Nathaniel Freeman (physician)

Nathaniel Freeman (March 28, 1741 – September 20, 1827) was an American physician and jurist. He was a Brigadier General during the American Revolutionary War and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1775.

Nathaniel Freeman
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
from the Sandwich district
In office
1775–1775
Personal details
BornMarch 28, 1741
Dennis, Massachusetts, British America
Died(1827-09-20)September 20, 1827
RelationsSon: Rep. Nathaniel Freeman, Jr.[1]
OccupationPhysician, Judge
Military service
AllegianceUnited States of America
Branch/serviceMassachusetts Militia
Years of service1776–1791
RankBrigadier General
Battles/warsAmerican Revolutionary War

Biography

Nathaniel Freeman born in Dennis, Barnstable County, Massachusetts in 1741. He settled at Sandwich (also Barnstable County) in 1763 where he established a medical practice. He also studied law.

In 1773, Freeman became chairman of the Committee of Correspondence of Safety of Sandwich. In September of 1774 he was chosen the leader of a mass protest against the British "Intolerable Acts," which won the agreement of county officials to ignore the requirements of Parliament's new legislation. The following year was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and was appointed colonel of a militia regiment.

Freeman served during the American Revolutionary War, commanding a militia regiment in the Rhode Island expedition, and from 1781 to 1791 he was brigadier general of militia. He was also a judge of probate and of the Court of Common Pleas.

In 1814, Freeman was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society[2]

References
  1. Adams, John Quincy; Charles Francis Adams (1903). Life in a New England town, 1787, 1788 : diary of John Quincy Adams. Little,Brown. p. 26. OCLC 492046.
  2. American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  • Packard, Randall F. (1901). The History of Medicine in the United States. J.B. Lippincott. p. 237. OCLC 1460430.
  • This article incorporates text from The History of Medicine in the United States (1901) which is in the public domain.
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