Person:Benjamin Forman (3)

Records in Virginia

• August 16, 1749, Hampshire Co. VA: Fairfax made a grant of land to Benjamin Forman, Gentleman. This was Lot #22.

Estate Records

• 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. Source: Find-A-Grave

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   Benjamin Forman Sr.
   Birth 3 Dec 1695
   Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA
   Death 1751 (aged 55–56)
   Romney, Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA
   
   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 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
   
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