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From: Robert and Janice Freeman <>
Subject: [FREEMAN-L] Re: Freeman Families
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 23:15:07 -0800
In-Reply-To: <199806011555.IAA10770@mailtod-101.iap.bryant.webtv.net>

Hi Linda,

I just happened to find your 2 1/2 year old message in my files:

on 6/1/98 8:55 AM, LINDA HUBBARD at wrote:

> Hi! I'm not Brad--But!!!
>
> I just found some info on Elisha Martin Freeman--my GGGrandfather.
> Although he was born in Marion County, Ohio and as a boy his family
> moved to Marion County, Indiana. His father and mother were Asa and
> Harriette Freeman.
>
> As yet, I have no bio info on them. But, I am still quite hopeful.
>
> Do you think this might be some help?

I have some information on Asa and Harriette Freeman -- see the listing
below. I'm just turning up some possibility that Asa's brothers may also
have gone at least as far west as New York State. Often they kept on moving
west, so I'm interested in everything you may know about the first
generation that moved to Indiana.

Bob Freeman
Edmonds, WA

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Name: Asa Putnam Freeman1,2,3
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Birth: 19 December 1792 Attleborough, Massachusetts
Death: 4 October 1876 Winamac, Indiana
Father: Daniel Hampton Freeman (1767-1844)
Mother: Sarah Horr (1769-)
Other spouses: Harriet Silver Farnum

Misc. Notes
He was a farmer, a real estate operator, and soldier in the War of 1812.4

Event: 9 December 1815 Attleborough, Massachusetts
Event Memo: Marriage intention published
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Spouse: Lucy Bates1,3
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Birth: Coventry, Rhode Island
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Sources
1. Volkland, 1983, p. 15.
Volkland, Effie Elnora Darnell. Ancestors and Descendants of Elisha Martin
Freeman. Nevada, Missouri: the Author, 1983. Copy available at the DAR
Library, Washington, D.C. Note: the portions of this book related to New
England Freemans are based on, with credit given, the work of Palmer¹s
Freeman Family History, Michigan, q.v.
2. VR Attleborough, Massachusetts.
Vital Records of Attleborough, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849.
Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1934. p. 123.
3. Palmer, 1965, v. 3, p. 7.
Palmer, George. Freeman Family History, Michigan. Laingsburg, Michigan:
the Author, 1965. 3 volumes.
4. Ibid. v. 3, p. 10.

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