When Benjamin Pitney Freeman was born on 3 March 1801, in Butler, Ohio, United States, his father, John Freeman, was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth Ayers Seward, was 12. He married Elizabeth McNealy Hamilton in 1825, in Hamilton, Butler, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in West Chester Township, Butler, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Union Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States in 1850. He died on 19 January 1863, in Iowa Township, Wright, Iowa, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Diamond Cemetery, Hale, Jones, Iowa, United States.
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English: from Middle English freman, fremon ‘freeman, free-born man’ (Old English frēomann, frīgmann), used also occasionally as a personal name. As an African American surname it was in many cases adopted as a name denoting a man freed of slavery. See also Fryman and Free .
Irish: Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Ó Saoraidhe (see Seery ).
Americanized form of French Lafrenière (see Lafreniere ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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