General Notes

"The Ten Men of Saugus: The first information of the settling of Sandwich is in an item in Plymouth Colony Records dated April 3, 1637, Page 3:
"It is also agreed by the Court that those tenn men of Saugust, viz Edmond Freeman, Henry Feake, Thomas Dexter, Edward Dillingham, William Wood, John Carman, Richard Chadwell, William Almey, Thomas Tupper & George Knott shall have liberty to view a place to sitt down & have sufficient lands for three score famylies, upon the conditions propounded to them by the Governor and Mr. Winslowe." p 4 The Lynn historian Alonzo Lewis wrote of the migration down to Cape Cod:
"This year (1637) a large number of people removed from Lynn and commenced a new settlement at Sandwich. The grant of the town was made on the third of April by the Colony of Plymouth...Thomas-Dexter did not remove, but the rest of the above named went with forty six other men from Lynn." p 4 Those Who Went to Sandwich "The impetus for founding a new town on Cape Cod originated from a dedicated and persuaisive leader, Edmund' Freeman of Pulborough, Sussex (England). He arrived in October 1635 on the ship Abigail with his wife Elizabeth and children Edmund, John, Alice, and **Elizabeth.***
Freeman was a person of some prestige as a brother-in-law of Mr. John Beauchamp of London, an investor in Colonial ventures with a stake in Plymouth Colony."  p 5 "The English origins of Edmund Freeman are better known than those of many early settlers in New England. He owned property in Pulborough, Sussex, where he married his first wife Bennett Hodsoll, and had six children. Two died young, and Bennett herself died in 1630.
Edmund then married a wife named Elizabeth whose identity has long been sought by his descendants and by genealogists. She has been called Gurney, Gravely, Perry and Bennett, but we believe now that her name was Elizabeth Raymen or Raymond as shown in her marriage to Edmund Freeman August 10, 1632 at Shipley, Sussex.
Edmund, Elizabeth, and four youngsters, Alice 17, Edmund Jr. 15, ***Elizabeth 12,*** and John 8 embarked on the Abigail in 1635.
Another unrelated Freeman group was on the same ship, which has caused confusion as to their possible relationship to the Edmund Freemans. Later, in Sandwich, a fifth child Mary Freeman was in the family, but her birth is not recorded. She may have been born in Massachusetts to Edmund and Elizabeth, or may have been adopted here. p 7 Settlers from Plymouth. "Mr. Freeman must have decided on founding his town in Plymouth Colony but there has been no record so far found as to his reasons or procedures. He and Mr. Leveridge established a brief residence in Plymouth