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FREEMAN
Two immigrants of this name each founded families in New England. Edmund Freeman
from England was in Saugus in 1635 and his standing in the community was recognized by his being known and addressed as Mr. Ed- mund Freeman. He represented men of the first respectability in England and came to New England as their agent to establish and care for colonists. He brought with him twenty corsletts or pieces of plate armor to be used in defending the bodies of the soldiers against the arrows of the Indians, and he pre- sented this armor to the colony at Lynn. He proceeded to Plymouth Colony in 1636, and, January 2, 1637, was made a freeman of that colony, and after a short time in Duxbury he obtained leave of the colonial government to commence the establishment of an English town on Cape Cod, he having with him nine other men of standing and influence from Sau- gus (Lynn), and they became the founders of Sandwich, the first town on the cape. He was thus the founder of the Freeman family of Sandwich. Plymouth Colony. He was, how- ever, preceded in New England by Samuel Freeman, who was in Watertown, Massachu- setts Bay Colony, in 1630.
(I) Samuel (1) Freeman came from Dev- onshire, England, with Governor Winthrop. He may have been a brother of Edmund of Sandwich, and as Governor Winthrop landed at Salem, June 12, 1630, Samuel Freeman must have proceeded to Watertown the same year, as he applied to be made a freeman of that town in 1630, and tradition says he owned one-seventh of the town. His house was burned February 11, 1630-31, according to "Winthrop's New England." It is said that he was one of a family of eight or ten sons, and it is further stated that he died in England while on a business visit to his home soon after the birth of his son Samuel. His wife, Apphia, bore him three children: I. Henry, admitted as a freeman of the town of Watertown in
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May, 1645 ; married Hannah Stevens, Decem- ber 25, 1650, and as his second wife, Mary Sherman, November 27, 1656. 2. Apphia. 3. Samuel (q. v.), born May 11, 1639. The fa- ther died in England probably in 1039-40, and his widow has been the subject of speculation by genealogists, it being claimed that she mar- ried as her second husband Governor Prence, in 1644, but as it is certain that Governor Prence died in 1673, and that his wife Mary survived him and resided with her friends in Yarmouth, the records of which town state that Mrs. Mary Prence, late wife of Governor Prence, died December 9, 1695, there is no legitimate ground on which to make the widow of Samuel Freeman his wife.
(II) Deacon Samuel (2), second son and third and youngest son of Samuel ( I) and Applia Freeman, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, May II, 1639. He married Mercy, daughter of Constant Southworth, as- sistant in the Plymouth Colony, May 12, 1658, and became deacon of the church in Eastham in 1676. He was a representative in the gen- eral court of Plymouth in 1697, and was a man of "pecuniary resources and financial ability." He purchased a portion of the Gov- ernor Prence estate and he owned many acres of the best land in Eastham and adjoining He died November 25, 1712. Chil- towns.
dren : I. Apphia, born December II, 1659, died February 19, 1660, in Eastham. 2. Sam- uel (q. v.), March 26, 1662. 3. Apphia, Jan- uary 1, 1666, married Isaac Pepper, of East- ham, October 17, 1685. 4. Constant, March 31, 1669, married Jane Treat, October II, 1694. 5. Elizabeth, June 26, 1671, married Abraham Remick, and second, Merrick. 6. Edward, died young. 7. Mary, married John Cole about 1793. 8. Alice, married Na- thaniel Merrick. 9. Mercy.
(III) Samuel (3), second child of Deacon Samuel (2) and Mercy (Southworth) Free- man. was born in Eastham, Barnstable coun- ty, Massachusetts, March 26, 1662. He mar- ried. February 5, 1684, Elizabeth Sparrow, and about 1693 to his second wife Bathsheba, daughter of Barnabas Lathrop, and widow of Samuel Smith. He was commander of the militia of Eastham for many years, a select- man of the town for eight years and a delegate to the general court nineteen years. In the town records of Eastham he is first called "Captain" and later "Deacon." He died in Eastham, January 30, 1742-43. Children of Captain Samuel and Elizabeth (Sparrow) Freeman, born in Eastham: I. Priscilla, Oc- tober 27. 1686, married Captain John Sears,
May 31, 1704. 2. Samuel, September 1, 1088, married Mary Paine, October 9, 1712. 3. Elizabeth, April 10, 1694, married Isaac Pep- per Jr., February 21, 1716-17. 4. Barnabas, January 21, 1695-96, married Mary Stone, December 10, 1734. 5. Nathaniel, May 2, 1698, married Mary Paine, October II, 1723. 6. David, January 28, 1699-1700, married, Feb- ruary 18, 1727-28, Lydia Freeman. 7. Elisha, December 9, 1701, married, May 7, 1725, Ly- dia Freeman. 8. James, August 4, 1704. 9. Enoch (q. v.), May 17, 1706. 10. Simeon, February 23, 1707-08, died before 1732, prob- ably unmarried. II. John, January 5. 1709-10, married, in 1741, Bertha Cobb. 12. Abijah, May 5, 1715, married, July 5, 1733, Isaac Hig- gins, of Eastham. 13. Bathsheba, died young. (IV) Enoch, ninth child of Captain Samuel (3) and Elizabeth ( Sparrow) Freeman, was born in Eastham, Massachusetts, May 17, 1706. He was graduated at Harvard College, A. B. 1729, A. M. 1732. He was a school- teacher after leaving college and subsequently became a merchant in Boston. He removed to Falmouth in the district of Maine in 1741, and upon his marriage to Mary Wright, August 3, 1742, he settled in Falmouth. He was captain of the first organized militia company in Fal- mouth, receiving his commission from Gover- nor William Shirley in 1744, and in that year by order of the general court of Massachusetts he superintended the construction of a breast- work and a platform on which to mount ten twelve-pounders, the works being located on Casco Neck and calculated to defend the har- bor and town from foreign invasion. When the works were completed and the twelve- pounders placed in position he was given com- mand of the fortifications. He was selectman of the town 1744-47; major of the Second Regiment of Militia in York county from 1746; treasurer of the town 1746-54; justice of the peace from 1748; colonel in command of a regiment on the Eastern frontier in 1748, and substantially in command of the entire troops organized for the defence of the dis- trict ; deputy naval officer 1749: deputy col- lector of the port 1750-74; judge of the court of common pleas 1760-88, a period of twenty- eight years; register of deeds for the county for twenty-nine years; justice of the quorum commission 1761 ; judge of probate 1770-88, a period of eighteen years; justice throughout the district 1775. and had his commission as councilor negotiated by Governor Thomas Hutchinson in 1774. He represented Fal- mouth in the general court of Massachusetts, 1748-55-56-74 ; was a delegate to the Provin-
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cial congress in 1774, and the same year was a member of the committee of correspondence on the alarming condition of provincial af- fairs and with power to call a convention of delegates from all the towns in the county. He served also as chairman of the committee and of the committee of inspection and cor- respondence. fle was chairman also of the committee having in charge the relief of the sufferers of Falmouth, Casco Bay, and of the committee of safety of Falmouth in 1775. Judge Freeman married, August 3, 1742, Mary Wright, who died in Falmouth, January 7, 1785. and Judge Enoch Freeman, September 2, 1788. Children, born in Falmouth, district of Maine: 1. Samuel (q. v.), June 15, 1743. 2. James. September 6, 1744, died unmarried 1771. 3. Mary, June 14, 1746, died October 22. 1756. 4. William, November 13, 1747, died June 6. 1765. 5. Enoch, September 4, 1750, married, September, 1784, Mehitable Cushing. 6. Mary, January 12, 1752, married, November 2, 1772, Thomas Child. 7. Lathrop, March 23, 1753, died April 26, 1753.
(V) Samuel (4), eldest child of Judge Enoch and Mary ( Wright) Freeman, was born in Falmouth, Maine, June 15, 1743. He was a pupil of Stephen Longfellow in Falmouth ; attended lectures on general subjects at Har- vard College and studied natural philosophy (physics) and astronomy under Professor John Winthrop there. He taught school in his native town 1764-66. He shipped to Eng- land cargoes of masts and spars in 1772, and was a land surveyor and served on important political committees. In 1775 he was the sole delegate from the Falmouth district to the Provincial congress and he was re-elected in 1776 and 1778, and at the third session of the congress he was made the secretary by a unan- imous vote. He was clerk of the house of rep- resentatives in the general court of Massachu- setts 1775-81, and he held twenty-two positions of public trust at one time. On October 5, 1775, he was appointed postmaster of Fal- mouth, his commission being signed by Ben- jamin Franklin, and he held the position for twenty-nine years. He was also a justice of the peace; register of probate for thirty-six years. judge of probate seventeen years; clerk of the court of general sessions forty-six years ; clerk of the court of common pleas forty-five years, and from 1795 up to the separation of the district of Maine from Massachusetts in 1820 was clerk of the supreme judicial court, with the exception of one year. 1811. He was selectman of the town of Falmouth twenty- five years, and only his absence one year broke
the consecutive order of his service, and for most of this period he was chairman of the board of selectmen. He served as chairman of the school board for many years; served on the fire ward and as clerk of the market. Ile served for over thirty years as a trustee of tlie Falmouth Academy, and he was clerk, agent and general manager for the proprietors of the four eastern townships. Hle was a founder and the first president of the Maine Bank, established in Portland in 1802, and also of the Portland Benevolent Society. He is the author of "The Town Officer," "Clerk's Assistant," "Probate Manual" and "Justice's Assistant." He married, November 3, 1777, Mary, daughter of Edward Fowle, of Water- town, Massachusetts ; she was born in Water- town, November 21, 1749, died in Falmouth, district of Maine, January 7, 1785, and he mar- ried (second) Betsey, daughter of Dr. Enoch Ilsley, of Portland, and widow of Pearson Jones, February 7, 1786. She was born Oc- tober 6, 1704, became the mother of six chil- dren by her second husband, and died March, 1831. The children of Samuel and Mary (Fowle) Freeman were born in Falmouth, Maine, as follows: I. Mary, September 21, 1778, married, in 1798, Jonathan Bryant, of Portland, died July 31, 1832. 2. Samuel Deane, May 27, 1781 ; Harvard, A. B., 1800; died un- married, September 17, 1831. 3. William (q. v.), July 2, 1783; Harvard, A. B., 1804 ; mar- ried, August 29, 1806, Clarissa Clark, of Bos- ton. The children of Samuel and Betsey (Ilsley) (Jones) Freeman were: I. Elizabeth, November 7, 1786, married, December 10, 1810. Elnathan Duncan. 2. Dorcas, June 30, 1789, married, February 14, 1808. Henry Holmes, of Boston; died April 23, 1813. 3. Henry, March 2, 1792, died unmarried, No- vember 9. 1834. 4. Charles, June 3, 1794; Bowdoin, A. B., 1812 ; clergyman ; unmarried ; died Limerick, Maine, September 10, 1853. 5. George, March 4, 1796; Bowdoin, 1812; died unmarried, May 27, 1815. 6. Charlotte, March 6, 1800, married, September 9, 1828, the Rev. John Boynton, of Phippsburg, Maine. Hon. Samuel Freeman died in Portland, Maine, June 18, 1831.
(VI) William (1), second son and third child of Judge Samuel (4) and Mary ( Fowle) Freeman, was born in Falmouth, Maine, July 2, 1783. The town of Falmouth was renamed Portland in 1786, and he was a pupil in the schools of Portland and was prepared for col- lege at the academies at Fryeburg and Ber- wick. He was graduated at Harvard Col- lege, A. B., 1804; A. M., 1807. He prepared
William Freeman
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himself for practice of law under the direction of Judge Green, of Berwick, and William Symmes, Esq., of Portland, and he was ad- mitted to the Cumberland bar in 1807. He engaged in the manufacture of lumber at Lim- erick in company with Jonathan Bryant for a short time, after which he returned to Port- land and engaged in the practice of law, re- moving to Saccarappa in Westbrook township. His ownership of lands in Washington county conveyed to him by his father in 1826 demand- ing his attention, he divided his time between Saccarappa and Cherryfield, and after 1829 he removed to Cherryfield permanently. While a resident of Limerick he was elected a rep- resentative in the general court of Massachu- setts, and in 1829 was elected at Cherryfield a representative from that district in the legisla- ture of the newly established state of Maine. With his ability as a business man he com- bined the thorough knowledge of law, the gift of the poet, the charm of the platform speaker, the force and persuasive powers of the political orator and the peculiar gifts of the peacema- ker. During the Harrison campaign of 1840 and the Clay campaign of 1844 he supported the Whig candidates not only on the stump but in his political songs, which were sung with great effect at all the political gatherings in the state, and after he had attained the age of ninety-two years he composed songs and other poetry that, when printed, covered one hun- dred and fifty pages. He was a member of the Unitarian church, and one of the founders of Cherryfield Academy. He died in Cherry- field, Maine, February 20, 1879, having reached the ninety-sixth year of his age. He married, August 29, 1806, Frances, daughter of Thom- as and Sally (Conant) Clarke, of Lexington and Boston. She became the mother of seven children, and died April 29, 1861. Children : I. William, born February 22, 1808, died Feb- ruary 23, 1808. 2. Frances Sarah, June 20, 1810, married (first) Dr. Tristram Redman and (second) John M. Hale, of Ellsworth, Maine. 3. Lucy Helen, August 9. 1812, mar- ried Thomas Hale. 4. George, October 15, 1814. 5. Elizabeth Dorcas, March 1, 1817, died June 10, 1893. 6. Charlotte, June 29, 1819, married Judge Caleb Burbank. 7. Will- iam (q. v.).
(VII) William (2), seventh child of Will- iam (I) and Frances (Clarke) Freeman, was born in Portland, Maine, November 17, 1822. He was educated in the public schools of Bos- ton, the Academy at Lexington, Massachu- setts, and the Academy at Cherryfield, Maine, and the Wells Boarding School at South Bos-
ton Point, 1836-42, where he served part of the time as assistant teacher in the school. He was admitted to the bar of Washington county, Maine, in 1845, and practiced in Cherryfield continuously up to the time of his death, a period of sixty years. He became largely in- terested in the ownership and output of timber lands in Cherryfield and its vicinity, and for the better handling of the products he con- structed dams, erected sawmills and manufac- tories and he became one of the largest op- erators on the Narraguagus river. His belt sawmill was the first of the kind in that sec- tion of the county, and with this improvement gas was made the means of lighting. He was also a promoter and heavy investor in the Cherryfield Silver Mine, and was largely inter- ested. in the canning of blueberries. He was deputy collector of United States customs at Cherryfield, 1860-65, and in his official capacity he seized a Confederate brig which, having run the blockade off the Florida coast in March, 1863, was on her way to St. John, New Brunswick, for supplies for the Confed- erate government and ran into Harrington river for shelter over the night and was caught in the ice. He put a prize crew on board and delivered the brig with her officers and crew to the United States custom officials at Ma- chias. The same year he was ordered to seize a schooner at anchor off Ripley Point, Har- rington, Maine, suspected as a smuggler, and no boat being available he swam out, boarded the craft by climbing up at her bow. and the skipper and crew surrendered. He was a mem- ber of the Farmer's National Congress for six years, its vice-president for Maine, its annual session being held in the south and west. and for two years he was custodian of its funds. When the civil war opened at the fall of Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, he turned his law office into a recruiting station and there the first volunteers for the Union army were enrolled. He was a representative in the Maine legislature 1880-85. His patriotic affili- ations was membership in the Sons of the American Revolution, in the general society of Maine, through his ancestor, Constant Free- man, an artillery officer in the continental army and brevet-colonel in the war of 1812, who held membership in the Massachusetts Society of the historic and patriotic Order of the Cin- cinnatus, founded in May, 1783, at the canton- ments of the continental army on the Hudson at the close of hostilities in the war of the revo- lution for American independence. He mar- ried Sophia T., daughter of Thompson and Sophia (Archibald) Lewis, of New Haven,
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Connecticut. September 4, 1851. Her grand- father, Thomas Archibald, was a native of Eastern Maine and a man of considerable note even before he removed to New Haven. So- phia T. Lewis was born October 16, 1827, and died June 7, 1874. Children, all born in Cher- ryfield, Maine : 1. William, April 8, 1853, died March 12, 1856. 2. Mary L., July 17, 1855. 3. Charles, December 9, 1857, died No- vember 19, 1861. 4. Everett Lewis, January 3, 1860, died August, 1865. 5. Frances, May 26. 1862, died November 11, 1869. 6. George Gif- ford (q. v.), January 1, 1868. 7. Catherine Lewis, November 7, 1869. His second wife, whom he married in 1881, was Mary C., (laughter of Enoch Freeman, by whom he had three children: Helen E. and Charlotte B., living, and William, deceased.
(VIII) George Gifford, eldest son of Will- iam (2) and Sophia T. (Lewis) Freeman, was born in Cherryfield, Maine, January I, 1868. He attended the public school and Cher- ryfield Academy and was graduated at the University of Maine, A. B., 1889. He was a law student in his father's office in Cherry- field, and at the same time conducted an in- surance business and was a surveyor, princi- pally on his father's extensive timber lands, and he held various offices of trust. He was admitted to the general practice of law in the state of Maine in 1898. He was made super- intendent of schools at Cherryfield from 1896, was a trustce of Cherryfield Academy from 1906, and he was a justice of the peace and judge of the local courts at Cherryfield from 1893. He was made clerk of courts for Wash- ington county in 1908. He was made a mem- ber of Narraguagus Lodge, Free and Accept- ed Masons, of Cherryfield, served as secretary of the lodge for 1891, and in 1908 was senior warden. He is also principal sojourner in his chapter of the Royal Arch Masons; charter member of Avilian Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Millbridge, and member of Winnepurket Lodge of Cherryfield. He married, July 12, 1897, Mary Caroline, daughter of Samuel Freeman and Esther (Moore) Adams, of Cherryfield ; children, born in Cherryfield: I. Esther Adams, March 12, 1898; and in 1908 was at school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2. William, December 23, 1902.
The Whitmore family WHITTEMORE traces its ancestry back to the early part of the thirteenth century, when very few Englishmen had surnames, and men who owned land were
distinguished by adding to their names the name of their estates.
(1) Sir John was knighted on the battle- field for valorous conduct in 1230, and received a tract of land entitled "Whytemere" or white meadow, whence came his title Lord John de Whytemere. The generations following Sir Jolin are as follows :
(II) Philip de Whytemere, died in 1300. (11I) John de Whytemere, died in 1365. (IV) Richard-I de Whytemere, died in 1386. (V) Richard-2 de Whytemere succeeded him. (VI) Richard-3 de Whytemere, died in 1442. (VII) Thomas Whytemere, died in 1483. (VIII) Richard-4 de Whytemere, died in 1 504. (IX) Richard-5 Whitmore, died in 1595. (X) Thomas-2 Whitmore, was buried April 26, 1617. (XI) Thomas-3 Whittemore, was born in 1594, came to America with his wife Han- nah and five children in 1642. He settled in Charlestown (now Malden), Massachusetts, and died in 1660. Thomas and Hannah had twelve children.
(XII) Daniel (I), son of Thomas and Hannah Whittemore, was baptized in Eng- land, July 31, 1633, and emigrated with his parents in his boyhood. He grew to manhood in Charlestown and settled in Malden, where his death occurred May 11, 1683. On March 7, 1662, he married Mary, daughter of Rich- ard Mellin, of Charlestown.
(XIII) Daniel (2), eldest child of Daniel (I) and Mary (Mellin) Whittemore, was born in Malden, Massachusetts, April 27, 1663, and married Lydia Bassett, who died April 6, 1755. Children : Daniel, Lydia, Joseph, Mary, Richard, Elizabeth, Jonathan, Hannah, Will- iam and Sarah. Daniel (3) Whittemore died September 21, 1756, aged ninety-four. His will, dated in 1742, gave the bulk of his estate to his son Daniel. To Jonathan he devised £10.
(XIV) Jonathan (1), seventh child and fourth son of Daniel (3) and Lydia ( Bassett ) Whittemore, was born in Needham, Massachu- setts, April II, 1705, and married Sarah Woodcock, April 10, 1735. He had a son Jonathan.
(XV) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (I) and Sarah ( Woodcock) Whittemore, was born in Needham, Massachusetts. He served seven years in the revolutionary war, after which he removed to Maine. Me married. Children : Ebenezer, Arnold and Eunice.
(XVI) Ebenezer, eldest son of Jonathan (2) Whittemore, was born in Needham, Mas- sachusetts, about 1770, and removed to Liver-
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more. Maine, with his father. He married and had sons Isaac and Alpheus.
(XVII) Isaac, son of Ebenezer Whittemore, was born in Livermore, Maine, in 1808, died March 9, 1886, in Auburn, Maine. He mar- ried Elizabeth Hatch, of Cambridge, Maine. Children: Franklin I., Jacob H., Charles E. and Edwin Carey. He was a farmer and lum- berman. He resided practically all his life in the town of Dexter, Maine, on the home farm, which contained one hundred acres. He was a Republican. He was a very prominent work- er in the Baptist church in Dexter, and treas- urer of the same.
(XVIII) Rev. Edwin Carey, fourth child and youngest son of Isaac and Elizabeth ( Hatch) Whittemore, was born in Dexter, Maine. April 29, 1858. He was fitted for col- lege in Dexter high school and Coburn Classi- cal Institute of Waterville, graduated from Colby University in the class of 1879, and from Newton Theological Institution in 1882. He was settled over the Baptist church in New Boston, New Hampshire, and remained two years. His pastoral charges since have been at Auburn, Maine, 1884-89, at Damariscotta, Maine, 1889-99, and at Waterville, Maine. He is the author of the "History of the Damaris- cotta Association," "History of the First Bap- tist Church of Nobleboro," "History of the Seventy-five Years of the Maine Baptist Mis- sionary Convention," "History of Coburn Clas- sical Institute," "Memorial of Albert T. Dunn, D. D.," "Memorial of Professor William El- der, LL. D." He was chairman of the editorial board of the "Centennial History of Water- ville," and furnished for that volume the chap- ter on the General History of Waterville, which was a very scholarly production. He is a preacher of ability, popular among his parishioners, and very influential in the de- nomination to which he belongs. He is a mem- ber of the following learned societies : Amer- ican Historical Association, American Acad- emy of Political and Social Science, and Waterville Historical Society. The Sunday- school numbers about six hundred members. The church raises annually thirty-five hun- dred dollars for home work. and one thousand for foreign work. He married, July 25, 1879, Ida M., daughter of Albert E. and Lydia (Flint) Macomber, of Abbott, Maine; one child, Bertha Carey, born April 16, 1882. She graduated from Colby University in 1904, and is now assistant in the library of the University of Maine, at Orono.
(XVII) Alpheus, son of Ebenezer Whitte- more, was born in Dexter, Maine. He married
Hannah, daughter of Jesse ( Mason) Smith, of East Livermore, Maine, and they had eleven children, the second son being given the name of liis father.
(XVIII) Alpheus, second son of Alpheus and Hannah ( Smith) Whittemore, was born in Livermore, Maine, 1825, and after attend- ing the district school in the winter and work- ing on his father's farm in the summer months he was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade, and he was both farmer and carpenter during his entire life. He was a member of the Free Baptist church, and held the office of deacon for the greater part of his adult life. He mar- ried Saralı T., daughter of John Smith, who removed to Livermore from New Hampshire. Children: 1. Franklin H., born in Livermore, Maine, made his home in Leeds, Maine. 2. Herbert C. (q. v.). 3. Louella, married De Forrest C. Whittemore, of Jay, Maine. 4. Maria S., married Henry S. Ballentine, of Livermore. 5. Everett T., married May Sturtevant. 6. Mary Ann, married Dr. Pratt, of Farmington, Maine.
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