Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey, his ancestors and descendants of the Abbey family, pathfinders, soldiers and pioneer settlers of Connecticut, its Western Reserve in Ohio and the great West .. . TOMBSTONES OF HENRY FREEMAN, 2nd, 1717-1784 and of the wife of Henry Freeman 3rd, who was the mother of Lieutenant Edgar Freeman, U. S. Navy. Presbyterian Churchyard, Woodbridge. of surrender. Engraved on a brass plate attached to the face ofthe dial is the name Moses Ogden, presumably the maker ofthis venerable time-piece, which has been passed down throughseven generations of Henry Freemans descenda
Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey, his ancestors and descendants of the Abbey family, pathfinders, soldiers and pioneer settlers of Connecticut, its Western Reserve in Ohio and the great West .. . TOMBSTONES OF HENRY FREEMAN, 2nd, 1717-1784 and of the wife of Henry Freeman 3rd, who was the mother of Lieutenant Edgar Freeman, U. S. Navy. Presbyterian Churchyard, Woodbridge. of surrender. Engraved on a brass plate attached to the face ofthe dial is the name Moses Ogden, presumably the maker ofthis venerable time-piece, which has been passed down throughseven generations of Henry Freemans descendants. Henry Freeman, 1717-1784, son of Judge Freeman, marriedMary Read, whose brother, Rev. Israel Read, was graduated inthe first class from Princeton College in 1748, with RichardStockton, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Israel Readwas the first regularly installed pastor of the Presbyterian churchat Bound Brook; subsequently was in charge of the church atNew Brunswick, and for over thirty years was a trustee ofPrinceton College. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WOODBRIDGE, N. J. Built by Joel Freeman in 1803. Replaced the first church erected in 1675. Theoriginal large shingles and hand^wrought nails may still be seen on the outer 240 years this congregation has worshipped in only the two structures. 114 The next in line, Israel Freeman, named for his uncle, Read, was born in 1742, and became a soldier in therevolution. He married Louisa Miller and settled at Pray Hill,near Richfield Springs, N. Y. We have a graceful pair of sugar-tongs which belonged to the wife of Israel Freeman, marked withher initials, L. M. Israel Freemans son, Joel Freeman, 1770-1835, in 1803 builtthe Presbyterian church still standing in Woodbridge. This wasduring the fifty-two-year pastorate of Rev. Azel Roe, the patriotpreacher who was confined in the Sugar House prison in NewYork during the revolution. In the year 1800 Joel Freeman built the Freeman homestead,which
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