Constant Freeman Timeline

4.24.1747Charleston MABirth
1775 – WinterQuebecExiled from Quebec for refusing to take up arms in defense of the city.
11.9.1776Continental ArmyLieutenant under Henry Knox
12.9.1776Three Rivers, CanadaFreeman paid as a French interpreter
7.2.1782U.S.Freeman is paid for transcribing Army court minutes.
10.23.1786QuebecParty of the Liberty with William Taylor
1.4.1787QuebecList of merchants qualified to be on special juries – with John Lynd.
11.12.1787Suffolk 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.
1789/09/24New YorkCorrespondence from George Washington about Mr. Brown and Redstone
1793/07/24GeorgiaStops Telfair’s plan to march 5000 militia into Creek territory “to chastise the refractory towns”.
9.10.1793Augusta, GAWrites GA governor Edward Telfair about Federal policy
9.19.1793Augusta, GAWrites GA governor Edward Telfair about Federal policy
10.28.1793Fort FidiusWrites Henry Knox about Georgia.
4.18.1794Fort FidiusWrites Knox about certain persons employed in GA to recruit troops for France’s possible invasion of Spanish Florida.
5.8.1794Fort FidiusGeorge Mathews writes Constant Freeman.
5.8.1794BostonHenry Jackson recommends Constant Freeman for appointment in corps of artillery.
8.5.1794Fort Fidius Writes GA governor James Jackson.
8.17.1796Fort PickeringFreeman discusses spies with William Simmons.
5.20.1797PennsylvaniaMarriage to Margaret Cox
1797/11/10War DeptKnox dispatches Freeman to Natchez to meet with Manuel Gayoso de Lemos
1798/03/14CongressFreeman petitions Congress.
4.4.1798New OrleansReports Capt. Guion at Natchez is encountering resistance from the Spanish to surrender their works.
5.10.1798War Dept.Freeman discusses Daniel Clark with Henry Knox.
6.8.1798SavannahFreeman arrives in Savannah from Pensacola, en route to Charleston.
7.23.1798Camden, GA200 Acre bounty land grant
5.3.1799War Dept.Assigned by Knox to accompany Pinckney in Charleston
3.30.1800Fort Johnson SCWrites Hamilton asking for more troops and supplies
12.24.1801Fort AdamsWilkinson dismisses a court martial in Georgia Freeman was presiding over.
2.7.1802Natchez TraceWilkinson dismisses a court martial in Georgia Freeman was presiding over.
8.9.1803Fort Johnson, SCFreeman writes military agent William Linnard.
9.29.1804New OrleansFreeman writes James Wilkinson.
1805/07/24New OrleansPower of attorney with Abimael Nicoll – Notary John Lynd.
8.11.1806New OrleansPower of attorney with Nehemiah Freeman – Notary John Lynd
1806/10/13NatchezWilkinson orders Freeman to Fort Stoddert
12.19.1821Greensboro, GAFreeman writes GA governor John Clark regarding Jonas Fauche.