Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

U.S. Civil War leader of film “Glory” fame

John Freeman

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 202 
  • Father:
  • Edmund Freeman 
  • Mother:
  • Bennett Hodsoll   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 28 Jan 1626/1627 
  • Christening Location:
  • Billingshurst, Sussex, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 28 Oct 1719 
  • Death Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mercy Prence
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Feb 1649/1650 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Freeman

  Thomas Freeman

  Edmund Freeman

  Mercy Freeman

  William Freeman

  Hannah Freeman

  Patience Freeman

  Nathaniel Freeman

  Bennett Freeman (Ahnentafel No:101 )

• Sources for John Freeman

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  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1866, Vol. 20. pp. 59-60, 353.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1872, Vol. 26, p. 398.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1925, Vol. 79, p. 295.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1940, Vol. 17, p. 92.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1523.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 580.
  • ⁸ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 38, 41.
  • ⁹ Cutter, William Richard, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex Co., Mass., Vol. 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 1498.
  • ¹⁰ Freeman, Frederick, Freeman Genealogy, in Three Parts, Boston: Franklin Press; Rand, Avery, and Company (1875), 23, 27-30.
  • ¹¹ Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 27-28, 32, 42.
  • ¹² Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 80, 147-156.
  • ¹³ Reynolds, Cuyler, Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of the Achievements of the People of the . . ., Vol. 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1911), 473.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 117.
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 21, 32, 55, 68, 84, 99, 116, 134, 145, 159, 208, 222, 228, 280, 286, 328, 363, 371, et. al.