In the name of God, Amen. I, CALEB CARMAN, of Hempstead in Queens County, being of perfect mind. I leave to my wife Margaret, one negro wench, and the use of 1/2 my lands and estate for life, and 1/2 my moveable estate. I leave to my son Caleb, one cow and calf, and 1/4 of my undivided lands and rights on the Great Plains. I leave to my son John 1/4 of the same, and to my son Silas also 1/4. I leave to my daughters Hannah and Margaret each 1/8 of my movable estate, except as above. I leave to my son Joseph my dwelling house, and all my land and meadow in Hempstead, and he is to pay all my debts. I leave to my daughters Phebe and Mary, 1/8 of my movable estate. I make my wife and my son John executors. January 3, 1744/5. Witnesses, John Rushmore, Charles Peters. Proved, April 1, 1746 - Abstracts of Wills Vol IV 1744-1753, page 529, The New York Historical Society, 1895.

Caleb is listed in the Company of Captain John Carpenter's Militia, at Jamaica, New York in 1715. He recorded his stock mark in 1707 which was a swallow fork in the right ear and a halfpenny the foreside of the left ear (HTR 2:238). He received in his father's will "...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." This was a parcel of about 50 acres according to town records.

Caleb⁴ Carman (Caleb³, John², John¹) was born 1684 in Hempstead, Queens, New York and died in March 1745/46.  Caleb was married twice. First to a woman named Ann who was born about 1679 and died about 1713. He married second, Margaret Valentine, daughter of William and Abigail Valentine.

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