Individual Details
Joseph Mosher
(12 May 1732 - 29 Oct 1801)
What is reported to be an account by Joseph Mosher was taken from the manuscript notes found among the effects of the late Fred L. Hoyt of Hillsdale, Hillsdale, MI They were printed in the NEHGS Register: Year 1937, Vol 91; pp. 379-380.
"... About the Middle of the Fall (?) of the year 1764 We Removed to Scituate in the County of Providence. ... In the Spring 1771 We Removed to Smithfield ... In the Spring of 1777 We Removed to Uxbridge In the County of Worcester and the 3 day of the 7 Month 1778 then Departed My Well beloved Wife about half an our after four in the after Noon and the 4 day in the after Noon was Buried In Friends Burying Ground in Uxbridge and After a Sollomen Meeting of Friends and others on the acation, the Body Was folowd to the Silent Grave By me and our Nine Children and there took our Sollomen Ferewell of that Body Which Was once Lovly to us all.
"The 23d of the 5 Month 1782 I merried Elizabeth Briggs of Dartmouth Daughter of Benjamin Briggs Deceased and Mary his Wife Who was Born 12 of M-th 1747 and She Came With me to Uxbridge and in the [illegible] our Mother Briggs Came to Live With us at Uxbridge She Being a Woman of a broken Constitution Was often onwell tho a pleasent person and Well Respected in our family. She Was Confined for about three Weeks and Departed this Life the 16 day of the 2th month following about half an hour after Sunsett and seemed as tho She Went in peac and Was Buried the 19th of the Same in friends Buring Ground in Uxbridge."
"... the 18 day of the 2 Month 1784 we Removed to Little White Creek in the Government of New York County of Albany."
"... The above named Joseph Mosher was entered in Friends burying ground in White Creek, County of Washington, State of New York aged 69 years three months and 6 days. Elisabeth Mosher, the Mother of the last four children and Widow of Joseph Mosher departed this life at Spring Port in the County of Cayuga on the 13 day of the 5th month and was buried in Friends burying ground at Union Springs 1831."
"Job Mosher died on the evening of the 5th of August 1839 at Abiel Moshers in Scipio, Cayuga Co., N. Y. and was buried in the Orthodox Friends burying Place near Allen Moshers on the 7th Aug."
"... About the Middle of the Fall (?) of the year 1764 We Removed to Scituate in the County of Providence. ... In the Spring 1771 We Removed to Smithfield ... In the Spring of 1777 We Removed to Uxbridge In the County of Worcester and the 3 day of the 7 Month 1778 then Departed My Well beloved Wife about half an our after four in the after Noon and the 4 day in the after Noon was Buried In Friends Burying Ground in Uxbridge and After a Sollomen Meeting of Friends and others on the acation, the Body Was folowd to the Silent Grave By me and our Nine Children and there took our Sollomen Ferewell of that Body Which Was once Lovly to us all.
"The 23d of the 5 Month 1782 I merried Elizabeth Briggs of Dartmouth Daughter of Benjamin Briggs Deceased and Mary his Wife Who was Born 12 of M-th 1747 and She Came With me to Uxbridge and in the [illegible] our Mother Briggs Came to Live With us at Uxbridge She Being a Woman of a broken Constitution Was often onwell tho a pleasent person and Well Respected in our family. She Was Confined for about three Weeks and Departed this Life the 16 day of the 2th month following about half an hour after Sunsett and seemed as tho She Went in peac and Was Buried the 19th of the Same in friends Buring Ground in Uxbridge."
"... the 18 day of the 2 Month 1784 we Removed to Little White Creek in the Government of New York County of Albany."
"... The above named Joseph Mosher was entered in Friends burying ground in White Creek, County of Washington, State of New York aged 69 years three months and 6 days. Elisabeth Mosher, the Mother of the last four children and Widow of Joseph Mosher departed this life at Spring Port in the County of Cayuga on the 13 day of the 5th month and was buried in Friends burying ground at Union Springs 1831."
"Job Mosher died on the evening of the 5th of August 1839 at Abiel Moshers in Scipio, Cayuga Co., N. Y. and was buried in the Orthodox Friends burying Place near Allen Moshers on the 7th Aug."
Events
| Birth | 12 May 1732 | Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts | |||
| Marriage | 13 Feb 1755 | Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts - Meribah Allen | |||
| Event | 3 Jul 1778 | Uxbridge |  | ||
| Marriage | 22 May 1782 | Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts - Elizabeth Briggs | | ||
| Event | 10 Aug 1792 | Cambridge NY | | ||
| Death | 29 Oct 1801 | White Creek, Washington, New York | |
Families
| Spouse | Meribah Allen (1739 - 1778) |
| Child | Allen Mosher (1755 - 1847) |
| Child | Deborah Mosher (1758 - 1839) |
| Child | Margaret Mosher (1760 - 1843) |
| Child | Paulina Mosher (1763 - 1840) |
| Child | Jonathan Mosher (1765 - 1831) |
| Child | Hannah Mosher (1768 - 1839) |
| Child | Job Mosher (1770 - 1839) |
| Child | Abiel Mosher (1773 - 1853) |
| Child | George Mosher (1775 - 1846) |
| Child | Mary Mosher (1778 - 1864) |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Briggs (1747 - 1831) |
| Child | Mary Mosher (1783 - 1864) |
| Child | John Mosher (1785 - 1856) |
| Child | Joseph Mosher (1787 - 1794) |
| Child | Amy Mosher (1790 - 1858) |
| Father | Jonathan Mosher (1699 - 1760) |
| Mother | Isabel Potter (1703 - 1760) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Mosher (1721 - 1761) |
| Sibling | Judith Mosher (1723 - 1818) |
| Sibling | Lydia Mosher (1725 - 1727) |
| Sibling | Jonathan Mosher (1726 - 1784) |
| Sibling | Isabel Mosher (1730 - 1760) |
| Sibling | Wesson Mosher (1735 - 1795) |
| Sibling | Job Mosher (1737 - ) |
| Sibling | James Mosher ( - ) |
Notes
Event
What is reported to be an account by Joseph Mosher was taken from the manuscript notes found among the effects of the late Fred L. Hoyt of Hillsdale, Hillsdale, MI They were printed in the NEHGS Register: Year 1937, Vol 91; pp. 379-380.In the Spring of 1777 We Removed to Uxbridge In the County of Worcester and the 3 day of the 7 Month 1778 then Departed My Well beloved Wife about half an our after four in the after Noon and the 4 day in the after Noon was Buried In Friends Burying Ground in Uxbridge and After a Sollomen Meeting of Friends and others on the acation, the Body Was folowd to the Silent Grave By me and our Nine Children and there took our Sollomen Ferewell of that Body Which Was once Lovly to us all.
Marriage
What is reported to be an account by Joseph Mosher was taken from the manuscript notes found among the effects of the late Fred L. Hoyt of Hillsdale, Hillsdale, MI They were printed in the NEHGS Register: Year 1937, Vol 91; pp. 379-380."The 23d of the 5 Month 1782 I merried Elizabeth Briggs of Dartmouth Daughter of Benjamin Briggs Deceased and Mary his Wife Who was Born 12 of M-th 1747 and She Came With me to Uxbridge and in the [illegible] our Mother Briggs Came to Live With us at Uxbridge She Being a Woman of a broken Constitution Was often onwell tho a pleasent person and Well Respected in our family. She Was Confined for about three Weeks and Departed this Life the 16 day of the 2th month following about half an hour after Sunsett and seemed as tho She Went in peac and Was Buried the 19th of the Same in friends Buring Ground in Uxbridge."
Event
Joseph was a farmer, a Quaker who did not believe in war and favored remaining under British rule, so he lost all his land. On 10 Aug. 1792 from Cambridge NY he, his sons George, Joseph Jr., and Allen; Allen's children Meribah Allen, Asael, Henrietta and Augustus; his daughter Margaret Southwick and children Daniel, Waity, Cynthia and Sophia; and his daughter Pauline's husband Walter Wood petitiioned the Canadian government for grants of land in Lower Canada.Death
Friends Burying Ground"... The above named Joseph Mosher was entered in Friends burying ground in White Creek, County of Washington, State of New York aged 69 years three months and 6 days. Elisabeth Mosher, the Mother of the last four children and Widow of Joseph Mosher departed this life at Spring Port in the County of Cayuga on the 13 day of the 5th month and was buried in Friends burying ground at Union Springs 1831."