Constant Freeman Timeline

4.24.1747	Charleston MA	Birth
Winter 1775	Quebec	Exiled from Quebec for refusing to take up arms in defense of the city.
11.9.1776	Continental Army	Lieutenant under Henry Knox
12.9.1776	Three Rivers, Canada	Freeman is paid as a French interpreter.
June 1777	United States	Samuel Hodgdon sends Freeman rations for the troops.
7.2.1782	United States	Freeman is paid for transcribing Army court minutes.
6.27.1786	New York City	Constant Freeman and others witness the will of Alexander McDougall.
10.23.1786	Quebec	Party of the Liberty with William Taylor
11.12.1787	Suffolk MA	Payment of 12 shillings to the Society of Cincinnati (Massachusetts chapter)
1.13.1788	Philadelphia	Freeman writes Knox and requests 300 acres of Ohio Company land.
2.3.1788	Philadelphia	Freeman writes Henry Knox regarding Massachusetts’ possible ratification of the Constitution.
6.26.1788	Quebec	Freeman runs an ad in the Quebec Gazette for a runaway slave on behalf of John Sargent.
7.15.1789	New York	Henry Knox endorses Freeman for a federal appointment.
9.24.1789	New York	Correspondence from George Washington about Mr. Brown and Redstone
7.17.1793	War Dept.	GW recommends Freeman be sent to GA and the SW Territory.
7.24.1793	Georgia	Freeman stops Telfair’s plan to march 5000 militia into Creek territory “to chastise the refractory towns”.
8.17.1793	Philadelphia	Henry Knox informs Major Gaither that Captain Constant Freeman has been appointed as agent of War Department for troops in Georgia.
9.10.1793	Augusta GA	Writes GA governor Edward Telfair about Federal policy
9.11.1793	Fort Fidius	James Seagrove reports to Freeman of resistance from settlers.
9.18.1793	Augusta GA	Freeman reports to Knox on the Georgia government’s resistance to Seagrove’s peace efforts.
9.19.1793	Augusta GA	Writes GA governor Edward Telfair about Federal policy
9.23.1793	Augusta GA	Freeman reports to Knox that GA militia men threaten Seagrove’s life if he interferes with Telfair’s offensive designs against the Creeks.
9.28.1793	Fort Fidius	Seagrove writes Freeman, notifying him that GA frontier militia continue to disrupt peace efforts with the Creeks.
10.28.1793	Fort Fidius	Freeman writes Knox that despite repeated requests, he cannot obtain a return of militia forces GA governor Telfair, and no measures have been taken to comply with Federal orders to bring 100 cavalry and 100 infantry men into service.
4.18.1794	Fort Fidius	Writes Knox about certain persons employed in GA to recruit troops for France’s possible invasion of Spanish Florida.
4.19.1794	Fort Fidius	Freeman writes the GA governor, notifying him of instructions received from the Secretary of War on managing militia rolls and pay.
5.8.1794	Fort Fidius	George Matthews writes Freeman: Several militia units were stationed at strategic locations in Franklin County and along important rivers, in substitution for regular foot soldiers, due to frontier protection needs.
5.8.1794	Boston	Henry Jackson recommends Constant Freeman for appointment in corps of artillery.
7.27.1794	Fort Fidius	Colonel Henry Gaither writes GA governor George Matthews and gives instructions regarding the federal military posts on the GA frontier.
8.5.1794	Fort Fidius	Writes GA governor James Jackson.
11.22.1794	Augusta GA	Freeman reports to the GA governor that he’s submitted copies of the militia payroll estimates to the War Office and was awaiting additional rolls for services conducted under General Irwin’s orders south of the Oconee River.
5.25.1796	Savannah	Freeman notifies William Simmons that pay for spies and posts have been authorized by the President.
6.17.1796	War Dept	Simmons to Freeman: Discusses oaths and service of “spies”; Freeman’s muster rolls; lack on funds for Freeman’s salary; the muster rolls of Captain Randolph’s company of dragoons; and the pay of the regular troops in Georgia.
August 1796	Philadelphia	Freeman presides over the court-martial of William Eaton.
8.17.1796	Fort Pickering	Freeman discusses spies with William Simmons.
1.5.1797	Georgia	Freeman writes Colonel Henry Gaither. Mentions Benjamin Hawkins.
5.20.1797	Pennsylvania	Marriage to Margaret Cox
10.12.1797	War Dept.	William Simmons sends Freeman $1500 for contingencies.
10.26.1797	Mobile AL	John McKee writes David Henley informing him that he is temporarily being held prisoner by Gayoso, and that he expects to set off to New Orleans the following day.
11.10.1797	War Dept	Knox dispatches Freeman to Natchez to meet with Manuel Gayoso de Lemos
3.14.1798	Congress	Freeman petitions Congress.
3.30.1798	Natchez	Major Constant Freeman observes the evacuation of the Spanish forts in Natchez.
4.4.1798	New Orleans	Reports Capt. Guion at Natchez is encountering resistance from the Spanish to surrender their works.
4.7.1798	War Dept.	Samuel Dexter writes Constant Freeman requesting a copy of his claim as a refugee from Canada under the act of 7th April 1798. The original was burned in a fire.
5.10.1798	War Dept.	Freeman discusses Daniel Clark with Henry Knox.
6.8.1798	Savannah	Freeman arrives in Savannah from Pensacola, en route to Charleston.
6.9.1798	Savannah	Constant Freeman informs the Governor of GA that funds for militia payrolls, appropriated by Congress, are now available at the Bank of the United States in Charleston, and he will travel there to collect them.
7.23.1798	Camden GA	200 Acre bounty land grant
12.14.1798	Pennsylvania	William Eaton writes Freeman about his “ungentlemanly behavior”.
5.3.1799	War Dept.	Assigned by Knox to accompany Pinckney in Charleston
7.31.1799	War Dept.	William Simmons to James McHenry: Certification of payment; $705.29 to troops stationed at Fort Johnson, South Carolina, under the command of Major Constant Freeman, for pay and forage.
3.30.1800	Fort Johnson SC	Writes Hamilton asking for more troops and supplies
3.6.1801	Fort Johnson SC	Freeman considers petitioning Congress for fiscal relief for Canadian refugees.
6.18.1801	Fort Johnson SC	Freeman requests clothing for his troops.
12.24.1801	Fort Adams	Wilkinson dismisses a court martial in Georgia Freeman was presiding over.
1802	South Carolina	Margaret Freeman files renunciation with John Taylor.
2.7.1802	Natchez Trace	Wilkinson dismisses a court martial in Georgia Freeman was presiding over.
11.25.1802	Charleston SC	Freeman writes Governor James B. Richardson about the disrepair of Fort Johnson.
8.9.1803	Fort Johnson, SC	Freeman writes military agent William Linnard.
9.29.1804	New Orleans	Freeman writes James Wilkinson.
7.24.1805	New Orleans	Power of attorney with Abimael Nicoll – Notary John Lynd.
8.11.1806	New Orleans/Boston	Freeman gives POA to son Nehemiah to sell land in Boston. John Lynd, notary.
10.13.1806	Natchez	Wilkinson orders Freeman to Fort Stoddert
12.3.1806	New Orleans	George Pollock sells Freeman 10,000 pieces of pitch pine for military use.
9.7.1807	Suffolk, MA	New Orleans resident Constant Freeman gives power of attorney to brother Nehemia Freeman. John Lynd, notary.
6.4.1808	Natchez	Freeman writes Levin Wailes about frontier matters.
12.19.1821	Greensboro, GA	Freeman writes GA governor John Clark regarding Jonas Fauche.