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(MILITARY. REV WAR.) FREEMAN, KEDAR. Two documents, regarding service by and pay for Kedar Freeman, signed by Groton, Connecticut selectmen. One printed and accomplished by hand, the other in manuscript Groton and Hartford, 1783
"These may certify that Kedar Freeman in the Year AD 1777 inlisted into Col Sherburne's Regiment, Connecticut Line for three years and served until death. . ." The second document is a receipt for an order to the treasurer to pay ten£ 10-6-5 due to "Kedar Freeman, deceas'd" Freeman enlisted in the Continental Army on May 22, 1777, serving in John Ellis's (later Amos Stanton's) company. In the February 1778 muster roll at Fishkill, he is listed as being on command ; in March, sick with smallpox; in July, sick at Robinson's House Hospital, and finally, in August, the roll taken at Middle town, R.I. gives his death date as July 26, 1778. Likely the same man whose estate, according to "Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut (1650-1900," was probated in Stonington in 1781. The name Kedar or Qedar has a Biblical association with dark or black skin.
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