Person:Joseph Freeman (2)

Freeman, Capt. Joseph Freeman was the captain of a number of privateers working out of Liverpool, including the Charles Mary Wentworth. "He was respected by naval officers, and enjoyed an equality with them accorded to few privateersmen."[C. H. J. Snider's Under The Red Jack (Toronto: Musson, n.d.) at p 132.] After the war he was to become a member of the legislature. "He had commanded the Liverpool privateers Charles Mary Wentworth, Nymph, and Duke of Kent in the French wars, between 1798 and 1805. The War of 1812 found him prospering as a mariner and merchant, forty-four years of age, keen, seasoned, ripe in experience. He was a strict disciplinarian, and kept his privateer in the same state of efficiency as if she had flown the whiplash pendant of the Royal Navy. Every Sunday morning the hands were turned up and he read them the articles of war." [C. H. J. Snider's Under The Red Jack (Toronto: Musson, n.d.) at p 132.] [See, too, James F. More's History of Queens County (Halifax: N.S. Print, 1873) at pp. 138-44.]