Nathaniel Freeman (physician)

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]

• 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.
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• Nathaniel Freeman Papers at The University of Michigan
• Nathaniel Freeman at Find a Grave