When Douglas Edward "Dugger" Freeman was born in 1756, in Brunswick, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Nathaniel John Freeman, was 12 and his mother, Mary, was 11. He married Sarah "Sally" Prince on 18 September 1789, in Rutherford, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Morgan Township, Rutherford, North Carolina, United States for about 20 years. He died in September 1831, in Rutherford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Duggar Freeman Cemetery, Rutherford, North Carolina, 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 ).
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