Edmund Freeman (printer)
Edmund Freeman (1764-1807) was a printer and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 18th-century. He published the Boston Magazine and the Herald of Freedom newspaper. He worked with Loring Andrews as "Freeman and Andrews, printers, State-Street, north side State-House."[1][2] As editor of the Herald of Freedom, he was sued for libel in 1790 by Massachusetts legislator John Gardiner; Freeman won the case.[3][4]
Freeman came to Boston from Sandwich, Massachusetts.[5] He married Elizabeth Pattee (d.1866); children were William Freeman (1797-1829) and Ann Freeman (1798-1857).[6] He died in 1807, at age 43.[7]
References
From: Candid Considerations on Libels by "a friend to harmony" (Boston: printed by E. Freeman and L. Andrews, 1789)
- ↑ Boston Directory, 1789
- ↑ WorldCat
- ↑ William Nelson. Notes toward a history of the American newspaper. NY: C.F. Heartman, 1918
- ↑ John Gardiner (1737-1793) was the son of Silvester Gardiner and the father of John Sylvester John Gardiner; cf. T. A. Milford. The Gardiners of Massachusetts: provincial ambition and the British-American career. UPNE, 2005
- ↑ Joseph Tinker Buckingham. Specimens of newspaper literature: with personal memoirs, anecdotes, and reminiscences, Volume 1. Redding and Co., 1852. Google books
- ↑ Frederick Freeman. Freeman Genealogy, in Three Parts. Boston: Franklin Press: Rand, Avery & Co., 1875
- ↑ Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, Aug. 7, 1807
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Published/printed by Freeman
- Boston Magazine (1783-1786)
- Weatherwise's Almanack for the Year 1789. Boston: Printed and Sold by Edmund Freeman, 1788.
- Herald of Freedom (Boston newspaper), (1790-1791)
About Freeman
- From the Centinel. Proceedings on the Examination of the Printer of the Herald. Herald of Freedom, Date: 02-12-1790
- Massachusetts. Boston, February 1. Vermont Journal, and the Universal Advertiser; Date: 02-17-1790.
- [Account of the trial]. Herald of Freedom; Date: 03-04-1791.
- Supreme Judicial Court; trial for a libel: Commonwealth vs. Freeman. Herald of Freedom; Date: 03-11-1791
- Trial for a Libel. Middlesex Gazette (Connecticut); Date: 03-26-1791
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