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Other items about the family were identified in "Mattapoisett and Old Rochester" by Leonard et al, published 1950. Thus:

"First Parish Cemetery, Rochester, (MA) Revolutionary War: Chillingsworth Foster". (This must be the son of Chillingsworth Foster, married to Mercy Freeman, who died on 22 December 1766, and who is buried in Old Burying Ground in Brewster, Massachusetts. (See John Freeman, Generation 5.

"In 1748 the First Parish voted that whereas sometimes Deacon Elisha Freeman is absent who is appointed to set the Psalm, it is voted in his absence Josephus Hammond do it. . ."

John Freeman, generation 6, was the Representative from Rochester to the General Court before the Revolution (but the year was not specified).

John Freeman was Selectman between "1697 and 1857" according to the church records, but the year was unspecified.

John and Mercy (Watson) Freeman had eleven children. Of particular note were brothers Elkanah Freeman, born in Rochester on 6 February 1716-17 and Eli Freeman, born 27 April 1722 for it was these two brothers who provided the linkage between the Freeman Family in Rochester, Massachusetts, and the later Freeman families in Sheffield, Massachusetts and Canaan, Connecticut (i.e., Elkanah) and in Sheffield and New Marlborough, Massachusetts (Eli Freeman).

Both these sons, Elkanah and Eli, are identified as progeny of John Freeman and Mercy of Rochester in Dr Frederick Freeman's Freeman Genealogy, published 1875, but Dr Freeman was unable to provide any details of their move to the area of Sheffield/Canaan, and New Marlborough. This linkage will be detailed in the next section on "Elkanah Freeman, Generation 7".

On 1 March 1727, John and Mercy Freeman of Rochester sold, per Deed 22/13, land in Plymouth (i.e., Brewster, MA) for 35 pounds to John Walton of Plymouth. This deed was signed by John Freeman, indicating that he was lettered. It was signed with a letter X by his wife Mercy thus indicating the contrary was true of her-but that was more nearly normal of people at that time.

Of all the generations of bloodliner Freemans from 1530 to the present time, John Freeman, born 1678 in Eastham, is the only one I have been unable to determine the date of his death and the location.

It is also of particular note that I have visited-at least once-every location in England and America that my bloodline ancestors were born, lived, and/or died'-the only Freeman to do this to date.