Here we have one of the "mysterious"  Adam Carmans - a mystery because he refused to yield up who his parents were in documents.  Stillwell in his journals could not list Adam's parents. However we do know from documents that he had a brother Samuel who left him 50 pounds in his will. There is also a family deed which I have a copy of, which I made from the original which resides in the Long Island Studies Institute at Hofstra University. It is not part of the "Carman Collection" that also resides there, rather "the library had no where else to put it" because it is on oversized paper, so there it is  to be found apart from the rest of the Carman documents.  It identifies Adam as brother of Samuel and also identifies Samuel's first wife Mary.  From this deed information it is easy to identify Samuel (and therefore Adam) and place him in the proper family lineage.

Adam was a "Cordwainer" by profession.  This term today is generally thought to mean today a shoe maker, but the wider definition as it was used then meant he was a tanner of leather and in his time people also wore leather pants and other garments and so he manufactured more than just shoes, as did his brother Samuel.

He was a birthright Quaker, and his descendants remained faithful to the Friends Religion. He was a man of some means, leaving 'healthy' inheritances to all his children in his will. And that is saying a bit for they had 12 children. Adam and Phila succeeded at producing a large number of descendants all across the mid-west  - it is a very large family line.

Adam⁵ Carman (Benjamin⁴, Caleb³, John², John¹)  was born 4 February 1722/23 in Hempstead Township, Queens County, New York. He died 19 November 1804 in Stanfordville, Dutchess County, New York. He married about 1745 in Hempstead to Philadelphia (ake Phila) Titus, born 11 November 1727 in Hempstead, Queens, New York, died 17 March 1817 in Stanfordville, Dutchess, New York, daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Germain) Titus.

Children of Adam  and Philadelphia (Titus) Carman: