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  1. Clement Moody: Birth: Abt 1747 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire. Death: 4 Nov 1831 in Stowe, Lamoille, Vermont

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1. Title:   GenForum -- Melissa1
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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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a. Note:   GenForum message post, on 23 April 2003, by "melissal" (email address hidden) Searching for any family info on Mary Leavitt who married Joseph MOODY in New Hampshire prob. Kingston area on Nov. 24, 1742. Joseph Moody was born c1721 in Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH son of Clement Moody, Jr. and Elizabeth SCRIBNER. The story goes that Joseph brought home smallpox to his family and that he died as a result but so did several of his children. According to the town records, they wanted the family to pay for the medical and burial expenses that they had incurred which totaled over $600.00 which was an incredible amount of money back then. It is known that some of Joseph and Mary's children lived to adulthood and I am wondering if anyone has a list of the children who lived and particularly interested in if any of them was a son named James Moody born c1745.


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