The Freemans
He was assigned to a Captain Chambers’ company and was later stationed in Philadelphia Battle of Yorktown , witnessing the surrender of Cornwallis which ended the war in 1881. Discharged at West Point NY
According to a series called “Massachusetts
A plaque in the front hall of the town government building in Framingham
In 1788 he bought land from a Benjamin Ballard, witnessed by Silvanus Ballard, Jr. These could be brothers to Amity. If so then her father was also Silvanus. While living in VT they had one son Luther. In NY their family increased by another four children, among whom was John W. Freeman Jr. Later in CT , New York City , PA
Long after Amity’s death and most of his children were married, Old John married the sister of three of his sons-in-law. They had one daughter, Lydia
John was a very unusual man for his time. He traveled extensively for his time period, when transportation was often difficult, especially with a family. Second, he apparently was educated as several books (including a book of mathematics) are listed in his estate belongings (along with a number of Methodist Prayer books and Bibles). This was also unusual to find, especially in pioneer Butler Co OH. Third, after what must have been a difficult but interesting life, he died at a very old age for the time.
John and Amity brought their family to OH in 1815. They lived on the 92 acres they bought in 1817 in northeast Butler Co. In 1816 when he was 22, John Jr. married Margaret Fowler, born in KY, and they had eleven children among whom was our Mary. In the early 1840’s John Jr. became very religious and was active in the Church of Christ
Mary married Daniel
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In 1838 at the age of 25 Daniel married Mary who was only eighteen. They lived outside of Oxford where they had twelve children in the next eighteen years, ten boys and only two girls.
When Nathaniel Moore II died, he was living with his son Daniel. Although Indiana at that time was nothing more than a vast wilderness, after the death of his father, Daniel began to feel the march of civilization westward so he decided to move to Indiana. In 1858 he and his wife and seven of his children, ages eighteen through two, and took up the journey westward. [The nineteen year old John stayed in OH and two had died early in life.] They bought a section of land, which is a square mile, in Randolph County IN, four miles southeast of Winchester out the Greenville Pike.
There they built a log cabin on a small rise amid the tall trees with the tiny beginning of White River on the east. In this little log cabin was born Caroline and our Daniel Heenan, their last child. They lived in this cabin for about three years, happily clearing and farming their new land.
Then Daniel built the "Big House," just a little north and a little closer to the Winchester/Greenville Pike on a nice level part of land.
Uncle Charles' photo
This is a picture of the original farmstead taken by Charles E. Moore, son of Fred, as he flew over. The picture is looking southeast, the road going straight north and south. The little grove of trees about halfway between the two houses is where Daniel and his family built their original cabin. White River begins just off to the south of the picture and runs across the picture right to left between the two houses. It is nothing but a tiny crick with a pebbly bottom and, unless there was rain, it was only two or three inches deep. I played there many times. My Grandma Stella and I took a bath once in it.
The Big House that Daniel built in ca.1861/2 is in the foreground of the picture. It was a square with four rooms on the main level. The parlor was in the southwest corner, the dining room in the southeast, the kitchen in the northeast and the bedroom in the northwest. The front door went into the parlor with the stairway on the left. The windows in the house were tall and narrow, two each in the parlor and bedroom on either side of the front door and two in the dining room facing the barnyard in back. The kitchen had been considerably remodeled by the time I came along so I don't know what it was like originally. The stove did, however, sit in front of the immense fireplace there.
There were three fireplaces: in the kitchen on the north side and on the south sides of the dining room and parlor. By the time I came along the ones in the kitchen and parlor had been bricked shut, but I loved to sit in front of the one in the dining room and gaze into the fire imagining all sorts of things. When my mother Irene was a little girl, there was a cereal box with a little girl sitting by a fireplace, looking into a box of cereal with a little girl sitting by a fireplace, and on and on. So she liked to try to mimic the picture. On each side of the fireplace were built-in china cabinets, and a large archway had been opened up between the dining room and the living room.
In the parlor my grandmother had a side door cut out to the left of the fireplace and a window to the right, which lightened up the room considerably. The front door was never used; nor was the new side door for that matter. Everyone came in through the kitchen from the back.
The upstairs had two dormer rooms. The south one was my mother's and the north one was Uncle Charles'. The stairway came up into his room with the door to the south room at the top of the stairs on the right. The ceilings were sloped so the beds were against the ceiling on the side walls. There were attics opening into the south room with three foot high doors. As a child I thought they were terribly scary, but of course they were used only for storage. The secretary belonging to my Grandpa Jones' [Grandma Stella's father] sat just inside the south room with all his school teacher books in it. It is now in the living room of my daughter Michelle. The books are packed away in her storage room with the exception of the Grammar which I have in my room and love to look at from time to time.
There was a summer kitchen off the back porch to the north of the house. Originally it was used to prepare meals in the hot summer to keep from heating up the main house. When I was little, it was used for storage and curing, like hanging cured hams and slabs of bacon until they were needed.
Daniel donated a small parcel on the southeast corner of his land for a site to build a school, #21. This is where many of the Moore children got their education--Heenan and Heenan's children included. As Daniel's children began to marry, he gave each one of them a parcel of land upon which to build their own house and raise their own families. The Big House was where Daniel and Mary lived the remainder of his life. Mary lived the last years of her life in a little cabin beside the school.
Daniel was eminently successful, accumulating over 400 acres of valuable land and excelling as a farmer and stock-raiser. He was an honest and benevolent man, who believed in the future and lived to see the neighborhood become thickly populated and become one of the richest farming communities in the county. Daniel was considered one of the county's most substantial farmers.
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Daniel and Mary had fourteen children. All but Caroline and Heenan were born in Butler Co OH. They lost two children -- an infant and Dockie died as a child.
John, the eldest, stayed in Ohio when his family moved to Indiana. He came later with his wife and children but didn't stay long, moving on to Illinois in ..........
Joel F..............
Jasper, Uncle Jap, ..........
William
Thomas
Albert
Francis Marion……...Austin Cox
Margaret, Aunt Mag,........Jenn
Mary Ann...........Richmond Mental Hospital?
Caroline...........died at 18
Daniel's last son Heenan lived at home in the Big House with his mother Mary and sister Caroline after his father died.
(From RCI History book
Daniel U. Moore [deceased] was a native of Warren Co OH and was born October 17, 1813; he was reared on a farm and educated in Lebanon OH. In 1826 he removed to Butler Co OH with his sister where July 26, 1838 he married Mary Freeman; she was born in Butler Co OH in June 1813 and is a daughter of John W. and Margaret Freeman. Mr. and Mrs. Moore became the parents of fourteen children, twelve* of whom they raised and eleven are now living, viz., John W., Joel F., Jasper, William, Thomas, Albert, Francis M., Oliver, Margaret J., Mary A. and Daniel H. They moved to thIs
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Heenan married Lizzie Marquis
In 1838 at the age of 25 Daniel married Mary who was only eighteen. They lived outside of Oxford where they had twelve children in the next eighteen years, ten boys and only two girls.
When Nathaniel Moore II died, he was living with his son Daniel. Although Indiana at that time was nothing more than a vast wilderness, after the death of his father, Daniel began to feel the march of civilization westward so he decided to move to Indiana. In 1858 he and his wife and seven of his children, ages eighteen through two, and took up the journey westward. [The nineteen year old John stayed in OH and two had died early in life.] They bought a section of land, which is a square mile, in Randolph County IN, four miles southeast of Winchester out the Greenville Pike.
There they built a log cabin on a small rise amid the tall trees with the tiny beginning of White River on the east. In this little log cabin was born Caroline and our Daniel Heenan, their last child. They lived in this cabin for about three years, happily clearing and farming their new land.
Then Daniel built the "Big House," just a little north and a little closer to the Winchester/Greenville Pike on a nice level part of land.
Uncle Charles' photo
This is a picture of the original farmstead taken by Charles E. Moore, son of Fred, as he flew over. The picture is looking southeast, the road going straight north and south. The little grove of trees about halfway between the two houses is where Daniel and his family built their original cabin. White River begins just off to the south of the picture and runs across the picture right to left between the two houses. It is nothing but a tiny crick with a pebbly bottom and, unless there was rain, it was only two or three inches deep. I played there many times. My Grandma Stella and I took a bath once in it.
The Big House that Daniel built in ca.1861/2 is in the foreground of the picture. It was a square with four rooms on the main level. The parlor was in the southwest corner, the dining room in the southeast, the kitchen in the northeast and the bedroom in the northwest. The front door went into the parlor with the stairway on the left. The windows in the house were tall and narrow, two each in the parlor and bedroom on either side of the front door and two in the dining room facing the barnyard in back. The kitchen had been considerably remodeled by the time I came along so I don't know what it was like originally. The stove did, however, sit in front of the immense fireplace there.
There were three fireplaces: in the kitchen on the north side and on the south sides of the dining room and parlor. By the time I came along the ones in the kitchen and parlor had been bricked shut, but I loved to sit in front of the one in the dining room and gaze into the fire imagining all sorts of things. When my mother Irene was a little girl, there was a cereal box with a little girl sitting by a fireplace, looking into a box of cereal with a little girl sitting by a fireplace, and on and on. So she liked to try to mimic the picture. On each side of the fireplace were built-in china cabinets, and a large archway had been opened up between the dining room and the living room.
In the parlor my grandmother had a side door cut out to the left of the fireplace and a window to the right, which lightened up the room considerably. The front door was never used; nor was the new side door for that matter. Everyone came in through the kitchen from the back.
The upstairs had two dormer rooms. The south one was my mother's and the north one was Uncle Charles'. The stairway came up into his room with the door to the south room at the top of the stairs on the right. The ceilings were sloped so the beds were against the ceiling on the side walls. There were attics opening into the south room with three foot high doors. As a child I thought they were terribly scary, but of course they were used only for storage. The secretary belonging to my Grandpa Jones' [Grandma Stella's father] sat just inside the south room with all his school teacher books in it. It is now in the living room of my daughter Michelle. The books are packed away in her storage room with the exception of the Grammar which I have in my room and love to look at from time to time.
There was a summer kitchen off the back porch to the north of the house. Originally it was used to prepare meals in the hot summer to keep from heating up the main house. When I was little, it was used for storage and curing, like hanging cured hams and slabs of bacon until they were needed.
Daniel donated a small parcel on the southeast corner of his land for a site to build a school, #21. This is where many of the Moore children got their education--Heenan and Heenan's children included. As Daniel's children began to marry, he gave each one of them a parcel of land upon which to build their own house and raise their own families. The Big House was where Daniel and Mary lived the remainder of his life. Mary lived the last years of her life in a little cabin beside the school.
Daniel was eminently successful, accumulating over 400 acres of valuable land and excelling as a farmer and stock-raiser. He was an honest and benevolent man, who believed in the future and lived to see the neighborhood become thickly populated and become one of the richest farming communities in the county. Daniel was considered one of the county's most substantial farmers.
[ADD VARIOUS FARMS AND HOUSES]
Daniel and Mary had fourteen children. All but Caroline and Heenan were born in Butler Co OH. They lost two children -- an infant and Dockie died as a child.
John, the eldest, stayed in Ohio when his family moved to Indiana. He came later with his wife and children but didn't stay long, moving on to Illinois in ..........
Joel F..............
Jasper, Uncle Jap, ..........
William
Thomas
Albert
Francis Marion……...Austin Cox
Margaret, Aunt Mag,........Jenn
Mary Ann...........Richmond Mental Hospital?
Caroline...........died at 18
Daniel's last son Heenan lived at home in the Big House with his mother Mary and sister Caroline after his father died.
(From RCI History book
Daniel U. Moore [deceased] was a native of Warren Co OH and was born October 17, 1813; he was reared on a farm and educated in Lebanon OH. In 1826 he removed to Butler Co OH with his sister where July 26, 1838 he married Mary Freeman; she was born in Butler Co OH in June 1813 and is a daughter of John W. and Margaret Freeman. Mr. and Mrs. Moore became the parents of fourteen children, twelve* of whom they raised and eleven are now living, viz., John W., Joel F., Jasper, William, Thomas, Albert, Francis M., Oliver, Margaret J., Mary A. and Daniel H. They moved to thIs
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Heenan married Lizzie Marquis
