When Herman Freeman was born on 28 May 1784, in New Marlborough, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Silas Freeman, was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth Kasson, was 35. He married Harriet Hitchcock on 3 November 1814, in Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 15 August 1874, in New Marlborough, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 90.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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