James Forbes

• Name	James Forbes
  Gender	Male
  Arrival	Abt 1684	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  Departure	Abt 1684
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Free emigrant
  Name	James Forbis
  Residence	May 1686	Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA
  Property	12 May 1686	Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA   [1]
  	As defendant, lost a case at the Court of Common Right brought by William Looker, for ejectment "for one messuage, one Barne and three small pitles"
  Origin	Aberdeenshire, Scotland
  	Hypothesis
  Person ID	I46291	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Residence - May 1686 - Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA Property - As defendant, lost a case at the Court of Common Right brought by William Looker, for ejectment "for one messuage, one Barne and three small pitles" - 12 May 1686 - Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA Origin - - Aberdeenshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3731] Edsall, Preston W., Journal of the Courts of Common Right and Chancery of East New Jersey, 1683-1702, p213.