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In defense of the data provided in the Boston Transcript item #3263, dated 13 August 1913, I provide the following: 

1. There was a gap between the son of John Freeman of Rochester, and his son, Elkanah Freeman of New Marlborough, MA and Canaan, CT who were linked together by the weight of research evidence. 

2. The Boston Transcript Item #3283 provides the normal generational linkage from John Freeman of Bently, Northampton County to great-grandson Edmund Freeman of Honington, Northampton county. He, according to the Boston Transcript item, was born ca 1530. And the Visitation of London cited in Edward Stanley Welles' "Births, Marriages, Deaths from Hartford, Windsor, and Fairfield, CT" concurs with this data. 

3. Extracts from the Parish Records of St. Mary's Church in Pulborough, Sussex county, identify John Freeman, "paterfamilias" as being the father of Edmund and the grandfather of Edmund, the Immigrant. These records, although identifying the birth place of the two Edmunds to be in Pulborough, do not identify the birthplace of John (paterfamilias). 

4. Past experience in the names used in several generations of Freeman, such as my grandmother: either Agnes Edna Eggleston or Edna Agnes Eggleston, or Amasa Stevens Freeman, aka Stephen, suggest that John Freeman b ca 1530, (paterfamilias), birthplace unspecified, may well have been born in Honington with that name; or may have been born in Honington under the name of Edmund Freeman. The Freemans regularly used the names of John and Edmund for a number of generations. 

So it could well be that John Freeman (paterfamilias) is the descendant of John Freeman of Bently or a brother to Edmund born in Honington.

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