Constant Freeman Timeline
4.24.1747 | Charleston MA | Birth |
1775 – Winter | 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 paid as a French interpreter |
7.2.1782 | U.S. | Freeman is paid for transcribing Army court minutes. |
10.23.1786 | Quebec | Party of the Liberty with William Taylor |
1.4.1787 | Quebec | List of merchants qualified to be on special juries – with John Lynd. |
11.12.1787 | 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. |
1789/09/24 | New York | Correspondence from George Washington about Mr. Brown and Redstone |
1793/07/24 | Georgia | Stops Telfair’s plan to march 5000 militia into Creek territory “to chastise the refractory towns”. |
9.10.1793 | Augusta, GA | Writes GA governor Edward Telfair about Federal policy |
9.19.1793 | Augusta, GA | Writes GA governor Edward Telfair about Federal policy |
10.28.1793 | Fort Fidius | Writes Henry Knox about Georgia. |
4.18.1794 | Fort Fidius | Writes Knox about certain persons employed in GA to recruit troops for France’s possible invasion of Spanish Florida. |
5.8.1794 | Fort Fidius | George Mathews writes Constant Freeman. |
5.8.1794 | Boston | Henry Jackson recommends Constant Freeman for appointment in corps of artillery. |
8.5.1794 | Fort Fidius | Writes GA governor James Jackson. |
8.17.1796 | Fort Pickering | Freeman discusses spies with William Simmons. |
5.20.1797 | 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. |
4.4.1798 | New Orleans | Reports Capt. Guion at Natchez is encountering resistance from the Spanish to surrender their works. |
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. |
7.23.1798 | Camden, GA | 200 Acre bounty land grant |
5.3.1799 | War Dept. | Assigned by Knox to accompany Pinckney in Charleston |
3.30.1800 | Fort Johnson SC | Writes Hamilton asking for more troops and supplies |
12.24.1801 | Fort Adams | Wilkinson dismisses a court martial in Georgia Freeman was presiding over. |
2.7.1802 | Natchez Trace | Wilkinson dismisses a court martial in Georgia Freeman was presiding over. |
8.9.1803 | Fort Johnson, SC | Freeman writes military agent William Linnard. |
9.29.1804 | New Orleans | Freeman writes James Wilkinson. |
1805/07/24 | New Orleans | Power of attorney with Abimael Nicoll – Notary John Lynd. |
8.11.1806 | New Orleans | Power of attorney with Nehemiah Freeman – Notary John Lynd |
1806/10/13 | Natchez | Wilkinson orders Freeman to Fort Stoddert |
12.19.1821 | Greensboro, GA | Freeman writes GA governor John Clark regarding Jonas Fauche. |
