“Among those added to the east inhabitants between 1731 and 1739 was Nathan Moody. Nathan Moody was the son of Samuel and grandson of Samuel Moody. He married in 1735 Abigail Montague ; their children were John, Josiah and Abigail.” ®778 In January, 1731, the Hadley inner commons was divided. Nathan Moody, living in Hadley, was not married and so listed as having no real estate. ®1631 Nathan paid a town tax of 3 pounds in Hadley in 1731. ®8 They married in Hadley in 1735 and he and Abigail had moved to Amherst ®1658 ®408 ®778 before the Amherst assessor’s records of 1738 first list Nathan, having moved from Hadley. ®1384 He was a selectman in Amherst in 1751. ®8 On 22 August 1756 he was accepted as a member of the church in Amherst. ®687 In the Amherst Valuation List of 1759 he had 2 Polls, 1 Horse, 2 Oxen, 3 Cows, 0 Hogs, 5 Sheep, 11:5 Personal Estate, 15 Houses and Lands, 28:10 Real Estate, 39:15 Total. ®778 In the Amherst Valuation List of 1776 he had 1 Poll, 1 Horse, 0 Oxen, 2 Cows, 0 Hogs, 6 Sheep, 5:18 Personal Estate, 18 Houses and Lands, 30:10 Real Estate, 36:8 Total. ®778 He died about 1791, having been a widower since at least 1780. ®408 He resided in Amherst and Ludlow, Massachusetts. ®656 ®627
“He settled prior to 1737 in the part of Hadley which was then called ‘East or Third Precinct’, but which in 1759 became a separate district and was called Amherst. His house was about one half mile north of ‘Mill River’ and on the west side of the road which passes in front of the ground now occupied by the College buildings. From the Church Records of Rev. David Parson (who was succeeded in the pastoral office by his son, David Parson D. D.) I have been able to obtain the dates affixed to the baptisms of three of his children which in the absence of any satisfactory town record of the kind will give quite near the dates of their births. Nathan Moody made his Will in 1780, being at that time an inhabitant in the town of Ludlow, Mass; whither he seems to have removed a short time previously. He gave his estate ‘to the children of his then deceased son Josiah and to his only surviving child, Abigail.’ The Will was proved Sep 5, 1791.” ®408