Edmund Freeman (printer)

Edmund Freeman (1764–1807) was a printer and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 18th century. He published the Boston Magazine and the Herald of Freedom newspaper. He worked with Loring Andrews as "Freeman and Andrews, printers, State-Street, north side State-House." As editor of the Herald of Freedom, he was sued for libel in 1790 by Massachusetts legislator John Gardiner; Freeman won the case.

Freeman came to Boston from Sandwich, Massachusetts. He was a son of Brigadier General Nathaniel Freeman and Tryphosa Colton. He married Elizabeth Pattee (died 1866); children were William Freeman (1797–1829) and Ann Freeman (1798–1857). He died in 1807, at age 43.

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Further reading

Published/printed by Freeman

• Boston Magazine (1783–1786)
• Weatherwise's Almanack for the Year 1789. Boston: Printed and Sold by Edmund Freeman, 1788.
• Herald of Freedom (Boston newspaper), (1790–1791)

About Freeman

• From the Centinel. Proceedings on the Examination of the Printer of the Herald. Herald of Freedom, Date: 02-12-1790
• Massachusetts. Boston, February 1. Vermont Journal, and the Universal Advertiser; Date: 02-17-1790.
• [Account of the trial]. Herald of Freedom; Date: 03-04-1791.
• Supreme Judicial Court; trial for a libel: Commonwealth vs. Freeman. Herald of Freedom; Date: 03-11-1791
• Trial for a Libel. Middlesex Gazette (Connecticut); Date: 03-26-1791