FREEMAN Jared

1753 - Aft 1810  (> 57 years)

• Name	FREEMAN Jared
  Birth	27 Dec 1753	Sturbridge, Worcester Co., MA
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft Apr 1810	Lanesboro, Berkshire Co., MA
  	died before 1820
  Notes	Jared, born December 27 1753, was one of two of Samuel and Mary's sons who trekked westward to try their fortunes in the relatively open lands of Berkshire County. He began his family at Sturbridge but moved, judging from land transactions, around 1784. Ten years earlier he married, by necessity, Martha Marcy; within seven months daughter Mary was born. In 1777 they had a son, Royal; no other children were recorded here. At the time of the 1800 census, the family was listed in Windsor, Massachusetts with three sons and two daughters. Ten years later, now in Lanesboro, only two children were enumerated in the family. He died sometime before 1820; on that census list his family was not listed as an independent household.76 Initially, Jared intended to farm nearer to home. In 1779 he acquired, for L225, rights to a fifty acre farmstead in Dudley. Four years later he purchased (for L20) from Abijah Sairles an adjoining thirty-five acre parcel, as well as rights (for L60) to Sarah Cheney's widow's dower of ten acres and a dwellinghouse—possibly part of the same farm—though he was not allowed possession until her death. His last recorded transaction was in 1784, the deed which quitclaimed to his youngest brother Walter rights in their mother's third.77 If he divested himself of any of this property before departing the county, the deeds were not recorded. A later document suggests that he may have become embroiled legal difficulties relating to some of his land deals (perhaps motivating him to leave?). In 1798, Jared Freeman formally granted his brother Benjamin power of attorney "in all causes real, personal, or mixed, moved or to be moved for me or against me in any court of law." The problems may have been tied particularly to the land of Sarah Cheney, now deceased, which he specified his brother was to sell.78
  Person ID	I3116	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	FREEMAN Samuel,   b. Abt 01 Mar 1721, Attleboro, Bristol Co., MA d. 31 Dec 1772, Sturbridge, Worcester Co., MA (Age 51 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	CHUBB Mary,   b. Abt 1724, MA
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	09 May 1744	Needham, Norfolk Co., MA
  Family ID	F3204	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	MARCY Martha
  Children	1. FREEMAN Mary  [natural]   2. FREEMAN Royal,   b. 1777  [natural]
  Family ID	F18951	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2024