Nathaniel Freeman (physician) explained

Nathaniel Freeman
State House:Massachusetts
District:Sandwich
Term Start:1775
Term End:1775
Birth Date:March 28, 1741
Birth Place:Dennis, Massachusetts, British America
Relations:Son: Rep. Nathaniel Freeman, Jr.[1]
Occupation:Physician, Judge
Allegiance:United States of America
Branch:Massachusetts Militia
Serviceyears:1776–1791
Rank:Brigadier general
Battles:American Revolutionary War

Nathaniel Freeman (March 28, 1741 – September 20, 1827) was an American physician and jurist. He was a brigadier general during the American Revolutionary War and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1775.

Biography

Nathaniel Freeman born in Dennis, Barnstable County, Massachusetts in 1741. He settled at Sandwich (also Barnstable County) in 1763 where he established a medical practice. He also studied law.

In 1773, Freeman became chairman of the Committee of Correspondence of Safety of Sandwich. In September of 1774 he was chosen the leader of a mass protest against the British "Intolerable Acts," which won the agreement of county officials to ignore the requirements of Parliament's new legislation. The following year was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and was appointed colonel of a militia regiment.

Freeman served during the American Revolutionary War, commanding a militia regiment in the Rhode Island expedition, and from 1781 to 1791 he was brigadier general of militia. He was also a judge of probate and of the Court of Common Pleas.

In 1814, Freeman was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Adams, John Quincy. Charles Francis Adams. Life in a New England town, 1787, 1788 : diary of John Quincy Adams. 26. Little, Brown. 1903. 492046.
  2. http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistf American Antiquarian Society Members Directory