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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:   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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