Constant Freeman Timeline

1747/04/24Charleston MABirth
1775 – WinterQuebecExiled from Quebec (along with his father) for refusing to take up arms in defense of the city.
1776/11/09Continental ArmyLieutenant under Henry Knox
1781/11/14QuebecMortgage with Jacques Maclot
1782/01/01QuebecAppointed trustee of the late Mrs. Smith’s estate.
1782/11/02Continental ArmyLieutenant under Henry Knox
1783/09/27QuebecLand petition
1785/03/10QuebecLand petition
1785/12/22War Dept.1000-acre bounty land grant
1786/10/01BostonTax list with Henry Knox
1786/10/23QuebecParty of the Liberty with William Taylor
1787/01/04QuebecList of merchants qualified to be on special juries – with John Lynd.
1787/11/12Suffolk MAPayment of 12 shillings to the Society of Cincinnati (Massachusetts chapter) 
1788/01/13PhiladelphiaFreeman writes Knox and requests 300 acres of Ohio Company land.
1788/02/03PhiladelphiaFreeman writes Henry Knox regarding Massachusetts’ possible ratification of the Constitution.
1788/06/26QuebecFreeman runs an ad in the Quebec Gazette for a runaway slave on behalf of John Sargent
1789/01/01BostonTax List
1789/09/24New YorkCorrespondence from George Washington about Mr. Brown and Redstone
05/16/1790PhiladelphiaDiscusses the excess number of officers in the military, which means that many who hope for jobs with the new government will be disappointed.
1792/08/28NatchezManuel Gayoso de Lemos writes Georgia governor Edward Telfair.
1793/07/01GeorgiaAppointed as an agent for the War Department to supervise federal military affairs in Georgia.
1793/07/24GeorgiaStops Telfair’s plan to march 5000 militia into Creek territory “to chastise the refractory towns”.
1793/09/19GeorgiaWrites GA governor about Federal policy
1796/01/08GeorgiaPickering informs Simmons that Freeman is due a balance of $22K relative to the GA militia.
1797/01/02Camden GA200-acre bounty land grant on Pagan’s Creek
1797/05/20PennsylvaniaMarriage to Margaret Cox
1797/11/10War DeptKnox dispatches Freeman to Natchez to meet with Manuel Gayoso de Lemos
1798/03/14CongressFreeman petitions Congress.
1798/04/14War 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”.
1799/05/03War Dept.Assigned by Knox to accompany Pinckney in Charleston
1800/03/30Fort Johnson SCWrites Hamilton asking for more troops and supplies
1802/02/07Natchez TraceWilkinson dismisses a court martial in Georgia Freeman was presiding over.
1805/07/24New OrleansPower of attorney with Abimael Nicoll – Notary John Lynd.
1806/08/11New OrleansPower of attorney with Nehemiah Freeman – Notary John Lynd
1806/10/13NatchezWilkinson orders Freeman to Fort Stoddert
1820/01/01Washington DCFederal Census