Guide to the Jonathan Freeman Sermons

Jonathan Freeman was born on April 4, 1765, in Woodbridge, New Jersey. He was licensed to preach in 1793 by the Presbytery of New York and in 1794 was ordained and installed as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Hopewell, New Jersey, where he served until he moved to the Bethlehem Presbyterian Church at Newburgh, New York, in 1797. In 1805 he was called to the church in Bridgeton, New Jersey, where he served as pastor until his death in 1822.

Freeman was awarded a BA in 1790 and a MA in 1800 from Columbia College. In 1809 the College of New Jersey (Princeton) gave him an honorary MA. He served as a Director of Princenton Theological Seminary from 1815 to 1819. He published several sermons and contributed to religious periodicals. Among his publications were "A Sermon preached on the day appointed by the General Assembly as a day of Solemn Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer," 1798; a "Discourse on Psalmody," delivered before the Presbytery of Hudson, 1801; "A Baptismal Catechism," 1811; and a "Baptismal Dialogue" between a group of Anabaptist writers and himself.