In the "Calendar of Land Records of New York" we find an entry as follows: "1684 June 25, Caleb and John Carman and others of Jamaica, on Long Island," petition for "a patent of a certain tract of land lying within the Jurisdiction of the Town of Flushing, Long Island," etc., etc. The Caleb and John of this petition are traced as sons of John(2)(John(1) and therefore of the third generation. Both were born in Hempstead - John(3) about 1656, and Caleb(3) about 1658. - American Families of Historical Lineage, Long Island Edition, National Americana Society, NY, undated.

"Caleb was a farmer (HTR 5:326). He was a freeholder of Hempstead in 1683 (DHNY 2:523 ff) and prob. before. In 1684 he received a home lot from the town situated near those of brother Benjamin-3 Carman, Samuel Pine, Ephriam Valentine and Obediah Valentine (HTR 1:427) doubtless the same place at which he dwelt in 1698 (REC 45:54 ff). Between 1723 and 1729 his home is located in the "South Woods" (HTR 8:384). In his will he states that his home was north of Samuel Embree's and he had a neighbor of that name in 1698 (HTR 45:54 ff). Indubitably he occupied the same spot from 1684 until his death and it was situated south of the "town spot" and prob. north of Hicks Neck. In 1685 he was the owner of 180 acres in Hempstead (HTR 8:130 ff). - "John-1 Carman of Hempstead, Long Island and Some of his Descendants Thru His Son John-2", Collection of the Library of the New York Genealogy and Biographical Society, New York City.

"In the name of God, amen. September 9, 1720. I Calop (Caleb) Carman Sr. of Hempstead, Queens County on Nassau Island, yeoman, being sick and weak. I leave to my wife all my movable estate during her widowhood, but if she remarries again, then to my daughters. I leave to my son Calop, the land which he now lives on, lying by the Plain Edge, near the Great Meadow. And the meadow lying at the East Meadow. I leave to my son Benjamin, my house and my home lot in Hempstead; bounded north by my brother John's land, east by highway, north by Samuel Hinery (or Ginery), and west by highway. I leave to my son Samuel, all my lot at a place called Hicks Neck, in Hempstead. I leave to my two youngest sons Samuel and Benjamin, all my meadow at Coe Neck, and all my meadow at Hicks Neck I leave to my three sons, all my rights of land, divided or undivided, not herein given. I make my son Calop, and Adam Mott, Jr., executors. Witnesses, Samuel Embree, Benjamin Valentine, Abraham Bedell. Proved, October 23, 1729. [The name is spelled Caleb Carman in probate, which is the true name]" - Abstracts of New York Wills, New York Historical Society, unrecorded wills, p.148.

Caleb³ Carman (John², John¹) was born in 1655 at Hempstead, Long Island and died there about 1729. He married Hannah Seaman (yes another one!, named in her father's will) about 1681, born about 1663 and died after her husband, daughter of John Seaman, Jr. and Hannah Williams.

Children of Caleb and Hannah (Seaman) Carman:

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