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Person Details
 
Last NameFREEMAN
First NamePETER
Maiden 
RelationH/O MARY GANNETT
Cemetery NumberWK026
Cemetery NamePETER FREEMAN LOT
Birth Day0
Birth Month 
Birth Year1759
Death Day0
Death Month 
Death Year1830
WarREVOLUTION
Gravestone Details
Section 
Lot 
Map00008
Stone Materialgranite
Conditiongood
Shapesquare top
Carvingno carving
Legibilitygood
Number of Graves on Stone2
Stone Height (inches) 
Stone Width (inches) 
Exists?
Last Seen Date2019
Carver 
Notes/Misc Details
NotesThis granite gravestone is an excellent example of erroneous information from family lore being added to a gravestone place many years after the death of an individual. Engraved in the gravestone is the following: "He came from Paris at the age of 18 in the vessel with Lafayette and fought in the American Revolution and made this country his home" Peter Freeman (originally Pierre Fremond) was born in France and he came with Rochambeau in 1780. The descendants have him mixed up with the Revolutionary War pensioner Peter Freeman of Norwich, Connecticut, a black man, who died in 1830. The SAR info in brackets applies to that man. When the Warwick Peter's wife Mercy/Mary died in 1832, she was said to in the newspaper to be his wife, not widow. The family appears to have been pretty wacko on the subject of their ancestry. One of them asserted that her ancestor "Lafayette Freeman" came on the Mayflower! [SAR record: *** THIS IS AN ERROR this record is for Peter Freeman a Revolutionary War pensioner of Norwich, Connecticut, a black, who died in 1830*** - 1778 Enlisted for 3 yrs. In Capt. Amos Stanton's Co.; Col. Henry Sherburn's Reg't Continental Line; pensioner]
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