Family of Henry FREEMAN Jr. and Mary READ

Husband:	Henry FREEMAN Jr. (1717-1784)
Wife:	Mary READ (1724-1796)
Children:	Cozada FREEMAN ( - )
	Hannah FREEMAN ( - )
	Isabel FREEMAN (1742-1809)
	Ann FREEMAN (1743- )
	Abigal FREEMAN (1743- )
	Conzada FREEMAN (1744- )
	Israel FREEMAN (1744-1830)
	Edward FREEMAN (1745- )
	Elizabeth FREEMAN (1746- )
	Melancthon FREEMAN (1746-1806)
	Lucy FREEMAN (1747- )
	Thomas FREEMAN (1748-1803)
	Samuel FREEMAN (1750-1821)
	Isaac FREEMAN (1751- )
	Amos FREEMAN (1751-1825)
	Rachel FREEMAN (1759-1776)
	Henry FREEMAN (1761-1849)
	Smith FREEMAN (1769-1774)
	Oliver FREEMAN (1770- )
Marriage	1 Jul 1742	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1

Husband: Henry FREEMAN Jr.

	Henry FREEMAN Jr., "Musketman8"

Name:	Henry FREEMAN Jr. 1
Sex:	Male
Name Prefix:	Patriot Sergeant
Name Suffix:	Esq.
Nickname:	First Squire
Father:	Henry FREEMAN (1671-1763)
Mother:	Elizabeth PETIT (1673-1760)
Birth	23 Mar 1717	Woodbridge NJ 1
Occupation		Farmer
Religion		Presbytarian
Death	16 Jul 1784 (age 67)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1
Burial	1784 (age 66-67)	1st Presbyterian Church Cemetery, (5-6; A-B) 2
Record Change	18 Mar 2001 (age 283)

Additional Information

Burial

600 Rahway Ave,, Woodbridge, NJ

Wife: Mary READ

Name:	Mary READ 1
Sex:	Female
Father:	Thomas READ ( - )
Mother:	Susannah SMITH (1701-1702)
Birth	24 Nov 1724	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1
Death	28 Oct 1796 (age 71)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1

Child 1: Cozada FREEMAN

Name:	Cozada FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Male

Child 2: Hannah FREEMAN

Name:	Hannah FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Female

Child 3: Isabel FREEMAN

Name:	Isabel FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Female
Birth	8 Oct 1742	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1
Death	5 Apr 1809 (age 66)	Woodbridge, New Jersey, USA 1

Child 4: Ann FREEMAN

Name:	Ann FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Male
Birth	1743

Child 5: Abigal FREEMAN

Name:	Abigal FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Female
Birth	Jan 1743 1

Child 6: Conzada FREEMAN

Name:	Conzada FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Female
Birth	1744 1

Child 7: Israel FREEMAN

Name:	Israel FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Male
Birth	23 Apr 1744	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1
Death	1830 (age 85-86) 1

Child 8: Edward FREEMAN

Name:	Edward FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Male
Birth	1745 1

Child 9: Elizabeth FREEMAN

Name:	Elizabeth FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Female
Birth	1746 1

Child 10: Melancthon FREEMAN

Name:	Melancthon FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Male
Birth	1 May 1746	Woodbridge, New Jersey, USA 1
Title		Doctor
Death	11 Nov 1806 (age 60)	Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1

Child 11: Lucy FREEMAN

Name:	Lucy FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Female
Birth	1747 1

Child 12: Thomas FREEMAN

Name:	Thomas FREEMAN 1,3
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Sarah MOORES (1751-1803)
Birth (1)	1748	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1
Death (1)	18 Dec 1803 (age 54-55)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1
Birth (2)	1748	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1
Birth (3)	1749	Woodbridge, NJ 4
Death (2)	18 Dec 1803 (age 54-55)
Death (3)	18 Dec 1803 (age 54-55)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1

Child 13: Samuel FREEMAN

Name:	Samuel FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Male
Birth	1750	Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, New Jersey, USA 1
Death	1821 (age 70-71) 1

Child 14: Isaac FREEMAN

Name:	Isaac FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Male
Birth	1751 1

Child 15: Amos FREEMAN

Name:	Amos FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Male
Birth	26 Oct 1751	Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, New Jersey, USA 1
Death	1 Jan 1825 (age 73)	Bloomingdale, New York City 1

Child 16: Rachel FREEMAN

Name:	Rachel FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Female
Birth	1759 1
Death	30 Aug 1776 (age 16-17) 1

Child 17: Henry FREEMAN

Name:	Henry FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Male
Birth	5 Oct 1761	Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, New Jersey, USA 1
Death	16 Mar 1849 (age 87)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1

Child 18: Smith FREEMAN

Name:	Smith FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Male
Birth	1769 1
Death	19 Feb 1774 (age 4-5) 1

Child 19: Oliver FREEMAN

Name:	Oliver FREEMAN 1
Sex:	Male
Birth	1770 1

Note on Husband: Henry FREEMAN Jr. - shared note

from Patty Myers, Ancestors and Descendants of Willis Freeman

p. 26-27

 

16. FREEMAN HENRY3 FREEMAN (Henry2,Ann1), b. Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge 23 Mar 1717 (VR); d. there (struck by lightening) 16 Jul 1784; bur. Presby. Cern., Woodbridge, N.J. (Recs. 1st Presby. Ch. of Woodbridge). His tombstone reads: "In memory of Henry Freeman, Esq., who departed this life July the 16th year of his age." His estate was administered 24 Aug 1784 by his son Israel with son Thomas as fellowbondsman (N.J. Arch. 35:154).

 

He m/1 at Woodbridge (license dated) 8 Sept 1739 (N.J. Arch. 22:142) Abigail5 Carman (Richard4, Samuel3, John2,1), b. c1722; d. c1739/40 probably in childbirth; m/2 at Woodbridge 1 July 1742 (license dated) Mary3 Read (N.J. Arch., 22:142; NYGBR, Apr-July 1950, 81:102, "The Family of Richard3 Carman of Woodbridge, New Jersey by Howard S F Randolph). Willis Freeman claims he did not m. Abigail Carman, but that she m. Hugh Dunn. Mary Read was b. 24 Nov 1724; d. 28 Oct 1796; age 71; bur. with her husband. She was d/o Thomas2 Read (Thomas1) and Susanna4 Smith (Thomas3, Joseph2, William). Her tombstone reads: "In memory of Mary, wife of Henry Freeman, Esq., who deceased Oct 28, 1796 in the 73d year of her age." Mary was sister of Rev. Israel Read, first permanent minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Bound Brook, Somerset Co., N.J. See Read.

 

Henry was called Henry Freeman, Jr., when he married Mary Read. He inherited the Whitewood Hill plantation with all the additions, a lot of salt meadow and L100 from his father. He was called "my seventh son" in his mother's wIll and received L26. He was known as the "First Squire." His sons Israel, Melancthon and Thomas were Revolutionary War soldiers.

 

He was named a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex County by Governor William Franklin at a privy council held at Burlington, New Jersey, Friday, February 21st, 1772. (FWG, "Henry Freeman of Woodbridge, His Children and Grandchildren," at NJHS, Newark.)

 

Henry Freeman was chosen a member of the "Committee of Observation" of the Township of Woodbridge, County of Middlesex, New Jersey by the inhabitants of Woodbridge, on Saturday, the 7th day of January 1775. He is called "Henry Freeman, Esquire" in the above appointment. (DAR 423295.)

 

Trenton, June 7, 1780. -- Thursday evening last a party of about 30 refugees, from New York, landed at Stony Point, on Raritan river, and from thence went to Woodbridge, where they made Justice Freeman, Mr. Edgar, and six other white persons, and two negroes, prisoners, whom they carried off to New York. (Barber and Howe, p. 326.)

 

Several tables appear on the record showing the articles confiscated for taxes and fines [during the Revolutionary War]. The officers took all sorts of things: chairs, BIbles, shovel and tongs, andirons, spoons, kettles, bedding, cows, horses, oxen, hogs, basins, watches, corn, guns, pails, bellows, hay, sheep, tubs, overcoats, etc. On a warrant issued by Henry Freeman, Justice, Edward Moore was visited three times during 1780 by Daniel Compton, the Constable, for the collection of a tax of L29, and a fine of L500.... Henry Freeman, Justice, was among the officers, civil and military, who were conspicuous in enforcing the existing laws against non-combatants. (Dally, pp. 220-1.)

 

Henry left no Will but letters of administration were granted on his estate to his sons Israel and Thomas 24 Aug 1784. His estate was very large both in real and personal. By lot Whitewood Hill fell to his son Henry Freeman, the 3rd, or the "Second Squire."

 

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Birth: 1760, USA

Death: Mar. 7, 1838

Middlesex County

New Jersey, USA

 

Fifer served under Colonel Forman, New Jersey also Seaman on Brig "Gen Wayne".

 

Burial:

First Presbyterian Churchyard

Woodbridge

Middlesex County

New Jersey, USA

 

Record added: Apr 14 2001

By: Alberta Daniels Withrow

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Sources

1	Ancestry.com, "One World Tree (sm)" (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.;). Text From Source: Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.
	www.ancestry.com.

2	"Headstone".

3	Patty Barthell Myers, "Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman" (Name: 1995;).
	http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH12,35923.

4	Footnote: AROLD FREEMAN'S BLACK BOOK