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Note: Moses Hadley was the son of William Hadley and Elizabeth Warner of Yonkers, New York. Moses was the father of Thomas Benjamin Hadley. After T.B.J. Hadley's death his five daughter's wrote about their father in which they wrote that Moses was the son of William Hadley of Yonkers. In the "New Harlem Register" by Henry Tolar, 1903, Moses is listed as the second child in his family. The fourth child listed is Charles who is shown as being born in 1763. In the 1800 Census of South Carolina, St. Peters, Beaufort, he is listed as a male between 26-44. Moses was a member of the Westchester County Militia First Regiment in the American Revolution. It is likely that he was born about 1756 considering his military service. He is known to have moved to South Carolina to the Pipe Creek community which is near the Savannah River. He became a minister of the Pipe Creek Baptist Church in 1794. It is said that he came to South Carolina after the revolution and was ordained at the time. He married in 1791 Anne Grimbal Robert at Black Swamp, SC in the home of her parents. Moses Hadley along with several other families from the Black Swamp area of South Carolina near the waters of Bayou Sara Creek about four miles southwest of Woodville, Wilkinson County, MS. They became members of the Bethel Baptist Church C Congregation. Moses presided over the Mississippi Baptist Association in 1812, 1813, and 1815. He served on several committees preparing circular letters in 1810 and 1812. In 1812, he and Lawrence Scarborough went to Opelousas, La to ordain Joeseph Willis and to establish a Baptist Church. This church was constituted on November 13, 1812 and called Calvary in St. Landry Parish and was the first Baptist Church in that state west of the Mississippi River. Moses Hadley and Alexander Scott were preachers together both in South Carolina and in Mississppi. They are both buried in the Bethel Baptist Church Cemetary in Wilkinson County, MS near Woodville. The year of his death is noted in "A Popular History of Baptists in Mississippi" by Jesse Boyd, 1931. In the 1820, census of Mississippi, Anne Hadley is listed as head of household. Moses died in 1818. In the household are listed as one male between 10-16; one between 16-26, and one 26-45. Females listed were one 10 and under, one 10-16, one 16-25 and one over 45. Sources: "General Leroy Augustus Stafford, A Geneaology, Compiled by his grandson", Dr. G. M.G.Stafford, Claitors Publishing Division, 1969, Baton Rouge, LA. pp 324-325. "Our Family Circle", Annie Elizabeth Miller, The J. W. Burke Company, Macon, GA, 193, page 237. "Two Centuries of Lawtonville Baptists, 1775-1975", By Coy K. Johnston, Published by and the auspices of the Historical Committee of the Lawtonville Baptist Church, Estill, S.C. "Mississppi Baptist Preachers," Lovelace Savidge Foster, National Baptist Publishing Company, 1895. "A Popular History of of the Baptists in Mississippi," Jesse Laney Boyd, The Baptist Press, 1930. "The Baptist Record, " June 11, 1903, pp. 7-8 "South Carolina Baptists 1670-1805", Townsend, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1974 pp.51,51t,52,53. "The New Harlem Register, " by Henry Pennington Tolar, New Harlem Publishing, 1903, Page 322. South Carolina Federal Census of 1800 and Missippippi for 1820. History of Westchester County by J. Thomas Scharf lists Frederick, Issac, Joseph, Moses and Stephen as members of the First Regiment, Weschester County Militia.
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