Rev. Joshua Moody1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

#1519, b. 1633, d. 4 July 1697
FatherWilliam Moody b. c 1608, d. 25 Oct 1673
MotherSarah (?) b. c 1610, d. 13 Jan 1672/73

Spouse 1

Martha Collins b. 6 Sep 1639, d. b 24 Aug 1674
Children

Spouse 2

Anne Wall b. c 1640, d. 4 Jan 1698/99

BMDB

     Rev. Joshua Moody was born in England in 1633.11 He married, first, circa 1660, Martha Collins, daughter of Deacon Edward Collins and Martha Baylie.12 He married, second, in Portsmouth, Rockingham, NH, after 1674, Anne Wall; Anne was the widow of Samuel Jacob.12,13 He died in Boston, Suffolk, Mass, on 4 July 1697.14,15,16

Other Events

     Joshua and his parents emigrated from England to Ipswich, Essex, Mass, in 1634 on the Mary and John.17 Joshua graduated from Harvard, class of 1653. Rev. John Whiting was a classmate. Their wives were sisters. Thomas Shepard, 1635-1677, was also a classmate. Thomas was the son of Rev. Thomas Shepard, 1605-1649, paster of the First Church in Cambridge.18 Rev. Joshua Moody delivered the election sermon for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts in 1674 and 1685.5 He and Rev. Jonathan Russell officiated at the ordination of Rev. Jonathan Russell on 19 November 1683 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Mass; B. Church Records, 1639-1892, 007. Rev. Joshua Moody left a will in 1693 at Portsmouth, Rockingham, NH. It was proved in 12 July 1697.19

Time Line

Birth1633, England11
Emigration1634, Ipswich, Essex, MassWilliam Moody17
Graduation1653, Harvard, Cambridge, Middlesex, MassRev. John Whiting18
Marriagec 1660Martha Collins12
Birth of Daughter1662, Portsmouth, Rockingham, NHMartha Moody
Birth of Daughterc 1664, Portsmouth, Rockingham, NHSarah Moody12
Birth of Sonc 1669, Portsmouth, Rockingham, NHRev. Samuel Moody
Birth of Daughter1672, Boston, Suffolk, MassHannah Moody20
Birth of Daughterc 1673Abigail Moody
Milit-Beg1674, Ancient and Honorable Artillery5
Marriagea 1674, Portsmouth, Rockingham, NHAnne Wall12,13
Ordination1683, Barnstable, Barnstable, MassRev. Jonathan Russell
Death of Daughter1687Abigail Moody12
Will1693, Portsmouth, Rockingham, NH19
Death1697, Boston, Suffolk, Mass14,15,16
ChartsDescendants of John Collins
Descendants of William Moody
Deacon's Descendants
Edward + 1G
Edward + 2G
Edward + 3G
Edward + 4G
Edward + 5G

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Citations

  1. James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 4 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), 3:226.
  2. Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 2011), 2:1050.
  3. Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New England, 1620-1698 2 Vols., (Hartford: Silas Andrus & Son, (1702) 1853), 2:125 [Book 4, Chapter 7].
  4. John Farmer, A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England (Lancaster, Mass: Carter, Andrews, & Co., 1829), 198.
  5. Oliver Ayer Roberts, History of . . . the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1637-1888, 4 vols. (Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1895), 1:232, 275.
  6. John Langdon Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, 3 vols. (Cambridge: University Press: Welsh, Bigelow & Co., 1873-1885), 1:367-380.
  7. Jack L. White & D. Jolene White, The Bramford-Earls Colne Connection (Baltimore: Otter Bay Books, 2012), 145, 204.
  8. William Wyman Fiske, "The Wall Family of Essex," The American Genealogist 80 (2005), 01-10.
  9. Charles C.P. Moody, Biographical Sketches of the Moody Family. (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1847), 013-049.
  10. Robert Harry McIntire, Ancestry of Robert Harry McIntire and of Harriet Annette McIntire, his wife (Norfolk: n.pub., 1950), 369.
  11. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, 7 vols., (Boston: NEHGS, 1999-2011), 5:136.
  12. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), 487.
  13. Fiske, "Wall Family," TAG 80 (2005), 5.
  14. A Report of the Record Commissioners Containing Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699 (Document 130) (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1883), 236.
  15. Alonzo Hall Quint, Editor, Journal of the Rev. John Pike of Dover, NH (Cambridge: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1876), 19.
  16. M. Halsey Thomas, The Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729, 2 vols. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1973), 1:375.
  17. Anderson, GM2, 5:135.
  18. Sibley, Harvard Grads, 1:343, 367.
  19. NH Wills and Probate Records, 1643-1982 (n.p.: ), 2:31-32.
  20. Robert Moody Sherman and Verle Delano Vincent, Compilers, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 15, Family of James Chilton. (Plymouth, Mass: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2013), 040.