Brief Life History of Lemuel
When Lemuel Freeman was born on 18 April 1717, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Nathaniel Freeman, was 35 and his mother, Mary Watson, was 28. He married Desire Sears on 4 March 1735, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 2 May 1790, in Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Lemuell Freeman, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Lemuel Freeman, "Find A Grave Index"
- Lemuel in entry for Isaac Freeman, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
Name Meaning
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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