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Persoonlijke gegevens Benjamin Wooley (Forman) Fuhrman 

• Hij is geboren op 3 december 1695 in New Jersey.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1751 in Romney, Hampshire County, West Virginia, hij was toen 55 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Thomas Craig (Forman) Fuhrman en Mary Freeman (Woolley) Wooley
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 28 april 2023.

Gezin van Benjamin Wooley (Forman) Fuhrman

Hij is getrouwd met ELIZABETH ANN HAMILTON.

Zij zijn getrouwd

Kind(eren):

1. Ann Hamilton (Forman) Fuhrman  1731-1786 
2. James Hamilton (Foreman) Fuhrman  ± 1722-???? 
3. Margaret Hamilton (Foreman) Fuhrman  1732-???? 
4. Thomas Hamilton (Foreman) Fuhrman  1735-???? 

Notities over Benjamin Wooley (Forman) Fuhrman

Benjamin Forman Sr.
Birth: 3 Dec 1695 Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA
Death: 1751 (aged 55œ56) Romney, Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA
Burial: Burial Details Unknown. Specifically: Location of burial unknown

Memorial #: 183827263
Bio: Misc. Notes
Note: Likely that Benjamin had emigrated from New Jersey prior to the death of his father, Thomas, in 1723. Ultimately settled on the South Branch Potomac River near present day Romney, Hampshire, West Virginia, USA. Received land grant from Lord Fairfax after he came to Orange County, Virginia in 1734. Was one of first 5 families to settle in present day Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA.52

From Tom Holloway's Forman History:53

According to church records, Benjamin Foreman was born in Freehold on December 3, 1695. His parents, Thomas and Mary (Woolley) Forman, were married there on May 27, 1695, barely six months before Benjamin was born. While conceiving a child out of wedlock is not exactly rare in the annals of history, and certainly is not among the most unforgivable of human indiscretions, it may have raised eyebrows during such a puritanical era. Note that the aforementioned record of "The Birthes of Thomas & Mary fforemans Children" singles out Benjamin as "her son," and does not give him the Foreman name as it does for his sisters. It is a church record, not a governmental one, and there may have been some sort of Quaker protocol with regard to recording the births of children they deemed illegitimate. Whatever the reason, the distinction stirs the curiosity.
Some twenty-eight years later, Thomas Forman's will left valuable land and goods to his "Welbeloved Wife Mary" and his "Loving Son in Law Isaac" and his "Welbeloved Daughter Rebekah." But to "Benjamin Forman" he left only "the Sum of Five Shillings to the Intent to Barr him of any Claim to any part of my Estate as Heir at Law. . . . " Then Thomas made his son-in-law Isaac the executor of the estate, not Benjamin, his son and legal heir.
What does one make of that? Was there bad blood between father and son? Benjamin would name a son Thomas, so that seems somewhat unlikely. Perhaps Benjamin was gone from Monmouth County when Thomas wrote his will, and had left against the wishes of his family. Perhaps he had already received his share of the inheritance, and Thomas felt compelled to protect his estate from further claims by Benjamin or his heirs. Maybe there was a dispute about worship among the Quakers. Or maybe they were not truly father and son. Either way, we'll probably never know the story. And while it might be entertaining to speculate, it is not fair to draw any conclusions.
It is not certain when Benjamin left Monmouth County. He was mentioned in an April 15, 1727, Monmouth County inventory proceeding following the death of Eleazer Cottrill of Middletown, New Jersey, who had purchased land from Benjamin's father. So it appears Benjamin was still in New Jersey at that time. But a March 29, 1735 quit-rent deed from Benjamin to Joseph Forman (a first cousin) suggests that Benjamin was no longer in the area. At this point, Benjamin Foreman disappears forever from the records of New Jersey.
Where did he go? Although there is no incontrovertible proof, it seems almost certain that he went to Virginia along with a number of other central New Jersey families. For many years Thomas Forman's family worshiped as Quakers with a family named Borden. One member of that family, Benjamin Borden, was born in Monmouth County in 1692, and would become a land agent for Thomas, Lord Fairfax, a land proprietor who lived in England. As such, Borden's job was to recruit people to settle and develop Fairfax lands in the wilderness of Virginia. In the 1730s and 1740s, a relatively large number of young pioneer families left central New Jersey and settled in and around the valley of the South Branch of the Potomac River in northwestern Virginia (parts of this region now belong to West Virginia). Names such as Van Meter, Allen, Taylor, Hull, DuBois, and Mounts, were of New Jersey derivation and would end up in Hampshire County, Virginia, along with Benjamin Foreman.
Given that the Benjamin Foreman of Freehold and Benjamin Borden the Fairfax agent were about the same age and attended the same Quaker worship meetings in Freehold, and given that the Benjamin Foreman of Virginia is found in court with the same Benjamin Borden in Frederick County (later Hampshire County), Virginia in 1745, and given that Benjamin Foreman appears in the Potomac valley about the same time as other families from Monmouth County and other central New Jersey neighborhoods, it is not reckless to assume that the two Benjamin Foremans are one and the same. Moreover, an essay on a collateral family reports that the Virginia Benjamin's daughter Ann Hamilton Foreman was born in Freehold, New Jersey, although it offers no substantiating documentation for the claim.
Benjamin first appears in Virginia in Frederick County on September 4, 1745, when the Frederick County Chancery Court dismissed a suit he had filed against the aforementioned Benjamin Borden for unspecified damages. Frederick County commenced keeping official records in 1743, and there is very little to draw upon regarding earlier activities. Noted historian Wilmer Kerns writes, "It is believed that Benjamin Foreman was one of the first settlers in Old Frederick County. He probably settled in Virginia during the 1728-1735 era." Still, it is almost impossible to ascertain how long Benjamin had been in the area prior to 1745. In March of 1748 Lord Fairfax hired a young George Washington and a party of other men to survey his vast lands at the headwaters of the Potomac in the so-called Northern Neck of Virginia. "George Washington's diary records that lands were laid off for Solomon Hedges, Henry Van Meter, Michael Stump, James Rutledge, Michael Simons, Henry Rarries, Philip Moore, Jeremiah Osborn, Benjamin Forman, Peter Cassey, etc. . . . in [present-day Hampshire County]."
On May 20, 1749, Benjamin received a patent grant from Lord Fairfax for Lot #22, a 300-acre tract on the South Branch of the Potomac River, just north of present-day Romney, West Virginia. A Fairfax land grant typically amounted to a lease for the duration of twenty-one years or the life of the original tenant, whichever came first. In exchange for title to the land, the owner would pay Fairfax an annual fee of twenty-five shillings per 100 acres. Other conditions occasionally applied, such as requiring the tenant to cultivate three of every fifty acres within three years of the patent date. The terms of Benjamin Foreman's arrangement with Fairfax are unknown. The surviving rental lists are incomplete and offer no evidence of Benjamin's grant.
We know from several documents bearing her signature that Benjamin's wife was named Elizabeth. Some researchers believe her maiden name was Hamilton or Hambleton, but there is no conclusive evidence of it. Benjamin and Elizabeth did name their first daughter Ann Hamilton Foreman, which lends some credence to the claim. And their son William would name his eldest son Hamilton. But this is not direct proof of Elizabeth's maiden name.
Benjamin Foreman, Sr., apparently died about 1751. In a Frederick County document dated August 4, 1751, four men were appointed to appraise the estate of "Benjamin Forman, deceased." On August 13, 1751, Elizabeth (Benjamin's widow), Benjamin (Junior), and James Forman posted a £500 bond for the administration of that estate. Later, in a deed dated March 9, 1761, "James Foreman, eldest son and heir-at-law of Benjamin Forman, late of the County of Hampshire, deceased," conveyed to his brothers John and William, both of the County of Hampshire, the land in Lot #22. This was Benjamin, Sr.'s original Fairfax land on the South Branch, land that passed into son James's hands after Benjamin's death in 1751.
Spouses
1Elizabeth Ann HAMILTON36,52
Marriageabt 1721, Monmouth County, New Jersey52
ChildrenJames (1723-1826)
John (1725-1808)
William (1726-1777)
Benjamin (1728-~1755)
Ann Hamilton (1731-1786)
Margaret (1732-1812)
Thomas (~1734-~1756)
Aaron (Unverified relationship) (~1736-)
Last Modified 7 Jan 2017
From various land deeds we know that Benjamin and Elizabeth had at least the following children:

(1) James Foreman, born about 1723; died about 1826 in Ohio County, Virginia; married first to Rachel Mounts, the daughter of Joseph and Catherine Mounts, and married second, in 1760, to Ann H. Foreman, the daughter of his brother, Benjamin Foreman, Jr.

(2) Thomas Foreman, died before March of 1765 in Hampshire County, Virginia; married a woman named Elizabeth.

(3) John Foreman, of whom further.

(4) William Foreman, born about 1726; died September 27, 1777, at McMechen Narrows, near Wheeling, Virginia; married first in 1746 to Hannah DuBois (1728-1760), and married second in 1761 to Catherine Parker, the daughter of John Parker and Elizabeth (perhaps nee Taliaferro, or Tolliver). Catherine was born about 1735, and died August 12, 1783. William was Captain of the local militia and was killed by Indians in an ambush massacre that also took the lives of his two oldest sons and eighteen other soldiers.39

(5) Benjamin Foreman, Jr., born before August 18, 1728; died between 1755 and 1769 in Hampshire County, Virginia; married a woman named Elizabeth, who remarried after Benjamin's death and removed to Craven County, South Carolina.

(6) Ann Hamilton Foreman, born October 21, 1731; died June 29, 1786 in Berkeley County, Virginia; married first to William Chapline, born April 17, 1726, and died in 1755; and married second about 1755 in Shepherdstown, Berkley County, Virginia, to James Strode. He was born December 26, 1727 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and died March 7, 1795 in Berkeley County, Virginia. He was the son of Edward and Eleanor (Shepherd) Strode.

(7) Margaret Foreman, born August 28, 1732; died in January of 1812 in Berkeley County, Virginia; married Jeremiah Strode about 1758 in Hampshire County, Virginia.
Info from Thomas Holloway Forman family history
Family Members
Parents
Thomas Forman 1655-1723
Mary Woolley Forman 1657-1729
Spouse
Elizabeth Anne Hamilton Forman 1698-1761
Siblings
Hannah Allen Heritage 1681-1745
Rebecca Forman Drummond 1698-Unknown
Elizabeth Forman 1702-Unknown
Children
James Foreman 1723-1826
John Forman 1725-1808
William Foreman 1726-1777
Anne Hamilton Forman Strode 1731-1786
Margaret Foreman Strode 1732-1812
Thomas Forman 1736-1764
Created by: Winn Forman (47738735)
Added: 29 Sep 2017
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183827263/benjamin-forman
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183827263/benjamin-forman: accessed 28 April 2023), memorial page for Benjamin Forman Sr. (3 Dec 1695œ1751), Find a Grave Memorial ID 183827263; Burial Details Unknown, Location of burial unknown; Maintained by Winn Forman (contributor 47738735).

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