Deacon John Moody

-John MOODY, second son of George Moody, of Moulton, Co. Suffolk, who #147;#was famous for his good housekeeping and plain dealing,” by his wife, Lydia,1 came in 1633 to Roxbury, says the Church record; freeman, Mass., Nov. 5, 1633; was au original proprietor, Hartford, 1639, and his home-lot was on Main St., opposite to George Wyllys's lot; townsman 1639, 1640; Lieut. in 1640; he d. prob. in 1655 ; will dated July 23, 1655; inv. Dec. 6, 1655; £300. 14: mentions wife Sarah, son Samuel, and leaves £25 to Elizabeth Pepper. Mrs. Sarah Moody d. in Hadley in 1671. - Ch.: i. Samuel; he removed to Hadley in 1659; m. (1) Hannah-; (2) Sarah, dau. of John Deming, of Wethelsfield. He d. in Hadley, Sept. 22, 1689. His widow d. Sept. 29, 1717.2 His eldest son, John, returned to Hartford, m. Sarah Evetts, Apr. 3, 1700, and had descendants in West Hartford and New Hartford.

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Biographical Summary:

John Moody, second son of George Moody, of Moulton, Co. Suffolk, who " was famous for his good housekeeping and plain dealing," by his wife, Lydia, came in 1633 to Roxbury, says the Church record; freeman, Massachusetts, November 5, 1633; was an original proprietor, Hartford, 1639, and his home-lot was on Main St., opposite to George Wyllys's lot; townsman 1639, 1640; Lieutenant, in 1640; he died probably in 1655; will dated July 23, 1655; inventory December 6, 1655; £300. 14: mentions wife Sarah, son Samuel, and leaves £25 to Elizabeth Pepper. Mrs. Sarah Moody died in Hadley in 1671.

Children:

i. Samuel; he removed to Hadley in 1659; married (1) Hannah ____;(2) Sarah, daughter of John Deming, of Wethersfield. He died in Hadley, September 22, 1689. His widow died September 29, 1717. His eldest son, John, returned to Hartford, married Sarah Evetts, Apr. 3, 1700, and had descendants in West Hartford and New Hartford.

SOURCE: James Hammond Trumbull, editor, The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Volume 1 (Boston, Massachusetts: Edward L. Osgood, 1886), page 252. Retrieved: 3 May 2011 from Google Books

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Name: John MOODY
Sex: M

Birth: 08 APR 1593 in Moulton, Co. Suffolk, England 1 2 3 4
Death: 25 JUL 1655 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut 4 2 5 1 Quality: 2

Residence: Hadley, MA 6

Event: Freeman 05 NOV 1635

Father: George MOODY b: BET 1538 AND 1597 in Moulton, Co. Suffolk, England Mother: Margaret CHENERY

Marriage 1 Sarah COX b: BEF 17 MAY 1598 in Bury St. Edmunds St. James, Suffolk, England c: 17 MAY 1598 in Bury St. Edmunds St. James, Suffolk, England

   Married: 08 SEP 1617 in Bury St. Edmunds St. James, England 1 2 9

Children

   Has No Children John MOODY b: BEF 03 DEC 1617 in Bury St. Edmunds St. James, Suffolk, England c: 03 DEC 1617 in Bury St. Edmunds St. James, Suffolk, England

Has No Children John MOODY b: BEF 01 JAN 1619 in Bury St. Edmunds St. James, Suffolk, England c: 01 JAN 1618/19 in Bury St. Edmunds St. James, Suffolk, England
Has No Children John MOODY b: BEF 03 MAR 1622 in Bury St. Edmunds St. James, Suffolk, England c: 03 MAR 1621/22 in Bury St. Edmunds St. James, Suffolk, England
Has No Children Hanna MOODY b: BEF 11 NOV 1624 in Bury St. Edmunds St. James, Suffolk, England c: 11 NOV 1624 in Bury St. Edmunds St. James, Suffolk, England
Has No Children Samuel MOODY b: BEF 16 JUL 1631 in Bury St. Edmunds St. James, Suffolk, England c: 16 JUL 1631 in Bury St. Edmunds St. James, Suffolk, England
Has No Children John MOODY b: OCT 1632 in Moulton, Co. Suffolk, England c: OCT 1632 in Moulton, Co. Suffolk, England
Has Children Samuel MOODY b: ABT 1634 in Roxbury, MA
Sources:

   Title: THE MOODY FAMILY or Records of the DESCENDANTS OF MR. JOHN MOODY OF HARTFORD, CONN 1636

   Abbrev: THE MOODY FAMILY or Records of

   Author: Collected and Compiled By Rev. Plinius Moody, AM 1856 Organized And Recorded By Theodore L. Moody And Maxine Bull Moody Nov 1991

   Publication: http://members.aol.com/janau/moody.htm#2980

   Note:

   I picked this up at http://members.aol.com/janau/moody.htm#2980. I've not looked at the actual source.

Title: Lieutenant Samuel Smith

   Abbrev: Lieutenant Samuel Smith

   Author: James William Hook

   Note:

   I picked this up at http://members.aol.com/janau/moody.htm#2980. I've not seen the source directly.

Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700

   Abbrev: New England Marriages Prior to

   Author: Clarence Almon Torrey

   Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985

   Repository:

       Name: Largo Library

Page: page 515, year only
Title: The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England; 1620-1633, Volume: 3 volumes

   Abbrev: Great Migration Begins

   Author: Robert Charles Anderson

   Publication: Great Migration Study Project; New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1995

   Repository:

       Name: Living /Deming/

       Name: Living /Deming/

   Page: Vol. II, page 1275

Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700

   Abbrev: New England Marriages Prior to

   Author: Clarence Almon Torrey

   Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985

   Repository:

       Name: Largo Library

   Page: 515, year only

Title: The History of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut, Volume: 2 volumes

   Abbrev: Hist. of Ancient Wethersfield

   Author: Henry R. Stiles and Sherman W. Adams

   Publication: Picton Press, Camden, Maine, 1995, Original Date, 1904

   Repository:

       Name: Living /Deming/

       Name: Living /Deming/

   Page: v II, page 272

Title: A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register, Isbn: 0-8063-0759-5, Volume: 4 volumes

   Abbrev: Savage Dictionary

   Author: Savage, James

   Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1977, Original Date, 1860-62

   Note:

   Also have as a PDF.

   Repository:

       Name: Living /Deming/

       Name: Living /Deming/

   Page: Vol. III, page 226

Title: A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register, Isbn: 0-8063-0759-5, Volume: 4 volumes

   Abbrev: Savage Dictionary

   Author: Savage, James

   Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1977, Original Date, 1860-62

   Note:

   Also have as a PDF.

   Repository:

       Name: Living /Deming/

       Name: Living /Deming/

   Page: Vol. III, page 225

Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700

   Abbrev: New England Marriages Prior to

   Author: Clarence Almon Torrey

   Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985

   Repository:

       Name: Largo Library

   Page: page 515, identified as John Moody and Sarah Cox; shows a birth in 1633 in Roxbury/Hartford 

GEDCOM Note

Category:Founders of Hartford Category:Roxbury, Massachusetts Category: Given name J challenge, Biography Builders

Biography

Birth / Baptism

John Moody was baptized in Moulton, Suffolk, England on 8 Apr 1593, son of George and Margaret (Chenery) Moody of Moulton.<ref name=Anderson>Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants toNew England 1620-1633. Volumes I-III, 3 vols. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. p. 1273-1276</ref><ref name=Redstone>Redstone, Lilian J. "Genealogical Research in England - Moody" New England Historical and Genealogical Register 80:313, 314, 326</ref><ref>Nicholson, Frederick J. "The Chenery Ancestry of John Moody and of Frances (Moody) Kilbourn of Hartford and Wethersfield, Conn." The American Genealogist. 64:1-11</ref>

Marriage

He married in Bury St. Edmunds St. James, Suffolk, England, 8 Sept 1617 Sarah Cox, bp Bury St. Edmunds St. James 17 May 1698.<ref name=Anderson /><ref name=Redstone /> "Sarah Moody, the wife of John Moody." wasa member John Eliot's church.<ref name=Eliot /> She died 4 Nov 1671, in Hadley, Massachusetts, where she lived with her son.<ref>Anderson: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. cites Hadley VR 80 -note Hadley VR "Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850(Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016)." does not have this date</ref>

Immigration

"John Moody. he came to the Land in the yeare 1633: he had no childrenhe had 2 men servants, y^t were vngodly, ..." <ref name=Eliot>"Rev. John Eliot's Record of Church Members." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 35:242. 1881.</ref><ref name=RC>A reportof the Record Commissioners, containing the Roxbury land and church records by Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1884. p. 78</ref> These men shortly drowned due to their own negligence.<ref>Winthrop, John. Winthrop's Journal, "History of New England," 1630-1649: Volume 1 Published New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,1908. p. 103 SeeAug 6 1633</ref>

Roxbury, Massachusetts

He and his wife were admitted to the Roxbury Church.<ref name=Eliot /><ref name=RC/>
He was made a freeman 5 November 1633.<ref name=MBRec>Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet (editor). Records of the governor and company of theMassachusetts bay in New England. Printed by order of the legislature. Vol. 1. 1628-1641. Boston: W. White, printer to the commonwealth, 1853. (freeman p. 368; deputy p. 156) </ref>

Deputy to the General Court for Roxbury 2 Sept 1635.<ref name=MBRec />

Hartford, Connecticut

caption=Founder's Monument John Moody is considered one of the Founders of Hartford, Connecticut,and his name is on the west face of the Founders Monument. He was frequently referred to as Mr. John Moody<ref>Note: No records found that called him Deacon.</ref> 1 Aug. 1639 "Jno. Moody had an attachment graunted vppon the g[oods ofThomas] Gaines, in the the hands of Mr. Stoughton, for a debt [of 5lbweight of Tobacco.] and on 5 Sept 1639 he bought an action against Blanchford for a fowling piece which he didn't pay for. 27 Jan 1641/2 John was in court about the estate of Richard Lyman<ref name=ConnRec>Trumbull, J. Hammond. (transcriber). The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony May 1665. Hartford: Brown and Parsons, 1850. AKA Colonial Records of Connecticut. Volume I. 1636-1665 Google Books (debt p 29;Blanchford debt 33; Lyman estate p 81; trainband p 48)</ref>

size=m 23 Dec 1639. John Moody and others were chosen to order the affairs ofthe town.<ref>Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society (The Connecticut Historical Society and the Society of Colonial Wars in the Stateof Conneticut, Hartford 1860-1928). Vol. 6 Hartford Town Votes Vol. 11635-1716. p. 8 See also pp 8, 17, 22, 37,38,40,51, 225,227</ref> February 1639. By this time John had been granted six parcels of land and purchased another two, which he exchanged for a different plot with John Grave, all amounting to roughly 60 acres.<ref>Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society (The Connecticut Historical Society and theSociety of Colonial Wars in the State of Conneticut, Hartford 1860-1928) Vol 14. Original Distribution of The Lands in Hartford Among the Settlers 1639 pp 210-212</ref><ref name=Anderson /> His house lot was #150 on the map in the western part of town near the Ox Pasture. 10 April 1640. Lieutenant of the Hartford train band<ref name=ConnRec />

Death

John Moody died in Hartford between 25 Jul 1655 (date of will) and 6 Dec 1655 (inventory).<ref name=probate />

Last Will & Testament

Dated 23 Jul 1655; proved Dec 1655; inventoried 6 Dec 1655: Valued at £300.14.06<ref>Anderson, p 1264-5, citing Hartford PD Case #3758and Manwaring 1:138, and RPCC 156</ref><ref name=probate>Manwaring, Charles William. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. Volume 1. Hartford District 1635-1700. Hartford, Conn., R.S. Peck & Co.,Printers, 1904. p. 138</ref>

• my loving wife Sarah Moody sole executrix
• to my son Samuel Moody
• Elizabeth Pepper

Children

John and Sarah had many children baptized and buried at Bury St. Edmunds St. James parish. One was baptized at Moulton. The last Samuel, whois the only known child to have survived to adulthood was born in NewEngland.

1. (possibly) John bp 3 Dec 1617 no further record<ref name=Anderson />
2. John bp 1 Jan 1618/19 ; bur 5 Jan 1618/9<ref name=Anderson />
3. John bp 3 March 1621/2; bur 5 March 1621/2<ref name=Anderson />
4. Hannah bp 11 Nov. 1624; bur the same day<ref name=Anderson />
5. Samuel bp 16 July 1631; bur. 19 July 1631<ref name=Anderson />#John bp. Moulton Suffolk Oct 1632; no further record<ref name=Anderson />
6. Samuel, b abt 1634; m abt 1659 Sarah _____.<ref name=Anderson />

Sources

<references />

See also:* Barbour, Lucius Barnes, 1982, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., and Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc., Glastonbury, Connecticut (1982), pp.706

• link to Anderson's Great Migration at AmericanAncestors (subs. req.)

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GEDCOM Note

Potential Parents:
George Moody 1560–1607 G7VQ-J6L​​
Marriage: 12 October 1581 Moulton, Suffolk, England
Margaret Newce Chenery 1568–1602 LT47-LFJ</line><line /><line>4/30/22</line><line />