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Edmund Freeman was the son of Edmund and Alice (Coles) Freeman of Reigate, Surrey, England and was baptised July 25, 1596.<ref>[http://www.immigrantships.net/v2/1600v2/abigail16351008.html Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, "Abigail"]</ref>
Edmund Freeman was the son of Edmund and Alice (Coles) Freeman of Reigate, Surrey, England and was baptised July 25, 1596.<ref>[http://www.immigrantships.net/v2/1600v2/abigail16351008.html Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, "Abigail"]</ref>
Edmund Freeman was admitted freeman at [[Plymouth Colony|Plymouth]] on January 23, 1637.
Edmund married Bennett Hodsoll in 1617 and who died in 1630 in England. Freeman along with his second wife Elizabeth (Perry) and his family set sail from Plymouth, England on June 4, 1635 aboard ''The Abigail''. During the crossing an epidemic of smallpox broke out on shipboard. They arrived in Boston on October 8, 1635.<ref>Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, "Abigail"</ref>
He was one of the nine founders of Sandwich, Massachusetts. Freeman died in 1682 in Sandwich. He is buried in the Old Town Cemetery in Sandwich along with his second wife Elizabeth.
Freeman was admitted freeman at [[Plymouth Colony|Plymouth]] on January 23, 1637. He was one of the nine founders of Sandwich, Massachusetts. Freeman died in 1682 in Sandwich. He is buried in the Old Town Cemetery in Sandwich along with his second wife Elizabeth.
Through him descends the notorious [[Lizzie Borden]].<ref>[http://www.lizzieandrewborden.com/WritersCorner/Interviews/InterviewWmPavao.htm Lizzie Andrew Borden Website, Writer's Corner Interviews — ''William Pavao, Curator for the Lizzie Borden Museum at the Lizzie Borden B&B, in Fall River, MA'']</ref>
Through him descends the notorious [[Lizzie Borden]].<ref>[http://www.lizzieandrewborden.com/WritersCorner/Interviews/InterviewWmPavao.htm Lizzie Andrew Borden Website, Writer's Corner Interviews — ''William Pavao, Curator for the Lizzie Borden Museum at the Lizzie Borden B&B, in Fall River, MA'']</ref>
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