Orders, Decorations and Medals

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Chateauguay (N. Freer, Mily. Sec. & A.D.C.) nearly eaxtremely fine and very rare £3000-4000

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Noah Freer was appointed Ensign in the Nova Scotia Fencibles on 25 October 1810. He was appointed Military Secretary and also Aide de Camp to Lieut.-General Sir George Prevost, Bart., Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in North America, on 17 August and 11 November 1811, respectively. He became Lieutenant in the Canadian Fencibles on 25 June 1812, and Captain in the New Brunswick Fencibles on 25 October 1813, the day before he took part in the action at Chateauguay. Freer was also the Army Prize Agent for Mackinac and Detroit, and was later Cashier of the Quebec Bank. He married in 1824, Miss Anderson, niece of Philip van Cortlandt, Deputy Barrack-Master General.