Freeman Nickerson (February 5, 1779 – January 22, 1847)[1] was an early missionary in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and a member of Zion's Camp.

That fall, he served a mission in western New York and Upper Canada with Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.

In 1839 he and his family moved west: they spent the winter in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he baptized about 40 people and established the first branch of the church in that city.

One of his converts, Abijah Tewkesbury, offered his shipping office located at 82 Commercial St to be used as the meeting place of the first branch of Mormons in Boston, which had about 30 members.

[4] Nickerson died in 1847 along the banks of the Chariton River in Iowa as the Latter-day Saints were moving west.