[Ancestor] Furman

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1 M Daniel Furman ¹

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Furman

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Many of the Foremans, Formans and Furmans in America are the posterity of Robert Forman, who was one of the original patentees of Flushing, Long Island, in 1645, and died in 1671. He had been a member of the congregation at Vlissingen (Flushing), Holland, whence he emigrated to England and later to New York. As the family here under consideration originated in New Jersey, and as the Furmans of Mercer County, New Jersey, were probably descendants of Robert Forman, it is likely that he was the ancestor of the Furman line given here. One Richard Furman moved from Long Island to Lawrenceville, Mercer County, New Jersey, some time before the middle of the eighteenth century, and died in 1752. The name Jonathan has always been a common one among the Furmans, and in Cooley's "Early Settlers of Trenton and Ewing" we find an account of a Furman family which names two Jonathans whose descendants are not traced, and who lived about the time of Jonathan Furman, great-grandfather of Cassius F. Furman. One of these was a son of Richard, grandson of Jonathan, and great-grandson of Richard, with whom Cooley's account begins. ²

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1102.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 863.