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From: Bob & Janice Freeman< >
Subject: Re: Freemans in Iowa and Ohio
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:26:57 -0800 (PST)


>Hi all.
>
>I am pretty new to the list and my Freemans are in Iowa and Ohio.
>
>Any help or information on siblings, locations or further generations
>back would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Information listed below. Thanks in advance!
>
>Marti Dell
>
>
[....snip....]

>John's parents were:
>John FREEMAN, b. abt. 1760, d. Sept. 21, 1846 in Oxford Township, Butler
>County, Ohio
>m. Lydia ??

Hi, Marti -

Here is some information about your John Freeman. It's about as colorful
story as you can find in the Revolutionary War pension files in the
National Archives. I have quite a large database of 17th- and 18th century
New England Freemans, but I have not been able to identify this John
Freeman's parents.

Bob Freeman
Edmonds, WA

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Name:, John Freeman[1],[2]
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Birth:, December 1763, Boston, Massachusetts
Event: April 1779, Framingham, Massachusetts, As a resident of Framingham,
he enlisted in the army at the age of 16 for service in the Revolutionary
War
Event: 1779 - 1782, Massachusetts, Revolutionary War service in a
Massachusetts regiment
Event: February 1782, Massachusetts, He was discharged from the army after
having been in the battle of Yorktown, Virginia and present at the
surrender of Cornwallis in 1781
Event: about 1815, Oxford, Ohio, He removed to Oxford from New York State
Event: 1 August 1832, Oxford, Ohio, He applied for a Revolutionary War
soldier's pension
Death: 21 September 1846, Oxford, Ohio

Notes
After the war he removed to Vermont, then to New York, and finally to Ohio.
In 1852, an 82-year old woman named Lydia Freeman, formerly Lydia Rihl (or
Lydia Right) applied at Cincinnati for a widow's pension based on this John
Freeman's Revolutionary War record. She said that they had been married on
January 21, 1793 at Bedford, Pennsylvania by a Baptist minister. However,
she claimed that neither the state nor the church kept any record and that
her sister's children had torn up the family bible's record of the
marriage. She said that she had lived with him in Pennsylvania, in
Hamilton County, Ohio, and for thirty-two years in Oxford, Ohio before he
died in 1846. She had lived there until 1849, then moved to Kenton County,
Kentucky. She was awarded a pension. A year later, when Lydia Stout
Freeman applied for a pension and proved her marriage to John Freeman, this
other Lydia Freeman admitted that her application was a fraud and repaid
the money she had received.

(A letter dated 1932 in the pension file suggests that this John Freeman
was from Attleborough, Massachusetts, but apparently the War Department had
confused him with another John Freeman, who was born in Attleborough in
1760, served in the Revolution, and died in Monmouth, Maine in 1847.)

Spouses
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1: Lydia Stout[1]
Event: 21 March 1853, College Corner, Ohio, She was granted a widow's
pension for a Revolutionary War soldier
Marriage: 5 June 1828, Oxford, Ohio

Sources
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1. Revolutionary War Pensions and Bounty-Land Warrant Applications,
National Archives and Records Administration Microcopy Series No. M804.
Washington, 1969., microfilm no.1023; pension no. W8834 and Bounty Land
Warrant 9065-160-55.
2. White, Virgil D. (compiler), Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War
Pension Files, Waynesboro, Tennessee: National Historical Publishing Co.,
1990, p. 1266; pension nos. W8834, BLW 9065-160-55.

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