__NOTOC__ 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."Boston Directory, 1789WorldCat As editor of the Herald of Freedom, he was sued for libel in 1790 by Massachusetts legislator John Gardiner; Freeman won the case.William Nelson. Notes toward a history of the American newspaper. NY: C.F. Heartman, 1918John Gardiner (1737–1793) was the son of Silvester Gardiner and the father of John Sylvester John Gardiner; cf. T. A. Milford. The Gardiners of Massachusetts: provincial ambition and the British-American career. UPNE, 2005
Freeman came to Boston from Sandwich, Massachusetts.Joseph Tinker Buckingham. Specimens of newspaper literature: with personal memoirs, anecdotes, and reminiscences, Volume 1. Redding and Co., 1852. Google books 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).Frederick Freeman. Freeman Genealogy, in Three Parts. Boston: Franklin Press: Rand, Avery & Co., 1875 He died in 1807, at age 43.Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, Aug. 7, 1807
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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