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GOVERNOR EDMOND FREEMAN
BENNETT HODSOLL
Mr. Edmond Freeman was on a 7 March 1636/7 list of freemen in Plymouth. [RPCK] He was on a grand jury on 7 March 1636/7. [RPCK]
Edmond was one of ten men of Saugust who were given the liberty to view a place and have enough land for 60 families on 3 April 1637. [RPCH]
Mr. Edmond Freeman was chosen an Assistant on 3 March 1639/40, 2 March 1640/1, 1 March 1641/2, 7 March 1642/3, 5 June 1644, 4 June 1645. [PC13] He was a deputy for Sandwich on 7 July 1646. [PC05]
Mr. Edmund Freeman of Sandwich was appointed to a committee to end small causes in Barnstable, Sandwich and Yarmouth on 2 June 1640. [PC18] He was on the council of war on 27 September 1642. [PC03] He was on the grand inquest jury on 1 June 1647. [PC06]
Mr. Edmond Freeman was given 42 acres in the 16 April 1640 dividend of meadows. [PC15]
On 1 March 1641 Edmond was presented to the court for lending a gun to an Indian. [PC02] Edmond Freeman, Sr. and his wife, along with others from Sandwich, were presented for not frequenting public worship on 7 October 1651. [PC08]
Children of Edmond Freeman and Bennett Hodsoll:
i. Edmond Freeman, Jr. married Rebecca Prence on 22 April 1646. [PC04]
Edmond was propounded to be made a freeman at the next court on 1 December 1640. [PC01] He was chosen a surveyor of highways for Sandwich on 2 June 1646. [PC06] He was chosen the constable of Sandwich on 4 June 1650. [PC07]
ii. Major John Freeman married Mercy Prence.
References:
RPCK. Nathaniel Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644 (Boston, William White, 1855), 52–54.
RPCH. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644, 57.
PC13. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644, 140–1, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 8, 33, 52, 71, 83.
PC15. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644, 149.
PC18. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644, 154–6.
PC01. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 3.
PC02. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 36.
PC03. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 47.
PC04. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 98.
PC05. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 104.
PC05. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 106.
PC06. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 102, 168.
PC07. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 153.
PC08. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 173.
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