Edmund Freeman

Who was Edmund Freeman?

Edmund Freeman 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 married Elizabeth Pattee; children were William Freeman and Ann Freeman. He died in 1807, at age 43.