He was the twin of Samuel. ®656 ®408In January 1731 the Hadley inner commons was divided. John Moody, living in Hadley, was listed as having no real estate. ®1631 John paid a town tax of 3 pounds in 1731. ®8 Between 1731 and 1740 he and Samuel both moved to Granby. ®1632 ®1384“ Samuel and John both settled in the South Precinct of Hadley, Mass. and from them arose the two Granby branches.” They stayed in South Hadley taking care of their widowed mother until after her death in 1759. ®408 In 1751 he and eight others refused to serve as selectmen for that year. ®1633 He was Deacon of the new Granby parish before 1767 (the Parish was established and the meeting house built on land donated by his brother Samuel in 1762). ®1634 “He came from Hadley to the South Precinct, about the year 1736 and settled on land laid out in the right of his father. His house was on that side of ‘Cold Hill’ which slopes to the south-east. The place is near what is now the west line of Granby. He was voted one of the assessors of property in that Precinct in 1743. Selectman in 1752, etc, etc. and his name is frequently mentioned as one chosen to deliberate on various subjects of interest to that place. It was against his voice and vote that Rev. Grindal Rawson, the first elected minister of the place, was dismissed. (Comp. Holland’s Hist. of Western, Mass.) How prudently, he acted in this matter, may be inferred from the fact that not long after, he was appointed Deacon in the Church, which office, so far as can now be known in the entire absence of any church record of that period except what is collected incidentally from the Town Book, he filled with acceptance. Granby having been incorporated as a town in 1768 and a Church then gathered by division of the Church in South Hadley, Dea. John Moody worshipped with the newly formed society. But his days were fast being numbered. He made his Will, Oct 3, 1769 and it was proved Nov 7th of the same year. (Prob. Rec Hampshire Co., Mass.) Dea. John d. 6 Oct 1769, ae 67. Sarah, d. 24 Mar 1773, ae 64. Their graves are in the burying ground of Granby, Mass. with slabs of red sand stone, designating the place. He was among the earliest there buried.” ®408