Simeon Freeman (1781 - 1865)

Born 2 Nov 1781 in Liverpool, Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 1865 at about age 83 in Pleasant River, Queens County, Nova Scotia

Biography

• Simeon Freeman was born Nov. 2, 1781, the son of Peleg Freeman and Hannah Deane. ^[1]
• Circa 1800, he married Mehitable McLearn, born in 1779 in Port Mouton, NS^[2], and they had children^[3], including:

1. Nancy Freeman, born August 6, 1808, who married John Godfrey Tupper, son of Nathan Tupper and Delight Prentice, and they had a daughter named Elizabeth Tupper, born July 23, 1828
2. Smith, born April 17, 1813; d. 1854
3. William, born Dec. 1815 ; who married Abigail Waterman
4. John McClearn Freeman, born 1818
5. Nathan, born March 30, 1820, who married Jane Cushing, and who died in May 1865^[4]
6. Bartlett, born March 30, 1820, who married Harlow, and who died April 4, 1881 in Massachusetts^[5]

• Simeon died in 1865 in Pleasant River, Queens, Nova Scotia^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Freeman genealogy in three parts; Part 2; Franklin Press: Rand, Avery and Company. Boston, 1875; pg 395
2. ↑ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "International Genealogical Index (IGI)," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MZF1-HW1 : accessed 2016-12-13), entry for Peleg Freeman.
3. ↑ The Sprague Genealogy Project Person IDI192484
4. ↑ "Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2PD-V73 : 28 November 2014), Sim Freeman in entry for Nathan P Freeman, May 1865; citing Cemetery, Pleasant River, Queens, reference p4 l1; FHL microfilm 1,298,862.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4F8-819 : 10 December 2014), Simeon Freeman in entry for Bartlett B. Freeman, 04 Apr 1881; citing Cambridge, Massachusetts, v 329 p 59, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 960,221.
6. ↑ "Nova Scotia Vital Records, 1763-1957," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMGC-ZV7 : 8 December 2014), Simeon Freeman, 1865, Death; citing p. 6, volume 1814, , Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada; Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax.