The Saddle and Pillion: graves of Edmund and Elizabeth Freeman, Sandwich, with the bronze tablets of 1910

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The Saddle and Pillion: graves of Edmund and Elizabeth Freeman, Sandwich, with the bronze tablets of 1910
type
gravestone
date
tablets placed 22 Aug 1910
repository
Freeman homestead, Wilson Road, Sandwich, Massachusetts
reference
Historical Marker Database (HMdb) marker 120748
url
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=120748
seen
transcript
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public

Two boulders on the Freeman homestead at Sandwich, one shaped like a saddle and one like a pillion, said by tradition to mark the graves of Edmund Freeman (d. 1682) and his wife Elizabeth (d. 14 Feb 1675/6). Descendants placed bronze tablets on them on 22 Aug 1910. Edmund's tablet reads "Born in England 1590," a date taken from Frederick Freeman's Freeman Genealogy (1875); the Pulborough register shows his baptism on 25 July 1596. Elizabeth's reads "Born in England 1600."

The story of the stones is tradition (Freeman Genealogy pp. 18-20; Otis). The tablets themselves date only from 1910.

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  2. title: "The Saddle and Pillion: graves of Edmund and Elizabeth Freeman, Sandwich, with the bronze tablets of 1910"
  3. type: gravestone
  4. date: tablets placed 22 Aug 1910
  5. repository: Freeman homestead, Wilson Road, Sandwich, Massachusetts
  6. reference: "Historical Marker Database (HMdb) marker 120748"
  7. url: "https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=120748"
  8. seen: transcript
  9. access: public
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  12. Two boulders on the Freeman homestead at Sandwich, one shaped like a saddle and one like a
  13. pillion, said by tradition to mark the graves of Edmund Freeman (d. 1682) and his wife Elizabeth
  14. (d. 14 Feb 1675/6). Descendants placed bronze tablets on them on 22 Aug 1910. Edmund's tablet reads
  15. "Born in England 1590," a date taken from Frederick Freeman's *Freeman Genealogy* (1875); the
  16. Pulborough register shows his baptism on 25 July 1596. Elizabeth's reads "Born in England 1600."
  18. The story of the stones is tradition (Freeman Genealogy pp. 18-20; Otis). The tablets themselves
  19. date only from 1910.
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