Which preposition to use with freeman

of Occurrences 96%

The parish officers, including overseers of the poor, assessors, and way-wardens, are still elected in vestry-meeting by the freemen of the township.

in Occurrences 23%

"Come on," commanded Dave, leaping up, "we'll run up to the deck above, and see if we can't find Mr. Freeman in.

for Occurrences 8%

"I saw Major Freeman for a moment as he was leaving," he said, "and gathered that the police were still at a loss for any satisfactory explanation as to how the crime was committed.

at Occurrences 7%

"I will go and see Major Freeman at once."

on Occurrences 5%

Mr. Freeman on the cantonal assemblies of Switzerland.

from Occurrences 4%

"Did you borrow your notions of freemen from the Italians?" "No: from the Hunts, Cartwrights, and such.

to Occurrences 4%

It was necessary to send these freemen to Miami County.

than Occurrences 4%

Greater privileges are allowed to men than to women, to freemen than to slaves, to fathers than to children.

by Occurrences 3%

" Resolved, That the people of Hungary are, and ought to remain a free and independent nation; that Louis Kossuth is their lawful governor, and that the Hungarian people should not be prevented from exercising the rights of freemen by the tyranny of Austria and Russia.

into Occurrences 2%

The same military reasons which induced the emperor Henry to enroll the ancient freemen into a regular corps of infantry, and to form them into a civil corporation, caused him also to metamorphose the feudal aristocracy into a regular troop of cavalry and a knightly institution.

within Occurrences 1%

According to the theory of judicial procedure among the Teutonic nations, judgment in criminal cases was given in the open court or placitum, where, besides the regular judges, all or any of the freemen within its jurisdiction were supposed to concur in the judgment and sentence.

like Occurrences 1%

Due to the fact that his grandmother was an Indian the daughter of an Indian chieftan, alleged to be buried in a vault in Baltimore County, Williams was a freeman like his father and hired himself out.

with Occurrences 1%

Morriston proceeded to acquaint Major Freeman with the discovered cause of the marks on the ladies' dresses, and they all went off to the lower room where the position of the stains was pointed out.

among Occurrences 1%

The defendant claimed the testimony of his lord, and further proved his innocence by a simple or threefold compurgationthat is, by the oath of a certain number of freemen among his neighbours, whose property gave them the required value in the eye of the law, and who swore together as "compurgators" that they believed his oath of denial to be "clean and unperjured."

Which preposition to use with  freeman