Freeman, Bernardus

Freeman, Bernardus a Reformed (Dutch) minister, was born in Westphalia, and licensed there; came to America in 1700; was refused by the Church at Albany for want of education; became a missionary to the Mohawks (1700-5); preached at various places on the western end of Long Island, and died in 1743. He was a man of great natural ability, and the author of several works in the Mohawk language, for which see Corwin, Manual of the Ref. Church in America, 3d ed. page 265.