Other Events:

• Baptism: Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, Massachusetts

Family/Spouse: Samuel BALL. Samuel was born on 24 Aug 1734 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 17 Jun 1799; was buried in Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Cordwainer

Notes:

Moses was about twelve years old when the family moved to Worcester. He probably followed his father to Brookfield for time, as he was deeded a farm there in 1732, but the births of his two oldest children are recorded in Worcester. In 1738, he sold his Worcester land and bought land in Rutland. He served as selectman and treasurer at various times in Rutland and lived in the "North West Quarter" or "Rutland District" which later became Barre. His home seems to have been in the area of the present Barre common. In 1778, he followed his children to Warwick, where in 1782, he gave the town land that is now the north end of the cemetery for a burying ground with the provision that they erect a fence and allow him to pasture his cattle and sheep there. His epitaph (part of which is below the present turf line) reads - "Reader behold and shed a tear, Think on the dust that slumbers here, And when you read ye fate of me, Think of the glass that runs for ye".

Moses married Beulah Harriet RICE about 1734 in prob Worcester, Massachusetts. Beulah was born on 23 Nov 1716 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 4 Dec 1780 in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts; was buried in Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called by Manning Leonard in the Leonard Genealogy "Harriet Beulah _____", she is named as "Beulah" in her childrens' birth records, deeds, and her own death record and gravestone. She is indentified as Beulah Rice by two applications to the Society of Mayflower Descendants. Their sources are currently unknown. This identification does fit perfectly with her age at death, and in the early years of Worcester the families certainly would have known each other, in fact, there is some evidence that they were near neighbors.

Other Events:

• Occupation: Yeoman, innkeeper

Notes:

m1 Mercy NEWTON

Moses moved from Marlboro to Worcester in 1717 when it was a tiny frontier town. He was an active and prominent citizen; moderator, assessor, selectman and on various committees. In 1729 he moved to Brookfield where he was an "inholder". He bought land in Hardwick and Leicester, but by 1739 he was of Rutland. There he remained until his death, first in the section that became Oakham and later in the section that became Barre. In deeds from that time, he styles himself "gentleman".

Moses married Mercy NEWTON on 15 May 1705 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Mercy was born on 16 Feb 1685 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 1 Dec 1714 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

On her deathbed, Mercy commited the care of her newborn daughter to her father, Moses Newton.

Notes:

John's rights to part of the land granted to "the three daughters of Roger Chandler" led to the mistaken belief that his wife was one of the daughters, when actually it was his mother.

John married Sarah MNU. Sarah died in ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sarah's surname and parents are unknown, she was not a daughter of Roger Chandler.