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Edmond Freeman (bp. 1596–1682)
Bennett Hodsoll (d. 1630)
Bennett Hodsoll's English Ancestry [3]
John Hodsoll had a wife Anne.
John Hodsoll, the son of John Hodsoll, was born about 1555. He was buried on 20 November 1617 in Cowfold, Sussex. He was buried there on 20 November 1617. He married first Anne Maundy about 1579. Anne was the daughter of John Maundy and his wife Alice, perhaps Alice Temple. John Hodsoll married second Faith (Moorer) (Bacon) Bareham about 1614. Faith, the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Barto) Moorer, was baptized on 28 September 1576 at St. Mary Colechurch, London. She was the widow of William Bacon and Thomas Bareham.
John was a mariner and a major supplier of wood products to the Royal Navy. He was an investor in the the Virginia Colony.
Children of John Hodsoll and Anne Maundy: i. and vi.–xii. baptized at All Saints Barking and ii.–v. at St. Dunstan's, Stepney:
i. Anne Hodsoll was baptized on 27 March 1580. She was buried on 24 December 1581 at St. Dunstan's.
ii. Thomas Hodsoll was baptized on 10 December 1584. He died in 1607/16.
iii. Clement Hodsoll was baptized on 19 December 1585. He died in 1607/16.
iv. Anne Hodsoll was baptized on 27 January 1586/7. She died in 1620/25. She married Thomas Sheffield.
v. Elizabeth Hodsoll was baptized on 24 January 1587/8. She was buried on 3 November 1624 at St. Margaret's, Barking. She married first William Scates. She married second Andrew Printup.
vi. John Hodsoll was baptized on 24 November 1589. He was died on 12 November 1628 in Shermanbury, Sussex. He was buried on 13 November 1628 in Cowfold. He married Elizabeth Gratwick.
vii. Katherine Hodsoll was baptized on 28 January 1591/2. She was buried on 24 March 1634/5 at St. Olave Hart Street, London. She married Warner Norwood on 24 October 1617 at St. Michael Cornhill.
viii. William Hodsoll was baptized on 1 April 1593. He died by 1615.
ix. Jane Hodsoll was baptized on 10 May 1595. She died by 1617.
x. Bennett Hodsoll was baptized on 23 August 1596.
xi. Margaret Hodsoll was baptized on 31 October 1597. She was buried on 10 November 1597 at All Saints, Barking.
xii. Christian Hodsoll was baptized on 23 April 1602. She was buried on 24 July 1635 in Cowfold. She married William Freeman.
Children of John Hodsoll and Faith Moorer
xiii. William Hodsoll was baptized on 12 September 1615 in Cowfold. He died by 1617.
Edmond, the son of Edmond Freeman and Alice Coles, was baptized on 25 July 1596 in Pulborough, county Sussex. [1][2] He died between 21 June and 22 October 1682. [1] He married First Bennett Hodsoll on 16 June 1617 in Cowfold, county Sussex. [1] He is probably the Edmond who married second Elizabeth Raynier on 10 August 1632 in Shipley, county Sussex. [3] She died on 14 February 1675/6 in Sandwich. [1]
Bennett Hodsoll, the daughter of John Hodsoll and Anne Maundy, was baptized on 23 August 1593 at All Saints Barking, London. [3] She was buried on 12 April 1630 in Pulborough. [1]
Edmond came to New England on the Abigail in 1635 and went to Lynn. [4] He moved to Sandwich in 1637. [4]
Mr. Edmond Freeman was on a 7 March 1636/7 list of freemen in Plymouth. [5, 1: 52–54] He was on a grand jury on 7 March 1636/7. [5, 1: 52–54]
Edmond was one of ten men of Saugus who were given the liberty to view a place and have enough land for 60 families on 3 April 1637. [5, 1: 57]
Mr. Edmund Freeman of Sandwich was appointed to a committee to end small causes in Barnstable, Sandwich and Yarmouth on 2 June 1640. [5, 1: 154–6] He was on the council of war on 27 September 1642. [5, 2: 47] Mr. Edmond Freeman was given 42 acres in the 16 April 1640 dividend of meadows. [5, 1: 149]
On 1 March 1641 Edmond was presented to the court for lending a gun to an Indian. [5, 2: 36]
Mr. Edmond Freeman was an Assistant in September 1640, March 1640/1, June 1641, December 1641, March 1641/2, May 1642, June 1642, September 1642, June 1642, September 1642, November 1642, March 1642/3, June 1644, June 1645, and October 1645. [6, 16, 18–20, 24, 28–33, 36, 37, 40, 41]
Edmond was in the Sandwich section of the 1643 list of those able to bear arms in Plymouth Colony. [8, 193]
Edmond was a constable in Sandwich on 4 March 1650/1. [6, 52] He was on the Grand Enquest on 1 June 1633, 1 June 1647, and 5 June 1672. [5, 2: 102, 168; 3: 37; 5: 91] He was a deputy for Sandwich on 7 July 1646. [5, 2: 106]
Edmond Freeman, Sr. and his wife, along with others from Sandwich, were presented for not frequenting public worship on 7 October 1651. [5, 2: 173]
] On 1 June 1663 liberty was granted to Mr. Edmond Freeman, Sr. to look for a tract of land to accommodate himself and the children of Mr. William Paddy, deceased. [5, 3: 40]
On 7 March 1664 Mr. Edmond Freeman, Sr., Edmond Freeman, Jr., Thomas Tobey, and Benjamin Nye, or any three of them, were to settle a controversy between George Allin and Richard Chadwell about a highway. He signed the agreement on 5 July 1665. [5, 3: 82, 118]
Edmond was one of the agents of the town of Sandwich who complained against Samuel Fuller, Sr. of Boston for trespassing on 27 October 1674. [6, 192]
Edmond wrote his will on 21 June 1682; it was proved on 2 November 1672. He named his three sons, Edmond Freeman, John Freeman, and Edward Perry; his daughter Elizabeth Ellis; and his grandchildren Matthias Ellis and Thomas Paddy. Inventory was taken on 22 October 1682. [1]
Edmond Freeman's English Ancestry
Edmond Freeman, a well-to-do yeoman, was born about 1570 and died on 6 June 1623 in Pulborough. [2] He married Alice Coles. [2] She was buried on 14 February 1651/2 in Reigate, county Surrey. [2]
Children of Edmond and Alice, baptisms in Pulborough [2] :
i. Edmond Freeman was baptized on 25 July 1596;
ii. William Freeman married first Christian, the daughter of John and Anne (Maundy) Hodsoll. [3] He married second Mrs. Jane Gratwick. [2]
iii. Alice Freeman was baptized on 15 April 1601, was probably buried in February 1651/2 in Reigate. [2] She married John, the son of Thomas and Dorothy (Clarke) Beauchamp. [2]
John Beauchamp was one of the Merchant Adventurers, although he never went to New England. [1][2]
iv. Eleanor Freeman was baptized on 25 August 1603 and was buried on 7 April 1618 in Pulborough. [2]
v. John Freeman was baptized on 24 January 1706/7.
vi. Elizabeth Freeman was baptized on 27 August 1609 and married John Cuddington. [2]
Children of Edmond Freeman and Bennett Hodsoll:
i. Alice Freeman was baptized on 4 April 1619 in Pulborough. [1] She married Deacon William Paddy on 24 November 1639. [1][4]
ii. Edmond Freeman was baptized on 26 November 1620 in Billingshurst, county Suffolk. [1]He married first Rebecca Prence on 22 April 1646. [1][4][5, 2: 98][9] He married second Margaret Perry. [9]
Edmond was a deputy for Sandwich for seven years beginning in 1669. [9]
iii. Bennett Freeman was baptized on 20 June 1621/2 in Billingshurst. [1] She died between 28 November 1633 and 13 January 1633/4. [1]
iv. Elizabeth Freeman was baptized on 11 April 1624 in Billingshurst. [1] She married John Ellis. [1][4]
On 4 June 1645 John Ellis—presumably a Quaker—was sentenced to be whipped at a public post for fornication with Elizabeth Freeman. Elizabeth, by then his wife, was sentenced to stand by. [1]
v. Major John Freeman was baptized on 28 January 1626/7 in Billingshurst. He died on 28 October 1719. He married Mercy Prence.
vi. Nathaniel Freeman was baptized on 2 September 1629 in Billingshurst. [1] He was buried on 12 September 1629 in Pulborough. [1]
Children of Edmund and Elizabeth Freeman:
vii. Mary Freeman was born say 1636 in New England. [1][4] She married Edward Perry. [1][4]
References:
1. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I-III," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 576–82.
2. Homer Worthington Brainard, "Prence Freeman of East Hampton, Connecticut," The American Genealogist 17 (1940): 87–95.
3. Richard L. Bush, "The English Ancestry of Bennett Hodsoll, the First Wife of Edmond Freeman of Sandwich, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 164 (2010): 104–111.
4. Joseph Paine, "The Freemans—The Eastham Branch of the Sandwich Family—Major John Freeman," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 20 (1866): 59–63, 353–5.
5. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1640, vol. 2, 1641–1651, vol. 3, 1651–1661, vol. 4, 1661–1668, vol. 5, 1668–1678, vol. 6, 1678–1691 (Boston: William White, 1855, 1866).
6. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, Judicial Acts, 1636–1692 (Boston: William White, 1857).
8. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, Miscellaneous Records, 1633–1689 (Boston: William White, 1857).
9. Maclean W. McLean, "Mr. Edmond Freeman of Sandwich, Massachusetts and His Family," The American Genealogist 40 (1964): 103–10.
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