Jonathan Freeman (March 21, 1745 – August 20, 1808) was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. Born in Mansfield, Connecticut, he attended the public schools and moved to New Hampshire in 1769, settling in Hanover. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and was town clerk and also justice of the peace and, from 1789 to 1797, executive councilor.
Freeman was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1787 to 1789 and served in the State senate from 1789 to 1794. He was a delegate to the Constitutional convention of 1791, and a member of the State council. From 1793 to 1808 he was overseer of Dartmouth College and was treasurer of the college for more than forty years. Freeman was elected as a Federalist to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses (March 4, 1797-March 3, 1801); he resumed agricultural pursuits and died in Hanover in 1808. Interment was in Hanover Center Cemetery.
Freeman's nephew, Nathaniel Freeman, Jr., was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
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