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- H. Jonathan Freeman1728 - 1796
- W. Ruth Hatch1733 - 1805
m. Aft 2 Feb 1753
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Freeman, Frederick. Freeman Genealogy in Three Parts. (Boston, Massachusetts: Franklin Press, 1875)
66, 111.
Children of William Freeman and Mercy Pepper: 8) Jonathan, b. 3 Aug 1728, m. (1) Ruth Freeman, m. (2) Abigail Brown.
[The birth date is not found in Harwich record, but Jonathan is named in his father's will of 1770. It appears the marriage to Abigail Brown belongs to another Jonathan Freeman, as wife Ruth died as Jonathan's widow in 1805.]
- ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
Vol. 2, p. 561.
FREEMAN, Jonathan, Capt., [died] Sept. 27, 1796, a. 68 y.
[Birth about 1728.]
- Some confusion started by the Freeman Genealogy, which horribly conflated the matrimonial partners of brothers Jonathan and Isaac Freeman, and also Jonathan and his son Jonathan. The author appears to have badly misinterpreted various wills. This seems to have caused many other sources to follow his suggestion that Jonathan Freeman m. his brother Isaac Freemen's widow Ruth, or various other impossible arrangements of their own invention.
First, as administration was granted on Isaac Freeman's estate 15 Jun 1759 to his widow Mary Freeman, Isaac doesn't ever appear to have married a person named Ruth. Second, in Boston, Isaac's intention to Mary Stuart in 1752 and Jonathan's intention to Ruth Hatch (not Freeman) in 1753, meaning Jonathan appears to have been married before Isaac's death. Working backwards, looking for Heman Stone's 3rd wife whom he married in 1763 as Mary Freeman, and listed in Benjamin Hatch's will as Mary Stone, it strikes one that Mary (Hatch) Stuart was the one who married Isaac Freeman, making her Mary Freeman when she married Heman Stone. Sure enough her marriage to Michael Stuart in 1742 is found completing the chain of marriages for Mary.
Further completing the refutation of various errors, Jonathan's wife Ruth d. in 1805 as his widow, age 72 or 73, so born in the early 1730's. So Jonathan did not marry a second wife, Abigail Brown in 1788 (found in the records, not investigated, probably his son as the intentions says "jun."), nor did he marry his brother's daughter Ruth who was born in 1754.
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