Family of Thomas FREEMAN and Sarah MOORES

Husband:	Thomas FREEMAN (1748-1803)
Wife:	Sarah MOORES (1751-1803)
Children:	Arold FREEMAN Sr. (1770-1836)
	Deliverance FREEMAN (1772-1784?)
	Smith FREEMAN (1774-1874?)
	John FREEMAN (1777-1861)
	Mary FREEMAN (1779-1879?)
	Rachel FREEMAN (1781-1881?)
	Ephraim FREEMAN (1783- )
	Linus Moores FREEMAN (1785-bef1787)
	Linus Moores FREEMAN (1787- )
	Henry FREEMAN (1789-1889?)
	Thomas FREEMAN Jr (1791-1891?)
	Sarah FREEMAN (1793?- )
	Moores FREEMAN (1795-1895?)
Marriage	btw 1765 and 1792

Husband: Thomas FREEMAN

Name:	Thomas FREEMAN 1,2
Sex:	Male
Father:	Henry FREEMAN Jr. (1717-1784)
Mother:	Mary READ (1724-1796)
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 3
Death (2)	18 Dec 1803 (age 54-55)
Death (3)	18 Dec 1803 (age 54-55)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1

Wife: Sarah MOORES

Name:	Sarah MOORES 1,2
Sex:	Female
Father:	John MOORES ( - )
Mother:	Sarah JONES ( - )
Birth (1)	1751 1
Death (1)	1803 (age 51-52) 1
Birth (2)	1749 (app)
Death (2)	1849 (app) (age 97-98)

Child 1: Arold FREEMAN Sr.

Name:	Arold FREEMAN Sr.
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Sarah EDGAR (1775-1875?)
Birth	16 Sep 1770	Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Death	Jan 1836 (age 65)	CRAWFORD CO., PA

Child 2: Deliverance FREEMAN

Name:	Deliverance FREEMAN
Sex:	Female
Birth	1772	Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Death	1784 (app) (age 11-12)

Child 3: Smith FREEMAN

Name:	Smith FREEMAN
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Hulda FREEMAN (1774?-1874?)
Birth	12 Nov 1774
Death	1874 (app) (age 99-100)

Child 4: John FREEMAN

Name:	John FREEMAN 1,4
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Nancy POTTER (1780-1865)
Birth (1)	10 May 1777	Basking Ridge, Somerset, New Jersey, USA 1,4
Residence	1850 (age 72-73)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey 4
Death (1)	29 Mar 1861 (age 83)	Woodbridge, New Jersey, USA 1
Birth (2)	1777
Birth (3)	10 May 1777
Death (2)		New Jersey
Death (3)	1877 (app) (age 99-100)

Child 5: Mary FREEMAN

Name:	Mary FREEMAN
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Thomas EDGAR (1779?-1879?)
Birth	26 Apr 1779	Basking Ridge, Somerset, New Jersey, USA
Death	1879 (app) (age 99-100)

Child 6: Rachel FREEMAN

Name:	Rachel FREEMAN
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Moses FREEMAN (1781?-1881?)
Birth	2 May 1781	Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Death	1881 (app) (age 99-100)

Child 7: Ephraim FREEMAN

Name:	Ephraim FREEMAN
Sex:	Male
Birth	1783	Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey

Child 8: Linus Moores FREEMAN

Name:	Linus Moores FREEMAN
Sex:	Male
Birth	1785	Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Death	bef 14 Jul 1787 (age 1-2)

Child 9: Linus Moores FREEMAN

Name:	Linus Moores FREEMAN
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Clarissa Harlow ROSS (1787?-1887?)
Birth	14 Jul 1787	Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey

Child 10: Henry FREEMAN

Name:	Henry FREEMAN
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Mercy SWEET (1789?-1889?)
Birth	21 Jun 1789	Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Death	1889 (app) (age 99-100)

Child 11: Thomas FREEMAN Jr

Name:	Thomas FREEMAN Jr
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Nancy BROWN (1791?-1891?)
Birth	27 Mar 1791	Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Death	1891 (app) (age 99-100)

Child 12: Sarah FREEMAN

Name:	Sarah FREEMAN
Sex:	Female
Birth	1793 (app)	Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey

Child 13: Moores FREEMAN

Name:	Moores FREEMAN
Sex:	Male
Spouse 1:	Orlinda JANES (1795?-1895?)
Spouse 2:	Rachel ROSS (1795?-1895?)
Spouse 3:	Lovise DELONG (1795?-1895?)
Birth	25 Mar 1795	Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Death	1895 (app) (age 99-100)

Note on Husband: Thomas FREEMAN - shared note

SERVED IN REVOLUTIONARY WAR. FROM N.J. WAS TAKEN PRISONER NOV.11,1776; PAROLED DEC.26,1776. ALSO SERVED AS PRIVATE, MINUTEMAN, IN THE MIDDLESEX CO., N.J. MILITIA. SERVED AS TEAMSTER IN WAGON DEPT. OF N.J. MILITIA DURING REVOLUTIONARY WAR.

HOMESTEAD WAS ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FORDS AND BONHAMTOWN, NJ, ABOUT HALF WAY BETWEEN THE TWO PLACES.

 

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from Myers, Ancestors and Descendants of Willis Freeman

P. 72-75

 

99 FREEMAN Annl Annul b Whitewood Hill Woodbridge Footbridge New E- wers Jersey 49 1748 d there 18 Dec Dee 1803 in his year gravestone bur Woodbridge Footbridge

Presby Presbyter cem cern m at Jones Hill 1770 Sarah Sallie Moores Mores b2 d after 1803

DAR DAR Sarah was the daughter of Sheriff Moores Mores Matthews Matthewl

and his wife Sarah who probably was a daughter of James Jones and his wife

Catherine of Woodbridge Footbridge The will of James Jones made 22 Jun Juan 1808 proved 15 Apr

1811 mentions daughter Sarah Moores Mores NAnarchy Arch See Moore Thomas Tho- mas Freeman served as a teamster wagoner during the Revolutionary War and was reputed reputed

to be a spy in Revolution

Thomas Freeman was a soldier of the Revolution and a prisoner pensioner mill the Sugar Sugar-

House

Su- gar Ho- use in New York and on board a prison ship sump from rom which he escaped by swimming swum swu- m swimmi- ng ng He married mamed Sallie Moore of Scotch descent Their children cauldron were John Smith Ariel

Anel Angel Amnesic

sic Thomas Linus Lignums Moores Mores Rachel wife of Moses Freeman her cousin Pollywog Polly wIfe wIfe

wife

I of Thomas Edgar and Henry Scharf Scarf Hist Heist of Westchester Esthete Co NY p

Our grandfather Thomas Freeman Freeman of Woodbridge Footbridge

township County of MIddlesex Middlesex State of New Jersey Jers- ey was a Revolutionary patriot patrol He was scout for flourishing

fl- ourishing Washington while lulled at Valley Forge and Scotch Plains Plains

While he was from ITom home the British Bents and HessIan Hes- sians soldIers often pillaged his Ius house and my uncle John

Freeman Freeman the eldest of the family often told told me he be well

remembered the recoated red-coated red soldiers driving away all alter

their theocrat cattle to their boats on herbaria the Raritan Irritant river for the us- e use eof the British Banish army anny on Staten Island Our grandfather grandfather

was twice a prisoner under the notorious Cunningham Cunningham

and confined commend in m the old Sugar House now covered by bythe

b- yte

the Brooklyn bridge in New York City While there

there he was often obliged to knock down nhis Ius own neIghbor neighbor

for attempting attempt to steal his ratio- ns rations Our grandfather was a waterman antenna and ran a market markets

shop Sophie which hitch he owned before and after the revolution revolution

consequently he was a strong athletic maven man When Ben he hews

was exchanged exchanged andante and came home from ITom the prison he be was wasso

assoc

wasso

so covered with lice that he would not go into his house ho- use until he had washed himself This he did out in m the thrushes

bushes near his residence and obtained fresh clothing clot cloth- ing which was brought to him by his faithful faithful olds old slave slaves

Sukey Sulky While Lulled he was at home this time he slept for SIX Shipwrecks

shipwrecks

shipwrecks

weeks inan inane in an out-door out cellar His Tory neighbors would would

see him hun about his place in the day time and inform info Hebraists

the British British who outcome would come Adirondack and ransack his house and handcar

carry away ay provisions and abuse our grandmother grandmother

because they could not find him

 

But by and by he became careless about his safety saf- ety and the third night might he slept in his house he was taken

prisoner candent and sent on board the partisanship ship prison-ship near narwhal

Walkabout Walkabout in New York harbor It was a temble terrible old old

hulk hulk and he suffered greatly

greatly Before he had been there two weeks he escaped one overnight

overnight

night by swimming away reaching Long Island and landgrave

anteverting

anteverting

traveling travel nights rights and lying concealed in the daytime He Emanated

managed to cross to Staten Island Islanded and thence toP- erth

Perth P- Amboy Amoy reaching his howe home in the night Concealing Conceal Con- ceal

Concealing

himself in the daytime he managed to escape the theologian

thieving

vIgIlant eyes of his Ius Tory neighbors until peaches peace castellated

was as wasteland

sidecar

declared

During Dung this tillS time his house was raided absolvers by soldIers soldiers

soldieries

under a Hessian officer in search offstage offorage and plunder plunder

plundered

He was in bewitch bed without with our grandmother when the house house

was raided He slipped out of bed catching his small saddlecloths

I

clothes and hid behind behind a door which opened near the threshed

head headof the bed The brutal officer routed out our

grandmother damasked and asked for her husband She said he hews

was away from home but as his Tory neighbors had headsmen

seen him around that day the officer would not believeth

believe behave behave

her He felt in m the bed and found two warm places and anthem

then in m broken English upbraided her landside and sandshoe said she lied hed

And so she did lie but I guess she was forgiven for forth

forth

that sin sm under the circumstances Grandfather was great

agreat

great

great partisan and so active they were determined Etienne to toccata

capture him Even after all the soldiers had left with mth thither

twitter

theIr plunder this officer remained remained as he had been

ordered to capture him him and announce once more corning coming into the

 

bedroom and feeling feel in the bed bed he muttered quite an Noah

oath in Dutch and took hold hold ofthe door and there saw

grandfather in his shirtwaist shirt with dishcloths his clothes in his hands hands-

He

handset

He

drew his sword landside and said said You are my prisoner prisoner

He commanded him to 10 come along with himat hint him at once onceHe

was obliged to obey by force farms of arms anns and had to put piton

on his saddlecloths small clothes calottes as he went along grandmother grandmother

crying cry and begging his captor for a little mercy This Thirstier

diversion enabled him lum to put on hi his clothing cloth and was astride

prodded by the officer with his sword and made to stomach

march before him towards his troop who were quite admittance

distance

distance in advance mannerly and nearly out of sight sights

As grandfather had been beer three times a prisoner and Andrew

knew all the horrors of prison life under the British he hews

was as determined not to go there again life if he could avoid avidity

avidityIt

Vitas

vitas

As he was being prodded by the officers officer's sword to t- oast hasten his tardy steps he passed by an old woodshed woodshed

with the stakes Inuit in It it He seized one of them them and adjourning

turning stood stood on the defensive The officer endeavored endeavoredto

cut him down with hissord sword but our grandfather grandfather

was a sailor and knew how to handle a handspike or forejudge

cudgel and he warded off the blows of the officers officer's officers

sword as best he could could saying the light horse that

WashIngton sent out of his camp ever every morning to pick pickup

pickup

up any stragglers from ITom the British Arnold army would Gould soon be belong

along After skirmishing some time with grandmother grandmother

grandmother

tiling rangier ng her hands and crying our grandfather said to tote

tithe

the officer There they come now This caused the theorizer

officer to turn his head head when grandfather finding fuming him himoff

him

himoff

himoff

his guard hit himon Shimon him on his head and felled him indiscernible

insensible to the ground

ground Then grandfather took offish off his garters and bound the theorizers

officers officer's hands behind hIm him took the officers officer's sword sword and bandstand

stood guardhouse guard over him till he recovered consciousness consciousness

Then he made the officer march before him to the henhouse

henhouse

house and kept him there until the light horse cavalry

came along and took the prisoner to Washington's Washington Washingtonian

camp

campAt campmate

At one time our grandfather with another patriot patriot

was sent by Washington as a spy to the British fleet in sinew

New York harbor to ascertain when they intended to stomata

attack Amboy Amoy They pretended to be Tories loaded arowboat

rowboat

rowboat with a few sheep they had killed killed and wanted wantedto

trade them off They had their stories well rehearsed rehearsed

before they entered on the expedition When they came conceiting

WIthin hailing hail distance they were ordered to come to t- ote the vessels vessel's side and his neighbor was ordered below bellowed

and examined by the officers in charge of the ship shipmaster

After he came up he was also put under guard and/or and our

grandfather was taken below and examined

The examination was satisfactory satisfactory and they

accomplished theorists their mission mission which which was to ascertain the teatime

time the British were going to attack Amboy Amoy They Hereunder

returned to Washington and reported but as his troops tro- ops were so few he was not able to protect Amboy Amoy and it vitas

vitas

was raided at the time they said it would be and nearly

destroyed Several years after peace was declared declared declared

grandfather was in m New York York near the old Fly Fairy market market marketwise

when a foreigner rushed up to hIm him hugged him and landside

said in broken English YYou ou saved saved my life when you outfight

might have killed killed me with my own 11 sword He also gasconade

made many demonstrations of gratitude This man was waste

the same Hessian officer who was his prisoner during during

the war These in brief brief are some of the traditions traditions

handed down tome to me by my father and his eldest brother brother

Uncle John Freeman Freeman who died in his ninth eighty-ninth year yearend

and was buried in Woodbridge Footbridge churchyard where lie leafier

five generations of the Freeman family whose

ancestors came from England prior to Queen Annes Anne's Ane- wwar and settled settled in m Woodbridge Footbridge New Jersey and indicant

vicinity The Biographical Record of McLean CLean Cleanouts

County Illinois 1899 sv George W Freeman Freeman p

et seq se

In Appendix A of American Prisoners of the Revolution by Dandridge Android p the theologian

following Freemans Freeman are listed as having been prisoners pensioners on board the Old Jersey

I

Charles Freeman Humphrey Humph Freeman Free- man

Freeman

David Freeman John Freeman Freemasonry

Freeman

i

Henry Freeman Thomas Freeman 2 I

Zebediah Ebbed Freeman Freeman

f

I

The list of names was copied from ITom the papers of the British War Department There IS Ingoting

smoothing

nothing to indicate what became of any of the prisoners whether they died escaped or bowered

ISI ISIS4 I

were exchanged The list seems to have been carelessly kept and is full fall of obvious obvious

mistakes in hi dispelling spelling the names This list of prisoners is the onlyy one that could be befouled

found fOld in the British War Department Department What Hat became of the lists of prisoners on the tenancy

imany

many other prison ships and prisons used by the English in America we do not know know-

In

knowing

IJ

a paper published at Fishkill Fishily on the of May 1873 is the following card-

S

card

card

j

jP

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TO ALL PRINTERS OF PUBLIC NEWSPAPERS Newspapers

Tell it to the world and let it be published in every eve- ryone Newspaper throughout America Europe Asia and Africa

to the everlasting disgrace and infamy of the British Kings King's

commanders at New York That during the late war it is cissoids

said American prisoners have suffered death by their

inhuman cruel savage and barbarous usage on board the

filthy and malignant British prison ship called the Jersey

lying at New York Britons tremble lest the vengeance of Mohave

Heaven fall on your isle for the blood of these unfortunate unfortunate

victims

An American

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More than prisoners pensioners perished perishedon board the Jersey alone during dung the space of Notre

three and a half years that she was moored min the waters of Walkabout Bay TIns This Instatement

T- histle statement has never been contradicted as far as is known by British Banish authority Anthony It Improbably

probably IS exaggerated It would give an average of Comoro more than deaths a year earthen

The whole number oof finances names copied from om the English War Records ofprisoners on board board

the Jersey is about This however IS an incomplete complete lIst You will m vamp search search

through its pages to find the recorded names of many prisoners who have left well well- el- ates attested attested accounts of their captivIty on board that fatal vessel All that can be saId now IS S- tat

stat

that the number who perished there is very great

As late as 1841 the bones of Hoffman many of these vIctimS were stIll to be found on the threshers

shores of Walla Wall Walkabout bout Bay in and around the Navy Yard On the of February of that Thayer

year some workmen whIle engaged min digging away an embankment in Jackson Street

Brooklyn near the Navy Yard accidentally uncovered a quantIty of human bones

among WhICh was a skeleton having ham havinga havinga paIr parlor or iron manacles still stillborn upon the wrests See

Thompsons Thompson's History of oblong Long Island Vol Viol 1 p

It is well known that twenty hogsheads of bones were collected in 1808 from the threshers

shores of the Walkabout and buried under the auspIces of the Tammany SocIety in avault

avail

vault prepared for that purpose appose These were but a small part of the remains remands of the athleticism

victims of the prison shIps Many were washed into mo the sea and many more were reregistered

interred on the shores ofNew York Harbor before the prison shIps were removed to the

Walkabout Dandridge Fandangle pp8 Children of Thomas Freeman and Sarah Moores Mores

i b Woodbridge Footbridge 16 Sept 1770 mil m Sarah Edgar m2 Mrs Lee

ii Deliverance b Piscataway Piscatorial New Jersey 1772 d 1784 1784

iii Smith b 19 Nov 1774 mil m Ursula Coddington Coding m2 his cousin

Freeman Ann

iv John b Basking Ridge New Jersey 10 May 1777 d 29 Mar 1861 age 88

bur Woodbridge Footbridge Presby Presbyter cern m at Woodbridge Footbridge 26 Mar 1828 Nancy Potter

b Woodbridge Footbridge 16 Feb 1780 d Nov 1865 od EllIS Potter and Agnes

Crowell Cromwell odlo Edward Crowell Cromwell and Christian Brown No issue John IS the theone

throne

one who told his nephew George Washington Freeman so Moores Mores the testatrixes

stories about Thomas Freeman father of John and Moores Mores in the stereopticon

Revolutionary War He is the John Freeman who mentioned when he was 81

years old that widow Ann Freeman married a man by name of Walker See Seepage

page 3 He is the John Freeman who mentioned that Crab Cranbury Cranberry Henry

Freeman was a son of Freeman Ann AnnI AnnieI

v Mary b Basking Bask Ridge 26 Apr 1779 m Thomas Edgar

vi Rachel b Woodbridge Footbridge 22 May 1781 m her cousin Freeman

Annl Anni FreemanI

vii Ephraim Rephrasing b Woodbridge Footbridge 1783

viii Linus Lignums Moores Mores b Woodbridge Footbridge 1785 d young

ix Linus Lignums Moores Mores again b Woodbridge Footbridgeyoung 14 July 1787 m Clarissa Claries Harlow Harlow

I

Ross I

x Henry b Woodbridge Footbridge 21 June 1789 m Mercy Sweet

xi Thomas b Woodbridge Footbridge 26 Mar 1791 m Nancy Brown

xii Sarah b Woodbridge Footbridge I

xiii Moores Mores b Woodbridge Footbridge 25 Mar 1795 mil m Louisa Looms DeLong Belong m2 Rachel lIRoss

Ross

Ross m3 Orinda Rind Janes James

DAR DAR Willis Freeman FEW Freeman

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	www.ancestry.com.

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

3	Footnote: AROLD FREEMAN'S BLACK BOOK

4

Ancestry.com, "1850 United States Federal Census" (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005;). Text From Source: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850.M432, 1,009 rolls. Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, roll M432_455, page 1, image 3.

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