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Descendants of William Forman

Generation No. 8

28. JONATHAN⁸ FORMAN (JOHN⁷, JONATHAN⁶, SAMUEL⁵, AARON⁴, ROBERT³, JOHN², WILLIAM¹) was born May 07, 1755. He married (1) MARTHA PRESTON. He married (2) MARGARET HERBERT May 01, 1799.

More About JONATHAN FORMAN:
Military service: Continental Army-Fought in the Battle of Monmouth.

Children of JONATHAN FORMAN and MARTHA PRESTON are:

	i.		SUSAN⁹ FORMAN, m. JOHN E. DAVISON.
	ii.		PHOEBE FORMAN, m. THOMAS DAVIS.
	iii.		JONATHAN FORMAN.
	iv.		WILLIAM FORMAN, m. GERTRUDE GAVATT.

More About WILLIAM FORMAN:
Moved: Newark, New York

	v.		MARTHA FORMAN, m. JESSE PARKER.
37.	vi.		MARGARET FORMAN, b. September 22, 1795.

Children of JONATHAN FORMAN and MARGARET HERBERT are:

	vii.		JOHN⁹ FORMAN, b. June 03, 1778; m. MISS ANDREWS.
	viii.		REBECCA FORMAN, b. February 20, 1780; m. ROBERT HENDRICKSON, June 10, 1797.
	ix.		RICHARD FORMAN, b. December 05, 1781; m. DEBORAH HAMMEL.
	x.		CATHERINE FORMAN, b. May 22, 1783; m. AARON REID.
	xi.		AARON B. FORMAN, b. April 22, 1785.

29. JONATHAN (GENERAL)⁸ FORMAN (SAMUEL⁷, JONATHAN⁶, SAMUEL⁵, AARON⁴, ROBERT³, JOHN², WILLIAM¹) was born October 16, 1755 in Middletown Point (now Matawan), New Jersey, and died May 25, 1809 in Cazenovia, New York. He married MARY LEDYARD, daughter of YOUNGS LEDYARD.

Notes for JONATHAN (GENERAL) FORMAN:
On Novembe 23, 1776, he was commissioned Captain in the Jersey line of Continental Troops, Second Establishment in Colonel Ephraim Martin's (later Col. Moses Ogden's ) First New Jersey Regiment of Maxwell's Brigade, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war Lieutenant Colonel.
The Brigade was engaged at the battle of the Brandywine, 1777, lay most of the winter of 1777-8 with Washington's Army at Valley Forge--was engaged at the battle of Monmouth 1778, was on Sullivan's Expedition against the Six Nations in 1779, was engaged at the battle of Springfield 23 June, 1780. In September, 1781, the Brigade landed on the James River, about five miles from Williamsburg; it was employed in all the labour of the siege, and was present at Cornwallis' capitulation.
This is borne out as to Jonathan Forman, by his papers, and his brother Samuel's statement, who said he was at Monmouth, Germantown, and the other principal engagements of the war, fighting in Jew Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, being present at Cornwallis' capitulation, and sharing the trials of Valley Forge; in short, bearing his part in every engagement where Washington commanded.
On August 23, 1782, he was appointed to the command of a Battalion of Light Infantry under La Fayette.
In September, 1782, he commanded the Advanced Post at Dobbs Ferry. In December, 1782, he was at Stony or Verplanck's Point. Upon the conclusion of Peace, he left the army with broken health and fortunes, like so many of his brothers-in-arms.
When in 1794 troops from several states were called out and marched to the "back counties" of Pennsylvania, to subdue the formidable insurrection of the "Whiskey Boys," he headed the Jersey Regiment. It was always told with pride by his daughter and only surving child, Mrs. Henry Seymour, that Washington, who commanded in person, upon meeting her father there after so many years of peace, embraced him with much feeling, exclaiming "Colonel Forman! always first in the field!"
In 1776 he removed from Middletown Point with his wife and daughter, Mary Ledyard Forman, to Cazenovia, New York, then a frontier settlement of three years establishment. He took with him his niece Helen (themotherless child of his sister Margaret, the wife of Major John Burrowes), afterwards Mrs. Samuel Sidney Breese, of Sconondoa, Oneida Co., N.Y., who has left and interesting narrative of their journey up the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers.
He was appointed "without solicitation" Brigadier General by Governor Jay. "This was of advantage to the militia, as he was a good disciplinarian, but it was a tax upon his already feeble health." "He was," however, says Mrs. Hammond's History of Madison County, "very energetic in forming the old Military "Brigade of Madison County, then a part of Chenango County, " and was always prominent at parades, having a true soldierly "bearing".
He served one term in the Legislature of New York, and engaged in more than one enterprise in business, for which he was unfitted, and in which he did not succeed.
He was a man of a singularly warm and tender heart, and much beloved, and famous for his sense of fun. Early in life he married Mary, daughter of Youngs Ledyard, who fell in 1781 at Fort Griswold. She was in New London at the time of the descent of Arnold, and on the morning after the massacre on Groton Heights went with her cousin Miss Fanny Ledyard of Long Island (later Mrs. Peters), to the relief of the wounded. In describing it she always said the stepped over their shoe tops in blood in the barn where the wounded lay. She was a woman of uncommon force of mind and character. She died in Cazenovia, May 31, 1806.
After the subsequent marriage of their daughter to Henry Seymour, Colonel Forman was tenderly cherished at their home in Pompey Hill, ten miles west of Cazenovia, but to the latter place he was brought back after his death, May 25th, 1809, and there he was laid beside his wife in the village cemetery.

More About JONATHAN (GENERAL) FORMAN:
Military service: General, Continental Army of United States

Child of JONATHAN FORMAN and MARY LEDYARD is:

38.

MARY LEDYARD⁹ FORMAN, b. February 18, 1785, Matawan, NJ; d. September 16, 1859.

30. DENISE (CAPTAIN)⁸ FORMAN (SAMUEL⁷, JONATHAN⁶, SAMUEL⁵, AARON⁴, ROBERT³, JOHN², WILLIAM¹) died January 27, 1812. He married EUPHEME KEARNEY March 05, 1782.

Child of DENISE FORMAN and EUPHEME KEARNEY is:

DAUGHTER⁹ FORMAN, m. GENERAL RENSSALER VAN RENSSALER.

31. SAMUEL S. (MAJOR)⁸ FORMAN (SAMUEL⁷, JONATHAN⁶, SAMUEL⁵, AARON⁴, ROBERT³, JOHN², WILLIAM¹) was born 1763, and died 1862 in Syracuse, New York. He married SARAH MCCARTY.

Notes for SAMUEL S. (MAJOR) FORMAN:
When he was thirteen years old, Samuel Forman ran onto the Battle Field at Monmouth, NJ. He was deeply interested in the history of the Revolutionary War. He was instrumental in erecting the Monument at Monmouth.
He later owned a flat bottom boat and took his Uncle Ezekiel Forman, his family and 67 Negro slaves down the Ohio River to Natchez, Mississippi where his Uncle General David Forman had arranged for the purchase of some 1200 acres from Spainish Governor Gayoso for the purpose of starting a tobacco plantation.
Major Samuel S. Forman wrote a narrative "Journey Down the Mississippi and Ohio".

Child of SAMUEL FORMAN and SARAH MCCARTY is:

CATHERINE⁹ FORMAN, m. COLONEL WILLIAM LEDYARD.

32. SAMUEL P.⁸ FORMAN (PETER⁷, JONATHAN⁶, SAMUEL⁵, AARON⁴, ROBERT³, JOHN², WILLIAM¹) was born in Freehold, NJ.

Notes for SAMUEL P. FORMAN:
He had at one time been Sheriff of Monmouth County, NJ.[SDForman Family.FTW]

He had at one time been Sheriff of Monmouth County, NJ.[Grafton.FTW]

[Forman Family.FTW]

He had at one time been Sheriff of Monmouth County, NJ.

Children of SAMUEL P. FORMAN are:

PETER⁹ FORMAN.

Notes for PETER FORMAN:
He was Sheriff of Hunterdon County.[SDForman Family.FTW]

He was Sheriff of Hunterdon County.[Grafton.FTW]

[Forman Family.FTW]

He was Sheriff of Hunterdon County.

More About PETER FORMAN:
Occupation: Sheriff of Hunterdon County.

	ii.		MICHAEL FORMAN.
	iii.		MARGARET FORMAN, m. JOHN L. HENDRICKSON.
	iv.		JOSEPH FORMAN.

33. WILLIAM⁸ FORMAN (PETER⁷, JONATHAN⁶, SAMUEL⁵, AARON⁴, ROBERT³, JOHN², WILLIAM¹) was born August 26, 1751 in Freehold, NJ, and died January 31, 1823. He married FRANCHINCHE HENDRICKSON, daughter of GARRET HENDRICKSON.

Children of WILLIAM FORMAN and FRANCHINCHE HENDRICKSON are:

	i.		GARRET⁹ FORMAN.
	ii.		PETER FORMAN.
	iii.		JONATHAN FORMAN.
	iv.		SAMUEL W. FORMAN.
	v.		ELEANOR FORMAN, m. LEWIS FORD HANKINSON.
	vi.		CATY FORMAN, b. 1786.
	vii.		CATHERINE FORMAN, b. 1790; d. 1872.

34. JONATHAN⁸ FORMAN (DAVID⁷, JONATHAN⁶, SAMUEL⁵, AARON⁴, ROBERT³, JOHN², WILLIAM¹) was born April 16, 1758, and died January 1803 in Tennent Church, Freehold, New Jersey. He married HOPE BURROWS.

More About JONATHAN FORMAN:
Occupation: Justice of the Peace

Children of JONATHAN FORMAN and HOPE BURROWS are:

	i.		DAVID (DR.)⁹ FORMAN.
	ii.		ELEANOR FORMAN, m. REV. JOSEPH L. SHAFER.
	iii.		CATHERINE FORMAN, b. April 30, 1781; m. EBENEZER P. ROSE.
	iv.		MARY ANN FORMAN, b. 1784.
	v.		JOHN BURROWS FORMAN, b. July 07, 1786; d. March 23, 1853; m. HOPE HENDERSON.

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