He was the second son and administered his fathers estate in 1690. He followed the vocation of a planter. In 1693 and 1694 he served as interim minister of the First Congregational Church, and was paid in peas, wheat and corn valued at 35 Pounds. In the 1703 first division of land in what later became Amherst, he and brother Ebenezer were jointly allotted a parcel 69 rods 5 feet wide by 240 rods deep.759 In 1720, 1725, 1727, 1732, and 1734, he served a year as one of five selectman for Hadley. In 1720 Sergt. Samuel Moody was allotted land in what was to become South Hadley and Granby. The amount of his estate and polls was 91 pounds, 8 shillings. The largest estate and polls of 295 pounds 18 shillings belonged to Mr. Samuel Porter, Esq. The town of South Hadley was established about 1725. In January 1731 the Hadley inner commons was divided. Samuel Moody, Sr., living in Hadley, had real estate listed at 49 pounds, 13 shillings. He died at age 80.
“He settled on the homestead in Hadley, Mass. and in company with his brother Ebenezer, who married about the same time, cared for his widowed mother till her decease, as above recorded . He was one of the proprietors in the first division of land on the south side of Mt. Holyoke, which division was made in 1719-20; also shared in divisions made afterwards: The Proprietors Book of the South Precinct of Hadley, *notes about 180 acres then laid out in his name. The rest of his right seems to have been laid out by his sons. I have brought together the several records referring to his name as follows:...179 Acres, 32 rods, 15 ft. It was upon this land that his two elder sons settled, but the father did not remove thither. He made his Will the 30th day of Oct 1744, it being a short time before his decease. The original document with his autograph is among papers filed in the probate office at Northampton, Mass., but the signature is poorly executed, hence we give below a facsimile of his name as he generally wrote, appended to the Will.” In his will he names his wife Sarah, and sons Samuel, John, Nathan, Jonathan, David, and daughter Sarah. The will was probated on 12 November 1745 in Northampton.607
“S. took the oath of Freeman on 8/11/1695. Was chosen as one of a party to persue [sic] Indians. Was selectman in Hadley in 1720, 1727, 1732, 1734. They had 7 children. S. rec’ 16 rods of land from the town in April 1703. Lived in Hadley, Mass. his descendants went to Amherst, Mass. to live.”418
“Samuel d. at Hadley, 1745, leav. six ch” 603

Corbin says in Hatfield Vital Records that he is the son of Samuel’s first wife, Hannah.401 Was he age 82 58 688or 74 when he died?

Sarah and her son David were named executors of her husbands will on 30 October 1744. “The widow remained on the homestead in Hadley till about 1750 when she went to reside with her sons Samuel & John who had previously settled in the South Precinct of Hadley . Her grave is in the burying ground at South Hadley with a slate of red-sand-stone designating the place - Inscription plainly legible - It is distant a few rods from the gate directly West...” 607She was living as late as January 1758, 58 and died in the 79th year of her age. 181 688