David Moseley

He was a staunch patriot,

a selectman for several years, serving in other offices also,

and chosen, in 1775, one of "the Committee of Correspondence

and Safety to carry out the Plans of the Provincial Congress appointed

by the town." While serving in the war for independence

he was commissioned colonel of the Third regiment of

militia in Hampshire county. In his diary we find: "

24th Day of Sept. 1777. I went to Saratoga in the alarm

of the militia: General Burgoyne was Delivered into our hands

a prisoner of War the 17th day of Oct. 1777. I returned home

the 19th day of Oct. from the camps."

This Captain, afterwards Colonel, Moseley, had charge of at

least one tory when a John Ingersoll was examined by the committee

and placed under guard.