denominational name to "Free Baptists" suggests their liberal policy--indeed open communion is the main if not the only hindrance to union with the "regular" Baptist Church. Colleges founded by the denomination, all co-educational, are: Hillsdale College, opened at Spring Harbor as Michigan Central College in 1844, and established at Hillsdale, Michigan, in 1855; Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, 1863, now non-sectarian; Rio Grande College, Rio Grande, Ohio, 1876; and Parker College, Winnebago City, Minnesota, opened in 1888. At the close of 1909 there were 1294 ministers, 1303 churches, and 73,536 members of the denomination in the United States. _The Morning Star_ of Boston, established in 1826, is the most prominent journal published by the church. In British North America, according to a Canadian census bulletin of 1902, there were, in 1901, 24,229 Free Baptists, of whom 15,502 were inhabitants of New Brunswick, 8355 of Nova Scotia, 246 of Ontario, and 87 of Quebec. The United Societies of Free Baptist Young People, an international organization founded in 1888, had in 1907 about 15,000 members. At the close of 1907 the "Original Freewill Baptists" had 120 ministers, 167 churches, and 12,000 members, practically all in the Carolinas. See I. D. Stewart, _History of the Free Will Baptists_ (Dover, N. H., 1862) for 1780-1830, and his edition of the _Minutes of the General Conference of the Free Will Baptist Connection_ (Boston, 1887); James B. Taylor, _The Centennial Record of the Free Will Baptists_ (Dover, 1881); John Buzzell, _Memoir of Elder Benjamin Randall_ (Parsonfield, Maine, 1827); and P. Richardson, "Randall and the Free Will Baptists," in _The Christian Review_, vol. xxiii. (Baltimore, 1858). FREEBENCH, in English law, the interest which a widow has in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in the case of freeholds. It depends upon the custom of the manor, but as a general rule the widow takes a third for her life of the lands of which her husband dies seised, but it may be an estate greater or less than a third. If the husband surrenders his copyhold and the surrenderee is admitted, or if he contracts for a sale, it will defeat the widow's freebench. As freebench is regarded as a continuation of the husband's estate, the widow does not (except by special custom) require to be admitted.