On 6 April 1813, Joseph Clark was appointed guardian of Anna and Betsey, who were over 14, and of Emerson, who was under 14. ®1154 Emerson was bequeathed twenty dollars at the age of 21 in the will of his father, Noah Moody, of 19 September 1811 ®240 Emerson was a blacksmith. ®1153 On 28 May 1824 Emerson Moody of Longmeadow and Mary Morgan of Wilbraham published their marriage intentions in Longmeadow, Massachusetts; ®1146 then they married in Wilbraham on 22 June 1824. ®1149 Emerson and Mary had two children born in Longmeadow in 1825 and 1828, ®1155 and were living there in 1830. ®1156Emerson was admitted to the church in Canton on 8 January 1832 from the church in Longmeadow, and then he and Mary were recommended on 14 June 1832 “to aid in organizing a separate Congregational Church in Collinsville [in Canton].” ®1157In 1840 in Canton, Connecticut, Emerson had a male and a female 10–14 and two males and a female 30–39. ®1158 On 3 May 1846, Emerson and his wife Mary were received in the church in Wintonbury [Bloomfield] from the Church of Christ in Collinsville (Canton), Connecticut. ®1159 He lived in Bloomfield, Connecticut ®408 and is the GGGgrandfather of Herbsmom2 at aol dot com. Emerson was one of the passengers on the Henry Lee that sailed around the Horn in 1849. ®1160 In 1850 Mary, age 51, was living with Edward E. Moody, age 24, in Bloomfield. ®1161 In 1860 Mary was living with her sister Sophia (Moody) Washburn in Ware. ®1162In 1870 Mary was living in Springfield, age 71, with [her daughter] Mary S. Goodrich aged 42. ®1163

Bloomfield, Connecticut censuses. Descendants of Emerson and Mary.