Edward Hack Moseley

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Col. Edward Hack Moseley, I

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Birthplace: Virginia Beach, Princes Anne County, Virginia, British Colonial America
Death: October 27, 1782 (65-66)
Virginia Beach, Princess Anne County, Virginia, Colonial America
Place of Burial: Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Capt Hillary Moseley and Hannah Moseley
Husband of Frances Moseley and Mary Daingerfield
Father of Edward Hack Moseley, II; John Bassett Moseley; Mary Walke; Alexander McKenzie Moseley and Samuel Moseley

Occupation: Army Colonel
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About Edward Hack Moseley

Death also reported as April 23, 1755

Member of Houseof Burgess, Princess Ann Co, VA. Colonel High Sheriff. Vestryman "Old Dominion Church." Lived at Rolleston Hall. Buried at Greenwich, one of the Moseley Homesteads in Princess Ann County.

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From the Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography:

"Moseley, Edward Hack, son of Hillary Hannah (Hack) Moseley, was a burgess for Princess Anne county in 1752, 1753, 1754, 1755; 1755, surveyor and searcher of Elizabeth and Nansemond rivers; burgess for Princess Anne from 1762 to 1769. He was also sheriff and colonel of the county; a Loyalist in the revolution and friend of Benedict Arnold. He married Mary Bassett, daughter of Colonel William Bassett, of "Eltham," New Kent county, who died in her thirty-eighth year, August 23, 1755, and is buried at "Greenwich," Princess Anne county, one of the Moseley seats. He married (second) Frances Wylie, who survived him. His will was dated May 24, 1782, and was proved April 10, , 1783. He left a son Edward Hack Moseley, Jr. His residence in Princes Anne was called "Rolleston."


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Edward Hack Moseley's Timeline

1716
1716
Virginia Beach, Princes Anne County, Virginia, British Colonial America
1740
1740
Princess Anne, VA, United States
1740
Princess Anne, Virginia, United States
1741
1741
1745
1745
Virginia, United States
1764
1764
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
1782
October 27, 1782
Age 66
Virginia Beach, Princess Anne County, Virginia, Colonial America
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Old Donation Episcopal Church, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States