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Freeman, Edmund
b. 23 JUL 1596 St. Mary's Church, Pulborough, England
d. BET. 21 JUN - 2 NOV 1682 Sandwich, MA
Parents:

Father: Freeman, Edmond
Mother: Coles, Alice

Family:

Marriage:16 JUN 1617 Cowfold, England
Spouse: Hodsoll, Bennett
d. 12 APR 1630 Pulborough, England
Parents:

Father: Hodsoll, John
Mother: Faith, Widow Bacon

Family History:

Edmund immigrated with his children aboard the "Abigail" in July 1635 and settled at Saugus, MA, where he presented the Colony with 20 Corslets (Armor). He was the leader of the Saugus men who moved to Sandwich, MA in 1637 and it was to him that a deed was granted as agent for the others. From 1640 through 1645 he was Assistant to the Governor, but was not reelected in 1646, and Edward Winslow wrote to Gov. John Winthrop in Boston that "I suppose the country left [Freeman] out in regard of his professed Anabaptistry & Separacon from the Churches". He was Deputy to Plymouth General Court in 1641. He was a member of the Council of War in 1642 and was presiding officer of a court of three 'To hear and determine controversies and cawses'. In his will he named his three "sons," Edmond Freeman, John Freeman, and Edward Perry and his daughter Elizabeth Ellis, and his grandsons Matthias Freeman and Thomas Paddy. On 20 August 1644 Edmund's daughter Elizabeth and her husband were accused of fornication before marriage and her husband was sentenced to be whipped and fined £5. In 1653 he was approved to be the lieutenant of the Sandwich military company. He engaged in various business enterprises, such as participating in a monopoly for profiting from beached whales, building a mill, and building a meeting house.

Children:

Freeman, Alice

Freeman, Edmund

Freeman, Elizabeth

Freeman, John

Freeman, Nathaniel
b. 2 SEP 1629 Sussex, England
d. 12 SEP 1629 Sussex, England
Freeman, Bennett
d. 3 JAN 1634 Pulborough, England

Family:

Spouse:Elizabeth, Widow Perry
Children:

Perry, Edward

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