Constant Freeman Timeline
1747/04/24 | Charleston MA | Birth |
1775 – Winter | Quebec | Exiled from Quebec (along with his father) for refusing to take up arms in defense of the city. |
1776/11/09 | Continental Army | Lieutenant under Henry Knox |
1781/11/14 | Quebec | Mortgage with Jacques Maclot |
1782/01/01 | Quebec | Appointed trustee of the late Mrs. Smith’s estate. |
1782/11/02 | Continental Army | Lieutenant under Henry Knox |
1783/09/27 | Quebec | Land petition |
1785/03/10 | Quebec | Land petition |
1785/12/22 | War Dept. | 1000-acre bounty land grant |
1786/10/01 | Boston | Tax list with Henry Knox |
1786/10/23 | Quebec | Party of the Liberty with William Taylor |
1787/01/04 | Quebec | List of merchants qualified to be on special juries – with John Lynd. |
1787/11/12 | Suffolk MA | Payment of 12 shillings to the Society of Cincinnati (Massachusetts chapter) |
1788/01/13 | Philadelphia | Freeman writes Knox and requests 300 acres of Ohio Company land. |
1788/02/03 | Philadelphia | Freeman writes Henry Knox regarding Massachusetts’ possible ratification of the Constitution. |
1788/06/26 | Quebec | Freeman runs an ad in the Quebec Gazette for a runaway slave on behalf of John Sargent |
1789/01/01 | Boston | Tax List |
1789/09/24 | New York | Correspondence from George Washington about Mr. Brown and Redstone |
05/16/1790 | Philadelphia | Discusses the excess number of officers in the military, which means that many who hope for jobs with the new government will be disappointed. |
1792/08/28 | Natchez | Manuel Gayoso de Lemos writes Georgia governor Edward Telfair. |
1793/07/01 | Georgia | Appointed as an agent for the War Department to supervise federal military affairs in Georgia. |
1793/07/24 | Georgia | Stops Telfair’s plan to march 5000 militia into Creek territory “to chastise the refractory towns”. |
1793/09/19 | Georgia | Writes GA governor about Federal policy |
1796/01/08 | Georgia | Pickering informs Simmons that Freeman is due a balance of $22K relative to the GA militia. |
1797/01/02 | Camden GA | 200-acre bounty land grant on Pagan’s Creek |
1797/05/20 | Pennsylvania | Marriage to Margaret Cox |
1797/11/10 | War Dept | Knox dispatches Freeman to Natchez to meet with Manuel Gayoso de Lemos |
1798/03/14 | Congress | Freeman petitions Congress. |
1798/04/14 | War Dept. | Freeman, on a special mission to the Governor-General of Louisiana, writes to Captain Guion, from New Orleans: “Gov. Gayoso has received this morning a letter from Capt. Vidal, commandant at Natchez, expressing the highest approbation of your conduct towards him, and to the subjects of the King of Spain, since you have taken possession of the posts of Natchez”. |
1799/05/03 | War Dept. | Assigned by Knox to accompany Pinckney in Charleston |
1800/03/30 | Fort Johnson SC | Writes Hamilton asking for more troops and supplies |
1802/02/07 | Natchez Trace | Wilkinson dismisses a court martial in Georgia Freeman was presiding over. |
1805/07/24 | New Orleans | Power of attorney with Abimael Nicoll – Notary John Lynd. |
1806/08/11 | New Orleans | Power of attorney with Nehemiah Freeman – Notary John Lynd |
1806/10/13 | Natchez | Wilkinson orders Freeman to Fort Stoddert |
1820/01/01 | Washington DC | Federal Census |
