Peter⁶ Carman (Gabriel^5, Joseph^4, Joshua^3, John^2, John¹) was born in 1746 at Peekskill, Westchester County, New York; died 9 July 1810 at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County New York and is buried in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess County, New York. He married to Elizabeth Foreman (also written as Furman).

Peter served in the Revolutionary War as an Ensign in the North Battalion of Westchester County, New York and his name appears after the war on land purchases. These sales are lands confiscated from British Loyalists at the end of the Revolutionary War:

"Aug 1784 - No. 7. Sold to Peter Carman of the Manor Cortlandt; Farm and Massuage in the Manor of Cortlandt now in possession of sd Peter Carman...; 200 a. forfeited by the conviction of Lewis Palmer. No. 8. Sold to Peter Carman of the Manor Cortlandt; now in possession of Pardon Burlingham...; 80 a.; forfeited by the conviction of Lewis Palmer." - Abstracts of Sales by the Commissioners of the Forfeitures in the Southern District of New York State

The remainder of information on Peter we have from Stillwell's journals:

"Lived near a place called Crom pond and near a hill owned by his father Gabriel and called Carman's Hill. When his children were young he moved on the back road three miles from the City of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County. Most of his children married from the Homestead. At one time lived about five miles from Peekskill until the latter part of his life when he moved as above stated. 1775 was Ensign in the North Battalion of the Manor of Courtlandt under the command of Jeremiah Drake (Bolton's Westchester Co., Vol. 1). He was at one time a Militia Captain. When Peter moved to Dutchess County his son Joseph was a minor. 1777 Peter Carman paid the Minister's Salary at Yorktown, Westchester Co." - William Stillwell Carman Journals, Book 7.A, Gabriel Carman, for Peter Carman No.1

Children of Peter and Elizabeth (Forman/Furman) Carman:

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