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William Freeborne *-2361 [Parents] was born in 1594 in ,,England. He died on 28 Apr 1670 in Portsmouth,Newport,RI. He married Mary Wilson *-2362 in 1625 in St. Marys Church,Malden,Essex,England.

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Mary Wilson *-2362 was born in 1601 in ,,England. She died on 3 May 1670 in Portsmouth,Newport,RI. She married William Freeborne *-2361 in 1625 in St. Marys Church,Malden,Essex,England.

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They had the following children:

F i Mary Freeborne +-2363
M ii Gideon Freeborne *-1950
F iii Sarah Freeborne +-2364

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William Freeborne *-2361

BIRTH (William, age 40, came with his wife Mary age 32, and children Mary age
7, Sarah age 2 and John Aldburgh, age 14 in the ship Francis of Ipswich 30 Apr
1634. He settled in Boston where he was a freeman 3 Sep 1634): Pope's Pioneers
of Massachusetts page 175, Univ of FL: Library West (Gainesville) 6th floor.
Stratton, in his book New Light, page 55, suggests that William may have been
the son of Alexander Freeborne, surveyor, of whom there is record within Witham
(now the hamlet of Newland), Essex, in 1651. Baptismal records for Witham date
only from 1650. William was listed as a sawyer in 1621. He lived at
Batisfords Manor (also called Freebournes) in Witham until he sold it on 20 Dec
1633 [P. Morant's History of Essex, 2:110]. It is said that Freebournes was
built early in the 16th century and was largely reconstructed in the 17th. It
is located on what is now Newland Street.

On 30 Apr 1634 he embarked on the Francis from Ipswich, Suffolk, for Boston

with his wife, Mary, aged 33, and children Mary, age 7, and Sarah, age 2, and

servant, John Aldburg (or Albro), aged 14. [Hotten]. He gave his age at 40 at
the time.

He was freeman on 3 Sept 1634 when he may have been living in Roxbury, MA

Bay, where his son Gideon may have been born. He later moved to Boston, where
he became a supporter of Mrs. Hutchinson and Mr. Wheelwright. On 7 Mar he and
18 others signed the Compact which incorporated Portsmouth, RI. Five days
later he and 8 of the others signers were formally banished from the Mass Bay
Colony by the General Court. Most of the signers had been disarmed by the
Mass. authorities the previous November.

He helped survey RI in 1639, asnd was freeman in Portsmouth on 16 Mar 1641.

He served as Constable in 1642, and as Commissioner to the General Court in

1657. Stratton notes that after 1580 surveyors knew manorial law. New England
Marriages Prior to 1700 gives birth and death years, mentions Boston and
Portsmouth.

Additional information may be had regarding the ancestry of William Freebourne
through a search of local records in Essex, particularly in the parish of
Malden.

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