Mary (Freeman) Mosher (bef. 1765 - aft. 1835)

Born before 1765 in Province of New York

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Died after 7 Feb 1835 after age 70 in Wolfe Island, Frontenac Islands, Frontenac, Ontario

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Biography

Mary Freeman was born before 1765 in New York. She married Lewis Mosher.^[1] Mary was the daughter of John Freeman of Stillwater, Saratoga County, New York. John Freeman's Farm was the place where the Battle of Saratoga was fought. It was also known as Farm #3, Great Lott 16 of the Saratoga Patent, in Albany County, Province of New York. John Freeman fought with the British and retreated with them.^[1]

By August of 1777, hundreds of men from Saratoga Co. were flocking to join the British forces, and among them were John Freeman and his 12 year old son, Thomas. John was employed as a guide, and young Thomas enlisted with Jessup's King's Loyal Americans. On September 19th, these two were to find themselves home again as British and American forces met on their very farm, in a battle which was to become a turning point in the Revolutionary War.

On February 10, 1778, John Freeman died in a small pox epidemic in St. Jean, P.Q., Canada as did his wife and six of his nine children. He was survived by one son, Thomas Freeman, and two daughters: Dorcas Freeman Scott, wife of John Scott, and Mary Freeman Mosher, wife of Lewis Mosher.

Mother: Efellanah, d. 1778, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Le Haut Richelieu, Montérégie, Québec, Canada

Event: 26 Aug 1835. Order-in-Council; Residence: Lansdowne, Leeds & the Thousand Islands, Leeds & Grenville, Ontario, Canada

After settling on Wolfe Island, Canada, Mary was friends with Susannah (Mabie) Davis, who supported Mary's Upper Canada Land Petition (1835) as daughter of a United Empire Loyalist:^[2]

• Text of Mary Mosher's 1835 Land Claim: (Archives of Ontario film - UC Land Petition M 19/ 65b) Susannah Davis of the Township of Wolf [sic] Island, widow of the late Richard Davis of said place who being sworn, deposeth that she is acquainted with Mary Mosier of said Wolf Island, Widow of Lewis Mosier, believes her to be the Daughter of John Freeman, (late guide to General Burgoyne's Army) who resided in the United States at the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, knows that said Freeman joined Jessups Corps in said War, and that he lost property he possessed in said United States at the Commencement of said War. Deponent knows that John Freeman went to Montreal at the close of the War and as she hath reason to believe, died at Montreal in the Year 1783. Sworn at Wolfe Island 7 Feb 1835. [Verdict follows] In Council 26th August 1835: Petitioner does not come within the regulations as all UE Loyalists must have come into and resided in the Province [Ontario]. The widow of UE Loyalists have no claim to land. John Strachan, communicated 31 August 1835.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada : John Freeman Mary Freeman, b. 1765, m. Lewis Mosher : accessed 13 Mar 2024
2. ↑ Besides the fact that both Mary Freeman and Susannah Mabie were raised in Saratoga, NY, both of their fathers were Loyalist soldiers who participated in the Saratoga campaign, in which Susannah's father Peter Mabie was killed.

• Chamberlain, Mildred Mosher & Clarenbach, Laura McGaffey; Descendants of Hugh Mosher and Rebecca Maxson Through Seven Generations. Madison, WI: Laura M. Clarenbach, 1990, pp. 34-6.

• http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/albany/deeds/freeman-john.txt

• http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~truax/smith-p/p14.htm#i661