He was born at Hadley, but as a child moved with his parents to Amherst. “Between the years 1745 and 1763 the following persons were added to the population: Jonathan Moody, Jr.” ®778 In 1755 Jonathan Moody, Jr. served in Captain Moses Porter’s company from Hadley which marched against Crown Point, a French fortress on Lake Champlain. ®778 He married Eunice Graves on 1 March 1759 at Amherst. They had moved to Amherst as in the Amherst Valuation List of 1760 he had 1 Poll, 1 Horse, 0 Oxen, 0 Cows, 0 Hogs, 0 Sheep, 2:0 Personal Estate, 0 Houses and Lands, 0 Real Estate, 2:0 Total. ®778 In the Amherst Valuation List of 1776 he had 1 Poll, 0 Horses, 0 Oxen, 1 Cows, 0 Hogs, 7 Sheep, 11:10 Personal Estate, 5 Houses and Lands, 10:10 Real Estate, 22:0 Total. ®778 He was in the Revolutionary War on the Amherst list, and in 1786-7 took part in Shay’s Rebellion. ®8 ®778 In the 1790 census, Jonathan was listed on the same page as his father, with the same count. He was on the 1802 Voters List in Amherst. ®811 ®778“He settled in the south part of Amherst, Mass. His house being a short distance in a south-west direction from where is now the meeting house in the village. It stood upon the west side of a road, which branches south from the road leading from the west street in Amherst, to the meeting house, before mentioned. At this time, but one church was gathered in Amherst. The inhabitants met for religious worship, on the hill near where the college buildings now stand. I find on the record of that church, dates of baptisms of some of his children and conclude that one or both parents were members of the church. It is said such was the relation in this respect, but in the defect of records, I am unable to give the time of their admission.” ®408