GEORGE SKINNER FREEMAN
Harriet Hughes Freeman
George Skinner Freeman was born in Metuchen, Middlesex County, New Jersey, on Wednesday, February 26, 1800. His parents Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman Freeman were second cousins.
The headstones for Henry Freeman (his father) and Capt. Matthew Freeman (father of his mother Rachel) were pictured in this article. See photos on their Find A Grave Memorials.
The Old Colonial Cemetery
BY METUCHENLIVING · PUBLISHED JULY 12, 2010 · UPDATED NOVEMBER 1, 2013
https://metuchenliving.com/the-old-colonial-cemetery/
Metuchen, New Jersey
European settlers began living in the section of Woodbridge Township that eventually became Metuchen during the late 1600s, setting up homesteads and farm lots within an area long populated by the Lenape people. This area was then, and is still named for the Lenape leader MeTochen, who lived here in the late 17th century.
https://townsquarepublications.com/history-of-metuchen-nj/
Gravestone of Henry Freeman Vandalized
Donations sought to restore vandalized gravestones, by Kathy Chang
Published on August 28, 2016
The damaged stones include... Henry Freeman (d. 1835)...
The cemetery was established between 1715 and 1730 as the burying ground associated with the Presbyterian Church. The grounds contain 1,045 marked graves and 60 unmarked graves.
Donations can be made to the "Metuchen-Edison Historical Society" at P.O. Box 61, Metuchen, NJ 08840
https://centraljersey.com/2016/08/28/metuchen-gravestones/?amp
George Skinner Freeman died at Elizabethtown, Union County, New Jersey, on Monday, December 11, 1837. He was 37 years old when he died.
Elizabeth, New Jersey
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth,_New_Jersey
HARRIET.
WIFE OF Geo. S. Freeman
BORN
in Rahway, N. J.
Sept. 20, 1803.
DIED
in Macon, Ga.
Feb. 4, 1874.
ASLEEP IN JESUS
Rahway, New Jersey
The history of Rahway begins with the settlements of Elizabethtown and Woodbridge. The early settlers of those places were the founders of Rahway, which began as outlying acreage and plantations.
https://www.cityofrahway.org/about-rahway/
Woodbridge, New Jersey
https://www.revolutionarywarnewjersey.com/new_jersey_revolutionary_war_sites/towns/woodbridge_nj_revolutionary_war_sites.htm
Judge Henry and Elizabeth Freeman gravestones
First Presbyterian Church of Woodbridge
600 Rahway Avenue, Woodbridge, New Jersey
Elizabeth Freeman - December 3, 1760 - 87 Years old
Our days begin with trouble here
Our life is but a span
And cruel death is always near
So frail a thing is man
Henry Freeman - October 10, 1763 - 94 years old
Here let him sleep in undisturbed dust
Until the resurrection of the just
https://www.scionofzion.com/cemetery.htm
George Skinner Freeman married Harriet Hughes in Rahway, New Jersey, on February 2, 1824. She was born in Rahway, New Jersey, on September 20, 1803. The best information is that Harriet's parents are not known. Some geneaolgy sites may name parents; however there appears to be no documentation and no compelling evidence to suggest anything certain regarding who Harriet's parents were.
Their sons were Charles Henry Freeman, Oliver William Freeman, and Thomas Williams Freeman.
Page 260 - 1382. CHARLES HENRY FREEMAN (George Skinner, Henry, Alexander, John, Henry, Ann), b. Richmond Co., N.Y., 20 Oct 1824; d. Macon Ga., 10 Sept 1889; m. 20 Sept 1848 Hannah Lum, b. Newark, N.J., 24 Jun 1825; d. Macon, Ga., 4 Mar 1889 (DAR 550637). She was d/o Amos Lum and Fannie Morehouse of New Providence, N.J. Charles H. Freeman was of Newark, N.J., and later of Macon, Ga.
— Ancestors and descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman with related families, by Patty Barthell Myers
Charles Henry Freeman, born in Richmond County, New York. The 1880 Census states New Jersey, probably a casual answer with the Freeman family being historically of New Jersey and Charles Henry and Hannah being formerly of Newark. It appears New York state was in fact his actual birthplace. Charles H. Freeman and his wife Hannah Lum Freeman are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery with several children.
Middle son Oliver William Freeman was born in Richmond County, New York – this information is inscribed on his tombstone. Youngest son Thomas Williams Freeman was born in Newark, New Jersey – also inscribed on his tombstone. There appear to be records including birth, marriage, census, and death for all of George Skinner Freeman's children.
In 1850, Harriet and her two younger sons Oliver and Thomas are living in the same household in Newark, New Jersey. Charles Henry Freeman, her eldest son, had married Hannah Lum in 1848, also at Newark. They moved from Newark to Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, before 1853. Harriet Hughes Freeman and her sons Oliver William Freeman and Thomas Williams Freeman also went to Macon. All are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. George Skinner Freeman's burial most likely was in New Jersey.
Thomas Williams Freeman was a grocer in Macon, this being but one of his business and personal interests.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82015434/1867-08-20/ed-1/seq-1/
IMMEDIATE FAMILY
The Freeman Family – beginning only with Judge Henry Freeman and his wife in New Jersey (but not earlier) – is documented. Both parents of George Skinner Freeman are direct descendants of Judge Henry and Elizabeth.
Judge Henry Freeman and his wife Elizabeth Benue Freeman: Elizabeth Benue's ancestry is debated. Her parents are said to have been French Huguenot. Further information (including unreliable information) and speculation about both the Freeman ancestors and Benue / Baignoux ancestors is available online and in books for interested parties to explore. Note also that not all Freeman wives have certain parents or ancestors — many of their parents are known, but some are not.
1331
Here Lies Interr'd the
Body of HENRY
FREEMAN who Departed
this life Octr 10,
1763 in the 94
year of his age.
Here let him Sleep
in undisturbed Dust.
Until the Resurrection of the Just.
NOTE: He was Judge Henry Freeman.
1332
Here lies Interr'd the Body
of ELIZABETH wife of HENRY
FREEMAN who Departed this
Life Decr 5, 1760 in the
87 yer of her age.
Our days began with Trouble here
Our life is but a Span
And Cruel Death is always ner
So frail a thing is Man.
NOTE: She was Elizabeth Benue/ Baignoux, a French Huguenot.
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~njmiddle/WoodbridgePresby.html
Article about Judge Henry Freeman
https://www.google.com/amp/s/olsonsumner.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/henry-freeman-2/amp/
George Skinner Freeman was a son of Rachel Freeman Freeman and Henry Freeman. His parents were second cousins. Both of his parents are generation four from Judge Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue Freeman (aka Elizabeth Baignoux Freeman).
George Skinner Freeman married Harriet Hughes. Harriet's parents are not known.
With wife Harriet, George Skinner Freeman had at least three children: Charles Henry Freeman, Oliver William Freeman, and Thomas Williams Freeman.
George Skinner Freeman had several brothers and sisters. They were:
Melancthon Freeman
Born about 1783
Matthew Freeman
Born about 1785
Alexander Freeman
Born about 1787
Jonathan Freeman
Born April 15, 1789
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Died September 9, 1859
Liberty Twp, Clarke Co, Iowa
Married twice (see records).
Burial, Liberty Cemetery
Azel Roe Freeman
Born July 13, 1792
Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey, USA
Died March 19, 1873
Macon, Bibb County, Georgia
Burial, Rose Hill Cemetery
Eunice Freeman
Born about 1794
Josiah Freeman
Born April 29, 1797
Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Died November 10, 1829
Macon, Bibb County, Georgia
Burial, Rose Hill Cemetery
George Skinner Freeman
Born February 26, 1800
Metuchen, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Died December 11, 1837
Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey
Probably buried in a Presbyterian cemetery in New Jersey
Rachel Freeman
Born June 6, 1802
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died July 11, 1840
New York City, New York
Margaret Freeman
Born about 1806
Some of George Skinner Freeman's brothers moved to Georgia. These included:
Josiah Freeman
Josiah Freeman came to Macon, where he died in 1829 — the same year he was married to Ann Ayers. Josiah's wife Ann H. Ayres Van Liew was his second cousin. Ann H. Ayers was married three times. Josiah was her second husband. Ann H. Ayers was the granddaughter of Naomi Freeman Cory Ross. See Lewis Ross Freeman book and multiple other sources for this information and Ann's family tree (images of relevant book passages are in photos).
Azel Roe Freeman
Azel Roe Freeman, who also came to Macon. He is known as A. R. Freeman. His wife was Delia Shaw Freeman. She was from Massachusetts. They and their children were well-known in Macon. Information about their lives can be found in records, news, regional biographies. They were involved in local and regional government and with other public and private institutions. Azel Roe Freeman and Delia Shaw Freeman had several children. Charles Henry Freeman (son of George Skinner Freeman) was in the Macon Guards with his first cousin Judge Matthew Ross "Matt" Freeman of Macon, son of Delia Shaw and Azel Roe Freeman. Matt Freeman and his wife Fannie are buried in Riverside Cemetery. Another Freeman cousin was Matt Freeman's sister Mary Ann Freeman, wife of Dr. M. S. Thomson of Macon, Georgia. Their son, Thomas Freeman Thomson, married Margaret Meldrim, the sister of Peter Wiltberger Meldrim, of Savannah. They are ancestors to conservative Governor Meldrim Thomson, Jr. of New Hampshire.
Thomas Freeman Thomson
Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form ... [Link at bottom of the page.]
Azel Roe Freeman's son Milo Shaw Freeman was named for "his only maternal uncle" – his mother Delia's brother. Milo Shaw Freeman died in a Savannah hospital following an accident. Fireworks were thrown while he was riding past, which caused the incident that led to his death. [See newspaper obituaries posted to his memorial for this information.] Azel Roe Freeman's son George Carhart Freeman also moved to Savannah. He married Sarah Elizabeth Davis. Children include an unmarried daughter Georgia Freeman who lived until 1967 (!!!) in Savannah, two sons who died in early adulthood, and Judge Davis Freeman of Savannah. George Carhart Freeman's biography is transcribed below, near the bottom of this page. Another is at this link:
Confederate Veteran: Published Monthly in the Interest of Confederate Veterans and Kindred Topics, Volume 29.
Published 1921.
https://books.google.com/books?id=wDBEAQAAMAAJ&q=Loan+Savannah#v=onepage&q=Loan%20Savannah&f=true
DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW
Hannah Lum Freeman
Hannah Lum Freeman and her husband Charles Henry Freeman moved from New Jersey to Macon. Some of Hannah's family also came to Macon, Georgia – one Lum cousin, a jeweler and his family, left Macon at the start of the Civil War. Hannah Lum Freeman and Charles Henry Freeman remained in Macon and are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery. They are recorded in The Lum Genealogy.
Phebe Jane DeHart Freeman
Phebe Jane DeHart Freeman -
Oliver William Freeman and Phebe Jane DeHart were married in New Jersey. One child who died an infant is listed in the Lewis Ross Freeman book. No other information found by this author. DeHart is a prominent name in New Jersey. Phebe Jane DeHart Freeman is burial information unknown on Find A Grave at this time. Oliver William Freeman's burial is Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.
Augusta B. Mattock Freeman
Augusta B. Mattock Freeman was the wife of Thomas Williams Freeman. They were married in New Jersey. Burials, Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County Georgia.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Henry Freeman, father of Azel Roe Freeman and George Skinner Freeman (and other children), is a DAR Patriot ancestor.
Capt. Matthew Freeman, father of Rachel Freeman Freeman, is a DAR Patriot ancestor. Capt. Matthew Freeman is George Skinner Freeman's grandfather.
Capt. Matthew Freeman's father Pvt. Joseph Freeman was older and a Revolutionary patriot – no DAR ancestor number found, but often and repeatedly listed as having provided service to The Revolution. Private Joseph Freeman is George Skinner Freeman's great-grandfather. Pvt. Joseph Freeman's brother John Freeman is also a great-grandfather of George Skinner Freeman — John was not living during The Revolution, and is the direct ancestor of Revolutionary veteran Henry Freeman, the father of George Skinner Freeman.
Henry's father Alexander Freeman (grandfather of George Skinner Freeman) and grandfather John Freeman (great-grandfather of George Skinner Freeman) did not serve because these men were not living during The American Revolution. Pvt. Joseph Freeman served The Revolution and is registered with various honor societies.
Rachel Freeman Freeman is the daughter and granddaughter of Revolutionary patriots. Rachel Freeman married her second cousin Henry Freeman, who did serve in The Revolution. None of Henry's male ancestors (in the Freeman line) were living during The American Revolution.
All proven descendants are eligible for membership with the National Society of Sons of the Revolution as well.
GEORGE SKINNER FREEMAN
George Skinner Freeman by both his parents is a direct descendant of Henry and Elizabeth (Benue or Baignoux) Freeman of Woodbridge, New Jersey.
His father, Henry Freeman, was the son of Alexander and Grace FitzRandolph Freeman.
His mother, Rachel Freeman Freeman, was the daughter of Matthew and Margaret Cotheal Freeman.
Rachel Freeman and Henry Freeman, parents of George Skinner Freeman, were second cousins.
RACHEL FREEMAN and HENRY FREEMAN
Parents of George Skinner Freeman
Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman Freeman, his wife, were second cousins.
Henry Freeman
Henry Freeman was a son of Grace FitzRandolph and Alexander Freeman.
Alexander Freeman was the son of John Freeman and Martha Moore.
John Freeman was the son of Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue.
Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue, or Baignoux, were married in New Jersey. Their origins are uncertain or unknown. The first Henry Freeman is known as Judge Henry Freeman.
Rachel Freeman
Rachel Freeman, Henry's wife, was the daughter of Margaret Cotheal and Matthew Freeman.
Capt. Matthew Freeman was the son of Joseph Freeman and Desiar (Desire) Walker.
Joseph Freeman was the son of Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue.
Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue, or Baignoux, were married in New Jersey. Their origins are uncertain or unknown. Henry Freeman is known as Judge Henry Freeman.
HENRY FREEMAN
Line to Henry Freeman,
father of George Skinner Freeman
Henry Freeman, the first in New Jersey, and his wife Elizabeth Benue are of unknown or uncertain origins.
Judge Henry Freeman
First to be recorded in New Jersey
Elizabeth Benue / Baignoux
Unknown / uncertain parents
JOHN FREEMAN
Son of Henry and Elizabeth
Martha Moore
Uncertain / disputed parents
Alexander Freeman
Grace FitzRandolph
Daughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph (certain) and unknown. Granddaughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph and Grace (Hull) FitzRandolph. Descendant of Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert de Ros.
Henry Freeman
Married to second cousin Rachel
Rachel Freeman
Daughter of Capt. Matthew and Margaret (Cotheal) Freeman
George Skinner Freeman
Brother of Azel Roe Freeman & others
Married Harriet Hughes
New Jersey - Harriet moved to Macon, Georgia.
Fitz Randolph / FitzRandolph
Grace Fitz Randolph and Alexander Freeman, on Page 332:
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, by New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1943 - New England, "Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) includes section: Genealogical gleanings in England", by H. F. Waters.
The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950, by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph.
Publication date 1950.
RACHEL FREEMAN FREEMAN
Line to Rachel Freeman,
mother of George Skinner Freeman
Henry Freeman
First in to be recorded in New Jersey
Elizabeth Benue / Baignoux
Unknown / uncertain grandparents. Said to be French Huguenot parents.
JOSEPH FREEMAN
Brother of John, who m. Martha Moore
Desiar Walker
NOT ? Soule
Matthew Freeman
First cousin of Alexander, who m. Grace FitzRandolph
Margaret Cotheal
Daughter of William and Charlotte (Dove) Cotheal, as per online information.
Rachel Freeman
Married her second cousin, Henry Freeman
Henry Freeman
Married his second cousin, Rachel Freeman
CAPT. C. H. FREEMAN
Son of Harriet Hughes and George Skinner Freeman. Grandson of Rachel Freeman and Henry Freeman. Charles Henry Freeman married Hannah Lum. They had several children. Their daughter Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson married Thomas Brewer Benson. Their son William Henry Freeman married Ella Ellis of Macon. A daughter Carrie Wills Freeman may have married. The others died before or soon after being married.
History of Macon – The First One Hundred Years 1823–1923 (A History of Macon Georgia, originally published by The Macon News). See entry for C. H. Freeman, Macon Guards, Company B — Page 53, under "Home Guards".
FREEMAN LINE ONE
Henry Freeman
Elizabeth Bagnioux
John Freeman
Martha Moore
Alexander Freeman
Grace FitzRandolph
Henry Freeman
Rachel Freeman
George Skinner Freeman
Harriet Hughes
Charles Henry Freeman
Hannah Lum
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Thomas Brewer Benson
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943 – 1982)
FREEMAN LINE TWO
Henry Freeman
Elizabeth Bagnioux
Joseph Freeman
Desiar Walker
Matthew Freeman
Margaret Cotheal
Rachel Freeman
Henry Freeman
George Skinner Freeman
Harriet Hughes
Charles Henry Freeman
Hannah Lum
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Thomas Brewer Benson
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943 – 1982)
The following information is about the Freeman ancestry of both Henry and Rachel, parents of George Skinner Freeman.
Grace Fitz Randolph and Alexander Freeman
Grace Fitz Randolph / FitzRandolph was the daughter of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph and Unknown. Nathaniel Fitz Randolph was the son of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph and Grace Hull. Nathaniel (father of Grace FitzRandolph Freeman, who was named for her grandmother, Grace Hull FitzRandolph) was born in New Jersey about 1700. His wife is unknown.
Children of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph:
• Mary
Born July 4, 1721
• Rachel
Born April 13, 1723
• David
Born March 7, 1724
• GRACE FITZ RANDOLPH
Daughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph and Unknown
Grace was born about 1727
Married Alexander Freeman
• Phebe
Born November 26, 1736
died 1785
m. 1759, Isaac Freeman (1737 – 1819)
• Johannah
Born October 8, 1742
Reference:
The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950, by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph. East Orange, NJ, 1950. Page 16.
ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Alexander Freeman was born in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey on about 1727 to John Freeman and Martha Moore. Alexander Freeman married Grace Fitz Randolph and had 6 children. He died on November 8, 1763, at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
Parents
John Freeman
1698 - 1761
Martha Moore
1701 - 1775
Married
Grace Fitz Randolph
1727 - 1786
Children
• ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Son of John Freeman and Martha Moore
1763 - 1814
Married Grace Fitz Randolph
• Josiah Freeman
1756 - 1798
• Henry Freeman
1761 - 1835
• Nancy Freeman
1757 - 1776
• Mary Freeman
1752 - 1826
• Sarah Freeman
1750 - 1794
Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman
HENRY FREEMAN
Married Rachel Freeman
Henry was born July 9, 1761
Died January 29,1835
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Parents
Alexander Freeman
Born about 1727
Grace Fitz Randolph / FitzRandolph
Born about 1727
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about November 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Henry Freeman married Rachel Freeman (his second cousin) before 1783, in Middlesex County, New Jersey.
RACHEL FREEMAN
Daughter of Matthew Freeman and Margaret Cotheal
Married Henry Freeman
Rachel was born September 26, 1761
Metuchen, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died May 5, 1810
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Children of Rachel Freeman and
Henry Freeman:
• Melancthon Freeman
Born about 1783
• Matthew Freeman
Born about 1785
• Alexander Freeman
Born about 1787
• Jonathan Freeman
Born April 15, 1789
Middlesex Co, New Jersey
Died September 9, 1859
Liberty Twp, Clarke Co, Iowa
• Azel Roe Freeman
Born about 1792
• Eunice Freeman
Born about 1794
• Josiah Freeman
Born about 1797
• GEORGE SKINNER FREEMAN
Son of Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman
George was born about 1800
Married Harriet Hughes
• Rachel Freeman
Born June 6, 1802
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died July 11, 1840
New York City, New York
• Margaret Freeman
Born abt. 1806
Alexander Freeman and Grace Fitz Randolph
ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Alexander was born about 1727
Father
John Freeman
Born November 5, 1698
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Mother
Martha Moore
Born 1701
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1776
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Alexander Freeman married Grace FitzRandolph on January 11, 1747/48, at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
GRACE FITZ RANDOLPH
Daughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph
Married Alexander Freeman
Grace FitzRandolph was born about 1727
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
Died about November 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Children:
• Sarah Freeman
Born March 24, 1751
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Mary Freeman
Born about 1752
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Josiah Freeman
Born January 21, 1756
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• HENRY FREEMAN
Born July 9, 1761
Died January 29, 1835
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Married Rachel Freeman
• Alexander Freeman
Born 24 June 24, 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1814
Crawford County, Pennsylvania
JOHN FREEMAN
Son of Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue
Married Martha Moore
John Freeman was born November 5, 1698
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Father
Henry Freeman
Born 1669/70
(possibly Northampton, England)
Died October 13, 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Mother
Elizabeth Baignoux / Benue
Born about 1673
Died December 3, 1760
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
John Freeman married Martha Moore on about 1720 at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
MARTHA MOORE
Married John Freeman
Martha was born about 1701
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1776
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Children
Henry Freeman
Birth: Abt 1724
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Born about 1727
Married Grace Fitz Randolph
• Mary Freeman
Born about 1728/29
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died January 21, 1753
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Elizabeth Freeman
Born about 1732
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
Died about 1784
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Charity Freeman
Born about 1735
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Isaac Freeman
Born February 26, 1737
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died August 11, 1819
Uniontown, New Jersey
• James Freeman
Born April 4, 1740
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died April 8, 1806
New Jersey
• Martha Freeman
Born about 1743
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
HENRY FREEMAN
Married Elizabeth Benue
Henry may have been born about 1669/70
Northampton, England (no proof).
Henry Freeman died on October 13, 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey (certain).
Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Baignoux / Benue were married May 16, 1695, at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
ELIZABETH BAIGNOUX or BENUE
Married Henry Freeman
Elizabeth Benue was born about 1673
Died December 3, 1760
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Children
• Ann Elizabeth Freeman
Born February 16, 1695/96
• JOHN FREEMAN
Born November 5, 1698
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Married Martha Moore
• Jonathan Freeman
Born July 13, 1700
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died December 22, 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Mary Freeman
Born June 5, 1702
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died May 10, 1783
Lamington, Somerset, NJ
• Sarah Freeman
Born February 1, 1703/4
• Rachel Freeman
Born January 18, 1704/5
• Samuel Freeman
Born March 31, 1708
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died January 1, 1778
Ash Swarmp, Woodbridge Twp., New Jersey
• JOSEPH FREEMAN
Born December 21, 1709
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died March 12, 1797
Metuchen, Middlesex, New Jersey
Married Desiar Walker
• Hannah Freeman
Born October 21, 1711
• Benjamin Freeman
Born June 3, 1713
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Isaac Freeman
Born May 25, 1715
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died March 8, 1777
Westfield, New Jersey
• Henry Freeman
Born March 23, 1716/17
• James Freeman
Born November 1, 1719
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died March 1793
S. Brunswick Twp., Middlesex Co., New Jersey
Ancestry.com
LINKS
Page 332 –
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1943 - New England
Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) include section: Genealogical gleanings in England, by H. F. Waters.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Be8QAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA332&lpg=PA332&dq=grace+fitzrandolph+alexander+Freeman&source=bl&ots=AVLZWlkRZD&sig=ACfU3U09-DECpZEIi6nLOASlInXacmzrDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitqvz-8dXxAhXJU80KHYx4BXEQ6AEwEXoECBAQAg#v=onepage&q=grace%20fitzrandolph%20alexander%20Freeman&f=true
The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom 1630-1950, by Christian, Louise Aymar, East Orange, N.J. Reprint 1984. Page 30.
https://archive.org/details/descendantsofedw00chri/page/n33
History of Macon: The First 100 Years
https://issuu.com/thebrainstormlab/docs/historyofmacon/56 via @issuu
Thomas Freeman Thomson
Margaret Meldrim
University of Georgia
https://books.google.com/books?id=IgETAAAAIAAJ&q=Thomson+Meldrim#v=snippet&q=Thomson%20Meldrim&f=false
A nephew of George Skinner Freeman, George Carhart Freeman is the son of Azel Roe Freeman:
GEORGE C. FREEMAN. As money, or any other medium of exchange, is the life-blood of business and commerce, it is evident that bankers, men who manage and control the circulating medium, stand related to the public as the physician who has his finger on the pulse of the patient and has the power of controlling his condition for better or worse. No member of the business community has a greater responsibility than the banker and any community or city is much to be congratulated which has at the head of its finances men of thorough training, stanch ability and moral dependability. No banker of the South is more closely typical of what, is required in the financial manager and leader to inspire and retain business and commercial confidence than George C. Freeman, assistant to the president of the Citizens and Southern Bank, one of Georgia's most important monetary institutions. He has resided in Savannah since 1854, and has been identified with banking interests since 1873.
Mr. Freeman is one of the Forest city's venerable citizens, his birth having occurred in Bibb county, Georgia, August 16, 1833. He is the son of Azel R. and Delia (Shaw) Freeman. The father was born in New Jersey in 1792. While still a youth he started out like the proverbial hero of romance to seek his fortunes, going with two companions to what was then known as the "West," crossing the Allegheny Mountains and going down the Ohio River and finally locating in Lexington, Kentucky. When the War of 1812 came on Azel Freeman volunteered for service and joined the Kentucky Mounted Riflemen, with which organization he crossed the Ohio river and served with the same on the northern frontier. Upon the termination of hostilities, he returned to the Blue Grass state, but subsequently went thence to Nashville, Tennessee, which city remained his home for a number of years. In 1827 he removed from Nashville to Bibb county, Georgia, locating where the present city of Macon is situated, and in Bibb county he spent the years which remained to him before traveling on to the undiscovered country, "From whose bourne no traveler returns."
The mother of the subject [Delia Shaw Freeman] was a native of Massachusetts.
George C. Freeman was reared and educated in Bibb county. He came to Savannah in 1854, and ever since that time he has maintained his home in this city. His first employment in Savannah was in the office of Hudson, Fleming & Company, cotton factors, with whom he remained for six years. He then formed a partnership with A. H. Champion, under the firm name of Champion & Freeman, in the wholesale grocery business, their location being at the corner of Bay and Drayton streets. At the outbreak of the Civil war, in 1861, Mr. Freeman and Mr. Champion both joined the army of the Confederacy and their business, like that of many another Southern firm, became suspended on that account, to be resumed after the close of the war.
Mr. Freeman joined the Chatham Artillery in Savannah and was in service in Chatham county. In the second year of the war he was detached from his command and assigned to duty as assistant to the collector of the port of Savannah, under the Confederate government. The collector of the port was James R. Sneed and his chief deputy was Maj. Charles S. Hardee, who has for many years held the office of city treasurer of Savannah. A day or two prior to Sherman's entrance into Savannah, the collector of the port and his office force, taking their records, books, money and other possessions, went to Charleston, and of this historic party Mr. Freeman was a member. Within a few days they changed their headquarters from Charleston to Augusta; thence the Confederate authorities ordered them to Macon; from Macon to Milledgeville; and from the latter place they retreated to the plantation of Dr. T. A. Parsons, in Laurens county, whence they were ordered to Macon, where their effects were surrendered to the United States authorities and the party was paroled and returned to Savannah.
Upon the return of peace to the devastated country, the business of Champion & Freeman was successfully re-established and continued until 1877. Mr. Freeman, however, is best known for his long and honorable connection with banking business in Savannah. He entered upon his career in this field in 1873, when he was elected a director and vice-president of the Citizens' Mutual Loan Company, which began business in June of that year. He was one of the originators of that well-remembered financial institution and took an active part in the management of its affairs from the beginning. It was successful from the start and earned a good annual profit in dividends to its stockholders. In 1887 the Citizens' Bank was organized and by unanimous vote the Citizens' Mutual Loan Company was merged into that institution. The Citizens' Bank began with a capital stock of $200,000, and Mr. Freeman was the first cashier of the new bank. In 1890, the Citizens' Bank was reorganized and $300,000 was added to its capital, making its capital stock $500,000. Mr. Freeman remained as cashier after the reorganization, being the only one of the old officers retained after the reorganization.
In 1906 the Citizens' Bank was consolidated with the Southern Bank of the state of Georgia, with the name of the Citizens and Southern Bank, and of this substantial institution, as mentioned in a preceding paragraph, Mr. Freeman is an officer and assistant to the president; the increasing duties of the cashier's position being considered more than Mr. Freeman should discharge after his long years of service with the bank. The Citizens and Southern Bank is one of the largest and strongest banks in the South. It has a capital stock of $1,000,000, with a surplus and undivided profits running over a million dollars. It occupies the beautiful banking building constructed for its exclusive use, in the square surrounded by St. Julian, Bryan, Bull and Drayton streets, with entrances from both Bull and Drayton streets. Nothing could possibly be more advantageous than its situation. Besides his position of assistant to the president, Mr. Freeman is also secretary of the board of directors.
Mr. Freeman served five years as alderman of Savannah and was at one time chairman of the finance committee. He has been a member and officer of the Savannah Benevolent Association since 1866, and for ten years he was secretary, for nine years president, and for twenty-six years, treasurer, which latter position he now holds. He is a member of the Independent Presbyterian church and has been one of its board of trustees since 1878. He is the friend of good government and takes a public-spirited interest in all measures likely to advance the welfare of the beautiful old city to which he came over half a century ago.
Mr. Freeman laid one of the most important stones in the foundation of his success in 1862 by his marriage to Miss Sarah E. Davis, of Savannah, daughter of William H. Davis, one of the well-known early residents of the city and particularly well remembered for his prominent connection with the Republican Blues, one of Savannah's famous military organizations. Their union has been blessed by five children, two of whom now survive: Judge Davis, Freeman, lawyer, and judge of the city court of Savannah; and Miss Georgia Freeman, a member of the charming Freeman household, whose hospitality is thoroughly consistent with Southern traditions.
Author: William Harden
Pages 579-581
A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA BY WILLIAM HARDEN
VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913
Link, George Carhart Freeman biography:
https://books.google.com/books?id=zv9HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA580&lpg=PA580&dq=george+c+freeman+Savannah+confederate&source=bl&ots=fAR2Q8zS04&sig=ACfU3U2xgOBuhhJxW7gSK0LoM2UBOgccHw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQrs2SgP3yAhVnQzABHTXjBSoQ6AF6BAgkEAI#v=onepage&q=george%20c%20freeman%20Savannah%20confederate&f=true
In the 1910 United States Census, George Skinner Freeman's grandson William Henry Freeman, Lula May Benson and her husband Nelson Huntley Parker, and Lula's sister Mamie Shepherd Benson are in Daytona Beach, Florida. Mamie Shepherd Benson (later Mrs. Van Porter Enloe of Senoia, Coweta County, Georgia) also in the Parker household. Daytona, Florida, was founded by a Lum cousin... obviously related not random to Lula and Nelson in 1910 Census living in Daytona Beach, Florida, with Mamie in the household; and fellow Lum descendant William Henry Freeman also in Daytona Beach. Aspinwall descendant Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs also removed to Daytona Beach, Florida, and is buried there with his family.
Capt. Matthew Freeman and Pvt. Henry Freeman are DAR Patriot ancestors. Matthew's father Joseph was a patriot of The Revolution and listed as such though DAR ancestors are Joseph's sons. Matthew's daughter Rachel married her second cousin Henry Freeman (son of Grace FitzRandolph and Alexander Freeman, and grandson of John and Martha Moore Freeman). Henry Freeman (wife Rachel Freeman Freeman) is a DAR Patriot ancestor. (There are several further NSDAR and NSSAR ancestors via Hannah Lum Freeman, daughter-in-law of George Skinner Freeman.)
DAR Member Record of Myrtie Ellis Freeman, daughter of Ella Ellis and William Henry Freeman
Freeman, Myrtie Ellis
Nat'l Num: 550637 Chapter: 3001FL Join: Jun 1970
DESCENDANT LISTINGS
Ancestor: FREEMAN, HENRY (A042037)
ANCESTORS (REVOLUTIONARY)
FREEMAN, HENRY Ancestor #: A042037
Child/Child : GEORGE SKINNER / [1] HARRIET
Service: NEW JERSEY Rank(s): PRIVATE
Birth: 7-9-1761 WOODBRIDGE TWP MIDDLESEX CO NEW JERSEY
Death: 1-29-1835 ELIZABETHTOWN ESSEX CO NEW JERSEY
Pension Number: *S2565
Service Source: *S2565
Service Description:
1) CAPTS MATTHEW FREEMAN, ROSS, SHAW, COL WEBSTER, 1ST REGT, MIDDLESEX CO MILITIA
https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_member/?Action=full&National_Number=550637
Thomas Freeman Thomson
Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form ...
By Allen Daniel Candler, Clement Anselm Evans
State Historical Association, 1906 - Georgia
https://books.google.com/books?id=BJ0SAAAAYAAJ&q=Thomas+Freeman+Thomson#v=onepage&q=Thomas%20Freeman%20Thomson&f=true
New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson, Jr. — Governor Thomson was the grandson of Margaret Meldrim and Thomas Freeman Thomson of Savannah. He was the son of Marion Booth and Meldrim Thomson, Sr.
Former Gov. Thomson dead at 89 http://seacoastonline.com/article//News/304209982
MACON IN 1869
Your Peachy Past, 23 November 2010
http://peachypast.blogspot.com/2010/11/macon-in-1869.html?m=1
ALL NAMED ARE LONG DECEASED.
Research and biography by direct descendant Ingrid Heltveit Parker.
Family of George Otis Parker, Jr.
Find A Grave user ID 50182541
FREEMAN
George Skinner Freeman and Harriet Hughes, parents of Charles Henry Freeman.
Myers, Patty Barthell. Ancestors and descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman with related families : based partially on the work of Freeman Worth Gardner and Willis Freeman. Penobscot Press ; San Antonio, TX., 1995.
FITZ RANDOLPH
Grace Fitz Randolph and Alexander Freeman, parents of Henry Freeman.
Henry Freeman married his second cousin Rachel Freeman.
"The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950", by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph.
Publication date 1950.
Charles Henry Freeman,
Article published 19 July 2013
Death of the (1887) Grand Treasurer of the Masons
DEATH OF THE GRAND TREASURER OF THE MASONS. Rose Hill Cemetery Blog -
Source in article:
Augusta Chronicle (Georgia)
15 December 1887, pg. 8
Viewed online at GenealogyBank
Azel Roe Freeman, Funeral Notice:
The Telegraph and Messenger March 24, 1873
Ancestors of George Skinner Freeman - "John S. Freeman, John, of Woodbridge, NJ.."
Grandson of Matthew Freeman and Margaret Cotheal.
Capt. Matthew Freeman
Died May 10, 1824
Old Colonial Cemetery
Metuchen, New Jersey
Metuchen Living magazine
Photo copyright:
©Metuchen Living magazine
The Old Colonial Cemetery
BY METUCHEN LIVING
PUBLISHED JULY 12, 2010
Harriet Hughes Freeman
George Skinner Freeman was born in Metuchen, Middlesex County, New Jersey, on Wednesday, February 26, 1800. His parents Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman Freeman were second cousins.
The headstones for Henry Freeman (his father) and Capt. Matthew Freeman (father of his mother Rachel) were pictured in this article. See photos on their Find A Grave Memorials.
The Old Colonial Cemetery
BY METUCHENLIVING · PUBLISHED JULY 12, 2010 · UPDATED NOVEMBER 1, 2013
https://metuchenliving.com/the-old-colonial-cemetery/
Metuchen, New Jersey
European settlers began living in the section of Woodbridge Township that eventually became Metuchen during the late 1600s, setting up homesteads and farm lots within an area long populated by the Lenape people. This area was then, and is still named for the Lenape leader MeTochen, who lived here in the late 17th century.
https://townsquarepublications.com/history-of-metuchen-nj/
Gravestone of Henry Freeman Vandalized
Donations sought to restore vandalized gravestones, by Kathy Chang
Published on August 28, 2016
The damaged stones include... Henry Freeman (d. 1835)...
The cemetery was established between 1715 and 1730 as the burying ground associated with the Presbyterian Church. The grounds contain 1,045 marked graves and 60 unmarked graves.
Donations can be made to the "Metuchen-Edison Historical Society" at P.O. Box 61, Metuchen, NJ 08840
https://centraljersey.com/2016/08/28/metuchen-gravestones/?amp
George Skinner Freeman died at Elizabethtown, Union County, New Jersey, on Monday, December 11, 1837. He was 37 years old when he died.
Elizabeth, New Jersey
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth,_New_Jersey
HARRIET.
WIFE OF Geo. S. Freeman
BORN
in Rahway, N. J.
Sept. 20, 1803.
DIED
in Macon, Ga.
Feb. 4, 1874.
ASLEEP IN JESUS
Rahway, New Jersey
The history of Rahway begins with the settlements of Elizabethtown and Woodbridge. The early settlers of those places were the founders of Rahway, which began as outlying acreage and plantations.
https://www.cityofrahway.org/about-rahway/
Woodbridge, New Jersey
https://www.revolutionarywarnewjersey.com/new_jersey_revolutionary_war_sites/towns/woodbridge_nj_revolutionary_war_sites.htm
Judge Henry and Elizabeth Freeman gravestones
First Presbyterian Church of Woodbridge
600 Rahway Avenue, Woodbridge, New Jersey
Elizabeth Freeman - December 3, 1760 - 87 Years old
Our days begin with trouble here
Our life is but a span
And cruel death is always near
So frail a thing is man
Henry Freeman - October 10, 1763 - 94 years old
Here let him sleep in undisturbed dust
Until the resurrection of the just
https://www.scionofzion.com/cemetery.htm
George Skinner Freeman married Harriet Hughes in Rahway, New Jersey, on February 2, 1824. She was born in Rahway, New Jersey, on September 20, 1803. The best information is that Harriet's parents are not known. Some geneaolgy sites may name parents; however there appears to be no documentation and no compelling evidence to suggest anything certain regarding who Harriet's parents were.
Their sons were Charles Henry Freeman, Oliver William Freeman, and Thomas Williams Freeman.
Page 260 - 1382. CHARLES HENRY FREEMAN (George Skinner, Henry, Alexander, John, Henry, Ann), b. Richmond Co., N.Y., 20 Oct 1824; d. Macon Ga., 10 Sept 1889; m. 20 Sept 1848 Hannah Lum, b. Newark, N.J., 24 Jun 1825; d. Macon, Ga., 4 Mar 1889 (DAR 550637). She was d/o Amos Lum and Fannie Morehouse of New Providence, N.J. Charles H. Freeman was of Newark, N.J., and later of Macon, Ga.
— Ancestors and descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman with related families, by Patty Barthell Myers
Charles Henry Freeman, born in Richmond County, New York. The 1880 Census states New Jersey, probably a casual answer with the Freeman family being historically of New Jersey and Charles Henry and Hannah being formerly of Newark. It appears New York state was in fact his actual birthplace. Charles H. Freeman and his wife Hannah Lum Freeman are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery with several children.
Middle son Oliver William Freeman was born in Richmond County, New York – this information is inscribed on his tombstone. Youngest son Thomas Williams Freeman was born in Newark, New Jersey – also inscribed on his tombstone. There appear to be records including birth, marriage, census, and death for all of George Skinner Freeman's children.
In 1850, Harriet and her two younger sons Oliver and Thomas are living in the same household in Newark, New Jersey. Charles Henry Freeman, her eldest son, had married Hannah Lum in 1848, also at Newark. They moved from Newark to Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, before 1853. Harriet Hughes Freeman and her sons Oliver William Freeman and Thomas Williams Freeman also went to Macon. All are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. George Skinner Freeman's burial most likely was in New Jersey.
Thomas Williams Freeman was a grocer in Macon, this being but one of his business and personal interests.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82015434/1867-08-20/ed-1/seq-1/
IMMEDIATE FAMILY
The Freeman Family – beginning only with Judge Henry Freeman and his wife in New Jersey (but not earlier) – is documented. Both parents of George Skinner Freeman are direct descendants of Judge Henry and Elizabeth.
Judge Henry Freeman and his wife Elizabeth Benue Freeman: Elizabeth Benue's ancestry is debated. Her parents are said to have been French Huguenot. Further information (including unreliable information) and speculation about both the Freeman ancestors and Benue / Baignoux ancestors is available online and in books for interested parties to explore. Note also that not all Freeman wives have certain parents or ancestors — many of their parents are known, but some are not.
1331
Here Lies Interr'd the
Body of HENRY
FREEMAN who Departed
this life Octr 10,
1763 in the 94
year of his age.
Here let him Sleep
in undisturbed Dust.
Until the Resurrection of the Just.
NOTE: He was Judge Henry Freeman.
1332
Here lies Interr'd the Body
of ELIZABETH wife of HENRY
FREEMAN who Departed this
Life Decr 5, 1760 in the
87 yer of her age.
Our days began with Trouble here
Our life is but a Span
And Cruel Death is always ner
So frail a thing is Man.
NOTE: She was Elizabeth Benue/ Baignoux, a French Huguenot.
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~njmiddle/WoodbridgePresby.html
Article about Judge Henry Freeman
https://www.google.com/amp/s/olsonsumner.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/henry-freeman-2/amp/
George Skinner Freeman was a son of Rachel Freeman Freeman and Henry Freeman. His parents were second cousins. Both of his parents are generation four from Judge Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue Freeman (aka Elizabeth Baignoux Freeman).
George Skinner Freeman married Harriet Hughes. Harriet's parents are not known.
With wife Harriet, George Skinner Freeman had at least three children: Charles Henry Freeman, Oliver William Freeman, and Thomas Williams Freeman.
George Skinner Freeman had several brothers and sisters. They were:
Melancthon Freeman
Born about 1783
Matthew Freeman
Born about 1785
Alexander Freeman
Born about 1787
Jonathan Freeman
Born April 15, 1789
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Died September 9, 1859
Liberty Twp, Clarke Co, Iowa
Married twice (see records).
Burial, Liberty Cemetery
Azel Roe Freeman
Born July 13, 1792
Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey, USA
Died March 19, 1873
Macon, Bibb County, Georgia
Burial, Rose Hill Cemetery
Eunice Freeman
Born about 1794
Josiah Freeman
Born April 29, 1797
Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Died November 10, 1829
Macon, Bibb County, Georgia
Burial, Rose Hill Cemetery
George Skinner Freeman
Born February 26, 1800
Metuchen, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Died December 11, 1837
Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey
Probably buried in a Presbyterian cemetery in New Jersey
Rachel Freeman
Born June 6, 1802
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died July 11, 1840
New York City, New York
Margaret Freeman
Born about 1806
Some of George Skinner Freeman's brothers moved to Georgia. These included:
Josiah Freeman
Josiah Freeman came to Macon, where he died in 1829 — the same year he was married to Ann Ayers. Josiah's wife Ann H. Ayres Van Liew was his second cousin. Ann H. Ayers was married three times. Josiah was her second husband. Ann H. Ayers was the granddaughter of Naomi Freeman Cory Ross. See Lewis Ross Freeman book and multiple other sources for this information and Ann's family tree (images of relevant book passages are in photos).
Azel Roe Freeman
Azel Roe Freeman, who also came to Macon. He is known as A. R. Freeman. His wife was Delia Shaw Freeman. She was from Massachusetts. They and their children were well-known in Macon. Information about their lives can be found in records, news, regional biographies. They were involved in local and regional government and with other public and private institutions. Azel Roe Freeman and Delia Shaw Freeman had several children. Charles Henry Freeman (son of George Skinner Freeman) was in the Macon Guards with his first cousin Judge Matthew Ross "Matt" Freeman of Macon, son of Delia Shaw and Azel Roe Freeman. Matt Freeman and his wife Fannie are buried in Riverside Cemetery. Another Freeman cousin was Matt Freeman's sister Mary Ann Freeman, wife of Dr. M. S. Thomson of Macon, Georgia. Their son, Thomas Freeman Thomson, married Margaret Meldrim, the sister of Peter Wiltberger Meldrim, of Savannah. They are ancestors to conservative Governor Meldrim Thomson, Jr. of New Hampshire.
Thomas Freeman Thomson
Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form ... [Link at bottom of the page.]
Azel Roe Freeman's son Milo Shaw Freeman was named for "his only maternal uncle" – his mother Delia's brother. Milo Shaw Freeman died in a Savannah hospital following an accident. Fireworks were thrown while he was riding past, which caused the incident that led to his death. [See newspaper obituaries posted to his memorial for this information.] Azel Roe Freeman's son George Carhart Freeman also moved to Savannah. He married Sarah Elizabeth Davis. Children include an unmarried daughter Georgia Freeman who lived until 1967 (!!!) in Savannah, two sons who died in early adulthood, and Judge Davis Freeman of Savannah. George Carhart Freeman's biography is transcribed below, near the bottom of this page. Another is at this link:
Confederate Veteran: Published Monthly in the Interest of Confederate Veterans and Kindred Topics, Volume 29.
Published 1921.
https://books.google.com/books?id=wDBEAQAAMAAJ&q=Loan+Savannah#v=onepage&q=Loan%20Savannah&f=true
DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW
Hannah Lum Freeman
Hannah Lum Freeman and her husband Charles Henry Freeman moved from New Jersey to Macon. Some of Hannah's family also came to Macon, Georgia – one Lum cousin, a jeweler and his family, left Macon at the start of the Civil War. Hannah Lum Freeman and Charles Henry Freeman remained in Macon and are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery. They are recorded in The Lum Genealogy.
Phebe Jane DeHart Freeman
Phebe Jane DeHart Freeman -
Oliver William Freeman and Phebe Jane DeHart were married in New Jersey. One child who died an infant is listed in the Lewis Ross Freeman book. No other information found by this author. DeHart is a prominent name in New Jersey. Phebe Jane DeHart Freeman is burial information unknown on Find A Grave at this time. Oliver William Freeman's burial is Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.
Augusta B. Mattock Freeman
Augusta B. Mattock Freeman was the wife of Thomas Williams Freeman. They were married in New Jersey. Burials, Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County Georgia.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Henry Freeman, father of Azel Roe Freeman and George Skinner Freeman (and other children), is a DAR Patriot ancestor.
Capt. Matthew Freeman, father of Rachel Freeman Freeman, is a DAR Patriot ancestor. Capt. Matthew Freeman is George Skinner Freeman's grandfather.
Capt. Matthew Freeman's father Pvt. Joseph Freeman was older and a Revolutionary patriot – no DAR ancestor number found, but often and repeatedly listed as having provided service to The Revolution. Private Joseph Freeman is George Skinner Freeman's great-grandfather. Pvt. Joseph Freeman's brother John Freeman is also a great-grandfather of George Skinner Freeman — John was not living during The Revolution, and is the direct ancestor of Revolutionary veteran Henry Freeman, the father of George Skinner Freeman.
Henry's father Alexander Freeman (grandfather of George Skinner Freeman) and grandfather John Freeman (great-grandfather of George Skinner Freeman) did not serve because these men were not living during The American Revolution. Pvt. Joseph Freeman served The Revolution and is registered with various honor societies.
Rachel Freeman Freeman is the daughter and granddaughter of Revolutionary patriots. Rachel Freeman married her second cousin Henry Freeman, who did serve in The Revolution. None of Henry's male ancestors (in the Freeman line) were living during The American Revolution.
All proven descendants are eligible for membership with the National Society of Sons of the Revolution as well.
GEORGE SKINNER FREEMAN
George Skinner Freeman by both his parents is a direct descendant of Henry and Elizabeth (Benue or Baignoux) Freeman of Woodbridge, New Jersey.
His father, Henry Freeman, was the son of Alexander and Grace FitzRandolph Freeman.
His mother, Rachel Freeman Freeman, was the daughter of Matthew and Margaret Cotheal Freeman.
Rachel Freeman and Henry Freeman, parents of George Skinner Freeman, were second cousins.
RACHEL FREEMAN and HENRY FREEMAN
Parents of George Skinner Freeman
Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman Freeman, his wife, were second cousins.
Henry Freeman
Henry Freeman was a son of Grace FitzRandolph and Alexander Freeman.
Alexander Freeman was the son of John Freeman and Martha Moore.
John Freeman was the son of Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue.
Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue, or Baignoux, were married in New Jersey. Their origins are uncertain or unknown. The first Henry Freeman is known as Judge Henry Freeman.
Rachel Freeman
Rachel Freeman, Henry's wife, was the daughter of Margaret Cotheal and Matthew Freeman.
Capt. Matthew Freeman was the son of Joseph Freeman and Desiar (Desire) Walker.
Joseph Freeman was the son of Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue.
Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue, or Baignoux, were married in New Jersey. Their origins are uncertain or unknown. Henry Freeman is known as Judge Henry Freeman.
HENRY FREEMAN
Line to Henry Freeman,
father of George Skinner Freeman
Henry Freeman, the first in New Jersey, and his wife Elizabeth Benue are of unknown or uncertain origins.
Judge Henry Freeman
First to be recorded in New Jersey
Elizabeth Benue / Baignoux
Unknown / uncertain parents
JOHN FREEMAN
Son of Henry and Elizabeth
Martha Moore
Uncertain / disputed parents
Alexander Freeman
Grace FitzRandolph
Daughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph (certain) and unknown. Granddaughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph and Grace (Hull) FitzRandolph. Descendant of Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert de Ros.
Henry Freeman
Married to second cousin Rachel
Rachel Freeman
Daughter of Capt. Matthew and Margaret (Cotheal) Freeman
George Skinner Freeman
Brother of Azel Roe Freeman & others
Married Harriet Hughes
New Jersey - Harriet moved to Macon, Georgia.
Fitz Randolph / FitzRandolph
Grace Fitz Randolph and Alexander Freeman, on Page 332:
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, by New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1943 - New England, "Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) includes section: Genealogical gleanings in England", by H. F. Waters.
The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950, by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph.
Publication date 1950.
RACHEL FREEMAN FREEMAN
Line to Rachel Freeman,
mother of George Skinner Freeman
Henry Freeman
First in to be recorded in New Jersey
Elizabeth Benue / Baignoux
Unknown / uncertain grandparents. Said to be French Huguenot parents.
JOSEPH FREEMAN
Brother of John, who m. Martha Moore
Desiar Walker
NOT ? Soule
Matthew Freeman
First cousin of Alexander, who m. Grace FitzRandolph
Margaret Cotheal
Daughter of William and Charlotte (Dove) Cotheal, as per online information.
Rachel Freeman
Married her second cousin, Henry Freeman
Henry Freeman
Married his second cousin, Rachel Freeman
CAPT. C. H. FREEMAN
Son of Harriet Hughes and George Skinner Freeman. Grandson of Rachel Freeman and Henry Freeman. Charles Henry Freeman married Hannah Lum. They had several children. Their daughter Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson married Thomas Brewer Benson. Their son William Henry Freeman married Ella Ellis of Macon. A daughter Carrie Wills Freeman may have married. The others died before or soon after being married.
History of Macon – The First One Hundred Years 1823–1923 (A History of Macon Georgia, originally published by The Macon News). See entry for C. H. Freeman, Macon Guards, Company B — Page 53, under "Home Guards".
FREEMAN LINE ONE
Henry Freeman
Elizabeth Bagnioux
John Freeman
Martha Moore
Alexander Freeman
Grace FitzRandolph
Henry Freeman
Rachel Freeman
George Skinner Freeman
Harriet Hughes
Charles Henry Freeman
Hannah Lum
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Thomas Brewer Benson
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943 – 1982)
FREEMAN LINE TWO
Henry Freeman
Elizabeth Bagnioux
Joseph Freeman
Desiar Walker
Matthew Freeman
Margaret Cotheal
Rachel Freeman
Henry Freeman
George Skinner Freeman
Harriet Hughes
Charles Henry Freeman
Hannah Lum
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Thomas Brewer Benson
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943 – 1982)
The following information is about the Freeman ancestry of both Henry and Rachel, parents of George Skinner Freeman.
Grace Fitz Randolph and Alexander Freeman
Grace Fitz Randolph / FitzRandolph was the daughter of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph and Unknown. Nathaniel Fitz Randolph was the son of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph and Grace Hull. Nathaniel (father of Grace FitzRandolph Freeman, who was named for her grandmother, Grace Hull FitzRandolph) was born in New Jersey about 1700. His wife is unknown.
Children of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph:
• Mary
Born July 4, 1721
• Rachel
Born April 13, 1723
• David
Born March 7, 1724
• GRACE FITZ RANDOLPH
Daughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph and Unknown
Grace was born about 1727
Married Alexander Freeman
• Phebe
Born November 26, 1736
died 1785
m. 1759, Isaac Freeman (1737 – 1819)
• Johannah
Born October 8, 1742
Reference:
The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950, by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph. East Orange, NJ, 1950. Page 16.
ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Alexander Freeman was born in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey on about 1727 to John Freeman and Martha Moore. Alexander Freeman married Grace Fitz Randolph and had 6 children. He died on November 8, 1763, at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
Parents
John Freeman
1698 - 1761
Martha Moore
1701 - 1775
Married
Grace Fitz Randolph
1727 - 1786
Children
• ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Son of John Freeman and Martha Moore
1763 - 1814
Married Grace Fitz Randolph
• Josiah Freeman
1756 - 1798
• Henry Freeman
1761 - 1835
• Nancy Freeman
1757 - 1776
• Mary Freeman
1752 - 1826
• Sarah Freeman
1750 - 1794
Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman
HENRY FREEMAN
Married Rachel Freeman
Henry was born July 9, 1761
Died January 29,1835
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Parents
Alexander Freeman
Born about 1727
Grace Fitz Randolph / FitzRandolph
Born about 1727
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about November 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Henry Freeman married Rachel Freeman (his second cousin) before 1783, in Middlesex County, New Jersey.
RACHEL FREEMAN
Daughter of Matthew Freeman and Margaret Cotheal
Married Henry Freeman
Rachel was born September 26, 1761
Metuchen, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died May 5, 1810
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Children of Rachel Freeman and
Henry Freeman:
• Melancthon Freeman
Born about 1783
• Matthew Freeman
Born about 1785
• Alexander Freeman
Born about 1787
• Jonathan Freeman
Born April 15, 1789
Middlesex Co, New Jersey
Died September 9, 1859
Liberty Twp, Clarke Co, Iowa
• Azel Roe Freeman
Born about 1792
• Eunice Freeman
Born about 1794
• Josiah Freeman
Born about 1797
• GEORGE SKINNER FREEMAN
Son of Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman
George was born about 1800
Married Harriet Hughes
• Rachel Freeman
Born June 6, 1802
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died July 11, 1840
New York City, New York
• Margaret Freeman
Born abt. 1806
Alexander Freeman and Grace Fitz Randolph
ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Alexander was born about 1727
Father
John Freeman
Born November 5, 1698
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Mother
Martha Moore
Born 1701
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1776
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Alexander Freeman married Grace FitzRandolph on January 11, 1747/48, at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
GRACE FITZ RANDOLPH
Daughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph
Married Alexander Freeman
Grace FitzRandolph was born about 1727
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
Died about November 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Children:
• Sarah Freeman
Born March 24, 1751
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Mary Freeman
Born about 1752
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Josiah Freeman
Born January 21, 1756
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• HENRY FREEMAN
Born July 9, 1761
Died January 29, 1835
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Married Rachel Freeman
• Alexander Freeman
Born 24 June 24, 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1814
Crawford County, Pennsylvania
JOHN FREEMAN
Son of Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue
Married Martha Moore
John Freeman was born November 5, 1698
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Father
Henry Freeman
Born 1669/70
(possibly Northampton, England)
Died October 13, 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Mother
Elizabeth Baignoux / Benue
Born about 1673
Died December 3, 1760
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
John Freeman married Martha Moore on about 1720 at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
MARTHA MOORE
Married John Freeman
Martha was born about 1701
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1776
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Children
Henry Freeman
Birth: Abt 1724
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Born about 1727
Married Grace Fitz Randolph
• Mary Freeman
Born about 1728/29
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died January 21, 1753
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Elizabeth Freeman
Born about 1732
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
Died about 1784
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Charity Freeman
Born about 1735
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Isaac Freeman
Born February 26, 1737
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died August 11, 1819
Uniontown, New Jersey
• James Freeman
Born April 4, 1740
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died April 8, 1806
New Jersey
• Martha Freeman
Born about 1743
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
HENRY FREEMAN
Married Elizabeth Benue
Henry may have been born about 1669/70
Northampton, England (no proof).
Henry Freeman died on October 13, 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey (certain).
Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Baignoux / Benue were married May 16, 1695, at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
ELIZABETH BAIGNOUX or BENUE
Married Henry Freeman
Elizabeth Benue was born about 1673
Died December 3, 1760
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Children
• Ann Elizabeth Freeman
Born February 16, 1695/96
• JOHN FREEMAN
Born November 5, 1698
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Married Martha Moore
• Jonathan Freeman
Born July 13, 1700
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died December 22, 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Mary Freeman
Born June 5, 1702
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died May 10, 1783
Lamington, Somerset, NJ
• Sarah Freeman
Born February 1, 1703/4
• Rachel Freeman
Born January 18, 1704/5
• Samuel Freeman
Born March 31, 1708
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died January 1, 1778
Ash Swarmp, Woodbridge Twp., New Jersey
• JOSEPH FREEMAN
Born December 21, 1709
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died March 12, 1797
Metuchen, Middlesex, New Jersey
Married Desiar Walker
• Hannah Freeman
Born October 21, 1711
• Benjamin Freeman
Born June 3, 1713
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Isaac Freeman
Born May 25, 1715
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died March 8, 1777
Westfield, New Jersey
• Henry Freeman
Born March 23, 1716/17
• James Freeman
Born November 1, 1719
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died March 1793
S. Brunswick Twp., Middlesex Co., New Jersey
Ancestry.com
LINKS
Page 332 –
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1943 - New England
Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) include section: Genealogical gleanings in England, by H. F. Waters.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Be8QAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA332&lpg=PA332&dq=grace+fitzrandolph+alexander+Freeman&source=bl&ots=AVLZWlkRZD&sig=ACfU3U09-DECpZEIi6nLOASlInXacmzrDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitqvz-8dXxAhXJU80KHYx4BXEQ6AEwEXoECBAQAg#v=onepage&q=grace%20fitzrandolph%20alexander%20Freeman&f=true
The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom 1630-1950, by Christian, Louise Aymar, East Orange, N.J. Reprint 1984. Page 30.
https://archive.org/details/descendantsofedw00chri/page/n33
History of Macon: The First 100 Years
https://issuu.com/thebrainstormlab/docs/historyofmacon/56 via @issuu
Thomas Freeman Thomson
Margaret Meldrim
University of Georgia
https://books.google.com/books?id=IgETAAAAIAAJ&q=Thomson+Meldrim#v=snippet&q=Thomson%20Meldrim&f=false
A nephew of George Skinner Freeman, George Carhart Freeman is the son of Azel Roe Freeman:
GEORGE C. FREEMAN. As money, or any other medium of exchange, is the life-blood of business and commerce, it is evident that bankers, men who manage and control the circulating medium, stand related to the public as the physician who has his finger on the pulse of the patient and has the power of controlling his condition for better or worse. No member of the business community has a greater responsibility than the banker and any community or city is much to be congratulated which has at the head of its finances men of thorough training, stanch ability and moral dependability. No banker of the South is more closely typical of what, is required in the financial manager and leader to inspire and retain business and commercial confidence than George C. Freeman, assistant to the president of the Citizens and Southern Bank, one of Georgia's most important monetary institutions. He has resided in Savannah since 1854, and has been identified with banking interests since 1873.
Mr. Freeman is one of the Forest city's venerable citizens, his birth having occurred in Bibb county, Georgia, August 16, 1833. He is the son of Azel R. and Delia (Shaw) Freeman. The father was born in New Jersey in 1792. While still a youth he started out like the proverbial hero of romance to seek his fortunes, going with two companions to what was then known as the "West," crossing the Allegheny Mountains and going down the Ohio River and finally locating in Lexington, Kentucky. When the War of 1812 came on Azel Freeman volunteered for service and joined the Kentucky Mounted Riflemen, with which organization he crossed the Ohio river and served with the same on the northern frontier. Upon the termination of hostilities, he returned to the Blue Grass state, but subsequently went thence to Nashville, Tennessee, which city remained his home for a number of years. In 1827 he removed from Nashville to Bibb county, Georgia, locating where the present city of Macon is situated, and in Bibb county he spent the years which remained to him before traveling on to the undiscovered country, "From whose bourne no traveler returns."
The mother of the subject [Delia Shaw Freeman] was a native of Massachusetts.
George C. Freeman was reared and educated in Bibb county. He came to Savannah in 1854, and ever since that time he has maintained his home in this city. His first employment in Savannah was in the office of Hudson, Fleming & Company, cotton factors, with whom he remained for six years. He then formed a partnership with A. H. Champion, under the firm name of Champion & Freeman, in the wholesale grocery business, their location being at the corner of Bay and Drayton streets. At the outbreak of the Civil war, in 1861, Mr. Freeman and Mr. Champion both joined the army of the Confederacy and their business, like that of many another Southern firm, became suspended on that account, to be resumed after the close of the war.
Mr. Freeman joined the Chatham Artillery in Savannah and was in service in Chatham county. In the second year of the war he was detached from his command and assigned to duty as assistant to the collector of the port of Savannah, under the Confederate government. The collector of the port was James R. Sneed and his chief deputy was Maj. Charles S. Hardee, who has for many years held the office of city treasurer of Savannah. A day or two prior to Sherman's entrance into Savannah, the collector of the port and his office force, taking their records, books, money and other possessions, went to Charleston, and of this historic party Mr. Freeman was a member. Within a few days they changed their headquarters from Charleston to Augusta; thence the Confederate authorities ordered them to Macon; from Macon to Milledgeville; and from the latter place they retreated to the plantation of Dr. T. A. Parsons, in Laurens county, whence they were ordered to Macon, where their effects were surrendered to the United States authorities and the party was paroled and returned to Savannah.
Upon the return of peace to the devastated country, the business of Champion & Freeman was successfully re-established and continued until 1877. Mr. Freeman, however, is best known for his long and honorable connection with banking business in Savannah. He entered upon his career in this field in 1873, when he was elected a director and vice-president of the Citizens' Mutual Loan Company, which began business in June of that year. He was one of the originators of that well-remembered financial institution and took an active part in the management of its affairs from the beginning. It was successful from the start and earned a good annual profit in dividends to its stockholders. In 1887 the Citizens' Bank was organized and by unanimous vote the Citizens' Mutual Loan Company was merged into that institution. The Citizens' Bank began with a capital stock of $200,000, and Mr. Freeman was the first cashier of the new bank. In 1890, the Citizens' Bank was reorganized and $300,000 was added to its capital, making its capital stock $500,000. Mr. Freeman remained as cashier after the reorganization, being the only one of the old officers retained after the reorganization.
In 1906 the Citizens' Bank was consolidated with the Southern Bank of the state of Georgia, with the name of the Citizens and Southern Bank, and of this substantial institution, as mentioned in a preceding paragraph, Mr. Freeman is an officer and assistant to the president; the increasing duties of the cashier's position being considered more than Mr. Freeman should discharge after his long years of service with the bank. The Citizens and Southern Bank is one of the largest and strongest banks in the South. It has a capital stock of $1,000,000, with a surplus and undivided profits running over a million dollars. It occupies the beautiful banking building constructed for its exclusive use, in the square surrounded by St. Julian, Bryan, Bull and Drayton streets, with entrances from both Bull and Drayton streets. Nothing could possibly be more advantageous than its situation. Besides his position of assistant to the president, Mr. Freeman is also secretary of the board of directors.
Mr. Freeman served five years as alderman of Savannah and was at one time chairman of the finance committee. He has been a member and officer of the Savannah Benevolent Association since 1866, and for ten years he was secretary, for nine years president, and for twenty-six years, treasurer, which latter position he now holds. He is a member of the Independent Presbyterian church and has been one of its board of trustees since 1878. He is the friend of good government and takes a public-spirited interest in all measures likely to advance the welfare of the beautiful old city to which he came over half a century ago.
Mr. Freeman laid one of the most important stones in the foundation of his success in 1862 by his marriage to Miss Sarah E. Davis, of Savannah, daughter of William H. Davis, one of the well-known early residents of the city and particularly well remembered for his prominent connection with the Republican Blues, one of Savannah's famous military organizations. Their union has been blessed by five children, two of whom now survive: Judge Davis, Freeman, lawyer, and judge of the city court of Savannah; and Miss Georgia Freeman, a member of the charming Freeman household, whose hospitality is thoroughly consistent with Southern traditions.
Author: William Harden
Pages 579-581
A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA BY WILLIAM HARDEN
VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913
Link, George Carhart Freeman biography:
https://books.google.com/books?id=zv9HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA580&lpg=PA580&dq=george+c+freeman+Savannah+confederate&source=bl&ots=fAR2Q8zS04&sig=ACfU3U2xgOBuhhJxW7gSK0LoM2UBOgccHw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQrs2SgP3yAhVnQzABHTXjBSoQ6AF6BAgkEAI#v=onepage&q=george%20c%20freeman%20Savannah%20confederate&f=true
In the 1910 United States Census, George Skinner Freeman's grandson William Henry Freeman, Lula May Benson and her husband Nelson Huntley Parker, and Lula's sister Mamie Shepherd Benson are in Daytona Beach, Florida. Mamie Shepherd Benson (later Mrs. Van Porter Enloe of Senoia, Coweta County, Georgia) also in the Parker household. Daytona, Florida, was founded by a Lum cousin... obviously related not random to Lula and Nelson in 1910 Census living in Daytona Beach, Florida, with Mamie in the household; and fellow Lum descendant William Henry Freeman also in Daytona Beach. Aspinwall descendant Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs also removed to Daytona Beach, Florida, and is buried there with his family.
Capt. Matthew Freeman and Pvt. Henry Freeman are DAR Patriot ancestors. Matthew's father Joseph was a patriot of The Revolution and listed as such though DAR ancestors are Joseph's sons. Matthew's daughter Rachel married her second cousin Henry Freeman (son of Grace FitzRandolph and Alexander Freeman, and grandson of John and Martha Moore Freeman). Henry Freeman (wife Rachel Freeman Freeman) is a DAR Patriot ancestor. (There are several further NSDAR and NSSAR ancestors via Hannah Lum Freeman, daughter-in-law of George Skinner Freeman.)
DAR Member Record of Myrtie Ellis Freeman, daughter of Ella Ellis and William Henry Freeman
Freeman, Myrtie Ellis
Nat'l Num: 550637 Chapter: 3001FL Join: Jun 1970
DESCENDANT LISTINGS
Ancestor: FREEMAN, HENRY (A042037)
ANCESTORS (REVOLUTIONARY)
FREEMAN, HENRY Ancestor #: A042037
Child/Child : GEORGE SKINNER / [1] HARRIET
Service: NEW JERSEY Rank(s): PRIVATE
Birth: 7-9-1761 WOODBRIDGE TWP MIDDLESEX CO NEW JERSEY
Death: 1-29-1835 ELIZABETHTOWN ESSEX CO NEW JERSEY
Pension Number: *S2565
Service Source: *S2565
Service Description:
1) CAPTS MATTHEW FREEMAN, ROSS, SHAW, COL WEBSTER, 1ST REGT, MIDDLESEX CO MILITIA
https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_member/?Action=full&National_Number=550637
Thomas Freeman Thomson
Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form ...
By Allen Daniel Candler, Clement Anselm Evans
State Historical Association, 1906 - Georgia
https://books.google.com/books?id=BJ0SAAAAYAAJ&q=Thomas+Freeman+Thomson#v=onepage&q=Thomas%20Freeman%20Thomson&f=true
New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson, Jr. — Governor Thomson was the grandson of Margaret Meldrim and Thomas Freeman Thomson of Savannah. He was the son of Marion Booth and Meldrim Thomson, Sr.
Former Gov. Thomson dead at 89 http://seacoastonline.com/article//News/304209982
MACON IN 1869
Your Peachy Past, 23 November 2010
http://peachypast.blogspot.com/2010/11/macon-in-1869.html?m=1
ALL NAMED ARE LONG DECEASED.
Research and biography by direct descendant Ingrid Heltveit Parker.
Family of George Otis Parker, Jr.
Find A Grave user ID 50182541
FREEMAN
George Skinner Freeman and Harriet Hughes, parents of Charles Henry Freeman.
Myers, Patty Barthell. Ancestors and descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman with related families : based partially on the work of Freeman Worth Gardner and Willis Freeman. Penobscot Press ; San Antonio, TX., 1995.
FITZ RANDOLPH
Grace Fitz Randolph and Alexander Freeman, parents of Henry Freeman.
Henry Freeman married his second cousin Rachel Freeman.
"The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950", by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph.
Publication date 1950.
Charles Henry Freeman,
Article published 19 July 2013
Death of the (1887) Grand Treasurer of the Masons
DEATH OF THE GRAND TREASURER OF THE MASONS. Rose Hill Cemetery Blog -
Source in article:
Augusta Chronicle (Georgia)
15 December 1887, pg. 8
Viewed online at GenealogyBank
Azel Roe Freeman, Funeral Notice:
The Telegraph and Messenger March 24, 1873
Ancestors of George Skinner Freeman - "John S. Freeman, John, of Woodbridge, NJ.."
Grandson of Matthew Freeman and Margaret Cotheal.
Capt. Matthew Freeman
Died May 10, 1824
Old Colonial Cemetery
Metuchen, New Jersey
Metuchen Living magazine
Photo copyright:
©Metuchen Living magazine
The Old Colonial Cemetery
BY METUCHEN LIVING
PUBLISHED JULY 12, 2010
GEORGE SKINNER FREEMAN
Harriet Hughes Freeman
George Skinner Freeman was born in Metuchen, Middlesex County, New Jersey, on Wednesday, February 26, 1800. His parents Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman Freeman were second cousins.
The headstones for Henry Freeman (his father) and Capt. Matthew Freeman (father of his mother Rachel) were pictured in this article. See photos on their Find A Grave Memorials.
The Old Colonial Cemetery
BY METUCHENLIVING · PUBLISHED JULY 12, 2010 · UPDATED NOVEMBER 1, 2013
https://metuchenliving.com/the-old-colonial-cemetery/
Metuchen, New Jersey
European settlers began living in the section of Woodbridge Township that eventually became Metuchen during the late 1600s, setting up homesteads and farm lots within an area long populated by the Lenape people. This area was then, and is still named for the Lenape leader MeTochen, who lived here in the late 17th century.
https://townsquarepublications.com/history-of-metuchen-nj/
Gravestone of Henry Freeman Vandalized
Donations sought to restore vandalized gravestones, by Kathy Chang
Published on August 28, 2016
The damaged stones include... Henry Freeman (d. 1835)...
The cemetery was established between 1715 and 1730 as the burying ground associated with the Presbyterian Church. The grounds contain 1,045 marked graves and 60 unmarked graves.
Donations can be made to the "Metuchen-Edison Historical Society" at P.O. Box 61, Metuchen, NJ 08840
https://centraljersey.com/2016/08/28/metuchen-gravestones/?amp
George Skinner Freeman died at Elizabethtown, Union County, New Jersey, on Monday, December 11, 1837. He was 37 years old when he died.
Elizabeth, New Jersey
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth,_New_Jersey
HARRIET.
WIFE OF Geo. S. Freeman
BORN
in Rahway, N. J.
Sept. 20, 1803.
DIED
in Macon, Ga.
Feb. 4, 1874.
ASLEEP IN JESUS
Rahway, New Jersey
The history of Rahway begins with the settlements of Elizabethtown and Woodbridge. The early settlers of those places were the founders of Rahway, which began as outlying acreage and plantations.
https://www.cityofrahway.org/about-rahway/
Woodbridge, New Jersey
https://www.revolutionarywarnewjersey.com/new_jersey_revolutionary_war_sites/towns/woodbridge_nj_revolutionary_war_sites.htm
Judge Henry and Elizabeth Freeman gravestones
First Presbyterian Church of Woodbridge
600 Rahway Avenue, Woodbridge, New Jersey
Elizabeth Freeman - December 3, 1760 - 87 Years old
Our days begin with trouble here
Our life is but a span
And cruel death is always near
So frail a thing is man
Henry Freeman - October 10, 1763 - 94 years old
Here let him sleep in undisturbed dust
Until the resurrection of the just
https://www.scionofzion.com/cemetery.htm
George Skinner Freeman married Harriet Hughes in Rahway, New Jersey, on February 2, 1824. She was born in Rahway, New Jersey, on September 20, 1803. The best information is that Harriet's parents are not known. Some geneaolgy sites may name parents; however there appears to be no documentation and no compelling evidence to suggest anything certain regarding who Harriet's parents were.
Their sons were Charles Henry Freeman, Oliver William Freeman, and Thomas Williams Freeman.
Page 260 - 1382. CHARLES HENRY FREEMAN (George Skinner, Henry, Alexander, John, Henry, Ann), b. Richmond Co., N.Y., 20 Oct 1824; d. Macon Ga., 10 Sept 1889; m. 20 Sept 1848 Hannah Lum, b. Newark, N.J., 24 Jun 1825; d. Macon, Ga., 4 Mar 1889 (DAR 550637). She was d/o Amos Lum and Fannie Morehouse of New Providence, N.J. Charles H. Freeman was of Newark, N.J., and later of Macon, Ga.
— Ancestors and descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman with related families, by Patty Barthell Myers
Charles Henry Freeman, born in Richmond County, New York. The 1880 Census states New Jersey, probably a casual answer with the Freeman family being historically of New Jersey and Charles Henry and Hannah being formerly of Newark. It appears New York state was in fact his actual birthplace. Charles H. Freeman and his wife Hannah Lum Freeman are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery with several children.
Middle son Oliver William Freeman was born in Richmond County, New York – this information is inscribed on his tombstone. Youngest son Thomas Williams Freeman was born in Newark, New Jersey – also inscribed on his tombstone. There appear to be records including birth, marriage, census, and death for all of George Skinner Freeman's children.
In 1850, Harriet and her two younger sons Oliver and Thomas are living in the same household in Newark, New Jersey. Charles Henry Freeman, her eldest son, had married Hannah Lum in 1848, also at Newark. They moved from Newark to Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, before 1853. Harriet Hughes Freeman and her sons Oliver William Freeman and Thomas Williams Freeman also went to Macon. All are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. George Skinner Freeman's burial most likely was in New Jersey.
Thomas Williams Freeman was a grocer in Macon, this being but one of his business and personal interests.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82015434/1867-08-20/ed-1/seq-1/
IMMEDIATE FAMILY
The Freeman Family – beginning only with Judge Henry Freeman and his wife in New Jersey (but not earlier) – is documented. Both parents of George Skinner Freeman are direct descendants of Judge Henry and Elizabeth.
Judge Henry Freeman and his wife Elizabeth Benue Freeman: Elizabeth Benue's ancestry is debated. Her parents are said to have been French Huguenot. Further information (including unreliable information) and speculation about both the Freeman ancestors and Benue / Baignoux ancestors is available online and in books for interested parties to explore. Note also that not all Freeman wives have certain parents or ancestors — many of their parents are known, but some are not.
1331
Here Lies Interr'd the
Body of HENRY
FREEMAN who Departed
this life Octr 10,
1763 in the 94
year of his age.
Here let him Sleep
in undisturbed Dust.
Until the Resurrection of the Just.
NOTE: He was Judge Henry Freeman.
1332
Here lies Interr'd the Body
of ELIZABETH wife of HENRY
FREEMAN who Departed this
Life Decr 5, 1760 in the
87 yer of her age.
Our days began with Trouble here
Our life is but a Span
And Cruel Death is always ner
So frail a thing is Man.
NOTE: She was Elizabeth Benue/ Baignoux, a French Huguenot.
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~njmiddle/WoodbridgePresby.html
Article about Judge Henry Freeman
https://www.google.com/amp/s/olsonsumner.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/henry-freeman-2/amp/
George Skinner Freeman was a son of Rachel Freeman Freeman and Henry Freeman. His parents were second cousins. Both of his parents are generation four from Judge Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue Freeman (aka Elizabeth Baignoux Freeman).
George Skinner Freeman married Harriet Hughes. Harriet's parents are not known.
With wife Harriet, George Skinner Freeman had at least three children: Charles Henry Freeman, Oliver William Freeman, and Thomas Williams Freeman.
George Skinner Freeman had several brothers and sisters. They were:
Melancthon Freeman
Born about 1783
Matthew Freeman
Born about 1785
Alexander Freeman
Born about 1787
Jonathan Freeman
Born April 15, 1789
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Died September 9, 1859
Liberty Twp, Clarke Co, Iowa
Married twice (see records).
Burial, Liberty Cemetery
Azel Roe Freeman
Born July 13, 1792
Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey, USA
Died March 19, 1873
Macon, Bibb County, Georgia
Burial, Rose Hill Cemetery
Eunice Freeman
Born about 1794
Josiah Freeman
Born April 29, 1797
Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Died November 10, 1829
Macon, Bibb County, Georgia
Burial, Rose Hill Cemetery
George Skinner Freeman
Born February 26, 1800
Metuchen, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Died December 11, 1837
Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey
Probably buried in a Presbyterian cemetery in New Jersey
Rachel Freeman
Born June 6, 1802
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died July 11, 1840
New York City, New York
Margaret Freeman
Born about 1806
Some of George Skinner Freeman's brothers moved to Georgia. These included:
Josiah Freeman
Josiah Freeman came to Macon, where he died in 1829 — the same year he was married to Ann Ayers. Josiah's wife Ann H. Ayres Van Liew was his second cousin. Ann H. Ayers was married three times. Josiah was her second husband. Ann H. Ayers was the granddaughter of Naomi Freeman Cory Ross. See Lewis Ross Freeman book and multiple other sources for this information and Ann's family tree (images of relevant book passages are in photos).
Azel Roe Freeman
Azel Roe Freeman, who also came to Macon. He is known as A. R. Freeman. His wife was Delia Shaw Freeman. She was from Massachusetts. They and their children were well-known in Macon. Information about their lives can be found in records, news, regional biographies. They were involved in local and regional government and with other public and private institutions. Azel Roe Freeman and Delia Shaw Freeman had several children. Charles Henry Freeman (son of George Skinner Freeman) was in the Macon Guards with his first cousin Judge Matthew Ross "Matt" Freeman of Macon, son of Delia Shaw and Azel Roe Freeman. Matt Freeman and his wife Fannie are buried in Riverside Cemetery. Another Freeman cousin was Matt Freeman's sister Mary Ann Freeman, wife of Dr. M. S. Thomson of Macon, Georgia. Their son, Thomas Freeman Thomson, married Margaret Meldrim, the sister of Peter Wiltberger Meldrim, of Savannah. They are ancestors to conservative Governor Meldrim Thomson, Jr. of New Hampshire.
Thomas Freeman Thomson
Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form ... [Link at bottom of the page.]
Azel Roe Freeman's son Milo Shaw Freeman was named for "his only maternal uncle" – his mother Delia's brother. Milo Shaw Freeman died in a Savannah hospital following an accident. Fireworks were thrown while he was riding past, which caused the incident that led to his death. [See newspaper obituaries posted to his memorial for this information.] Azel Roe Freeman's son George Carhart Freeman also moved to Savannah. He married Sarah Elizabeth Davis. Children include an unmarried daughter Georgia Freeman who lived until 1967 (!!!) in Savannah, two sons who died in early adulthood, and Judge Davis Freeman of Savannah. George Carhart Freeman's biography is transcribed below, near the bottom of this page. Another is at this link:
Confederate Veteran: Published Monthly in the Interest of Confederate Veterans and Kindred Topics, Volume 29.
Published 1921.
https://books.google.com/books?id=wDBEAQAAMAAJ&q=Loan+Savannah#v=onepage&q=Loan%20Savannah&f=true
DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW
Hannah Lum Freeman
Hannah Lum Freeman and her husband Charles Henry Freeman moved from New Jersey to Macon. Some of Hannah's family also came to Macon, Georgia – one Lum cousin, a jeweler and his family, left Macon at the start of the Civil War. Hannah Lum Freeman and Charles Henry Freeman remained in Macon and are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery. They are recorded in The Lum Genealogy.
Phebe Jane DeHart Freeman
Phebe Jane DeHart Freeman -
Oliver William Freeman and Phebe Jane DeHart were married in New Jersey. One child who died an infant is listed in the Lewis Ross Freeman book. No other information found by this author. DeHart is a prominent name in New Jersey. Phebe Jane DeHart Freeman is burial information unknown on Find A Grave at this time. Oliver William Freeman's burial is Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.
Augusta B. Mattock Freeman
Augusta B. Mattock Freeman was the wife of Thomas Williams Freeman. They were married in New Jersey. Burials, Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County Georgia.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Henry Freeman, father of Azel Roe Freeman and George Skinner Freeman (and other children), is a DAR Patriot ancestor.
Capt. Matthew Freeman, father of Rachel Freeman Freeman, is a DAR Patriot ancestor. Capt. Matthew Freeman is George Skinner Freeman's grandfather.
Capt. Matthew Freeman's father Pvt. Joseph Freeman was older and a Revolutionary patriot – no DAR ancestor number found, but often and repeatedly listed as having provided service to The Revolution. Private Joseph Freeman is George Skinner Freeman's great-grandfather. Pvt. Joseph Freeman's brother John Freeman is also a great-grandfather of George Skinner Freeman — John was not living during The Revolution, and is the direct ancestor of Revolutionary veteran Henry Freeman, the father of George Skinner Freeman.
Henry's father Alexander Freeman (grandfather of George Skinner Freeman) and grandfather John Freeman (great-grandfather of George Skinner Freeman) did not serve because these men were not living during The American Revolution. Pvt. Joseph Freeman served The Revolution and is registered with various honor societies.
Rachel Freeman Freeman is the daughter and granddaughter of Revolutionary patriots. Rachel Freeman married her second cousin Henry Freeman, who did serve in The Revolution. None of Henry's male ancestors (in the Freeman line) were living during The American Revolution.
All proven descendants are eligible for membership with the National Society of Sons of the Revolution as well.
GEORGE SKINNER FREEMAN
George Skinner Freeman by both his parents is a direct descendant of Henry and Elizabeth (Benue or Baignoux) Freeman of Woodbridge, New Jersey.
His father, Henry Freeman, was the son of Alexander and Grace FitzRandolph Freeman.
His mother, Rachel Freeman Freeman, was the daughter of Matthew and Margaret Cotheal Freeman.
Rachel Freeman and Henry Freeman, parents of George Skinner Freeman, were second cousins.
RACHEL FREEMAN and HENRY FREEMAN
Parents of George Skinner Freeman
Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman Freeman, his wife, were second cousins.
Henry Freeman
Henry Freeman was a son of Grace FitzRandolph and Alexander Freeman.
Alexander Freeman was the son of John Freeman and Martha Moore.
John Freeman was the son of Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue.
Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue, or Baignoux, were married in New Jersey. Their origins are uncertain or unknown. The first Henry Freeman is known as Judge Henry Freeman.
Rachel Freeman
Rachel Freeman, Henry's wife, was the daughter of Margaret Cotheal and Matthew Freeman.
Capt. Matthew Freeman was the son of Joseph Freeman and Desiar (Desire) Walker.
Joseph Freeman was the son of Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue.
Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue, or Baignoux, were married in New Jersey. Their origins are uncertain or unknown. Henry Freeman is known as Judge Henry Freeman.
HENRY FREEMAN
Line to Henry Freeman,
father of George Skinner Freeman
Henry Freeman, the first in New Jersey, and his wife Elizabeth Benue are of unknown or uncertain origins.
Judge Henry Freeman
First to be recorded in New Jersey
Elizabeth Benue / Baignoux
Unknown / uncertain parents
JOHN FREEMAN
Son of Henry and Elizabeth
Martha Moore
Uncertain / disputed parents
Alexander Freeman
Grace FitzRandolph
Daughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph (certain) and unknown. Granddaughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph and Grace (Hull) FitzRandolph. Descendant of Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert de Ros.
Henry Freeman
Married to second cousin Rachel
Rachel Freeman
Daughter of Capt. Matthew and Margaret (Cotheal) Freeman
George Skinner Freeman
Brother of Azel Roe Freeman & others
Married Harriet Hughes
New Jersey - Harriet moved to Macon, Georgia.
Fitz Randolph / FitzRandolph
Grace Fitz Randolph and Alexander Freeman, on Page 332:
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, by New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1943 - New England, "Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) includes section: Genealogical gleanings in England", by H. F. Waters.
The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950, by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph.
Publication date 1950.
RACHEL FREEMAN FREEMAN
Line to Rachel Freeman,
mother of George Skinner Freeman
Henry Freeman
First in to be recorded in New Jersey
Elizabeth Benue / Baignoux
Unknown / uncertain grandparents. Said to be French Huguenot parents.
JOSEPH FREEMAN
Brother of John, who m. Martha Moore
Desiar Walker
NOT ? Soule
Matthew Freeman
First cousin of Alexander, who m. Grace FitzRandolph
Margaret Cotheal
Daughter of William and Charlotte (Dove) Cotheal, as per online information.
Rachel Freeman
Married her second cousin, Henry Freeman
Henry Freeman
Married his second cousin, Rachel Freeman
CAPT. C. H. FREEMAN
Son of Harriet Hughes and George Skinner Freeman. Grandson of Rachel Freeman and Henry Freeman. Charles Henry Freeman married Hannah Lum. They had several children. Their daughter Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson married Thomas Brewer Benson. Their son William Henry Freeman married Ella Ellis of Macon. A daughter Carrie Wills Freeman may have married. The others died before or soon after being married.
History of Macon – The First One Hundred Years 1823–1923 (A History of Macon Georgia, originally published by The Macon News). See entry for C. H. Freeman, Macon Guards, Company B — Page 53, under "Home Guards".
FREEMAN LINE ONE
Henry Freeman
Elizabeth Bagnioux
John Freeman
Martha Moore
Alexander Freeman
Grace FitzRandolph
Henry Freeman
Rachel Freeman
George Skinner Freeman
Harriet Hughes
Charles Henry Freeman
Hannah Lum
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Thomas Brewer Benson
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943 – 1982)
FREEMAN LINE TWO
Henry Freeman
Elizabeth Bagnioux
Joseph Freeman
Desiar Walker
Matthew Freeman
Margaret Cotheal
Rachel Freeman
Henry Freeman
George Skinner Freeman
Harriet Hughes
Charles Henry Freeman
Hannah Lum
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Thomas Brewer Benson
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943 – 1982)
The following information is about the Freeman ancestry of both Henry and Rachel, parents of George Skinner Freeman.
Grace Fitz Randolph and Alexander Freeman
Grace Fitz Randolph / FitzRandolph was the daughter of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph and Unknown. Nathaniel Fitz Randolph was the son of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph and Grace Hull. Nathaniel (father of Grace FitzRandolph Freeman, who was named for her grandmother, Grace Hull FitzRandolph) was born in New Jersey about 1700. His wife is unknown.
Children of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph:
• Mary
Born July 4, 1721
• Rachel
Born April 13, 1723
• David
Born March 7, 1724
• GRACE FITZ RANDOLPH
Daughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph and Unknown
Grace was born about 1727
Married Alexander Freeman
• Phebe
Born November 26, 1736
died 1785
m. 1759, Isaac Freeman (1737 – 1819)
• Johannah
Born October 8, 1742
Reference:
The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950, by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph. East Orange, NJ, 1950. Page 16.
ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Alexander Freeman was born in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey on about 1727 to John Freeman and Martha Moore. Alexander Freeman married Grace Fitz Randolph and had 6 children. He died on November 8, 1763, at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
Parents
John Freeman
1698 - 1761
Martha Moore
1701 - 1775
Married
Grace Fitz Randolph
1727 - 1786
Children
• ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Son of John Freeman and Martha Moore
1763 - 1814
Married Grace Fitz Randolph
• Josiah Freeman
1756 - 1798
• Henry Freeman
1761 - 1835
• Nancy Freeman
1757 - 1776
• Mary Freeman
1752 - 1826
• Sarah Freeman
1750 - 1794
Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman
HENRY FREEMAN
Married Rachel Freeman
Henry was born July 9, 1761
Died January 29,1835
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Parents
Alexander Freeman
Born about 1727
Grace Fitz Randolph / FitzRandolph
Born about 1727
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about November 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Henry Freeman married Rachel Freeman (his second cousin) before 1783, in Middlesex County, New Jersey.
RACHEL FREEMAN
Daughter of Matthew Freeman and Margaret Cotheal
Married Henry Freeman
Rachel was born September 26, 1761
Metuchen, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died May 5, 1810
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Children of Rachel Freeman and
Henry Freeman:
• Melancthon Freeman
Born about 1783
• Matthew Freeman
Born about 1785
• Alexander Freeman
Born about 1787
• Jonathan Freeman
Born April 15, 1789
Middlesex Co, New Jersey
Died September 9, 1859
Liberty Twp, Clarke Co, Iowa
• Azel Roe Freeman
Born about 1792
• Eunice Freeman
Born about 1794
• Josiah Freeman
Born about 1797
• GEORGE SKINNER FREEMAN
Son of Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman
George was born about 1800
Married Harriet Hughes
• Rachel Freeman
Born June 6, 1802
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died July 11, 1840
New York City, New York
• Margaret Freeman
Born abt. 1806
Alexander Freeman and Grace Fitz Randolph
ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Alexander was born about 1727
Father
John Freeman
Born November 5, 1698
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Mother
Martha Moore
Born 1701
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1776
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Alexander Freeman married Grace FitzRandolph on January 11, 1747/48, at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
GRACE FITZ RANDOLPH
Daughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph
Married Alexander Freeman
Grace FitzRandolph was born about 1727
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
Died about November 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Children:
• Sarah Freeman
Born March 24, 1751
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Mary Freeman
Born about 1752
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Josiah Freeman
Born January 21, 1756
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• HENRY FREEMAN
Born July 9, 1761
Died January 29, 1835
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Married Rachel Freeman
• Alexander Freeman
Born 24 June 24, 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1814
Crawford County, Pennsylvania
JOHN FREEMAN
Son of Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue
Married Martha Moore
John Freeman was born November 5, 1698
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Father
Henry Freeman
Born 1669/70
(possibly Northampton, England)
Died October 13, 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Mother
Elizabeth Baignoux / Benue
Born about 1673
Died December 3, 1760
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
John Freeman married Martha Moore on about 1720 at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
MARTHA MOORE
Married John Freeman
Martha was born about 1701
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1776
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Children
Henry Freeman
Birth: Abt 1724
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Born about 1727
Married Grace Fitz Randolph
• Mary Freeman
Born about 1728/29
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died January 21, 1753
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Elizabeth Freeman
Born about 1732
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
Died about 1784
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Charity Freeman
Born about 1735
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Isaac Freeman
Born February 26, 1737
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died August 11, 1819
Uniontown, New Jersey
• James Freeman
Born April 4, 1740
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died April 8, 1806
New Jersey
• Martha Freeman
Born about 1743
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
HENRY FREEMAN
Married Elizabeth Benue
Henry may have been born about 1669/70
Northampton, England (no proof).
Henry Freeman died on October 13, 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey (certain).
Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Baignoux / Benue were married May 16, 1695, at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
ELIZABETH BAIGNOUX or BENUE
Married Henry Freeman
Elizabeth Benue was born about 1673
Died December 3, 1760
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Children
• Ann Elizabeth Freeman
Born February 16, 1695/96
• JOHN FREEMAN
Born November 5, 1698
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Married Martha Moore
• Jonathan Freeman
Born July 13, 1700
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died December 22, 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Mary Freeman
Born June 5, 1702
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died May 10, 1783
Lamington, Somerset, NJ
• Sarah Freeman
Born February 1, 1703/4
• Rachel Freeman
Born January 18, 1704/5
• Samuel Freeman
Born March 31, 1708
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died January 1, 1778
Ash Swarmp, Woodbridge Twp., New Jersey
• JOSEPH FREEMAN
Born December 21, 1709
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died March 12, 1797
Metuchen, Middlesex, New Jersey
Married Desiar Walker
• Hannah Freeman
Born October 21, 1711
• Benjamin Freeman
Born June 3, 1713
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Isaac Freeman
Born May 25, 1715
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died March 8, 1777
Westfield, New Jersey
• Henry Freeman
Born March 23, 1716/17
• James Freeman
Born November 1, 1719
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died March 1793
S. Brunswick Twp., Middlesex Co., New Jersey
Ancestry.com
LINKS
Page 332 –
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1943 - New England
Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) include section: Genealogical gleanings in England, by H. F. Waters.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Be8QAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA332&lpg=PA332&dq=grace+fitzrandolph+alexander+Freeman&source=bl&ots=AVLZWlkRZD&sig=ACfU3U09-DECpZEIi6nLOASlInXacmzrDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitqvz-8dXxAhXJU80KHYx4BXEQ6AEwEXoECBAQAg#v=onepage&q=grace%20fitzrandolph%20alexander%20Freeman&f=true
The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom 1630-1950, by Christian, Louise Aymar, East Orange, N.J. Reprint 1984. Page 30.
https://archive.org/details/descendantsofedw00chri/page/n33
History of Macon: The First 100 Years
https://issuu.com/thebrainstormlab/docs/historyofmacon/56 via @issuu
Thomas Freeman Thomson
Margaret Meldrim
University of Georgia
https://books.google.com/books?id=IgETAAAAIAAJ&q=Thomson+Meldrim#v=snippet&q=Thomson%20Meldrim&f=false
A nephew of George Skinner Freeman, George Carhart Freeman is the son of Azel Roe Freeman:
GEORGE C. FREEMAN. As money, or any other medium of exchange, is the life-blood of business and commerce, it is evident that bankers, men who manage and control the circulating medium, stand related to the public as the physician who has his finger on the pulse of the patient and has the power of controlling his condition for better or worse. No member of the business community has a greater responsibility than the banker and any community or city is much to be congratulated which has at the head of its finances men of thorough training, stanch ability and moral dependability. No banker of the South is more closely typical of what, is required in the financial manager and leader to inspire and retain business and commercial confidence than George C. Freeman, assistant to the president of the Citizens and Southern Bank, one of Georgia's most important monetary institutions. He has resided in Savannah since 1854, and has been identified with banking interests since 1873.
Mr. Freeman is one of the Forest city's venerable citizens, his birth having occurred in Bibb county, Georgia, August 16, 1833. He is the son of Azel R. and Delia (Shaw) Freeman. The father was born in New Jersey in 1792. While still a youth he started out like the proverbial hero of romance to seek his fortunes, going with two companions to what was then known as the "West," crossing the Allegheny Mountains and going down the Ohio River and finally locating in Lexington, Kentucky. When the War of 1812 came on Azel Freeman volunteered for service and joined the Kentucky Mounted Riflemen, with which organization he crossed the Ohio river and served with the same on the northern frontier. Upon the termination of hostilities, he returned to the Blue Grass state, but subsequently went thence to Nashville, Tennessee, which city remained his home for a number of years. In 1827 he removed from Nashville to Bibb county, Georgia, locating where the present city of Macon is situated, and in Bibb county he spent the years which remained to him before traveling on to the undiscovered country, "From whose bourne no traveler returns."
The mother of the subject [Delia Shaw Freeman] was a native of Massachusetts.
George C. Freeman was reared and educated in Bibb county. He came to Savannah in 1854, and ever since that time he has maintained his home in this city. His first employment in Savannah was in the office of Hudson, Fleming & Company, cotton factors, with whom he remained for six years. He then formed a partnership with A. H. Champion, under the firm name of Champion & Freeman, in the wholesale grocery business, their location being at the corner of Bay and Drayton streets. At the outbreak of the Civil war, in 1861, Mr. Freeman and Mr. Champion both joined the army of the Confederacy and their business, like that of many another Southern firm, became suspended on that account, to be resumed after the close of the war.
Mr. Freeman joined the Chatham Artillery in Savannah and was in service in Chatham county. In the second year of the war he was detached from his command and assigned to duty as assistant to the collector of the port of Savannah, under the Confederate government. The collector of the port was James R. Sneed and his chief deputy was Maj. Charles S. Hardee, who has for many years held the office of city treasurer of Savannah. A day or two prior to Sherman's entrance into Savannah, the collector of the port and his office force, taking their records, books, money and other possessions, went to Charleston, and of this historic party Mr. Freeman was a member. Within a few days they changed their headquarters from Charleston to Augusta; thence the Confederate authorities ordered them to Macon; from Macon to Milledgeville; and from the latter place they retreated to the plantation of Dr. T. A. Parsons, in Laurens county, whence they were ordered to Macon, where their effects were surrendered to the United States authorities and the party was paroled and returned to Savannah.
Upon the return of peace to the devastated country, the business of Champion & Freeman was successfully re-established and continued until 1877. Mr. Freeman, however, is best known for his long and honorable connection with banking business in Savannah. He entered upon his career in this field in 1873, when he was elected a director and vice-president of the Citizens' Mutual Loan Company, which began business in June of that year. He was one of the originators of that well-remembered financial institution and took an active part in the management of its affairs from the beginning. It was successful from the start and earned a good annual profit in dividends to its stockholders. In 1887 the Citizens' Bank was organized and by unanimous vote the Citizens' Mutual Loan Company was merged into that institution. The Citizens' Bank began with a capital stock of $200,000, and Mr. Freeman was the first cashier of the new bank. In 1890, the Citizens' Bank was reorganized and $300,000 was added to its capital, making its capital stock $500,000. Mr. Freeman remained as cashier after the reorganization, being the only one of the old officers retained after the reorganization.
In 1906 the Citizens' Bank was consolidated with the Southern Bank of the state of Georgia, with the name of the Citizens and Southern Bank, and of this substantial institution, as mentioned in a preceding paragraph, Mr. Freeman is an officer and assistant to the president; the increasing duties of the cashier's position being considered more than Mr. Freeman should discharge after his long years of service with the bank. The Citizens and Southern Bank is one of the largest and strongest banks in the South. It has a capital stock of $1,000,000, with a surplus and undivided profits running over a million dollars. It occupies the beautiful banking building constructed for its exclusive use, in the square surrounded by St. Julian, Bryan, Bull and Drayton streets, with entrances from both Bull and Drayton streets. Nothing could possibly be more advantageous than its situation. Besides his position of assistant to the president, Mr. Freeman is also secretary of the board of directors.
Mr. Freeman served five years as alderman of Savannah and was at one time chairman of the finance committee. He has been a member and officer of the Savannah Benevolent Association since 1866, and for ten years he was secretary, for nine years president, and for twenty-six years, treasurer, which latter position he now holds. He is a member of the Independent Presbyterian church and has been one of its board of trustees since 1878. He is the friend of good government and takes a public-spirited interest in all measures likely to advance the welfare of the beautiful old city to which he came over half a century ago.
Mr. Freeman laid one of the most important stones in the foundation of his success in 1862 by his marriage to Miss Sarah E. Davis, of Savannah, daughter of William H. Davis, one of the well-known early residents of the city and particularly well remembered for his prominent connection with the Republican Blues, one of Savannah's famous military organizations. Their union has been blessed by five children, two of whom now survive: Judge Davis, Freeman, lawyer, and judge of the city court of Savannah; and Miss Georgia Freeman, a member of the charming Freeman household, whose hospitality is thoroughly consistent with Southern traditions.
Author: William Harden
Pages 579-581
A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA BY WILLIAM HARDEN
VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913
Link, George Carhart Freeman biography:
https://books.google.com/books?id=zv9HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA580&lpg=PA580&dq=george+c+freeman+Savannah+confederate&source=bl&ots=fAR2Q8zS04&sig=ACfU3U2xgOBuhhJxW7gSK0LoM2UBOgccHw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQrs2SgP3yAhVnQzABHTXjBSoQ6AF6BAgkEAI#v=onepage&q=george%20c%20freeman%20Savannah%20confederate&f=true
In the 1910 United States Census, George Skinner Freeman's grandson William Henry Freeman, Lula May Benson and her husband Nelson Huntley Parker, and Lula's sister Mamie Shepherd Benson are in Daytona Beach, Florida. Mamie Shepherd Benson (later Mrs. Van Porter Enloe of Senoia, Coweta County, Georgia) also in the Parker household. Daytona, Florida, was founded by a Lum cousin... obviously related not random to Lula and Nelson in 1910 Census living in Daytona Beach, Florida, with Mamie in the household; and fellow Lum descendant William Henry Freeman also in Daytona Beach. Aspinwall descendant Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs also removed to Daytona Beach, Florida, and is buried there with his family.
Capt. Matthew Freeman and Pvt. Henry Freeman are DAR Patriot ancestors. Matthew's father Joseph was a patriot of The Revolution and listed as such though DAR ancestors are Joseph's sons. Matthew's daughter Rachel married her second cousin Henry Freeman (son of Grace FitzRandolph and Alexander Freeman, and grandson of John and Martha Moore Freeman). Henry Freeman (wife Rachel Freeman Freeman) is a DAR Patriot ancestor. (There are several further NSDAR and NSSAR ancestors via Hannah Lum Freeman, daughter-in-law of George Skinner Freeman.)
DAR Member Record of Myrtie Ellis Freeman, daughter of Ella Ellis and William Henry Freeman
Freeman, Myrtie Ellis
Nat'l Num: 550637 Chapter: 3001FL Join: Jun 1970
DESCENDANT LISTINGS
Ancestor: FREEMAN, HENRY (A042037)
ANCESTORS (REVOLUTIONARY)
FREEMAN, HENRY Ancestor #: A042037
Child/Child : GEORGE SKINNER / [1] HARRIET
Service: NEW JERSEY Rank(s): PRIVATE
Birth: 7-9-1761 WOODBRIDGE TWP MIDDLESEX CO NEW JERSEY
Death: 1-29-1835 ELIZABETHTOWN ESSEX CO NEW JERSEY
Pension Number: *S2565
Service Source: *S2565
Service Description:
1) CAPTS MATTHEW FREEMAN, ROSS, SHAW, COL WEBSTER, 1ST REGT, MIDDLESEX CO MILITIA
https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_member/?Action=full&National_Number=550637
Thomas Freeman Thomson
Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form ...
By Allen Daniel Candler, Clement Anselm Evans
State Historical Association, 1906 - Georgia
https://books.google.com/books?id=BJ0SAAAAYAAJ&q=Thomas+Freeman+Thomson#v=onepage&q=Thomas%20Freeman%20Thomson&f=true
New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson, Jr. — Governor Thomson was the grandson of Margaret Meldrim and Thomas Freeman Thomson of Savannah. He was the son of Marion Booth and Meldrim Thomson, Sr.
Former Gov. Thomson dead at 89 http://seacoastonline.com/article//News/304209982
MACON IN 1869
Your Peachy Past, 23 November 2010
http://peachypast.blogspot.com/2010/11/macon-in-1869.html?m=1
ALL NAMED ARE LONG DECEASED.
Research and biography by direct descendant Ingrid Heltveit Parker.
Family of George Otis Parker, Jr.
Find A Grave user ID 50182541
FREEMAN
George Skinner Freeman and Harriet Hughes, parents of Charles Henry Freeman.
Myers, Patty Barthell. Ancestors and descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman with related families : based partially on the work of Freeman Worth Gardner and Willis Freeman. Penobscot Press ; San Antonio, TX., 1995.
FITZ RANDOLPH
Grace Fitz Randolph and Alexander Freeman, parents of Henry Freeman.
Henry Freeman married his second cousin Rachel Freeman.
"The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950", by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph.
Publication date 1950.
Charles Henry Freeman,
Article published 19 July 2013
Death of the (1887) Grand Treasurer of the Masons
DEATH OF THE GRAND TREASURER OF THE MASONS. Rose Hill Cemetery Blog -
Source in article:
Augusta Chronicle (Georgia)
15 December 1887, pg. 8
Viewed online at GenealogyBank
Azel Roe Freeman, Funeral Notice:
The Telegraph and Messenger March 24, 1873
Ancestors of George Skinner Freeman - "John S. Freeman, John, of Woodbridge, NJ.."
Grandson of Matthew Freeman and Margaret Cotheal.
Capt. Matthew Freeman
Died May 10, 1824
Old Colonial Cemetery
Metuchen, New Jersey
Metuchen Living magazine
Photo copyright:
©Metuchen Living magazine
The Old Colonial Cemetery
BY METUCHEN LIVING
PUBLISHED JULY 12, 2010
Harriet Hughes Freeman
George Skinner Freeman was born in Metuchen, Middlesex County, New Jersey, on Wednesday, February 26, 1800. His parents Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman Freeman were second cousins.
The headstones for Henry Freeman (his father) and Capt. Matthew Freeman (father of his mother Rachel) were pictured in this article. See photos on their Find A Grave Memorials.
The Old Colonial Cemetery
BY METUCHENLIVING · PUBLISHED JULY 12, 2010 · UPDATED NOVEMBER 1, 2013
https://metuchenliving.com/the-old-colonial-cemetery/
Metuchen, New Jersey
European settlers began living in the section of Woodbridge Township that eventually became Metuchen during the late 1600s, setting up homesteads and farm lots within an area long populated by the Lenape people. This area was then, and is still named for the Lenape leader MeTochen, who lived here in the late 17th century.
https://townsquarepublications.com/history-of-metuchen-nj/
Gravestone of Henry Freeman Vandalized
Donations sought to restore vandalized gravestones, by Kathy Chang
Published on August 28, 2016
The damaged stones include... Henry Freeman (d. 1835)...
The cemetery was established between 1715 and 1730 as the burying ground associated with the Presbyterian Church. The grounds contain 1,045 marked graves and 60 unmarked graves.
Donations can be made to the "Metuchen-Edison Historical Society" at P.O. Box 61, Metuchen, NJ 08840
https://centraljersey.com/2016/08/28/metuchen-gravestones/?amp
George Skinner Freeman died at Elizabethtown, Union County, New Jersey, on Monday, December 11, 1837. He was 37 years old when he died.
Elizabeth, New Jersey
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth,_New_Jersey
HARRIET.
WIFE OF Geo. S. Freeman
BORN
in Rahway, N. J.
Sept. 20, 1803.
DIED
in Macon, Ga.
Feb. 4, 1874.
ASLEEP IN JESUS
Rahway, New Jersey
The history of Rahway begins with the settlements of Elizabethtown and Woodbridge. The early settlers of those places were the founders of Rahway, which began as outlying acreage and plantations.
https://www.cityofrahway.org/about-rahway/
Woodbridge, New Jersey
https://www.revolutionarywarnewjersey.com/new_jersey_revolutionary_war_sites/towns/woodbridge_nj_revolutionary_war_sites.htm
Judge Henry and Elizabeth Freeman gravestones
First Presbyterian Church of Woodbridge
600 Rahway Avenue, Woodbridge, New Jersey
Elizabeth Freeman - December 3, 1760 - 87 Years old
Our days begin with trouble here
Our life is but a span
And cruel death is always near
So frail a thing is man
Henry Freeman - October 10, 1763 - 94 years old
Here let him sleep in undisturbed dust
Until the resurrection of the just
https://www.scionofzion.com/cemetery.htm
George Skinner Freeman married Harriet Hughes in Rahway, New Jersey, on February 2, 1824. She was born in Rahway, New Jersey, on September 20, 1803. The best information is that Harriet's parents are not known. Some geneaolgy sites may name parents; however there appears to be no documentation and no compelling evidence to suggest anything certain regarding who Harriet's parents were.
Their sons were Charles Henry Freeman, Oliver William Freeman, and Thomas Williams Freeman.
Page 260 - 1382. CHARLES HENRY FREEMAN (George Skinner, Henry, Alexander, John, Henry, Ann), b. Richmond Co., N.Y., 20 Oct 1824; d. Macon Ga., 10 Sept 1889; m. 20 Sept 1848 Hannah Lum, b. Newark, N.J., 24 Jun 1825; d. Macon, Ga., 4 Mar 1889 (DAR 550637). She was d/o Amos Lum and Fannie Morehouse of New Providence, N.J. Charles H. Freeman was of Newark, N.J., and later of Macon, Ga.
— Ancestors and descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman with related families, by Patty Barthell Myers
Charles Henry Freeman, born in Richmond County, New York. The 1880 Census states New Jersey, probably a casual answer with the Freeman family being historically of New Jersey and Charles Henry and Hannah being formerly of Newark. It appears New York state was in fact his actual birthplace. Charles H. Freeman and his wife Hannah Lum Freeman are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery with several children.
Middle son Oliver William Freeman was born in Richmond County, New York – this information is inscribed on his tombstone. Youngest son Thomas Williams Freeman was born in Newark, New Jersey – also inscribed on his tombstone. There appear to be records including birth, marriage, census, and death for all of George Skinner Freeman's children.
In 1850, Harriet and her two younger sons Oliver and Thomas are living in the same household in Newark, New Jersey. Charles Henry Freeman, her eldest son, had married Hannah Lum in 1848, also at Newark. They moved from Newark to Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, before 1853. Harriet Hughes Freeman and her sons Oliver William Freeman and Thomas Williams Freeman also went to Macon. All are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. George Skinner Freeman's burial most likely was in New Jersey.
Thomas Williams Freeman was a grocer in Macon, this being but one of his business and personal interests.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82015434/1867-08-20/ed-1/seq-1/
IMMEDIATE FAMILY
The Freeman Family – beginning only with Judge Henry Freeman and his wife in New Jersey (but not earlier) – is documented. Both parents of George Skinner Freeman are direct descendants of Judge Henry and Elizabeth.
Judge Henry Freeman and his wife Elizabeth Benue Freeman: Elizabeth Benue's ancestry is debated. Her parents are said to have been French Huguenot. Further information (including unreliable information) and speculation about both the Freeman ancestors and Benue / Baignoux ancestors is available online and in books for interested parties to explore. Note also that not all Freeman wives have certain parents or ancestors — many of their parents are known, but some are not.
1331
Here Lies Interr'd the
Body of HENRY
FREEMAN who Departed
this life Octr 10,
1763 in the 94
year of his age.
Here let him Sleep
in undisturbed Dust.
Until the Resurrection of the Just.
NOTE: He was Judge Henry Freeman.
1332
Here lies Interr'd the Body
of ELIZABETH wife of HENRY
FREEMAN who Departed this
Life Decr 5, 1760 in the
87 yer of her age.
Our days began with Trouble here
Our life is but a Span
And Cruel Death is always ner
So frail a thing is Man.
NOTE: She was Elizabeth Benue/ Baignoux, a French Huguenot.
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~njmiddle/WoodbridgePresby.html
Article about Judge Henry Freeman
https://www.google.com/amp/s/olsonsumner.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/henry-freeman-2/amp/
George Skinner Freeman was a son of Rachel Freeman Freeman and Henry Freeman. His parents were second cousins. Both of his parents are generation four from Judge Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue Freeman (aka Elizabeth Baignoux Freeman).
George Skinner Freeman married Harriet Hughes. Harriet's parents are not known.
With wife Harriet, George Skinner Freeman had at least three children: Charles Henry Freeman, Oliver William Freeman, and Thomas Williams Freeman.
George Skinner Freeman had several brothers and sisters. They were:
Melancthon Freeman
Born about 1783
Matthew Freeman
Born about 1785
Alexander Freeman
Born about 1787
Jonathan Freeman
Born April 15, 1789
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Died September 9, 1859
Liberty Twp, Clarke Co, Iowa
Married twice (see records).
Burial, Liberty Cemetery
Azel Roe Freeman
Born July 13, 1792
Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey, USA
Died March 19, 1873
Macon, Bibb County, Georgia
Burial, Rose Hill Cemetery
Eunice Freeman
Born about 1794
Josiah Freeman
Born April 29, 1797
Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Died November 10, 1829
Macon, Bibb County, Georgia
Burial, Rose Hill Cemetery
George Skinner Freeman
Born February 26, 1800
Metuchen, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Died December 11, 1837
Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey
Probably buried in a Presbyterian cemetery in New Jersey
Rachel Freeman
Born June 6, 1802
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died July 11, 1840
New York City, New York
Margaret Freeman
Born about 1806
Some of George Skinner Freeman's brothers moved to Georgia. These included:
Josiah Freeman
Josiah Freeman came to Macon, where he died in 1829 — the same year he was married to Ann Ayers. Josiah's wife Ann H. Ayres Van Liew was his second cousin. Ann H. Ayers was married three times. Josiah was her second husband. Ann H. Ayers was the granddaughter of Naomi Freeman Cory Ross. See Lewis Ross Freeman book and multiple other sources for this information and Ann's family tree (images of relevant book passages are in photos).
Azel Roe Freeman
Azel Roe Freeman, who also came to Macon. He is known as A. R. Freeman. His wife was Delia Shaw Freeman. She was from Massachusetts. They and their children were well-known in Macon. Information about their lives can be found in records, news, regional biographies. They were involved in local and regional government and with other public and private institutions. Azel Roe Freeman and Delia Shaw Freeman had several children. Charles Henry Freeman (son of George Skinner Freeman) was in the Macon Guards with his first cousin Judge Matthew Ross "Matt" Freeman of Macon, son of Delia Shaw and Azel Roe Freeman. Matt Freeman and his wife Fannie are buried in Riverside Cemetery. Another Freeman cousin was Matt Freeman's sister Mary Ann Freeman, wife of Dr. M. S. Thomson of Macon, Georgia. Their son, Thomas Freeman Thomson, married Margaret Meldrim, the sister of Peter Wiltberger Meldrim, of Savannah. They are ancestors to conservative Governor Meldrim Thomson, Jr. of New Hampshire.
Thomas Freeman Thomson
Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form ... [Link at bottom of the page.]
Azel Roe Freeman's son Milo Shaw Freeman was named for "his only maternal uncle" – his mother Delia's brother. Milo Shaw Freeman died in a Savannah hospital following an accident. Fireworks were thrown while he was riding past, which caused the incident that led to his death. [See newspaper obituaries posted to his memorial for this information.] Azel Roe Freeman's son George Carhart Freeman also moved to Savannah. He married Sarah Elizabeth Davis. Children include an unmarried daughter Georgia Freeman who lived until 1967 (!!!) in Savannah, two sons who died in early adulthood, and Judge Davis Freeman of Savannah. George Carhart Freeman's biography is transcribed below, near the bottom of this page. Another is at this link:
Confederate Veteran: Published Monthly in the Interest of Confederate Veterans and Kindred Topics, Volume 29.
Published 1921.
https://books.google.com/books?id=wDBEAQAAMAAJ&q=Loan+Savannah#v=onepage&q=Loan%20Savannah&f=true
DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW
Hannah Lum Freeman
Hannah Lum Freeman and her husband Charles Henry Freeman moved from New Jersey to Macon. Some of Hannah's family also came to Macon, Georgia – one Lum cousin, a jeweler and his family, left Macon at the start of the Civil War. Hannah Lum Freeman and Charles Henry Freeman remained in Macon and are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery. They are recorded in The Lum Genealogy.
Phebe Jane DeHart Freeman
Phebe Jane DeHart Freeman -
Oliver William Freeman and Phebe Jane DeHart were married in New Jersey. One child who died an infant is listed in the Lewis Ross Freeman book. No other information found by this author. DeHart is a prominent name in New Jersey. Phebe Jane DeHart Freeman is burial information unknown on Find A Grave at this time. Oliver William Freeman's burial is Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.
Augusta B. Mattock Freeman
Augusta B. Mattock Freeman was the wife of Thomas Williams Freeman. They were married in New Jersey. Burials, Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County Georgia.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Henry Freeman, father of Azel Roe Freeman and George Skinner Freeman (and other children), is a DAR Patriot ancestor.
Capt. Matthew Freeman, father of Rachel Freeman Freeman, is a DAR Patriot ancestor. Capt. Matthew Freeman is George Skinner Freeman's grandfather.
Capt. Matthew Freeman's father Pvt. Joseph Freeman was older and a Revolutionary patriot – no DAR ancestor number found, but often and repeatedly listed as having provided service to The Revolution. Private Joseph Freeman is George Skinner Freeman's great-grandfather. Pvt. Joseph Freeman's brother John Freeman is also a great-grandfather of George Skinner Freeman — John was not living during The Revolution, and is the direct ancestor of Revolutionary veteran Henry Freeman, the father of George Skinner Freeman.
Henry's father Alexander Freeman (grandfather of George Skinner Freeman) and grandfather John Freeman (great-grandfather of George Skinner Freeman) did not serve because these men were not living during The American Revolution. Pvt. Joseph Freeman served The Revolution and is registered with various honor societies.
Rachel Freeman Freeman is the daughter and granddaughter of Revolutionary patriots. Rachel Freeman married her second cousin Henry Freeman, who did serve in The Revolution. None of Henry's male ancestors (in the Freeman line) were living during The American Revolution.
All proven descendants are eligible for membership with the National Society of Sons of the Revolution as well.
GEORGE SKINNER FREEMAN
George Skinner Freeman by both his parents is a direct descendant of Henry and Elizabeth (Benue or Baignoux) Freeman of Woodbridge, New Jersey.
His father, Henry Freeman, was the son of Alexander and Grace FitzRandolph Freeman.
His mother, Rachel Freeman Freeman, was the daughter of Matthew and Margaret Cotheal Freeman.
Rachel Freeman and Henry Freeman, parents of George Skinner Freeman, were second cousins.
RACHEL FREEMAN and HENRY FREEMAN
Parents of George Skinner Freeman
Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman Freeman, his wife, were second cousins.
Henry Freeman
Henry Freeman was a son of Grace FitzRandolph and Alexander Freeman.
Alexander Freeman was the son of John Freeman and Martha Moore.
John Freeman was the son of Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue.
Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue, or Baignoux, were married in New Jersey. Their origins are uncertain or unknown. The first Henry Freeman is known as Judge Henry Freeman.
Rachel Freeman
Rachel Freeman, Henry's wife, was the daughter of Margaret Cotheal and Matthew Freeman.
Capt. Matthew Freeman was the son of Joseph Freeman and Desiar (Desire) Walker.
Joseph Freeman was the son of Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue.
Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue, or Baignoux, were married in New Jersey. Their origins are uncertain or unknown. Henry Freeman is known as Judge Henry Freeman.
HENRY FREEMAN
Line to Henry Freeman,
father of George Skinner Freeman
Henry Freeman, the first in New Jersey, and his wife Elizabeth Benue are of unknown or uncertain origins.
Judge Henry Freeman
First to be recorded in New Jersey
Elizabeth Benue / Baignoux
Unknown / uncertain parents
JOHN FREEMAN
Son of Henry and Elizabeth
Martha Moore
Uncertain / disputed parents
Alexander Freeman
Grace FitzRandolph
Daughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph (certain) and unknown. Granddaughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph and Grace (Hull) FitzRandolph. Descendant of Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert de Ros.
Henry Freeman
Married to second cousin Rachel
Rachel Freeman
Daughter of Capt. Matthew and Margaret (Cotheal) Freeman
George Skinner Freeman
Brother of Azel Roe Freeman & others
Married Harriet Hughes
New Jersey - Harriet moved to Macon, Georgia.
Fitz Randolph / FitzRandolph
Grace Fitz Randolph and Alexander Freeman, on Page 332:
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, by New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1943 - New England, "Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) includes section: Genealogical gleanings in England", by H. F. Waters.
The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950, by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph.
Publication date 1950.
RACHEL FREEMAN FREEMAN
Line to Rachel Freeman,
mother of George Skinner Freeman
Henry Freeman
First in to be recorded in New Jersey
Elizabeth Benue / Baignoux
Unknown / uncertain grandparents. Said to be French Huguenot parents.
JOSEPH FREEMAN
Brother of John, who m. Martha Moore
Desiar Walker
NOT ? Soule
Matthew Freeman
First cousin of Alexander, who m. Grace FitzRandolph
Margaret Cotheal
Daughter of William and Charlotte (Dove) Cotheal, as per online information.
Rachel Freeman
Married her second cousin, Henry Freeman
Henry Freeman
Married his second cousin, Rachel Freeman
CAPT. C. H. FREEMAN
Son of Harriet Hughes and George Skinner Freeman. Grandson of Rachel Freeman and Henry Freeman. Charles Henry Freeman married Hannah Lum. They had several children. Their daughter Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson married Thomas Brewer Benson. Their son William Henry Freeman married Ella Ellis of Macon. A daughter Carrie Wills Freeman may have married. The others died before or soon after being married.
History of Macon – The First One Hundred Years 1823–1923 (A History of Macon Georgia, originally published by The Macon News). See entry for C. H. Freeman, Macon Guards, Company B — Page 53, under "Home Guards".
FREEMAN LINE ONE
Henry Freeman
Elizabeth Bagnioux
John Freeman
Martha Moore
Alexander Freeman
Grace FitzRandolph
Henry Freeman
Rachel Freeman
George Skinner Freeman
Harriet Hughes
Charles Henry Freeman
Hannah Lum
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Thomas Brewer Benson
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943 – 1982)
FREEMAN LINE TWO
Henry Freeman
Elizabeth Bagnioux
Joseph Freeman
Desiar Walker
Matthew Freeman
Margaret Cotheal
Rachel Freeman
Henry Freeman
George Skinner Freeman
Harriet Hughes
Charles Henry Freeman
Hannah Lum
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Thomas Brewer Benson
Lula May Benson
Nelson Huntley Parker, Sr.
George Otis Parker, Sr.
Mildred Jeanette Jones
George Otis Parker, Jr.
(1943 – 1982)
The following information is about the Freeman ancestry of both Henry and Rachel, parents of George Skinner Freeman.
Grace Fitz Randolph and Alexander Freeman
Grace Fitz Randolph / FitzRandolph was the daughter of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph and Unknown. Nathaniel Fitz Randolph was the son of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph and Grace Hull. Nathaniel (father of Grace FitzRandolph Freeman, who was named for her grandmother, Grace Hull FitzRandolph) was born in New Jersey about 1700. His wife is unknown.
Children of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph:
• Mary
Born July 4, 1721
• Rachel
Born April 13, 1723
• David
Born March 7, 1724
• GRACE FITZ RANDOLPH
Daughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph and Unknown
Grace was born about 1727
Married Alexander Freeman
• Phebe
Born November 26, 1736
died 1785
m. 1759, Isaac Freeman (1737 – 1819)
• Johannah
Born October 8, 1742
Reference:
The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950, by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph. East Orange, NJ, 1950. Page 16.
ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Alexander Freeman was born in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey on about 1727 to John Freeman and Martha Moore. Alexander Freeman married Grace Fitz Randolph and had 6 children. He died on November 8, 1763, at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
Parents
John Freeman
1698 - 1761
Martha Moore
1701 - 1775
Married
Grace Fitz Randolph
1727 - 1786
Children
• ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Son of John Freeman and Martha Moore
1763 - 1814
Married Grace Fitz Randolph
• Josiah Freeman
1756 - 1798
• Henry Freeman
1761 - 1835
• Nancy Freeman
1757 - 1776
• Mary Freeman
1752 - 1826
• Sarah Freeman
1750 - 1794
Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman
HENRY FREEMAN
Married Rachel Freeman
Henry was born July 9, 1761
Died January 29,1835
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Parents
Alexander Freeman
Born about 1727
Grace Fitz Randolph / FitzRandolph
Born about 1727
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about November 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Henry Freeman married Rachel Freeman (his second cousin) before 1783, in Middlesex County, New Jersey.
RACHEL FREEMAN
Daughter of Matthew Freeman and Margaret Cotheal
Married Henry Freeman
Rachel was born September 26, 1761
Metuchen, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died May 5, 1810
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Children of Rachel Freeman and
Henry Freeman:
• Melancthon Freeman
Born about 1783
• Matthew Freeman
Born about 1785
• Alexander Freeman
Born about 1787
• Jonathan Freeman
Born April 15, 1789
Middlesex Co, New Jersey
Died September 9, 1859
Liberty Twp, Clarke Co, Iowa
• Azel Roe Freeman
Born about 1792
• Eunice Freeman
Born about 1794
• Josiah Freeman
Born about 1797
• GEORGE SKINNER FREEMAN
Son of Henry Freeman and Rachel Freeman
George was born about 1800
Married Harriet Hughes
• Rachel Freeman
Born June 6, 1802
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died July 11, 1840
New York City, New York
• Margaret Freeman
Born abt. 1806
Alexander Freeman and Grace Fitz Randolph
ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Alexander was born about 1727
Father
John Freeman
Born November 5, 1698
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Mother
Martha Moore
Born 1701
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1776
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Alexander Freeman married Grace FitzRandolph on January 11, 1747/48, at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
GRACE FITZ RANDOLPH
Daughter of Nathaniel FitzRandolph
Married Alexander Freeman
Grace FitzRandolph was born about 1727
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
Died about November 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Children:
• Sarah Freeman
Born March 24, 1751
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Mary Freeman
Born about 1752
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Josiah Freeman
Born January 21, 1756
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• HENRY FREEMAN
Born July 9, 1761
Died January 29, 1835
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Married Rachel Freeman
• Alexander Freeman
Born 24 June 24, 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1814
Crawford County, Pennsylvania
JOHN FREEMAN
Son of Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Benue
Married Martha Moore
John Freeman was born November 5, 1698
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Father
Henry Freeman
Born 1669/70
(possibly Northampton, England)
Died October 13, 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Mother
Elizabeth Baignoux / Benue
Born about 1673
Died December 3, 1760
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
John Freeman married Martha Moore on about 1720 at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
MARTHA MOORE
Married John Freeman
Martha was born about 1701
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1776
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Children
Henry Freeman
Birth: Abt 1724
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• ALEXANDER FREEMAN
Born about 1727
Married Grace Fitz Randolph
• Mary Freeman
Born about 1728/29
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died January 21, 1753
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Elizabeth Freeman
Born about 1732
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
Died about 1784
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Charity Freeman
Born about 1735
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Isaac Freeman
Born February 26, 1737
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died August 11, 1819
Uniontown, New Jersey
• James Freeman
Born April 4, 1740
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died April 8, 1806
New Jersey
• Martha Freeman
Born about 1743
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
HENRY FREEMAN
Married Elizabeth Benue
Henry may have been born about 1669/70
Northampton, England (no proof).
Henry Freeman died on October 13, 1763
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey (certain).
Henry Freeman and Elizabeth Baignoux / Benue were married May 16, 1695, at Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
ELIZABETH BAIGNOUX or BENUE
Married Henry Freeman
Elizabeth Benue was born about 1673
Died December 3, 1760
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Children
• Ann Elizabeth Freeman
Born February 16, 1695/96
• JOHN FREEMAN
Born November 5, 1698
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died about 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Married Martha Moore
• Jonathan Freeman
Born July 13, 1700
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died December 22, 1761
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Mary Freeman
Born June 5, 1702
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died May 10, 1783
Lamington, Somerset, NJ
• Sarah Freeman
Born February 1, 1703/4
• Rachel Freeman
Born January 18, 1704/5
• Samuel Freeman
Born March 31, 1708
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died January 1, 1778
Ash Swarmp, Woodbridge Twp., New Jersey
• JOSEPH FREEMAN
Born December 21, 1709
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died March 12, 1797
Metuchen, Middlesex, New Jersey
Married Desiar Walker
• Hannah Freeman
Born October 21, 1711
• Benjamin Freeman
Born June 3, 1713
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
• Isaac Freeman
Born May 25, 1715
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died March 8, 1777
Westfield, New Jersey
• Henry Freeman
Born March 23, 1716/17
• James Freeman
Born November 1, 1719
Whitewood Hill, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Died March 1793
S. Brunswick Twp., Middlesex Co., New Jersey
Ancestry.com
LINKS
Page 332 –
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1943 - New England
Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) include section: Genealogical gleanings in England, by H. F. Waters.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Be8QAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA332&lpg=PA332&dq=grace+fitzrandolph+alexander+Freeman&source=bl&ots=AVLZWlkRZD&sig=ACfU3U09-DECpZEIi6nLOASlInXacmzrDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitqvz-8dXxAhXJU80KHYx4BXEQ6AEwEXoECBAQAg#v=onepage&q=grace%20fitzrandolph%20alexander%20Freeman&f=true
The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom 1630-1950, by Christian, Louise Aymar, East Orange, N.J. Reprint 1984. Page 30.
https://archive.org/details/descendantsofedw00chri/page/n33
History of Macon: The First 100 Years
https://issuu.com/thebrainstormlab/docs/historyofmacon/56 via @issuu
Thomas Freeman Thomson
Margaret Meldrim
University of Georgia
https://books.google.com/books?id=IgETAAAAIAAJ&q=Thomson+Meldrim#v=snippet&q=Thomson%20Meldrim&f=false
A nephew of George Skinner Freeman, George Carhart Freeman is the son of Azel Roe Freeman:
GEORGE C. FREEMAN. As money, or any other medium of exchange, is the life-blood of business and commerce, it is evident that bankers, men who manage and control the circulating medium, stand related to the public as the physician who has his finger on the pulse of the patient and has the power of controlling his condition for better or worse. No member of the business community has a greater responsibility than the banker and any community or city is much to be congratulated which has at the head of its finances men of thorough training, stanch ability and moral dependability. No banker of the South is more closely typical of what, is required in the financial manager and leader to inspire and retain business and commercial confidence than George C. Freeman, assistant to the president of the Citizens and Southern Bank, one of Georgia's most important monetary institutions. He has resided in Savannah since 1854, and has been identified with banking interests since 1873.
Mr. Freeman is one of the Forest city's venerable citizens, his birth having occurred in Bibb county, Georgia, August 16, 1833. He is the son of Azel R. and Delia (Shaw) Freeman. The father was born in New Jersey in 1792. While still a youth he started out like the proverbial hero of romance to seek his fortunes, going with two companions to what was then known as the "West," crossing the Allegheny Mountains and going down the Ohio River and finally locating in Lexington, Kentucky. When the War of 1812 came on Azel Freeman volunteered for service and joined the Kentucky Mounted Riflemen, with which organization he crossed the Ohio river and served with the same on the northern frontier. Upon the termination of hostilities, he returned to the Blue Grass state, but subsequently went thence to Nashville, Tennessee, which city remained his home for a number of years. In 1827 he removed from Nashville to Bibb county, Georgia, locating where the present city of Macon is situated, and in Bibb county he spent the years which remained to him before traveling on to the undiscovered country, "From whose bourne no traveler returns."
The mother of the subject [Delia Shaw Freeman] was a native of Massachusetts.
George C. Freeman was reared and educated in Bibb county. He came to Savannah in 1854, and ever since that time he has maintained his home in this city. His first employment in Savannah was in the office of Hudson, Fleming & Company, cotton factors, with whom he remained for six years. He then formed a partnership with A. H. Champion, under the firm name of Champion & Freeman, in the wholesale grocery business, their location being at the corner of Bay and Drayton streets. At the outbreak of the Civil war, in 1861, Mr. Freeman and Mr. Champion both joined the army of the Confederacy and their business, like that of many another Southern firm, became suspended on that account, to be resumed after the close of the war.
Mr. Freeman joined the Chatham Artillery in Savannah and was in service in Chatham county. In the second year of the war he was detached from his command and assigned to duty as assistant to the collector of the port of Savannah, under the Confederate government. The collector of the port was James R. Sneed and his chief deputy was Maj. Charles S. Hardee, who has for many years held the office of city treasurer of Savannah. A day or two prior to Sherman's entrance into Savannah, the collector of the port and his office force, taking their records, books, money and other possessions, went to Charleston, and of this historic party Mr. Freeman was a member. Within a few days they changed their headquarters from Charleston to Augusta; thence the Confederate authorities ordered them to Macon; from Macon to Milledgeville; and from the latter place they retreated to the plantation of Dr. T. A. Parsons, in Laurens county, whence they were ordered to Macon, where their effects were surrendered to the United States authorities and the party was paroled and returned to Savannah.
Upon the return of peace to the devastated country, the business of Champion & Freeman was successfully re-established and continued until 1877. Mr. Freeman, however, is best known for his long and honorable connection with banking business in Savannah. He entered upon his career in this field in 1873, when he was elected a director and vice-president of the Citizens' Mutual Loan Company, which began business in June of that year. He was one of the originators of that well-remembered financial institution and took an active part in the management of its affairs from the beginning. It was successful from the start and earned a good annual profit in dividends to its stockholders. In 1887 the Citizens' Bank was organized and by unanimous vote the Citizens' Mutual Loan Company was merged into that institution. The Citizens' Bank began with a capital stock of $200,000, and Mr. Freeman was the first cashier of the new bank. In 1890, the Citizens' Bank was reorganized and $300,000 was added to its capital, making its capital stock $500,000. Mr. Freeman remained as cashier after the reorganization, being the only one of the old officers retained after the reorganization.
In 1906 the Citizens' Bank was consolidated with the Southern Bank of the state of Georgia, with the name of the Citizens and Southern Bank, and of this substantial institution, as mentioned in a preceding paragraph, Mr. Freeman is an officer and assistant to the president; the increasing duties of the cashier's position being considered more than Mr. Freeman should discharge after his long years of service with the bank. The Citizens and Southern Bank is one of the largest and strongest banks in the South. It has a capital stock of $1,000,000, with a surplus and undivided profits running over a million dollars. It occupies the beautiful banking building constructed for its exclusive use, in the square surrounded by St. Julian, Bryan, Bull and Drayton streets, with entrances from both Bull and Drayton streets. Nothing could possibly be more advantageous than its situation. Besides his position of assistant to the president, Mr. Freeman is also secretary of the board of directors.
Mr. Freeman served five years as alderman of Savannah and was at one time chairman of the finance committee. He has been a member and officer of the Savannah Benevolent Association since 1866, and for ten years he was secretary, for nine years president, and for twenty-six years, treasurer, which latter position he now holds. He is a member of the Independent Presbyterian church and has been one of its board of trustees since 1878. He is the friend of good government and takes a public-spirited interest in all measures likely to advance the welfare of the beautiful old city to which he came over half a century ago.
Mr. Freeman laid one of the most important stones in the foundation of his success in 1862 by his marriage to Miss Sarah E. Davis, of Savannah, daughter of William H. Davis, one of the well-known early residents of the city and particularly well remembered for his prominent connection with the Republican Blues, one of Savannah's famous military organizations. Their union has been blessed by five children, two of whom now survive: Judge Davis, Freeman, lawyer, and judge of the city court of Savannah; and Miss Georgia Freeman, a member of the charming Freeman household, whose hospitality is thoroughly consistent with Southern traditions.
Author: William Harden
Pages 579-581
A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA BY WILLIAM HARDEN
VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913
Link, George Carhart Freeman biography:
https://books.google.com/books?id=zv9HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA580&lpg=PA580&dq=george+c+freeman+Savannah+confederate&source=bl&ots=fAR2Q8zS04&sig=ACfU3U2xgOBuhhJxW7gSK0LoM2UBOgccHw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQrs2SgP3yAhVnQzABHTXjBSoQ6AF6BAgkEAI#v=onepage&q=george%20c%20freeman%20Savannah%20confederate&f=true
In the 1910 United States Census, George Skinner Freeman's grandson William Henry Freeman, Lula May Benson and her husband Nelson Huntley Parker, and Lula's sister Mamie Shepherd Benson are in Daytona Beach, Florida. Mamie Shepherd Benson (later Mrs. Van Porter Enloe of Senoia, Coweta County, Georgia) also in the Parker household. Daytona, Florida, was founded by a Lum cousin... obviously related not random to Lula and Nelson in 1910 Census living in Daytona Beach, Florida, with Mamie in the household; and fellow Lum descendant William Henry Freeman also in Daytona Beach. Aspinwall descendant Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs also removed to Daytona Beach, Florida, and is buried there with his family.
Capt. Matthew Freeman and Pvt. Henry Freeman are DAR Patriot ancestors. Matthew's father Joseph was a patriot of The Revolution and listed as such though DAR ancestors are Joseph's sons. Matthew's daughter Rachel married her second cousin Henry Freeman (son of Grace FitzRandolph and Alexander Freeman, and grandson of John and Martha Moore Freeman). Henry Freeman (wife Rachel Freeman Freeman) is a DAR Patriot ancestor. (There are several further NSDAR and NSSAR ancestors via Hannah Lum Freeman, daughter-in-law of George Skinner Freeman.)
DAR Member Record of Myrtie Ellis Freeman, daughter of Ella Ellis and William Henry Freeman
Freeman, Myrtie Ellis
Nat'l Num: 550637 Chapter: 3001FL Join: Jun 1970
DESCENDANT LISTINGS
Ancestor: FREEMAN, HENRY (A042037)
ANCESTORS (REVOLUTIONARY)
FREEMAN, HENRY Ancestor #: A042037
Child/Child : GEORGE SKINNER / [1] HARRIET
Service: NEW JERSEY Rank(s): PRIVATE
Birth: 7-9-1761 WOODBRIDGE TWP MIDDLESEX CO NEW JERSEY
Death: 1-29-1835 ELIZABETHTOWN ESSEX CO NEW JERSEY
Pension Number: *S2565
Service Source: *S2565
Service Description:
1) CAPTS MATTHEW FREEMAN, ROSS, SHAW, COL WEBSTER, 1ST REGT, MIDDLESEX CO MILITIA
https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_member/?Action=full&National_Number=550637
Thomas Freeman Thomson
Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form ...
By Allen Daniel Candler, Clement Anselm Evans
State Historical Association, 1906 - Georgia
https://books.google.com/books?id=BJ0SAAAAYAAJ&q=Thomas+Freeman+Thomson#v=onepage&q=Thomas%20Freeman%20Thomson&f=true
New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson, Jr. — Governor Thomson was the grandson of Margaret Meldrim and Thomas Freeman Thomson of Savannah. He was the son of Marion Booth and Meldrim Thomson, Sr.
Former Gov. Thomson dead at 89 http://seacoastonline.com/article//News/304209982
MACON IN 1869
Your Peachy Past, 23 November 2010
http://peachypast.blogspot.com/2010/11/macon-in-1869.html?m=1
ALL NAMED ARE LONG DECEASED.
Research and biography by direct descendant Ingrid Heltveit Parker.
Family of George Otis Parker, Jr.
Find A Grave user ID 50182541
FREEMAN
George Skinner Freeman and Harriet Hughes, parents of Charles Henry Freeman.
Myers, Patty Barthell. Ancestors and descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman with related families : based partially on the work of Freeman Worth Gardner and Willis Freeman. Penobscot Press ; San Antonio, TX., 1995.
FITZ RANDOLPH
Grace Fitz Randolph and Alexander Freeman, parents of Henry Freeman.
Henry Freeman married his second cousin Rachel Freeman.
"The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950", by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph.
Publication date 1950.
Charles Henry Freeman,
Article published 19 July 2013
Death of the (1887) Grand Treasurer of the Masons
DEATH OF THE GRAND TREASURER OF THE MASONS. Rose Hill Cemetery Blog -
Source in article:
Augusta Chronicle (Georgia)
15 December 1887, pg. 8
Viewed online at GenealogyBank
Azel Roe Freeman, Funeral Notice:
The Telegraph and Messenger March 24, 1873
Ancestors of George Skinner Freeman - "John S. Freeman, John, of Woodbridge, NJ.."
Grandson of Matthew Freeman and Margaret Cotheal.
Capt. Matthew Freeman
Died May 10, 1824
Old Colonial Cemetery
Metuchen, New Jersey
Metuchen Living magazine
Photo copyright:
©Metuchen Living magazine
The Old Colonial Cemetery
BY METUCHEN LIVING
PUBLISHED JULY 12, 2010
Gravesite Details
Burial unknown. A brother is buried in Elizabeth, New Jersey (Elizabethtown). Possible burial location for George.
