Family:Edmund Freeman and Elisabeth Raymer (1)

In Sandwich the household of Edmund and Elizabeth Freeman included two young ladies, Mary and Margaret (see Brainard, The American Genealogist, XVII:2:92). No baptism or birth records for Mary and Margaret have been found. In his will Edmund Freeman named Edward Perry and called him, "his son". Edward Perry's wife is known to have been named Mary. Mary has therefore been identified as Mary Freeman. Robert Charles Anderson in The Great Migration Begins, II:580, shows Mary Freeman (daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth Freeman), b. say 1636; m. by 1653 Edward Perry. Margaret is said be Margaret Perry who married 18 July 1651 Edmond Freeman. Homer Worthington Brainard, The American Genealogist, XVII:2:88-89, identified Edmund Freeman's second wife as a widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Perry. He appears to have based this conclusion on Margaret Perry's surname and that Margaret was the daughter of Elizabeth by Elizabeth's first marriage. However, this conclusion does not seem to have been adopted by other genealogists who have researched the family. The Shipley marriage record of Edmundus Freiman to Elisabetha Raymer seems to be a better fit. --Bill Wright 10:52, 25 November 2008 (EST)

1.   Church of England. Parish Church of Shipley (Sussex). Parish registers, 1609-1901. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1976-1999).

   Edmundus Freiman married 10 Aug 1632 Elisabetha Raymer.

2.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   v2/p203-4.

   Edward, 34; his w. Elizabeth 35; and four ch. not of Edward, but of Edmund, Alice, 17; Edmund, 15; Elizabeth 12; and John, 8. Who Mary and the four others were, that took their passage on the earlier day, is all unkn. as well as the Edward with w. Elizabeth Conjecture will find no benefit from rec. it is thought; for we are not able to determine whether he brought a w. yet kn. that he had one at Sandwich, but not her name. Presume we may (from his will of 21 June 1682, pro. 2 Nov. foll. naming s. Edmund, John, and Edward Perry, as the w. of Edward Perry was Mary), that he had m. on this side of the water, a wid. Perry, tho. Mr. Winsor tool; a diverse view, as if E. P. had m. a d. of Freeman. No d. is ever ment. in this country, exc. the two found in the old rec. of the London custom ho. Alice, wh. m. 24 Nov. 1639, deac. William Paddy, and d. at Plymouth, 24 Apr. 1651; and Elizabeth wh. m. a. 1645, John Ellis. An Elizabeth F. wh. d. at Sandwich, 14 Feb. 1676, may have been the fellow passeng. call. in the rec. w. of Edward, but while we are ignor. wh. Edward was, or where he liv. or if indeed the name be not a delusion on the rec. there may be possibil. of her being the w. of Edmund. Dr. Palfrey found gr.stones ;; of many of this fam. name at Benefield in Northamptonsh. but the late Rev. Dr. James Freeman understood from fam. tradit. that he as deriv. from Devonsh. On the first arr. of Edmund with his assoc. at Sandwich, they call. the place Saugus, out of regard to the Ind. name of the place in Mass. whence they rem. He was an Assist. of the Col. 1640-46 incl. but why in foll. yrs. omit. is not guessed at, nor why among instances of longev. he is not cited, when many younger are.
   
   EDWARD, Sandwich, s. of the preced. b. in Eng. m. 22 Apr. 1646, at Eastham, Rebecca, d. of Thomas Prence, the Gov. had only Rebecca, after b. of wh. his w. d. prob. in short time, and he m. 13 July 1631, Margaret Young, had Margaret, b. 2 Oct. 1652; Edmund, 5 Oct. 1655; Alice, 29 Mar. 1638; Rachel, 7 Sept. 1659, Sarah, 6 Feb. 1662; and Deborah, 9 Aug. 1665; was rep. and the time of d. of him. or of his w. is unkn. EDMUND, Sandwich, only s. of the preced. m. a. 1682, w. Sarah, had Edmund, b. 30 Aug. 1683; Benjamin, 6 July 1686; Mary, 13 Mar. 1688; John, 12 June 1693; Thomas, 26 Mar. 1696; Joseph, 18 July 1698; William, 4 Dec. 1700; Sarah, G Dec. 1703; and Isaac, 20 Oct. 1706; d. 18 May 1720, a.nd his wid. d. 12 Nov. 1742, aged 90. Of vol. 2, p. 204 these ch. Mary d. at 46 yrs. but all the other eight filled 60, or 70, or 80, or 90 yrs.

3. ↑ Elizabeth is listed as wife of Edmund Freeman in passenger lists dated July 1635.