
Person Info
Elizabeth Moody: Birth: Apr 1769 in of, , New Hampshire or, Maine. Death: 27 Jun 1848 in Waterboro, York, Maine
Sarah Moody: Birth: 2 Apr 1771 in Waterboro, York, Maine. Death: 12 Jun 1852 in Otisfield, , Maine
Clement Moody: Birth: 1774 in Waterboro, York, Maine. Death: 11 May 1813 in Stowe, Lamoille, Vermont
David Moody: Birth: Abt 1775 in Waterboro, York, Maine. Death: 1840 in Pitt township, Wyandot, Ohio
Lois Moody: Birth: Abt 1777 in Waterboro, York, Maine. Death: Bef 1810 in Stow, Chittenden, Vermont
Dorothy or Dolly Moody: Birth: Abt 1780 in Waterboro, York, Maine. Death: Bef 1850 in Webster, Monroe, New York
Daniel Moody: Birth: Mar 1780 in Waterboro, York, Maine. Death: 8 Feb 1857 in Stowe, Lamoille, Vermont
Lydia Moody: Birth: 1783 in Waterboro, York, Maine. Death: 1823 in Stowe, Lamoille, Vermont
Hannah Moody: Birth: 1787 in Waterboro, York, Maine. Death: 26 Jan 1865
John Moody: Birth: 1791 in Waterboro, York, Maine. Death: 27 Apr 1875 in Stowe, Lamoille, Vermont
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Title: WorldConnect -- Barbara Baker Publication: email: [email protected] |
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Title: GenForum -- Melissa1 Publication: Email address hidden Text: Wow, a year later I get back to your reply...my apologies please ! YES, this is My family after all. After giving up hope I have now come full circle once again to realize that Mary LEAVITT and her husband Joseph MOODY both died of Smallpox, he in 1760 and she not too far after. They left behind a "family of children with the smallpox", per Kingston, NH records. The town tried to collect over $600.00 in expenses from someone or somewhere, on this families burial and medical costs not to mention the spread of the disease which took out several other town members, which the town blamed Joseph Moody for. They claimed he "secretly brought home smallpox" from his service in the French & Indian Wars under Gen. Amherst. Well, if you have read about Gen. Amherst, you will find that he purposely gave smallpox infested blankets in trade to the Indians in hopes of killing them all off. Apparently my 6th grt. grandfather Joseph Moody was one of his men infected with smallpox. Anyway, Joseph Moody and Mary Leavitt had several children but the only one ever named was their son Clement Moody who became known as "Capt." Clement (probably a self-given title since he only served a short time during the Rev. War), and it was this Capt. Clement and his son Clement who were the 2nd settlers of Stowe, VT. Henry Luce beat them into Stowe by one day otherwise Clement would have been the first settler of Stowe, VT. Joseph and Mary also had sons James (my 5th grt. grandfather) and John or Jonathan...we are still working on that one. There were probably other surviving children, perhaps daughters whose names we may never know due to marriages etc. Many of these orphaned children were probably sent to be raised by some of Mary Leavitt's or Joseph Moody's family members. May had family in York Co., ME and that is where my James Moody showed up in 1774 Buxton, York Co., ME to marry Elizabeth DONNELL. Her sister Lucy Donnell married Tristram Robinson Scribner whose grandparents were Edward SCRIBNER and Abigail LEAVITT daughter of Nehemiah Leavitt (son of Dea. John Leavitt and Sarah GILMAN) and Alice (Sealey?) CARTEE. The mixes and mingles among my family and this one are Numerous. The Scribner's, Gilman's, Leavitt's, and Moody's are all very well mixed. What a tangled mess to uncover too. Thanks for your info and again I apologize for being so long to reply back to you. |
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Title: GenForum -- Melissa1 Publication: Email address hidden Text: Joseph Moody: Fought in Ticonderoga, NY during the French and Indian Wars in Gen. Jeffrey Amherst's company. Joseph served in the last campaign of the Indian Wars under Gen. Jeffery Amherst. Amherst was known to have taken smallpox infested blankets and given them to the Indians in trade hoping to infect them so badly with the smallpox virus (early biologic warfare) that it would wipe them out completely. This Joseph came home to NH with smallpox in 1760 and died. Several of his family also died from the disease. In 1762 the Selectmen of Brentwood petitioned the colonial government for reimbursment for expenses incurred for all the medical and burial costs of Joseph's family and others in town who died from the disease. They blamed solely Joseph Moody for "secretly bringing smallpox" to their community and the petition went on to say that Joseph "left a family of children naked and starving with no means of support for them"....which implies that his wife Mary died as well. Nonetheless, he was known to have children who survived. A son Clement did survive; he was known to have a brother James and a brother John or Jonathan Moody. After the smallpox deaths of their family, Clement was probably old enough to be on his own while James and John probably moved to stay with other family.members, possibly in Maine. James seems to appear out of nowhere a full grown man in Buxton and marries Elizabeth Donnell in Jan. 1774 and serves his time in the Rev. War, has at least 3 known children named James, Sarah and Joseph, (Joseph whom I truly believe he named after his father, as Elizabeth's father was Benjamin), and then at some point before Sept. 4, 1785 James is dead or at least his wife Elizabeth thinks he is because when she reappears in the same church in Buxton where they were married on this Sept. date, the records call her "Widow". She and her 3 children are being Baptized on this date. So her children were all born between Jan. 1774 and Sept. 4, 1785 Melissa: Moody Genforum |
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Title: WorldConnect website -- Barbara Baker Page: Baker-Byrd-Logan and Allied Families Update Publication: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bakerbyrd&id=I27658 email: [email protected] |
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Title: WorldConnect website -- Barbara Baker Page: Baker-Byrd-Logan and Allied Families Update Publication: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bakerbyrd&id=I27658 email: [email protected] |
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Note: Dear Mr. Leavitt, I am researching Jeremiah Leavitt, christened in Exeter NH, 12 Feb 1749; m Mary Blunt [email protected] In your notes, do you happen to know if Jeremiah of Exeter NH owned a sawmill in Raymond NH - a town which borders Exeter? A Jeremiah Leavitt of Exeter, in 1783, sued Clement Moody of Raymond NH for a debt owed him for "board hemlock". He ultimately won the suit in 1795, as Clement Moody (then of Enfield NH) was jailed in Haverhill NH. I am researching Mary Leavitt b 1720/21 who married Joseph Moody b 1720 of Brentwood NH. I believe that Mary Leavitt is the mother of Clement Moody b 1745 and that Jeremiah Leavitt is somehow related to Clement Moody - the man he sued. Any insight you might provide will be greatly appreicated. Barbara Greger [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From WorldConnect website, this quote from notes for Clement Moody, b.abt 1747 in Exeter, Rockingham, NH, d.4 Nov 1831 in Stowe, Lamoille, Vermont. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bakerbyrd&id=I27658 # ID: I27658 # Name: Clement Moody # Sex: M # Title: Capt. # Birth: ABT 1747 in Exeter, Rockingham, NH # Death: 4 NOV 1831 in Stowe, Lamoille, VT # Note: "Clement Moody 1745(46), went to Stowe on the land grants from Gov. Benning Wentworth of NH. Gov. Wentworth sold the rights to 64 proprietors who would sell them off for land speculation, and according to all Stowe History books none of the proprietors ever lived there. Clement Moody purchased the rights of the land in Stowe from a proprietor and would purchase more from tax sales. They were all farmers in Stowe, some very prosperous and some not so. According to Knights Pub. 1955, "by the amount of stone walls" located around he owned a large parcel of land." Stowe had become a chartered town on June 8, 1763, when governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire designated 64 men as "Proprietors". None of this original group was settled in the town and no settlement occured until 1793, two years after Vermont, as the fourteenth state joined the original thirteen of the United States of America. "The first settler, Oliver LUCE, arrived in Stowe in March of 1793 with his wife and two small daughters The second settler arrived the next day after Luce. He was Captain Clement Moody who settled south of the Lower Village, on what is now Route 100, near the present site of the Spruce Pond Building. Fifth generation members of this Moody family still live on nearby land. Captain Moody was shortly followed by other families including close relatives of Oliver Luce. Luce Hill to the southwest of the Mountain Road (Route 108) was named after Ivory Luce, a member of this family. Mr. KIMBALL and Joel Harris commenced settlements soon after, and Noah SCRIBNER came the year following. In 1798, there were about twenty families in the town, and in 1803, there were ninety resident families." Stowe Area Association Website; History of Stowe Oliver Luce seems to have come from Hartland, Windsor, VT where he appears on the 1790 census..also in that town were his brothers: Andrew, Moses and Ivory. Oliver was born 5 JUL 1765 in Chilmark, Dukes, Martha's Vineyard. He was son of Adonijah Luce of Tismark and Chilmark, MA who moved to Hartland, VT about 1788 with his 4 sons. There are many Luce households In Kennebec ME in 1800, the Luce family being that with whom Capt. Clement seems to have been in competition for the rush to Stowe in 1793. They must have been well acquainted with another in Maine and in Stowe. Robert, Daniel, Aubrey? in Misc. Gores and Settlements in Kennebec Co., Nathan, Elisha, and Alsbury? in Farmington (Industry), Kennebec, ME. In Stowe, VT are OLIVER, William and Andrew Luce. Other Moody family members living near the Luces in the Gores of Kennebec included Ephraim, Joseph Moody and Hannah Moody Jewett, all children of Samuel and Hannah Severance Moody. "Capt. Clement Moody b.1747 would own 300-500 acres of land in Stowe, VT from 1794-1831 at the time of his death in Stowe, VT. The parcels are located from the Waterbury, VT town line to his final homestead, but he also owned other parcels of land all over the Town of Stowe that he would acquire from citizens, not just land grants. Capt. Clement and family members would build a log cabin "on what in 1869 was known as the Azro Slayton place"; (note 1869 vs 1794 dates) and Capt. Clement would build his frame house on another purchase he has made from citizen Thomas, and this Thomas land joins his other holdings that son Daniel Moody acquires in 1804. Clement Jr. would now have the log cabin to himself for his growing his family and land was given to him also. Capt. Clement Moody returns to ME again, and brings his wife Mary, and their remaining children in 1794 to the Town of Stowe, VT. Capt. Clement Moody dies in Stowe, VT. Nov. 4, 1831 and is buried in Old Yard Cemetery in Stowe,. VT The word "Capt." appears on his death certificate as well as in the Stowe History books. Clement Moody b. abt.1747 comes from Waterboro, ME with the finances as he is already established in Waterboro and leaving for land prospects in Stowe, VT given by NH grants. Capt Clement made large land purchases and sales of land recorded on the very next day. (York Co. Land Rec.) He was elected first constable and highway surveyor in Waterboro and then would later be elected highway surveyor in Stowe in 1797, but most importantly he became Treasurer in Stowe, in 1797 with other elected posts." bjsvt "A search of the records in the Registry of deeds at Alfred reveals that Clement Moody of Stow, then in the County of Chittenden, [now County of Lamoille] Vt., found his way (he was returning to Waterboro, his old town of residence for business purposes, not to live at this time) into town and being satisfied that there was an opportunity for a 'living' purchased from James Barnes December 28, 1795, from John Wheelwright April 28, 1801 and from John Smith February 13, 1802 tracts of land which . . . contained more than 300 acres. The record of these conveyances is found in Volume 68 at Pages 194, 195 and 196. This John Smith was the first settler in Waterboro and was neighbor of Cpt. Clement in Waterboro, 1790) That Clement Moody had a large family is indicated by the abundance of stone walls that yet remain and the record of vital statistics which show: Elizabeth Moody married Joseph Pike, Jr. Dec. 20, 1787; Sarah Moody married Edward Scribner, Jr. 19 November 1789; Clement Moody, Jr. married Mehetable Scribner Jan. 1, 1794. Lois m. John Pike April 7, 1796. Records of the following generation show that Moody Pike m. Sally Fisk Jan. 1, 1816." From: History of Waterboro titled WATERBORO, YORK COUNTY, MAINE, 1768 - 1955 [op. cit.], Ernest G. Knight Stowe was Chittenden Co. in 1800 and 1810, Washington in 1820 and 1830, Lamoille by 1840." bjsvt "Captain Clement Moody of Stowe seemed to shuttle back and forth from Stowe, to the Waterboro area of Maine, buying and selling property, then finally settling in Stowe . Capt. Moody was returning to the Alfred property to buy more land and Maine land records show that he purchased 300 acres of land on Dec. 28, 1796. He was a man of means, but his son Clement Jr. was not. Something was going on there. He may have been in the lumber business." bjsvt CAPT CLEMENT MOODY married to MARY MOODY Died Nov. 4, 1831 D. March 9,1842 84 yrs 94yrs Old Yard * Prob. wife of Cpt.Moody Stowe, Vermont Bur Old Yard, Stowe, VT *this is written on the death certificate Source: Death Certificates from Vermont Vital Statistics and Research, Middlesex Office: Microfilm Reviewed personally by bjsvt FIRST TOWN MEETING IN 1797 �In 1797, 2d Monday in March, the first Town Meeting was called by William Utley, Justice of the Peace, to be held at the dwelling house of Lowden Case, the purpose of organizing the town.� Lowden Case, Moderator Josiah Hurlbut, Town Clerk JOEL HARRIS, Selectman Ebenezer Wakefield, Selectman CLEMENT MOODY, Treasurer Lowden Case, First Constable DAVID MOODY, Second Constable CLEMENT MOODY, JOEL HARRIS and Ebenezer Wakefield, Listers Abner Bickford, First town grand juror Lowden Case, Pound-keeper Oliver Luce, William Utley and John Turner, Fence-viewers CLEMENT MOODY, Amasa Marshall, and Josiah Dean, Surveyors of Highways Amasa Walker, Sealer of Weights and Measures John Turner, Sealer of Leather Joshua Lamb, Hayward Robert Knapp, Hayward John Bryant, Tything Man The names of those who took the FREEMAN�S OATH in the town of Stowe, in the year A.D. 1802, Sept. 7. Peter Currier Joshia Dean Asa Raymond Noah Churchill Samuel Butts, Jr. Nicholas Henderson Joel HARRIS Stephen Knight CLEMENT MOODY JR Jerimiah Chapman Noah P. Heydon Stephen Waters Joseph Fitch Jr. Samuel Buck Isaac Leighton CLEMENT MOODY Chandler Heydon Warren Luce Ira Kimball Elijah Haydon Aaron KELLOGG Thomas B. Downer Stephen Bennett Nathan Robinson Joshua Dean Jr. DANIEL MOODY Nathaniel Butts Joshua Butts William Chaffee Calvin Sartle Samuel Marshall John Seabury Jedediah Kimball William Pattengill William Churchill Joseph Marshall Elias Kingbey Abel Stiles Jared George Francis E. Story Samuel Pierce John Rice Paul Sanborn Samuel Henderson Asiel Clark William Utley Uriah Wilkins Dexter Parker THE HISTORY OF STOWE to 1869, by Mrs. M.N. Wilkins Census Data In 1790 Waterboro there is a "Clament" Moody with the following household: This is surely Cpt. Clement who went to Stowe in 1796. His household has 2-2-4 (2 males 16+, 2males 16+ and 4 females): 2 older daughters were not in household; Elizabeth m. in 1887, Waterboro and was living with her husband and Clement's neighbor, Joseph Pike, Jr; they had 1 child at the time (1-1-1) Sarah m. in 1789 to Waterboro neighbor Edward Scribner, Jr. and was in own household in 1790. (1-0-1) Capt Clement's 1790 household, Waterboro:(2 2 4) 2 males under 16= Daniel and David 2 males 16+= Clement, Sr. and Jr. 4 females= Mary, Dolly, Lydia, and Hannah Daughters Sarah and Elizabeth are already in their husband's households and live almost next door; Edward Scribner, Jr., and Joseph Pike, Jr. respectively. BJB "David Moody and John Moody belong as being sons of CLEMENT MOODY 1745 of Stowe. David Moody B. abt 1775 fits in the 1790 ME Census, with brother, Daniel Moody B. 1880 . David Moody is married in Stowe in 1797 to Priscilla Cady. John is born 1791 after the 1790 census in Waterboro and fits into the Stowe 1810 census, as he was born in 1791." Comm. from bjsvt Also, John m. Priscilla Cady's younger sister, Rebecca in 1811. BJB "Moody Pond (in Waterboro) was our Clements Place. It is a land mark. One of the Stowe books talk about the Grist Mill and the AJ Slayton Farm, where Clement built the first frame house. This is the same place that Marge Andrus' grandmother (descendant of Gilman Moody, son of Daniel and Hannah Town Moody) was raised. The ruins of the Grist Mill are still there. The Cady Mill, where Rebecca Cady's father ran his tannery is next door. Cpt. Clement Moody was neighbors with Jason Cady and his son John married the daughter Rebecca Cady. They all worked at the mill at one time or another. Daniel Moody bought the Slayton Place from his father. John and Rebecca moved into town. John's daughter, Priscilla died a spinster on the farm. I have letters from Strong to Danny asking how she was doing." 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