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James Freeman was born on April 22, 1759 , in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was a son of Constant and Lois (Cobb) Freeman and a descendant of Samuel Freeman who emigrated to Watertown in 1630.
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James Freeman was born on April 22, 1759 , in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was a son of Constant and Lois (Cobb) Freeman and a descendant of Samuel Freeman who emigrated to Watertown in 1630.
Freeman was a pupil of the celebrated master Lovell in the Boston Latin School where he excelled in the languages and mathematics. After graduation at Harvard in 1777, he spent the following year there in the study of theology.
Although an ardent supporter of the colonial cause, Freeman did not enlist for fear of injuring his father who, because of his business interests, was compelled to live in Quebec. After drilling troops on Cape Cod and spending two years in Quebec, he began to preach, and in September 1782, was chosen reader by the vestry of King’s Chapel.
This celebrated church, founded in 1686, was the first Episcopal church in New England, and during the eighteenth century was the place of worship of the royal governors and of prominent families of Boston. Many members of the congregation were Loyalists who with Dr. Henry Caner, the last Anglican rector, left Boston with the British troops at the evacuation.
After sharing their building with the Old South, whose church had been dismantled by the British during the siege, the congregation were now preparing to resume their regular services.
Theological liberalism was in the air in Boston, and on his proposal to revise the liturgy by the omission of its more distinctively Trinitarian portions, Freeman found himself supported by a majority of his congregation.
The revision, which followed somewhat closely the draft of a reformed liturgy made by Dr. Samuel Clarke of London, was accepted by the proprietors of the Chapel on June 19, 1785, and before the end of the year the book was printed and in use.
Application for ordination having been refused by Bishop Seabury of Connecticut and put off by the more sympathetic Bishop Provoost of New York, the congregation became impatient and decided to take the matter into their own hands.
Accordingly, Freeman was ordained by the senior warden, Dr. Thomas Bulfinch, on Sunday, November 18, 1787, “to be the Rector, Minister, Priest, Pastor, Public Teacher and Teaching Elder of this Episcopal Church. ” Protests against the ordination by a minority of the congregation and by a number of the Episcopal clergy of Boston and vicinity were without avail, and thus "The first Episcopal church in New England became the first Unitarian church in America’’.
The congregation became strong and flourishing and Freeman’s active and influential ministry continued till 1826 when failing health compelled him to retire to Newton where the remaining nine years of his life were spent.
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Freeman recognized in Christ all the divine that could be made human, his view of the Redeemer being somewhere between that of the Arians, who made him neither God nor man and that of the humanitarians, who made him merely a human being.
Quotations:
"I will only sell coffee less than 48 hours out of the roaster to my customers, so they may enjoy coffee at its peak of flavor. I will only use the finest, most delicious and responsibly sourced beans. "
"A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations. "
"I have a very personal view of what I want in a café. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about what other people want. I have my enthusiasms, and it's exciting to work through them in this medium of coffee bars. "
Freeman was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Massachusetts constitutional convention (1820 - 21).
Freeman had a genius for friendship, and his intimate circle embraced ministers of all shades of doctrinal belief, prominent among whom was Cheverus, the first Catholic bishop of Boston. His speech was simple and direct, and his sermons, in the purest English, were devoid of all oratorical embellishment.
On July 17, 1783, Freeman married Martha Curtis, widow of Samuel Clarke, adopting his wife’s only son, who became the father of James Freeman Clarke
