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A mercer. Mayor in 1747, hence during 1748, while still mayor, he went to visit the city's potential election candidate Samuel Greatheed (q.v.) - see PA1484/77/132. He regularised the disposition of Smith's Charity by filing information in Chancery on 18 Aug 1758. He was a trustee under the will of Ann Inge in 1762 (see PA101/1/273: PA202/10/2,5,12), of the marriage settlement of John Clarke junior with Susanna Lucas (see PA346/40-41) and of Sir Thomas White's Loan (see PA101/8/899; PA101/137/2,4,6: PA1023/5-6). He was a mortgagee of West Orchard land in 1756 and 1778 (see PA346/47-48), a J.P. by 1775 (see PA347/1/1). In 1763 he had land at Exhall (PA101/127). See PA101/8/168-169; PA101/150/1: PA242/2/7.IV, V. He occupied a Smithford Street house (see CCA/2/3/34/73.IV: PA242/1/22-23). He was a sheriff in 1741. Dead by 1783 when he was described as a mortgage trustee who became insolvent (PA490/14-15). From 1743 to 1756 he was a trustee of the marriage settlement between Thomas Nutt and the daughter of William Freeman (q.v.) - see PA115/6,8,10. PA8/8/2 is a bill from him to the Bakers' Company for processional silks. A chamberlain, 1740. An administrator of Jesson et al's bread dole, 1765-80 (PA17/36/1-10). See M.J. Hinman: "Men Who Ruled Coventry, 1725 - 1780" pages 6,11, 3,17,27,30,31,35, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 (in City Archives Search Room library at 942.48 - Coventry and North Warwickshire Pamphlets Series No 14). Qua Sir Thomas White's Charity feoffee see BA/A/G/12/13; BA/A/G/23/20,21. He was also a feoffee of Crow's Charity (BA/D/AZ/13/10). For the Smith's Charity case, see BA/D/BG/1. He was feoffee of New Court, Gosford Street, 1760-61 (BA/A/B/26/1,3; BA/A/B/27/12-14) and for a Spon End messuage (1771 - BA/A/B/66/1). He was a trustee of Samuel Edwards' Charity (BA/B/J/6/28,33-35). He occupied part of Harnall Fields (BA/D/A/11/3; BA/D/A/24/35). Qua trustee under the will of the Inge women, see BA/D/A/47/16,50.IV. Qua Sir Thomas White's Charity trustee, see PA436/7/5-9 passim: PA440/2/7-10,14: PA56/17/14,15: PA96/40/1. Active on the city council, 1746-58, 1760-76, 1778-80. He was a Baker's Charity feoffee - see PA500/71/1. See PA560/3. He renounced probate of the apothecary George Welton (q.v.) in 1780 (PA56/80/29). Named in 1749 an executor of the mayor Thomas Hunt (q.v.) - see PA56/91/2. In 1747 he was a participant in the indenture of return for the city M.P.s (PA96/59/7). He was a feoffee for a High Street tenement, 1753 (PA96/71/19.XXXVII). In 1776 John Remington (q.v.) wanted a corporation lease of his assigned to Freeman (BA/H/Q/F8/1/123). Freeman was appointed a feoffee of Baker's and Billing's Charities in 1764 - see PA489/4/40/3-4; PA489/4/43/3. He was among those who swore the return of writ for the election of the Honourable Andrew Archer and James Hewitt (qq.v.) as Members of Parliament for Coventry, 1761 - see PA1484/61/2. See PA1484/77/1188. Qua Sir Thomas White's Charity trustee, see CCA/2/3/19/8-9,13-14; CCA/2/3/175/1; CCA/2/3/180/17-23 passim; CCA/2/3/241/20,21; CCA/2/3/281/12,13; CCA/2/3/352/2-3; CCA/2/3/424/21,22,26,31; CCA/2/3/425/3; CCA/2/3/749/4,5. See CCA/2/3/195/14. He held a Cross Cheaping tenement from Holy Trinity feoffees in 1785 - see CCA/2/3/233/9(x). CCA/2/3/180/29 is an 1812 administration with Freeman's 1781 will annexed which two London businessmen called Wilson verified in 1783. CCA/2/3/34/4 refers to his purchase of Whitefriars' Lane property in 1767 along with Samuel Oldham (q.v.). In 1746 William Keeling (q.v.) named him an executor (see CCA/2/3/135/3; CCA/2/3/582/1.II). Qua trustee of the charitable Samuel Smith's widow Catherine's will, 1770, see CCA/2/3/426/2. Qua Sir Thomas White's Charity trustee, see PA2770/26/1-2. A 1783 Coventry History Centre trade directory calls Freeman "esq." and general receiver of the Land Tax, working from High Street. As mortgagee and trustee for West Orchard and Gosford Street property, 1742-82, see PA811/4/4-23 passim. Interested in Great Butcher Row houses (see CCA/2/3/160/13(b)). He was a trustee of a Bayley :Lane messuage, 1750-52 (see CCA/2/3/1007/1).