Welcome to the Freeman genealogy. Family units are arranged alphabetically by the first name of the father (or single-parent mother). Links are provided to enable you to move up and down each lineage. To follow a line back in time (ancestors), click on the underlined portion of "(son of ...)" or "(dau. of ...)" beneath the name of the person you want to trace back. To follow a line forward in time (descendants), click on the name of the person whose offspring you want to see. A plus sign (+) following a name means that that person had one or more children, but that family group has not been added to this web page. A link to documentation and notes, when available, is given below each family.
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The earliest census records for Mount Desert Island that listed a Freeman as a "head of family" was the 1790 census of the town of Mount Desert, which reported a Reuben Freeman household with 3 "free white males" 16 and older and 6 "free white females". (Note that these 9 did not all have to be Freemans.) By 1800, there were two Freeman households, both in the town of Mount Desert: Reuben Freeman (4 males under 10 and 1 male 26–45, plus 1 female 26–45) and George Freeman (1 male under 10 and 1 male 26–45, plus 1 female under 10 and 1 female 16–25. Subsequent years reported the following households, all in the town of Mount Desert.
1810: George Freeman (8 residents including George), Reuben Freeman (11)
1820: George (8), Reuben (11)
1830: George (8), Reuben (6), Reuben Jr. (11)
1837: Benjamin (3), Daniel (7), George (7), James R. (7), Reuben (7), Reuben (6), Reuben (3), and Tyler (3)
1840: Benjamin S. (5), Daniel (5), James R. (6), Lewis (4), Reuben (5), Reuben Jr. (8), Reuben III (4), Tyler (3)
Until the 1850 census, individuals members of a household were reported only by a number in a category (e.g., "3 females under 10").
Benjamin S. Freeman
(son of [...])
b. age 47 y. as of 1850 census Maine
m. Ruth C. [...]
b. age 47 y. as of 1850 census Maine
d. 26 September 1867
bur. Pretty Marsh Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
children:
Frances [N.?] Freeman b. age 13 y. as of 1850 census Maine
[Senora?] A. Freeman b. age 11 y. as of 1850 census Maine
John T. Freeman b. age 9 y. as of 1850 census Maine
Anthelia M. Freeman b. age 6 y. as of 1850 census Maine
Prince Albert Freeman b. age 16 y., 10 m., 25 d. at death Maine - d. 5 September 1862 - bur. Pretty Marsh Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
documentation and notes
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Reuben Freeman III
(son of [...])
b. age 43 Maine
m. Sophia [...]
b. age 39 y. Maine
children:
infant daughter d. 17 August 1838 - bur. Pretty Marsh Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
Julia S. Freeman b. 1836 Maine - m. John T. Crockett - d. 1910 - bur. Old Burying Ground Southwest Harbor, Maine
Isabel Freeman b. age 10 y. as of 1850 census Maine
George A. Freeman b. age 6 y. as of 1850 census Maine
Hilton Freeman b. age 3 y. as of 1850 census Maine
documentation and notes
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