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- JOHN MOODY of Moulton and Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, who emigrated to America and settled in Roxbury, Mass. and later in Hartford, Conn., was baptized at Moulton, April 8, 1593, and died in 1655. He married in the parish of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds, Sept. 8, 1617, SARAH COX, who was baptized in that parish May 17, 1598, and died at Hadley, Mass in 1671. He was ten years old when his mother died and over 14 at his father's death. He was probably brought up by his stepmother Christian (Cramp) Moody, or by his brother-in-law Thomas Kilborne, executor of his father's will, according to which he was to receive L200 at the age of 24. This legacy was probably paid to him just before his marriage.
He emigrated to New England in 1633. According to Rev. John Elliot's record of the members of church at Roxbury, Mass, John Moody "came to the Land in the Yeare 1633 with his wife Sarah and no children. He had however two ungodly men servants who were drowned on the 'oister bank'."
"Mr." John Moody was admitted as a Freeman of Massachusetts Bay Colony Nov. 6, 1633, and was a Deputy representing Roxbury at the General Court in 1635. He soon removed to Hartford, Conn. He was Lieutenant of the Hartford Trained Band in 1640 (Jacob's' List of Civil and Military Officers of Conn.). He was a Deacon of the church and was always called "Mr.", a sign of eminence in colonial days. He died probably shortly after he made his will, July 25, 1655. His widow Sarah died in 1671 at Hadley, Mass. where her son Samuel settled. His will dated July 25, 1655, was proved Dec. 6, 1655 (Manwaring's Early Conn. Probates, Vol I). (Moodys in the New World, Moody Family Page)
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