Samuel Forman is my 8th great-grandfather. He was born in Hempstead, Long Island in 1662 and moved with his brothers, Thomas and Alexander, to Freehold, Monmouth County, Province of East Jersey. He was a prominent settler and left a long trail of records before he died on 13 OCT 1740. These snippets come from a variety…
Aaron Forman is my 9th great-grandfather. His father was 1 of 18 men, mostly English, who received a charter to settle Vlissingen [Flushing] on Long Island in 1645 from Willem Kieft, Director of the Dutch West India company. Flushing’s early records were destroyed in a late 18th century fire so we know nothing about his…
Aaron Forman is my 9th great-grandfather. His father was 1 of 18 men, mostly English, who received a charter to settle Vlissingen [Flushing] on Long Island in 1645 from Willem Kieft, Director of the Dutch West India company. Flushing’s early records were destroyed in a late 18th century fire so we know nothing about his…
This is a transcription of multiple depositions taken in 1819 related to a lost deed for a property purchased in 1785 by Henry Hays, my 5th great-grandfather, from Daniel Ellis and William Smith, assignees of John Hays, at a public sale in Burlington Township. It includes the mark of Henry Hays and a map of…
My grandfather, James Henry Brintzinghoffer, was very proud of his German roots and his family’s long history in America. He once told me they came over on the Mayflower – which wasn’t quite true – but it was closer to true than any of us realized until long after he was gone.
William Hays is my 6th Great-grandfather on my maternal grandfather’s side. This is a transcription of a property sale on his move to Burlington County in 1738. William Hays, Grantee. Robert Ridgway, Grantor. Conveyance in Burlington City, Burlington County. 16 MAY 1738. Reference A-B : Folio 321.