Major John FREEMAN (1625?-1719)

Individual Events and Attributes

Additional Information

Marriage

Individual Note

His son John Freeman bapt. on January 28, 1626/1627,at Billingshurst, Sussex County, England and died on October 28, 1719 at Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

First as a Lieutenant, then as Captain, and later as Major he took an active part in the Indian Wars. He was a major in the expedition against Indians at Saconet in 1677. He served as a member Council of War from 1667-76. He served as captain in the fight against Indians at Taunton in 1675. He was a major of Barnstable Troop in 1685 and Deputy at Eastham for eight years. He served as a selectman for ten years starting in 1663. On December 7, 1692, he was appointed to the Bench of the Court of Common Pleas. For many years he was a Deacon of the Eastham Congregational Church.

John married Mercy Prence, on February 13, 1649 at Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. She was born circa 1631 at Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts and died on September 28, 1711 at Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

She was a daughter of Gov. Thomas Prence and Patience Brewster, a daughter of Elder William Brewster (pilgrim), (c. 1567 - April 10, 1644), the Pilgrim leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

Through him descends the notorious Lizzie Borden.[1]

NOTES:

1 a b Lizzie Andrew Borden Website, Writer's Corner Interviews — William Pavao, Curator for the Lizzie Borden Museum at the Lizzie Borden B&B, in Fall River, MA

2 History of Old Yarmouth: Comprising the Present Towns of Yarmouth and Dennis, Charles Francis Swift, 1884, page 28

3 Bradford, William (1912) [1650]. History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620–1647. Vol. 2. Massachusetts Historical Society. p. 336, footnote 1. http://books.google.com/?id=N6hVgkcv3dIC&pg=RA1-PA336. Retrieved 2008-11-24.

4 Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration. Vol. II. p. 579.

5 Brainard, Homer Worthington. The American Genealogist. XVII. p. 2:89.

6 Canfield, Rosemary. The Second Boat. 1. p. 1:15ff.²

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