Lt. Col. Moses Greenleafe Gerrish

Biography

Moses Gerrish, son of William Gerrish, was born May 9, 1656 at Newbury, Massachusetts.[1]

Moses Gerrish[2]

Title

Colonel[2]

Birth

09 MAY 1656[2]
Marriage

24 SEP 1677 Wife: Jane Sewell[2]
Death

04 DEC 1694[2]

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Moses Gerrish (1656 - 1694)

Colonel Moses Gerrish aka Gerish

Born 9 May 1656 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Son of William Gerrish and Joanna (Lowell) Gerrish

Brother of Mary (Oliver) Appleton [half], John Gerrish, Abigail Gerrish, William Gerrish, Joseph Gerrish, Benjamin Gerrish, Elizabeth (Gerrish) Greenleaf, Mary (Gerrish) Dole, Anna Gerrish, Judith Gerrish and Henry Gerrish [half]

Husband of Jane (Sewell) Gerrish — married 24 Sep 1677 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America

Father of William Gerrish, Jane Gerrish, Joanna (Gerrish) Pierce, Joseph Gerrish, Sarah (Gerrish) Woodbridge, Elizabeth (Gerrish) Noyes, Mary Gerrish, Moses Gerrish, Jane Gerrish and John Gerrish

Died 4 Dec 1694 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Profile last modified 16 Jan 2021 | Created 11 Oct 2011

2 Sources

Sources

↑ Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, database, FamilySearch : 15 January 2020, Moses Gerish, 1656. FamilySearch LinkHis name is spelled Gerish in this record. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Lowell
Genealogy Report: Descendants of William Gerrish, genealogy.com, http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/t/d/Patricia-St-denis-Scituate/GENE3...
The Gerrish Family (Part I) by Edward Gerrish Mair, http://www.meaddesign.com/Sons/Gerrish.pdf
The Gerrish Family - Saunders Family History, http://www.saundersfamilyhistory.com/images/Chapter%2014%20-%20The%...
Lowell, Delmar R. The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells of America from 1639-1899 (The Tuttle Co., Vermont, 1899) Page 10
Ancestry of Richard Bruce Cheney, U.S. Secretary of Defense 1989-1993, U.S. Vice President from 2001, (http://www.wargs.com/political/cheney.html)
Bowen's Boston News-Letter and City Record (Abel Bowen, Boston, May 13, 1826) Vol. 1, Page 248

Col. Moses Gerrish was born on 9 May 1656 in Newbury, Massachusetts.2 Col. Moses Gerrish died on 4 December 1694 in Newbury at the age of 38.2,4

He was the son of Capt. William Gerrish and Joanna Lowell.3,4

Col. Moses Gerrish married Jane Sewall, daughter of Rev. Henry Sewall and Jane Dummer, on 24 September 1677 in Newbury.4,5

Children of Col. Moses Gerrish and Jane Sewall

1. Joanna Gerrish2 b. 3 Oct 1678
2. Jane Gerrish4 b. c 1680
3. Colonel Joseph Gerrish+6 b. 20 Mar 1681/82, d. 10 Jan 1765
4. Sarah A. Gerrish+4 b. 25 Dec 1683
5. Elizabeth Gerrish4 b. 27 Dec 1685
6. William Gerrish4
7. Mary Gerrish4 b. 20 Sep 1687
8. Moses Gerrish+4 b. 17 Feb 1691/92, d. 12 Feb 1763
9. John Gerrish7 b. 2 Apr 1695, d. b 30 May 1743

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Citations

1. [S581] Delmar R. Lowell, The Lowells of America, p. 10.
2. [S10] Charles G. Steffen, The Sewall children in Colonial New England, p.167.
3. [S5] William Darcy McKeough, McKeough Family Tree.
4. [S25] Samuel Sewall, Diary of Samuel Sewall (1973 ed.), p. 1082.
5. [S123] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
6. [S4] Sandra MacLean Clunies, Clunies files.
7. [S25] Samuel Sewall, Diary of Samuel Sewall (1973 ed.), p. 1083.

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Birth info source: History of Newburyport, Mass: 1764 - 1905, volume 1. page 386

Birth - http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Newbury/aBirthsG.shtml (Gerrish) "Moses, s. [Capt. and S. dup.] William, May 9, 1656"

Marriage - http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Newbury/aMarriagesG.shtml (Gerrish) "Moses, and Mrs. Jane Sewall, Sept. 24, 1677"

Death - http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Newbury/aDeathsG.shtml (Gerrish) "Moses, Dec. 4, 1694"

Moses Gerrish was the son of William Gerrish 1617–1687 & Joanna Lowell.

married Jane Sewall on Sept. 24, 1677 in Newbury, Mass.

William Gerrish was born 14 JUL 1692 in Newbury, Essex, MA. He was the son of Moses Gerrish and Jane Sewall.

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