter, is' as
difficult to determine as the places of her sisters. She may be assigned however to
the place between Robert and John.
The family of Robert, thus conjecturally arranged, is as follows :
Robert Forman, d. 1719-20.
m. Mary (or Margaret  )

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2
1, Arthur Forman, d. 1757
m. 1st Mary Reed
m. 2nd Elizabeth  , who survived him.
2
2, Mildred Forman, m.  Hendrickson.
2
3, Mary Forman, m.  Fanning.
2
4, Robert Forman, d. 1762
m. Elizabeth  , son: Walter Forman.
2
5, Elizabeth Forman, m. Richard Chaddock, Planter, of Kent Co.
2
6, John Forman, m. Mary  .
2
7, William Forman, d. without issue.
2
8, Charles Forman.
2. Arthur Forman, son of Robert, owned a plantation of 100 acres called
the upper part of Blackhall's Hermitage, devised to him by his father's will. He
was church warden in 1723 of St. Paul's parish in Kent Co. (Old Kent, p. 353).
2
Arthur Forman
m. 1st May 13, 1700, Mary Reed, buried May 10, 1713.
| (Register of St. Paul's Parish pages 27 1 etc.)
I 3
1, Francis Forman, b. Oct. 28, 1702, d. 1758
m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Sweatnam.
3
2, Arthur Forman, b. Nov. 3, 1706.
3
3, Mary Forman, b. June 19, 1711.
m. 2nd Elizabeth  , who survived her husband.

n 3
4, Robert Forman, b. Jany. 12, 1723.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 13
WILL OF ARTHUR FORMAN.1
" I, Arthur Forman of Kent County " . . . "To wife Elizabeth all per
sonal estate." . . . " To my son Francis my dwelling plantation, 100 a." . . .
Jan. 26, 1756. Prob. Nov. 7, 1757.

3
3. Francis Forman, of Queen Anne's Co., Md. Born October 28, 1702, died
1758. (Will prob. Feb. 13, 1758. Lib. W. H. N. fol. 146, Q. A. Rec.) Owner of
land in Kent Co. " Blackhall's Hermitage;" and land in Queen Anne's Co., "Roys-
ton" and "Fishingham" (the latter estates in right of his wife.)
m. (prior to 1731) Elizabeth Sweatnam, daughter of John, son of Richard
Sweatnam of "Royston." By will, 1697, Richard Sweatnam devised
"Royston," then 1200 acres, to his son John, from whom it was inherited
by John's two daughters, Elizabeth and Hannah. In 1731 mutual deeds
to "Royston"2 etc., were signed by Elizabeth and her husband, Francis
Forman, and Hannah and her husband, Matthew Dockery.
(Deed Oct. 21, 1731. Lib. R. T. No. A., fol. 85.101.)
9 children

3
Francis Forman, son of Arthur and Mary (Reed) Forman, b. Oct. 28, 1702,
d. 1758. m. before 1731 Elizabeth Sweatnam, dau. of Capt. John Sweatnam :
(See account of Sweatnam family to be given later.)
4 4

rJ

1, John Forman, d. 1785. 5, Francis Forman.
m. Henrietta  , d. 1791. 4
4 6, Anne Forman.
2, Mary Forman. 4
m. William Cockrall. 7, Rebecca Forman.
4 4
3, Arthur Forman, d. 1785. 8, Hambleton Forman.
m. Mary  . 4
4 9, James Forman.
4, Elizabeth Forman.

WILL OF FRANCIS FORMAN.3
I, Francis Forman, being sick and weak in body but of sound and disposing
mind, &c. . . .
To my son Arthur Foreman and his heirs one hundred acres of Land in Kent
County known by the name of Blackhalls Hermitage . . . and failing issue from
my son Arthur Foreman I give aforesaid hundred acres to my son, Francis Foreman,
and failing Francis heirs I give it to my son Hambleton Foreman and failing heirs

*B. T. 2, 414 (Annap.). 2 567 acres.
sWills Queen Anne's Co. W. H. N. 1. — This will is recorded in Annapolis, B. T. 2, 433 ; by a clerical error
the name is there given "Freeman " in the beginning of the paper. It is signed Foreman.

14 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
from his body to my son James Foreman. ... To son Arthur Foreman my best
bed and furniture (for it) . . . To daughter Mary Foreman my next best bed
and furniture ... to daughter Elizabeth Foreman the next best bed (<fec) to
her sister Mary's.
All remainder of Personall estate to be equally Divided amongst my children
Mary, Arthur, Elizabeth, Francis, Anne, Rebecca, Hambleton and James . . .
my four sons and four daughters having before given a legacy to my eldest son,
John. ... I appoint John Small Ex'r. Francis (sic).
Arthur Forman. Edward Crupper.
Arthur Chrisfield. prob. Feb. 13, 1758.
4
4:. John Forman, son of Francis and Elizabeth (Sweatnam) Forman, d. 1785.
m. Henrietta  , d. 1791.

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1, Ann Forman, m.  Smith.
2, Sweatnam Forman, m. 1st Elizabeth Kent ) rf Dda cousim
m. 2nd Elizabeth Kent j
m. 3d Hannah Wroth.
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3, 'John Forman, m. Sarah  ; no children.
d. 1798. (Will prob. March 31, 1798.)
4, William Francis Forman, d. unm.
5, Margaret Forman, m.  Cox, 1 dau., Margaret Cox.
6, Alice (Alsey) Forman, Will prob. Feb. 19, 1793.

WILL OF JOHN FORMAN.2
I, John Foreman, of Queen Anne's Co. . . . Imprimis I give unto my
son Sweatnam Foreman one negro boy named Jacob to him and his heirs forever.
Item. To my son John Foreman two negro boys, Simon and Cleynus. . . .
Item. I give unto my son William Francis Foreman two negro boys Davis
andPhill. Item. After my just debts and funeral expenses be paid I give all the rest
of my negroes and all my other personal estate to my beloved wife, Henriette and
her Heirs, reposing in her the highest Confidence that from the profits thereof she
will support and maintain my daughter Alice who is troubled with a Parolitic Com
plaint. . . . Lastly, I do hereby appoint my wife sole Executrix. . . .
In witness whereof (etc.) this 4th Day of November Anno Domini 1782.
Witnesses: John Foreman. iSeah'i
Thos. Hackett,

Henry Foreman, 21st of May 1785. Then came Henrietta
John Brown. Foreman and made oath, (etc.)

'Owned 150 acres of Royston ; Exr. of Henrietta Forman, his mother. 2Queen Anne's Co. Wills T. W. 1. :

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 15
Inventory of John Forman1 late of Queen Anne's County . . . June 18,
1785. Amt. 797 L. 10, 6. next of Kin. Sweatnam Forman. Sept. 10, 1785. Then
came Henrita Executor, (etc.).

ABSTRACT OF WILL OF MRS. HENRIETTA FORMAN, WIDOW
OF JOHN FORMAN.2
I, Hennerite Forman. ... To Daughter Alcey, one negro named Stephen,
one negro woman named Deb. . . . negro boy Joe and negro girl Hagar, and
furniture. Item. After my just debts and funeral Expenses are paid I give all the rest
of my estate to be equally divided between my two sons, John Forman and William
Francis Forman.
Ex'r Son John ... 29 July 1786.
prob. Oct. 22, 1791. Henrietta Forman. i Seal i
We John Forman,3 )
Sweatnam Forman, > are bouud . . . 1500 pounds.
Thomas Young j cur. money . . . Oct. 22, 1791.
John Forman (Ex'r of Will of Henrietta Forman) Swetnam Forman, Thomas
Young. ABSTRACT OF WILL OF ALICE FORMAN.4
"I, Alsey Foreman ... To bro. John negro Stephen and Debby. To
my bro. William Foreman my negro boy named Joe, he being fourteen years of age.
. . . To my niece Margaret Cox my trunk and all my wearing apparel. . . .
Ex'r my brother John.
Sept. 29, 1792. Prob. Feb. 19, 1793."
We Henrietta Forman,5 ) of Queen Anne's Co., are held (<fec.) in sum
Thomas Hackett, > of 3000 pounds cur. money. . . .
Swetnam Forman. j May 31, 1785.
Henrietta Forman,
Thomas Hackett,
Swetman Forman.
John Forman, son of Francis and Elizabeth (Sweatnam) Forman, d. 1785.
m. Henrietta, d. 1791.

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5
5. Sweatnam Forman, of "Royston," Queen Anne's Co,, b.  ; d. 1807.
(Adm. Bond signed by Jesse Forman. Jan. 11, 1808. W. H. N. 1804-1810, fol. 138.)

m. 1st Elizabeth Kent, ] f -p. ,
m. 2nd Elizabeth Kent, j 0I JJel"

cousins.

'Inv. R. W. 1784-86. 1. p. 127. 2Wills Queen Anne's Co. Lib. S. C. 7 fol. 321. sAdmn. Bonds S. C. 1790-92.
p. 64, Queen Anne's Rec. 4Wills Queen Anne's Co. R. W. 1. p. 5Admn. Bond S. C. 384.

16 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
m. 3rd Hannah Wroth, dau. of Kinwin Wroth.
He
'Maria Forman, m. Dr. David Quimby of Queen Anne's Co.
H  1
Caroline, Henrietta.
6
'Emaline Forman, m. 1st Dr. David Quimby, her bro.-in-law
David Quimby, died in childhood.
6 m. 2nd Thomas Reynolds.
Caroline Forman, d. in childhood.
6
1 Jesse (named in a Deed from his father, 1799).
6
^ohn Sweatnam Forman, m. s. p. Susan Skinner.
6
2Louisa Forman, m. 1st Jonathan Cooper.
I 

s. p. m. 2nd William Wroth, her cousin.

7 r
3Martha Amanda Cooper, m. Robt. Wilson, of Queen Anne's Go.
I
7 A
John William Fletcher Cooper, m. Julia Foster.
7
Mary Louisa Cooper, m. Dr. Wm. H. Nonis (Fred'k Co.)
4
6. 4 Arthur Forman m. Mary
b. . . .d. 1785 | b . . . . d. 1817. (Will Prob. Apr.
18, 1817. Lib. T. C.

(Inventory filed by
Mary, Adm'x May 13, 1785.
R. W. 1784-86. Fol. 30).

E. 1. Fol. 77. Exr.
her son William, of
whom she says " I
have entire confidence
5 | in him.")
1, Jesse Forman, (named in Deed from Sweatnam to Mary as "eldest son of
Arthur and Mary.")
5
2, William Forman m. Mary Raymond of Del.
5
3, Elizabeth Forman.
5
4, Mary Forman.

'Sweatnam deeds personal property to these four children, 1799. S. T. W. 215-216, 217-227.
2She is named in a Deed (of sale) " Louisiana or Louisa." S. T. W. 6, 338.
"Mrs. Wilson gave, Jan. 26, 1901, the names of the descendants of Sweatnam Forman to Mrs. Dismukes.
4Second son of Francis and Elizabeth (Sweatnam) Forman.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 17

INVENTORY.1
An Inventory of all and singular the Goods and Chattels of Arthur Forman
late of Queen Anne Co  appraised . . This 13th day of May, 1785.
Wearing apparel (£)  7.10.0
Cash  78. 0.0
6 silver teaspoons  15.0
1 Pr. Gold sleeve buttons  15.0
1 Pr. old silver shoe buckles  7.6
(Negroes, farming implements, stock, "3 spinning wheels,"
<fec, &G.)

Amt. £925. 18. 5.

Mary Forman, Adm'n of Arthur Forman."

We Mary Forman,2 1
Edward Wright, v are bound &c. . . . 3000 pounds
John Hackett. j cur. money.
Mary Forman Admx. of Arthur Forman, late of Queen Anne's Co."Seal."

(Signed) Mary Forman, I-
E. Wright,
Jno. Hackett.

WILL OF MRS. MARY FORMAN, WIDOW OF ARTHUR FORMAN.3
I, Mary Forman, of Queen Anne's Co., being sick and weak but of sound and
disposing mind, (&c.)
I give and devise to my daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, my half of the farm
purchased jointly by my son William and Myself, lying near Double Creek, the
legal title of said farm is at present in my son William but I have entire confidence
in him and request that he will as soon as it can conveniently be done have the
Land divided into two equal parts and convey one half of the farm to my daughters
Elizabeth and Mary. . . . (To Elizabeth and Mary are left personal property,
furniture, silver, &c.)
To my son William, my negro women, Becca and Matilda . . . the riding
horse, Lightfoot, and a bed and a sufficiency of bed furniture for it. . . . All
the rest of estate to be equally divided among William, Elizabeth and Mary. . . .
Ex'r son William.
November 10th, 1815. Mary Forman.

'Queen Anne's Records. R. W. 1784-86. No. 1. p. 30. (Inventory.) 2Admn. Bonds, B. S. C. 1774-86. 259.
"Queen Anne's Records T. C. E. 1, p. 77.

18 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
5
7. William Forman, son of Arthur and Mary Forman.
m. Mary Raymond of Delaware.

H

*1, Jesse Forman, m. Margaret Eagle.
1 7 n~ i 7
2Arthur, Jesse, Francis E.
d. 1830.
2, Francis Forman, m. 1806 Anne Elizabeth Immel.
b. 1773, d. 1857. \ b. 1784, d. 1875.
6 A
3, John Forman, m. Susan Anthony, s. p.
6
4, Raymond Forman, m. Letitia.
1  n  h
Susan, Mary.
6
5, Mary Forman, m. Mr. Thomas.
6
6, Elizabeth Forman, m. Mr. Sutton.

WILLIAM FORMAN.
William Forman married Mary Raymond of Delaware 1765. He was the
second son of Arthur Forman and Mary  . Their children were as follows :
'Jesse, 2Francis, 3John, 4Raymond, 5Mary and 6Elizabeth. There was a strong feeling in
the states of New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland at this time against negro slavery.
William called his children around him and told them that the slaves and a large
tract of land was theirs by inheritance, and they could take their choice, either to
free their slaves or keep them in their service. A few of the family servants to
whom he was attached, he would keep and would give them their freedom as they
became self-sustaining. The rest of the negroes he divided between his sons. His
wife — Mary Raymond — in her will gave to her daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, all
of her property, which she inherited from her mother's estate, consisting of money
and real estate. William Forman was an officer in Second Delaware Regiment
during the Revolutionary War. Was promoted for bravery at the battle of German-
town, October 4th, 1777.
6
8. 3 Jesse Forman, son of William and Mary (Raymond) Forman.
m. Margaret Eagle.

rJ

7
1, Arthur Forman m. Margaret Elbert.
1, dau. m. Joseph Benson.

'The names of the children of Wm. Forman and Mary Raymond are not found in records, but are given by
Mrs. Wilson, a gr. dau. of Sweatnam Forman (son of John, son of Francis.) 2Chas. Price, Guardian of Arthur,
Jesse and Francis. Q. A. Rec. sAuthority Mrs. Robert Wilson, Baltimore, January, 1901.

Francis Eagle Forman.

Samuel Eagle Forman, A. M., Ph. D.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 19
2, Francis Raymond Forman
3, Virginia Forman m  Farris.
7
2, Jesse Forman, d. in early manhood, 1830.
7
x3, Francis Eagle Forman
m. 1st Hester A. Hall of Kent Co., Md.
he 1, Josephine Forman.
m. 1st, Colonel Allen Johnston of Tennessee.
m. 2nd, William Rodgers of Kent Island, Md.
8
2, Jesse Forman.
m. in Tennessee, Amelia Ellen Decherd, dau. of Jonathan Decherd.
8
3, Susan Mann Forman.
m. in Indiana, Alvin Lockwood.
8
4, James Francis Forman, d. unm.
m. 2nd, Eliza J. Miller of Elkton, Md.

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5, Samuel Eagle Forman, Ph. D., graduate of Dickinson College, Ph. D.
1897, Johns-Hopkins University. Author of a work on Thomas
Jefferson, "Philip Freneau as a Publicist," "Text Book on Civil
Gov't," <fcc.
m. Caroline Meredith of Baltimore.
8
6, Belle Forman.
m. H. A. Kerchner.

SAMUEL EAGLE FORMAN, Ph. D.
Dr. Samuel Eagle Forman, son of Francis Eagle Forman by his second
marriage with Eliza Jane Miller, was born April 29, 1858, in Brentsville, Virginia.
Both his parents were natives of Maryland. He graduated at Dickinson College in
1887 with the degree of A. B., and three years later took the degree of A. M. Later
he took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University, his
subjects being History, Political Economy and Jurisprudence. He is the author of
"First Lessons in Civics," "The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson," " The Life
of Philip Freneau," and other works, and is at present engaged in authorship and
in lecturing on educational topics.

'Justices of the Peace, 1838, Kent Co  Francis E. Forman.
(Official List.)

20 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
6
9. Francis Forman, b. Queen Anne's Co., Md., 1773, d. Nov. 23, 1857, buried
in Baltimore, son of William and Mary (Raymond) Forman.
He went into business in Hagerstown, Md., on April 7, 1796, the name of the
new firm, "Claggett & Forman," succeeding "John & Hezekiah Claggett." His name
appears in the Baltimore Directory in 1810, the exact time of his removal to Balti
more is unknown. m. Dec. 9, 1806, Anne Elizabeth Immel. (Notice of marriage in Baltimore
papers Dec. 18, 1806.)
1, Arthur Immel Forman, b. 1807, d. Nov. 27, 1867.
m. About 1836 Mary Ann Booth of "Shenstone," Nottoway Co., Va.
7
2, Anne Elizabeth Forman, b. Bait., Dec. 6, 1808, d. New Orleans, Feb. 16, 1864.
m. Samuel Jones, Jr. (Banker), b. 1804, d. New Orleans, April 22, 1874.
7
3, Evelina Forman, b. Sept. 16, 1810, d. April 10, 1888.
m. John Newton Brown (Banker), b. May 19, 1807, d. Jan'y 31, 1881 — no
children.
7
4, Caroline Forman, b. 1812.
m. George W. Howard of Baltimore, b. 1813, d. 1888.
7
5, William Raymond Forman, b. Baltimore, 1817.
m. 

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8
Arthur Thomas Forman, admitted to bar in Baltimore.
7
6, Mary Jane Forman, b. June 20, 1813.
m. Benjamin Albert Vickars, President of Marine Bank, Baltimore. (Son
of Capt. Joel Vickars and Ada Beck, son of Benjamin Vickars and
Rachel Roberts, son of George Vickars and Lydia Tower, son of
George Vickars, and Elizabeth Binney, son of George Vickars and
Lucy  , son of George Vickars, d. 1679, and Rebecca Phipery.)
7
7, Frances Keller Forman, d. in infancy.

FRANCIS FORMAN.

Francis Forman — second son of William and Mary Raymond Forman — was
born about 1773. After receiving his portion of his father's estate, he moved to
Hagerstown, Maryland. He married Anne Elizabeth Immel 1806. They had seven
children, which were as follows: 'Arthur, 2Anne Elizabeth, 3Evelina, 4Caroline,
5William Raymond, 6Mary Jane, Trances Keller, who died in infancy. Francis
Forman was an Episcopalian. A very serious difference arose in the church to
which he belonged, and ended in the church closing its doors.

Francis Forman.
(1773-1857)
Taken at the age of S3 Years, in 1856.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 21
He afterwards united himself with the First Presbyterian Church in Balti
more, Md., and remained a good and consistent member of the church until his
death in 1857. He was elected a "member of the committee" of the First Presby
terian Church in Baltimore 1836, and served until 1854, when ill health, with the
infirmities of old age compelled him to resign. He was confined to his room for
several years, and was always cheerful and happy, and was noted for his extreme
politeness, and noble deeds of charity. Francis Forman served in the war of 1812.
The Records, War Department, Washington City, D. C, show that Francis Forman
enlisted in Captain John Berry's Company, 1st Maryland Regiment of Artillery.
(Col. Harris) war 1812. His grand daughter Anne Elizabeth Forman Dismukes is
a member of the National Society of the United States Daughters of the War of
1812, through his services, is one of the Vice Presidents of the Georgia State
Division, and a charter state member. She has in her possession a pair of very
handsome old brass andirons, with shovel, tongs and holders all of brass, which
descended to her through her father, as family relics for several generations, also
two very quaint old bronze and brass candelabra, old heirlooms, and a suit of old
colonial style solid mahogany furniture. In thinking of incidents in my father's
(Arthur Forman) life; I well remember him telling his children that when he was
a boy, he went one day into the cellar of his father's home, 18 South Eutaw St. in
Baltimore, Md., and seeing a strange wretched looking negro, he was much frightened
and ran screaming to his mother, who upon going into the cellar found an old family
servant, who had been set free, sick and starved — the cook had taken him in and
secreted him for a week. Father lost no time in having his family physician called
and every attention was given to him, (old Uncle Bob as he was familiarly called) .
As soon as he recovered, suitable employment was found and he was cared for as
long as he lived by his former master. The Mrs. Allison who is buried in the For
man cemetery was no relation, but a poor deaf woman and a friend of the family, who
had no relatives, was given a home by my grandfather, Francis Forman, and sleeps
in the same enclosure with the Forman family. He was known always as a good
Christian, and whose hand was always dispensing charity.
1 "Married on Tuesday, the 9th instant, near Chambersburg, Penn., by the
Rev. Mr. Miller, Mr. Francis Forman, merchant of this place, to Miss Ann Elizabeth
Immel." (The same notice, same date of issue, was in " The American & Commercial
Daily Advertiser.") Their oldest child, Arthur, was baptized in the Episcopal Church.
2 " Bap. Aug. 1st, Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Francis and Ann Elizabeth
Forman, born Dec. 6, 1808."
3 "Evilina, Daughter of Francis and Ann Elizabeth Forman, born Sept. 16,
1810." '
4 " Aug. 23d, Mary Jane, daughter of Francis and Ann Elizabeth Forman, born
June 20, 1813."
5 "March 10th, Francis Keller, son of Francis and Ann Elizabeth Forman,
born Oct. 21. 1814."
i" Federal Gazette and Baltimore Daily Advertiser."— Dec. 18, 1806. 2Reg. of First Presbyterian Church,
Baltimore. P. 147. *P. 149. «P. 154- 6P- 157.

22 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
1 FRANCIS FORMAN'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.
Be it known that I, Francis Forman, of the city of Baltimore, in the state of
Maryland, being in health and of a sound disposing mind, memory and understand
ing, but considering the certainty of death, and the uncertainty of the time thereof,
do make and publish this as my last Will and Testament in manner following, that
is to say: I order and direct all my just debts and funeral expenses to be fully
satisfied and paid out of my estate. Item — I devise and bequeath unto my son-in-
law, Geo. N. Howard and to my son William R. Forman and the survivor of them
and the Executors and Administrators of the survivor, my dwelling house and lot
of ground and premises on the west side of Eutaw street in said city, subject to the
payment of the yearly rent of sixteen dollars and two-thirds of a dollar. In trust
and special confidence however for the uses and purposes following, and to and for
no other trust or purpose whatever, that is to say :
First. In trust that my dear wife, Ann Elizabeth Forman, during the residue
of her natural life, be permitted and suffered to hold, use, occupy, possess and enjoy
the said house and lot of ground and premises, and the rents, issues and profits
thereof, after payment of ground rent, taxes and other incidental charges, to receive
take and apply to her sole and separate use and benefit.
Second. In trust from and immediately after the decease of my said dear
wife, if my daughter, Ann E. Jones, should survive her, that the said Ann E. Jones
be permitted and suffered to have, hold, possess and enjoy the said house and lot of
ground and premises and to receive and take the rents, issues and profits thereof, for
her sole and separate use and benefit, or otherwise, at her option, to sell and dispose
of the same property and premises by deed in her life time and the avails or pro
ceeds to take and receive or to make disposition of said property or the avails there
of, by her last Will and Testament, in the same manner as if she were sole and un
married, without being in any manner subject to the control, power or disposal of
her present or any future husband, or liable for the payment of his debts or bound
for the fulfilment of his contracts or engagements, and in the event of the decease
of my said daughter, without having sold or disposed of the said property and pre
mises by Deed or Will, as she is above authorized and empowered to do, then the
same shall go to and become the property of, and I do hereby devise the same to
her D(a)ughter, Hellen Madison Jones, her Executors, Administrators and assigns,
absolutely. Third. In trust, however, if my said dear wife should survive my said
daughter, Ann E. Jones, that the said house and lot of ground and premises shall
become the estate and property of my said wife and be disposed of by her, by Deed
or Will, as she may deem proper; but in case of the decease of my said wife without
making such disposition, then, in trust for, and I do hereby devise and bequeath
the same house and lot of ground and premises unto the children which my said
daughter, Ann E. Jones, now has, and may hereafter have by her present husband
Samuel Jones, Jr., and to the Executors, Administrators and Assigns of such children

Baltimore Index 2. Lib. 28, folio 28.

Mrs. Anne Elizabeth (Immel) Forman.
(1784-1875)

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 23
absolutely, to be equally divided between them, share and share alike; and in case
of the decease of any such children of my said daughter, under age and without
issue living, at the time of his or her death respectively, the part or share of him,
her or them, so dying, shall go to the survivors or survivor of them, the said
children. Item. All the residue and remainder of my estate, real, personal and mixed,
I give and bequeath to my said beloved wife, Ann Elizabeth Forman, her heirs,
executors, administrators and assigns absolutely.
And lastly, I do hereby nominate and appoint my dear wife, Ann Elizabeth
Forman, to be the executrix of this my last Will and testament, hereby revoking all
former Wills by me made, and declaring this to be my only one.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my
Seal, this Eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and forty-seven. Francis Forman. i Seal, i
Signed, sealed, published and declared by Francis Forman, the Testator, to
be his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who in his presence, at his
request, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as
Witnesses. Fielder Israel,
I. Robert Israel,
Thos. B. Israel.
Baltimore City Sc.
On the 23d day of Dec, 1857, came I. Robert Israel and Thomas B. Israel,
two of the subscribing witnesses to the aforegoing last Will and Testament of
Francis Forman, late of said city deceased and made oath on the Holy Evangels of
Almighty God that they did see the testator sign and seal this Will, that they heard
him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament,
that at the time of his doing so he was to the best of their apprehensions of sound
and disposing mind, memory and understanding and that they together with Fielder
Israel, the other subscribing witness thereto, subscribed their names as Witnesses to
this Will in his presence, at his request and in the presence of each other.
Sworn to in open court, Test. Isaac P. Cook, Register of Wills for Baltimore
City. 
WILL OF ANN E. FORMAN.1
I, Ann E. Forman of the city of Baltimore, in pursuance of a deed of trust
from Francis Forman to John N. Brown, bearing date June 3, 1852, recorded among
the land records of Baltimore Co., in Lib. E. D. No. 13, folio 124, and also by deed
from Henry Barroll to him the said John N. Brown, recorded in Lib. E. D. No. 80,

^Baltimore lib. 41, fol. 472.

24 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
fol. 386, do make this my last Will (&c.) To my son-in-law John N. Brown and
grandson Francis F. Jones, $8100 in trust for use of my son-in-law Samuel Jones, Jr.,
with reversion. To my grand children, Francis F. Jones, Albert Jones, Duncan Jones (sons
of my deceased daughter, Ann E. Jones,) and Louis Jones, Evelina Brown Davison
and Henry Davison, (grand children of my deceased daughter, Ann E. Jones,) to
be equally divided. . . .
To my son-in-law, John N. Brown $5000 in trust . . . for the support
and maintenance and education of my grandson, Arthur T. Forman, (son of William
R. Forman), . . . said sum to become the property of my said grandson, Arthur
T. Forman, his heirs (&c.) absolutely. . . . But in case my said grandson shall
depart this life under 21 years of age and without issue living at his death. . .
I dispose of said sum of $5000 in following manner:
I give one-fourth part thereof to my grand children, Wm. B. Forman, Ellen
Dupont, Ann E. Dismukes, children of my deceased son, Arthur I. Forman; one-
fourth part thereof to my daughter, Evelina Brown, her heirs, <fec. . . .
One-fourth part to my daughter, Caroline Howard, her heirs, &c. . . .
the other fourth part to my daughter, Mary J. [ane] Vickars and her heirs, &c. . . .
I hereby release, exonerate, acquit and discharge the heirs executors and ad
ministrators of my deceased son, Arthur I. Forman, of and from all indebtedness to
me or my estate and from the payment of any and all sums of money due or owing
by my said son, Arthur I. Forman, to me.
All the rest residue and remainder of my estate ... I give and bequeath
to my three daughters, Evelina Brown, Caroline Howard and Mary J. Vickars.
Ex'r. son-in-law, John N. Brown. (Signed) Ann E. Forman.
July 20, 1871.
Prob. June 30, 1875.
The Deed of Trust to which allusion is made in the foregoing Will is thus
indexed in the Superior Court Records, Baltimore:
Lib. E. D. No. 13, p. 124.
Francis Forman Ass'nt to John N. Brown (in trust ... lot on Eutaw
street). June 3, 1852.

The Forman lot in Greenmount cemetery, Baltimore, is in Area I, 81, 82; a
double lot, enclosed by an iron fence, lying west of the Public Mausoleum. The
nearest entrance gate is on Greenmount Ave., opposite Lafayette ave. A handsome
monument bears the names of several members of the Forman family.
(On east face of monument.)
F. Forman,
Died Nov. 23, 1857,
In the 85th year of
his age.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 25
(Also east face of monument.)
Ann Elizabeth,
wife of Francis Forman
Died June 24, 1875,
Aged 91 years.

(On west face.)
Evelina Forman Brown,
Born September 16, 1810,
Died April 10, 1886.
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

(On north face of Forman monument.)
Arthur I. Forman,
Died at Quincy, Fla., Nov. 27, 1867,
In the 61st year of his age.

Ann E.
Wife of Samuel Jones, Jr.,
Died at New Orleans, Louisiana,
Feb. 16, 1864, in the 56th year
of her age.

Wm. R. Forman,
Died in Kent Co., Md.,
Aug. 17, 1857, in the
39th year of his age.

Samuel Jones, Jr.,
Died at New Orleans, La.
April 22, 1874, in the 70th
year of his age.

No inscription on south face of Forman monument.

West of the Forman monument, in the same lot is a double grave, with large
marble headstone inscribed:

26 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
John N. Brown,
Born
May 19, 1807,
Died
Jan. 31, 1881.
Evelina Forman,
Born
Sept. 16, 1810,
Died
April 10, 1886.
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

(In S. W. corner of lot, small marble headstone):
Our Baby.
He shall gather the lambs
in his arms and carry them
in his bosom.
Aug. 14, 1860. Isaiah 40.11.

x(Headstone N. W. corner of lot):
Ann Allison,
Died
Nov. 23, 1869,
Aged 86 years.
For me to live is Christ
and to die is gain.

(Headstone, Forman lot).
In
Memory of
George W. Howard,
Died
Nov. 27, 1888,
In the 75th year of
his age.
He giveth his beloved sleep.

There are no tombstones in the Forman lot in Greenmount, except the five, the
inscriptions on which have been here given; there are two small mounds with no
stones.

iNote:— This lady was a friend of the family, but not a relative.

Arthur Immel Forman.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 27
10. Arthur Immel Forman, son of Francis and Anne E. (Immel) Forman,
b. Baltimore, Oct. 12, 1807, d. Quincy, Fla., Nov. 27, 1867.
m. 1836, Mary Ann Booth, dau. of William Booth of "Shenstone," Not
toway Co., Va., who m. Mary Ann Fitzgerald of "Leinster," Amelia
Co., Va. 8
1, Francis Forman, b. 1838, d. age 7 months.
8
2, William Booth Forman, M. D., b. Quincy, Fla., 1839.
m. 1st, Lillian Hanna of Pensacola, Fla.
m. 2nd, Flora Pope of Athens, Ga.

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1, William Arthur Forman, b. 1892.
9
2, Ralph Pope Forman, b. 1894.
8
3, Ellen Forman, b. Quincy, Fla., Oct. 12, 1841.
m. Charles Wesley Dupont.

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1, Evelina Forman Dupont.
9
2, Charles Dupont.
8
4, Anne Elizabeth Forman, b. Quincy, Fla., Jany. 14, 1844.
m. Dec. 19, 1865, Elisha Paul Dismukes of Nashville, Tenn.,
I b. June 2, 1839.
n 1, Arthur Vickers Dismukes, d. aged 6 years.
2, Robena Dismukes, d. aged 4 years.
3, Elisha Paul Dismukes, b. Aug. 8, 1870, m. Ida Helena Morrisett.
4, William Forman Dismukes, d. aged 1 year.
5, John Thompson Dismukes, d. aged 14 years.
6, Herbert Dismukes, d. aged 6 months.
7, Robert Ernest Dismukes, b. March 5, 1877.
8, Mary Ellen Dismukes, d. aged 1 month.
9, Helen Dismukes, d. aged 5 years.
10, Cora Dismukes, d. aged 5 months.

ARTHUR I. FORMAN.
Arthur Immel Forman, son of Francis Forman and Anne Elizabeth
Forman, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 12th, 1807. He married
Mary Anne Booth of Shenstone, (Booth Homestead), Nottoway Co., Virginia,
in 1836. They had four children, which are as follows: VFrancis Forman, who died
in infancy; 2William Booth, 3Ellen D., and 4Anne Elizabeth. Arthur Forman
was a college graduate and entered the office of Mr. Osgood, where he read law.
Just as he finished his law course, being troubled with a weak throat he decided

28 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
that a warmer climate would suit his health better. His father gave him a horse,
saddle bags and one hundred dollars with which to begin life. He rode all the
way on horseback to Montgomery , Alabama, where he settled, but was only there
one year as malarial fever almost depopulated the town, caused by so much clearing
of new land by the settlers. A friend of his, Richard Taylor, had moved to Talla
hassee, Leon Co., Florida and wrote him that it was a garden spot, and to come
there to live. He decided to do so, and took the journey on horseback. He was
there about two years. In 1832 malarial fever was very prevalent and fatal from
the same cause — land clearing. His friend Richard Taylor was stricken with fever
and died. There were not well people enough to nurse the sick. He could find no
one to sit up with the remains of his friend Richard Taylor, so he wrapped himself
in a blanket and lay on the floor to keep guard over the dead. In the night he
heard a noise, some one trying to force the front door open, after calling several
times with no response he threw a heavy iron weight or dumb bell striking the door
and splitting it from top to bottom, narrowly missing a negro man's head, and giv
ing the negro such a fright that he almost died. The heavy air laden with malaria
so harassed his bronchial trouble that he moved again to the little sister city of
Tallahassee, twenty miles north — Quincy, named for John Quincy Adams who was
then president of the United States. There he met Mary Ann Booth, who was visit
ing her uncle, Rev. Freeman Fitzgerald of Virginia. They were married and he
purchased a plantation on which to place a number of negroes, inherited by his wife
from her father's estate, — David, Winnie the laundress, Pauline the seamstress,
Woodville, Caswell, Cleborne, Charlotte, Joshua the weaver, Eliza the spinner, (one
of these spinning wheels is now in the possession of Mrs. E. P. Dismukes, Columbus,
Ga.,) Merritt, Mulville, David the younger, Martha, Jane, Rosa, and Emma.
Mr. Hudson Muse1 of Petersburg, Va., married Harriet Booth, a sister of Mrs.
Forman. The two brothers-in-law formed a co-partnership. Mr. Forman built him
self a house in the town where he lived and looked after the education of the chil
dren. He was on the Board of Education in the State High School. Mr. Muse
spent most of his time in the Ocklocknee and River Plantation directing the over
seers. Mr. Forman told his children many incidents of Indians of whom there were
a great many all around them. He was a member of the Military Home Guards.
His partner, Mr. Muse was in active service, enlisting in Captain Charles H. Du
Pont's company in the Seminole Indian war, 1835. In those days men slept in
their homes with their flint2 and steel lock muskets by their beds, a chair near by
with a dark cloak thrown around it, to keep the hostile Indians from seeing the
light in the room. In those days they had no matches and had to strike fire with
the flint. Mr, Arthur Forman was one of the men detailed to escort the Indians to
Tampa, Florida, where they embarked for the west, he spoke the Indian dialect well
and often said the accent that they gave their names was much prettier than the
present pronunciation. The last syllable was emphasized. Mr. Forman was senior
warden in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Quincy, Florida, for many years, until his
death. His three children were confirmed by Bishop Rutledge in 1865. At the

JSon of a naval officer, Hudson Muse. 2His musket was kept in his closet in his room, until the Civil War
broke, it was then stolen.

RusrIcik-c of Hon. Arthur I. Forman, in Quincy, Fla
Built in 1S39.

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close of the Civil War, there was an execution against the church for repairs done,
there was no money in the treasury, and Mr. Forman paid the debt, six hundred
dollars, had good titles made, and gave the church and lot as a present to the
diocese of Florida.
Mr. Forman was Justice of the Peace for years, and served his country in
many capacities. He was a member of the Florida legislature, 1840-1850. The
records have been poorly kept. He was mayor of Quincy in the forties. He wrote
many articles on developing the resources of the states by railroads. He often said
that when he was in the legislature, important papers had to be sent to Washington,
D. C, by messenger on horseback, which took him twenty-one days to reach his
destination. There was a little raw hide trunk that he used to keep all his writings
in, but after his death the house was rented out, and many valuable things lost.
His health demanded much out of door exercise. He kept two servants, Anthony and
Merritt to cultivate his orange trees and gardens. His home was a typical southern
mansion, where a cordial greeting awaited all visitors. He belonged to the Home
Guards during the Civil War. At the battle of Natural Bridge, thirty miles south
of Tallahassee on the gulf coast, the booming of cannons could be distinctly heard.
Quincy was Gen. Howell Cobb's headquarters until the close of the war. Mr. For-
man's only son Dr. Wm. Booth Forman was seriously wounded at the battle of
Chickamauga and was sent to Marietta, Ga. His father went to bring him home,
and as most of the railroads had been destroyed, traveling was very rough and the
trip was too much for him as he never seemed to regain his strength.
When the news of the surrender of General Robert E. Lee reached our home
two weeks later, it was not credited. His advice to his slaves when told of their
freedom, was to remain with him until the end of the year 1865 and that he would
pay them wages. They knew that they had a good master and home, and they
kept steadily on with their work, and many of them remained with him until his
death in 1867. To this day those who are left, speak of him as "good old master."
Arthur Forman told his children many reminiscences of his early life, one
among them was that he was noted in school for his strength. Whenever a new
boy was entered at school, he was always called upon to measure his strength and
dexterity with him, and nine times out of ten he threw his man down with a .great
shout from the boys. He was but a little boy during the bombardment of Balti
more in the war of 1812. He said he could never forget his fathers last words to
him when he bade him goodbye to enlist, "to be a man and take care of his mother."
All night long he sat up with her watching the magnificent sight of the bombs
bursting in air, and it looked to him as if the heavens and earth were on fire. He had
the silver in a basket by him, while his mother kept the little ones near her, so that
if the house caught on fire they could escape to a place of safety.
Arthur Forman was ill only a few hours and passed away after living the life
of a good Christian. He often spoke of Francis Scott Key who was an intimate
friend of the family, with a great deal of affection.

30 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
ANCESTRY OF MRS. ARTHUR I. FORMAN (MARY ANN BOOTH).
Mary Ann Booth, who married Arthur I. Forman, was born at " Shenstone"
in Nottoway Co., Virginia, April 10, 1810, and died May 3, 1892, and is buried at
Quincy, Florida. Her father was William Booth, son of Gilliam Booth and Martha
Cryer. The family of Booth is of English descent and undoubtedly settled in Vir
ginia prior to the Revolution. There were nine of the Booth name from Virginia,
and probably more, in the Revolutionary War. William Booth died in Dinwiddie
Co., in 1810. His son William removed to Salem, Botetourt Co., Virginia, in 1817.
When Wm. Booth moved to Lawrence Co., Alabama, he first settled and built a large
brick mansion; he had twelve children. The homestead was called Shenstone, after
his old home in Virginia. Mr. George Garth now owns the old Booth place. Mr.
Booth's brother-in-law Rev. Freeman Fitzgerald built Rocky Hill, and Littlebury
Jones built the brick house where Mr. Harvey Gilchrist now lives. Mr. Wm. Booth
went in 1825 on horseback to Franklin, Tennessee, on business and to visit a friend,
Mr. Foster, at whose home he died very suddenly, and is buried there in the Foster
inclosure. He married Mary Ann Fitzgerald in 1792. She was the daughter of a
revolutionary soldier, Major William Fitzgerald, and Sarah Epes his wife.
Major William Fitzgerald2 served throughout the Revolution, raised a com
pany at his own expense, was promoted to Major at the battle of Guilford, North
Carolina, where he was stunned by the concussion of a cannon ball, and lay insen
sible two days. He took part in the surrender at Yorktown and was honorably dis
charged at the close of the war. He is referred to in the Virginia Magazine of
History and Biography for October, 1900. He was the son of William and Elizabeth
(Irby) Fitzgerald. His wife Sarah Eppes whom he married in 1777, was the
daughter of Richard Eppes of Bermuda Hundred, who married Martha Boiling.
Major William Fitzgerald died in Nottoway Co., Virginia, in 1818.
The Virginia Historical Magazine for 1896, p. 396, states that Richard Eppes
was a member of the House of Burgesses from Chesterfield Co. in 1752, '55, '58, and
'62 to '65, and probably other years.

NOTES ON BOOTH WILLS.
By President Lyon G. Tyler, of William and Mary College.
Amelia County:
Will of George Booth, dated Dec. 10, 1764; proved July 23, 1767. Names
wife Judith Booth, sons John, William, David, Nathan and George, daughter Ann
Booth and Elizabeth Booth. Brother William Booth.
Will of Thomas Booth, Sr., dated Sept. 15, 1758; proved June 1766. Names
sons Thomas, George, William and Nathan one shilling each; son John the home
stead 338 acres, daus. Joyce and Ann.
Will of William Booth, dated Sept., 1783. Names wife Phebe Booth, sons

'Gilliam Booth served in the Bevolutionary War. 2Lived at Leinster, Amelia Co., Va. Amelia was once a
part of Nottoway Co.

Coat-of-Arms of the Booth Family.

Mrs. Mary Ann (Booth) Forman.
Wife of Arthur Immel Forman,

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William, Matthew, Thomas, and Philip Booth. Makes Archer Johnson and Wm.
Wilson executors.
Will of John Booth, dated Oct. 24, 1793. Four children, (1) John, (2)
Thomas, (3) Mary, (4) Elizabeth Booth.
Prince George County:
From which Amelia was formed.
Thomas Booth mentioned in 1724.
Surry County :
Will of Thomas Booth of Surry Co., names wife Ann and Father George.
Dated July 8, 1751; proved 19 Nov., 1751.

NOTES ON BRETT AND ISHAM FAMILIES.
The will of Sir Edward Brett of Blendall, Parish of Bexley, County of Kent,
England, dated Dec. 22, 1682, was proved March 17, 1683. Among his legatees were
the children of his niece Ann, daughter of his sister Mary Isham, and £200 apiece
to the daughters of his nephew, Henry Isham, late of Virginia, deceased, by
Katherine his wife.
Henry Isham, son of William Isham and Mary Brett, his wife, came from
England to Virginia and married Katherine, widow of Joseph Royal of Henrico
County. He died about 1675, leaving issue I. Henry, died unmarried about J 679.
His will is on record in Henrico Co., Va., dated 13 Nov., 1678, proved Feb'y 1, 1679.
He gives to "my honored mother Mrs. Katherine Isham " one-third of his personal
property; to his sister " Miss Ann Isham " one- third of his personal property ; to his
sisters, "Mrs. Mary Randolph" and "Miss Ann Isham" his plantation in Charles
City County, called Doggams, to be equally divided ; to William Randolph the rest
of his estate in England, Virginia and elsewhere, and makes him executor. II. Mary
married William Randolph of Turkey Island. III. Ann married Colonel Francis
Eppes of Henrico.
The will of Mrs. Katherine Isham, dated August 10, 1686, was proved in
Henrico Co., December, 1686 ; bequests * * * the residue of her money to her two
daughters Mary Randolph and Ann Epes and gives each two silver salt cellars ; * * *
to her grandson Isham Epes, a negro ; * * * to daughter Ann Epes her seal ring, a
pair of silver clasps and a silver bodkin ; * * * Her son Joseph Royal, and son-in-
law Francis Epes, executors. Some writers have given the name of the third child
of Henry and Katherine Isham as " Elizabeth " but the extracts from the wills of
Henry Isham (Jr.) and Mrs. Katherine Isham give the name " Ann." All agree
that the daughter married Colonel Francis Eppes of Henrico.
Col. Francis Eppes of Henrico, born 1659, died about January, 1719, married
Ann Isham and had issue — Francis, Isham, William and others. Francis Eppes,
son of Col. Francis Eppes and Ann Isham, his wife, born about 1685 — died in 1734.
His will dated Nov. 7, 1733, was proved in Henrico, December, 1734. He married
Sarah  ¦ and had issue — Francis, William, Richard and others.

32 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
Richard Eppes, son of Francis and Sarah Eppes, was born about  , died
1765. His will is recorded in Chesterfield Co., dated May 20, 1762, and proved at
July Court 1765. He married first Martha, daughter of Robert and Anne Cocke
Boiling, and had issue by this marriage — Francis, Sarah and Martha. In his will
he disposes of a large estate. One item : " I give to my daughter Sarah * * * so
much money as will make up the legacy left her by her Grand Mother Anne Boiling,
deed., six hundred pounds current money."
Sarah Eppes, daughter of Richard and Martha Boiling Eppes, born Nov. 17,
1757, married Major William Fitzgerald of Nottoway County, Va., in 1777, and had
issue — Mary Ann Fitzgerald and others.
Mary Ann Fitzgerald, daughter of Major William and Sarah Eppes Fitzgerald,
married William Booth of Nottoway about 1795 and had issue— Mary Ann Booth
and others. Mary Ann Booth, daughter of William and Mary Ann Fitzgerald Booth,
born April 10, 1810, in Nottoway County, Va., married Arthur I. Forman in Quincy,
Florida, Oct. 19, 1836, and had issue — Anne Elizabeth Forman and others.
Anne Elizabeth Forman, daughter of Arthur I. and Mary Ann Booth Forman,
married Elisha P. Dismukes in Quincy, Florida, Dec. 19, 1865.
Richard Cocke came from England and settled in Virginia prior to 1632. He
was member of the House of Burgesses in 1632, 1644 and 1645. He married and
had issue, Richard Cocke the Younger of Malvern Hill. His will is on record in
Henrico Co., Va., dated Oct. 4, 1665. Richard Cocke the Younger married and had
issue, Anne Cocke, who married Robert Boiling, son of Robert Boiling, who came to
this country from London, England, in 1660, and his second wife, Ann Stith,
daughter of Major John Stith.
Anne Cocke, daughter of Richard Cocke the Younger, married Robert Boiling
and had issue — Martha Boiling and others.
Martha Boiling, daughter of Robert and Anne Cocke Boiling, married Rich
ard Eppes of Bermuda Hundred and had issue — Sarah and others.
Sarah Eppes was born in 1757 and married William Fitzgerald in 1777.

WILL OF RICHARD EPPES.
In the name of God, Amen.
I, Richard Eppes, of Bermuda Hundred, and County of Chesterfield, being
in full Health and perfect sense and memory, considering the uncertainty of life, do
make, ordain, constitute and appoint this my last Will and Testament in manner and
form following. Imprimis. I desire that my whole Estate be kept together under the Direction
and Management of my Executors hereafter named, until my son Francis arrives at
the age of twenty-one years, and the profits arising therefrom (after supplying my
wife and Family with all Necessary provisions, maintaining and Educating my Child
ren, paying my Debts, and the annual sum of fifty pounds current money to my
wife) be applied towards raising my daughters' fortunes hereinafter mentioned.

William Booth.
Of " Shenstone,1' Nottoway County, Virginia.

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Item. I give and bequeath my loving wife [second wife Tabitha Adams,
who survived him] Tabitha the use of my Houses and four Hundred acres of land
where I now live, to be laid of in one entire piece as she shall order and direct for
and dureing her natural life. I in like manner give her the use of my Lotts and
Houses in Bermuda Hundred town. Also, when my said son Francis comes to the
age aforesaid, I give to my said Wife, the use of the following slaves, to-wit: Scipio,
Charles, Dick, Cyphax, Cyrus, Pegg, Indy, Herculus and Captain, for and during
her natural life. I also desire my wife may keep such servants in her House as she
shall choose out of my whole Estate, until my said son arrives to the age aforesaid.
Item. I give, devise and bequeath to my said wife and her heirs the follow
ing slaves, to-wit: Great Betty, Iris, Daniel, George, Isaac, Nan, Little Betty, Sucky,
Hannah, Lemon, Napper, Harry Brown and Aggy with all their future Increase,
my four wheeled Chaise, and any four Horses she shall choose out of my stock at the
time of my Death, also my sorrel mare and her eldest filly. I also give my said
wife fifty pounds current money per annum, to be annually paid her out of the
profits of my Estate, until my son Francis comes of age, as a satisfaction for the
Labour of the slaves last above mentioned, in which I declare my Intention is to vest
in my said wife a present Interest in fee simple.
I give to my Daughter Sarah, [by Martha Boiling, his first wife] and her
heirs my Negro Girl Amey, also when my said Daughter comes to lawfull age or
marrys I give to her so much money as will make up the legacy left her by her
grandmother Ann Boiling, dec'd, six hundred Pounds current money.
Item. I give to my Daughter Martha Boiling one negro Girl named Molly to
her and her heirs also when my said Daughter arrives to lawful age or marrys I give
her five hundred Pounds current money.
Item. I give to my daughter Tabitha [by second marriage] and her heirs,
my Negro Girl Fanny, also when my said Daughter arrives to lawfull age or marrys,
I give her five hundred pounds current money.
Item. I give to my Daughter Ann and her heirs, my Negro Girl Nann, also
when my said Daughter comes of Age or Marrys I give her five hundred pounds cur
rent money. Item. I give and bequeath to my son Francis and his heirs forever, the
Residue of my Lands in the hundred tract (after my wife shall have laid of the four
hundred acres allotted her) to be entered on and possessed when he becomes of age.
I also give to my said son Francis after the Death of my wife the four hundred
acres of land devised her for life, to him my said son Francis and his heirs forever.
I also give my said son Francis one acre of land adjoining my lot in Bermuda
Hundred town, at the River. I also give my said son and his heirs, my Negro wench
Izabel and her child Eve, my Silver Tankard, eleven Silver Spoons marked M. B„ one
dozen Silver tea Spoons marked F. E., two silver Salts, and three of my Beds and fur
niture. I also give my said son when he comes of age, half my stock of Cattle,
horses, sheep and Hogs which shall then belong to my plantations at Wintipock,
Amelia and Longfield.
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their heirs forever all my lands at Wintopock and Amelia to be equally divided be
tween them by my Executors. Regard being had in such Division to Quantity and
quality to them my said sons Respectively and their heirs forever.
Item. I give and devise to my son Richard Henry and his heirs all my lands
in Henrico County, purchased of my Brother William Eppes, commonly called Long-
field, containing by Estimation nine hundred and eight acres more or less. I also
give and devise my said son Richard Henry and his heirs my Lott of land in the
town of Gatesville. I also give my said son and his heirs the following Negroes, to-
wit, Ben, Sally and her child Joe Brooks. I also give my said son, one Silver Tankard,
one Dozen Silver Spoons, and two Silver Salts, to be purchased by my Executors out
of the profits of my Estate and marked with the Family Arms.1 I also give my said
son three feather Beds and furniture.
Item. All my Negroes not heretofore particularly mentioned and disposed
of and their future Increase I give to be equally divided between my two sons
Francis and Richard Henry, at the time my son Francis comes of age, to them my
said sons Respectively and their heirs forever. In the same manner I devise the
Negroes given my wife for life, to be divided at the Death of my said wife.
Item. Upon the contingancy of my son Francis dying before he attains the
age of twenty-one years, I give and devise the whole Estate both real and personal
(devised my said son by this my will) to my son Richard Henry and his heirs for
ever. In like manner in case my son Richard Henry Dyes before he attains the age
of twenty-one years I give and devise the whole Estate both Real and personal (de
vised my said son Richard Henry by this my will) to my son Francis and his heirs
forever, the survivor of my two said sons paying my Daughters each two hundred
pounds current money over and above the sum before devised them by this my will.
Item. Whereas I am seized as Tenant in fee tail of part of my Lands at Long-
field devised by this my will to my son Richard Henry and his heirs, my will is if
my son Francis or his heirs shall ever make any claim to the said intailed lands or
any part thereof and Disturb my said son Richard Henry his heirs or assigns in the
quiet and peacable possession and Injoyment thereof, then I give to my said son
Richard Henry his heirs and assigns my whole Estate at the Hundred and Poels de
vised by this my will to my son Francis as above said.
Item. I give my son Richard Henry half my stocks of Cattle, Horses, Sheep
and Hogs which shall be on my plantations at Wintopock, Longfield and Amelia, at
the time my son Francis comes of age.
Item. I give and Bequeath my Nephew Richard Harris and his Heirs my
tract of land on Swift Creek known by the name of Grillses.
Item. In case the profits of my Estate shall not be sufficient to answer the
purposes aforesaid, and raise money enough by the time my son Francis comes of
age to pay of my daughters portions, my will is that my wife and Sons shall be
equally chargeable with what the money then in hand shall fall short of making up
their fortunes the several sums before mentioned.

JMrs. Dismukes has Epes coat of arms ; also a very old solid silver teapot— an heirloom.

;Leinster," Nottoway Co. (afterwards Amelia Co.) Virginia.
Built by William Fitzgerald who Patented the Land in 1742.

Major William Fitzgerald.
Of Nottoway Co., Virginia.

Mrs. Sarah (Eppes) Fitzgerald.
Born 1757.

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Item. My will and Intention is that the Children born (of the female slaves
specifically devised) after the Date of this my will, may go with their Respective
mothers. Item. The Residue of my personal Estate not particularly herein devised I
give and devise to my loveing wife.
Item. I desire that my Executors hereafter named may devise my Lands and
Negroes at the times and in the manner before directed and allot to my sons their Just
and Equal Parts according to the true Intent and meaning of this my will.
Lastly, I constitute and appoint my loveing wife Executrix, and my Friends
the Hon'ble Peter Randolph, Esqr., Colo. Archibald Cary, Mr. Richard Adams and
Mr. Thomas Adams executors of this my last Will and Testament. I also appoint the
said Peter Randolph, Esqr., Guardian to my son Francis, and my two Daughters
Sarah and Martha Boiling, and my wife and Thomas Adams Guardians to the rest
of my Children, hereby revoaking all other wills by me heretofore made, and do
declare this my last will and Testament.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this
twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and
sixty-two.

Rich'd Eppes.

L. S.

Signed, Sealed, Published and Declared as his last Will and Testament the
words (til my son Francis comes of age) (in my said wife) (Sheep) (<fe their future
Increase) Interlined before signed, In presence of John Worsham, Senr.,
John Worsham, Junr.,
George Clough,
Joseph Walker,
Thomas Stratton,
John Knibb,
Jas Akin.
In the County Court of Chesterfield County, July, 1765:
The last Will and Testament of Richard Eppes, dec'd, was presented in Court
by Arch. Cary and Tho. Adams, two of the Executors therein named, proved by the
oath of John Worsham, Jun., a witness thereto, and on the motion of the said Arch.
& Thomas who gave Bond and took the oath the law directs.
Certificate for obtaining a probate thereof in due form is granted them.
In the County Court of Chesterfield County, August, 1765:
The last Will and Testament of Richard Eppes, dec'd, was further proved by
the oath of John Worsham, Senr., a witness thereto.
Ordered that the same be recorded. A Copy-Teste: Philip V. Cogbill, Clerk

36 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
DR. WILLIAM BOOTH FORMAN.
Copy of Letter.
Dear Sister: January 29th, 1902.
In response to your request I write you of my experience in the Civil War,
1861-1865. My father, Arthur Forman of Baltimore, Md., sent me to the Georgia
Military State Institute at Marietta in October, 1858. From there I went to the
Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, Virginia, in October, 1859. Passing
through Washington, D. O, I visited the White House, where I met President
Buchanan and Miss Lane, the President's niece. I then visited my father's relatives
in Baltimore. When in Staunton, Va., the military were out to receive the Hon.
Stephen A. Douglas, who was a candidate for the Presidency of the United States,
and in his speech he advised the South to fight for her rights in the Union. I
remained at the V. M. I. until the fall of Ft. Sumter, April 12th, 1861, which event
caused the secession of Virginia, her convention being in session at that time, con
sidering the subject. I remember hearing a letter from General Winfield Scott, the
ranking officer of our United States army at that time, read by Colonel Francis
Smith, our Superintendent, before the Debating Society.
This letter stated that if the South seceded he would march two columns of
40,000 men each, one through Virginia down the Atlantic coast, and the other down
the Mississippi Valley, they would meet at Mobile, Alabama, in 60 days. Some of
the professors made addresses on the subject. Professor Stonewall Jackson, my
teacher in mathematics, remained silent, but was known as a deep thinker. The
professors were all graduates of West Point (N. Y.) Military Academy. They were
Professors Jackson, Smith, Preston, Gilliam, author of Military Tactics, McClaus,
Colson and others. A few days later we were summoned to ranks by the long roll call,
and then Colonel Jackson made us a speech as follows : " Young men, of all wars,
civil war is most to be dreaded, but if it must come, we draw the sword and throw
away the scabbard." This, we cadets thought, was a long speech for our beloved
teacher, for he was a silent hero of our bloody war. We cadets under Colonel
Jackson, in a few hours after Virginia seceded, were en route to Richmond, where
we were engaged in drilling the Army of Northern Virginia. We drilled the men
one hour, and rested them one hour, from sunrise to sunset. Just before the battle
of Manassas, Colonel Gilliam in a speech advised the cadets to go to their homes
and raise companies, and drill them for the coming conflicts, and that our services
were too precious to be lost by going as a body into battle, when we could benefit
our country so much more by scattering, organizing, drilling raw recruits, &c. We
occupied the Central Ladies Building at the Fairgrounds. The men were quartered
in the cattle depots. As a drill master I was promoted 1st Lieutenant. The
Inspectors of Elections allowed some of us to vote for Jefferson Davis for President of
the Confederate States. On my return home I visited my mother's relatives in
Nottoway Co., Va. Cousin Mary Fitzgerald of " The Castle " asked me " why we
drilled the men almost to death." I answered, to keep up with our beloved com-

Dr. William Booth Forman,
Taken at 19 years of age.

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mander, Col. Jackson, on the battle field. On reaching home in Quincy, Gadsden
Co., Florida, I actively assisted in raising Company C, the color company of the
6th Florida Regiment. My cousin, Wm. Booth Malone, was made captain. I, his
first lietenant, was in charge of the Color Guard, ours being Company C, the center
company. The sixth was organized with J. J. Finley, Colonel ; McLean, Lieut. Col.;
Lafayette Kenan, Major. The Regiment was ordered to report to the Army in
Tennessee. We were transported to Columbus, Georgia, on Chattahoochee river
boats, thence by rail to Chattanooga. Our Regiment was detached for action service
in East Tennessee, on the alert for raiding parties, guarding bridges, fighting bush
whackers, <fec. The people seemed mostly Unionist and unfriendly. Knoxville was
our headquarters. We were ordered to join Gen. Kirby Smith's command in his
Kentucky campaign. The Confederate Army crossed the mountains between Ten
nessee and Kentucky at Big Creek Gap. The Unionists at Cumberland Gap were
cut off from a safe retreat, and narrowly escaped capture. We passed through a
number of small towns in this wild section of Kentucky before reaching the beauti
ful blue grass region. At Richmond Gen. Kirby Smith with his devoted followers
gained a signal victory. It was estimated that the Union Army lost about five
thousand in killed and wounded. Here I was at work paroling prisoners, stacking
captured rifles and caring for them. As we marched through Lexington, Ky., I
remember well seeing the balconies filled with beautiful ladies, dressed in what
looked to us like the height of fashion, waving their scarfs of welcome to our vic
torious, battle-scarred veterans, begrimed with the red dust of the battle fields, and
their expressions of deep pity and sympathy touched our hearts. One very beauti
ful girl remarked, "oh, how dusty they look," to which one of the boys called out,
" that we once had better clothes at home, that what we have on is good enough for
the work we have to do." As soon as we rested, the ladies sent us baskets and
baskets of good food, enough for every man. "God bless the ladies of Lexington,"
was heard on every side. We next marched through Harrodsburg and several other
cities to Frankfort, where we inaugurated Governor Hawes at one o'clock p. m.,
while the roar of cannon could be heard in the distance. At first dark we burnt
the bridge and marched South. Gen. Buell was marching after us with a large
army of - Unionists. Generals Bragg and Kirby Smith expected to be attacked.
Gen. Bragg's command reached Perryville first, where they were attacked by a larger
force of the enemy, who were driven back after a hard and bloody encounter. We
had a wagon train 22 miles in length, and some cattle to protect. We made forced
marches at night to avoid a battle. It had not rained for many weeks, and we were
suffering for water. I shall never forget the large spring of water found, large
enough for the entire army to quench thirst. After recrossing the mountains
we were ordered to Cumberland Gap, from which place we could look into four
states. Here the cold was intense. We built log fires to keep from freezing, so
scarce was our clothing, and only one blanket apiece. Our companies were reduced
to an average of seven men. The thousand miles forced marches and privations,
had so thinned our ranks that our regiment was but a mere skeleton. I took a part
of a horse's corn, divided with him, to parch and eat it, to fill an aching void. I

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saw men eat raw beef with a relish on the march and I shall never forget the sad
expressions on the faces of those who fell by the wayside, and who were never
reported as missing. We kept back Brownlow's raiders from capturing Knoxville,
Tenn., where we lost some of our best officers and men. Whilst we were in East
Tennessee we were ordered into the mountains to suppress bushwhackers, four com
panies of Cherokee Indians going with us. I was puzzled to know how these moun -
taineers subsisted. Nothing to eat but apples, a small patch of corn to make
whiskey with, and a few onions, were visible. We were on the French Broad river,
large tracts of land covered with dense ivy and laurel, and the people seemed half civil
ized. We were next ordered to fall back, and the battle of Chickamauga was to be
fought. Chickamauga, the Indian name for "The River of Death," most appro
priate. The water is dark and angry looking. Before reaching Chickamauga we
had a large body of Gen. Rosecrans' army cut off at McLenore's cave in a spur of
the mountains, with the exception of one gap. Order was issued to close this gap>
but through some misunderstanding this was not done, which precipitated this
bloody carnage. When we moved into the cave there was one man lying dead. He
was an officer, many canteens were lying around him; there was good water in a
spring near by. On Saturday morning, September 19, 1863, as the sun was rising
in the East, and mantling Mother Earth with its golden rays, the stillness was
broken by the boom of cannon a short distance from us, followed by the bursting of a
shell, sending its screaming fragments of iron through our ranks. I hastily ate my
sweet potato, which I had roasted in the ashes, and that was all the breakfast I had.
Lieut. Hays, a sergeant and several men were killed by this explosion. Shortly
after a terrible firing and yelling set in, and on our right as far as I could see or
hear in this direction. I could tell by these yellings when the enemy were advanc
ing and when retreating. This was kept up all the morning, retiring and advancing
as reinforcements arrived, all amid the thunder of guns. We were in Gen. Buck-
ner's division now, we were ordered to lie down with our faces to the ground before
making this charge into death's ranks. Our regiment was ordered to take a Union
division or corps. I can easily recall, as we lay behind one of our batteries, in an
open skirt of woods, shot and shell flying over us, and among us, a desire prompted
me to look down the line on my left, the men were as still as death, many of them
were no doubt saying their last prayer before the charge. I called on the Lord to
save me from sudden death. Orders were received to charge the enemy. Over the
high fence we bounded, when suddenly Major Kenan halted us, with orders to lie
down, and reported to Colonel Finley that the Seventh Florida and Fifty -fourth
Virginia had not advanced; this left us unsupported. Col. Wade I think commanded
the 54th Virginia. Orders came again to charge, and on we went, the brave 6th
Florida regiment across this field of death. The very air was filled with shot, shell
and flying balls. When near the enemy's batteries, this regiment almost unsupported,
for somebody had blundered, was ordered to fall back, for in a few minutes the regiment
had lost nearly half of its men. At this moment Captain Malone motioned me to
come. I rushed up just in time to catch Captain Joseph White in my arms, and we
two laid him down, his thigh was broken. I returned to take command of our poor

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 39
fragment of a company; sending Adler one of our men to Capt. White's assistance;
in a few minutes a grape shot struck poor Adler in the head, killing him instantly.
In the charge across the field one of my men right in front of me fell on his knees,
blood spurted from his mouth, he fell with his face to the foe, and took his long
sleep. Capt. Mclver, John Whaley and others dropped their guns exclaiming,
"Lieutenant, I am wounded," poor fellows, brave men, resting peacefully. When
we were leaving the field, one of the last cannon balls or shells fired at us at close
range gave me a near call, a brave soldier fell on his face before me, only one step
away, I turned to pass around him, when in an instant, Hendricks of Davidson's
Company rushed in the place where the next step would have placed me, when a 6
pound ball passed through him. Frank Phillips and I turned him over; I asked
him if he wanted to send any message to his mother, his only words were " give me
water." We tenderly rested his head on his blanket roll to rest him, until the angel
of death should bear his soul away. Such are the horrors of war. I could see his
heart throbbing, his ragged lungs vibrating in tumultuous motions, had he not
stepped in my place I should have been the victim. When we were ordered to rest
for the night, I found only my tin cup and canteen missing, shot away, the leather
strap which held them, and a Confederate flag given me by Miss Barnes of Harrods-
burg, Kentucky, were lost in battle. Those young ladies were wealthy and beauti
ful, and gave some of us such splendid dinners. The little flag she had pinned on
my hat, but it was gone. My friend Anderson Harris and I just before dark walked
over a part of the battle ground, where we saw many cavalrymen of the Union
army, lying dead or wounded among our men. We were told that a regiment of
Ohio Cavalry were cut off in our rear, and attempted to escape through our lines,
and that none of them passed through in safety. And it did look so from what I
saw. The Colonel was reported to have ridden over the ground, the last of his regi
ment to fall. Harris selected him a saddle, and I took a haversack filled with
crackers and coffee; how good this food was, as it was the first we had had since a
sweet potato early in the morning. This was a night of horrors. The woods were
on fire, and we decided to go out, and look after the wounded, as a report was cir
culated that they were in danger of being burned alive. Men were soon put to work
to cut down the trees, and we could hear thousands of axes cutting the trees and
sharpening the branches to make obstructions in the way of charges from the enemy,
which was expected the next day.
The next morning, Sunday, Sept. 20, we were ordered to move down the line
to our right, where heavy firing was going on. We halted, and up rode General
Longstreet, and with him on his staff, was Paton Manning of Mississippi; he was a
graduate at the Georgia Military Institute at Marietta. Generals Hood and McLaws'
divisions were with him from General Lee's army. We passed many dead and
wounded, and one battery of many field pieces, where the horses were rearing and
plunging, with no one to man the guns. All day we charged and fought, sometimes
falling back; in the afternoon, what was left of our brigade was ordered to take a
strong position on a hill, the enemy being armed with repeating rifles, breach
loaders, something unusual at that time. I had charge of the color guard, and it

40 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
was surprising what a splendid front and perfect line we presented, after such a
terrible experience of the previous day. The rush we made met with little opposi
tion, it was done so quickly, and many of our men, who had just been repulsed fell
into ranks with us, waved their hats and cheered us. The trees were riddled with
bullets. Just as we came up with Dent's Battery which was nearly surrounded by
the enemy, I felt a terrible shock to my right foot as though struck by a severe blow
from a board on the bottom of my foot. I could not walk, but with the aid of my
sword hopped to a tree, I saw the bones had come through the shoe; taking out my
knife I cut the shoe away, and took out the shattered bones. Colonel Finley came
riding up to me, and asked if I was badly hurt, I told him if it was only a flesh
wound, I would go on, but not to wait for me, my foot was ruined. The enemy was
retreating, but the shot and shell were flying as thick as hail. An officer came rid
ing by and I mounted behind him on his horse and rode a short distance. My
friend Captain Harris came by and assisted me in mounting behind him on his horse,
and reached the field hospital. The next morning we were taken to Dalton, Georgia.
The wagons were filled with many desperately wounded soldiers, we were jostled
and jolted over the worst and rockiest road I ever saw. The boys said the jolting
hurt worse than the bullets. Captain Wm. Booth Malone and his brother Dr. Alfred
Fitzgerald Malone, my cousins, were still with our company, and engaged in the
battle of Missionary Ridge, where Dr. Malone who was our Second Lieutenant was
wounded and taken prisoner, carried to Johnson's Island, on Lake Erie. Albert
Hudson Muse another cousin was killed at Missionary Ridge, with his face to the foe,
and his soldiers' clothes, woven at home from the threads of my mother's wedding dress,
was his winding sheet. When we reached Dalton, some of the men who could walk
broke into a deserted hotel, built a fire, and tenderly assisted the helpless in, and
here we slept on the floor. The next morning this room looked as if a battle had
been fought in it. The next morning a train came along and put me off in Marietta,
Ga. Here one of my old classmates at the G. M. I. secured me a room in the officers'
ward. Several days after some of the doctors or surgeons performed an operation
which leaves me a cripple for life. The chloroform and pine top whiskey came near
killing me, I became emaciated, and lost my appetite. One day Mrs. Dr. Allen
came to see me and brought me some wholesome food which saved my life. Professor
Mange, our teacher in French, came to see me, and the good man wept and told me
of so many of his boys who had been slain. He was at the battle of Waterloo with
Napoleon and a most interesting conversationalist, with a tender heart. My father
came to nurse me at Marietta, and took me home as soon as I was able to travel,
riding a hundred miles in a stage coach, for the railroads were all torn up. My
father was not well, and the fatigue of this trip told sadly on him.
Lieutenant John Wood Malone1 of the 8th Florida Regiment, in Gen. Lee's
army in Virginia, after passing through many battles was wounded at Gettysburg,
Pa., and taken to Johnson's Island in Lake Erie. These cousins lived in the house
with me and seemed as brothers. Of the seven going into the war from our old
home, six returned, bearing the scars of war. I brought my sword home with me.
Your affectionate brother, Wm. B. Forman.
'Judge John W. Malone, now (1902) a prominent lawyer in Florida, Major on staff of Gen. E. M. Law, com
manding the Fla. Division of the United Confederate Veterans.

Mrs. Anne Elizabeth (Forman) Dismukes.

Columbus Enquirer-Sun, Sunday Morning, Aug. 6, 1906.
Ifn Xoving IRemembrance.

Memorials are meant for those who remain on this ¦side of the river, rather than for
those who, having conquered death, now wear the victor's crown. They serve to remind
us of the nobility of service, the immortality of influence, and the inspiration in the love
of Christ for all that is sweet and beautiful in life.
The Master himself hath embalmed the loving ministry of the Mary of Bethany in a
memorial that cheers and inspires thousands of readers in all the passing years. With this
thought in mind and this desire in heart, this little tribute of love is laid upon the name of
that sweet and now sainted woman, Mrs Anne Elizabeth Forman Dismukes.
She came into this world January 14th, 1844, at Quincy, Fla., as the daughter of
Arthur I. and Mary A. Forman, and began life with the rich heritage of a noble and pious
ancestry. She was blessed with an excellent mental and moral training, which she
consecrated to the glory of God and the good of others, and which bore fruit in a beautiful
character, and gave her a large influence in the community. She was from early childhood
a member of the Episcopal Church, and an earnest Christian, with broad sympathies,
benevolent impulses and personal piety.
Just before her twenty-second birthday, December 19th, 1865, she became the wife
of Mr. E. P. Dismukes, a promising and prosperous young man of her native town, with
whom she spent almost forty-one years of happy married life. Ten children came to
brighten their home, but they tarried only for a few months, or years, save the two sons,
who are left to mourn "as one mourneth for his mother."
In 1891 Mr. Dismukes moved with his family. to this city of Columbus, Ga., where
his wife soon became one of the most prominent and popular women in a community of fine
women. Her character and culture, energy and efficiency, were promptly recognized and
called into service in connection with those patriotic, educational and benevolent enterprises
that have given no small celebrity to our city. She took a large interest in all that
concerned the betterment of those who labor in our mills, and especially that which
promised well for the children of this people. She was a charter member of the first Free
Kindergarten Association in the State of Georgia, which was organized in this city of
Columbus April 18th, 1895. She was President of this Association from 1901 to 1903, and
her administration, evinced unusual executive ability. She was a charter member of the
Orpheus Club, for musical culture; also the Students' Club, for literary advancement and
pleasure. She was a charter member of the Oglethorpe Chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, and organizer of the George Walton Chapter, which was chartered
July 4th, 1901, and was its Regent until November, 1904, when, by the Conference in
Athens, she was elected Second Vice-Regent for the State of Georgia She was a prominent
and efficient member of the Colonial Dames of America, of the United States Daughters of
1812, of the Ladies' Memorial Association and of the Lizzie Rutherford Chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Not to leave this pedestal without its appropriate shaft, it must be said that Mrs.
Di?mukes was a beautiful houFe-keeper,. and as a wife and mother she was devoted and
faithful, tender and thoughtful. It might well be said of her, "She openeth her mouth
with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of
her household, and eatelh not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her
blessed; her husband a|so, and he praiseth her."
The crown, of the whole was a Christian character, gentle but strong, unobtrusive but
earnest, sympathetic and positive in its uplifting, healthful and Christ-like influence.
The death of such a woman is a distinct loss to any community, but all that love,
skill, genius and prayer could do to detain her were employed in vain. As the gates
invisible were being opened by the hands unseen for the admission of a new day in the
beautiful city of Nashville, Tenn., August 2d, this Year of Our Lord, 1905, Mrs. Anne
Elizabeth Dismukes passed with a radiant smile through the sates eternal into the re;t and
rewards of the faithful. She had gone with her husband to the re-union of the Confederate
Veterans at Louisville, Ky., and had enjoyed it to the utmost, when they made a short visit
to the old home of his childhood, near Nashville, Tenn., where (-he was taken so seriously ill
that, after . suffering for six weeks, cheered by the presence of her devoted husband, and
surrounded by relatives and friends, no relief could be found, she departed to be with Christ,
which is far better.
The frail body in which her sweet and superb spirit had loved, labored and suffered,
was brought to this city, and after a sweetly solemn service, conducted by Dr. I. S.
McElroy, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, in which her husband is an officer, assisted
by Dr. J. L. Scully, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, of which she was a member, with
every fitting expression of highest esteem, tenderest affection, was laid tenderly to rest
beneath banks of fragrant flowers just as the sun of August 4th was sinking in the west.
Memories from the past mingle with hopes for the future; the tears of our sorrow fill
in the light of our faith; visions of a re-union in the Father's House flitted across the soul,
and we bowed our heads and said in our hearts, "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken
away; blessed be the name of the Lord." I. S. McE.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 41
Dr. Forman graduated at the' Maryland Medical University in Baltimore,
Maryland, in 1867 ; is still practicing surgery and medicine. He received a letter
from Colonel Shipp, Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, stating that
his name was among the number of cadets who were enrolled as graduates, "who were
in good standing and well advanced when ordered to take up arms and fight in
defense of their homes and firesides."
Dr. Forman is a member of the City Council at Sneads, Jackson Co., Florida.
" In April, 1861, at the call of the state, the Corps of Cadets, under the com
mand of Major — afterwards Lieutenant General — Jackson, marched for Richmond.
These cadets were employed in instructing and drilling the large number of volun
teers assembled for organization and instruction in Camp Lee, near Richmond, but
were soon disorganized and scattered by the advancement of cadets to military rank
in the different grades of service."
(Official Register of the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia?)

MRS. ELISHA PAUL DISMUKES.
(AKNE ELIZABETH FORMAN.)
11. Anne Elizabeth Forman Dismukes, now living in Columbus, Georgia,
engaged Miss Dandridge to compile a history of the Forman family, of which she is
a member, being the daughter of Arthur Immel Forman and Mary Ann Booth, his
wife. Anne Elizabeth Forman married Hon. Elisha P. Dismukes of Davidson Co.,
Tenn., 1865, who was admitted to the bar in Quincy, Florida, in 1860. He served
as an officer in the Confederate Army throughout the Civil War. Later he was a
member of the Florida Legislature. He is now President of a bank and chairman
of the finance committee of the City of Columbus, Ga. The Dismukes family is of
Huguenot origin and settled in Virginia. The original spelling was "Des Meaux."
Anne Elizabeth Forman was living in Florida during the war and remembers
many events which happened at the time of the struggle. She is now a '' Daughter
of the Southern Confederacy " through her brother's (Dr. Wm. B. Forman) services
in the Civil War, 1861-1865.
Anne Elizabeth Forman Dismukes was President of the Confederate Ladies
Memorial Association, organized just after the war. Since moving to Columbus,
Georgia, she has become a Daughter of the American Revolution, through her great
grandfather, Major William Fitzgerald of Virginia ; is Regent of the George Walton
Chapter, D. A. R., which she organized July 4, 1901 ; is ex-Regent of the Oglethorpe
Chapter, D. A. R.; is a Colonial Dame of the Georgia State Society, through the
Epes of Virginia ; is one of the Vice Presidents of the State Division of Georgia of
the United States Daughters of the War of 1812, through her grandfather, Francis
Forman's services ; is President of the Free Kindergarten Association of Columbus,
Georgia, which received its charter in 1896 ; is a member of the Trinity Episcopal
Church Guild.

42 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
Anne Elizabeth Forman Dismukes has two sons living : Elisha Paul Dismukes,
who married Helena Morrissett of Manchester, Virginia. He attended the Wash
ington and Lee* University, Lexington, Va., also Hampden Sidney College at Farm-
ville, Virginia. At Lexington, Va., he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega
Society, and belongs also to the Masonic Fraternity. He is now Secretary and
Treasurer of the Georgia Manufacturing Co., of Columbus, Ga.
Her second son, Robert Ernest Dismukes, attended the High School of Colum
bus, Georgia, and in June, 1893, took one of the two "Kinsel Scholarship Medals.''
He afterwards attended Mr. Fine's Preparatory School in Princeton, New Jersey.
He graduated at the New Jersey College at Princeton in the Second Honor Class,
A. B., June, 1899. He is now attending the Law School at Harvard, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. 9
Elisha Paul Dismukes (Junior), son of Elisha P. and Anne Elizabeth (For
man) Dismukes, b. Aug. 8, 1870.
m. Feb. 18, 1896, Ida Helena Morrisett of Manchester, Va.

H

1, Elisha Paul Dismukes, b. May 24, 1897.
2, Esther Floyd Dismukes, b. Sept. 24, 1898.
3, Mildred Forman Dismukes, b. Jan'y 6, 1900.
4, Mary Boiling Dismukes, b. June 19, 1901.
5, Bradley Lee Dismukes, b  1902.
7
12. Anne Elizabeth Forman, dau. of Francis and Anne E. (Immel) Forman,
b. Baltimore Dec. 6, 1808, d. New Orleans Feb. 16, 1864.
m. Samuel Jones, Jr. (Banker), b. 1804, d. April 22, 1874, in New Orleans.

h

1, Francis Forman Jones of Brooklyn, N. Y.
m. Marion Peachy Powell of Virginia.
2, Albert Jones, d. unm.
3, Duncan Jones of New Orleans.
m.  . Children : Samuel and Lewis.
4, Helen Madison Jones.
m. Henry J. Davison of London, lived in New York City.
1 (Mr. Davison married, second, Ella Howard, first cousin of
[J Helen M. Jones.)
1, Henry Davison (Lawyer).
m. Marie Weed Aid en (a gr. dau. of Thurlow Weed).
2, Evelina Davison (in July 1900 was living with her brother in
London).

Esther Floyd Dismukes.
Mildred Forman Dismukes.
Elisha Paul Dismukes, 3rd.

E. Paul Dismukes, Jr.

Robert Ernest Dismukes.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 43
7
13. Caroline Forman, dau. of Francis and Anne E. (Immel) Forman, b. 1812
(living in July, 1900, with her son, Beverly Howard, in Dutchess Co., New York).
m. George W. Howard of Baltimore, b. 1813, d. Nov. 27, 1888.
h 1, Ella Howard.
m. (2nd wife) Henry J. Davison.

h

1 , Teresa Davison.
2, Caroline Ella Davison.
3, Dr. George Howard Davison.
m. Miss Chesebrough — 1 son, Howard C.
4, Clarence Davison.
m. Helen Bayne.
8
2, Beverly Howard, b. 1850, of Mablettsville, Dutchess Co., N. Y.
m. Laura Coffin.

h

1, Samuel Beverly Howard, b. Nov. 27, 1879.
2, Robert Coffin Howard, b. March 21, 1883.
3, Henry Davison Howard, b. 1885.
4, Ella Theresa Howard, b. 1888.
5, Marietta Bayne Howard, b. 1890.
6, Evelyn Howard.
7, Clarence Kenneth Howard.

WILLIAM RAYMOND FORMAN.
14. William Raymond Forman, son of Francis and Anne E. Forman, was
born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1817. Just after leaving college he went on a visit to
his brother, Arthur, who was living in Quincy, Gadsden Co., Florida. The Seminole
Indian War was just breaking out. Judge Charles Henry Du Pont was raising a com
pany of troops of which he was made captain. William Forman enlisted and
remained in the army until the close of the war. About twenty miles from Quincy,
Mr. Greene Chairs' family were attacked by the Indians, whilst they were at the
supper table. Mrs. Chairs was the only member of the family who escaped. She
fled through the back door, and stooping low in a cotton field, with a black cloak
around her, often narrowly escaped the touch of an Indian's hand, which would
have meant certain death. William R. Forman died comparatively a young man,
leaving one son, Arthur Thomas Forman, who was admitted to the bar in Baltimore,
Md., and is a practicing lawyer.

44 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
8
15. Arthur Thomas Forman, son of William Raymond Forman.
m. Anne Marlow of Baltimore.

h

9
1, Evelina Brown Forman.
9
2, John Brown Forman.
9
3, Arthur Francis Forman.
9
4, George Knowles Forman.
7
16. Mary Jane Forman, dau. of Francis and Anne E. (Immel) Forman, b.
June 10, 1813.
m. Benjamin Albert Vickars, President of Marine Bank, Baltimore, sixth
in descent from George Vickars (d. 1679) and Rebecca Phipery.

h

1, Albert Vickars, b. 1842.
m. Jennie Hamner, of Maryland, dau. of Rev. Dr. Hamner, Presby.
terian Minister.
2, Geraldine Vickars, b. 1848.
m. Alvin Bastable of Baltimore.
3, Francis Vickars, b. 1852.
m. Lottie Armstrong.
4, Charles Vickars, b. 1854.
6, Mary Forman Vickars.
m. Clarence Beck of Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Note: — There were other Vickars children who died young.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 45
TABLE OF DESCENT.
17. (Showing relationship between Mrs. Robert Wilson and Mrs. Dismukes.)
l
Robert Forman, m. Margaret  . Capt. Richard Sweatnam, m. 1st Mary 

Immi. 1674. j Immi. 1677.
d. 1719. d. 1697.
.nr  r

Arthur Forman, m. 3d Mary Reed. John Sweatnam, m. Elizabeth.
d. 1757. | d. 1707-8. |
| 3 |
Francis Forman, m. Elizabeth Sweatnam.
d. 1758. | 
I 4— first son ] 4— second eon
John Forman, m. Henrietta  . Arthur Forman, m. Mary  .
d. 1785. j d. 1791. d. 1785. I d. 1817.
rr^ — n-^  ¦
Sweatnam Forman, m. 3d Hannah Wroth. Wm. Forman, m. Mary Raymond.
n i e
Louisa Forman, m. 1st Jonathan Cooper. Francis Forman, m. 1806 Anne Eliz. Immel.
n  ' n  '
Martha Amanda Cooper, m. Robt. Wilson. Arthur Immel Forman, m. Mary AnneBooth
d. 1867. 8
n 
Anne E. Forman, m. Elisha Paul Dismukes.
n  '
Elisha Paul, b. Aug. 8, 1870.
m. Ida Helena Morrisett, 1896.
Robert Ernest, b. Mar. 5, 1877.

EXTRACTS FROM CHURCH REGISTERS AND OTHER RECORDS, ETC.
18. Arthur Forman and Mary Reed married May 13, 1700.
Francis Forman, son of Arthur and Mary Foreman, born Oct. 28, 1702. Bap
tized May 9, 1703.
Arthur Foreman, son of Arthur and Mary Foreman, born Nov. 3, 1706.
Mary Foreman, daughter of Arthur and Mary Foreman, born June 19, and
baptized Sept. 2, 1711.
Mary Foreman buried March 10, 1713.
Arthur Foreman and Honour Miller married June 2, 1715.
Sarah Foreman, daughter of Arthur and Honour Forman, born Aug. 27, 1717.
^Honour Forman, daughter of Arthur and Honour Forman, born January
30, 1721.

Register of St. Paul's Parish, Kent Co., Md. p. 271.

46 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
Robert Foreman, son of Arthur and Elizabeth Foreman, born Jan. 12, 1723.
Barnes Foreman, son of Arthur Foreman by Rebecca his wife, bora Feb. 11,
1743-4. 2Mary Forman, daughter of Arthur Foreman by Elizabeth, born Dec. 22, 1745.
3Jacob Foreman, son of Arthur Foreman by Elizabeth his wife, born May
25, 1748. 4Sarah Foreman, daughter of Arthur Foreman by Elizabeth his wife, born
Aug. 6, 1750.
5Rachel Forman, daughter of William and Anne, born Oct. 29, 1729.
6Anne Forman, daughter of William and Anne, born Jan. 29, 1731.
7Joseph Forman married June 30, 1796, Elizabeth McKeel.
8Laid out for Ralph Blackhall a prcll of land called Blackhall's Hermitage
lying on the N. side of Chester River. Beging. at a marked Oak standing near the
river side at the upper end of a great marsh and rung, for breadth down the river
1 50 p's, to another marked oak standg. at the lower end of the af 'd marsh and with
a line drawn from the s'd oak for length N. N. W. 320 p's and with a line drawn
from the end of the N. N. W. line for breadth E. N. E. 150 p's and with a line
drawn S. S. W. from the end of the E. N. E. line 320 p's to the first bounded oak
cout'g 300 A's. W. H.
9300-0. 6. O.-Blackhalls Hermitage.
Surv'd 3 June 1670 for
Ralph Blackhall on the
north side Chester nigh
the River Side,
200 a possest10 by Edward Walden 100 a.
by Edward Forman.
Blackhalls Hermitage, 100 acres, was owned by Edward Forman in 1707;
from him it passed to Robert Forman.
By will, Sept. 2, 1711, probated March 15, 1719, Robt. Foreman devises: "To
son Aurther 100 acres, upper part of Blackhalls Hermitage.
Annapolis Wills, Lib. T. B. i , folio 341 .
By will, Jan. 26, 1756, probated Nov. 7, 1757, Arthur Forman devises: "To
my son Francis Forman, my dwelling, plantation 100 acres."
Annapolis Wills, Lib. B. T 2, folio 414.
By will, prob. Feb. 13, 1758, Francis Forman devises: "To my son Arthur
100 acres in Kent, Blackhalls Hermitage, failing heirs of Arthur, to my son Francis
Forman." Annapohs Wills, Lib. B. T, 2, folio 433.
"1200-1. 4. 0.— Royston. Surv'd 12 Feb. 1672 for Richard Royston on the
S. Side Chester, att a marked oak by Riv'r possest by John Hamer and Wm.
Sparks."11

Agister of Shrewsbury Parish, Kent Co., Md., p. 44 (of original) p. 253 of copy. 2P. 260 of copy. SP. 267 of
copy. 4P. 274 of copy. 5Register of St. Peter's Parish, Talbot Co., Md., p. 130. 6P. 136. 'P. 316. 8June 3d,
1690. Polo. 399, Blackhalls Hermitage, 300 A's. 9Book of Surveys (now at Ashby, Talcot Co., Md.) Wm. Hemsley,
Surveyor. 1 ""Possessed by," &c, means at the time of the revision of the land books. (Completed in 1707.)
"Kent roll of Kent Co." P. 29. (An old manuscript Record in Md. Hist. Soe. "Rent role Queen Anne's Co., p.
209. (Unp. Records in Md. Hist. Soe.)

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.

47

" Feby. 5th, 1672-3
Royston
1200 A's.
No. 194.

*Laid out for Richard Royston a pcell of land lying on
the S. Side of Chester River. Begin'g at a marked white

oak stand'g by the River Side by a small creek and run'g
up the River E. by N. 360 p's to a marked pine tree stand'g
by the River Side on the lower side of a marsh then S. by E. 503 p's then W. by
S. 360 p's then N. by W. 503 p's to the first marked oak on the N. with Chester
River. Coutg. 1200 acres."

Royston Surv. Feb. 12, 1672, for Richard

2" Acres yrly. rent.
1200 1.4.
Royston on the S. Side Chester, at a marked oak by the River.
Poss'd by John Hamer and William Sparks."

3"200 John Hamer Senr. from Jas. Wyatt Senr. Mar. 24, 1718.
467 Christopher Wilkinson from Edwd. Burne & Ux'a April 29, 1724.
475 Christopher Wilkinson, Junr. from Christopher Wilkinson, Senr. 1729.
100 Thomas Wilkinson from Edward Burne & Ux Oct. 12, 1725.
567 Matthew Docwra from Franc's fforman & Ux. Oct. 19, 1731.
567 Franc's fforman from Matthew Docwra & Ux. Oct. 19, 1731.
200 Jas. Wyatt from Wm. Sparks & Ux and Jas. Hamer <fc Ux Ap. 16, 1707.
100 Geo. Ayers from Thos. Wilkinson, Aug. 24, 1737.
100 Geo. Ayers to his two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret equally p. Will.
16 Aug. 1740.
*475 Sweatnam Burn from Christopher Wilkinson, June 7th, 1744.
50 Samuel Massey from Henry Reeveland & Eliza, his wife, Aug. 18, 1744.
50 Elizabeth Coleman from Marg't Coleman Sept. 11, 1747."

5Acres 200

Yrly. rent.
0. 8. 0.

Fishingham, Surv'd 27 July, 1678 for Robt.
Smith on the So. Side Chester Rvr. on the East Side Corsica Creek, possest by
Arthur Macdaniel for John Swetnam's heir(s).

6Acres "200

Yrly. rent.
0. 8. 0.

Lewstern, Surv'd 12 Octor. 1704 for Robt. Fore
man, lying on the north Side of Chester River, Beg. att a bound red oak standing
by a small branch, running out of the Lowermost branch of Morgan's Creek.

1This Survey of Royston is in an old Survey book, copied about 150 years ago for Judge Robert Goldsborough
of "Myrtle Grove," Talbot Co.; Miss Dandridge, whose mother was Miss Goldsborough, found it in moving some
books from one of the old library shelves to another. (Oct., 1900.)
zRent Roll 2 Talbot and Queen Anne's, p. 380. (MS. Records in Annapolis.)
3Rent Roll 2 opposite page 180. Transfers of the tract: " Royston."
4This part of the original tract of "Royston " Sweatnam Burn devised to Arthur Forman.
5Rent Roll of Queen Anne's Co., p. 244. 6Rent Roll of Kent Co., p. 65.

48 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
WILLS RECORDED IN ANNAPOLIS.1
19. (Prior to 1777 all Maryland Wills were ordered to be recorded in
Annapolis.) lib. folio.
1719 Foreman, Robert  T. B. 1 341
1757 " Arthur  B. T. 2 4142
1758 " Francis..  " "" 433s
1754 " John  " " 1 3624

WILL OF JOHN FORMAN.1
" I, John Forman, of Kent Co., Planter . . . All my estate to my son-
in-law, Joseph Butcher, as executor . . . he is to give to my daughters, Sarah
and Beatrice about five pounds apiece . . . unto my two sons, John and Fred
erick (support and education if they do not learn trades), John Forman,
James Calder, Dept. Com.
5 John Forman m.  prob. Dec. 14, 1754.
(Kent Co.) I
(Dau.) Forman m. Joseph Butcher.
Sarah Forman.
Beatrice Forman.
John Forman.
Frederick Forman.
20. "Died Feb. 17, 1840, at the residence of his son Edwin Forman in
Worcester Co., Md., the Rev. John Forman of the Protestant Episcopal church,
aged 66."6 Rev. John Forman became the minister of St. Michael's parish, in Talbot Co.,
Md., in 1815. He was a native of Kent Co., born 1773. He was educated at Wash
ington College, Chestertown, and in 1792 was a teacher in mathematics there. He
then studied law, but on his marriage (to a Miss Jones) he settled on a farm where
he continued until her death in 1811. He then turned his attention to the
ministry, and gave notice, Sept. 2, 1812, that he would apply for orders. He
studied for the ministry under the directions of Rev. Geo. Dashiell, then of St.
Peter's, Baltimore, and was ordained deacon by Bishop Claggett, Aug. 3, 1814, when
41 years old. Before the next convention, May, 1815, he had come to St. Michael's
parish. He had been elected for two years.
After his marriage he devoted himself a good deal to his farming pursuits in
Worcester, but preached pretty regularly at St. James chapel in All Saints parish,
and was on friendly terms with his neighbors and acquaintances.

1Wills Annapolis B. S. 1, 362. "Index I. "Also in Centreville. 4Also in Chestertown.
6,Will of Jno. Forman, prob. Dec. 14, 1754— Annapolis.
""Religious Annals of Talbot Co." (Dr. Harrison), Vols. Ill, VIII, II. "Clergymen of Maryland," (Dr.
Allen.) Md. Gazette, Feb. 29, 1840, (obituary).

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 49
In 1830 he removed to (and had charge of) All Hallows parish in Anne
Arundel Co., but two years later he returned to Worcester, where he died in the
winter of 1840. In announcing his death to the convention, Dr. Wyatt (Pres. of
the convention) said: "... his active mind led him to the attainment of much
and varied knowledge . . . but infirm health and growing years had for a long
time caused him to retire from parochial duties."
The descendants of Rev. John Forman are still living in Worcester Co., Md.

21. LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION RECORDED IN BALTIMORE.
1804 Foreman, William L  89 3
1816 " Elijah  99 6
1817 " David  101 6
1821 " Francis H  89 7
1833 " Leonard  99 9
1836 Forman, Jane  83 10
1840 Foreman, Leonard  91 11
1841 " Christian  95 11
1856 Forman, P. D. Irenens  107 15
1856 " Sophia  107 15
1860 ¦' E. Frances  53 16
1860 " C. Eveline  54 16
1863 " D.Joshua  54 17
1864 " Susan  56 17
1866 " Thomas  63 18
1867 " Catherine  65 18
[Liber 7, folio 89, Baltimore Record of Letters of Adm'n shows that on Sept.
21, 1821, Elizabeth Forman took out letters on the estate of "Francis H. Foreman,
Intestate," her bondsmen being Thos. Boyle a,nd James Barker; no returns were
made.J 22. WILLS RECORDED IN BALTIMORE. FOL. LIB.
1833 Forman, Leonard  355 14
1836 " Jane  485 15
1840 " Leonard  86 18
1850 " Valentine  125 26
1856 " Sophia  209 27
1858 " Joshua D  171 28
1867 " Catherine  206 34
1875 " E.Ann  472 41
1857 " Francis  62 28

Index 1766-1819. Index 1772-1851. Index 1851-1881. Index 1851-1881. Index 1.

50 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
23. WILL OF LEONARD FOREMAN OF BALT. CO.1
prob. July 23, 1833, names:
My sister-in-law, Christiana Foreman, niece, Anna Mary Sellers, wife of
George Sellers. . . .
24. WILL OF LEONARD FOREMAN2
of Bait. City, names :
Wife Ann C. Forman. . . .
To gr. son Henry F. Fowler, part of plantation at north of Rock Creek ; re
version, To Elleanor Foreman, who is to have the other part of the plantation,
To dau. Rachael Williams, wife of Elijah Williams, tract called Procters
Hole, 170 acres. . . .
gr. son Leonard Foreman. . . .
To three gr. daus., Rachael, Margaret and Charlotte, daus. of my son, the
late Elijah Foreman, $200 each ;
Exrs. two gr. sons Leonard Foreman and John Henry Crane.
Dated Jan. 15, 1838 : prob. Sept. 8, 1840.

25. WILL OF VALENTINE FORMAN, of the city of Bait.
To son Valentine Forman,
" dau. Catherine "
" gr. son George "
" son Samuel "
" " George W. prob. March 12, 1851.

26. WILL OF JOSHUA D. FOREMAN, (Bait.)4
"All estate to wife Rebecca;" "son Henry;" "son John D." "Other children"
are mentioned by the testator, but not by name. prob. 1858.

27. WILL OF CATHERINE FOREMAN, (Bait.)5
" Daughter Rachel Ann Sanders,"
Susanna Rebecca Emich,"
Jane Foreman,"
Sarah Elizabeth Caulk." prob. July 4, 1867.

u (1
U CI

Baltimore Lib. 14, 355. "Baltimore Lib. 18—86. 'Lib. 26—125. *Raltimore Lib. 27, folio 171. 'Lib. 34—206.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 51

28. BITS OF FORMAN PEDIGREE. (From Bait. Wills.)
xLeonard Forman m. Ann C. 
of Bait
d. 1840.

Rachel Forman m. Elijah Williams.
 Forman m.

h

Leonard Foreman.
Elijah Foreman m.

h

Rachel Foreman.
Margaret Foreman.
Charlotte Foreman.
Daughter m. Mr. Crane.
John Henry Crane.
Daughter m. Mr. Fowler.
| _ _j
Henry F. Fowler.
Eleanor Forman.

29.  Forman m. Catherine, d. 1867.

H

Rachel Ann Forman m. Sanders.
Susanna Rebecca Forman m. Emich.
Sarah Elizabeth Forman m. Caulk.
Jane Forman.
1 30. From Newspapers, &c.
In old St. Paul's graveyard, Bait., are some Forman tombstones:
Thomas Forman, died July 29, 1801 or 1804, aged 1 year, 8 months.
Joshua Forman, died July 20, 1805, aged 1 year 7 months.
Elisha Forman, died Dec. 18, 1808, aged 1 year 1 month.
Rebecca Forman, died Sept. 19, 1806, aged 1 year 5 months.
Daniel Forman, died Nov. 23, 1821, aged 3 years 5 months.

1Will of Leonard Forman, 1838, prob, 1840, Bait, 2Will of Catherine Forman, prob. July 4, 1867, Bait.

52

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.

Laws passed at the last session of General Assembly of Maryland. . . .
An act empowering the administrator of Frederick Foreman, late of Queen Anne's
County to sell a tract of land.
Md. Journal & Bait. Advertizer, Feb. 75, 1785.
1794, July 151 . . .  Foreman, Jr., collector U. S. revenue, N. E.
cor. Market and Frederick streets.
Md. Journal, Sept. 11, 1794.

31.

WILLS RECORDED IN CENTREVILLE.

LIBER.
1785 Forman, John  T. W. 1
17911792

1798 1823
1798 1817

FOLIO.
 260
Henrietta  S. C. 7  321
Alcey  R. W. 1  44

Benjamin  T.C.E. 1  23
Ezekiel  " " 1  227
John  W.H.No. 3  237
Mary  T.C.E. 1  77

32. ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTS, RECORDED IN CENTREVILLE.
ADM. KEY. LIBEK. FOLIO.
1794 Forman, Samuel  1  5

17961797
1798179918031807 1800
1816182318261830
186018681884
1890

John  1  9
"  1  14
"  1  20
"  1  24
Stephen  1  38
Sweatnam  1  50
Jesse  1  56
Benjamin  1  77
Ezekiel  II  2
Ann  "  29
Jesse  "  46
George W  "  72
Wm. H(emsley)  "  130
Marcia R  "  206
Henry  "  84

33.

BENJAMIN FOREMAN'S WILL.2

"I, Benj. Foreman, of Q. A. County ... To my son Amos, my daughter
Sally Ann Foreman and Martha Ann Foreman (shall be given by my Executor as
much money when they arrive at lawful age as each of my other two sons, John

1Name not legible in old paper. 2Wills Queen Anne's T. C. E. 1— p.

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53

Foreman and Henry Foreman shall receive out of their grandmother's property
which she left by last Will " . . . "To my wife Ann all my property during
widowhood ; if she marries to have one third of estate." . . .
Executrix, wife Ann.
Aug. 20, 1815. prob. Jan. 6, 1816.

34.

WILLS RECORDED IN CHESTERTOWN.

1754 Forman, John

(also in Annapolis).

1757

' Arthur.

1762

Robert.

1792

' Charles.

1797

David.

1804

' Bartholomew.

35.

THE SWEATNAM FAMILY.
Table of Descent.
Swettenham, (of Cheshire, England) m.
 I 

Richard Swettenham;1
(or Sweatnam), of
Talbot Co., Md., im-
mig. 1677. Justice
of the Peace 1689.
Md. Arch VIII, 143.
Capt. of Foot (Talbot
Co. Military Force),
Sept. 4, 1689. Md.
Arch XIII, 243. Will
prob. July 21, 1697.
Lib. K., 1695-98.
(Annap).

 1 
Edward;
d. 1698. High
Sheriff2 of Kent,
1683-1689, 1696-
97; 3Md. Arch
XIII, 242. Justice
of the Peace 1693.
Capt. 1695. Buried
March 15, 1698.
Reg. St. Paul's,
Kent. Will prob.
March 20, 1698.
{Annap?) Lib. H.
249. Inventory

I
Susannah; m. Sweet.

Elizabeth;
m. Worrell
s
A

I
Daughter;
m. Darner
[I or
f\ Darmor

XXVII, 18 5 }
m. 1st Mary (ar. in Md. with him, 1677.)
2d Jane.

^

, John Sweatnam m. Elizabeth m. 2d Arthur McDaniel.
of Kent Co., Md., J 
b. in Eng. prior to
1677; d. 1708. Admn.
XXIX, 36. Owner of
land in Kent Co., Royston
1200 a. Providence 400 a.
Fishingham 200 a.

— ' 1
Hannah m. Matthew Dockery.
Elizabeth m. Francis Forman.

f—[

5John.

1 — r
6Arthur.

1 — I — I

xIn some early papers he used this form of the name; later he wrote it Sweatnam. 2Md. Arch. V. 543. 'Old Kent.
4The Inv. of Edward Sweatnam showed him to be a rich man. Among his silver was: "1 Tankard, 1 Silver
Dram cup," &c. 6Mrs. Wilson descends from John Forman. 6Mrs. Dismukes descends from Arthur Forman.

54 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
2. William Sweatnam m. Sarah.
d. 1720. Owner of j 
land in Queen |
Anne's, &c; "Green Spring," Esther m. Banbury.
"Chesterfield," &c, &c, sheriff Sarah.
of Q. A. Co., 1716; will dated
May 23, 1719; prob. July 3, 1720.
SWEATNAM. (Maryland.)
JArms : Ar on a bend vert three spades of the fields, blade sa.
2Crest : a porcupine's head erased az. guttee d'eau, armed and collared or.
The above arms are those of the family of Swettenham, of Cheshire, Eng
land, from which the Maryland family of Sweatnam descends. In Maryland„Records
the name is variously written : Swettenham, Swetenham, Swetnam, Sweatnam, (the
latter spelling being the one in general use.)
3"The Early Settlers List" in Annapolis shows that Richard Sweatnam
immigrated to Maryland in 1677, bringing with him his wife Mary and his son
John.4 Edward Sweatnam, his brother, had arrived in 1673.5
William Sweatnam, who came in 1675, was not a brother of Richard and
Edward.6 By the "Act of Settlement" every man coming to Maryland "to inhabit" could
claim fifty acres for himself and fifty acres for each person whom he transported.
The original Record of these persons and the Land Warrant given them is in the
Land Office in Annapolis and constitutes what is known as the " Early Settlers
Lists." The entry concerning Richard Sweatnam in this Record is as follows :7
"Richard Sweatnam of St. Marie's County proved then his rights to two
hundred acres of land for transporting himself and Mary, his wife, John, his son,
and Jonas Screws, into this province to inhabite. p v d before me Willi Calvert.
" I doe hereby assign over unto Mr. Nic painter his heirs and assigns the above
four rights to land ; witness my hand 20th September, 1677. Rich. Sweatnam."
From St. Mary's, Richard Sweatnam removed to Talbot Co., on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland (then including the present county of Queen Anne's) and seems to
have been there a wealthy and prominent man. In the year 1689 the name " Richard
Sweatnam" is signed to "The Address of the Justices of the County of Talbot to
the King";8 and in the same year he was one of the gentlemen appointed "for
regulating the Affairs of the Militia in Talbot County." On the faded yellow page
of the old Record is the following commission :
"Mr. Richard Sweatnam, Capt. of a foote Company in the roome of Capt.
Kennimon."9

Kerry's Cyclopedia Heraldica. zFairbairn's Crests. '"Early Settlers," Annap. 4Lib. 15, 553 ; Lib. 15, 425.
'Lib. 17, fol. 611 ; Lib. 15, 330. «Adm. Accts. (Annap.), Lib. XVIII., A. 16. 'Lib. 15, 553. 'Maryland Archives,
vol. 8, p. 143. 9By this service a descendant of Capt. Rich'd Sweatnam is rendered eligible to "The Soe. of
Colonial Wars," "The Md. Soe. of Colonial Dames," &c.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 55
By grant and purchase Capt. Sweatnam acquired large tracts of land, and at
his death in 1697 he divided between his sons, John and William, over five thousand
acres. To John was devised " Royston " (at that time 1200 acres) part of which was
inherited by his daughter Elizabeth, and was for many years the home of a branch
of the Forman family. On part of a tract of land devised by Capt. Sweatnam to his
son William was afterwards built the present town of Centreville,1 the county seat
of Queen Anne's. This tract was known as "Chesterfield," and lay on the south
side of Chester River and north side of Corsica Creek.
In 1727 (Nov. 7) William Sweatnam's daughter (Esther Banbury, a widow,)
leased the tract to Matthew Mason ; for the first year the rent was to be " one pepper
corn," afterwards "for nine years 600 pounds of tobacco annually." Chesterfield
afterwards passed into the ownership of the Nicholson family, ^he grist mill
situated on Chesterfield was known as Chester Mill (which was the name first used
for the County seat, Centreville being substituted for it in 1789). The town was
not built as early as was proposed. In the Minutes of Assembly of 1707 is the
following :
"April 1, 1707 . . . Resolv'd, a Towne be erected on the land of Mr.
William Sweatnam in Coursivall (Corsica) Creek in Chester River." . . . This
town was afterwards abandoned, but the presumption is warranted that the location
of the proposed town was at or near the present town of Centreville. Varying
county lines threw the Sweatnam and Forman estates into the counties of Kent and
Queen Anne's (cut from Talbot in 1706) as well as in Talbot, and the Records of all
of these counties must be referred to in following the transfers <fec, of Capt. Sweat
nam's landed estate. "Royston," lying on the south side of Chester River was in
Queen Anne's Co.
Capt. Richard Sweatnam married a second time, after his arrival in Maryland;
the name of his second wife was "Jane," but her surname is not recorded nor is it
known whether she had children.
A few extracts from the old Records may be of interest to the descendants of
Capt. Richard Sweatnam, and are therefore made and here given.
3" License granted to Capt. Richard Sweatnam of Talbot County to keep ordi
nary at Talbot Court House4 for the entertainment and Accommodation of the
Justices of the said Court and other persons officers and Sutors thereunto he being a
person of Sufficient ability and duely qualified for the same."

WILL OF CAPT. RICHARD SWEATNAM.
(Recorded in Annapolis, Lib. K, 1695-98.)
(Abstract.) "I, Richard Sweatnam, of Talbot Co., in the province of Mary
land. . . .
Item. I give to sonne Jno. the plantacon whereon he now liveth called
Providence5 . . . 400 acres.

'From old Records in the Court House in Centreville is compiled this little sketch of the Sweatnam and
Forman families. 2Hist. of Queen Anne's Co., by Fredk. Emory. 'Lib. K., 1692-1694; fol. 254. *Now "Easton,"
Talbot Co. 'Nov. 28, 1800, Sweatnam Forman (descendant) sold part of Providence to Geo. Primrose.— Centreville
Deeds, Index p. 359.

56 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
Item. To my said sonne Jno. Sweatnam all that tract or parcell of land
lying upon Chester River and now in JKent County, containing twelve hundred
acres of land, formerly taken up by one Richard Royston, and called by the name
of Royston, to him and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten forever. And if it
should happen that my said sonne should die not having issue of his body lawfully
begotten that then the s'd land shall descend to my sonne William, and the heirs
of his body lawfully begotten, and if s'd sonne William should happen to die not
having issue of his body lawfully begotten, that then the said land to go to my
beloved sister, Elizabeth Worrilow and her heirs forever.
Item. To sonne William (under 20 years of age at this time) the following
tracts of land:
2Green Spring, 650 acres.
Abington, 200 acres.
Part of Wilton, 60 acres.
Bodwell, 250 acres.
Indian Neck, 170 acres.
Hemsleys ffarme, 348 acres.
Paxton's lott, 100 acres.
Poplar Ridge, 400 acres.
Hopton, 300 acres.
Downes's farme, 300 acres.
Bridgewater, 300 acres.
Hackton, 250 acres.
Moorefields, 124 acres.
Brownes Lott, 200 acres.
(The reversion of this land, 3652 acres, should William not have children,
was to go to John ; failing issue of John, the land was to go to Elizabeth Worrilow,
Capt. Sweatnam's "deare sister.")
. . . My well beloved brother Edward Sweatnam and Mr. Hans Hanson
to be my Whole and Sole Executors. . . .
In witness whereof (cfcc) July 1, 1697. . . . Richard Sweatnam."
This Will was probated in Talbot County, July 21, 1697, and also recorded
in Annapolis.
(Abstract)3 "March 1, 1698-9, I, Edward Sweatnam, of Kent County ... To my
deare Couzen Sussanah Darmor and allsoe to my deare couzen 4Eliza Darner 20£ . . .
To Loving couzens 5John and William Sweatnam 5£ . . .
To my God-daughter, Ann Tilden, one gold ring . . .
To the parish in which I now live . . . . 20£ . . .

'Later determination of County boundaries threw this land into Queen Anne's Co. description of these
tracts is given in detail. 'Wills, Annapolis, H. 1688-1700, fol. 249. 4Niece. 'Nephews (the term cousin was often
thus used in old papers.)

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 57
Remainder of estate to my Deare sisters, Elizabeth Worrell and Susannah
Sweet, and either or both of their children to be equally divided between said
sisters . . .
Exr's Elias King and Charles Tilden, my neighbors.
Prob. March 20, 1698. E. Sweatnam.
(Abstract)1 "In the name of God amen, May ye 23rd 1719. I, William Sweatnam, of
Queen Anne's County . . .
To my well beloved Wife, Sarah, during her natural life the tract of land
whereon I now live called Chesterfield . . .
To my Daughter Ester . . . Green Spring, 650 a . . . and Pocton Lott, 150
a . . . Hopton, 300 a . . .
To my Daughter Sarah . . . Sweatnam's Hope, 120 acres ; Hemsleys Farm,
348 acres; part of Albinton, 100 a.; Poplar Ridge, 400 acres . . .
To (an unborn child) Chesterfield, after my wife's death, 900 acres ; also
Providence, 400 ; likewise Sweatnam's Lott, 55 acres . . .
. . . (Tracts of land designated) to be sold at wife Sarah's discretion, Bridge
300 a., W. Cowffields and W. Cowffields Addition, 124 a., Downs Lott, 200, Tryangle,
551, . . . for support of herself and the children . . .
Exe'r Wife Sarah ... In Witness (<fcc) W. Sweatnam.
Witnesses, W. Clayton, W. Carmichael . . .
prob. July 3, 1720.

Captain Richard Sweltenham, the immigrant, came from Cheshire, England,
to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1677. He was a wealthy and a prominent man.
He was in the service of the King of England, during the second period of
the reign of the House of Stuart, when Charles the Second, son of Charles the First,
was on the throne, from 1660 to 1685. He entertained the King's officers, and held
many places of high trust. He was Captain of a Foote Company, with a commis
sion direct from the King. He owned five thousand acres of land at the time of his
death, 1697.
In the year 1689, the name of Captain Richard Sweatnam is signed to the
"Address of the Justices of the County of Talbot to the King." The Talbot County
referred to is in Maryland ; and the King, William the Third. James the Second,
second son of Charles the First had abdicated in 1688. Richard Sweatnam had
served the Commonwealth, Charles the First, James the Second, Charles the Second,
and then in 1688, William the Third, Prince of Orange. These services to his own
country and in the provinces entitle his descendants to become eligible to the
"Society of Colonial Wars," and the "Maryland Society of Colonial Dames."
Captain Richard Sweatnam left two sons, John and William. John Sweat
nam died leaving no son, only two daughters. William Sweatnam died in 1720,

'Wills, Queen Anne's Co., S. C. 1, fol. 160.

58 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
leaving no sons, only two daughters. The two brothers died comparatively young.
Thus passed away a name borne by a noble family ; leaving a void never to be filled !
The Mr. Hans Hanson mentioned was the ancestor of Miss Jeannett Hanson,
who married Mr. Gibson, a man of great intelligence and learning, a resident of
Washington City, D. C. He died of yellow fever in St. Josephs, on the Gulf coast
of Florida, about the year 1840, when that town was practically depopulated by this
epidemic. Mrs. Gibson moved to Quincy, Florida, and was an intimate neighbor
and friend of Hon. Arthur I. Forman. Some of her descendants are still living in
the old home in Quincy, Florida.

WILL OF SWEATNAM BURN.1
36. In the name of God Amen. I, Sweatnam Burn of Queen Anne's County,
being sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God for
it, do hereby ordain this to be my last Will and Testament in words and form fol
lowing. And first I Bequeath my soul to the hands of Almighty God who gave it
and my Body to the Ground to be buried at the Discretion of my Executors in
decent Burial according to the Custom of the Church of England.
Item. I give and bequeath unto Arthur Forem. son of Francis Foreman of
Queen Anne's County, all that part of the tract of land known by the name of
"Royston" on the north side leading from the Mill by the Warrented Road to the
West part of the Tract, likewise my Cart and Oxen, Two feather beds with the fur
niture thereto belonging, one Horse known by the name of ye Dray, one mare named
Peggy, one mare named Pigeon, likewise in equal part of all the Cattle, sheep and
hogs and geese, ducks and turkeys, one colt named Heroe.
Item. I give and bequeath to John Foreman one Bed and furniture. Half
the Cattle remaining besides the oxen, one Horse called Blackbird, one Horse called
Button, one mare called Fancy, one called Gock, half the Sheep, half the Hogs, and
in equal part of the Geese and Turkeys.
Item. I give and bequeath to Margaret Foreman, Daughter of John Fore
man, all that part of the Land called Royston, lying on the south side of the War-
rented Road to her and her Heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath to John Foreman two negroe(s) men, one named
Jack and the other Roston.
Item. I give and bequeath to Arthur Foreman one negro Wench named
Beck, one negro boy named Ned, one negro Girl named Patt, one seven year Servant
named James Jean, one eighteen months Servant named Thomas Deruce, with all
my wearing apparel and Iron and Wooden household furniture, with the Plows and
Harrows, the said John Foreman and Arthur Foreman to pay all my debts and
funeral expenses equally between them and like cost in the Administration and
to sell my old Wheat and Corn to pay my Debt and I do hereby renounce all other
Wills ever before by me made Ratifying and Confirming this to be my last Will and
Testament.

'Wills, Annapolis W. D. 1, 232.

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In Witness whereof (&c) this tenth day of January one thousand seven hun
dred and sixty-eight. Sweatnam Burn, his . . . i seal, i
Signed, sealed, (&c.,) in the Presence of
John Ticthell,
Lazarus Ticthell,
John Whittington. prob. 2d Feb. 1768.
xFeb. 28, 1789. Tripartite Indenture made Oct. 4, 1788, between Sweatnam
Foreman, Mary Foreman, widow of Arthur Foreman, late of Q. A. and Jesse eldest
son of the afs'd Arthur and Mary . . . the afs'd Sweatnam for and in consider
ation of 450 pounds current money doth give grant (&c.) unto the aforesaid Mary
Foreman all that tract of land lying in Queen Anne's county being part of a tract
of land called Royston which Sweatnam Burn by his will devised to the within
named Arthur Foreman for life as is contended by the aforesaid Sweatnam Foreman
and for which s'd lands an ejectment is now depending in the General Court of the
E. S. for the recovery and reversion of the said Mary during her natural life . .
and then to the said Jesse. Q , -^ rcs ,-,
Swetnem Foreman. [Seal]
Mary Forman. [Seal]
Before us also came Hannah, wife of s'd Sweatnam, (&c). . . .
2March 19, 1802. . . . Between Sweatnam Foreman of Queen Anne's Co.,
of the first part and Mary Foreman of the same place of the other part.
The s'd Sweatnam doth grant, bargain and sell (&c.) unto the said Mary Foreman
all that mill and mill seat lying or being in Queen Anne's county . . . being
situated on and composed of a part of a tract of land called "Royston" and on the
head of a creek called Royston's Creek now in the possession of the said Sweatnam
Foreman and formerly belonging to a certain Samuel Massey. ... In witness
whereof . . . Sweatnam Forman.3
4Queen Anne's county to-wit: Be it remembered that on the fourth day of
August, eighteen hundred and twenty -three, the following deed was brought to be
recorded, to-wit: This indenture made the 16th day of June in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, between John S. Forman of Kent
county and state of Maryland, of the one part and Charles Hendrix of Queen Anne's
county, and state of Maryland of the other part witnesseth that the said John S.
Forman for and in consideration of the sum of two thousand dollars current money
of Maryland to him in hand paid by the said Charles Hendrix before the sealing
and delivery of these presents ... by the presents doth grant, bargain and
sell (<fec.) unto the said Charles Hendrix his heirs and assigns all that part of a
tract5 called Royston, which is described by the following lines metes and bounds
to-wit :

'Queen Anne's Co. Records S. T. W. 1., fol. 210. 2Queen Anne's Records S. T. W. 6, 34.
'Differences in spelling the same name in the same paper, was by no means uncommon in early days. This
name is as often spelt with the e as without it. 4Records of Queen Anne's Co., T. M. 3, fol. 202. 'Of land situate
lying and being in Q. A. Co., being part of a tract.

60 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
Beginning at a stone standing at the end of the second line of said tract
called "Royston" and thence running with the third line of said tract and with the
main road south sixty-five degrees and thirty minutes West three hundred and sixty
perches to a stone at the end of the third line of said tract and thence North forty-
five degrees and forty-five minutes East two hundred and ninety-eight perches to a
stone and North thirty-one degrees and thirty minutes East eighty-two perches to a
stone and North eighty degrees East twenty-three perches ; and south seventy -five
degrees East eight perches and North eighty-two degrees East thirteen perches to
the aforesaid second line of Royston and thence with the said line to the first place
of beginning containing two hundred and thirty-eight acres of land more or less
together with all and singular the buildings and improvements woods ways waters
water courses rights liberties privileges hereditaments and appurtenances whatso
ever thereunto belonging and the reversions and remainders rents issues and profits
thereof and all the estate right title and interest whatsoever of him the said John
S. Forman . . . unto the said Charles Hendrix his heirs Executors and admin
istrators. . .
In witness whereof the said John S. Forman hath hereunto subscribed his
name and affixed his seal the day and year herein before written.
0. , , , , , ,. , . ,, * John S. Forman. i seal, i
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence ot -  j
Francis A. Rochester . . . John Patrick.
On the back of the original Deed was then endorsed to wit : Received on
the day of the date of the within Deed of and from the within named Charles
Hendrix, the sum of two thousand dollars current money of Maryland, being the
consideration mentioned in the said Deed. T -. q -&
Maryland, Queen Anne's County, to wit : on this 16th day of June 1823,
personally appears John S. Forman . . . and acknowledged this within Deed or
instrument of writing to be his act and Deed . . . and now at the same time also
personally appears Susana Forman, wife of the said John S. Forman and acknowl
edged the said Deed . . . Taken and certified the Day and year above written.
Francis A. Rochester,
John Patrick.
FAMILY OF HON. ELBERT E. FARMAN.
37. William Forman settled in Maryland in the latter part of the 17th
century. Michael Stuppel and Stephen Bernerd of London, mariners, received a
warrant for 1750 acres on account of the transportation of 35 persons into the colony
to inhabit, among whom was " Wm. fforman." It was conjectured for some time
that William was the son of Robert who immigrated in 1674, but the discovery of a
deed dated Feb. 8, 1733, to James Calder, in which it is stated that William, the son
of Robert, died without issue, shows that the father of the William in question is
still to be sought for. There is no evidence of his descent from Robert of Long
Island. William's son Joseph, b. Oct. 17, 1699, d. May 6, 1753, had a son John, b.
Sept. 16, 1739. John Foreman, as his name seems to have been spelled, volunteered

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for the French War at the age of sixteen. After serving in the army for eight
years, he with two companions settled in New Hampshire in 1763. Soon afterwards
he married and settled in the town of Bath on the Connecticut River. He had nine
sons and died in 1792. During his residence in Bath the spelling of the family
name was changed from Foreman to Farman, to which latter spelling all but one
branch of his descendants have adhered. A representative of this branch of the
family is Mr. F. W. Forman of Minneapolis. Roswell Farman, eldest son of John
Foreman (or Farman), b. 1765, removed in 1805 from Bath to Oneida Co., N. Y., and
a year later to Oswego Co. Zadok Farman, son of Roswell, b. 1791, married Martha
Dix of Wethersfield, Conn., and had six children, the fifth of whom was Elbert Eli
Farman, b. at New Haven, Oswego Co., N. Y., April 23, 1831.
Elbert E. Farman graduated at Amherst, 1855, taking the degree of M. A.
three years later. He became a student of law at Warsaw, N. Y., and while still a
student took an active part in the Fremont campaign of 1856. After his admission
to the bar, he was for some years one of the owners and the business manager of the
Western New Yorker of Warsaw, which developed into the leading Republican
journal of that part of the State. In 1865, Mr. Farman went to Europe and spent
two years in the study of criminal, international and civil law at Heidelberg and
Berlin, and in learning the French and German languages. On his return to the
United States he was appointed by the Governor as District Attorney of Wyoming
County, an office which he held with much credit for seven years. In 1876 Mr.
Farman was appointed Consul General at Cairo, Egypt, by President Grant. During
the five years that Mr. Farman was Consul General he performed the duties of his
office in the most painstaking and efficient manner. He also took an interest in the
welfare of the people of Egypt, and through his efforts at various times fifteen slaves
received their freedom. During the visit of General Grant to Egypt, Mr. Farman
presented the General to the Khedive and otherwise took a prominent part in his
reception. The obelisk in Central Park in New York City was obtained through
the exertions of Mr. Farman, and the "Farman Collections" of Egyptian antiquities
in the Metropolitan Museum were collected and classified by him. He was appointed
on July 1, 1881, by President Garfield to the position of Judge of the Internationa]
Court of Egypt, which office he filled with credit to himself and the United States
until his resignation in 1884. On leaving Egypt he received from the Khedive the
order of the Medjidieh. In 1882 Amherst College conferred upon him the degree
of LL. D. NOTE.
"Came Michael Stuppel and Stephen Bernerd of Lond. Mariners, and proved
their rights to one thousand seven hundred and fifty acres of Land for transporta-
ing (here follow many names, among them) William Forman
 unto this Province
to Inhabite . . . June 18, 1675."
In 1707 William Forman (perhaps the above William) owned 100 acres of
land in Baltimore Co., being part of a tract called Bear neck, "surveyed 8 ffeb 1682,
for Robert Proctor." — List of Early Settlers in Maryland {Land office, Annapolis?)

62 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.

Genealogy of the Forman Family of Monmouth County, New
Jersey, descended from Robert Forman
who died in 167 1.

INTRODUCTION.

38. By far the most thorough researches that have been made in the history
of this family were made by Mr. William Henry Forman of New York City, to
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 English
man who settled in Long Island and died in 1671. To Mr. George W. Cocks, of
Glen Cove, Long Island, is due much of the information as to the Long Island
descent. Something should be said in regard to the theory that the family is descended
from John Foreman, a Scotch covenanter, said to have come over as a refugee from
persecution. Mr. William Henry Forman found the facts in regard to John Fore
man to be as follows — some two hundred persons, among whom was John Foreman,
were brought from Scotland to New Jersey, in September, 1685, in the ship Henry
& Francis to be bound out as servants by way of punishment for refusing to swear
allegiance to James II. Their refusal was due to the fact that the King was a
Roman Catholic, and they thought it a sin to take the oath of allegiance to a Roman
Catholic. The privilege of binding out these people as servants for a term of years
was obtained by George Scot, laird of Pitlochie, as compensation for the expense of
transporting them. Pitlochie had also an interest in East Jersey. On the voyage
which was long and stormy, ship fever broke out, and some seventy of those on
board died. Among those that died were Pitlochie and his wife. On the arrival
of the vessel at Perth Amboy in December, 1685, the unwilling passengers appealed
to the courts for their freedom on the ground that the only person who had power
to bind them, to-wit: Pitlochie, had died. They were granted their liberty, and
John Foreman settled at Woodbridge, as the town records show, distant but a few
miles from Perth Amboy. At Woodbridge, which is in Middlesex Co., John Fore
man passed the rest of his life and died. In the town book are recorded the name
and date of birth of each child of the inhabitants. It shows that John Foreman
had no sons, his only children being daughters. He died intestate, and letters of
administration were granted to his wife and daughter. The authorities for the
foregoing statement are, in addition to the records of Woodbridge, Wodrow's History
of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution,
and Whitehead's History of Perth Amboy.
In compiling this part of the work help has been afforded by the following
ladies and gentlemen: Mrs. Catherine P. Byrnes, of Claiborne Co., Miss.; Miss Mary

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 63
Forman Day, of Baltimore Co., Md.; Miss Martha R. Dye, of New York City, Mrs.
Robert Edmonds, of Fauquier Co., Va.; Mrs. C. S. Fairchild, of New York City; Miss
Estella Forman, of Austinburg, Ohio; Mrs. Hannah C. Forman, of Chicago; Miss
Mary Forman and Miss Sarah Forman, of Mason Co., Ky.; Mr. Peter Forman, of
Manalapan, N. J.; Mr. Richard Howell Forman, of Fayette, Miss.; Mr. W. S. Forman,
of Springville, Ala.; Mr. Marion H. Henderson, of Elizabeth, N. J.; Mrs. J. C. Hum
phreys, of Mason Co., Ky.; Major W. P. McDowell, Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Louisa D.
Merrill, of Austinburg, Ohio; Mrs. John Moses, of Trenton, N. J.; Mr. W. M. Paxton,
of Platte City, Mo.; Miss F. F. Randolph, of Freehold, N. J.; Mr. T. F. Screven, of
Savannah, Ga., and the late Miss Anna M. Woodhull, of Freehold. To these names
should be added that of Mr. George W. Cocks, of Glen Cove, Long Island, who has
an extensive and minute acquaintance with the early Long Island records.

NOTE ON PRONUNCIATION OF THE NAME.
The true original English pronunciation of the name is stated by Mr. William
Henry Forman, of New York City, to be as if it were spelled Furman, and this pro
nunciation is still retained in parts of England, in Queens and Westchester counties,
N. Y., in New Jersey to some extent, and in Mason Co., Ky. Elsewhere in the
United States the name is generally pronounced as if spelled Foreman. A better
way would be, perhaps, to pronounce the first syllable as it is generally pronounced
when it occurs in other words.

THE ENGLISH GENEALOGY.
39. It is regretted that authority can not be furnished for the English
origin of the family as traced by Mr. William Henry Forman, from whom the fol
lowing account was obtained.
The earliest ancestor from whom he is able to trace the descent of the family
is William Forman of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
William Forman is mentioned in Holinshed's Chronicle as the father of Sir
William Forman, Lord Mayor of London, 1538-39; also Member of Parliament.
To resist the threatened invasion of England by the Emperor of Germany
and the King of France, Henry VIII. issued commissions to various prominent
persons to raise troops. One of these commissions was issued to Sir Wm. Forman.
He made the greatest muster of Londoners that had been made up to that time.
When they were fully organized and drilled, he led them in long procession to
Westminster, where they were reviewed by the King, his chief councillors, and the
leading nobility, in the presence of a vast concourse of spectators. There were three
divisions of 5000 men each, all bravely apparelled and well-armed, exclusive of
pioneers and attendants.
"Musters of the citizens were frequent in the reigns of Henry the Eighth and
" Queen Elizabeth. A history of the muster of the citizens on the 8th of May, 1539,
" the 31st of Henry the Eighth, is given at length in the ' Records of the Corpora-

64 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
" tion' Journal 14, folio 166. They marched from Mile End to Whitehall, and from
" thence to Leadenhall. Sir William Forman, Knt., Lord Mayor, was in bright
" harness, whereof the curass, the maynsers, gaunteletts and other parts were gilt
" upon the crest and bordures, and with that he had a coat of black velvet with a
" rich cross embroidered, and a great massy chain of gold about his neck, and on
" his head a cap of black velvet with a rich jewel, he had a goodly jennett richly
" trapped, with embroidery of gold set upon crimson velvet. About him attended
" 4 foot men, all apparelled in white satin hose and all puffed out with white
" sarcanet.'" (Analytical Index to the Remembrancia, page 230, note.)
Sir William Forman left several sons, of whom the eldest, William, was for a
time a merchant in London but subsequently retired to an estate which he pur
chased in Lincolnshire.
William Forman, son of the Lord Mayor, had several sons, one of whom was
named Robert.
Robert Forman had several sons, one of whom named William became a
clergyman and was a vicar in Buckinghamshire.
The Rev. William Forman, who, as will be readily seen, was great-grandson
of Sir William, the Lord Mayor, had several sons, of whom one was Robert Forman.
Robert's religious opinions were not in accord with those of the then dominant
party in the English Church, and in order to escape persecution, Robert Forman
left England and settled at Flushing (Vlissingen), Holland. From Holland he
came to America.

OTHER 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY FORMANS IN ENGLAND.
40. A letter from the Bishop of Lincoln to Cardinal Wolsey, is printed in
"Original Letters Illustrative of English History," with notes by Sir Henry Ellis,
published by Bentley of London, 1846; this letter states that Rev. Thomas Forman,
D. D., appears to have received heretical books. A foot-note, vol. 2, p. 78, states that
Thomas Forman, D. D., was instituted to the Rectory of Allhallows, Honey-Lane,
Feb. 7, 1524. He died in 1528.
From the article by Mr. S. L. Lee on Simon Forman, the astrologer, in the
Dictionary of National Biography, we learn that Richard Forman, the grandfather
of Simon, was Governor of Wilton Abbey. After Henry VIII. granted the Abbey
to Sir William Herbert, later Earl of Pembroke, Richard Forman held some position
in the park. He died in 1556. His son William, born 1524 at Quidhampton, Wilt
shire, d. 1564, was page to Lord Willoughby. In 1544 he married Mary, daughter of
John and Marianna (Hallam) Foster. They had eight children, the fifth son was
Simon, born at Quidhampton 1552, d. 1611. Mr. Lee states that Simon Forman
claimed connection with Sir William Forman, Lord Mayor of London, and with Sir
George Forman, K. B., 1485, &c. Simon Forman wrote various works, among which
was one on "Matters of Arms and Gentility Belonging to his Family," which is not
known to have been printed. His autobiography written in 1600 has been
printed. He there states that Richard Forman, his grandfather, was the
son of Sir Thomas Forman of Leeds, who was the son of another Sir Thomas

f

Coat of Arms of the Forman Family

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 65
Forman of Furnival. The children of William and Marie (or Marianna) Foster
Forman were: 1, William; 'i^Jone (or Joan), m. William Hannom, gentleman, son
of the Mayor of Sarum, m. 2ndly, William Brincke, both marriages were without
children ; 3, Henry, m. Ann, dau. of Thomas Harte, issue dau. Ann ; 4, Richard, m.
1st, Cicely Parlet, sole heir of John Parlet, m. 2nd, Joan Warum, issue 3 children :
John, Dorothy and Richard; 5, Simon (the astrologer); 6, Robert, m. Joan, dau. of
Stephen Pore, gentleman, of Dorsetshire; 'I, Joan; 8, John, d. Dec. 12, 1601.
The Autobiography says : " And it is recorded in ancient bockes that ther
" ar three things specially noted in the name of the Formans, that is, ther was never
" any of them proud, covetous, nor a traitor ; and that may welbe seen to this daie
" in the generation."
Simon Forman is frequently referred to in literature, in The Epicene, Act.
IV., Scene 1 ; The Devil is an Ass, Act I., Scene 2, by Ben Jonson, and in The
Strange Story by Bulwer.
Andrew Forman, of Scotland, Archbishop of St. Andrews, was the son of the
laird of Hutton in Berwickshire. He was one of the most prominent ecclesiastical
personages of the period in which he lived, and took part in political as well as
church affairs. A good account of his life is given in the Dictionary of National
Biography, also in the Scottish Nation, published by Anderson in London, 1853.
Archbishop Andrew Forman died in 1521, and was buried at Dunfermline.

COAT OF ARMS.

41. Arms of the different families named Forman given in Sir Bernard
Burke's "General Armory of England, Sootland, Ireland and Wales."
Forman (Luthrie, Co. Fife, Lyon King at Arms, 1555).
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, sa. three camels' heads erased or, each with a bell ar.
attached to a collar gu. about her neck for Forman; 2nd and 3d, az. a chev. betw.
three salmon haurient ar. for Fisher.
Forman or Foreman (London and Co. Leicester: Lord Mayor of London,
1538). Barry wavy of six ar. and az. on a chev. sa. three martlets or, on a chief
gules a lion passant betw. two anchors gold. Crest — a demi dragon ramp. vert.
Forman or Freman. Az. three bars nebulee ar. on a chev. sa. as many mart
lets or, a chief gules charged with a lion pass, guard, between two anchors gold.
Forman (Co. Lincoln) same arms.
Forman or Fornens (Co. Norfolk). Sa. five fusils in pale ar.
Forman (Co. Northumberland). Sa. five fusils in fesse ar.
Forman. Az. three bears' heads erased ar. collared gules each charged with
four bells or.
Various members of the Forman family in America, in particular General
Thomas Marsh Forman of Cecil Co., Md., and General Jonathan Forman of Cazenovia,
New York, have used the arms ascribed by Sir Bernard Burke to the Forman family
of Lincolnshire. In addition they have used a lion's (or leopard's) head as a crest,
and the motto "Deo et Amicitiae."

66 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
Mr. Wm. Henry Forman used a coat-of-arms which was used by his father,
grandfather and great grandfather before him. It corresponds in all respects, even
to the crest, to that used by the Lord Mayor, which differs but slightly from the
Lincolnshire coat-of-arms

The American Genealogy.

ROBERT FORMAN.

42. Robert Forman was driven from England by the persecution of Arch
bishop Laud and took refuge in Holland. His name and that of his wife are enrolled
upon the church register at Vlissingen, Holland, of which the English name is
Flushing. Coming to America, he was one of the 18 incorporators of the town of
Flushing on Long Island, in 1645. Long Island was then governed by the Dutch,
but the incorporators of Flushing were Englishmen. The charter, which is at
Albany, but is printed in Mr. Waller's History of the town of Flushing (1899) has
Robert's name spelled "Firman" but in all documents signed by him it is spelled
"fforman." Robert Forman removed from Flushing to Hempstead, Long Island,
(incorporated November 16, 1645). His name appears among the 43 signers of a
letter to Governor Stuyvesant agreeing to pay the "tenths" demanded by the
Governor, if it can be shown that they are legally obliged to do so (Colonial Docs.,
New York State Historical Publications, Vol. 14, page 362). Out of the names of
four persons submitted, Governor Stuyvesant on Dec. 9, 1658, chose to be magistrates
at Hempstead, Mr. Richard Gildersleeve and Mr. Robert Forman (same records). On
May 12, 1664, Robert Forman was appointed as one of two magistrates of Oyster Bay,
then under the rule of the English colony of Connecticut, that part of Long Island
east of a straight line running from the westernmost part of Oyster Bay to the sea
having come under New England jurisdiction in 1650. Robert Forman's will is
dated February 7, 1670 (Records of Town of Oyster Bay, Liber 1, page 239),1 and
mentions sons, Moses, Aaron and Samuel, but no daughter. He died in 1671. That
his wife's name was Johanna is indicated by the signature "Johanna Forman" as
the only witness to a deed from Robert to his sons Samuel and Moses, (Liber 1,
page 11) June 9, 1665.

WILL OF ROBERT FORMAN. February 7th, 1670.
Ye last will and testament of Robert fforman of Oyster Bay. I being weak
in body, yet being in perfect memory and understanding, do desire of my estate as
followeth, viz: First, I give to my loving wife my house, barn and orchard, and
home lot, and the meadow at Matinecock, and all ye hollow at ye Plain Edge, and

'In office of Clerk of Queens Co., Jamaica, Long Island,

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 67
a hollow on ye Brushy Plains for my wife to dispose of as she see best for her com
fortable subsistence, while she liveth, and if my son Aaron will undertake this for
his mother, my will is that he shall do it, and improve ye aforesaid house and land
for her, before any other, and at my wife's decease, ye above mentioned house and
land to be my son Aaron's — to him and his [heirs] forever.
Secondly. I give to my two sons Samuel and Moses all of ye remainder of
my accommodation, both of meadows at ye south and mowable land upon ye plains,
to be equally divided betwixt them, and in particular, I give to my son Samuel all
my housing and land at ye Cold Spring, after my wife's decease, provided always
ye agreement formerly made betwixt my two sons Samuel and Moses at my wife's
decease shall stand.
Thirdly. I give to my loving wife all my personal estate, both of living stock
and household goods to her proper use and behoof, for her comfort and to dispose
of at her decease; and my will is that my two sons shall during their mother's life,
provide yearly, hay and what else is needful for ye maintaining their mother's stock
of cattle. This is my will, as witness my hand in presence of
Jonas Wood,
Ab — Frost. Robert fforman.
Note : The record of the will spells the name with a u, but it has been
deemed proper to print the signature spelled as Robert Forman spelled his name in
all his known signatures.
This will was probated at Jamaica, Long Island, at June session, 1671, and
the widow was allowed to be executrix.
The record of the inventory of the widow Johanna Forman's estate is dated
June 6, 1672, and was made by the Constable and Overseers of Oyster Bay. It is a
curious document and gives the household goods in great detail. The total valua
tion is ninety-one pounds, ten shillings, threepence : money at that date being more
valuable than at present, the modern value would be much greater. The live stock
mentioned are two mares valued at ten pounds, one horse five pounds, two oxen
twelve pounds, two five-year old steers twelve pounds, two cows eight pounds, one
two-year and one yearling heifer four pounds, two calves one pound. It would not
be interesting to describe the pigs, farming and kitchen utensils and household goods
in detail. A Bible valued at 12 shillings is set down, and would be now the most
valuable article in the inventory if it contained a family record. There are also "one
doublet breeches &, cote" valued together at 30 shillings, "a gun 2 Swordes" one
pound ten shillings, and a three-year old bull three pounds. In addition, the lands,
housing, orchards and meadows at Matinecock are estimated to be worth three
pounds a year in current pay of the colony. The document was signed by Thomas
Townsend, Richard Harcott, Matthew Harvey and Nicholas Wright.
Robert Forman, d. 1671.
m. Johanna 

r1

1, Moses Forman.
m. Hannah Crooker.

68 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
2, Aaron Forman.
m. Dorothy

3, Samuel Forman.
m. Mary Ann (or Miriam) Hoyt.
It is believed that the foregoing gives the correct order of births, but for con
venience Samuel's family will be taken up before Aaron's.
43. Moses Forman, son Robert and Johanna Forman,
m. Hannah, dau. of William and Ann (Gregory) Crooker, who came to
Oyster Bay from Stratford, Conn.
1, Moses Forman Jr., d. 1727.
m. Judith  . Son, Zebulon Forman.
2, Sarah Forman m. Samuel Bennett, Jr. of Rhode Island.
3, Mercy Forman m. John Weckes.
44. Samuel Forman, son of Robert and Johanna Forman, d. intestate April,
1682, as shown by an order in Liber 3, page 483, Oyster Bay Records.
m. Miriam (or Mary Ann) Hoyt, dau. of Simon and Susannah Hoyt of
Stamford, Conn.

r1

1, Mercy Forman m. Benjamin Birdsall (will 1719) son of Nathan Bird-
sail — eleven children.
2, John Forman.
3, Susannah Forman m. Daniel Townsend, d. July 2, 1702, son of John
and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Townsend, — children.
4, Sarah Forman.
45. Aaron Forman, son of Robert and Johanna Forman.
m. Dorothy 

?

1, Aaron Forman, Jr.
m. Susannah Townsend.
2, Alexander Forman.
m. Rachel 
3, Samuel Forman.
m. Mary Wilbur.
4, Thomas Forman; (will Nov. 26, 1723.)
m. Mary Allen ; dau. m. Isaac Forman ; dau. Rebecca m. Gerard Edge ;
also son Benjamin — all named in will.
46. Aaron Forman, Jr., son of Aaron and Dorothy Forman.
m. Susannah, dau. of Henry and Ann (Coles) Townsend.

H

1, Jacob Forman, m. Mary Wright.
2, Isaac Forman.
3, Aaron Forman, m. Sarah Lang.

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AARON FORMAN.
47. Aaron Forman, son of Robert, must have been born not later than 1637,
for he, with others at Hempstead, was summoned to answer the complaint of the
farmer of excise on Dec. 19, 1658, when he could not have been less than twenty-
one years old (calendar of Dutch MSS., N. Y. State Hist. Pubs., Vol. 4, page 204).
He was townsman of Hempstead in 1660. He was residing at Oyster Bay in 1683.
On April 8, 1687, he conveyed land at Oyster Bay to his son Aaron Jr. The deed
is witnessed by Dorothy and Alexander Forman, although they are not named there
in, showing that these were the names of his wife and of another son, Alexander
(Records of Oyster Bay, Liber 2, page 194). It was the 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 Forman removed to Monmouth Co., New Jer
sey, before April 11, 1693: the date of a deed in which he is described as of the
County of Monmouth and Province of East Jersey, planter, and by which he con
veys land at Oyster Bay to "my son Alexander Forman, which lands were granted
unto me, Aaron Forman by a gift of my father, Robert Forman." (Records of
Oyster Bay, Liber 3, page 277). This deed is signed by Dorothy Forman, Aaron
Forman, Jr., and Samuel Forman, although they are not named therein, showing
that Aaron had also a son Samuel. Moreover, Alexander Forman conveyed Dec.
11, 1695, (Liber 2, page 152), lands at Oyster Bay to John Rogers, adding, "these
lands did formerly belong to my brother, Samuel Forman." Samuel Forman, des
cribed as "of Springtown in the County of Monmouth and Province of East New
Jersey, in America, planter," had conveyed these lands to Alexander Forman on
April 11, 1693, (Liber B, page 278). Aaron had also a son Thomas, as is shown by
a deed dated June 3, 1690 (Liber 3, page 40) wherein Thomas Forman of Jerusalem
in East New Jersey in America conveys to Thomas Youngs of Oyster Bay, land
which "was formerly my brother Aaron Forman's land." Among the deeds of Free
hold, New Jersey, is one from Samuel Forman to Thomas Forman, May 1699; Samuel
of town of Freehold and Mary his wife and Thomas Forman my loving brother of
same town, both yeomen. Thomas married Mary Allen, whose marriage certificate
or license (May 24, 1695) is in the possession of the New Jersey Historical Society.

SAMUEL FORMAN.

48. Samuel Forman, son of Aaron and Dorothy and grandson of Robert,
was born in 1662 or 1663, and, as has been stated, removed to Monmouth Co., New
Jersey, as did his brothers Thomas and Alexander. The names of the three appear
among the signatures to a Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of East Jersey to the
King against the Acts of the Proprietors, and asking for a competent Governor,
which was sent to the Proprietors, Nov. 16, 1700. (Archives of N. J., vol. IL, p. 322.)
On Nov. 29, 1695, Samuel was commissioned High Sheriff of Monmouth Co., by
Gov. Andrew Hamilton. (Commissions, Acts of Assembly <fec, Book C, p. 235, at
State House, Trenton). His name is misspelled "fforeman " in the Commission, and

70 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
is also misspelled in vol. IL, p. 363 of the Archives, where he is mentioned among
the people who seized and kept under guard the Governor, Justices, Attorney Gen
eral, and other officials from a Tuesday to the following Saturday, in March, 1701,
the occasion being that they were resisting the trial of one of the people who was
accused of piracy. No will of Samuel Forman has been found, but his place in the
family is well determined otherwise. The tombstone of his youngest son records
that Ezekiel Forman was the son of Samuel and Mary ; and in a deed dated Jan
uary 16, 1725, Samuel Forman, late High Sheriff of Monmouth Co., conveys certain
lands in that county to his son, Captain John Forman, and there is a deed to his
son Aaron in 1719, besides other proof.
Samuel Forman married Mary Wilbur of Providence, Rhode Island, who was
the daughter of Samuel Wilbur, Jr., and Hannah Porter, who was the daughter of
John Porter, a prominent man in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Samuel
Wilbur, Jr., was the son of Samuel Wilbur, Senior, who came from England to
Massachusetts with his three sons and his wife, Ann Bradford, the daughter of
Thomas Bradford, who was the uncle of Governor William Bradford of the May
flower. The inscription on Samuel Forman's tombstone is :
Here lieth the Body of
Samuel Forman who died
ye 13«i day of October 1740
in ye 78th year of his Age
His wife's tombstone is broken, and reads :
 Body of
mary Forman wife of Samuel
Forman who died ye 13th day
of march 1728 in ye 62d
year of her Age
These tombs with those of Hannah Madock and Rebecca Van Cleaf, their
daughters, and of their son Capt. John Forman, and of another son Aaron and his
wife Ursula, all are situated on a hill about a mile and a half N. E. of Freehold,
Monmouth Co., New Jersey. This eminence has been called of late years "Wyckoff
Hill," because on the farm of Mr. Charles Wyckoff (whose wife is a great-grand
daughter of Sheriff David Forman, hereafter to be mentioned). This hill (which
commands a view of beautiful farms) and all the surrounding country belonged for
two hundred years to High Sheriff Samuel Forman and his descendants.
The eldest son of High Sheriff Samuel Forman, also named Samuel, removed
to Rhode Island. He is not known to have left any children. " There were five
other sons : Jonathan, Aaron, John, Joseph and Ezekiel, accounts of whom will be
given under separate headings with their descendants.

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COMMISSION OF SAMUEL FORMAN AS HIGH SHERIFF OF MONMOUTH
CO., NEW JERSEY, NOV. 29, 1695.1
The Governour and Proprietors of the Province of East New Jersey — to all
persons to whom these presents shall come — Greeting. — Know yee that wee have
Commissionated and appoynted and by these presents Doe Commissionate and appoint
Samuell fforeman of ffrehold of the Countie of Munmouth — Gent. High Sherriffe of
the said Countie of Munmouth for and during the time and terme of one whole
yeare now next ensueing. And wee doe hereby in the King's name, and by his
Authoritie Comand all Justices of the peace, Constables and other officers — And all
the freeholders and Inhabitants of the said Province to be Aiding and Assistant to the
said Samuell fforeman, in all things as Sherriffe of the said Countie, which to his office
doth belong and appertaine. Given under the Seale of the Province, this twenty-
ninth day of November, in the seaventh year of the Raign of our Soveraign Lord
King William over England, &c, Anno Dom. 1695. Andrew Hamilton. [L. S.]
By order of the Governour,
John Barclay, Deputy Secretary.

EXTRACTS FROM NEW JERSEY ARCHIVES.
49. 2" Remonstrance of the inhabitants of East Jersey to the King against
the acts of the proprietors, and asking for a competent Governor. (Sent to the pro
prietors, Nov. 16, 1700.) 3Signed by, 
Samuel Forman,
Thomas fforman,
Alexander Forman."
*" Proceedings of Court of Sessions of Monmouth County, . . . the people
viz.: Capt. Safetie Groom, Sam'll foreman (&c.) to ye number of about one hundred
did traytorously seize ye Governor and ye Justices, the Kings Attorney Generall and
ye under sheriff and ye Clerke of ye Court and keept them close prisoners under
guard from tewsday ye 25th March (1701), till ye Saturday following and then
Releast them." (These people were resisting the trial of one of themselves who was
accused of piracy.)
5" Petition of inhab. of N. Jersey asking to be taken under the gov't of the
King, . . . July 17, 1701. Signers, 
Alex Forman."
6" Paper of refusal to pay Francis Pagit acting as constable.
Signers. 
(1715) Alex Forman."

'Book C. of Commissions, Acts of Assembly, &c, page 235, at State House, Trenton, N. J.
Archives of New Jersey, Vol. ii., p. 322. 3ii, 327. Mi, 363. Hi, 395. 6ii, 215.

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50. Samuel Forman, b. 1662 or 1663, d. Oct. 13, 1740, son of Aaron and
Dorothy  Forman.
m. Mary Wilbur, dau. of Samuel Wilbur, Jr., and Hannah Porter, of
Providence, R. I., b. 1668 or 1667, d. March 13, 1728-9.
1, Samuel Forman, b. 1686. Will probated at Portsmouth, Rhode Island,
Nov. 4, 1746.
m. first Martha Brownell ; second Mary Reed (?)
2, Jonathan Forman, b. 1688, d. Dec. 28, 1762.
m. Margaret Wyckoff, b. 1693, d. Dec. 21, 1765.
3, Hannah Forman. b. Dec. 24, 1689, d. January 11, 1755, aged 65 years.
m. William Madock.
4, Rebecca Forman, b. 1696, d. Sept. 19, 1748, aged 52.
m.  Van Cleaf (or Van Kleif).
5, Mary Forman, b. 1697.
m.  Romine.
6, Aaron Forman, b. May 22, 1699, d. January 13, 1741-2.
m. Ursula Craig, dau. of Archibald Craig, b. 1705, d. April 4, 1758,
aged 63.
7, (Captain) John Forman, b. Sept. 23, 1701, d. Nov. 25, 1748, aged 47.
m. Jane Wyckoff.
8, Joseph Forman, b. Dec, 1703, d. July 14, 1775.
m. Elizabeth Lee, d. Oct. 15, 1774, aged 64.
9, Ezekiel Forman, b. Nov. 1, 1706, d. Oct. 3, 1746.
m. Elizabeth Seabrooke.
Samuel, the eldest son of Samuel and Mary (Wilbur) Forman, removed from
Monmouth Co., N. J., to Rhode Island. His will mentions no children.
We will now take up in succession the descendants of the other five brothers :
Jonathan, Aaron, Capt. John, Joseph and Ezekiel. Information is comparatively
abundant in regard to the branches descended from Jonathan, Joseph and Ezekiel ;
that in regard to the branches descended from Aaron and Capt. John being, unfor
tunately, very incomplete.

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Descendants of Samuel Forman, High Sheriff, Monmouth Co. New
Jersey, 1695, d. 1740, aged 77.

DESCENDANTS OF JUDGE JONATHAN FORMAN, SECOND SON.
51. Jonathan Forman (1688-1762) was a prosperous farmer and Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas, Monmouth Co., 1745. He and his wife, Margaret Wyckoff,
are buried at the "Old Scots" burying ground four miles from Freehold in a N. E.
direction. It was at the "Old Scots" church that the first Presbytery formed in
America, the Philadelphia Presbytery, convened on Dec. 29, 1706, and ordained the
Rev. John Boyd, the first known pastor of this church. There was, it is said, a prior
meeting of the Presbytery, but this meeting is the first of which record exists.

ABSTRACT OF WILL.
" In the Name of God, Amen. The Twentieth day of June, in the Year of our
Lord, One Thousand Seven hundred and fifty-nine, I, Jonathan Forman of Freehold,
in the County of Monmouth, and Province of New Jersey, Esqr. Being antient and
weak in body but of Perfect mind and memory . . . Firstly, I Give and be
queath unto Margaret my Dearly beloved wife one moiety or half part of my Farm
or Plantation whereon I now dwell, and also one-half of all my buildings, and of
my Negro Men and one Negro woman at her Choice, and her Choice of Two of my beds
with all the Furniture to them belonging that is now in the House, and the one-half
of all my other household Goods belonging to my House, all which I give unto her.
. . . " All this she is to have so long as she remains a widow. If she re
marries, to have choice of one negro woman, of one bed and its "furniture," and of
a riding horse and her side saddle, all for her life, and to be returned after her
death; and divided among all his children, and granddaughter Eleanor Van Dorn,
or such of them as she shall think most deserving, any children of the negro woman
born between his and his wife's death to be disposed of in like manner. The negro
children Tone and Nan are given to her to give to any of his children that she
wishes. To son Samuel Forman, besides what he has already had, ten pounds in
money, and after testator's wife's death, negro boy called Ninos. To son John For
man, besides what he has had the sum of ten pounds. To son Peter, a tract of land.
To the three youngest children of deceased son Jonathan Forman, Jr., sum of sixty
pounds, or twenty to each as they reach age of 21, but if eldest son when he comes
of age, shall give his youngest brother and two sisters such a share of their father's
estate as shall please testator's executors, then the sixty pounds to be divided among
the four, and the eldest son shall share in what was designed for Jonathan Forman,

74 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
Jr., in testator's brother Samuel's estate. To daughter Mary, wife of Robert Rhe,
one hundred pounds to be paid one year after death of testator and his wife. To
granddaughter Eleanor Van Dorn one good feather bed and "furniture," two cows
and their calves, ten sheep, the negro boy called Mack, one cupboard or desk, one
riding horse or mare, and ten pounds, to purchase necessaries for housekeeping, all
to be to her at the time of her marriage, also one hundred pounds two years after
death of testator and wife, also to have use of her room in the house, and of a seat
in pew in the new meeting house until she is married. To son David all lands in
New Jersey except that above bequeathed, and a cedar swamp hereafter mentioned
and one-half personal estate in New Jersey, not herein bequeathed, also all debts
due to testator at his decease, and negro men Titus and Tom to enable him to pay
debts and legacies. To son Samuel Forman, one-third of lands in New England,
bequeathed by brother Samuel deceased, the remaining two-thirds to be divided
among the other children, the three youngest children of deceased son Jonathan to
have their father's share unless the eldest son comply with above condition, in which
case he is to share also. As to the 62 acres of land at Portsmouth, Rhode Island,
which deceased brother Samuel left to be divided between brothers Joseph and
Ezekiel, they to pay legacies to the three sisters, Hannah Madock, Mary Romine,
and Rebecca, of fifty pounds New York money, Ezekiel having died before Samuel
and bequest to him becoming void, and testator as heir at law to that part, having
paid one-half of said legacies to the sisters, and the land having been sold by Joseph
and Jonathan and the legacies having been paid in full; testator believing it was
Samuel's wish that Ezekiel's children should enjoy what was bequeathed to him,
although it was not bequeathed to his children since Ezekiel had no child at the
time Samuel made his will, therefore the remainder of the money after the payment
of said legacies is bequeathed as follows: To Samuel (son of Ezekiel), eighty pounds
on Oct. 28, 1759; to Thomas (son of Ezekiel), seventy pounds on Dec. 18, 1761; to
Aaron (son of Ezekiel), seventy pounds on Feb. 4, 1767; to Ezekiel (son of Ezekiel)
seventy pounds on April 7, 1 768, all to be paid by testator's son David, in money of
New Jersey, at eight shillings the ounce, in which currency all the legacies are to
be paid. If any of Ezekiel's sons shall die before the age of 21, or before they have
lawful heirs, then such son's share to be divided among the survivors. To all
testator's sons is left Cedar Swamp, above Cedar Bridge, on a branch of Matetecunck
River. All parts of personal estate not bequeathed to go to son David, to help pay
debts and legacies. If granddaughter Eleanor Van Dorn dies unmarried, share to
be returned to estate and divided among the children. Executors: Wife, Margaret
sons, Samuel and Peter.
Witnessed by four persons. Signed, Jonn Forman.
Codicil June 6, 1761. Ten pounds additional to son Peter, also negro boy Toney
at testator's wife's discretion or decease. To daughter Mary, wife of Robert Rhe, a
negro girl named Nanny, and a negro woman named Franck, to daughter Mary and
son David. To wife Margaret for her life, all household goods except watch and
best gun, same to be divided after her decease, between daughter Mary Rhe and
granddaughter Eleanor Van Dorn, negroes not included in household goods. To

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The Old Tennent Parsonage, on the Monmouth Battle Ground.

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son David, farm utensils, and watch, and gun. Horses, cattle and sheep not before
bequeathed, to be equally divided between sons now living. To son Samuel, 16J
acres land in Freetown, in New England.
Three witnesses. Signed, Jonn Forman.
Probated January 20, 1763.
Recorded in Liber H, of Wills, pages 215, &c.
The late Judge William P. Forman of Manalapan, N. J., stated in his little book
that in the account book of Judge Jonathan Forman (his great-great-grandfather) is
the following record under date of April 29, 1729 : "Then weighed the old iron and
" nails of the court house and jail, the old court house and jail having been burned
" down, per John Little, Esq., and Jonathan Forman. Weight of iron 320 pounds,
" and nails 84 pounds." In the same book are included accounts of Peter Forman
(great-grandfather of Judge William P. Forman) after his father's decease. "It
" seems they were owners of a large tract of timber land in what is called the
" Forman neighborhood, and that they carried on an extensive manufactory of flour
" barrels, which were in great demand at that time, as the book shows that many
" thousands were furnished to the flouring mills for considerable distances." A list
of the owners of thirty-two mills then follows. Peter Forman was, it would appear
from a small book owned by his descendant, treasurer of the old Tennent church
which still stands on the Monmouth battlefield. " His report, May 29, 1755, shows
" that payment for the pews if not paid was to be on interest after May 1, 1753.
" This would seem to imply that the church was finished about the year 1753. The
" Formans were largely represented, and took nearly one-tenth of the pews : Samuel
" Forman and David Rhea took No. 10 ; Peter Forman, my great-grandfather, No.
"11; Jonathan Forman, Esq., No. 24; Joseph Forman, No. 27; Lewis Forman, No.
" 43 ; John Forman, No. 18. My grandfather, William Forman, informed me some
" sixty years ago, that his father, Peter, led the singing in the church for some years
" after it was first used for public worship."
Judge Jonathan Forman's eldest son, Samuel, and youngest son, David, mar
ried daughters of Teunis Denise. a prominent man of a well known Long Island
family. The six daughters of Teunis Denise married in Monmouth Co., and three
of them married Formans. An account will later be given of Samuel, the eldest
son of Judge Jonathan. He lived at Middletown Point, (now Matawan), and the
house still stood in 1901.
Peter, the second son, was a Justice of the Peace at the time of the Revolu
tion, as shown by his commission, signed by Gov. Livingston, which was in the pos
session of his great grandson, Judge William P. Forman. The latter printed in
1885, a little book on the family, which contains much interesting information, but
gives a mistaken account of the origin of the family. Peter Forman was one of the
pew holders in the old Tennent church of which others of the family were members.
David Forman, the youngest son of Judge Jonathan, was commissioned Sheriff
Oct. 10, 1780, and with Peter Wyckoff acted as guide at the battle of Monmouth in
1778. He lived in the homestead which still exists, and stands about a mile and a
half N. E. of Freehold. It is now the residence of Mr. Charle s Forman, great-

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grandson of Sheriff David Forman. Sheriff David Forman and General David For
man were first cousins and intimate friends. A lady who is descended from the
former writes: "Both being prominent men, to distinguish them the General was
called 'Devil David,' because of his dauntless spirit and indomitable will, and
Sheriff David was called 'Black David,' being of dark complexion and hair — the
General was fair. This is contrary to all the statements I have seen in history
(with one exception), but I have always understood that this is correct." From
Sheriff David are descended most of the Formans who now live in Monmouth Co.
He and his wife and the succeeding generations that lived in the country are buried
at "Old Tennent" church.
52. Jonathan Forman, son of Samuel and Mary (Wilbur) Forman, b. 1688,
d. Dec. 28, 1762, aged 74.
m. Margaret Wyckoff, b. 1693, d. Dec. 21, 1765, aged 72.

H

1, Eleanor Forman, b. 1713, d. May 22, 1733, aged 20.
m. Abraham Van Dorn.
2, Samuel Forman, b. Nov. 13, 1714, d. January 18, 1792.
m. May 26, 1752, Helena Denise, b. March 17, 1728, d. Jany 22, 1789.
3, John Forman, b. Sept. 14, 1716, d. 1799.
m. Rebecca Taylor.
4, Peter Forman, b. May, 1719, d. Sept. 8, 1785, aged 66.
m. Eleanor Williamson, b. 1720, d. Nov. 6, 1771, aged 51.
5, Jonathan Forman, b. 1722, d. May 20, 1758, aged 36.
m. Sarah Throckmorton (?), dau. of John Throckmorton. — children.
See paragraph 151.
6, Mary Forman.
m. Robert Rhea.
7, William Forman, b. Feb. 20, 1729, d. 1735.
8, David Forman, b. Oct. 1, 1733, d. March 30, 1812.
m. first, June 16, 1757, Anne Denise (half sister to Helena Denise,
above mentioned) b. June 16, 1736, d. Sept. 9, 1798 ; m. second, Dec.
4, 1799, Elinor Van Brunt (widow).
53. Samuel Forman, son of Jonathan and Margaret (Wyckoff) Forman, b.
Nov. 13, 1714, d. Jan'y 18, 1792.
m. 1752, Helena Denise, dau. of Teunis Denise, b. Mch. 17, 1728, d.
Jan'y 22, 1789.

H

1, Catherine Forman, b. April 29, 1753, d. at Aurora, N. Y., July 22, 1799.
m. January 22, 1775, Benjamin Ledyard, of Groton, Conn., who be
came Major in Revolutionary army — son of Youngs Ledyard — b.
1753, d. 1803.— 10 children.

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2, Jonathan Forman, b. Oct. 16, 1755, d. at Pompey Hill, Onondaga Co.,
N. Y., May 25, 1809. (See account of his life to be given later.
m. Apl. 2, 1781, Mary Ledyard, dau. of Youngs Ledyard, of Groton,
Conn., b. Sept. 3, 1758, d. at Cazenovia, N. Y., May 31, 1806.
3, Margaret Forman, b. July 28, 1758, d. July 14, 1 787.
m. John Burrowes, Jr., who became a Major in the Revolutionary army,
later drowned in St. Mary's River, Florida.
4, Denise Forman, b. July 22, 1761.
m. Euphemia Kearny, dau. of Major Thomas Kearny, officer in King
George's army. They had no children and died within a day of
each other.
5, Eleanor Forman, b. Nov. 2, 1763, d. Sept. 1, 1850.
m. Philip Freneau (the poet).
6, Mary Forman, d. in infancy.
7, Samuel S. Forman, b. July 6, 1767 (or 1765), d. at Syracuse, N. Y., 1862.
m. Sarah McCarty of New London, Conn.
8, Helena Forman, d. in infancy.

GENERAL JONATHAN FORMAN.
54. General Jonathan Forman (1755-1809) was the eldest son of Samuel
and Helena Denise Forman of Middletown Point, and grandson of Judge Jonathan
and Margaret (Wyckoff) Forman. After serving as an officer in Heard's Militia
Brigade, he became on Dec. 1, 1776, Captain in the New Jersey Continental Line,
and served with distinction in the line throughout the war. He took part in Sul
livan's expedition against the Six Nations to punish them for the massacre of Wyom
ing ; was in Virginia under Lafayette ; at Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown ; was
promoted in November, 1781, from Captain to Major Third Regiment, New Jersey
Line; and was placed in command of the battalion of light infantry in August,
1782 ; commanded successively posts at Dobbs Ferry, at Stony Point, and on the
Croton River later in 1782 ; and was promoted to Lieut.-Colonel, Second Regiment,
in February, 1783, and served until the close of the war. In June, 1783, he was
elected Vice President of the New Jersey Branch of the Society of the Cincinnati at
its organization. In 1794 he headed a regiment against the Whiskey Insurgents. He
removed in 1796 from New Jersey to Cazenovia, New York, where he became Brig
adier General in the militia and was a member of the legislature.
In 1796 central New York was a new country. It is said that "there was
then no carriage road and in many places they were obliged to use axes to make
their way in that direction. It is said that the carriage of Col. Forman was the
first conveyance of the kind that passed beyond the site of Whitestown. He drove
to Chittenango, and the family went thence to Cazenovia on horseback."
Jonathan Forman was a man of very attractive personality, of a warm and
tender heart, and much beloved, as well as a good soldier. The family tradition is

78 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
that at the time of the Whiskey Insurrection of 1794, Washington, who had not
seen him for many years, said on meeting him just before the expedition started :
"Colonel Forman, you are always first on the field of duty."
General Jonathan Forman, son of Samuel and Helena (Denise) Forman, b.
1755, d. 1809. m. 1781, Mary Ledyard, dau. of Youngs Ledyard, of Groton, Conn.

H

1, Helena Forman, b. Nov. 8, 1782, d. Sept. 3, 1783.
2, Mary Ledyard Forman, b Feb. 18, 1785.
m. Henry Seymour.
Henry Seymour.
m. January 1, 1807, Mary Ledyard Forman, dau. of Gen. Jonathan
Forman.

r1

1, Mary Forman Seymour.
m. Rutger Bleecker Miller, of Utica — children now living:
Henry, Blandina D., Helen L. Miller, Mrs. A. H. Green.
2, Horatio Seymour (Governor of New York).
m. Mary Bleecker, of Albany — no children.
3, Sophia Appolina Seymour.
m. Edward F. Shonnard, of Yonkers — only child, Frederic.
4, John F. Seymour.
m. Frances Antill Tappan, of New Haven and New York — children:
Horatio, m. Abigail Adams Johnson, and lives at Marquette, L. S.
Michigan; and Mary Ledyard Seymour, who m. Dr. W. E. Ford,
of Utica, N. Y.
5, Helen Clarissa Seymour.
m. Ledyard Lincklaen of Cazenovia, N. Y. — only child married Hon.
Charles S. Fairchild, of New York, who was Secretary of the
Treasury in the first administration of President Cleveland.
6, Julia Catherine Seymour.
m. Hon. Roscoe Conkling, U. S. Senator from New York, — only child
is Mrs. W. G. Oakman, New York.

THE LEDYARD FAMILY.
Benjamin Ledyard who married Catherine Forman, and Mary Ledyard who
married Gen. Jonathan Forman, were children of Youngs Ledyard and grand
children of John Ledyard, an Englishman of good family and education who emi
grated to America. A sketch of the family with a genealogy, written by Mr. John
Austin Stevens, may be found in the Magazine of American History, volume 7.
Benjamin Ledyard was Major in McDougall's First New York Regiment in

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the Revolution. His first cousin, John Ledyard, was a well-known traveler, accom
panied the celebrated Captain Cook on his last voyage, and wrote an account of the
expedition. Col. William Ledyard who was killed at the taking of Fort Griswold in
1781 was Major Benjamin Ledyard's uncle.

GOVERNOR HORATIO SEYMOUR.
Horatio Seymour was the son of Henry Seymour and Mary Ledyard Forman,
his wife. She was the daughter of Gen. Jonathan Forman. Governor Seymour was
one of the most prominent men of his time and a volume would be required to give
an account of his life. He was born at Pompey Hill, Onondaga Co., N. Y., May 31,
1810, was admitted to the bar in 1832 but never practiced. In 1841 he entered the
legislature, becoming Speaker in 1845. He was Governor of New York 1853-1855
and again 1863-1865. In 1868 he was nominated for the Presidency by the Demo
cratic party, but was defeated by Gen. Grant, the Republican candidate. He died
at Utica Feb. 12, 1886.
55. Philip Freneau, b. January 2, Old Style, 1752, d. Dec. 18, 1832, aged
80 years, 11 months and 16 days.
m. 1789, Eleanor, dau. of Samuel and Helena (Denise) Forman.

r1

1, Helen Denise Freneau.
m. Dec. 15, 1816, John Hammill, a merchant of New York. Children:
four daughters, none of whom left descendants.
2, Agnes Watson Freneau.
m. Nov. 25, 1816, Edward Leadbeater, a merchant of New York, of a
prominent family in Co. Cavan, Ireland, a graduate of Trinity
College, Dublin, and formerly a surgeon in the British Army. He
died March 28, 1832, in his 48th or 49th year. Children: two
sons and four daughters, all of whom married, and there are
many descendants.
3, Catherine Ledyard Freneau, unmarried.
4, Margaret Freneau, unmarried.
Note : The recent biography of Philip Freneau, the "Poet of the Revolu
tion," by Miss Mary S. Austin, gives many hitherto unknown facts in regard to his
life, as well as much information as to his ancestry and descendants. Freneau's
talents as a poet (which were considerable) were very valuable to the American
cause. He saw some military service also, having been at the battle of Germantown,
according to his brother-in-law, Major Samuel S. Forman. His name appears on
page 465 of Gen. Stryker's roster of troops, and the "Monmouth Inquirer," quoted
at page 208 of the biography, speaks of him as "a good soldier."

80 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.

MAJOR SAMUEL S. FORMAN.

56. Samuel S. Forman, the youngest son of Samuel and Helena (Denise)
Forman, was born at Middletown Point, (now Matawan) July 6, 1767 (or 1765). He
accompanied his cousin Ezekiel Forman when the latter removed to the Natchez
country in 1789, and in his later years wrote an account of the expedition, which was
published in the Historical Magazine for December, 1869, with notes by Mr. Charles C.
Dawson. In 1888 it was printed from a slightly different version, and abridged as
a "Narrative of a Journey down the Ohio and Mississippi," in a small volume edited
by Dr. Lyman C. Draper, who had apparently not seen the earlier appearance of the
work. It is a very interesting account of travel in the then west, and is otherwise
valuable. In the "Narrative," Major Forman refers to his cousin as "uncle" on
account of the difference in their ages. In a private letter Major Forman stated
that there were no less than twelve Samuel Formans living in Monmouth Co., at the
same time — the latter part of the eighteenth century, and to avoid confusion each
assumed the name of his father as a middle name.
At the commencement of the War of the Revolution, writes Major Forman,
his father Samuel Forman was a merchant and owned a large landed estate, and
took an active part in the defence of the country. As Middletown Point was as it
were on the frontier of the enemy, he was very much harassed by them — the Tories
making frequent depredatory incursions, and ransacked and plundered his house,
burned his valuable mills and other buildings. He also suffered much by continental
money. The eldest son of Samuel Forman was General Jonathan Forman, whose career
already been described. Denise, the second son, was at the battle of Germantown,
in the New Jersey militia, was later taken prisoner with Philip Freneau, on a
privateer owned by the latter and remained a long time a prisoner on board a prison
ship in New York harbor. He and Freneau were exchanged and were perfect
skeletons when they returned home. Samuel Forman's youngest son was Samuel S.,
who could just remember the Tories running their bayonets through the feather
beds in search of his father. Samuel S. Forman witnessed the evacuation of New
York, by the British, Nov. 25, 1783, having gone to New York to enter the
employ of the firm composed of his brother-in-law, Major Benjamin Ledyard,
and Col. Benjamin Walker, who were engaged in the wholesale hardware
and commission business, selling West India produce. Before he was 21, he
he was sent to Charleston, S. O, as supercargo of a vessel loaded with flour. He
acquitted himself so well of this task that his cousin Gen. David Forman engaged
him to accompany Ezekiel Forman, the General's brother, on his journey to Natchez
in 1789-90. After his. return from Natchez, Major Forman witnessed in Philadelphia
the second inauguration of President Washington. "In 1793," writes Mr. Dawson,
" he engaged with Messrs. Cazenove and Lincklaen, agents of the Holland Land
Co., to assist in disposing of the company's lands in New York, lying near the centre
of the state. Large quantities of staple goods, farming implements, &c. were for
warded to the proposed new settlement, which was named by the Major, Cazenovia,
in honor of one of his employers." He also named Delphi in the same county.

Mrs. Eleanor Forman Haxkinson.
Daughter of William and Eleanor (Williamson) Forman.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 81
" Having organized a military company at Cazenovia, he was appointed by Gov. Jay
Major of the regiment to which it was attached. He carried on a mercantile busi
ness at Cazenovia for many years, and held many places of private and public trust.
He removed to Onondaga Co., about 1808, in which year he married Miss Sarah
McCarty, of Salina. His only children were a son who died in infancy, and a
daughter Mary Euphemia, who married Dr. Abraham Van Gaasbeck, of Syracuse,
N. Y. Major Forman had an extensive acquaintance with public men, and was
related by birth and marriage to many persons of distinction. He was a man of
good conversational abilities, sound judgment, generous disposition, and fine social
feelings. His mental faculties were retained in a remarkable degree to extreme old
age." He died at his daughter's residence at Syracuse, August 18, 1862.
Mary Euphemia Forman, only child of Major Samuel S. Forman, married;
first, Rensselaer van Rensselaer; second, Dr. A. van Gaasbeck. There were no
children of either marriage.
57. Peter Forman, second son of Judge Jonathan and Margaret (Wyckoff)
Forman, b. 1718, d. 1785.
m. 1742, Eleanor Williamson.
Children, (according to Judge Wm. P. Forman's book) :
1, William Forman, b. 1751, d. 1823.
m. Fransinchy Hendrickson, b. 1759, d. 1815, dau. of Garrett and Cath
erine (Denise) Hendrickson, of Middletown.
2, Jonathan Forman, m.  s. p.
3, Samuel P. Forman, (several times High Sheriff of Monmouth Co.)
m.  . Children: Peter Forman, (High Sheriff of Hunterdon Co.)
Michael Forman, and some daughters.
4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, — daughters, all of whom married, and whose names
are given in Judge Wm. P. Forman's book.
58. William Forman, son of Peter and Eleanor (Williamson) Forman, b.
1751, d. 1823. m. Fransinchy Hendrickson.
Children :
1, Garrett Forman, b. 1778, d. 1825.
m. Anna Karr.
2, Peter Forman, b. 1781, d. 1838.
m. 1st, Rebecca Ely, dau. of Isaac Ely.
m. 2nd, Phoebe, dau. of Allison Ely, no children.
3, Catherine Forman, d. 1873, unmarried, aged 83.
4, Eleanor Forman.
m. Lewis Ford Hankinson, — children.
5, Jonathan Forman, removed to the West, d. aged 74, unmarried.
6, Samuel William Forman, b. 1794, d. 1875.
m. 1st, Mary Clayton.
m. 2nd, Mrs. Mary W. Clark.

82 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
59. Garrett Forman, son of William and Fransinchy (Hendrickson) Forman,
b. January 4, 1778, d. July 14, 1825.
m. Anna Karr, dau. of Ebenezer Karr.
Children :
1, Fransinchy Forman, b. Nov. 30, 1800.
m. 1st, Josiah Van Schoick.
m, 2nd, John M. Rue.
2, Ebenezer Forman, b. Dec. 15, 1802.
m. 1st, Mary Johnson.
m. 2nd, Nancy Gaston.
3, Esther Forman, b. June 14, 1805.
m. Peter Cadmus.
4, Lydia Ann Forman, b. July 20, 1807.
m. Jacob Johnson.
5, William Forman, b. January 1, 1810, d. Dec. 23, 1889.
m. Martha Phillips — son Ralph Forman, b. Oct. 11, 1839, married, s. p.
6, Jonathan Forman, b. January 15, 1812.
m. 1st, Mary Lampson.
m. 2nd, Sally Peck.
7, Phebe Forman, b. Aug. 15, 1814., m. Silas Peck.
8, Elizabeth Forman, b. Oct. 14, 1818, d. Dec. 3, 1889.
m. Richard Buckelew. Children: 1, William; 2, Spafford.
9, Catherine Forman, b. Aug. 14, 1821.
m. Duren Way.
60. Fransinchy Forman, dau. of Garrett and Anna (Karr) Forman, b. Nov.
30, 1800, at Blacksmills, Monmouth Co., N. J., d. March 16, 1866, at Prospect
Plains, N. J. m. 1st, January 31, 1822, Josiah Van Schoick.
m. 2nd, April, 1833, John M. Rue.
Children by 1st marriage :
1, Hannah Van Schoick, b. Freehold, May 8, 1824, d. Smithburg, N. J.,
May 17, 1832.
2, Ann Van Schoick, b. Freehold, April 6, 1826, d. Cranbury Station,
Nov. 7, 1895.
m. May 17, 1843, Augustus Anderson.
3, Margaret Hance Van Schoick, b. Shrewsbury, N. J., May 23, 1828.
m. 1st, May 12, 1852, La Rue Craig Dye.
m. 2nd, Feb. 8, 1892, William McKnight Smith.
4, David Van Schoick, b. Freehold, April 16, 1830, d. Smithburg, N. J.,
April 29, 1832.
5, Mary Eliza Van Schoick, b. Feb. 12, 1832, d. Freehold, January 1, 1885.
m. Nov. 28, 1854, Peter Bowen Van Schoick.

Ebenezer Forman.
b. 1802.
Paragraph 61.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 83
Children by 2nd marriage :
6, Sarah Rue, b. Freehold, May 5, 1834, d. Manalapan Dec. 27, 1893.
m. January 2, 1855, Jacob Edwards.
7, Lydia Rue, b. Monmouth Co., N. J., March 31, 1836.
m. Dec. 7, 1853, Thomas J. Hyatt.
8, Martha Rue, b. Monmouth Co., N. J., March 5, 1838, d. Manalapan,
Dec. 20, 1881.
m. Feb. 14, 1866, Peter Forman Perrine. No children.
9, John I. Rue, b. Monmouth Co., N. J., March 1, 1840, d. Marlboro,
N. J., Sept. 21, 1896.
m. Dec. 7, 1865, Adaline Armstrong. One child, Elizabeth Armstrong
Rue.
10, FTansinchy Rue, b. Monmouth Co., N. J., July 12, 1842.
m. Feb. 12, 1868, Edward Hendrickson. Children : 1, Arthur Hoxey
Hendrickson ; 2, Elizabeth Wyckoff Hendrickson.
Augustus Anderson.
m. May 17, 1843, Ann, dau. of Josiah and Fransinchy (Forman) Van
Schoick.
Children: (All born at Manalapan, Monmouth Co., N. J.)
1, Mary Cook Anderson, b. Feb. 28, 1844, d. April 1, 1844.
2, Margaret Ann Anderson, b. Aug. 21, 1845.
m. Dec. 6, 1865, Ancil Gilbert Dey — children: Augustus Anderson
Dey, b. 1866, andBertrand Harry Dey, b. 1876.
3, Helen Wilson Anderson, b. Jan'y 7, 1848, d. Feb. 3, 1848.
4, Lydia Maria Anderson, b. April 28, 1849, d. N. Y. City, Jan'y 30, 1899.
5, John Rue Anderson, b. Oct. 20, 1851, d. West Freehold, Aug. 18, 1900.
m. March 2, 1875, Sarah Clayton — children: Ira Ulman Anderson, b.
1876, and Karl Augustus Anderson, b. 1880.
6, Stephen Perrine Anderson, b. Feb. 9, 1854, d. N. Y. City, Dec. 12, 1899.

m.

7, Fransichy Rue Anderson, b. July 21, 1856.
m. 
8, Helen Wilson Anderson, b. June 9, 1859.
m. Feb. 15, 1894, Frederick Perrine — child, Stephen Anderson Perrine,
b. Princeton, 1896.
La Rue Craig Dye.
m. May 12, 1852, Margaret Hance Van Schoick, dau. of Josiah and
Fransinchy (Forman) Van Schoick.
Children, (all born in New York City) :
1, Julia Agnes Dye, b. Feb. 6, 1853, d. N. Y. City, July 4, 1853.
2, Charles Augustus Dye, b. Sept. 26, 1854, d. May 14, 1855.

84 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
3, Garrett Forman Dye, b. Aug. 18, 1856, d. July 1, 1858.
4, Martha Rue Dye, b. Nov. 26, 1858.
5, Maggie Dye, b. Dec. 20, 1862, d. January 31, 1864.
6, La Rue Dye, b. January 7, 1869, d. Barre, Mass., Dec. 9, 1878.
Peter Bowen Van Schoick.
m. Nov. 28, 1854, Mary Eliza, dau. of Josiah and Fransinchy (Forman)
Van Schoick.
Children (of whom the first three were b. in Marlboro, N. J.):
1, Emma Van Schoick b. Dec. 1, 1856.
m. Oct. 16, 1879, Alonzo B. Magee. Children: Henry Lester Magee,
Bertram, Viola, Alonzo and Howard.
2, Samuel Van Schoick, b. March 28, 1859, d. the following day.
3, John Rue Van Schoick, b. Aug. 25, 1860, d. Feb. 27, 1863.
4, Charles Van Schoick, b. Prospect Plains, Middlesex Co., N. J., Oct.
13, 1864, d. Oct. 10, 1872.
5, Howard Schenck Van Schoick, b. Gravel Hill, Middlesex Co., N. J.,
July 7, 1867.
m. Nov. 25, 1887, Cornelia May West. Children: Florence and Howard.
Jacob Edwards. m. January 2, 1855, Sarah, dau. of John M. and Fransinchy (For
man) Rue.
Children (of whom all except the fourth were b. in Monmouth Co., N. J.):
1, Matilda Edwards, b. Sept. 16, 1855.
m. 
2, John Rue Edwards, b. June 18, 1857, d. April 14, 1881.
3, Charles Augustus Edwards, b. Aug. 7, 1861.
m. Aug. 23, 1890, Emma Louise Mount. Children : Luella and Harriet.
4, Laura Edwards, b. N. Y. City, Aug. 4, 1863.

m.

5, Frank C. Edwards, b. April 6, 1872.
6, Lemuel Freeman Edwards, b. Sept. 1, 1875.
m. Dec. 31, 1897,  . Child: Mildred.
7, Harry Edwards, b. January 1, 1878.
8, Jacob Edwards, b. June 28, 1881.
Thomas J. Hyatt.
m. Dec. 7, 1853, Lydia, dau. of John M. and Fransinchy (Forman) Rue.
Children :
1, Thomas Sherlock Hyatt, b. N. Y. City, Dec. 1, 1854, d. Feb. 23, 1863.
2, Mary Frances Hyatt, b. N! Y. City, Oct. 10, 1856.
m. June 26, 1877, Stephen Davison Day. Child: Thomas Hyatt Day.

Garrett Forman.
(1S29-1901)

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 85
3, Lydia Rue Hyatt, b. Brooklyn, Aug. 15, 1858, d. Jersey City, April
11, 1895.
m. May, 1886, Robert N. Cherry.
61. Ebenezer Forman, son of Garrett and Anna (Karr) Forman, b. Dec.
15, 1802. m. 1st, Mary Johnson.
m. 2nd, Nancy Gaston. No children by 2nd marriage.
Children by 1st marriage :
1, Mary Ann Forman, b. Manalapan, N. J., Nov. 16, 1827, d. Bristol,
N. Y., Nov. 8, 1865.
m. March 18, 1851, Josephus Wheaton.
2, Garrett Forman, b. Gorham, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1829, d. Bayonne, N. J.,
Oct. 29, 1901.
m. January 10, 1861, Abigail Voorhees.
3, Esther Forman, b. July 12, 1834, at Gorham, N. Y.
m. Nov. 25, 1855, Alvah Wheaton.
4, Lydia Forman, b.  , 1836, at Gorham, N. Y., d. Sept. 8, 1896, at
Niles, Mich.
m. 1st, Edwin McCumber.
m. 2nd, April, 1877, Richard Thomas.
m. 3rd, April 5, 1887, Augustus Woodford.
Josephus Wheaton, b. Swansea, Mass., Dec. 15, 1824.
m. March 18, 1851, Mary Ann, dau. of Ebenezer and Mary (Johnson)
Forman.
Children: 1, William Henry Wheaton, b. Gorham, N. Y., April 16, 1852, d. Oct.
30, 1881.
m. Nov. 24, 1877, Alice Albina Hurlbert — son: Clarence R. Wheaton,
b. Bristol, N. Y, Oct. 14, 1878.
2, Garrett Forman Wheaton, b. Bristol, N. Y., Dec. 1858.
m. May 10, 1883, Mira Kempton Davis — children: 1, Mabel Kent
Wheaton; 2, Florence Elsie; 3, James David; 4, Ruth Esther; and
5, Lois Anna Wheaton.
3, Anna Marie Wheaton, b. Bristol, N. Y., Aug. 10, 1863.
m. Nov. 10, 1885, Anthony Reuben Tufts, b. March 9, 1857— children:
1, Howard Wheaton Tufts; 2, Helen Elizabeth Tufts, both born
at Canandaigua, N. Y.
Garrett Forman, son of Ebenezer and Mary (Johnson) Forman, b. Aug. 11,
1829, d. Oct. 29, 1901.
m. Jan'y 10, 1861, Abigail Voorhees.

86 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
Children, (all born at Englishtown, N. J.)
1, Charles H. Forman, b. Jan'y 27, 1862, d. Sept. 13, 1862.
2, Archibald Cobb Forman, M. D., b. Dec. 24, 1864.
m. June 2, 1898, Anna Regina Love.
3, Alvah Wheaton Forman, b. April 8, 1866; resides at Bayonne, N.J.
m. Oct. 19, 1892, Emma Chamberlain — children, 1, Archibald Cham
berlain Forman; 2, Helen Forman; 3, Margaret, d. in infancy.
4, Helen Wilson Forman.
m. Jany. 1, 1901, Samuel Conover Laird.
5, Mary Anna Cobb Forman.
m. March 20, 1895, George Dobson Vandenbergh — son, Garrett For
man Vandenbergh, b. June 22, 1896, at Englishtown.
6, Caroline Lewis Forman, d. in childhood.
Alvah Wheaton, b. Bristol, N. Y, Aug. 12, 1833.
m. Nov. 25, 1855, Esther, dau. of Ebenezer and Mary (Johnson) For
man.
Children: 1, Eva Wheaton, b. Bristol, N. Y., Nov. 27, 1856, d. there May 26, 1875.
m. Jan'y 1, 1874,  Hotchkiss.
2, Carrie Wheaton, b. Bristol, N. Y., July 4, 1865.
m. 1st, April 5, 1882, Charles Arthur Bacon — Children : 1, Harry Wil
liam Bacon, b. South Bend, Ind., 1884; 2, Isabelle Morgan Bacon,
b. St. Joseph, Mich.
m. 2nd, Dec. 1, 1897, Harry Edwin Hurd.
3, Helen Wheaton, b. May 20, 1869, d. Jan'y 1, 1875.
4, Sadie Wheaton, b. Sept. 7, 1875, d. Sept. 19; 1876.
62. Peter Cadmus, b. Passaic, N. J., April 19, 1805, d. April 3, 1895.
m. Dec. 25, 1829, Esther, dau. of Garrett and Anna (Karr) Forman, b.
Freehold, N. J., June 14, 1805, d. Aug. 1, 1894.
Children: 1, Andrew Louis Cadmus, b. Gorham, N. Y., Nov. 25, 1830, served four
years in Civil War.
m. July 4, 1867, Emeline Frisby — 5 children.
2, Phebe Ann Cadmus, b. Colebrook, Ohio, Jan'y 25, 1833, d. May 9, 1857.
3, Jonathan Forman Cadmus, b. Colebrook, Feb. 13, 1835.
m. 1863, Martha Bartholomew — 6 children.
4, Penelope Cadmus, b. Colebrook, May 30, 1837, d. Dec. 29, 1852.
5, Sybil Cadmus, b. Austinburg, Ohio, June 1, 1839, d. Jan'y 25, 1869.
m. 1863, Lee Parks— dau. Flora Parks, d. 1878.
6, John Henry Cadmus, b. Austinburg, Nov. 17, 1841, served two years
in Civil War, d. Sept. 4, 1872.

Mrs. Esther Forman Cadmus.
(1805-1894)

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. } 87
7, Thomas Edgar Cadmus, b. Austinburg, Aug. 29, 1843, d. 1900.
m. Alice Young of Harpersfield, Ohio, and removed to Sunrise City,
Minn. — 4 children: 1, Harry; 2, Jerome; 3, Sybil; 4, Carrie.
8, Amos Cadmus, b. Austinburg, April 27, 1847, d. March 12, 1848.
9, Frank Amos Cadmus, b. Austinburg, March 27, 1851, d. May 23, 1902.
Andrew Louis Cadmus, son of Peter and Esther (Forman) Cadmus, b. Gor
ham, N. Y., Nov. 25, 1830, soldier in the Union Army, resides in Austinburg, Ohio.
m. July 4, 1867, Emeline Frisby.
Children :
1, Mintilla Nancy Cadmus.
m. May 14, 1902, Ernest Jay Green of Austinburg, Ohio.
2, Dora Sybil Cadmus.
3, Elizabeth Lena Cadmus.
m. May 14, 1897, Thomas C. McKee of Springfield, Pa.
4, Richard Henry Cadmus.
5, Victor Andrew Cadmus.
Jonathan Forman Cadmus, son of Peter and Esther (Forman) Cadmus, b.
Colebrook, Ohio, Feb. 13, 1835, resides in Harpersfield, Ohio.
m. 1863, Martha Bartholomew.
Children :
1, Flora Theresa Cadmus.
m. 1887 Salmon Howard of Austinburg, Ohio.
2, Homer Marcus Cadmus, resides in Cleveland, Ohio.
m. 
3, William Henry Cadmus.
m. 1901, Myrtle D. Carmichael.
4, Rosa Grace Cadmus.
5, Blaine Garfield Cadmus ) .
6, Garfield Blaine Cadmus f
63. Jacob Johnson.
m. Lydia Ann, dau. of Garrett and Anna (Karr) Forman, b. July 20,
1807. Children: 1, Ann Maria; 2, Peter; 3, Abraham; 4, Eliza
beth ; 5, Catherine ; 6, Jacob.
64. Jonathan Forman, son of Garrett and Anna (Karr) Forman, b. Free
hold, January 15, 1812. His father died when he was 13 years old. Two years
later he removed with his mother, brothers, and sisters to Gorham, Ontario Co.,
New York, and in 1834 he removed to Colebrook, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, afterwards
to Troy, Geauga Co., Ohio, and in 1853 to Austinburg, Ohio, where he d. April
10, 1883.

88 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
m. 1st, July 4, 1839, Mary Lampson, b. Windsor, Ohio, Oct. 11, 1817,
d. July 26, 1844.
m. 2nd, March 5, 1845, Sally Peck, b. New Lyme, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1819.
Children by 1st marriage :
1, William Henry Forman, b. Troy, Ohio, Oct. 8, 1840, served 3 years in
Civil War; was on Sherman's "March to the Sea"; resides in
Peoria, Illinois.
m. March 7, 1865, Roema Wellman.
2, Mary Lucinda Forman, b. Troy, Ohio, January 10, 1843, d. Corry, Pa.,
Aug. 8, 1892.
m. July 4, 1861, Nelson Spencer. Children: 3 daughters.
Children by 2nd marriage :
3, Matthew Grisel Forman, b. Troy, Ohio, Aug. 26, 1846.
m. 1st, July 4, 1877, Sarah Callaway.
m. 2nd, April 18, 1894, Mrs. Ann McDougal.
4, Louisa Diana Forman, resides at Austinburg, Ohio.
m. Nov. 12, 1887, Newton Merrill of Andover, Ohio, d. 1892.
5, Sarah Ann Forman.
6, Estella Bertha Forman.
7, Cassius Clay Forman, resides in Austinburg, Ohio.
m. January 1, 1887, Alice Coup. Son, Jonathan Coup Forman, b.
Sept. 30, 1887.
William Henry Forman, son of Jonathan and Mary (Lampson) Forman, b.
Troy, Ohio, Oct. 8, 1840; soldier in Union army, removed to Geneva, Ohio, is now
living in Peoria, Illinois.
m. Mch. 7, 1865, Roema Wellman.
Children: 1, Eva Forman.
m. July 26, 1893, Charles Wood.
2, Ethel Forman, twin sister of above, d. in infancy.
3, Ethelyn Forman, d. in infancy.
4, Florence Forman.
Matthew Grisel Forman, son of Jonathan and Sally (Peck) Forman, b. Troy,
Ohio, Aug. 26, 1846, resides in Austinburg, Ohio.
m. 1st July 4, 1877, Sarah Callaway, d. Aug. 1, 1891.
m. 2d April 18, 1894, Mrs. Ann McDougal.
Children by first marriage:
1, Earl Gains Forman.
2, Ruth Joan Forman.
m. Nov. 26, 1897, Philip Becker of Warren, Ohio.

William P. Forman.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 89
3, LaRue Dye Forman.
4, Glenn Matthew Forman, died aged 8 years.
5, Blanche Irene Forman.
6, Ethel Ernestine Forman.
7, Matthew Forman, d. in infancy.
65. Silas Peck.
m. Phebe Forman, dau. of Garrett and Anna (Karr) Forman, b. Aug.
15, 1814, d. April 2, 1895.
Children :
1, Helen Peck, b. New Lyme, Ohio, 1838, d. 1897.
m. John Fillmore.
2, Ninette Peck.
m. William Kelsey.
66. Catherine Forman, dau. of Garrett and Anna (Karr) Forman, b. Free
hold, N. J., Aug. 14, 1821, d. Oct. 30, 1900.
m. Duren Way, of New Lyme, Ohio.
Children :
1, Jerome Way, b. Colebrook, Ohio, Mch. 30, 1845.
m. Emily Fobes of Wayne, Ohio — children: 1, Wm. Duren Way; 2,
Lynn Jerome Way; 3, Karl Martin Way; 4, Alice Catherine Way.
2, Mary Jennette Way, d. 1876.
m. Byrom M. Barber, of Colebrook.
3, Sarah Ann Way.
m. Sigismar D. Beckwith, of New Lyme — child: Elwin Beckwith.
4, Martin Way.
m. Nellie Smith, of Wayne, Ohio — children: 1, Elizabeth J. Way; 2,
Leland Way.
5, Emma Frances Way. (Superintendent State Normal School, San
Diego, Cal.)
6, Elizabeth Way, d. 1878.
67. Peter Forman, son of William and Fransinchy (Hendrickson) Forman,
b. 1781, d. 1838.
m. 1st, Rebecca Ely.
m. 2nd, Phoebe Ely.
Children by first marriage:
1, William P. Forman, b. 1807, d. 188-; was member of New Jersey legis
lature, 1838-9; Judge Court of Common Pleas of Monmouth Co.,
1843-8, and 1852, 1867; resided at Manalapan, N. J.; author of an
interesting little book on the family history.

90 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
m. 1828, Evelina Baird, b. 1805, d. 1883, dau. of Captain David Baird
of the Revolution.
2, Sarah Ely Forman.
m. William I. Perrine — 6 children.
3, Isaac Ely Forman.
m. Elizabeth Ann Ely.
Judge William P. Forman, b. 1807, d. 188—.
m. 1828, Evelina Baird.
Children :
1, Fransinchy Rebecca Forman.
m. James Cook Rue.
2, Mary Elizabeth Forman.
m. John Van Mater, of Colts Neck, N. J.
3, Peter Forman, member of legislature, civil engineer and surveyor, res.
Manalapan.
m. 1884, Maggie L. Van Doren — 3 children: 1, Hope Forman; 2, Evelyn
Forman, and 3, John V. D. Forman.
68. Samuel William Forman, son of William and Fransinchy (Hendrickson)
Forman, b. Monmouth Co., N. J., March 18, 1794, d. April 27, 1875, buried Oak-
wood Cemetery, Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio.
m. 1st, March 10, 1817, Mary Clayton, d. Oct. 19, 1838, buried at Warren.
m. 2nd, Feb. 17, 1847, Mrs. Mary W. Clark.
Children by first marriage :
1, Fransinchy Forman, b. Sept. 26, 1818, d, June 18, 1844, buried at
Warren.
2, Mary Clayton Forman, b. March 13, 1821, d. March 9, 1895, buried at
Warren.
3, Margaret Clayton Forman, b. Sept. 7, 1823, d. April 9, 1887, buried at
Warren.
4, William Henry Forman, b. Aug. 2, 1826, d. March 29, 1869, buried at
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati.
5, Jonathan Clayton Forman, b. Gorham, Ontario Co., New York,
Sept. 11, 1830.
m. Elizabeth Custis Darroch.
6, John Clayton Forman, b. Ashtabula Co., Ohio, Dec. 4, 1833, d. July
18, 1862, buried at Cincinnati ; was an editor and printer.
m. Caroline Reed, d. 1891, — only child : Mary Jane Forman.
Children by second marriage, all born at Braceville, Ohio.
7, Frances L. Forman, b. Nov. 19, 1847.
m.  , — children.

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8, Catherine Eliza Forman, b. Nov. 16, 1849.
m. twice, now deceased — no children.
9, Emma Ormsby Forman, b. April 4, 1854.
m.  Allen ; — children.
10, Charles Edward Forman, b. June 27, 1857, d. April 5, 1881 ; was a
druggist at Braceville.

JONATHAN CLAYTON FORMAN.
69. Jonathan Clayton Forman of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Gorham,
New York, in 1830. His father, Samuel W. Forman, who was born in New Jersey,
removed to the then West, and died in Warren, Ohio, in 1875, aged 81. He was a
man of great strength of character and much respected.
Jonathan C. Forman entered a printing office . when quite young, and thor
oughly mastered the business. In 1867 he was admitted to partnership with
Sanford & Hayward, then the leading printers and bookbinders in Cleveland. In
1876 the establishment was purchased by Short & Forman. About November,
1890, a stock company was formed under the name of The Forman-Bassett-Hatch
Company, of which Jonathan C. Forman is president. The business of the com
pany is that of printers, lithographers, blank book manufacturers and stationers.
Mr. Forman has invented a patent wave line appliance for ruling, which has met
with much success, and is also the holder of many other patents for devices of his
invention for economizing labor and beautifying work. He is a member of the
Republican party and has rendered effective service to that organization, but has
never sought political office, preferring to devote himself to his large business
interests. He is a member of the Tippecanoe and Union Clubs of Cleveland.
Jonathan Clayton Forman, b. Gorham, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1830, resides at
Cleveland, Ohio. m. June 20, 1853, Elizabeth Custis Darroch of Scotland, d. April 12,
1896, buried at Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland.
Children :
1, Samuel William Forman, b. at Cleveland, Aug. 1, 1854, d. March 16, 1892.
m. Ida Kenney. Children: 1, Elizabeth Forman ; 2, Jonathan Clayton
Forman.
2, William Henry Forman, b. June 15, 1863, d. Dec. 7, 1863.

DESCENDANTS OF SHERIFF DAVID FORMAN.
70. Sheriff David Forman left three sons, all prominent men in the late
18th and early 19th centuries, and all having grandchildren and great-grandchildren
living in Monmouth Co. at the present time.
Jonathan Forman, Sheriff David's eldest son, married Hope Burrowes, sister
of Major John Burrowes, of the Revolution. From this marriage, through their son,
John Burrowes Forman, there is but one line, that of Mrs. Fitz Randolph, daughter

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of John Burrowes Forman, and widow of Bennington Fitz Randolph, who resides at
Freehold with her two daughters and has two other daughters living. Of these,
one is the widow of Governor Joseph D. Bedle, of New Jersey, the other is the
widow of Flavel McGee, a prominent lawyer. Both these ladies reside with their
families in Jersey City.
Tunis Forman, (1761-1837), second son of Sheriff David, married Eleanor
Remsen. The story of his bravery during the Revolutionary war will be told later.
In the male line, Tunis Forman is represented by a grandson, Mr. Edward T. For
man, of Brooklyn, and his son. Mr. Edward T. Forman is the son of Jonathan and
Matilda (Scudder) Forman. Catherine Louisa Forman, the only daughter of Tunis,
married Dr. Edward Taylor, of Middletown, Monmouth Co., N. J., and there are a
number of descendants through this line, among whom is Dr. Edward Taylor, a
prominent physician of Middletown, and a grandson of Tunis Forman.
Dr. Samuel Forman, (1764-184-), the youngest son of Sheriff David Forman,
was a noted physician at Freehold. By his second wife, Sarah Throckmorton, he
left two sons, John Fisher Forman, and Richard. There are children and grand
children of these now living in Freehold. Dr. D. McLean Forman, of Freehold, and
his brother Dr. Samuel Randolph Forman, of Jersey City, (sons of John Fisher
Forman) , are prominent physicians in their respective places of residence. Dr. Samuel
Forman, of Freehold, (the elder) had an only daughter Anne, who married Joseph
FitzRandolph, uncle of Bennington FitzRandolph above mentioned. Theodore Fitz
Randolph, who was Governor of New Jersey, 1869-72, was their cousin. The family
of FitzRandolph is descended from Edward FitzRandolph, who came to Massachusetts
in 1630. At the present time the prefix is commonly dropped.
The will of David Forman of Freehold,1 dated Feb. 24, 1802, probated 1813,
speaks of him as " being anshant "; it names "wife Nelle's sons Jonathan, Tunis and
Samuel " ; " daughter Ann Floyd " ; " Jonathan's son David ; Samuel's son David."
71. (Sheriff) David Forman, son of Jonathan and Margaret (Wyckoff)
Forman, b. 1733, d. 1812. His commission as High Sheriff of Monmouth Co., Oct.
10, 1780, is in possession of the N. J. Historical Society.
m. Anna Denise.
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1, Jonathan Forman, b. April 16, 1758, d. January 29, 1803.
m. Hope Burrowes (sister of Maj. John Burrowes), b. Dec. 26, 1759,
d. May 11, 1806.
2, Tunis Forman, b. 1761, d. 1837.
m. Eleanor Remsen, b. 1778, d. 1835.
3, (Dr.) Samuel Forman, b. 1764, d. 184-.
m. 1st, Ann Rogers — no children.
m. 2nd, Sarah Throckmorton — 3 sons, 1 dau.
4, Anna Forman.
m. Corlies Lloyd.
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72. Jonathan Forman, son of (Sheriff) David Forman, b. 1758, d. 1803.
m. Hope Burrowes, b. 1759, d. 1806.

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1, Mary Ann Forman, b. 1784, d. 1810.
2, Catherine Forman.
m. Ebenezer Rose.
3, Diana Forman.
m. Rev. I. Linn Shafer.
4, John Burrowes Forman, b. 1786, d. 1853.
m. Hope B. Henderson, b. 1787, d. 1823.
5, (Dr.) David Forman, b. 1791, d. 1826.
73. John Burrowes Forman, son of Jonathan and Hope (Burrowes) Forman,
b. 1786, d. 1853. m. Hope B. Henderson, b. 1787, d. 1823.

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1, Mary Ann Forman, b. 1812, d. 1884.
2, Thomas Marshall Forman, b. 1814, d. 1817.
3, Jonathan Forman, b. 1816.
m. Mary Chamberlain, d. 1891.
4, Eliza Forman, b. 1819.
m. Bennington FitzRandolph, b. 1817, d. 1890.

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8 children.
Of the eight children of Bennington and Eliza (Forman) FitzRandolph, there
are living four, viz:
Althea, married Joseph D. Bedle, Governor of New Jersey, 1875-78; Miss
Franc Forman FitzRandolph; Julia married Flavel McGee; and Isabelle Hamill
married Rev. Albert Dod Minor.

TUNIS FORMAN.

74. The following incident from Barber and Howe's Historical Collections
of New Jersey, p. 345, was incorporated by Judge Wm. P. Forman in his little book.
On a fine morning in May, 1780, as the family of Mr. David Forman, sheriff
of the county, were at breakfast, a soldier almost out of breath suddenly burst into
the room and stated that he and another soldier were conducting to the court house
two men taken up on suspicion at Colt's Neck; they had knocked down his comrade,
seized his musket and escaped. The sheriff, on hearing this relation, immediately
mounted his horse and galloped to the court house to alarm the guard. His son
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with small shot to kill blackbirds in the corn-fields, and putting on a cartridge box,
dispatched his brother Samuel upstairs for the bayonet, and then without waiting
for it, hurried off alone in the pursuit.
After moving in a westerly direction about a mile he discovered the men
sitting on a fence, who on perceiving him, ran into a swamp. As the morning was
warm he hastily pulled off his coat and shoes and dashed in after them keeping
close upon them for over a mile. When they got out of the swamp each climbed
into separate trees. As he came up they discharged at him the musket taken from
the guard. The ball whistled over his head, he felt for his bayonet, and at that
moment perceived that in his haste it was left behind. He then pointed his gun at
the man with the musket, but deemed it imprudent to fire, reflecting even if he
killed him his comrade could easily master such a stripling as himself.
He compelled the man to throw down the musket by threatening him with
death if he did not instantly comply. Then loading the prize from the cartridge
box, he forced his prisoners down the trees, and armed with his two loaded muskets
he drove them toward the court house, careful, however, to keep them far apart to
prevent conversation. Passing by a spring they requested permission to drink.
"No," replied the intrepid boy understanding their design, "you can do as well
without it as myself; you shall have some by and by.''
Soon after, his father at the head of a party of soldiers in pursuit, galloped
passed in the road within a short distance. Tunis halloed, but the clattering of
their horses' hoofs drowned his voice. At length he reached the village and lodged
his prisoners in the county prison.
It was subsequently learned that these men, whose names were John and
Robert Smith, were brothers from near Philadelphia; that they had robbed and
murdered a Mr. Boyd, a collector of taxes in Chester county, and when taken were
on their way to join the British. As they had been apprehended on suspicion,
merely, of being refugees, no definite charge could then be brought against them.
A few days after, Sheriff Forman saw an advertisement in a Pennsylvania
paper describing them, with the facts above mentioned, and a reward of $20,000
(continental money) offered for their apprehension. He, accompanied by his son,
took them on there, where they were tried and executed. On entering Philadelphia
Tunis was carried through the streets in triumph upon the shoulders of the mili
tary. In the latter part of the war, this young man became very active, and was
the particular favorite of Gen. David Forman.
N. B. — This account was taken from the lips of Dr. Samuel Forman, who was
then the boy Samuel who was sent upstairs for the bayonet, and was related by him
when the transactions in question were fresh in his mind.

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Descendants of Aaron Forman (1699-1742), Third Son of High Sheriff
Samuel Forman of Monmouth.

75. Aaron Forman, b. May 22, 1699, married Ursula Craig, daughter of
Archibald Craig, who is styled "Esq." on his tombstone at "Old Scots" burying
ground. Archibald Craig died in 1751, and left a will, dated 1750, by which he
left forty pounds to "my well-beloved daughter, widow Ursula Forman." Aaron
Forman was a pewholder in the old Tennent Church. He died in 1742, and is
buried at "Wyckoff Hill." His will dated Dec. 31, 1741, at Freehold, mentions
his wife Ursula, his eldest son George, not of age at the time, also three other sons :
Lewis, Andrew and Robert, and three daughters : Priscilla, Lydia and Phoebe — all
minors ; his wife Ursula, and his two brothers, Jonathan and John Forman, and
brothers-in-law, Samuel Craig and William Madock, are appointed executors. Wit
nesses were Samuel Throckmorton and Ambrose Stelle. The will was probated
Feb. 12, 1742 (1741, old style), (Liber C of Wills, p. 479, at State Capitol.)
Lewis Forman, son of Aaron and Ursula (Craig) Forman, was born and
brought up in Monmouth Co., and removed to New Brunswick, New Jersey. Before
his removal he was a pewholder in the Tennent Church. He was an ardent Loyalist
during the Revolution. Lewis' son- William — he had other sons — was born in New
Brunswick, lived and died there. William had several sons, one of whom, Lewis,
born in New Brunswick removed at the age of 17 to New York City to be with his
uncle Aaron Forman, who was established there as a book publisher. The last
named Lewis Forman, who died in New York in 1891, was the father of Mr. William
Henry Forman of New York City, whose researches in the history of the family have
been far more extensive and valuable than those of any previous investigator.

Descendants of Captain John Forman (1701-1748) Fourth Son of High
Sheriff Samuel Forman of Monmouth Co., N. J.

76. Captain John Forman carried on the business of blacksmith at Free
hold. He married Jane Wyckoff. The children mentioned in his will were, sons:
John, Samuel, and another son James, mentioned in the codicil to the will.
Daughters: Mary, the eldest, wife of Joseph Throckmorton, Hannah, Margaret,
Rebecca and Anne. The will, which is dated May 13, 1747, states that his wife
Jane is to stay on the plantation, with 366 acres of woodland added for firewood
and timber. His son John, under age at the time, is to carry on the smith's trade.

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The daughters are to have their inheritance at their coming of age or when they are
married. His son Samuel, when he is of age, to have 150 pounds and 198 acres (?)
in Upper Freehold. The rest of the estate is to be divided among the daughters.
The executors are: Wife, Jane, brother Jonathan Forman, brother-in-law, William
Madock, son-in-law Joseph Throckmorton.
Witnesses: Dan Van Mater, Daniel Grandin, George Forman.
The witnesses to the codicil: Gysbert Van Mater, Samuel Mount, William
Madock, Jr.
Captain John Forman is buried at Wyckoff Hill, and his tombstone reads :
Here Lyes Interr'd the Body of
Cap* John Forman Who Departed
this Life November ye twenty fifth
Annoq Domini one Thousand Seven
Hundred Forty Eight Aged Forty
Seven years two months & two Days
John Forman (b. 1736) who married Eleanor Denise, daughter of Teunis
Denise, is believed to be correctly identified as the eldest son of Captain John For
man. John Forman the younger, had a son Denise. Denise Forman, who must not
be confused with his cousin of the same name, was the father of Mrs. Alice Forman,
now living at Freehold, the widow of John Conover Forman, son of Tunis Forman
the Revolutionary hero.

COLONEL SAMUEL FORMAN.
It is believed that the Samuel Forman, who was Colonel of the 2nd Regiment
New Jersey militia in the Revolution was the son of Capt. John Forman. Colonel
Samuel Forman was twice married. His first wife Anne  , was born in County
Kildare, 18 miles from Dublin, Ireland, on June 21, 1737, was married April 28,
1756, and died Oct. 12, 1770. Colonel Samuel Forman's second wife was Elizabeth,
the only sister of General David Forman, his first cousin. They were married Oct.
22, 1772, she died Nov. 28, 1781. There were no children by either marriage. Col.
Samuel and his two wives are buried under St. Peter's Episcopal church at Freehold.
He was born Feb. 1, 1734. This and the other dates are from a stray leaf which
has been preserved from his Bible.

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Descendants of Joseph Forman (1703-1775), Fifth Son of High Sheriff
Samuel Forman of Monmouth Co., N. J.

77. Joseph Forman, according to the statement furnished to Miss Woodhull
by his granddaughter, Miss Malvina Forman, in 1871, was a wealthy shipping mer
chant in New York City, afterwards retired from business, and settled on one of his
farms in Monmouth Co., N. J. In a manuscript written in 1851 by Gov. John
Chambers, a distinguished citizen of Kentucky who was Governor of Iowa Territory
in 1841, it is stated : "My father in early manhood was sent to New York and was
employed as a clerk in an extensive mercantile establishment belonging to Mr.
Joseph Forman, who had married Betty Lee, my grandmother's sister. From your
grandfather's account of Mr. Forman, who was always called by a numerous con
nection ' Uncle Josey,' he must have been one of the most excellent men of his day."
This extract is furnished by Mrs. Margaret (Brent) MacKoy of Covington, Ky., a
granddaughter of Gov. Chambers. The manuscript mentions that Gen. David
Forman was one of the sons of Joseph and Betty Forman, and says further : " My
grandmother and Aunt Betty Forman had two or more brothers, one of whom settled
in Virginia and one in Maryland," and that Gen. Henry Lee was a descendant of
the one who settled in Virginia. In the last statement he is doubtless mistaken.
Miss Anna M. Woodhull of Freehold found in a deed dated March 18, 1761, the
name of David Lee of Windsor, in Middlesex Co., N. J.
James Chambers married Sarah Lee, their son Rowland was the father of
Gov. John Chambers. Gen. Benjamin Chambers, another son of James, married
Elizabeth Forman, daughter of Ezekiel, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Lee) Forman.
Hence Gov. John Chambers and Judge Ezekiel Forman Chambers of Maryland were
first cousins. (Information supplied by Mrs. MacKoy) .
78. Joseph Forman, son of Samuel and Mary (Wilbur) Forman, b. Dec,
1703, d. July 14, 1775.
m. Sept. 22, 1732, Elizabeth Lee, d. Oct. 15, 1774, aged 64.

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1, Joseph Forman, b. Oct. 27, 1734.
m. April 24, 1765, Amelia Gale.
2, Ezekiel Forman, b. Oct. 10, 1736, d. May 29, 1795.
m. first, Augustine Marsh, dau. of Thomas and Mary (Thompson) Marsh.
m. second, Margaret Neilson.
3, Elizabeth Forman, b. March 28, 1740, d. Nov. 28, 1781.
m. Oct. 22, 1772, Colonel Samuel Forman (his second wife).
4, Stephen Forman, b. May 10, 1743.

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5, David Forman, b. Nov. 3, 1745, d. Sept. 12, 1797.
m. Ann Marsh, dau. of Thomas and Ann (Frisby) Marsh.
6, Aaron Forman, b. Feb. 1, 1748.
79. Joseph Forman, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Lee) Forman, b. Oct. 27,1734.
m. April 24, 1765, Amelia Gale.

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1, Elizabeth Forman, b. in New Jersey April 15, 1766, d. at Natchez, 1810.
2, Stephen Forman, b. June 13, 1768, d. at Long Marsh, Queen Anne's
Co., Maryland.
m. 
3, William Gordon Forman, b. June 22, 1770, d. at Lexington, Ky., Oct.
3, 1812.
m. first, Sarah Marsh Forman, dau. of Gen. David Forman, b. Feb. 1,
1773.
m. second, Sarah, dau. of Rev. Dr. John Woodhull, b. at Freehold,
N. J., March 28, 1781, d. at Natchez, Nov. 13, 1811.
4, Joseph Forman, b. June 8, 1773.
m. April 26, 1803, at Shrewsbury, N. J., Catherine Remsen Holmes, b.
June 13, 1786, dau. of Obadiah and Catherine (Remsen) Holmes.
5, Matthias Forman, b. July 1, 1775, d. very young.

The Forman Family at Natchez and in the State of Mississippi.
80. Ezekiel Forman (1736-1795), second son of Joseph and Elizabeth Lee
Forman, married as his first wife, Augustine (or Augustina) Marsh, a daughter of
Thomas Marsh of Maryland. It was at Ezekiel Forman's house at Princeton, N. J.,
that his brother David was married in 1767. Ezekiel Forman was commissioned as
High Sheriff of Kent Co., Md., January 14, 1776. The 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. He married his second wife, Margaret Neilson, at Phila
delphia and was living there in 1789, when, arrangements having been made by
Gen. David Forman with the Spanish minister to procure land in the Natchez
country, Ezekiel Forman with his family journeyed down the Ohio and Mississippi,
and established himself as a tobacco planter at the Wilderness Plantation on St.
Catherine's Creek, about four or five miles from Natchez. Here in 1795 he 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 Chestertown, Md.,
who was a daughter of the first marriage. In Major S. S. Forman's Narrative,

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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."
In the fall of 1796, Gen. David Forman came to Natchez, and remained until
the following August, when he left for his home at Chestertown, Maryland, and
died before he reached there.
Major William Gordon Forman, Gen. David Forman's nephew and son-in-law,
seems to have been the next member of the family to take up his residence at
Natchez. He was a son of Joseph Forman of Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co., N. J.,
graduated at Princeton in 1786, and became a lawyer. Miss A. M. Woodhull, who
was a niece of Major W. G. Forman's second wife, writes that he " introduced Eli
Whitney's celebrated cotton-gin into the state of Mississippi. He had previously
gone abroad, and was the fir si private American gentleman presented at the Court
of George the Third. We have part of his costume worn on that occasion." He was
Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Territorial Legislature of Mississippi
in Jan'y, 1803. — (Claiborne's Mississippi — page 241). After his second wife's death,
Major W. G. Forman started north with his little daughter to bring her to her
grandfather's, Dr. Woodhull's, in Monmouth, and was murdered at Lexington, Ky.,
it is supposed for purposes of robbery, by negroes or men in the house where he was
stopping. The next to come into view at Natchez is Joseph, a brother of Major W. G.
Forman. Joseph Forman bought the plantation on which his uncle Ezekiel had
settled, and lived and died a much respected citizen of Natchez where he was
prominent in starting the Presbyterian church. None of Joseph's sons grew to man
hood. After the death of his eldest brother Stephen in Queen Anne's Co., Md.,
Joseph sent for Stephen's two young sons, Stephen, Jr., and Samuel. The widow
of the elder Stephen married again at Red Bank, N. J., a Mr. Borden, and had two
sons, Allen and Forman Borden, both of whom married and had children.
Stephen Forman the younger married in Mississippi, a granddaughter of
Governor Howell, of New Jersey. Accounts of two of their sons will be given later.

THE HOWELL FAMILY.
81.  Howell of Caerleon, Wales, had a son,  Howell of Caer
philly, Glamorganshire, Wales, who removed to Delaware in 1690. The latter's
grandson, Richard Howell, born in Delaware in 1753, married Keziah Burr, a mem
ber of the Society of Friends, and before the Revolutionary War was a lawyer at
Mount Holly, N. J. He served with distinction in the Revolutionary War and rose
to be Major of the Second New Jersey ; became Governor of New Jersey in 1793 and
was re-elected for several successive terms. One of his daughters, Sarah, afterwards
Mrs. James Agnew of Pittsburgh, was one of the ten young ladies who scattered
flowers in Washington's path at Trenton bridge, and Gov. Howell wrote the poetical
welcome recited on that occasion. Wm. Burr Howell, fourth son of the Governor,
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Miss., after the close of that war and settled there. His house near Natchez was
called "The Briers." Mrs. Jefferson Davis is a daughter of Wm. B. Howell. (Memoir
of Jefferson Davis, 1890, by Mrs. Davis.)
Charles B. Howell, another son of the Governor, was the father of Keziah B.
Howell, who married Stephen Forman (see above).
82. Stephen Forman, son of Joseph and Amelia (Gale) Forman, b. June 13,
1768, d. at Long Marsh, Queen Anne's Co., Md.
m. 
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1, Stephen Forman.
m. 1825, Keziah B., dau. of Charles B. Howell.
2, Samuel Forman (went West — no record of marriage or death obtainable.)
Note: — The order of birth of the two foregoing is not ascertained.
83. Stephen Forman, son of Stephen and  Forman, born in New Jersey.
m. 1825 in Mississippi, Keziah B. Howell, dau. of Charles B. Howell.
1, Charles H. Forman, b. 1826.
m. Martha Dorsey.
2, Mary Jane Forman, b. 1828.
m. Major Thos. Reed, an eminent lawyer of Natchez.
3, Martha Forman, b. 1830.
m. Hon. Thos. C. West of Jefferson Co., Miss.
4, Richard Howell Forman, b. Feb. 19, 1833.
m. first, Dec. 6, 1860, Emily A. Batchelor, d. May 31, 1883.
m. second, Jan'y 18,1888, Nydia Dockery, dau. of Gen. Thos. F. Dockery.
5, Stephen Samuel Forman, b. May 4, 1835, d. Aug. 15, 1896.
m. Mary Coleman, dau. of Dr. F. B. Coleman, Jefferson Co., Miss.
84. Charles H. Forman, son of Stephen and Keziah B. (Howell) Forman,
b. 1826.
m. Martha Dorsey.
1, Richard Forman, (deceased).
2, Mary E. Forman.
3, Martha L. Forman.
m. Dr. Stroud of Henderson, Texas.
4, Stephen C. Forman.
m. Miss Northcut of Longview. Tex.

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85. Major Thomas Reed, of Natchez, d. about 1891 aged 75.
m. Mary Jane Forman, dau. of Stephen & Keziah B. (Howell) Forman.
b. 1828.

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1, Jane Reed (deceased).
2, Mary K. Reed (deceased).
3, Richard Forman Reed. Lawyer at Natchez.
m. Eula Holden.
5, Susan Reed.
6, Thomas J. Reed.
86. Thos. C. West, of Jefferson Co., Miss.
m. Martha Forman, dau. of Stephen and Keziah B. (Howell) Forman.

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1, Howell Forman West.
m. Emmie Whitney.
2, Emma West.
3, Thomas C. West.
m. Annie Patterson.

RICHARD HOWELL FORMAN.
87. Richard Howell Forman, second son of Stephen and Keziah B. Howell
Forman, was born in Jefferson Co., Miss., Feb. 19, 1833. After a year spent in New
Orleans with a cotton factorage house, during which occurred the great yellow fever
epidemic of 1853, he returned on account of failing health to his home, Rodney,
Miss. Three years thereafter he engaged on his own account in a general mercan
tile business which was continued until the outbreak of the war. Although his
health and strength did not permit his enduring the hardships of military service,
he was warmly devoted to the Confederate cause and held throughout the war the
office of commissioner, to look after the families of destitute soldiers. In 1865 he
became engaged in planting and has been president of the Stock Breeders' Associa
tion of the county, of the Horticultural Association, and twice of the Jefferson
County Planters, Mechanics and Manufacturers Association. In 1884 he was
appointed commissioner from Mississippi to the New Orleans Exposition. He has
also been one of the trustees of the Female Academy, and has held many other
official positions, which indicate the esteem in which he is held in his native state
and county. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder.
He resides upon his plantation near Fayette, Jefferson Co., Miss.

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Richard Howell Forman, son of Stephen and Keziah B. (Howell) Forman, b.
Feb. 19, 1833, resides near Fayette, Jefferson Co., Miss.
m. first, Dec. 6, 1860, Emily A. Batchelor, d. May 31, 1883.
m. second, Jan. 18, 1888, Nydia Dockery, dau. of Gen. Thomas F.
Dockery.
1, George Dent Forman, b. Dec. 29, 1861.
m. Dec. 4, 1884, Effie T. Torrey, dau. of Hon. George Torrey, of Jeffer
son Co., Miss.
2, Mary K. Forman, b. Sept. 25, 1865, d. Nov. 8, 1865.
3, Lura Forman.
4, Emily Forman, d. in infancy.
5, Richard Howell Forman, d. in infancy.
6, Evelyn Forman, d. 1893.
7, Saidie L. Forman.
88. George Dent Forman, son of Richard H. and Emily A. (Batchelor) For
man, b. Dec. 29, 1861.
m. Dec. 4, 1884, Effie T. Torrey, b. Jefferson Co., Miss., Aug. 13, 1861,
d. Fayette, Miss., Sept. 14, 1895, dau. of Hon. George Torrey.

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1, Richard T. Forman.
2, Margaret Forman.
3, Effie Forman.
4, George Forman.

STEPHEN SAMUEL FORMAN.
89. Stephen Samuel Forman (1835-1896), the youngest brother of Richard
Howell Forman, was born in Jefferson Co., Miss., where he resided many years and
where he conducted a successful mercantile business. When the civil war began he
enlisted in the Jefferson Artillery, and remained throughout the hostilities a mem
ber of that organization. He was a good soldier and a respected and useful citizen.
About 1881 he removed to Natchez, where in 1896 he died. His two sons, R. B.
Forman and Stephen Forman, reside in Natchez, where they are in business.
Stephen Samuel Forman, son of Stephen and Keziah B. (Howell) Forman, b.
May 4, 1835, d. Aug. 15, 1896.
m. Mary, dau. of Dr. F. B. Coleman of Jefferson Co., Miss.

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1, Richard B. Forman (resides at Natchez).
2, Stephen Forman
3, Lucille Forman
Also, two daughters deceased.

General David Forman.
Reproduced by Courtesy of Mr. James Neilson.

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90. Joseph Forman, b. 1773, son Joseph and Amelia (Gale) Forman.
m. Catherine Remsen Holmes.
1, Amelia Gale Forman, b. at Middletown Point, N. J., Mch. 13, 1804,
d. Nov., 1825. m. John Nugent at Washington, Adams Co., Miss., 1 822
or 1823. Her dau. Catherine m. Rich'd Nugent, 1841, and left a
son Rev. Perry Nugent of Salem, Va.
2, Catherine Holmes Forman, b. Oct. 11, 1805, at Wilderness Plantation,
near Natchez, d. 1818.
3, Wm. Gordon Forman, b. at Natchez, Apr. 19, 1807, d. Nov. 15, 1839.
4, dau. b. 1809, d. young.
5, son b. 1810, d. young.
6, Elizabeth Forman, b. at Natchez, Feb. 15, 1811.
m. Oct. 9, 1828, Benijah Osmun Smith. She d. at Montrose Planta
tion, the home of her dau. Mrs. Aby, Jan. 21, 1877.
7, Joseph Forman, b. near Natchez, Sept. 6, 1812, d. 1829.
8, Augusta Forman, b. Sept. 7, 1814, d. at Newark, N. J., Nov. 26, 1883.
m. Wm. Van Wyck, of New York, about 1848.
9, Sarah Marsh Forman, b. at Liberty, Miss., Mch. 21, 1816, d. St. Paul,
Minn., July 25, 1870.
m. Wm. Henry Dunbar, Mch. 18, 1835. She had several daughters
and one son, William Forman Dunbar, who m. Mary, dau. of Judge
Joseph Shields of Natchez, and had 7 children. William Forman
Dunbar served in the Confederate Army and is now dead.
91. Elizabeth Forman.
m. Benijah Osmun Smith.

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1, Stephen Forman Smith, b. 1829, d. 1886.
m. Alice Lake. He was Lieut, in Co. B, 38th Miss. Regt., Confed. Army.
2, Joseph Calvin Smith, b. 1831, d. 1840.
3, Catherine Priscilla Smith, b. 1832.
m. Charles Ralston Byrnes, and has had 14 children of whom 6 survive.
4, Helen Augusta Smith, b. 1834, d. 1893.
m. Thomas J. Aby and had 5 children.
92. Charles Ralston Byrnes (Lieut. Mabry's Brigade, Confederate Army).
m. Sept. 18, 1850, Catherine Priscilla Smith, b. Springfield Plantation,
|] Dec. 19, 1832.
1, Charles Ralston Byrnes, Jr. 3, Benjamin Smith Byrnes.
m. Helen Metcalfe. m. Willie Venable Smith.
2, Lissa Forman Byrnes, d. 1885. 4, Walter Stephen Byrnes, d. 1869.
m. Charles K. Regan. 5, Emily Augusta Byrnes, d. 1860.

104 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
6, Percy Shields Byrnes. 11, Florence Undine Byrnes.
m. Berry Jefferies. m. Dr.  McCaleb.
7, Martha Kate Byrnes, d. 1863. 12, Claude Remsen Byrnes, d. 1875.
8, Laura Augusta Byrnes, d. 1862. 13, Augustus McCaleb Byrnes.
9, Etoile Kate Byrnes, d. 1866. 14, Burton Osmun Byrnes, d. 1883.
10, Robert Lee Byrnes.
m. Helen Ferriday.
93. Ezekiel Forman, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Lee) Forman, b. October
10, 1736, d. May 29, 1795, High Sheriff, Kent Co., Md., 1776.
m. 1st, Augustine dau. of Thomas and Mary Thompson Marsh.
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1, Gen. Thos. Marsh Forman, b. Aug. 20, 1758.
2, Col. Joseph Forman, b. Jan'y 10, 1761, d. April 14, 1805.
3, Elizabeth Forman, b. June 11, 1762, d. Jan. 27, 1820.
m. Gen. Benjamin Chambers of Chestertown, Md.
4, Sarah Emory Forman, b. Oct. 1, 1763, d. Mch. 15, 1836.
m. Andrew Van Bibber of Gloucester Co., Virginia.
5, William Lee Forman, b. October, 1764, d. Oct. 4, 1804.
m. Jane Spear.
m. 2nd Margaret Neilson.

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6, Augusta Forman, b. 1777 (?) d. aged 68, buried at Newark, New Jersey,
Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
7, Margaret Douglas Forman, b. 1778, d. 1817, buried near Natchez.
8, Frances Forman, b. 1782, d. Oct. 22, 1830, buried at Newark, N. J.
9, David Forman, b. 1787, d. 1821, buried near Natchez.
10, Ann Forman, b. 1790, d. 1791, buried near Natchez.
11, Ezekiel Neilson Forman, b. 1792, d. 1816, buried near Natchez.
12, Ann E. Forman, b. Dec. 24, 1795, d. Jan'y 5, 1872, buried at Mount
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, New Jersey.
m. Rev. Daniel Smith, who predeceased her.

ABSTRACT OF WILL.
94. " I, Thomas Marsh of Queen Ann's County in the province of Maryland
. . . being of sound mind, &c. ... do give and bequeath . . . All my lands in
Cecil, and all my lands in Kent Island in Queen Ann's County and my plantation
on the main road to Queen's Town in the s'd County which I lately bought of
Thomas Emory unto my grandson, Thomas Marsh Forman and his Heirs . . . and
for default of such heirs, to my grandson, Joseph Forman, and his heirs, and in
default of such heirs to my grandson Wm. Forman, and his heirs, and for default of

General Thomas Marsh Forman.
Reproduced by Courtesy of Mr. Marion IT. Henderson.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 105
such heirs, to the first, second, third and fourth and every other son and sons of the
Body of my Daughter, Ann Forman . . . according to priority of birth . . . and in
default of such heirs, to daughters of my daughter, Augustina and daughters of
Ann. To my grandson, Jos. Forman, grist-mill at Head of Island Creek ; and land
near Kingstown, and houses (&c) in Chestertown . . . and for default of such heirs,
to my grandson Thomas, and in default of such heirs to my grandson William, and
and in default of such heirs to the first, second and third sons of my daughter Ann
... in default, to daughters of Ann and Augustina . . . (other property, same
reversion). To Thomas Whittington, son of Jane Whittington, my plantation bought
of Walter Nevil ... in default of heirs, to grandson Jos. Forman, in default, to
grandson Thomas Marsh Forman ... in default, to grandson Wm. Forman ... in
default, to daughters of Ann and Augustina . . . Son-in-law Ezekiel Forman to have
custody and management of Estate devised to Thos. Marsh Forman and of Estate
devised to Thos. Whittington ... To Thos. Marsh Forman my Sword (&c).
All silver plate to two grand daughters, Elizabeth, daughter of Ezekiel For
man and my daughter Augustina his wife, and Sarah, daughter of David Forman
and my daughter Ann, his wife. . . . Executors — Son-in-law Ezekiel Forman and
my friends, James Frisby, Thomas Ringgold, of Kent, and John Thompson and Dr.
Samuel Thompson, his brother, of Queen Anne's County. . . .
In witness (<fcc) I hereunto set my hand and affix my seal . . . Feb. 3, 1776.
Prob. Jan. 7, 1782. Thomas Marsh. Seal.
Thomas Marsh and Mary Thompson were married the [blank]
1740, April — was born Augustine Marsh, daughter of Thomas and Mary
his wife.  Thomas Marsh was married to his second wife Ann Frisby.
1744, February 14th was born Thomas Marsh son of Thomas and Ann.
1746, June 8th, was born William Marsh.
 was born Sarah Marsh.
1751, December 3d was born Ann Marsh.

GEN. THOMAS MARSH FORMAN OF "ROSE HILL," MD.
95. Thomas Marsh Forman, eldest son of Ezekiel and Augustine (Marsh)
Forman, was born Aug. 20, 1758. Ezekiel was an elder brother of Gen. David
Forman, and Augustine Marsh was a half sister of the General's wife. She
was also descended from Augustine Herman, the founder of Bohemia Manor in
Maryland in the 17th century. Thomas Marsh Forman joined Smallwood's Regi
ment as a cadet shortly before the battle of Long Island, the following winter was
commissioned First Lieutenant in the Eleventh Pa. Regiment, subsequently became
Captain in his Uncle David's Continental Regiment, and in 1779 succeeded James
Monroe as staff officer to Maj. Gen. Lord Sterling. He served in the legislature in

1Family Bible of Gen. David Forman.

106 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
1790, 1792 and 1800, and during the bombardment of Fort McHenry in the war of
1812 commanded a brigade of militia. Gen. Thomas Marsh Forman inherited the
fine estate of "Rose Hill" in Cecil Co., Maryland, which was during his lifetime the
center of hospitality for the Eastern shore, and many distinguished persons were
entertained there. During Lafayette's visit to this country in 1824 Gen. Thomas
Marsh Forman went with his carriage with four horses and two servants in livery to
meet the Marquis and took him in his carriage to Frenchtown where he took the
steamboat to Baltimore.
Thomas Marsh Forman was prominent in racing matters, and became the first
president of the Maryland Jockey Club in 1830. He died in 1845. See Rev. H. E.
Hayden's "Virginia Genealogies" and Johnson's "History of Cecil Co., Maryland."
The name is represented in Maryland to-day by descendants of Col. Joseph
Forman, a brother of Gen. T. M. Forman. His nephew, Ezekiel Forman Chambers,
was a very distinguished lawyer, twice United States Senator, and for many years
Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals.
Gen. Thomas Marsh Forman, son of Ezekiel and Augustine (Augustina)
(Marsh) Forman, b. Aug. 20, 1758, d. 1845, buried at his home, " Rose Hill," Cecil
Co., Md. m. 1st, Mary  , d.  , buried at " Rose Hill."
m. 2nd, May 19, 1814, at Christiana, New Castle Co., Delaware, Mrs.
Martha Browne (Ogle) Callender, b. Feb. 6, 1788, d. at Newark,
Del., July 25, 1864, buried at St. James, Stanton, Del., daughter
of James and Ann Browne Ogle of Ogletown, New Castle Co.,
Del. She was widow by first marriage of Captain James Rorke
Callender of Philadelphia, whom she married in 1808, and who
was lost at sea with her youngest brother Francis Ogle in 1811.
James Ogle, her father, was descended from John Ogle, who came
to America with his servants in 1624. The Ogle family were from
Northumberland, England. There were no children by her second
marriage with Gen. Forman.
Delia Forman, Gen. T. M. Forman's daughter, married Hon. Joseph Bryan,
M. C, from Georgia. Their children were :
1, John Randolph Bryan, b. 1806, d. 1887.
m. 1830, Elizabeth Coalter of Virginia. Children: 1, John Coalter
Bryan; 2, Delia Bryan; 3, Fanny Tucker Bryan; 4, Georgia
Bryan; 5, Virginia MacKay Bryan; 6, John Randolph Bryan; 7,
St. George Tucker Coalter Bryan; 8, Joseph Bryan; 9, Thomas
Bryan ; 10, Corbin Braxton Bryan.
2, Georgia Hanna Bryan, b. 1807, d. 1887.
m. 1826, Dr. James P. Screven of Georgia. Children: — 1 , (Colonel) John
Screven; 2, Delia Screven; 3, Joseph Bryan Screven; 4, Sarah Ada
Screven; 5, Thomas Forman Screven; 6, James Bryan Screven;
7, George Proctor Screven.

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3, Thomas Forman Bryan, b. 1809, d. 1875.
m. 1st, 1834, Florida Troup, dau. of Ex-Gov. Troup of Georgia.
m. 2nd, Helen Brooke. Children by first marriage: 1, George Troup
Bryan; 2, John Screven Bryan; 3, Hugh Bryan; 4, Ann Carter
Bryan; 5, Augusta Forman Bryan; 6, Georgia Bryan Forman; 7,
Thomas Marsh Forman. Children by second marriage : 8, Francis
Brooke Forman; 9, Florida Troup Forman; 10, Helen May For
man; 11, Gabriella Brooke Forman.
Note: — Thos. F. Bryan, in order to inherit the estate of his grandfather,
changed his name to Thomas Marsh Forman, by authority of
the Legislature of Maryland, January 15, 1846.
4, Virginia Sarah Bryan, b. 1810, d. 1838.
m. 1835, William MacKay of Georgia. Children : William and Delia
Bryan MacKay.
5, Joseph Bryan, b. 1812, d. 1863.
m. 1834, Jane Bourke of Georgia. Children: 1, Henry; 2, Alfred; 3,
Virginia Jane; 4, Delia Ann ; 5, Joseph ; 6, Joseph ; 7, Thomas.
96. Col. Joseph Forman (son of Ezekiel and Augustine Marsh Forman),
b. Jan. 1761, d. April 4, 1805, of Queen Anne's Co. Said to have been U. S. Consul
at Amsterdam. m. Mary Hemsley, dau. of Wm. Hemsley and his second wife, Henrietta
Maria Earle, of "Cloverfields," Queen Anne's Co.

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1, William Marsh Forman1, " died in the flower of his youth, at San
Domingo."
2, Henrietta Maria.
m. April 16, 1807, Robt. Lloyd Tilghman2 of "Hope," Talbot Co.
(One son and three daughters.)
3, Augustine, born 1788, died Sept. 31, 1866, at "Hope," buried at "Rose
Hill," Cecil Co.
4, Ezekiel3, b.  , d. Apr. 18, 1823, at " Cloverfields." (Easton "Star,"
Apr. 22, 1823).
m. Henrietta Maria Earle, dau. of James Earle and Anna Maria
Tilghman.
5, Anna Maria Ringgold Forman.

xEarle Record.
2Richard Tilghman, surgeon, came to America from Kent, England, about 1660. He received the grant of
Canterbury Manor on Third Haven River but soon removed to the Hermitage. Many of his descendants have
become prominent in the history of the country.
'Major Ezekiel Forman.

108 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
97. Major Ezekiel Forman1 of " Cloverfields," son of Col. Joseph Forman.
m. Henrietta Maria Earle.

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1, Ezekiel Thomas Marsh Forman, b. in Chestertown, 1821, settled in
Centreville; merchant; mem. Episcopal church, d. suddenly June
27, 1875.
m. 1850, Henrietta Maria Tilghman, dau. of Peregrine and Harriet
Tilghman of "Tilghman's Recovery." Q. A. Co.
2, Wm. H. Forman, b.  , d. 1868.
m. Marcia Ross Watts, d. 1884.
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A4 sons, 1 dau.
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1, Peregrine Tilghman Forman, b. at "Recovery," Feb. 13, 1853; hardware
merchant, Centreville.
m. 1883, Florence Elma Rasin, d. 1884. (Dau. of Jos. M. Rasin.)
2, Henry Forman.
3, William H. Forman.
4, Ezekiel Marsh Forman, b. in Centreville, Jan. 15, 1859; druggist in
Centreville.
m. S. Catherine Earle, dau. of Judge Sam'l T. Earle, (April 28, 1881.)

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1, Peregrine Forman.
2, Ezekiel Forman.
3, Mary Earle Forman.
5, Harriet Forman.
6, Araminta Forman.

WILL OF MAJ. EZEKIEL FORMAN.2
Feb. 5, 1822 — "I, Ezekiel Forman, of Cloverfields in Queen Anne's Co.,
Md. ... If wife Henrietta Maria marries after my decease, I give unto her besides
my household furniture, one third the income nett, (of real and personal estate)."
" E. F. Chambers, my cousin and friend" . . . "Mr. Earle, father of my wife"
. . . "my uncle William Hemsley (to be) guardian of my child or children."
The "Easton Star," of April 22, 1823,3 has the following obituary:
"Departed this life on Friday morning last in the bosom of his family at his
seat, Cloverfields, Eastern Shore of Maryland, Maj. Ezekiel Forman, who is embalmed
in the affectionate sorrows of his friends and all (who) knew him."

^'Biographical Record of Eastern Shore," p. 467-832.) pub. 1898.
*Wills Queen Ann's Co., T. C. 1-227.
8Letter of Adm. were taken by Ezekiel Forman Chambers, who on Oct. 21, 1823, gives the customary notice
•rpiflitors. etc.

to creditors, etc.

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EZEKIEL MARSH FORMAN.1
98. Across the Chesapeake and exactly opposite Annapolis stands Centre
ville, the county seat of Queen Anne's County, with a history that extends back to
a very early period. Among its families are some that for several successive genera
tions have been prominent in public affairs and have taken an active part in local
history. To this class belongs the Forman family. Ezekiel Forman, a man of
means (a nephew of Gen. Thomas Marsh Forman of Rose Hill, Cecil Co.,) spent his
entire life on the Eastern Shore, bearing a share in the development of its industries.
He had a son, Ezekiel Thomas Marsh Forman, who was born in Chestertown, Kent
Co., in 1821, and was educated at Washington College. Removing to Queen Anne's
Co., he engaged in farming, but after a time settled in Centreville as a merchant.
For a time he served as a Justice of the Peace. He was an Episcopalian. His death
occurred very suddenly June 27, 1875. Ezekiel Forman had also a son, William
Hemsley Forman, father of the well known business men of Baltimore: Frederick
W., Richard, James Cranston, William H., and of Laura Forman, (Mrs. Grymes).
Ezekiel Forman married H. Maria Tilghman, daughter of Peregrine Tilghman
of "Recovery," Queen Anne's Co. She was mother of four sons and two daughters
viz : Peregrine, Henry, William, Ezekiel Marsh, Harriet and Araminta.
Ezekiel Marsh Forman, Jr., was born in Centreville, Jan. 15, 1859; at the age
of thirteen he began to earn his own living. For eight years he was in the drug
store of John Wooters of Centreville ; then he bought an interest in the store of
W. J. Hopper, remaining with him until 1888; since then he has been alone in busi
ness. He is an Episcopalian, and has been a vestryman since 1885. On the 28th
of April 1881, he married S. Catherine Earle (daughter of Judge Samuel T. Earle)
and has three children: Peregrine, Ezekiel and Mary Earle Forman.

HON. EZEKIEL FORMAN CHAMBERS.2
99. Gen. Benjamin Chambers, one of Kent's most distinguished citizens,
was born in Pennsylvania, October 6, 1749, the son of James and Sarah Lee Chambers.
He married June 11, 1783, Elizabeth, daughter of Ezekiel and Augustina Forman, and
a grand-daughter of Thomas Marsh. From Pennsylvania he removed to Chester-
town, Md., where he resided until his death. During the war of 1812, he held a
commission of Brigadier General, and was in command of the troops in that part of
the state. The only civil office held by Gen. Chambers was that of clerk of the
court of Kent Co. Gen. Chambers died Jan. 10, 1816, leaving the following children:
Thomas Marsh, Ezekiel, James, David, Benjamin Lee, Elizabeth Caroline (who mar
ried Col. Joseph Wickes) and William Henry. Two other children, Benjamin and
Margaretta, died before their father.
The most distinguished of these children was Hon. Ezekiel Forman Chambers.
He was born in Chestertown, Kent Co., Feb. 28, 1788. In 1809, he was admitted to

'Biographical Record of the Eastern Shore, p. 467. 2Ibid, p. 651.

110 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
the bar, and soon acquired a great reputation as a lawyer. During the war of 1812,
he raised a volunteer company, of which he was captain; with his company he par
ticipated in the battle of Caulksfield, in the summer of 1814, and his bravery was
especially mentioned in the official report of the battle. In 1826, the legislature of
Maryland elected him to the Senate to fill the term of Mr. Edward Lloyd, (who had
resigned ; and he was re-elected in 1831. In 1834 being appointed judge of the
Court of Appeals of Maryland, he resigned his seat in the Senate. He held the
office of judge of the Court of Appeals for seventeen years; his opinions are char
acterized by clearness of analysis and strength of argument. His intellect was
vigorous, and his quickness of perception almost amounted to intuition. When he
retired from the bench in 1851, he resumed the practice of law with the same ability
he displayed in early life. Judge Chambers was a member of the Episcopal church,
and for more than thirty years was vestryman of the church in Chestertown. For
many years he was president of the Board of Visitors of Washington College, (his
alma mater) .
Judge Chambers married Feb. 11, 1817, Sarah J. Bowers, daughter of Maj.
Jas. Bowers of Kent Co., and had seven children, three of whom survived him. He
died Feb. 28, 1867.
100. William Hemsley Forman, son of Maj. Ezekiel and Henrietta Maria
Earle Forman. B  d. 1868. (Admn. Record, Centreville, Q. A. Co., Md.)
1848 m. Marcia Ross Watts, d. 1884. (Admn. Record, Centreville.)
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1, Frederick Watts Forman, b. 1849, d. July 5, 1900, in Baltimore. Mem.
of firm: Forman Bros. & Co., South St., grain merchants.
m. 1895 Octavia Whelan, dau. of Thos. Whelan.
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Frederick Watts Forman, b. 1896.
2, Ezekiel Chambers Forman m.
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William Hemsley Forman.
Mary Earle Forman.
3, Richard Carmichael Forman (unm. in 1900).
4, James Cranston Forman m. 1st Emily Hodges.
 ( 2d, 1899, Mrs. Clara Morgan.
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Emily Hodges Forman.
5, Wm. Hemsley Forman m. Mary Nicholas.

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Hollins Forman,
Wm. H. Forman, d. aged two years.
Daughter b. 1900.

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6, Laura Gould Forman m. Arthur Johnson Grymes.
Arthur Johnson Grymes,
Oliver Smith Forman Grymes, ) rr« •
Marcia Watts Forman Grymes, j
101. William Lee Forman, son of Ezekiel and Augustina Marsh Forman.
m. Nov. 20, 1790, Jane Spear. Will prob. 1836. Register First Pres. Ch.
Bait., p. 6.

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xl, Sarah Emory Forman, b. May 17, 1792 m. John Steele Stiles, of Bait.
2, Margaret Forman, b. June 9, 1793.
3, William Spear Forman, b. Aug. 28, 1794.
4, Sophia Forman, b. March 26, 1796; d. unmarried. Will prob. 1852.
5, Eliza Forman, b. April 11, 1797, m. James Tabb.
6, John Spear Forman, b. Jan. 4, 1799.
7, Jane Hollins Forman, b. July 18, 1800.
8, William Lee Forman, b. Jan. 21, 1802, d. 1825.
Departed this life, Oct. 4, 1804, Mr. Wm. L. Forman of this city, a gentleman
whose amiable disposition and gentlemanly deportment secured him the attachment
and esteem of an extensive and respectable circle, who join their unfeigned sorrows
with those of his disconsolate widow and orphans to deplore his loss.
Tombs Remembrancer, (pub. in Baltimore.)
John Steel Stiles m. Sarah Emory Forman, dau. of Wm. Lee Forman.
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1, George Stiles.
2, Emory Forman Stiles.
3, William Lee Stiles.
m. 1st, Mrs. Craighill.
m. 2d, Bettie White.
4, Hester Tabb Stiles.
5, Jane Spear Stiles.
m. Edward S. Harrison, of Maryland.
6, Sophia Jackson Stiles.
m. William B. Clark, of Baltimore.
James Tabb m. Eliza Forman, dau. of Wm. Lee Forman.
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1, Jane Tabb.
2, Thomas Tabb.
3, Sarah Emory Tabb m. James K. Dabney of Gloucester Co., Va.
4, Lucy Tabb m. George  .

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112 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
102. Gen. David Forman, (son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Lee) Forman), b.
Nov. 3, 1745, d. Sept. 12, 1797. Will prob. at Chestertown, Md., Oct. 26, 1797.
m. Feb. 28, 1767, Ann, dau. of Thomas and Ann (Frisby) Marsh.

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1, Joseph Forman, b. March 31, 1771, d. before his father.
2, Sarah Marsh Forman, b. Feb. 1, 1773, m. Major Wm. Gordon Forman,
her 1st cousin, son of Joseph Forman of Shrewsbury, N. J.
3, Elizabeth Lee Forman, b. Dec. 4, 1775, d. before her father.
4, Ann Forman, b. Jan. 14, 1779, m. Dr. Jonathan Longstreet.
5, David Lee Forman, b. April 1, 1781, d. before his father.
6, Augustine Forman, b. Jan. 5, 1784, d. April 6, 1784.
7, Emma Forman, b. Oct. 12, 1785, d. 1853, m. Robert Cumming of Bait.
8, Eliza Forman, b. March 9, 1787, d. Oct. 14, 1796.
9, Malvina Forman, b. July 30, 1788, d. at very advanced age in Fau
quier Co., Va.
10, Rivine Forman, b. Dec. 30, 1791, d. 1816, m. James Neilson, son of
Gen. John Neilson of New Brunswick.
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Only dau. m. Rev. George Griffin.
11, Alfred Forman, b. May 9, 1793, d. June 29, 1793.
Note: — The foregoing dates of birth, and the dates of death of the 6th, 8th
and 11th children are from the family Bible of Gen. David Forman. The other in
formation is mainly from the article by Miss A. M. Woodhull in the Monmouth
Democrat.

GEN. DAVID FORMAN.
Gen. David Forman was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey, November
3, 1745, (presumably according to the old style calendar). His father was Joseph
Forman, a successful shipping merchant in the city of New York, who retired from
business and settled on one of his farms in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Joseph
Forman married Elizabeth Lee, who was of Scotch extraction, and David was their
fourth son.
In June, 1776, David Forman went as colonel in Heard's brigade of militia,
which was sent by New Jersey to re-enforce Washington's army at New York. He
seems to have attracted favorable notice, for, not only was he sent to suppress a
loyalist rising in Monmouth, in Nov. 1776, but, congress having authorized the six
teen additional regiments (in Dec. 1776) Washington in the following month offered
the command of one of them to David Forman. On March 5, 1777, he became
Brigadier General in the New Jersey militia, and as such took part in the battle of
Germantown. In consequence of a difference with the New Jersey assembly, Gen.
Forman resigned his Brigadier General's commission in November, 1777. The con
tinental command above mentioned, "Forman's Regiment," was never completely
organized, and, some time in the year 1778, was divided up among other commands.

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Gen. Forman is said to have believed that he could be of more service in Monmouth
than by remaining with the army. His services during the last two years and a
half of the war in collecting information in regard to the position and movements
of the ships of the enemy in and about the harbor of New York, were of great utility
to Washington and highly commended by him, particularly during the Yorktown
campaign. It may be noted that at the court martial of Gen. Charles Lee, Gen. Forman
who had been directed to accompany that officer at the battle of Monmouth, appeared
as a witness against Lee. Also in the spring of 1782, Gen. Forman took the leading
part in laying the case of the hanging of Capt. Joshua Huddy before Washington.
The Tories charged Gen. Forman with cruelty, giving him the nickname of
"Devil David." Gov. William Livingston they called "the archfiend," so we may
doubt the justice of the charge. The name "Black David" is sometimes said to have
been applied to Gen. Forman, but we believe properly belongs to Sheriff David For
man, his first cousin, who was so designated to distinguish him from the General.
Gen. Forman was judge of the Court of Common Pleas, member of the Cin
cinnati, vice president of the New Jersey branch of same from 1791 to 1793.
In February 1794, he removed to Chestertown, Maryland, the native state of
his wife. In Sept., 1796, he left Chestertown to attend to an estate which he owned
near Natchez. There he had a stroke of apoplexy. Having recovered sufficiently
to travel, the ship on which he took passage at New Orleans was captured on the
on the voyage by a British privateer and conveyed to New Providence in the
Bahamas. Anxiety and disappointment as to seeing his family, added to his en
feebled condition, brought about his death on Sept. 12, 1797. His wife was Ann
Marsh whom he married Feb. 28, 1767. There were eleven children, of whom only
five daughters grew up. Col. John Laurens (see his Army Correspondence)1 wrote in
1778 in a very complimentary manner of Gen. Forman, and Mrs. Richard Stockton
of "Morven," Princeton, wrote a poem on him, printed by Miss A. M. Woodhull in
her article in the Monmouth Democrat, (1873.)

WILL OF GEN. DAVID FORMAN.2
I, David Forman, of Chestertown in the County of Kent and State of Mary
land, Gentleman, in health of body and of sound mind, &c. ... I bequeath
unto my daughter Sarah Marsh Forman and to her heirs, &c, all my plate and
Household furniture of all kinds, also my House servants . . . for and in con
sideration of the tender care she has shown towards her mother, my beloved wife,
and as to the rest and residue of my Estate real and personal, it is my will . . .
that it be divided by my Executor and Executrix . . . into seven equal parts or
shares;  I also give unto my son-in-law William Gordon Forman,
and my daughter, Sarah Marsh Forman, his wife, one seventh part of all my estate.
. . . I give to my daughters Ann, Emma, Eliza, Malvina and Rivine, each one-
'See also Salter's "History of Monmouth Co." 2Wills, Chestertown, Kent Co., Md,

114 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
seventh part of my estate. ... To receive their portion at the ages of twenty-
one or when they shall marry. . . . Further, I also give to my sister Margaret
Forman, widow of my brother Ezekiel Forman, the sum of one hundred pounds.
And I do make and appoint my sonin-law, William Gordon Forman, and my
daughter, Sarah Marsh Forman, Executor and Executrix.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal, this 30th day of August,
1796. David Forman.
Witnessed by Phil Reed,
Wm. Burneston,
Prob. Oct. 26, 1797. Ben Chambers.

DESCENDANTS OF EZEKIEL FORMAN (1706-1746), SIXTH SON OF HIGH
SHERIFF SAMUEL FORMAN, OF MONMOUTH CO., N. J.
103. Ezekiel, High Sheriff Samuel Forman's youngest child, is described
in his will as of Upper Freehold. He is buried there at the First Baptist church,
(the old yellow meeting house) and his tombstone reads :
Here lies the body of Ezekiel Forman, son of Samuel and Mary Forman, who
departed this life the third day of October, A. D. L746, aged 39 years, 11 months
and two days.
His will which is at Trenton (Liber D of Wills, pages 421, <fec.) is dated Sept.
30, 1746, provides for his wife and six children, three sons and three daughters, and
also a child which might be born after his death. A son was born after his death,
making seven children in all. The will appoints his wife Elizabeth, brother Jon
athan Forman, brother-in-law Daniel Seabrooke, and friend Elisha Lawrence, Esq.,
executrix and Executors, and is witnessed by James Tapscott, George Danser, John
C. Chasey, and William Madock. It was probated Oct. 22, 1746. All the executors
qualified except Elisha Lawrence.
Ezekiel Forman, b. Nov. 1, 1706, d. Oct. 3, 1746, son of Samuel and Mary
(Wilbur) Forman.
m. Elizabeth Seabrooke.

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1, Samuel Forman, b. (probably) Oct. 28, 1759.
m. Margaret Forman (a cousin).
2, Thomas Forman, b. Dec. 18, 1740.
m. Jane Throckmorton.
3, (Dr.) Aaron Forman, b. Feb. 4, 1745-6.
m. Anne Emley.
t HannahTorman, LDateS and«°r^r of birtllS unknown. °*e of
6, Elizabeth Forman, [them m"  Scndder-
7, Ezekiel Forman, b. April 7, 1747.
m. Catherine Wyckoff.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 115

The Forman Family in Kentucky, Descendants
of Thomas Forman.

104. In the fall of 1789, Thomas Forman, the son of Ezekiel and Elizabeth
(Seabrooke) Forman, removed from New Jersey with his family to what is now
Mason Co., Kentucky. The house which he occupied, built of stone, stands but a
short distance from the town of Washington. On a hill in sight of the house is a
family burying ground, but many, perhaps most of the family, including Thomas
and his wife, lie in the old Baptist cemetery in the town itself. Thomas Forman
was a large landowner in Kentucky and a member of the legislature in 1797.
Thomas Forman's sons, except John who removed to Lewis Co., lived in
Mason Co., Ky. Ezekiel, the eldest, had six sons that grew to manhood. Thomas
Seabrooke Forman, the eldest of these, removed to Louisville in 1839, and there
lived until his death. Of his eldest son, Col. James Brown Forman, of Louisville,
an account will later be given. Accounts will also be given of other members of
this branch of the family. Of the six sons of Joseph Forman, Thomas' second son,
we may note the third, George L. Forman, long the most prominent representative
of the family in Mason Co. He was widely and favorably known, and was a member
of the legislature in 1859-61, and in 1873-75. George L. Forman was a Union man
during the Civil War and had two sons in the Union army, but his eldest son, Samuel
Tebbs Forman, took the opposite side and was mortally wounded at the battle of
Shiloh while Adjutant of the 4th Kentucky Regiment in the Confederate army.
Samuel, Thomas Forman's youngest son, if we exclude one who died in boyhood, was
six feet four inches tall and of a most robust constitution which served him in good
stead in the fall and winter of 1814-15 when he served as an ensign (2d Lieutenant)
in a Kentucky regiment at and near Fort Maiden, Canada, during the second war
with England. Samuel's eldest son, General Thomas Morgan Forman, was a Brigadier
General in the Kentucky militia and member of the legislature in 1839-40.
NOTES.
111 The first survey within the bounds of Lewis Co., Ky., was made by Capt.
Thos. Bullitt in what has been for seventy-five years known as ' Forman's Bottom.'
. . . Before 1798 Thomas Forman made a clearing in front of this survey."
2"The first brick house in Mason Co., Ky., was built by Simon Kenton and was
for many years owned by Thomas Wood Forman." (See paragraph 124.)
" Dolly Wood, wife of Ezekiel Forman, was the second white child born in
Mason County; she was born in 1786."
Thomas Forman of Monmouth Co., was one of the commissioners for drafting
men for the 2d regiment of New Jersey militia, August 14, 1778, presumably iden
tical with the above-named Thomas.

Collins Hist, of Kentucky, vol. ii, p. 465. 2P. 566.

116 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
105. Thomas Forman, son of Ezekiel and Elizabeth (Seabrooke) Forman,
born Dec. 18, 1740, d. about 1825, buried at old Baptist cemetery, Washington, Ky.
m. at Colts Neck, N. J.,  1769, Jane Throckmorton, b. Jan. 22, 1750, d.
Nov. 24, 1812, buried at Washington, Ky., dau. of Joseph and Mary (For
man) Throckmorton; Mary Forman, the wife of Joseph Throckmorton, was
dau. of Capt. John Forman brother of above named Ezekiel.
"I 1, Ezekiel Forman, b. in N. J., Sept. 9, 1770, d. April 26, 1836, buried at
private burial ground near Washington, Ky.
m. Dolly, dau. of George and Elizabeth (Whiteman) Wood, b. Dec. 14,
1786, d. May 4, 1872.
2, Mary Forman, b. Dec. 11, 1772.
m. May 29, 1794, George Lewis, b. Dec. 25, 1763, d. 1800.
3, Joseph Forman, b. Feb. 7, 1775, d. Mch. 12, 1844.
m. Mary, dau. William and Phoebe (Monteer) Dye, b. Mch. 12, 1777,
d. Aug. 24, 1835.
4, John Forman, b. Feb. 7, 1775.
m.  , 1 child, Samuel Ezekiel, d. unm. John Forman removed
from Mason Co. to Lewis Co., Ky.
6, Samuel Forman, b. Aug. 20, 1778, d. Jan. 4, 1833.
m. Margaret Smith, b. Oct. 5, 1783.
7, Thomas Forman, b. Jan. 16, 1782, d. Apr. 15, 1794.
106. Ezekiel Forman, son of Thomas and Jane (Throckmorton) Forman, b.
in New Jersey, Sept. 9, 1770, d. Mason Co., Ky., Apr., 1836.
m. Feb. 18, 1808, Dolly Wood, daughter of George and Elizabeth (White-
man) Wood, b. Dec. 14, 1786, d. May 4, 1872.

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1, Thomas Seabrooke Forman, b. Mason Co., Ky., Nov. 8, 1808, d. Louisville,
Ky., June 24, 1849.
m. Oct. 15, 1835, Mary Ann, dau. of James Brown.
2, Elizabeth Forman, b. Dec. 25, 1809, d. Sept. 26, 1890.
m. May 7, 1829, Robert Taylor.
3, George Forman, b. July 17, 1811, d. Mason Co., Ky., Mch. 25, 1854.
Resided at Louisville, Ky., and New Orleans.
4, John Samuel Forman, b. Feb. 15, 1813, d. Mch. 1, 1879.
m. March 10, 1838, Jane, dau. of Gov. John Chambers.
5, Throckmorton Forman, b. Oct. 3, 1814, d. Aug. 25, 1834.
6, Jane Forman, b. July 25, 1816, d. Aug. 27, 1893.
m. Sept. 29, 1836, Joseph Forman, son of Joseph and Mary Dye Forman.
7, Mary Forman, b. Sept. 26, 1817, d. Jan. 9, 1903.
m. Oct. 1, 1840, William McClung Paxton, son of James A. Paxton.
8, Ezekiel Forman, b. June 20, 1819, d. Apr. 2, 1902.
m. first, Anna S., dau. of Rev. Dr. Benj. H. Rice.
m. second, Ellen, dau. of David Russel.
m. third, Mary H. de Graffenried.

Colonel James Brown Forman.
15th Ky. Vol. Infantry, Union Army.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 117
9, Charles William Forman, b. Mch. 3, 1821, d. Aug. 27, 1894.
m. first, Margaret Newton.
m. second, Georgiana S. Lockhart.
10, Whiteman Forman, b. May 13, 1822, d. Mch. 16, 1824.
11, Ann Forman, b. March 2, 1824, d. July, 1900.
m. Sept. 14, 1848, Dr. John W. Henry — only child Tillie Henry, m. An
drew Wood.
12, Matilda Forman, b. Dec. 5, 1828, d. June 9, 1849.
m. Mch. 10, 1847, William B. Huston, son of William Huston — only
child Clara, m. Thos. C. Johnson.
13, Whiteman W. Forman, b. June 1, 1832.
m. first, Sept. 5, 1855, Helen Kelly.
m. second, Nov. 11, 1891, Mary Park.
107. Thomas Seabrooke Forman, son of Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman,
b. Mason Co., Ky., Nov. 8, 1808, d. Louisville, June 24, 1849.
m. Oct. 1835, Mary Ann, dau. of James Brown,b. Dec. 11, 1817, d. July 20, 1850.

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1, Sarah Pope Forman, b. April 2, 1837, d. August 11, 1900.
m. November 22, 1855, William J. Anderson, d. Dec. 17, 1895 — children.
2, Ezekiel Seabrooke Forman, b. Feb. 25, 1839, d. April 8, 1867.
3, James Brown Forman, b. Dec. 12, 1842, d. Dec. 31, 1862, was Colonel of
15th Regt., Ky. Vol. Inf. Killed at battle of Stone's River or Murfrees-
borough.
4, George Forman, b. August 7, 1844, d. Nov. 1901.
m. October 13, 1864, Hannah M. Bartley — only child: Emily Forman.
5, Mary Ann Forman b. January 11, 1847, d. May 2, 1884.
m. Feb. 2, 1864, William T. Hamilton — only child: Forman Hamilton,
who d. unmarried.

COL. JAMES BROWN FORMAN.
108. James Brown Forman, son of Thomas Seabrooke and Mary Ann
(Brown) Forman, was born in Louisville, Ky., Dec. 12, 1842. In the summer of
1861 he entered the U. S. Volunteers as 1st Lieutenant of Company C, 15th Ken
tucky Volunteer Infantry. Upon the death of his superior officer he soon became
captain. At the battle of Perryville or Chaplin Hills, all the field officers of the
15th Kentucky were killed and wounded, and Captain Forman although the junior
captain was promoted to its colonelcy by Gov. Robinson for great gallantry. Major
W. P. McDowell, of Louisville writes, (in a letter, May, 1.896): "The gallantry at
Perryville alluded to was Co. 'C being the 'color company' had charge of the regi
mental flag, which was in charge of nine non-commissioned officers. These nine
men were killed while in charge of the colors, the flag staff was cut in two by
bullets, and the colors went down. Capt. Forman rushed to them, and finding the

118 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
staff too short to display them, mounted a rail fence in front of the regiment and
waved the flag therefrom, which must have inspired any wavering heart to deeds of
valor." In a message of Gov. J. B. Robinson of February 28, 1863, printed in the
Frankfort Tri- Weekly Commonwealth, of March 4, 1863, it is stated that in a hand
to hand encounter, after the flag had been wrested from Captain Forman's grasp
by overpowering numerical strength, " it was recaptured and securely held until the
close of the dreadful conflict." The Governor says: "Before going into his last
battle he caused the old and tattered flag of the regiment, which had been presented
to him as the reward of his personal prowess, to be conveyed to me. . . ." The
Governor was requested by him to preserve it among the state archives.
The following remarkable incident is related by Major W. P. McDowell. It
should be stated that at the battle of Stone River (or Murfreesborough) Major Mc
Dowell was serving as chief of staff to Gen. Rousseau. Major McDowell writes:
" Col. J. B. Forman was my friend from early boyhood. We were engaged together
in raising Co. 'C 15th Ky., I as captain and he as lieutenant, and were always fast
friends. He had a very stylish black horse which I admired and tried to buy from
him. As I was riding with him and the field officers of the 15th to place the regi
ment in line of battle at Stone River, he remarked: Will, you have always wanted
this horse; now it is my desire that after this battle you should have him. I will be
killed in the fight, and I call on you gentlemen (addressing his field officers) to see
that he gets him." Major McDowell rallied him and said: " Jimmie, if you are
going to be killed let me have him now and take my horse," but he answered : "1
am in earnest; I know what I am talking about and I want you to remember. I
will be killed, you will be wounded, and the horse will also be wounded, and I
want Major Allen to see that the horse is cared for and given to you." All occurred
as he said. He was killed and fell from his horse, the horse was wounded three
times in the left hind leg, and Major McDowell was wounded in the left arm.
While convalescent from his wound, Major McDowell was met in Louisville by Mr.
William J. Anderson, Col. Forman's brother-in-law, who informed him that the horse
was in a livery stable at his disposal, Major Allen having conveyed the request.
Major McDowell writes that he kept the horse until his death.
Col. Forman was killed about 9 a. m., Dec. 31, 1862. He was buried at Cave
Hill cemetery, at Louisville, and by his side rests his brother, Lieutenant Ezekiel
Seabrooke Forman, who was wounded at Perryville, but survived the war. Both were
tall, handsome young men, James a little over six feet, Ezekiel nearly six feet tall.
109. Elizabeth Forman, dau. of Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman, b. Dec.
25, 1809, d. Sept. 26, 1890.
m. May 7, 1829, Robert Taylor, b. March 4, 1806, d. Sept. 2, 1852, son of
Robert Taylor.

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1, Jane Taylor, d. 1887.
m. Robert T. Taylor.
2, Mary Taylor.
m. Rev. Robert F. Caldwell, Sharpsburg, Ky.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 119
3, Sarah Taylor, res. Washington, Ky.
4, Anna Taylor.
m. Richard C. Durrett, d. 1890. Res. Mason Co., Ky.
5, Robert Taylor res. Washington, Ky.
m. Mary A. Wood.
6, Ezekiel Taylor.
m. Amelia S. Metcalfe.
7, Charles F. Taylor.
m. Mattie S. Wood.
8, George Taylor, res. Washington, Ky.
9, Rev. Samuel F. Taylor, d. 1901.
m. Elizabeth Newton Forman, dau. of Rev. Charles William Forman.
110. John Samuel Forman, son of Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman, b.
Feb. 15, 1813, d. in Louisville, March 1, 1879.
m Jane, dau. of John Chambers (who was staff officer of General W. H.
Harrison in War of 1812, later Governor of Iowa Territory), d.
Aug. 18, 1853.

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1, Hannah Chambers Forman.
m. William Forman, son of Gen. Thos. Morgan Forman. See No. 139.
2, Throckmorton Forman.
m. Asenath, dau. of R. H. Stanton.
3, Laura Forman.
m. J. E. McCarthey.
4, Lizzie Forman.
m. Rev. J. H. Moore.
5, Daisy Forman.
m. Dr. Frank C. Wilson.
111. Throckmorton Forman, son of John Samuel and Jane (Chambers) For
man, b. Mch. 27, 1843, m. May 1, 1866, Asenath Stanton, res. Fernbank, Ohio.
I
I
1, Richard Stanton Forman, b. Aug. 10, 1867.
2, Samuel Chambers Forman, b. March 2, 1869.
3, Maud Forman, b. June 16, 1870, d. Aug. 8, 1872.
4, Asenath Stanton Forman.
5, Christine L. Forman m. Dec. 11, 1894, Geo. Fred'k Eldridge of Boston.
6, Jane Throckmorton Forman.
7, William Anderson Forman.
8, Ella Pierce Forman.
9, Marie Lewis Forman.

120 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
112. Laura Forman m. J. E. McCarthey, of Louisville, Ky.
I  '
1, Mary Lee McCarthey, d. 1871.
2, Laura Lyle McCarthey, d. 1877.
3, Bessie Brent McCarthey m. Frank Blair Williams.
4, Edwin Forman McCarthey.
5, Clara McCarthey.
6, Frank Wilson McCarthey, d. 1882.
7, Helen Whiteman McCarthey.
8, Ada Paschal McCarthey, d. 1891.
113. Lizzie Forman m. Rev. J. H. Moore, she died 1887.
Issue: 1, Harry; 2, Myra; 3, Marie; 4, Jane Chambers. They live at
Kayser, W. Va.
114. Dr. Frank C. Wilson, of Louisville, Ky.
m. Nov. 2, 1876, Daisy Forman, dau. of John Samuel and Jane (Chambers)
Forman.

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1. Margaret Preston Wilson.
2, Samuel Forman Wilson.
3, Laura Lyle Wilson.
4, Mary Louise Wilson.
5, Alice Throckmorton Wilson, d. 1885.
6, Frank Caruthers Wilson.
115. William McClung Paxton, son of James A. and Maria Marshall Pax
ton, b. March 2, 1819, res. Platte City, Mo.
m. Oct. 1, 1840, Mary Forman, dau. of Ezekiel and Dolly Wood Forman.
h 1, Thomas Paxton, deceased.
2, Anna Maria Paxton.
3, Tillie F. Paxton.
m. 1868, Algernon S. Tebbs.

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1, Laura Gilbert Tebbs.
m. 1893, C. Miller.
2, Mary Paxton Tebbs.
4, Marshall Paxton, deceased.
5, Mary Paxton, deceased.
6, Phoebe M. Paxton.
Note: — Maria Marshall who married James A. Paxton was dau. of Alexander
Keith Marshall, a younger brother of Chief Justice John Marshall.

THE FORMAN GENEAL OGY. 121

REV. EZEKIEL FORMAN, A. M., D. D.
116. The Rev. Dr. Ezekiel Forman, son of Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman,
was born near Washington, Ky., June 20, 1819. He graduated at Centre College,
Danville, Ky., in 1837 ; studied theology at the Princeton (N. J.) Theological Sem
inary, completing his course in 1841, and returned to Kentucky where he spent
nearly all his life as pastor of churches in several counties of that state. From 1891
to 1898 he was pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian Church in New Orleans, La.
In 1898 he returned to Kentucky, and died at Lexington April 2, 1902, and was
buried at Richmond, Ky. He represented West Lexington Presbytery in General
Assembly of 1846, and attended the General Assembly at Rochester, N. Y., in 1860,
as a delegate from Transylvania Presbytery. He received the degree of A. M. from
Centre College, and that of D. D. from Central University, Richmond, Ky.
Rev. Ezekiel Forman, D. D., b. June 20, 1819, d. April 2, 1902.
m. 1st, at Princeton, N. J., May 25, 1841, Anna Smith Rice, dau. of Rev. Dr.
Benjamin Holt Rice, b. July 31, 1820, d. January 4, 1844.
m. 2nd, Oct. 26, 1848, Ellen Russel, dau. of David Alston Russel and Ellen
(Alsop) Russel, of Danville, Ky., d. Aug. 26, 1873.
m. 3rd, Aug. 3, 1886, Mary H. de Graffenried, d. 1890; no children by third
marriage.
Only child by first marriage :
1, Benjamin Rice Forman, b. May 1, 1842, m. Mary Elizabeth Mandelle.
Children by second marriage :
2, Jane Forman, b. Aug. 6, 1849, d. Dec. 28, 1875, m. George W. Williams
— no children.
3, Thomas Throckmorton Forman, b. Dec. 29, 1852, m. Lelia C. Donohoo,
4, David Russel Forman, b. Sept. 7, 1856, m. Bettie Harmon West, d. August,
1894, daughter of James H. West (Confederate soldier). No children.
5, Caroline Elizabeth Forman.
6, Mary Forman.
7, Michael George Youce Forman, m. Minnie Bell Sharp.

THE RICE FAMILY.
lu Thomas Rice, an Englishman of Welsh extraction, was an early adventurer
in Virginia, and a settler in Hanover Co. Here he left his wife with nine sons and
three daughters and went to England to receive a considerable estate which had
been left him, but returned no more. The sailors reported he had died at sea. It
was supposed that he had been assassinated. No return was ever made of the
property after which he had gone and his family were left destitute in a strange
land." Thomas' grandson, Rev. David Rice (1733-1816), was the founder of the
Presbyterian church in Kentucky, which has erected a monument to his memory.

1Memoir of Rev. David Rice.

122 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, wife of Judge Pryor, of New York, is a great granddaughter of
Rev. David Rice, and has kindly furnished information in regard to the early history
of her family. Rev. Benjamin Holt Rice, D. D., (1782-1856) nephew of Rev. David
Rice, was a Presbyterian minister of distinction, founded the Presbyterian church
at Petersburg, Virginia, was pastor in New York City, at Princeton, N. J., and else
where. He married Martha Alexander, sister of the eminent Rev. Dr. Archibald
Alexander. Dr. Benjamin Holt Rice's daughter, Anna S., married Rev. Ezekiel
Forman. Among other well known members of the family may be mentioned the
Rev. John H. Rice and Rev. Nathan L. Rice, respectively the brother and cousin of
Benjamin H. Rice.

BENJAMIN RICE FORMAN.
117. Benjamin Rice Forman, son of Rev. Ezekiel Forman, D. D., by his first
marriage with Anna S. Rice, was born near Washington, Ky., May 1, 1842. He
graduated at Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1861, entered the Confederate Army
and served under Gen. John H. Morgan. He came to New Orleans in 1866 and was
admitted in that year to the bar, since which time he has been continuously engaged
in the practice of his profession, and is well known as a lawyer of ability. He has
also taken an active interest in public questions, to which he has devoted much
study, and during Reconstruction days and many times since has labored earnestly,
both by speaking and writing, for the Democratic cause. He took a prominent part
in the convention which framed the State Constitution of 1879.
Benjamin Rice Forman, b. May 1, 1842.
m. Lexington, Ky., January 16, 1866, Mary Elizabeth Mandelle, step
daughter of Daniel Edwin Mandelle of New Orleans, and daughter of
William W. and Frances Jane (Hockenhull) King, d. January 5, 1902.
Children (all of whom were born in New Orleans) :
1, Charles Forman, b. Dec. 8, 1866.
2, Benjamin Rice Forman, Jr., b. Feb. 19, 1869.
m. 1890, Lelia Douglas Harper, dau. of late William P. Harper, Captain
7th La. Regt., Confederate Army, afterwards Civil Sheriff, New Or
leans. — 4 children: 1, Ethel Forman; 2, Benjamin Rice Forman, 3rd;
3, William Harper Forman; 4, Lelia Forman. Resides in Houston,
Texas.
3, Hilda Forman.
m. 1897, Harry Penrose Lanphier of New Orleans, — child : Hilda Forman
Lanphier.
4, Ethel Forman.
5, (Dr.) Alfred Hennen Forman.
m. Jan. 31, 1903, Dot Preis, dau. of William H. Preis of New Orleans.
Resides at Crowley, Louisiana.
6, Anna Rice Forman.

Rev. Charles William Forman.
(1821-1894)

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THOMAS THROCKMORTON FORMAN.
118. Thomas Throckmorton Forman, son of the Rev. Ezekiel Forman, D. D.,
by his second marriage with Ellen Russel, was born at Richmond, Ky., Dec. 29,
1852. He was educated at Kentucky University and at the University of Virginia;
was admitted to the bar in 1873, and practiced at Cynthiana, Ky., from May, 1874
to Sept., 1890, having been attorney for the municipality, the Farmers National
Bank, and local counsel of the Kentucky Central Railroad. Since 1890 he has re
sided at Lexington, Ky., of which city he is now one of the most prominent lawyers.
His eldest son is associated with him in practice. He has been always much in
terested in church work, and has long been an elder of the Presbyterian church.
Thomas Throckmorton Forman, b. Dec. 29, 1852, m. Oct. 11, 1876, Lelia
Campbell Donohoo, of Bardstown, Ky.
Children: 1, Michael Donohoo Forman.
2, Thomas Vernon Forman.
3, Leila Forman.
4, Howard H. Forman.
Michael George Youce Forman, son of Rev. Dr. Ezekiel and Ellen (Russel)
Forman, m. 1895, Minnie Bell Sharp, resides at Wilmington, Del.
Children: 1, Alonzo Russel Forman.
2, Minnie Cushman Forman.
3, George Sharp Forman.

REV. CHARLES WILLIAM FORMAN.
119. The Rev. Charles William Forman was born near Washington, Ken
tucky, March 3, 1821, d. at Kasauli, India, Aug. 27, 1894. He was the son of
Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman. He graduated at Centre College, Danville, Ky.,
in October, 1844; passing through the theological seminary at Princeton, N. J., he
was ordained at Washington, Ky., in 1847. In August of that year he sailed from
New York, landing at Calcutta, January 28, 1848. After spending a few months at
Agra and Umballa, and nearly a year at Lodiana, he went to Lahore in 1849 on
the annexation of the Punjab to British India. The work of the mission was largely
educational and he gave much attention to the schools which he superintended. In
1870 as many as 1600 pupils attended in the main and branch schools together.
There was also a night school for adults. He also preached much, as well as wrote.
Through the several generations who were educated in the schools he became widely
known, and both English and natives held him in high esteem. The Civil and
Military Gazette, Aug. 30, 1894, says: " He enjoyed in a very unusual degree the
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124 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
his work was largely helped. Such men as Lord Lawrence, Sir Donald
McLeod, Sir Robert Montgomery, and Sir Charles Aitchison believed not
only in the work he was doing, but also believed in the laborious, unselfish
and unassuming missionary, and gladly aided him by their sympathy and
contributions. No man in any walk of life could be more unceasingly diligent than
he was in his. He had one aim in all that he did. He never seemed to think of
what men might say or think of him ; warm-hearted, genial and loving, he drew
men to him, and it always was to do them good. Beyond all doubt the Punjab is
the better for his having lived in it." "The success in life of his pupils was always
a source of great pleasure to him, and his recommendations for securing employ
ments were always at the disposal of his pupils." {Lahore Tribune, Sept. 8, 1894).
He took much interest in the establishment of a college which, after his death, was
called "Forman College" in his honor, and a chapel in which he was accustomed to
preach to English speaking native Christians was rebuilt and called "Forman
Chapel." When he died in 1894 he had been at Lahore over forty years. He visited
the United States in 1867, returning to Lahore in 1869, again in 1880, and lastly
in 1892. Three of his sons are now missionaries in India.
Rev. Charles William Forman, son of Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman, b.
Mch. 3, 1821, d. Aug. 27, 1894.
m. 1st, July 3, 1855, Margaret, dau. of Rev. John Newton, d. 1878.
m. 2d, Dec. 1882, Georgiana S. Lockhart, of Scotland.
Children of first marriage:
1, Elizabeth Newton Forman, m. Rev. Samuel F. Taylor, d. 1901, no children.
2, Rev. Charles William Forman, missionary in India.
m. Emily Falconer — children.
3, Rev. Henry Forman, graduate Wooster University, Ohio, 1881, studied
theology at Princeton Seminary, is a missionary in India.
m. 1st, Alice Bird, d. January 20, 1896, no children.
m. 2nd, Constance Sophie Newton.
4, Francis Forman, m. Carrie Tucker — resides at Gatesville, Texas.
5, Rev. John Newton Forman, graduate of College of New Jersey, (Prince
ton), 1884, studied theology at Princeton Seminary, is a missionary in
India.
m. Margaret Foote — child, Florence Dorothea Forman.
6, Mary Paxton Forman.
7, Emily Forman.
Children of second marriage:
8, Fannie Sherriff Forman.
9, Dorothy Margaret Forman, d. in infancy.
10, Hugh Lockhart Forman.

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120. Charles William Forman, Jr. m. Emily Falconer.
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1, Charles Ian Forman.
2, Douglas Newton Forman.
3, Agnes McDonald Forman.
4, Henry Janvier Forman.
5, Kenneth William Forman.
121. Whiteman W. Forman, son of Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman, m.
1st Helen Kelly, m. 2nd Mary Park. Resides at Paris, Bourbon Co., Ky.
Children by first marriage: 1, Kate Bowman Forman m. Geo. Varden; 2,
Mollie Brent Forman m. Fleming Busby Crooke, and a son, 3, Robert, who died young.
122. Mary Forman, dau. of Thomas and Jane (Throckmorton) Forman m.
May, 1794, George Lewis.
Issue: 1, Jane m. Wm. Greathouse ; 2, Isaac m. Sarah Bell Brent; 3, Eliza
beth m. Wm. Mcllvaine.
123. Isaac Lewis m. Sarah B. Brent.
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1, Charles T. Lewis, b. 1830, of Dade City, Fla., m. Henrietta M. Gray and
has seven children.
2, George Lewis, b. 1832, d. about 1890.
3, Forman Lewis, b. 1834.
4, Mary Forman Lewis m. 1st  Jackson; m. 2nd Col. Charles B.
Alexander, who d. 1885. She lived at Hopkinsville, Ky.
5, A daughter who died.
124. Joseph Forman, son of Thomas and Jane (Throckmorton) Forman, b.
Feb. 7, 1775, d. March 12, 1844.
m. Mary Dye, dau. of William and Phoebe Monteer Dye, b. March 12, 1777,
d. Aug. 24, 1835.

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1, Thomas Wood Forman, b. Dec. — , 1798, d. June 6, 1871, m. Elizabeth
Gower Tebbs — no issue.
2, Phoebe Forman, b. June 3, 1797, m. James Broderick — issue : Jos. Forman
Broderick of Palmyra, Mo., whose dau. m. Rev. J. K. Hitner.
3, Jane Forman, b. Sept. 14, 1801, m. John McDonald.
4, William Forman, b. Dec. 10, 1804, m. Phoebe Glenn.
5, Harriet Forman, b. Oct. 21, 1807, m. Edward S. Perrie.
6. George Lewis Forman, b. Feb. 25, 1810, d. July 14, 1886, m. Feb. 20, 1834,
Alice Ann Tebbs, d. March 2, 1854.
7, Joseph Forman, b. Feb. 4, 1812, d. Sept. 3, 1888, m. Sept. 29, 1836, Jane,
dau. of Ezekiel Forman.
8, Charles Forman, b. Feb. 2, 1814, m. Mary Pickett.
9, Samuel Forman, b. Dec. 9, 1817, m. Anna Soward.

126 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
125. Jane Forman m. John McDonald.
I
1, William McDonald m. Sallie B.,.dau. of Gen. Thos. Morgan Forman.
2, Phoebe McDonald m. Robt. Hunt — issue: 4 children.
3, Mary McDonald m. Thos. M. Morton — both died leaving no descendants.
126. William Forman m. Phoebe Glenn.
1, Mary Forman, b. Sept. 7, 1831, d. Aug. 19, 1881, m. Aug. 16, 1853, John
Beverley Herndon1, b. 1830, d. 1894. Children: 1, Edward Forman
Herndon m. Nettie Grover; 2, Phoebe Forman Herndon m. Calvert
Arthur. Both res. Shannon, Ky.
2, Elizabeth Forman m. Robert Morris Marshall, son of Martin Pickett
Marshall, who m. Eliza Colston Marshall.
3, Phoebe J. Forman.
127. Martin P. Marshall was son of Charles Marshall, b. 1767, who m. Lucy
Pickett. Eliza C. Marshall was daughter of Thos. Marshall, b. 1761, who m. Frances
Kennan. Charles and Thos. Marshall were brothers of Chief Justice John Marshall,
whose father and brothers removed from Virginia to Mason Co., Ky. (The Mar
shall Family by W. M. Paxton.)
128. Elizabeth Forman m. Robt. M. Marshall.
Issue: 1, Elizabeth F.; 2, Martin P.; 3, Charles; 4, Logan M.; 5, Robt. M.;
6, Louis; 7, John.
129. Harriet Forman m. Edward S. Perrie.
Issue: 1, Frank m. Ann Eliza Humphreys ; 2, Joseph F. m. Mrs. Myra Chan
cellor, daughter of Dr. Basil Duke — no issue; 3, Charles F. m. Mrs. Nannie Estep —
issue : 1 child; 4, Mary m. J. C. Humphreys ; both now dead.
1 30. George Lewis Forman, son of Joseph and Mary (Dye) Forman, b. Feb.
25, 1810, d. July 14, 1886. (Member of Kentucky legislature, 1859-61 and 1873-75).
m. Feb. 20, 1834, Alice Ann Tebbs, dau. Judge Samuel Tebbs.

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1, Samuel Tebbs Forman, b. 1834, d. 1862, 1st Lieut, and Adjutant 4th Ky.
(Confederate) mortally wounded at Shiloh.
2, Joseph Throckmorton Forman, b. 1837, d. 1878, officer in Ky. (Union)
cavalry, m. Elizabeth T. Forman — only child, Phoebe Hickman Forman.
3, Phoebe Forman, m. John G. Hickman — only child, Samuel Hickman.
4, Sarah Forman.

•For Herndon Genealogy, see Va. Hist. Mag., January, 1902.

Lieut. Samuel Tebbs Forman.
Adjt. 4th Ky, Regt., Confederate Army.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 127
5, Thomas Forman (in Union army during Civil War), d. May, 1900.
m. Margaret, dau. of Sprigg Chambers, and granddaughter of Gov. John
Chambers — Children: 1, Alice Tebbs Forman, m. Athelstan Owens;
2, Martha Phillips Forman, m. James Barbour, Jr.
6, Edward Perrie Forman.
7, Charles William Forman, d. Aug. 6, 1899, m. 1st Amelia Stevenson, d.
Feb. 21, 1895 — no children, m. 2nd, Mary Lee Wood — one child, Chas.
Wm. Forman.

SAMUEL TEBBS FORMAN.
131. Samuel Tebbs Forman, the eldest son of Hon. George L. Forman, of
Mason Co., Ky., and Alice Ann, daughter of Judge Samuel Tebbs, was born Dec.
28, 1834. Although his father was a Union man and two of his brothers were in
the Union army, he joined the Confederate army and was 1st Lieutenant of Com
pany I, Fourth Kentucky Regiment. His story is best told by the following docu
ments : Head Quarters : 4th Division,
Camp on field of battle,
Dear Sir : 8th April, 1862.
Your son is a prisoner and wounded. Among so many thousands of wounded
I failed to find him though I have searched diligently. Gen. Grant had ordered
him to be delivered into my hands; I enclose the order endorsed to you. Come and
get him before he goes to one of the prisons north, or it will be hard to get him out
afterwards. He is now at Savanna on the other side of the Tennessee River, 10
miles from here.
My Division covered itself with glory in the battle of yesterday.
Yours truly,
. Geo. L. Forman, Esqr., W. Nelson,
Washington, Mason Co., Ky. Brig. Genl.
Head Quarters, Dist. of West Tenn.,
Pittsburg, April 8th, 1862.
Guards will deliver over to Brig. Gen. Wm. Nelson Saml. F. {sic.) Forman, a
prisoner now in our possession. By command Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant.
W. R. Rowley, Aid De Camp.
[Endorsement:] The guards of whatever post having in charge the prisoner referred to on the
other side of this paper will deliver him to the bearer of this order who is the father
of the young man, and a true and loyal citizen of my native county in Kentucky.
Camp on the field of battle, W. Nelson, Brig. General.
8th April, 1862,
Pittsburg Landing, Tenn.

128 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
G. L. Forman, Salem, Ills., April 22, '62.
Sir:
From a dying request of your son, S. T. Forman, Adjutant 4th Kentucky
Regiment, that I should write and inform you of his sad fate, [I would say] he was
wounded on Sunday through the thigh, breaking the bone in two places. If his
leg had been amputated in time he might have been saved. He lay out in the rain
Sunday night and was never brought in until Tuesday. He was so much prostrated
that all the stimulants and care failed to bring on reaction. He died Tuesday night
and was buried the morning following. He gave to Lieut. Ellis belonging to Gen
eral Nelson's staff three hundred dollars and his pistol, which you can obtain by
making application to the general or the lieutenant. No doubt you have heard of
his death ere this. As the Third Kentucky Union Regiment fought against the
Fourth Kentucky Confederate Regiment, General Crusoe of Kentucky called to
see the Adjutant the evening before he died. I have nothing further to relate, but
should be pleased to hear of your receiving these few lines.
Yours truly,
W. Hill, Surgeon 48th Reg. 111. Volunteers, Retired.
Another letter from Dr. Hill, dated April 29, 1862, furnishes some additional
details, giving information as to the situation of Lieut. Forman's grave. Dr. Hill
writes : "If you go up to Pittsburg Landing be sure to call on Lieut. Calvin Sand-
ford of the 48th Reg. Ills. Vol., as he with the balance of us became very much
attached to him during his suffering which he bore like a hero. ... I do, Mr.
Forman, sympathize with you, though a stranger." Notwithstanding the kind
doctor's information the grave could not be identified.
132. Joseph Forman, son of Joseph and Mary (Dye) Forman, b. 1812, d. 1888.
m. 1836 Jane, dau. of Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman.
Children :
1, Mary Forman (resides at Washington, Ky.)
2, Elizabeth Taylor Forman m. Joseph Throckmorton Forman, d. 1878, son
of Hon. Geo. L. Forman.
3, George T. Forman, d. in infancy.
4, Thomas Seabrooke Forman m. Mary E. Davenport — no children. Resides
at Midway, Ky.
5, William Forman (of Platte City, Mo.), attorney at law.
6, Charles Forman, d. young.
7, Alice Whiteman Forman.
8, Joseph G. Forman, d. St. Louis, Mo., June 2, 1899
133. Charles Forman, son of Joseph and Mary (Dye) Forman, b. Feb., 1814,
d. near St. Louis, Mo., 1850, m. Mary R., daughter of Colonel John and Elizabeth
(Chamberlain) Pickett.
Children: 1, Bettie Forman; 2, Cornelia Forman; 3, John P. Forman m.
twice, s. p.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 129
134. Samuel Forman, son of Joseph and Mary (Dye) Forman, b. Dec, 1817.
m. Anna, dau. of Colonel Alfred and Elizabeth (Chiles) Soward.
Children :
1, Alfred S. Forman.
2, Fannie Forman m. Dr. Reed of Maysville, Ky.
3, Harriet Forman.
135. Samuel Forman, son of Thomas and Jane (Throckmorton) Forman, b.
Aug. 10, 1778.
m. Margaret Smith, sister of Commodore William Smith, U. S. Navy.
h 1, Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman, member of Ky. legislature, 1839-40, and
Brigadier General in Ky. militia.
m. Mary, dau. of Judge Samuel Tebbs — 12 children.
2, William Forman, removed to Missouri from Kentucky.
m. Agnes Yancey of Mason Co., Ky. — Children: 1, Harlow Forman; 2,
Thomas Forman; 3, Mary Forman.
136. Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman, son of Samuel and Margaret (Smith)
Forman. m. Mary Tebbs, dau. of Judge Samuel Tebbs.

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1, Margaret Forman.
m. James M. Mitchell of Mason Co., Ky.
2, Samuel Forman. Removed to western part of Illinois.
m. 1861, Elizabeth Carrington.
3, Joseph Forman, res. Mason Co., Ky.
4, William Forman, died 
m. Hannah C. dau. of John Samuel Forman.
5, Sallie Baxter Forman.
m. first, William McDonald of St. Louis, Mo., son of John and Jane
(Forman) McDonald — no children.
m. second, John C. Humphreys of Mason Co., Ky., d. 1895 — no children.
6, George Forman, res. Casper, Wyoming.
7, Ezekiel Forman, res. Mason Co., Ky.
m. Hannah Matthews.
8, Mary Ann Forman.
m. Hugh Warder of Mason Co., Ky.
9, Thomas Forman, res. Mason Co., Ky.
m. Emma Perkins — no children.
10, Walker Reid Forman, res. Mason Co., Ky.
m. Dora Berry.
11, Lizzie Alice Forman.
m. Isaac C. Clay of Lexington, Ky.
12, Harriet Perrie Forman.
m. James E. Claybrooke of Mason Co., Ky.

130 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
137. Margaret Forman, daughter of Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman.
m. James M. Mitchell of Mason Co., Ky.
Children :
1, Mary Bell Mitchell, d.  , m. John Finch.
2, Bettie Mitchell m. Anderson Finch of Mason Co., Ky., d.  .
3, Aaron Mitchell, ) t> .-. j j
at A- n/r-j- i, n hBoth dead.
4, Lydia Mitchell, j
138. Samuel Forman, son of Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman.
m. Elizabeth Carrington.
Children : 1, Thomas Forman; 2, Mary Forman.
139. William Forman, son of Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman, d. 

m. Feb. 6, 1862, Hannah Chambers Forman, dau. of John Samuel and
Jane (Chambers) Forman.
Children :
1, John Throckmorton Forman, b. Nov. 22, 1862, m. July, 1889, Julia Ethel
Potts. Resides at Kansas City, Mo.
2, George L. Forman, b. July 25, 1864. Resides at Louisville, Ky.
3, Mary Baxter Forman m. Jan. 15, 1890, Rev. Joseph A. Vance, pastor of
Presbyterian Church, Chicago. Child : Dorothy Vance.
4, Laura Lyle Forman m. Oct. 26, 1899, Wm. Walter Maxwell of Baltimore.
5, William Whiteman Forman, d. aged 3 years.
140. Ezekiel Forman, son of Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman, res. Mason Co., Ky.
m. Hannah Matthews.
Children: 1, Walter Forman; 2, Henry Forman; 3, Hugh Forman.
141. Mary Ann Forman, daughter of Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman.
m. Hugh Warder.
Children : 1, Maria Warder m. Sandford Goff of Mason Co., Ky.; 2, Mary M.
Warder. 142. Walker Reid Forman, son of Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman.
m. Dora Berry.
Children: 1, Hattie Gaines Forman ; 2, Lena Warder Forman.
143. Lizzie Alice Forman, daughter of Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman.
m. Isaac C. Clay.
Children : 1, Mary Clay m. Gerritt H. Albers of Grand Rapids, Mich.; 2,
Sadie Clay m. J. W. Waterfill of Lawrenceburg, Ky.; 3, Scott Clay.
144. Harriet Perrie Forman, daughter of Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman.
m. James E. Claybrooke of Mason Co., Ky.
Child : Mary Baxter Claybrooke.

William Forman.
(1810-1889)
Paragraph 59.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 131
DR. AARON FORMAN OF HUNTERDON CO., N. J.
145. Dr. Aaron Forman, son of Ezekiel and Elizabeth (Seabrooke) Forman,
b. Feb. 4, l745(or 1746, new style, see his uncle Jonathan's will), d. January 11, 1805.
m. Apr. 19, 1769, Ann Emley, daughter of John and Sarah (Lawrence) Emley,
\ b. Dec. 12, 1742, d. Dec. 13, 1794.
1, Ezekiel Forman, b. June 10, 1770, d. Apr. 22, 1809.
2, John Emley Forman, b. May 15, 1772, d. Aug. 10, 1867.
m. at Belvidere, N. J., Sept. 12, 1804, Sidney Paul Rakestraw, b. Jan. 13,
1777, d. Apr. 1, 1814.
3, Edward Taylor Forman, b. Dec. 12, 1774, d.  unmarried.
4, Robert Emley Forman, b. Feb. 28, 1778, d. Feb. 6, 1817.
m. June 26, 1802, Martha Bevan Rakestraw.
5, Mary Anne Forman, b. July 11, 1780, d. Apr. 14, 1848, unmarried.
6, Elizabeth Forman, b. April 19, 1784, d. Aug. 11, 1793.
7, Elisha Laurence Forman, b. May 30, 1787, d. Dec. 29, 1859, unmarried.

DR. AARON FORMAN AND HIS SONS.
Dr. Aaron Forman (1745-1805) removed from Monmouth Co. to Hunterdon
Co., N. J., in 1766. He was a physician, a warm advocate of inoculation for small
pox, and introduced it extensively in his own neighborhood. He was undoubtedly
a Tory and probably suffered much loss of property in consequence. He was an
Episcopalian; his wife, Ann Emley, was a Quaker. Dr. Aaron Forman was of small
stature, polished and courtly and carefully dressed, and when aroused, very irascible.
When his wife died he had a large slab erected to her memory in the Friends' bury
ing ground where no monuments were allowed, and though twice notified to remove
it, he ignored the order. The elders of the meeting then waited upon him and in
formed him that if he did not remove the slab, they would. He replied, " I will
shoot the first man who dares touch it," and it stands to this day. Hence the state
ment in the sketch of his life in the N. J. Medical Society Records that he erected
a "monument" to his wife's memory, which sounds strange to the uninitiated.
A portrait of Dr. Aaron Forman's eldest son, Ezekiel, is in the possession of
Mrs. John Moses of Trenton, New Jersey.
John Emley Forman, second son of Dr. Aaron Forman, lived to be very old —
a just, upright, elegant old gentleman, a widower for over fifty years, of consider
able fortune, and a power in his own community, a sort of gentleman farmer. He
called himself a Quaker. He and his brother Robert married the two Rakestraw
sisters, beautiful women, and heiresses, and very accomplished. A handsome por
trait of John Emley Forman exists.
Robert Emley Forman, fourth son, was a merchant and was ruined by the
sudden lifting of the embargo after the war of 1812, having bought heavily at high
prices. It broke his heart and he died a discouraged man.

132 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
Elisha Forman, Dr. Aaron Forman's fifth and youngest son, was an early
convert to Methodism. He was a small devout, artistic old gentleman, loving beau
tiful churches with his artistic sense, but attending the rigorously plain Methodist
service because he believed it right. He was named for his great grandfather
Elisha Laurence.
146. John Emley Forman, son of Dr. Aaron and Ann Emley Forman, b.
May 15, 1772, d. Aug. 10, 1867.
m. Sept. 12, 1804, at Belvidere, N. J., Sidney Paul Rakestraw, b. Jan. 13,
1777, d. April 1, 1814.

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1, McEvers Forman, b. Aug. 25, 1805, d. Jan. 11, 1885.
m. Anne Hager — children: 1, John E. Forman, d. young; 2, Laurence H.
Forman, d. in early manhood; 3, Mary Sidney Forman.
2, Caroline Forman, b. Nov. 23, 1806, d. unmarried  .
3, Hamilton Forman, b. Oct. 27, 1808, d. May 4, 1879.
m. Mary Van Syckel.
4, Anna Forman, b. April 14, 1810, d, Jan. 17, 1890.
m. James Cooley — no children.
5, Elizabeth Paul Forman, b. March 11, 1812, d. April 8, 1891.
m. Augustus Godley (his second wife) —left large family of children.
6, Thomas Paul Forman, b. March 11, 1812, residence Milford, N. J.
m. 1st Mary Opdyke, b. 1818, d. 1860.

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1, John E. Forman.
2, James C. Forman.
3, Catherine O. Forman.
4, Mary O. Forman.
m. 2nd Annie Smith.

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5, Smith Forman.
6, Paul Forman.
7, Harvey Forman.
147. Robert Emley Forman, son of Dr. Aaron and Ann (Emley) Forman,
b. Feb. 28, 1778, d. Feb. 6, 1817.
m. June 26, 1802, Martha ("Patty") Bevan Rakestraw.

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1, Mary Ann Forman, d. unmarried at an advanced age.
2, Susan Elizabeth Forman, d. young.
8, Mortimer Paul Forman, b  d. 1874.
m. 1835, Sarah Stratton Gardner.
4, Sidney Paul Forman, d. unmarried at an advanced age.

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5, Duillins Forman.
m. first, Mary Anna Barber.
m. second, Mrs. Margaret (Duckworth) Van Syckel, (widow), left one
son, Wm. Duckworth Forman.
148. Mortimer Paul Forman, son of Robert Emley and Martha Bevan
(Rakestraw) Forman, d. 1874.
m. 1835, Sarah Stratton Gardner.

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1, Emma Augusta Forman, d. in early childhood.
2, Robert Henry Forman.
m. Emmeline J. Bray.
3, Olivia Gardner Forman, b. Nov. 23, 1839.
m. John Moses, d. January 20, 1902. (See following sketch).
4, Martha Elizabeth Forman, deceased.
m. Wm. G. Moore — left one son, with no children.
5, Jacob Gardner Forman.
m. Elizabeth Morton — one son, Morton G. Forman.
6, Mary Anna Forman, d. in infancy.
7, Edward Duillins Forman, d. in early manhood.

JOHN MOSES.

John Moses, who married Olivia Gardner Forman, as has been stated above,
was born in Belfast, Ireland. He came first to Philadelphia and afterwards to
Trenton, New Jersey, of which city he became one of the leading manufacturers.
He established at Trenton one of the first large potteries of that city, and was for a
number of years president of the Potters' National Association. He was active in
other manufacturing enterprises, was president of the Trenton Watch Company, at
one time president of the Mechanics National Bank, and was one of the founders
and the first president of the Trenton Trust and Safe Deposit Co. Mr. Moses was a
considerate and kind employer, a good and useful citizen, and most exemplary and
estimable in all the relations of life. He was a member of the Episcopal Church.
He died January 20, 1902, at the age of 70, leaving several sons who worthily fill
their father's place.
149. Ezekiel Forman, fourth son of Ezekiel and Elizabeth (Seabrooke)
Forman, b. April 7, 1747 (a posthumous son), d. Dec. 15, 1828. Perhaps he was the
Loyalist referred to in "Old Times in Old Monmouth" page 38. v
m. Feb. 7, 1771, Catherine, dau. of William and Agnes Wyckoff of Mon-
J mouth Co., N. J., b. May 11, 1746, d. Sept. 12, 1818.
1, Elizabeth Forman, b. Dec. 23, 1771, d. April 11, 1848.
m. John Anderson Scudder, M. D., son of Hon. Nathaniel Scudder, M. D.,
b. March 22, 1759, grad. Princeton 1773, Member of Legislature 1801-
1807, Member of Congress 1810. Removed to Mason Co., Ky., then to
Washington, Davis Co., Indiana. Eight children.

134 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
2, Agnes Forman, b. Dec. 10, 1772, d. young.
3, John Wyckoff Forman, b. Feb. 22, 1774.
4, William Wyckoff Forman, b. July 10, 1775, d. March 16, 1849.
5, Catherine Wyckoff Forman, b. 1777, d. May 13, 1855.
m. Fenwick Lyell, b. 1766, d. Dec. 20, 1822.
6, Agnes Forman, b. July 26, 1779.
m. John J. Post.
7, Jacob Forman, b. Nov. 20, 1783, d. June 16, 1841.
8, Sarah Forman, b. April 2, 1785, d. Dec. 20, 1849.
m. Henry Green.
9, Eleanor Forman, b. June 20, 1787.
m. William S. Brooks.
10, Anna Forman, b. Oct. 19, 1788.
m. George Jones.
11, Mary Forman, b. Jan. 15, 1791, d. March 24, 1851.
Note: — The foregoing list was kindly furnished by Miss Anna Matilda Wood-
hull of Freehold, N. J., who stated that it is from the Wyckoff Family Record. In
1839 Capt. Wm. [Wyckoff] Forman was living at Middletown Point. He had been
captain of. a merchant vessel, and had never married. His sister, Mrs. Jones, was
then a widow living at New Brunswick. These facts are derived from MS. account
of a visit to New Jersey by Rev. Ezekiel Forman of Kentucky, while a student at
Princeton Seminary. Capt. Wm. Forman at an earlier date had visited his Ken
tucky relatives.

OTHER DESCENDANTS OF ROBERT FORMAN OF LONG ISLAND.
150. Aaron Forman, Jr., son of Aaron, and grandson of Robert, married
Susannah Townsend. They had sons: Aaron 3d, Isaac and Jacob. Jacob Forman removed
from Oyster Bay to Westchester Co., N. Y., about 1726-7. He had sons: John and
James. James was a loyalist and removed after the Revolution to Fredricton, New
Brunswick. A son of James, whose name is not given, had the following sons:
George Forman, who founded the town of Forman, Lake Co., Michigan, and died in
1889 at Stratford, Canada; Col. C. H. Forman, who founded the town of Forman,
North Dakota, where he was living in 1890; and Jacob Forman, who died leaving a
widow, Mrs. Emily Shaw Forman, and an only son, Herbert Shaw Forman, both of
Cambridge, Mass.
John Forman, the brother of James, removed about 1798 from Westchester
Co., to Tioga Co., N. Y., and had a son Miles. Miles Forman had sons: Smith
Forman (who had sons), Sands Forman, Miles Forman, Jr. and Ferris Forman.
Ferris Forman was born in Tioga Co., N. Y. He left Tioga at an early age
and settled in Vandalia, Ills., was appointed district attorney by President Van
Buren; was a colonel in the Mexican War; removed to Sacramento, California, when
gold was discovered in California; became secretary of state of California; then re-

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THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 135
turned to Illinois. In 1892 he was living at Stockton, Cal. with his daughter Mrs.
Anna Forman Peters, and was then in his 86th year. He had also a son, Sands W.
Forman of San Francisco.
Sands Forman, brother of Col. Ferris Forman, had sons: Charles Forman,
of Los Angeles, Cal., and Edward Forman of Chicago, Illinois.
The foregoing information is due to Mr. Wm. Henry Forman of New York City.

Other Families Whose Connection With the Foregoing Has Not
Been Traced.

JUDGE JOSHUA FORMAN.
151. The ancestry of this distinguished man has been certainly traced, it
would seem, no further than his father, Joseph Forman, who was born probably in
New Jersey, according to the statement of Hon. Elias W. Leavenworth in the
Leavenworth Genealogy, on July 27, 1752. Mr. Leavenworth believed him to have
been related to General David Forman, and Miss or Mrs. Ellen E. Dickinson who
wrote the article on Judge Joshua Forman in the Magazine of American History,
Vol. 8, held the same belief. However, a definite statement of what the supposed
relationship was, is not furnished by either writer. The material for the present
sketch has been obtained from both accounts.
Joseph Forman, the father of Joshua, was a merchant in New York city at
the breaking out of the Revolutionary War. He then retired to Pleasant Valley,
Dutchess Co., where his eldest son Joshua was born, Sept. 6, 1777. Near the close
of the eighteenth century he removed to Troy, N. Y., where he was a member of the
firm of Forman &, Tracy, and was a deacon in the Presbyterian church. He
removed to Onondaga Hollow after his distinguished son Joshua had gone there,
and there he is buried.
Joshua Forman, as has been just stated, was born in 1777 in Pleasant Valley,
Dutchess Co., N. Y. He was educated at Union College at Schenectady, N. Y.,
where he graduated with honor, and studied law at Poughkeepsie and New York city.
Soon after completing his professional studies he married Margaret Alexander. She
was the daughter of Boyd Alexander, M. P., for Glasgow, and was on a visit to this
country at the time. Their meeting is said to have been under romantic circum
stances — but the particulars are not given by the narrator.
In 1800 Joshua Forman removed from New York City to the promising village
of Onondaga Valley, then called Onondaga Hollow, and his father and brothers
and sisters also removed thither. A law partnership was formed with William H.
Sabine, his brother in law, in 1803. The business prospered, and the firm became
widely known in the state. On the organization of the Court of Common Pleas in

'Joseph may have been, so far as the dates go, a son of Jonathan Forman, Jr. See paragraph 52.

136 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
1813, Joshua Forman was appointed judge, and served ten years in that capacity.
Having been elected to the state assembly in 1807, he became impressed with the im
portance of constructing a canal to connect Lake Erie with the sea, and introduced
the resolution looking to the construction of the Erie canal, directing a survey to be
made of the most eligible and direct route. The measure was long looked upon as
visionary, but, as all know, was eventually carried out to the great benefit of the
state and city of New York. In November, 1825, when the canal had at last been
completed, and Governor Clinton and his suite were making their first passage
through the canal, Judge Forman was selected to make the address to the governor
at Syracuse, and the governor in his speech made reference to Judge Forman's con
nection with the inception of the great work. As a member of the committee from
Syracuse, Judge Forman also attended the ceremonies of mingling the waters of Lake
Erie with the ocean at Sandy Hook.
In 1819 Judge Forman founded the city of Syracuse. There were previous
to his coming but two frame houses on the site. He removed there and was the
means of its becoming a growing and prosperous city. There is in Syracuse a small
park called "Forman Park" in honor of the founder, and a monument has been
erected to his memory in the same city.
In 1826 he removed to New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he was interested
in a copper mine. Shortly after his removal to New Jersey, the banking laws of
New York were seen to be defective, and on Gov. Van Buren's invitation Judge For
man presented to the legislative committee of New York a plan which he had formed
and at the governor's request drew up the " Safety Fund Banking Act," which most
successfully accomplished the objects for which it was designed. During the Civil
War period the United States government employed the idea of this act in establish
ing the national banks.
In 1830 he removed to Rutherfordton, North Carolina, where he had pur
chased an extensive tract of land — some 300,000 acres — and there passed the re
mainder of his life. He established there a newspaper, a printing press, and a stage
line, and was the leading citizen of that part of the state. His first wife having
died in New Jersey, he married Miss Sarah Garrett of Warm Springs, Tenn. In
1831 he visited Syracuse, and was presented by the citizens with a silver pitcher
and goblets, suitably inscribed. He visited Syracuse again in 1846, and a public
dinner was given in his honor. A few years after this visit he died at Rutherfordton,
and was buried at Syracuse in the Oakwood cemetery.
Judge Joshua Forman was an eloquent speaker, an able lawyer, and a most
useful and public spirited citizen. Of a social and happy disposition, well informed,
and possessed of the ability to impart his knowledge to others, he had, as Mr. J. V.
H. Clark (the writer of Clark's Onondaga) justly remarks, a mind of no ordinary cast.
Mr. Clark's book has been freely drawn upon by Mr. Leavenworth, and also
by Mr. G. S. Strong — {Early Landmarks of Syracuse, pub. 1894).
Joseph Forman, b. July 27, 1752, d. Jan. 15, 1824.
m. 1st Hannah Ward.
m. 2d Anna Thompson — no children by second marriage.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 137
Children by first marriage :
1, (Judge) Joshua Forman, b. 1777, d. 1848.
m. Margaret, dau. of Boyd Alexander, M. P. for Glasgow — six children,
among them two sons : Boyd Alexander Forman who died, leaving a
daughter, and Joseph Forman who had a son, Joshua, b. 1855.
2, Elizabeth Forman m. J. D. Bissell.
3, Mary Forman m. Dr. G. Needham — no children.
4, Sally Forman m. W. H. Sabine.
5, John Forman m. Eliza Sisson (issue extinct in male line.)
6, Samuel Forman m. Sophia Hooker — children : 1, Eugene Forman ; 2, Wm.
P. Forman (father and sons, lawyers).
7, Nancy Forman )-,.-,
8, Caroline Forman } died ^oun^
9, Ann Forman m. James Lyon — seven children.
10, Daniel W. Forman m. Elizabeth Bliss — children.
11, Owen Forman, married, but line apparently extinct.
The foregoing is derived from the Leavenworth Genealogy, pub. 1873.
152. The Lists of Emigrants compiled by John Camden Hotten under
the heading: Dead in Virginia since April last, Feb. 16, 1623, has: "At west and
Sherlow hundred. — Samuel Foreman, &c."
The Pension Office Records show an Aaron Forman, born in Frederic Co.,
Virginia, 1755. In the fall of 1776 he went to Hagerstown, Maryland, and enlisted
under Captain Andrew Hines and Colonel Schryhawk, commanding Maryland
troops ; was at Fort Lee when Fort Washington on the Hudson was captured by the
British, etc. He spent in all twenty-one months in the service, the latter part of
which was on the Western frontier. He settled in Virginia after the Revolution,
afterwards removed to Pennsylvania where he resided until 1805, then went to Ross
Co., Ohio, where he lived about twenty years, then removed to Delaware Co., Ohio.
Application for pension is dated July, 1834.
Stephen W. Forman of Martinsburg, Va., was in 1809 a member of the Union
Philosophical Society of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. (Register of the mem
bers, 1843). The Ancestry of Hon. William S. Forman, former Member of Congress from
Illinois, has (writes Mr. William Henry Forman) been traced to his great-grand
father, William Forman, who, about the close of the Revolution removed from one
of the Eastern states to Bourbon Co., Kentucky, near Middletown on a creek called
Stoner. He died there about 1810 or earlier. He had seven sons and three daugh
ters. Among the sons were Aaron, Joseph and John. Hon. William S. Forman has
a son, Charles W., who is a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Another descendant of the William just mentioned was the Rev. Aaron
Parker Forman, D. D., an eminent Presbyterian minister, born in Ralls Co., Missouri,

138 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
1827, d. Cortland, Ala., 1875. He was a graduate of Centre College, Ky., and
studied theology at the Princeton Seminary. He had a son, William, and a grand
son, John W. Forman of Canton, Missouri. Mr. John W. Forman wrote: "Many
of the name went from Kentucky to Missouri from about 1820 to 1830 and settled
in Marion and Ralls counties and their descendants are scattered all over N. E.
Missouri." 153. The following information was furnished by Hon. William Samuel
Forman of Springville, St. Clair Co., Ala., in 1895. He has not traced his ancestry
further than his great grandfather, Samuel Forman.
Samuel Forman, of Halifax Co. North Carolina.
m.  Ward.

h

1, Lydia Forman, b. 1766.
2, James Forman, b. 1768.
3, Sarah Forman, b. 1770.
4, Benjamin Forman, b. 1771.
5, William Forman, b. 1773.
m. Elizabeth Owens.
6, Mary Forman, b. 1778.
7, Eliza Forman, b. 1785.
William Forman, son of Samuel and  Ward Forman, b. 1773, removed to
Chester District, South Carolina, when a young man; served as a private in War of
1812. m. Elizabeth Owens.
L. I
1, Dr. John O. Forman, b. 1800; removed about 1834 to Mississippi.
m. in S. C. 
2, David Forman, b. 1808.
m. first, Martha Strange.
m. second, Sarah Ann Phillips.
3, James Forman, b. 1810.
m. Parthena Dean.
4, Betsey Forman, b. 1812.
m. James S. Turner.
5, Ada Forman, b. 1814.
m. J. R. Strange.
6, Polly Forman, b. 1816.
m. Robert George.
All the foregoing, except the eldest son, removed to St. Clair Co., Alabama.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 139
David Forman, son of William and Elizabeth Owens Forman, b. 1808.
m. first, Martha Strange.

h

1, Betsey Forman.
m. James Venable, removed to Texas.
2, Mary Forman,
m. O. H. P. Venable, of St. Clair Co., Ala.
3, William C. Forman, (Confederate soldier, severely wounded at Resaca,
Georgia), resides in St. Clair Co., Ala.
m. Margaret Hawkins.
4, Daniel Forman, (Confederate soldier, killed at battle of Rockyface moun
tain, Georgia).
5, Charlotte Forman.
m. A. D. Mize.
Daniel Forman, son of William and Elizabeth Owens Forman, b. 1808.
m. second, Sarah Ann Phillips.

h

6, Emma Forman.
m. Louis Mize, St. Clair Co., Ala.
7, John P. Forman.
m. C. Steed.
8, Benson Forman, died aged 16.
9, Wiley Forman, res. Branchville, St. Clair Co., Ala.
James Forman, son of William and Elizabeth Owens Forman, b. 1810, re
moved to St. Clair Co., Ala., about 1834, member of legislature 1853-54 and 1862-63,
d. Mch. 1879.
m. Parthena Dean.

h

1, Isidora Forman, b. 1849.
m. 1871, Dr. James M. McLaughlin, of St. Clair Co., Ala., who served
throughout the Civil War, was Lieut. Col. commanding regt. at close.
One child: Katie Burt McLaughlin.
2, William Samuel Forman, b. 1851, member of legislature 1890 to 1895,
inclusive.
m. 1873, Ella E. Wood— children: Bettie, James R., Nellie, Wm. S.
3, Elizabeth Ward Forman.
m. first, 1874, James P. Herring, d. 1878 — child: James L. Herring, b.
1876.
m. second, 1880, J. O. Turner, Superintendent of Education of Alabama.
4, James Leonidas Forman.
m. Laura B. Osborn — children: Grady D., Madison W., Maggie M.
5, Gustavus Beauregard Forman.
m. Burneta Green — child: Ormon.

140 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
Children of the daughters of William and Elizabeth Owens Forman.
Betsy Forman, b. 1812, m. James S. Turner, ch., 2 sons, 5 dau., both sons
Confederate soldiers under Lee, severely wounded in Virginia.
Ada Forman, b. 1814, m. J. R. Strange, ch., 3 sons, 5 dau., eldest son, James
Strange, severely wounded in seven days' battle around Richmond, crippled for life.
Polly Forman, b. 1816, m. Robert George, ch., 8 sons, 5 dau.; sons William
and James, Confederate soldiers; James George was color bearer of 10th Ala., killed
in one of the great battles in Virginia, of most distinguished bravery.
154. xIn 1739, Jacobus Springsteen deeded a plot of ground (on which to
build a school, south of Newton) to his loving friends, Gabriel Furman, Nowell Fur-
man, Ezekiel Furman and Joseph Furman.
2" Whig voters in Newtown, April 3, 1775 — Ezekiel Furman, Gabriel Furman,
Howard Furman, Jonathan Furman, William Furman."
3" Slavery did not cease in this state till July 4, 1827, though emancipation
began soon after the Revolution. Others (of the slaves) preferred to remain with
their masters. ' I shall never forget ' says Judge Furman, ' the quaint remarks of
two aged slaves when my grandfather went to the kitchen and informed them that
they were now free and at liberty to go where they pleased. The poor old woman
began to shed tears, while old Simon, who sat quietly smoking his pipe began, 'why
Dinah, what you crying about? Old Massa won't turn us out doors, will you, old
Massa?' 'Why Simon, you are now as free as I am, but if you both wish to continue
with me, this shall be a home for you.' On which Simon, laughing and displaying
his ivory, replied: 'Well, old Massa, you have had de flour, I guess you must hab
de bran too.' "
4" James Way bought the estate of Judge Furman near Newtown; in 1815 it
was bought by Garret Furman."
5"Purchasers of Midelburg from the Indians, 1656. . . John Furman, Lo. 2. 6."
6" Charter of Newtown granted to John Furman. Josias Furman,"
(&c, &c.)
7Samuel Farman, Quaker, bound over in the sum of 20£ and bidden to "go
home about his occasions and not to disturb the people." (No date given.)
8" Trustee of Newtown, Aug. 26, 1720. . . . Josias Furman."
9" Member of committee of correspondence, Dec. 29, 1774, William Furman."
i0" August 10, 1776, Robert Furman, 2d lieutenant in Northbeat Co. of New
town, soon after 1st lieutenant."
ii" William Furman at the Head of the Fly, beaten and robbed 1780; executor
of estate of William Coe."
12" Abm. Furman married Judith Way."
13" Thomas Furman married Phebe Howard."
Note. — Whether the foregoing items, or any of them refer to the Forman
family is uncertain.

'Extracts from "Annals of Newtown, Queen's Co., New York, p. 159. 2P. 180. »P. 261. "P. 378. 6P. 43.
"P. 110. 'P. 94. 8P. 152. 9P. 176. 10P. 184. "P. 202. 12P. 380. laP. 401.

Mrs. Elizabeth Forman Buckelkw.
(iSiS-iSSq)
Paragraph 59-

Fransinchy Forman.
b. 1S00.
Paragraph 60.

Emma Fran jes Way.
Paragraph 66.

Mrs. Catharine Forman Way.
Paragraph 66.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.

141

Index of Surnames other than Forman.

Paragraph No.
Aby    91
Agnew     81
Albers    143
Alden..    12
Alexander  116, 123, 151
Allen   ....45, 68
Anderson   60, 107
Antbony   7
Armstrong    16, 60
Bacon  61
Baird    67
Banbury   35
Barber    66, 147
Barbour  '.  130
Bartholomew     62
Bartley    107
Bastable   .  16
Batchelor  87
Bayne    13
Beck   9
Becker    64
Beckwith    66
Bedle   73
Bennett  . 43
Berry.   142
Binney      9
Bird    119
Birdsall     44
Bissell     -.151
Bleecker     54
Bliss     151
Booth   10
Bourke   95
Bowers     99
Bradford     48
Bray      148
Brent  ...123
Broderick  . -   .124
Brooke     •  95
Brooks   149
Brown    -.-9, 107
Browne  95
Brownell   50
Bryan  95

Paragraph No.
Buckelew   64
Burr   81
Burrowes  53, 72
Butcher    19
Cadmus    59
Caldwell   109
Callaway    64
Callender  95
Carmichael    62
Carrington   138
Caulk...   29
Cbaddock  1
Chamberlain  61, 73, 133
Cherry    60
Chesebrough    13
Chiles   134
Clarke    101
Clay    143
Claybrooke     144
Clayton  60, 68
Coalter    95
Cockrall.     3
Coffin    13
Coleman    ._ 89
Cooley   146
Cooper   5
Conkling       54
Coup.    --- 64
Cox     4
Craig    75
Craighill   101
Crane    - 28
Crooke  -   121
Crooker      43
Cumming    102
Dabney    101
Darner (or Karmor)     35
Darroch    69
Davenport     132
Davis.     61
Davison.  .-   12
Day  - --  — - 60
Dean    153
Decherd    8

142 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
Paragraph Paragraph
No. No.
Denise    53, 71, 76 Hall  8
Dey    60 Hallam  40
Dismukes   10 Hamilton   107
Dix     37 Hammell   .. 55
Dockery  35, 87 Hamner   16
Donohoo  118 Hankinson    58
Dorsey  84 Hanna    10
Duckworth   147 Harper  117
Dunbar     .'  90 Hawkins  153
Dupont   10 Hemsley  _  96
Dye_  60, 124 Henderson  73
Eagle.     8 Hendrickson  _  1, 58, 60
Earle      97 Henry  106
Edwards.   60 Herndon  126
Elbert   8 Herring.  153
Eldridge  Ill Hickman  130
Ely   67 Hitner  124
Emich     29 Hockenhull  117
Emley      145 Hodges  100
Fairchild   54 Holden  •  85
Falconer  120 Holmes  90
Fanning    1 Hooker   151
Farris.  8 Hotchkiss  61
Ferriday     92 Howard   13, 62
Fillmore   65 Howell  81,83
Finch    .137 Hoyt  44
Fitzgerald  10 Humphreys  136
FitzRandolph   73 Hunt  .125
Fobes   _ 66 Hurd  ,. 61
Foote     .119 Hurlbert  61
Ford  54 Huston  106
Foster    ....5, 40 Hyatt.    60
Fowler   28 Immel  9
Freneau.   55 Jackson  .123
Frisby  62, 102 Jefferies   92
Gaasbeck, van   56 Johnson  54, 59, 61, 63, 106
Gale    79 Johnston  8
Gardner.    148 Jones  12, 20, 149
Gaston  61 Karmor (or Darner)    35
George  153 Karr    59
Glenn.     126 Kearny    53
Godley   -.146 Kelly   121
Goff   141 Kelsey    65
Gray  ....123 Kennan   127
Greathouse   122 Kenney  69
Green   54, 62, 149, 153 Kent    5
Gregory   43 Kerchner  --..-.    8
Griffin   102 King     117
Grymes   100 Laird   61
Hager  146 Lake   91

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.

143

Paragraph No.
Lampson   64
Lang  46
Lanphier  117
Lawrence   }   145
Leadbeater   55
Ledyard   53, 54
Lee   78
Lewis.   122
Lincklaen  ^   54
Lloyd  71
Lockhart    119
Lockwood  8
Longstreet     .102
Love  61
Lyell   149
Lyon   151
Madock    50
Magee    60
Mallow.      15
Mandelle     117
Marsh     93, 102
Marshall  115, 127
Matthews    140
Maxwell   139
Meredith    8
Merrill    .".  64
Metcalfe.    92, 109
Miller   ..8, 18, 54,115
Minor.     73
Mitchell.   137
Mize    153
Monteer     124
Montgomery      44
Moore   113, 148
Morgan   100
Morrisett    11
Morton   125, 148
Moses.  148
Mount     60
McCaleb    92
McCarthey    112
McCarty   56
McCumber   61
McDaniel   35
McDougall   64
McGee   73
Mcllvaine    122
MacKay    95
McKee  62
McKeel  18

Paragraph No.
McLaughlin   _  153
Needham..   151
Neilson   93, 102
Newton   ..119
Nicholas      100
Nonis    5
Northcut   84
Nugent     90
Oakman  54
Ogle     95
Opdyke    .146
Osborn    ...153
Owens  .   130, 153
Park   121
Parks   '.  62
Patterson  86
Paxton    115
Peck..  65
Perrine    60, 67
Phillips   59, 153
Phipery    9
Pickett   127, 133
Pope     10
Porter    48
Post -.    -.--149
Potts  -    139
Powell  12
Preis    -.117
Quimby  5
Rakestraw   146, 147
Randolph, (see Fitz Randolph)
Rasin -   97
Raymond  7
Reed   ....2, 50, 68, 85, 134
Regan  92
Remsen    71
Rensselaer, van  56
Reynolds   5
Rhea     52
Rice    116
Roberts  9
Rodgers  8
Rogers    71
Romine   '  50
Rose  7.  72
Rue    60, 67
Russel   —   116
Sabine     151
Sanders    29
Screven    95

144

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.

Paragraph No.
Scudder    70, 103, 149
Seabrooke     .103
Sellers    23
Seymour   54
Shafer   72
Sharp    118
Shonnard    54
Sisson     .151
Skinner _    5
Smith  ...4, 60, 66, 91, 92, 93, 135, 146
Soward...  134
Spear   101
Spenser    64
Stanton     111
Steed     153
Stevenson  130
Stiles   101
Strange  153
Stroud  84
Sutton  7
Sweatnam   .3, 35
Sweet   35
Tabb   ..101
Tappan    54
Taylor.  52, 70, 109
Tebbs  115, 130, 136
Thomas   7, 61
Thompson    93, 151
Throckmorton   71, 105
Tilghman    96, 97
Torrey  88
Tower   9
Townsend    . ...   44, 46
Troup.  95
Tucker      119
Tufts  61
Turner  153
Vance    139
Van Bibber    93
Van Brunt-  52

Paragraph
Van Cleaf (or Van Kleif)  50
Vandenbergh  61
Van Doren   67
Van Dorn  52
Van Gaasbeck (see "G")
Van Mater  67
Van Rensselaer (see "R")
Vanskoic  60
Van Syckel  146, 147
Van Wyck  90
Varden     121
Venable.    153
Vickars    16
Voorhees  61
Ward    151, 153
Warder    141
Waterfill    143
Watts   100
Way    66
Weckes-  43
Wellman  64
West  60, 86, 116
Wheaton  61
Whelan  100
Whiteman   106
Whitney  86
Wickes  100
Wilbur  48
Williams  28, 112, 116
Williamson  57
Wilson    5, 114
Wood  106, 109, 130, 153
Woodford  61
Woodhull     79
Worrell  35
Wright    46
Wroth  5
Wyckoff    52, 76, 149
Yancy    135
Young    62

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Paragraph 64.
Mary Jane Forman.
Paragraph 68.

John Cl-ayton Forman.
Paragraph oS.

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 145

APPENDIX A.

FURTHER INFORMATION RELATING TO THE BOOTH FAMILY, RE
CEIVED TOO LATE FOR INSERTION IN ITS PROPER PLACE.
On August 28, 1746, there was granted to George Booth a tract of land contain
ing 1440 or 1140 acres in Surry County, Virginia1. Sussex County was formed in
1752 from Surry County. An entry2 in the Parish Register of Albemarle, which
embraced Sussex, records the death of George Booth, aged 84, August 14, 1763.
This shows that he was born in 1679. He lived in Surry County before it was cut
off from Sussex. WILL OF GEORGE BOOTH.
IN the Name of God Amen March the 16th 1763 I George Booth Senior of the
County of Sussex Being in Low Estate of body but of sound <fc Perfect memory
Thanks be to God for the same do make and ordain this to be my Last will and
Testament in manner and form following, towit, I give my soul to God that gave it ;
Trusting in the merits <fe mercies of my LORD Jesus Christ for the Remission of all
my Sins & my Body to be Buried in a Christian and Decent manner according to
Discretion of my Executors hereafter mentioned ; and Touching Such Worldly Goods
as it has been Pleased God to Bestow upon me I Dispose and Bequeath the same as
follows. Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson George Booth (son of George Booth)
all that part of my Land in Sussex County Lying on the south side of Sappony
Creek <fc Southwest side of Stony Creek, Likewise one hundred acres of Land on the
north side of Sappony Creek be it more or less Bounded as follows (towit) Running
as the Middle Fence to some Markt Trees to a Pond, Thence down slough to a
couple of markt Trees and Thence Turning off as the Court Road goes to a branch
called the Ready Branch Thence Down the sd. Branch to Stoney Creek to him and
his heirs forever.
Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson George Parham (son of John Parham)
all the remaining part of my Land in Sussex County Situate & being in fork of
Sappony and Stoney Creek and containing two hundred and Seventy Acres to him
and to his heirs forever. Likewise Forty Pounds in money.
Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson John Parham Forty Pounds in money.
Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson Thos. Parham Forty Pounds in money.
Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson Matthew Parham Forty Pounds in
money. Item. I give and Devise to my Granddaughter Anne Heath Forty Pounds in
money. Item. I give and Devise to my Daughter Mary Parham one hundred Pounds

'Book 24, page 410, Land Office, Richmond, Va.
2Found by President Lyon G. Tyler of William and Mary College.

146 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
in money likewise the Lent of one negro Girl called Annaca During her natural life
and after her Decease the sd. negro to return she and her Increase to my Grand
daughter Anne Heath to her and her heirs forever.
Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson Reubin Booth Forty Pounds in money.
Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson Thomas Booth Forty Pounds in money.
Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson Gilliam Booth Forty Pounds in money.
Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson John Booth Forty Pounds in money.
Item. I give and Devise to my Granddaughter Mary Booth Forty Pounds in
money. Item. I give and Devise to my Daughter Ann Malone one hundred pounds in
money. Item. I give and Devise to my Granddaughter Lucy Jones one negro Girl
called Hannah also forty pounds in money to her and to her heirs forever.
Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson George Malone Forty Pounds in
money Likewise three young cattle.
Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson Reubin Malone Forty Pounds in
money. Item. I give and Devise to my Granddaughter Winifred Robertson Forty
Pounds in money.
Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson Booth Malone Forty Pounds in money.
Item. I give and Devise to my Granddaughter Wilmoth Malone Forty Pounds
in money. Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson William Malone Forty Pounds in
money. Item. I give and Devise to my Friend Lucy Hill Forty Pounds in Gold or
silver coin, a piece of Double Irish Linen — a Saddle and Bridle wch she usually
Rides with, and Twenty yds of check linen.
Item. I Give and Devise to my Grandson George Booth above mentioned all
my Estate not that above mentioned But of what nature kind or quality soever to
him & to his heirs or assigns forever. I do hereby appoint my Grandson George
Booth my whole and sole Executor to fulfill this my Last will and Testament hereby
revoking and disannulling all former wills made by me and my desire is that my
Estate be neither Inventoried nor appraised ; in Witness whereof have hereunto set
my hand and seal the day and year above written. p P "R +h
Signed sealed Published and
Pronounced By the sd George
Booth to be his Last will and
Testament in Presence of us
Test. Amos Love
John Malone
Frederick Smith.
At a Court held for Sussex County the 15th Day of September 1763. The
Last Will and Testament of George Booth deed was presented into court by George
Booth the Executor therein named who made oath thereto according to Law and the

THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 147
same was proved by the oaths of Amos Love John Malone & Frederick Smith three
of the witnesses thereto and by the court ordered to be Recorded and on the motion
of the said Executor certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate thereof in
due form. Teste
A Copy-Teste : A Claiborne Clk
L. P. Hargrave, Clerk. TABLE OF DESCENT.
George Booth, born 1679, received grant of land in Surry Co., Va., 1746, will
prob. 1763 in Sussex Co. (formed from Surry).
m. 

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George Booth.
m. 
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Gilliam Booth (mentioned in his grandfather's will) .
m. Martha Cryer.

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William Booth.
m. Mary Ann Fitzgerald.

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Mary Ann Booth.
m. Aethtje Forman.

APPENDIX B.
THE WYCKOFF FAMILY.
Pieter Claessen Wyckoff (or Wykoff), born in the Netherlands, was a citizen of
Flatlands, Long Island. He emigrated to America in 1636. He superintended the
bowery and cattle of Director Stuyvesant. He purchased land in Flatbush where
he settled. He was magistrate of Flatlands in 1655, 1662 and 1663, and one of the
patentees in the town charter in 1667 ; was one of the representatives sent to a pro
vincial convention held at Windwout to appoint a delegate to go to Holland to lay
before the States General and the West India Company the state of the country.
He was a member of the Flatlands Dutch Church in 1677. (Authorities: Bergen's
Kings Co. Settlers and Genealogy, and O'Callaghan's New Netherlands Register.)
Pieter C. Wyckoff married Margaret Van Ness.
Cornelius Wyckoff, son of Pieter, was born in Holland, died about 1695, married
Gertrude Van Arsdalen, daughter of Simon Van Arsdalen, on Oct. 13, 1678. He
resided on and owned a farm in "Oatmond," or New Lots, Long Island, of 195 acres,
which with other lands he bought in March, 1678. He also purchased 1200 acres
in Middlebush, Somerset Co., N. J. Simon Van- Arsdalen, the father-in-law of Cor.

148 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.
nelius Wyckoff, came from Holland in 1653 and settled in Flatlands, where he was
magistrate in 1660, 1661 and 1662; was a member of a provincial convention held
July 6, 1663, to engage several Dutch towns to keep an armed force for public pro
tection. He died after 1698.
Cornelius Wyckoff's daughter, Margaret, married (Judge) Jonathan Forman,
the second son of High Sheriff Samuel Forman of Monmouth Co., N. J. (See para
graph 52.)
Note. — The foregoing facts concerning the Wyckoff family are from informa
tion furnished by Mrs. J. E. Noel of Tacoma, Washington, who is descended from
Judge Jonathan Forman. As has been stated in paragraph 55, Philip Freneau,
"The Poet of the Revolution," married Eleanor Forman, daughter of Samuel and
granddaughter of Judge Jonathan Forman. Agnes Watson Freneau, second daugh
ter of Philip Freneau, married Edward Leadbeater of New York. Their son,
Edward Henry Leadbeater, born in 1822, died aged 45, was a well-known merchant
in New York and San Francisco. He married Lucy S. Dodge, who was descended
from Elder William Brewster, who came over in the Mayflower. The daughter of
Edward H. and Lucy S. (Dodge) Leadbeater, Eleanor Freneau Leadbeater, married
March 18, 1879, in New York, Lieutenant Commander J. E. Noel, U. S. Navy.

APPENDIX C.

We are unable to trace the connection of the following branch of the family
with the main stem :
Jonathan Forman, b near Freehold, N. J., April 25, 1775, d. near Cincinnati,
Ohio, January 1, 1842.
m. Mary Mott, dau. of Capt. or Col. Mott of Freehold. Children :
1, James Mott Forman, b. April 1, 1805.
m.  . Children: 1, Samuel H. Forman, b. Dec. 19, 1849, res. Carthage,
Ohio; 2, Mary E. Forman; 3, Clara B.; 4, Amanda.
2, Eliza Forman.
3, Mary Forman.
4, Sallie Forman.
5, John Forman ; m.  .
6, Margaret Forman.
7, Henrietta Forman.
8, Mary Ann Forman.
9, Amanda Forman.
The first four are said to have been born before the family removed to Ohio.
John Forman, son of Jonathan, left two sons, Ephraim and Jonathan, and a
daughter, Sarah, married to Joseph Keffey of Red Lion, Ohio.
Samuel H. Forman (by whom this information was furnished) has one son,
Willis D. Forman, b. Nov. 26, 1877.

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APPENDIX D.
Hamilton Forman, son of John Emley Forman, (see paragraph 146,) married
Mary Van Syckel, and had a son George V. Forman, b. 1841, now (1903) President
of the Fidelity Trust Co., of Buffalo, New York.
George V. Forman married Martha Carter, by whom he had a son, Howard A.
Forman, b. 1870. Howard A. Forman married Georgia Green, by whom he had a
daughter, Frances, born 1894, and a younger daughter Georgia, born 1898.

APPENDIX E.

Justus Miles Forman, the author, born in 1875, is the son of Jonathan Miles
Forman of Le Roy, Genesee Co., New York, and is half brother to F. W. Forman of
Minneapolis, referred to in paragraph 37.

APPENDIX F.

Robert Henry Forman, eldest son of Mortimer Paul Forman (paragraph 148)
married Emmeline J. Bray, of Kingwood, N. J., granddaughter of the famous General
Daniel Bray, who furnished the boats that carried Washington's army across the
Delaware. Of this marriage there are two children, Charles B. Forman and Mrs.
Charles D. Alexander, both of whom reside at Attalla, Ala.

APPENDIX G.

Hon. William S. Forman of East St. Louis, 111., formerly member of Congress
from Illinois, and later appointed Commissioner of Internal Revenue by President
Cleveland, is a son of William Benjamin Forman, who was born and brought up in
Kentucky, most of which time he resided at Bowling Green and Mt. Sterling near
which he has relatives now living. Besides Hon. William S. Forman, William Ben
jamin Forman had two other sons, Hamilton A. Forman, who is President of the
Fourth National Bank of St. Louis, Mo., and C. M. Forman, of East St. Louis, 111.
William Benjamin Forman was the son of Hamilton Forman, who had two other
sons, Harrison Forman, now living at Independence, Kansas, and Richard S. Forman
of Craig, Mo. For further information the reader is referred to section 4, of para
graph 152.

150 THE FORMAN GENEALOGY.

APPENDIX H.
A FAMILY OF WESTCHESTER CO., N. Y.
Jacob Forman, of Croton Lake, Town of Yorktown, Westchester Co., (now
Kitchawan, N. Y.) died January 8, 1833, aged 70. His grave and that of his wife
are in a graveyard near Sing Sing, N. Y.
m. Jemima Ryder, d. Oct. 2, 1842, aged 76.
Children:
1, Sarah Forman, b. Sept. 9, 1786, m. Samuel Garrison — 8 children: Maria,
Helen, Ann, Jane, Marion, Margaret, Cornelia, Phoebe.
2, Samuel Forman, b. Mch. 5, 1789, d. July 25, 1824, m. Sarah Hyatt— 3 child
ren: Charlotte, m. Henry Whipp; William, m. Sarah Guest, Alfred, m.
Lucinda Willis.
3, Mary Ann Forman, b. Sept. 6, 1791, d. Dec. 14, 1855, m. Benjamin Wright, d.
Sept. 29, 1858 — 5 children: Ann Eliza, m. Dan C. Miller; Catharine, m.
Abraham Miller; Susan, Charlotte, Forman and Cordelia.
4, Fanny Forman, b. Feb. 5, 1794, d. Sept. 29, 1852, m. Michael Hynard — son:
Michael.
5, Barney Forman, b. May 13, 1796, d. May 26, 1860, unmarried.
6, Eliza Forman, b. June 21, 1799, m. Dr. Bartholomew Gedney, d. April 13,
1850 — 2 children: 1, Eugene, m. Amy Washburn; 2, Ophelia, m. William
White.
7, William Forman, b. May 19, 1802, d. Oct. 25, 1848, m. Jane Eliza Baker, b.
Aug. 27, 1809, d. Dec. 19, 1892—7 children (see below).
8, Phoebe Forman, b. Nov. 25, 1806, d. July 31, 1891, unmarried.
9, Jacob R. Forman, b. Sept. 25, 1808, m. Sarah Jane Knapp — 3 children:
Raphelia, m. Samuel Smith; Schuyler B., m. Melissa Moger; Annie, m.
Gilbert Thomas.
10, Walter Glen Forman, b. April 14, 1811, d. January 31, 1895, m. 1st, Hannah
Willis; m. 2d, Sarah Yale; m. 3d, Esther Haight. He lived at Croton
Lake, Westchester Co., and had 3 children by his 1st marriage: 1, Edgar;
2, Willis, m. Almeda Purdy, (no children); and 3, Melanchthon Turner,
(deceased).
William Forman, 7th child of Jacob and Jemima (Ryder) Forman, m. Jane
Eliza Baker. Children:
1, Madeline Forman, b. Jan. 8, 1833, d. June 10, 1897, m. Oct. 26, 1854, Cornelius
F. Montross.
2, Cornelia Forman, b. July 22, 1834, m. Dec. 16, 1851, Jesse Ryder.
3, Irene B. Forman, b. Nov. 14, 1836, d. Dec. 25, 1891, m. Dec. 25, 1854, Josiah
M. Purdy.

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4, Frances Forman, b. June 3, 1838, d. Aug. 4, 1876, m. June 1, 1857, John
Elliott.
5, Horace Baker Forman, b. April 3, 1840, m. May 18, 1865, Almira Thorn.
6, Alice Forman, b. Nov. 8, 1841, d. Dec. 29, 1861.
7, Henry Forman, b. Feb. 4, 1845, d. Oct. 5, 1850.
Horace Baker Forman, 5th child of William and Jane Eliza (Baker) Forman,
residence Kitchawan, N. Y., m. Almira Thorn.
Children:
1, Emma Idalene Forman, b. June 1, 1866, m. Oct. 18, 1888, Charles Morgan
Tyson, residence New York City — 4 children: Charles Forman Tyson,
Margerie I. Tyson, Helen Edith Tyson, and Charles Wesley Tyson.
2, Horace Baker Forman, Jr., b. July 17, 1868, m. 1st, Oct. 14, 1892, Lucy
Chandlee, of Baltimore, Md., 1 child, Horace Baker Forman, 3d b. Mch.
4, 1894. Mrs. Lucy (Chandlee) Forman, d. June 23, 1894. H. B. Forman
Jr., m. 2d, Elizabeth Betterton Chandlee, of Baltimore, Md., May 30, 1903.
3, Grace Thorn Forman, b. June 1, 1874, d. July 5, 1876.
Edgar Forman, son of Walter Glen Forman and Hannah (Willis) Forman, b.
May 29, 1835, d. Feb. 21, 1894, resided Brooklyn, N. Y., m. June 10, 1862, Ruth
Matthews, b. July 26, 1837.
Children:
1, Walter Azel Forman, b. Sept. 16, 1863, owns the family homestead, 100 acres
at Croton Lake, Westchester Co., N. Y., (now Kitchawan, N. Y.) m., Brook
lyn, N. Y., Oct. 15, 1889, Ellen Lee Foster— children: 1, Chester Edgar
Forman, b. Mch. 19, 1891, d. Nov. 10, 1891; 2, Howard Lee Forman, b.
Apr. 15, 1890; 3, Helen Elizabeth, d. an infant; 4, Walter Wilbur Forman,
b. June 13, 1900.
2, Arthur Willis Forman, b. Feb. 27, 1865, m. Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 27, 1888,
Henrietta Clay Baldwin — child: Harold Baldwin Forman, b. Apr. 15, 1890.
3, Frederick Peet Forman, b. July 24, 1867.
4, Esther Matilda Forman.

ERRATA, ETC.
1. Page 28, line 14 from bottom, for "Plantation" read "Plantations."
2. Page 41, paragraph 11, it is stated that Hon. E. P. Dismukes is now Presi
dent of a bank in Columbus, Ga. This is an error, as he is not now president of a
bank. 3. Page 42, paragraph 11, the statement that Robert Ernest Dismukes is now
a student at the law school of Harvard University, should be changed to read that
he graduated at the law school of Harvard University, in June, 1903.
4. Page 57, middle of page, for "Captain Richard Sweltenham" read "Captain
Richard Swettenham."

Jonathan Clayton Forman, Jr.
Paragraph 69.

Elizabeth Mary Forman.
Paragraph 69.

Residence, of Jonathan Clayton Forman, Kuclitl Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.
Erected 1S70.

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