All Joseph and Sarah’s children were born in Hadley, but recorded in South Hadley. ®673
He was a Corporal in Captain Oliver Lyman’s Company, of Colonel Nicholas Dike’s Regiment during the Revolutionary War. He was from Granby at the time of his marriage to Abigail Nash in 1789. ®656 On the 2 August 1790 US Census Daniel Moody’s family of 3 men 16 and older, 2 boys under 16, and 2 females live in South Hadley. Daniel and Abigail’s first child Daniel Jr. was born 28 March 1790, so another family of 2 men 16 and over, and 1 boy under 16, and one female lived with them. This number and sex fits his widowed father Joseph and his brother Seth, Seth’s wife and their three girls. ®1046 On the 1800 US Census he and Abigail live in their own home in South Hadley with their four sons, a man 16 to 25 years old and a woman 26 to 44 years of age. ®733 Abigail died on 4 June 1802. He was the executor of the will of his brother Noah in 1812. ®1 On the 1820 US Census he is 65 years old and lives in South Hadley with his third wife, Rebecah, age 52, one girl and one boy under 10 and one girl age 10 to 16. ®1047He was married three times. ®687 He died of a fever at age 73. ®408 Daniel made his will on 26 April 1828, the day before he died, naming wife Rebecca; sons Spencer and Cotton (to have the homestead, gristmill, and sawmill, and to be executors); and son Anson (debts to testator to be discharged). The will was proved on 12 August 1828. ®1048

“He settled in ‘Moody Corner’ in South Hadley on part of the homestead of his uncle Deacon Daniel Moody, receiving the same by Will [The Will was proved in May 1792]. He was a farmer, also a miller. He was a person of great firmness of character and a highly respected citizen. He was owner of large real estate, his taxable property in 1793 being exceeded by only one person in the town. In 1795, he received the commission of Captain in a Company of Cavalry in the First Brigade, Fourth Division of the Militia, having previously held the offices of Serjeant, Cornet, and Lieutenant. He resigned his commission in April of 1801...Mr. Moody became a member of the Church in South Hadley, Mass. in July 1819. His wife Rebecca was received by letter from the church in Hinsdale in 1811. His wife Thankful by letter from the church in Amherst in 1804.” ®408

Birthday 1755 or 1757? ®73