Person:Elizabeth Freeman (29)

Taken from Source:Mayflower Descendant, p. 33:105, Deeds of Plymouth County, MA, 22:12, dated 22 Feb 1726/7: "John Bacon jun'r & Elizabeth Bacon his Wife both of the Town & County of Barnstable" to "Our Brother John Watson of the Town & County of Ply ... Esq'r" a 36th part of Clarkes island "that Mercy Freeman the Mother of the s'd Watson & the Mother of the s'd Elizabeth Bacon was in her Lifetime the trul & lawfull Owner of the Sixth Part of the aboves'd Island". Editor's note says that widow Mercy Watson bought 1/6 of Clark's Island from Samuel Lucas (deed 1:112), subsequently married John Freeman to become Mercy Freeman, and left it to her natural children, namely, John Watson (double share as oldest son); and daughters Phebe, Mercy, and Mary (all by first husband Elkanah Watson); and daughter Elizabeth (Freeman) Bacon by second husband John Freeman.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} White, Elizabeth Pearson. John Howland of the Mayflower: The First Five Generations. (Rockland, Maine: Picton Press, 1990-2008)
   p. 170.
2. ↑ Barnstable, Mass., Vital Records, in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography
   31:151.

   John Bacon Born march 24 1796/7-1696/7 his wife July 1698
   John Bacon & Elizabeth Freeman Married May 5 1726.
   [Ed. note: '1696/7' was a correction made in a different ink.]