Tenth Generation

940. William FREEBORNE was born on 28 April 1591 in Ipswitch, Suffolk, England. He died on 28 April 1670 at the age of 79 in Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI.³⁸⁵ He was a sawyer in 1621. He lived at Batisfords Manor (also called "Freebournes") in Witham. Boyer quotes sources that say that Freebournes was built early in the 16th Century and is located on what is now Newland Street in Witham.

"He came over on the Francis in 1634. He was freeman on 3 September 1634 when he may have been living in Roxbury. He moved later to Boston, where he became a supporter of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson and Mr. Wheelock. On 7 March 1637/8, he and eighteen others signed the Compact which incorporated Portsmouth, RI. Five days later he and eight of the other signers were formally banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court. He helped survey Rhode Island in 1639 and was freeman in Portsmouth on 16 March 1641. He served as Constable in 1642 and as Commissioner to the General Court in 1657. A mill he purchased from James Sands and Samuel Wilbor stayed in the family until after 1800." Carl Boyer 3rd, Ancestral Lines, p. 258-59. Mary WILSON and William FREEBORNE were married on 25 July 1625 in St. Mary's Church, Malden, Essex, England.

941. Mary WILSON was born about 1590. Name sometimes spelled Willson. She died on 3 May 1670 at the age of 80 in Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI.³⁸⁵

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