Martha Freeman

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Martha (Brown) Freeman (1720 - 1801)

Born 8 Jul 1720 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Daughter of Samuel Brown Jr. and Lydia (Fish) Smith

Sister of Mary Brown

Wife of Nathaniel Freeman — married 19 Feb 1737 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Mother of Sylvanus Freeman and Priscilla (Freeman) Burr

Died 31 Mar 1801 in Middle Haddam, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States

Brown-109058 created 17 Jun 2020

Biography

Note: Her LNAB is not Dunham. The Nathaniel Freeman who married Martha Dunham was, the son of Edmund Freeman and Keziah Presbury[1] [2]

Martha Brown was born July 8, 1720, the daughter of Samuel Brown and Lydia Fish, of Eastham, Massachusetts[3] [4]

On February 19, 1736/7, her intention to marry Nathaniel Freeman, son of Prence Freeman and Mary Doane was published[5] [1] [4]

Their children included:

Silvanus, b. 16 Apr. 1740[4], who married Lena Brainerd[1]
Martha, b. 22 July 1742, who married Jabez Arnold[1], and who died 9 Jan. 1819, Haddam Neck CT[4] Priscilla, b. 24 Sept. 1744[4], who married Jonathan Burr[1] Lydia, b. 17 Oct. 1746[4], who died young[1] Hatsuld, b. 18 Dec. 1749; d. 1 Nov. 1774[4], who married Martha[1] Dr. Nathaniel Freeman, b 8 Nov. 1751; d. 31 Oct. 1799[4], who married Livia Cornwall[1] Samuel Brown Prence, baptized August 18, 1754, who died young or unmarried[1] Lydia, baptized August 29, 1756, who died young[1] Mehitable, baptized July 9, 1758, who married Mr. Smith[1] Mary, baptized October 25, 1763, who married Mr. Talbot or Tarbox[1] Nathaniel and Martha moved to Connecticut between 1740 and 1746 according to church records[1]

Martha (Brown) Freeman died 31 Mar. 1801, in Middle Haddam, Connecticut[6] [7]

Sources

↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 Prence Freeman of East Hampton Connecticut by Homer Worthington Brainard, published in Volume 17, page 166 of The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .). This source notes that his wife was given erroneously as Mary Dunham in Davis' Landmarks of Plymouth, and has been copied in the Brainerd Genealogy and elsewhere ↑ On page 266 of, Susan E. Roser. Mayflower Births and Deaths, Volume 1, from the files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. states "A letter from the Historian-General of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1935, states new evidence had come to light proving Nathaniel Freeman's wife was Martha Brown not Martha Dunham as had been previously accepted. The files show that the Descendants of Deacon John Doane, and The Brainerd Family in America (1908) both incorrectly state her maiden name was Dunham." ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Harwich Volume 1, page 20, published in Volume 16, page 70 of the Mayflower Descendant: a Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy And History. Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899., which states Martha Brown the Daughter of Samuel and Lidia Brown was Born at Eastham on the eighth day of July annodom : 1720 ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Susan E. Roser. Mayflower Births and Deaths, Volume 1, page 258, from the files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Eastham-Orleans, Volume 1, also found in Volume 28, page 180 of The Mayflower Descendant, which states February 19th 1736/7 then entred the Intentions of Nathaniel Freeman of Harwich & Martha Brown of Eastham to proseed in marriage ↑ Cemetery Inscriptions Hog Hill Cemetery, East Hampton, published in Volume 25, page 615 of The Connecticut Nutmegger. Glastonbury, CT: Connecticut Society of Genealogists, 1970-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.), which states Freeman Martha, w. Nathaniel d. March 31, 1810, 80 yr Nathaniel, d. Sept 6, 1791, 78 yr Nathaniel (Doct), s. Nathaniel, d. Oct 31, 1799, 47 yr ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #35882000 See also:

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